The Sword of Justice
In the magnificent third installment of the internationally bestselling Bäckström series, the irascible detective becomes entangled in an investigation with—incredibly—strange...
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard was founded in 1990, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard specializes in publishing the work of American mystery authors such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler. Read more
The Thirst
#1 International Best Seller In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on...
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The Big Book of the Continental Op
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op—one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell...
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The Big Book of Rogues and Villains
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of...
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Lisbeth Salander is back with a vengeance. The series that began with The Girl with the Dragon...
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The Dying Detective
***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2017******WINNER OF THE DANISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE (Best Crime Novel 2012)******WINNER OF THE FINNISH ACADEMY OF...
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
One of the Best Books of the Year NPR * USA Today * O, The Oprah Magazine * Esquire A genius hacker who has always...
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Razor Girl
A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous and razor-sharp new novel from Carl Hiaasen, the bestselling author of Bad...
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Stockholm Delete
A lawyer, an ex-con, and his nephew team up to solve a grisly murder in this explosive crime novel by internationally bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus. When...
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Unreliable
Riotous and riveting, this is the story of a charming college professor who most definitely did not—but maybe did—kill his ex-wife. Or someone else. Or no one. Irby...
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow
From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web—an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing’s suicide and plunges into a post-war...
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The Letter Writer
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEARFebruary 9, 1942. Disgraced Southern cop Woodrow Cain arrives in New York City for...
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Double Switch
Relief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the bullpen. That's where he meets Tiff Tate, the femme-fatale stylist responsible...
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The Big Book of Jack the Ripper
Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts...
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Surface to Air
Malko Linge is assigned to tail a novice terrorist who has a plot to blow up Air Force One—and the weapons to make it happen.In New Jersey, Parviz...
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The Bangkok Asset
Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to investigate a crime scene in Bangkok—which quickly reveals itself to be anything but typical....
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Bordersnakes
C.W. Sughrue has been gut-shot and left to die and is, for the first time in his life, actually scared—which makes him angry. Milo Milodragovitch has been...
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Dr. Knox
“Peter Spiegelman’s Dr. Knox is a bruised wonder of a crime novel. Filled with page-turning intrigue and an L.A. atmosphere so richly rendered you can practically smell the ‘eucalyptus and dust,’ it is both thrilling...
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The Final Country
A NEW YORK TIMES Notable BookIt's business as usual for Milo Milodragovitch, watching a relationship go sour and running a bar whose real business is...
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The Mexican Tree Duck
WINNER OF THE DASHIELL HAMMETT AWARDOne night up in Montana, C.W. Sughrue sets his seedy bar’s pricey jukebox in front of an oncoming freight train. When...
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Charcoal Joe
Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where his last adventures in Rose...
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The Crow Girl
The International Sensation It begins in a Stockholm city park where the abused body of a young boy is discovered. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation,...
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The Governor's Wife
In the latest installment in Michael Harvey’s beloved Michael Kelly series, Chicago’s favorite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator takes on Illinois’s first family in a blistering...
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Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Young journalism student Felix Orlean is in over his head. Against his better judgment, he is temporarily...
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