Hardboiled Detective Fiction


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Cannell, Stephen J - The Tin Collectors
Los Angeles police detective Shane Scully uncovers a deadly plot of corruption and conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the LAPD.

Child, Lee - Tripwire
Viet Nam vet and free-lance investigator Jack Reacher is tracked down by an investigator who is later murdered. Reacher determines to find out who was looking for him and why.

Connelly, Michael - Echo Park
Eleven years after his investigation into the disappearance of Marie Gesto goes cold, Harry Bosch finally gets a chance to solve the case when a man accused of two brutal killings agrees to come clean about others.

Crais, Robert - The Last Detective
When the son of his long-time girlfriend goes missing, Elvis Cole finds himself haunted by his personal demons, the dark secrets of his childhood, and long-supressed memories of his service in Vietnam.

Lehane, Dennis - Gone Baby Gone
Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro delve into the disappearance of a four-year-old girl, involving a strangely cool mother, a pedophiliac couple, and a shadowy police unit.

McBain, Ed - Last Dance: a novel of the 87th precinct
The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing surprising. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money.

Mosley, Walter - Little Scarlet
When a man who fled the 1965 Watts riots is suspected of killing a woman in a nearby apartment building, Easy Rawlins begins a murder investigation and learns that the case has racial origins.

Parker, Robert B - Paper Doll
A Spenser novel which takes the PI to South Carolina to investigate a wife’s murder and leads him into the confidence of a powerful senator.

Pelacanos, George - Right as Rain
Ex-cop Derek Strange is hired by the mother of a slain police officer to investigate the killing. Strange uncovers the guilty feelings and questions of the cop responsible for the shooting.

Vachss, Andrew - Hard Candy
Burke, an unlicensed ex-con private eye, tries to rescue a former lover’s daughter from a Brooklyn cult. Very edgy, street-smart investigation of New York’s underbelly.

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