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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 699 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
" A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled his organization. Written with novelistic pacing and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Small-town sheriff J.C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin-only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality TV's smash-hit, Crime Scene! But while media star Harrow tracks down dangerous criminals coast to coast-with the help of viewers' tips-a killer with a twisted agenda is making his own bloody path to fame...
As...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A millionaire's son is kidnapped and private eye Heller is called in to help. But when half of the record $600,000 ransom goes missing, Heller must wade through a morass of deception and depravity to blow the lid off a notorious crime whose consequences reach into the corridors of power in Washington D.C., where Bobby Kennedy works tirelessly to take down crooked union boss Jimmy Hoffa...."--
4) Do no harm
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Do No Harm, Nathan Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case--a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison. Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a true crime novelist announces he's the subject of her next book, Quarry, a professional hitman, must journey into his bloody past to settle old scores as killers come out of the woodwork bent on revenge.
6) Better dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's the early 1950's. Joe McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1934, the nations most legendary crime-fighterfresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American historyarrived in Cleveland, a corrupt and dangerous town about to host a world's fair. It was to be his coronation, as well as the city's. Instead, terror descended, as headless bodies started turning up. The young detective, already battling the mob and crooked cops, found his drive to transform American policing subverted by a menace largely...
Author
Series
Memoirs of Nathan Heller volume 19
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1968, Nate Heller is there when Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel. Heller takes it upon himself to investigate the murder when a friend of his and Bobby's raises doubts about the LAPD's investigation. Heller strongly suspects the involvement of Jimmy Hoffa (currently imprisoned), but Hoffa seems to be in the clear as the private eye looks into the possible presence of CIA enemies of RFK's on the murder night, the apparent manipulation...
11) Girl most likely
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a small Midwest town, twenty-eight-year-old Krista Larson has made her mark as the youngest female police chief in the country. She's learned from the best: her father, Keith, a decorated former detective. But as accustomed as they are to the relative quiet of their idyllic tourist town, things quickly turn with Krista's ten-year high school reunion. With the out-of-towners holed up in a lakefront lodge, it doesn't take long to stir up old grudges...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Pocket Star Books paperback ed.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery: a plastic bag of skeletal remains -- and a chilling note -- left on the steps of a federal building. Tempe determines the bones are from different corpses, suggesting a serial killer's handiwork. A suspect is quickly taken into custody, but Tempe senses the case...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
November 2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a chance encounter with a captivating femme fatale leads to a violent mob retaliation, hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer finds himself dodging both bullets and hard broads as he undertakes the most dangerous case of his career." --
16) Tough tender
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you bury the past. Sometimes it buries you. Every professional thief knows you never return to the scene of a crime. But what if you have no choice? In this intense heist story - appear in bookstores for the first time in three decades - MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins brings veteran theif Nolan and his young partner in crime Jon back to rob the same bank they targeted in their debut novel, Two For The Money, at the behest of an embezzling...
17) Target Lancer
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
18) Demon house
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on the TV crime drama, Grissom and the Las Vegas CSI team investigate a body that turns up in a charity haunted house.
19) Jump cut
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
First in a brand new series based on the hit CBS television series. The Behavioral Analysis Unit, an elite team of FBI profilers, are tasked with examining the nations most twisted criminal minds--anticipating their next moves before they strike again.
The BAU team is dispatched to Lawrence, Kansas to investigate a series of fatal stabbings among the town's homeless population. The victims have all been found freshly bathed, neatly groomed, and wearing...
20) True crime
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
