Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Blue Belle (Burke Series)
By: Andrew H. Vachss
Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. ...
Published: Feb 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 9
The Narrows (Harry Bosch)
By: Michael Connelly
When an infamous serial killer known as the Poet reemerges, FBI agent Rachel Walling, long haunted by her unsuccessful efforts to bring him to justice, receives assistance from LAPD detective Harry Bosch, who finds the case to be the most terrifying...
Published: May 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Len Cariou
Discs: 9
Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole)
By: Robert Crais
Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis Cole to...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 8
Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole)
By: Robert Crais
Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis Cole to...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Bloomsday Dead
By: Adrian McKinty
The heart-stopping conclusion to the Michael Forsythe Dead Trilogy, from the author who has been dubbed Denver's 'literary equivalent of Los Angeles' Michael Connelly and who is poised to find a larger readership.
Published: Mar 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Gerard Doyle
Discs: 9
Bloodline (Repairman Jack)
By: F. Paul Wilson
It starts off simply enough. (Doesn't it always?) Jack has been on hiatus since the tragic events in Harbingers. With his beloved Gia's encouragement he dips his toe back into the fix-it pool.Christy Pickering's eighteen-year-old daughter is...
Published: Sep 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Down Here (Burke Series)
By: Andrew Vachss
For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of John Anson Wychek,...
Published: Feb 2011
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 1
Hard Candy (Burke)
By: Andrew Vachss
In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah who may be rescuing runaways or...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 1
Rules of Prey
By: John Sandford
A serial murderer who calls himself 'mad dog' has turned his psychopathic killing into a game that has terrorized the Twin Cities. He carefully selects each victim (all women), plots clever moves to lure her, and then taunts the police with notes...
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Richard Ferrone
Discs: 10
Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
By: James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke's new novel finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcel have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping...
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Will Patton
Discs: 12
Long Time Gone (J. P. Beaumont Mysteries)
By: J. A. Jance
In the 17th J. P. Beaumont mystery, Beau, currently a homicide investigator for the Washington State Attorney's office, must contend with a reactivated cold case and a deeply personal current one. The first concerns a nun treated with hypnotherapy...
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Tbd
Discs: 10
About Face: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
By: Donna Leon
Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's best-selling...
Published: Apr 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 7
The Colorado Kid
By: Stephen King
Stephanie McCann is a journalism student at University of Ohio. Her summer internship brings her to Moose-Lookit Island, ME where she tags along after Vince Teague and David Bowie--two salty newsmen who've been running The Weekly Islander together...
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Jeffrey Demunn
Discs: 4
The Girl of His Dreams (A Commissario Brunetti Mystery)
By: Donna Leon
In this Latest Venice-set Mystery, a Grieving Brunetti Must Discover the Identity of a Drowned Child. When a friend of Commissario Brunetti's brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Brunetti suspects...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: David Colacci
Discs: 8
Death of a Doxy: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
By: Rex Stout
Archie discovers the body of a woman on her bedroom floor -- whom he later identifies as a prostitute, a fact that is key to the murder, its motivation, and perpetrator. As the characters reveal their relationships to the doxy, Wolfe is challenged to...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 5
Blue Belle (Burke)
By: Andrew Vachss
Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of...
Published: Mar 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Discs: 1
Dead and Gone (Burke)
By: Andrew Vachss
It's not an unusual job for Burke—career criminal and ultimate urban man-for-hire—to act as middleman in an exchange of cash for a kidnapped child. But this time the only things exchanged are bullets. Burke loses his beloved partner, and lies in...
Published: Dec 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Only Child (Burke Series)
By: Andrew Vachss
It's been years since Burke has been home, years since he's seen his "family" and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty, and his wallet thin, his skills and his crew...
Published: Feb 2011
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 1
Sacrifice (Burke)
By: Andrew Vachss
What - or who - could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a...
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 1
Strega (Burke)
By: Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish...
Published: Mar 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Discs: 1
Dead of Night (Doc Ford Series)
By: Randy Wayne White
Later, my conscience would play the inevitable game of "What if . . ." What if I had stopped by Jobe's home on Friday morning instead of Sunday night? What if I hadn't interrupted the two people who were alternately interrogating and...
Published: Feb 2006
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Dick Hill
Discs: 5
Coward's Kiss
By: Lawrence Block
Some cases just won't die—even after you've dumped the body Ed London is the type of private investigator that you call to clean up the mess when your mistress turns up dead. But after he dumps a body in Central Park, it appears this...
Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Discs: 4
Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
By: James Lee Burke
Trouble follows Dave Robicheaux.James Lee Burke's new novel finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcel have...
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Will Patton
Discs: 6
Chicago Confidential (Nathan Heller Series)
By: Max Allan Collins
It's 1950 in Chicago, P.I. Nate Heller's old stomping grounds. But things are different now, and the wind is blowing in a different, decidedly more dangerous direction. Congressman-with-a-cause and presidential-hopeful Estes Kefauver creates the...
Published: Jul 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Dan John Miller
Discs: 1
Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel
By: Robert Crais
IIt's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide,in his lap a photo album of seven...
Published: Feb 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: James Daniels
Discs: 5
Chasing the Devil's Tail Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans a Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans
By: David Fulmer
In the raucous, bloody, red-light district of Storyville, New Orleans, in 1907, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Dion Graham
Discs: 9
The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
Nick Charles was a hard-edged gumshoe for years until his wife Nora's father died and left her an inheritance. After six years living away, he's back in his old haunt, New York, where it seems his very unwelcome past is ready to resurface. Enter...
Published: Mar 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 6
Stirred (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Series)
By: J. a. Konrath and Blake Crouch
Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has seen humanity at its most depraved and terrifying. She's lost loved ones. Come close to death countless times. But she always manages to triumph over evil. Luther Kite is humanity at its most depraved and...
Published: Feb 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Angela Dawe and Phil Gigante
Discs: 1
Dead Aim (Hap Collins and Leonard Pine)
By: Joe Lansdale
Dead Aim marks the always welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale's most enduring fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. The story begins simply enough when the two agree to provide protection for a woman harassed by her violent,...
Published: Jan 2013
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Discs: 1
Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski Novels)
By: Sara Paretsky
The ninth book in Sara Paretsky's popular V.I. Warshawski series has the tough, street-savvy private investigator doing time in a women's maximum security prison for the alleged kidnapping of a security magnate's neglected son. She makes the most of...
Published: Jan 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Jean Smart
Discs: 5