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Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
©1974.
Language
English
Description
"Jailed for a joke. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this practical joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose..."...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-S01
Language
English
Description
"When you can't call the cops, you call Scudder. Kenan Khoury's wife went out grocery shopping and never came home. Alive, anyway. But because Kenan Khoury buys and sells drugs for a living he can't go to the police for help. He goes to Matthew Scudder instead -- an alcoholic ex-cop and unlicensed private eye who will stop at nothing to bring the brutal killers to justice before another innocent woman falls beneath their knives." --
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified.
4) Memory
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-064
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds--and a bleak fate if he fails."--P. [4] of cover.
5) Easy go
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site--and plunder it. But can a five-man team of smugglers and thieves uncover what the centuries have hidden? And even if they find it, can they escape with it...and with their lives?"--Publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying... In one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a sinister plot is about to unfold. And if McGregor's not careful, he may find himself in over his head."--Publisher.
7) Joyland
Author
Series
Hard case crime volume HCC-112-1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
8) Borderline
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A classic pulp novel set on the Texas-Mexico border follows the intersecting lives of a professional gambler, a bored divorcaee, a beautiful hitchhiker-turned-sex performer, an agenda-seeking redhead, and a killer on the run.
9) Sinner man
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-126
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-129
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up--about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule--had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste,...
11) Blood sugar
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"At the end of Yellow Street, in a ruined junkyard of a house, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated neighborhood kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, drugs, and broken glass in Halloween candy and use the deadly treats to maim or kill dozens of innocent children. But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers--an innocent himself, in his own...
12) Brothers keepers
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolitioin to make a room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, Brothers Keepers offers not only a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to be? Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation...
14) Five Decembers
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-150
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --
As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor...
15) Later
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes growing up means facing your demons. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer...
16) Quarry's blood
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-151
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
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.
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