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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he's headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett's lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets, which explains why he's so desperate to find his missing teenage daughter, Lucy. When Jack's search for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide. That's how this extraordinary novel opens - and by the time it ends, you'll have pieced together a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
February 2019
Language
English
Description
"What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition 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 master...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-135
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"1946: A group of criminals pulls off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. Some of the thieves are captured, some are killed -- but the loot is never found. Forty years later, a college student finds himself on the trail of the missing art -- and the multi-million-dollar reward. But three decades after that, the art is still missing, and as his classmates return to Boston's notorious Charlesgate Hotel...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
November 2018
Language
English
Description
"She was his V. She was every man's V. It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered -- Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling 'cat skinners' of Southern California,...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-113
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
October 2013
Language
English
Description
"Two identical twin sisters -- one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia -- are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves. As one sister prepares for the toughest trial of her career and the other faces a stalker who knows details of her life that even her husband doesn't, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by...
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Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
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