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Mortal Stakes
Mortal Stakes
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307569813
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Mortal Stakes

Written by Robert B. Parker


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $7.99

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Early Autumn
Early Autumn
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307569462
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Early Autumn

Written by Robert B. Parker


Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $7.99

A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.

With a contract out on his... Read more >
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Haiku
Haiku
Written by Andrew Vachss
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307378491
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Haiku
A Novel
Written by Andrew Vachss


Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.95

From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.

Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions... Read more >
Valediction
Valediction
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307570826
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Valediction

Written by Robert B. Parker


Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $7.99

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My Dead Body
My Dead Body
Written by Charlie Huston
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345495891
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My Dead Body
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $14.00

NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.

Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a... Read more >
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My Dead Body
My Dead Body
Written by Charlie Huston
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345516855
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My Dead Body
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston


Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $14.00

NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.

Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a... Read more >
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Pale Kings and Princes
Pale Kings and Princes
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307569905
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Pale Kings and Princes

Written by Robert B. Parker


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $7.99

"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in  a dishonorable world. When he says he will do  something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and  there is plenty of action... but it is the moral  element that sets them above most detective fiction."  --Newsweek


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A Savage Place
A Savage Place
Written by Robert B. Parker
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ISBN: 9780307569981
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A Savage Place

Written by Robert B. Parker


Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
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Taming a Seahorse
Taming a Seahorse
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307570697
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Taming a Seahorse

Written by Robert B. Parker


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
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Sideswipe
Sideswipe
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307490940
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Sideswipe
A Hoke Moseley Detective Thriller
Written by Charles Willeford


Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $12.00

Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never step foot on the mainland again. But on the street, career criminal Troy... Read more >
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The Way We Die Now
The Way We Die Now
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307492975
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The Way We Die Now

Written by Charles Willeford


Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $12.00

When Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He has too much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Hoke immediately assumes the worst, and considering... Read more >
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Wild Wives
Wild Wives
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307493224
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Wild Wives

Written by Charles Willeford


Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $12.95

Jake Blake is a private detective short on cash when he meets a rich and beautiful young woman looking to escape her father’s smothering influence. Unfortunately for Jake, the smothering influence includes two thugs hired to protect her—and the woman is in fact not the daughter of the man she wants... Read more >
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Looking for Rachel Wallace
Looking for Rachel Wallace
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307569707
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Looking for Rachel Wallace

Written by Robert B. Parker


Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $7.99

Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post

Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance... Read more >
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New Hope for the Dead
New Hope for the Dead
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307488701
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New Hope for the Dead

Written by Charles Willeford


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $12.00

Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother of the decedant, and begins to wonder about dating a witness. Meanwile, he has been threatened with suspension by his ambitious new chief unless he leaves his beloved... Read more >
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The Shark-Infested Custard
The Shark-Infested Custard
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307490858
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The Shark-Infested Custard

Written by Charles Willeford


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $12.00

From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami.

Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's... Read more >
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Miami Blues
Miami Blues
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307488213
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Miami Blues

Written by Charles Willeford


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $12.95

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the... Read more >
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The Amateur American
The Amateur American
Written by Joel Saunders Elmore
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307452870
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The Amateur American

Written by Joel Saunders Elmore


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00

Sometimes the hardest boundaries to see . . .are the ones you’ve already crossed.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Delanne is teaching English in France but having a tough time stretching his measly paycheck one month to the next. When he’s not worrying about his bar tab, he’s struggling with the language, trying to justify... Read more >
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The Amateur American
The Amateur American
Written by Joel Saunders Elmore
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ISBN: 9780307452887
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The Amateur American

Written by Joel Saunders Elmore


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00

Sometimes the hardest boundaries to see . . .are the ones you’ve already crossed.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Delanne is teaching English in France but having a tough time stretching his measly paycheck one month to the next. When he’s not worrying about his bar tab, he’s struggling with the language, trying to justify... Read more >
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Jack Wakes Up
Jack Wakes Up
Written by Seth Harwood
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307454355
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Jack Wakes Up
A Novel
Written by Seth Harwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $13.95

Washed-up movie star Jack Palms is knee-deep in a Bay Area drug war and it’ll take the performance of a lifetime to get him through it alive.

In the three years since Jack Palms left Hollywood and kicked his drug habit, he’s added fourteen pounds of muscle, read eighty-three books, and... Read more >
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Jack Wakes Up
Jack Wakes Up
Written by Seth Harwood
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ISBN: 9780307459626
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Jack Wakes Up
A Novel
Written by Seth Harwood


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $13.95

Washed-up movie star Jack Palms is knee-deep in a Bay Area drug war and it’ll take the performance of a lifetime to get him through it alive.

In the three years since Jack Palms left Hollywood and kicked his drug habit, he’s added fourteen pounds of muscle, read eighty-three books, and... Read more >
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Old Flame
Old Flame
Written by Ira Berkowitz
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ISBN: 9780307408624
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Old Flame
A Jackson Steeg Novel
Written by Ira Berkowitz


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $12.95

Dark streets. Darker secrets.

Jackson Steeg thought he’d finally put all that behind him.

He was wrong.

Jackson Steeg isn’t an NYPD homicide cop anymore, not since the bullet he took to the lung. But Steeg’s retirement is looking anything but relaxing.

After months of death threats, his ex-wife’s new flame... Read more >
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Old Flame
Old Flame
Written by Ira Berkowitz
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307450135
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Old Flame
A Jackson Steeg Novel
Written by Ira Berkowitz


Format: eBook
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $12.95

Dark streets. Darker secrets.

Jackson Steeg thought he’d finally put all that behind him.

He was wrong.

Jackson Steeg isn’t an NYPD homicide cop anymore, not since the bullet he took to the lung. But Steeg’s retirement is looking anything but relaxing.

After months of death threats, his ex-wife’s new flame... Read more >
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
Edited by Otto Penzler
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307494160
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Edited by Otto Penzler


Format: eBook, 1168 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $25.00

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and... Read more >
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Burn
Burn
Written by Sean Doolittle
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307482600
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Burn

Written by Sean Doolittle


Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $7.99

In California the hills are on fire. Not a good sign for Andrew Kindler, who just came from back east to get away from his past–as an arsonist. In fact, almost from the moment he sets foot in his cousin’s Santa Monica beach house, the heat starts swirling around him. First... Read more >
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Every Last Drop
Every Last Drop
Written by Charlie Huston
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345495884
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Every Last Drop
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00

“[Charlie Huston’s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of Brooklyn

It’s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt... Read more >
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