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Hardboiled Detective Fiction

Echo Park   Michael Connelly   MYS Connell

Eleven years after his investigation into the disappearance of Marie Gesto goes cold, Harry Bosch finally gets a chance to solve the case when a man accused of two brutal killings agrees to come clean about others.

Gone Baby Gone   Dennis Lehane   MYS Lehane

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro delve into the disappearance of a four-year-old girl, involving a strangely cool mother, a pedophiliac couple, and a shadowy police unit.

Hard Candy   Andrew Vachss   Va

Burke, an unlicensed ex-con private eye, tries to rescue a former lover's daughter from a Brooklyn cult. Very edgy, street-smart investigation of New York's underbelly.

last Dance: a Novel of the 87th Precinct   Ed McBain   MYS Mcbain

The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing surprising. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money.

Little Scarlet   Walter Mosley   MYS Mosley

When a man who fled the 1965 Watts riots is suspected of killing a woman in a nearby apartment building, Easy Rawlins begins a murder investigation and learns that the case has racial origins.

Paper Doll   Robert B Parker   MYS Parker

A Spenser novel which takes the PI to South Carolina to investigate a wife's murder and leads him into the confidence of a powerful senator.

Right as Rain   George Pelacanos   MYS Pelecan

Ex-cop Derek Strange is hired by the mother of a slain police officer to investigate the killing. Strange uncovers the guilty feelings and questions of the cop responsible for the shooting.

The Last Detective   Robert Crais   MYS Crais

When the son of his long-time girlfriend goes missing, Elvis Cole finds himself haunted by his personal demons, the dark secrets of his childhood, and long-supressed memories of his service in Vietnam.

Tripwire   Lee Child   Child

Viet Nam vet and free-lance investigator Jack Reacher is tracked down by an investigator who is later murdered. Reacher determines to find out who was looking for him and why.

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