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2022

March 2022 Paperbacks

Capri, Diane, Jack Knife (The Hunt for Jack Reacher) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

February 2022 Paperbacks

Gran, Sara, The Book of the Most Precious Substance (non-P.I., but it’s Sara!) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

2021

December 2021 Paperbacks

Brown, Fredric, The Fabulous Clipjoint (Ed & Am Hunter) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Gordon, David, “Sergeant Santa” (Joe the Bouncer) (ss) | Buy this book
A Christmas mystery, from the Mysterious Press.

November 2021 Paperbacks

Butler, John K, The Complete Cases of Steve Midnight, Vol. 2 (Steve Midnight) | Buy the book
Flynn, T.T., Murder’s Masquerade: The Complete Cases of Mike & Trixie, Vol. 1 (Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris) | Buy this book
Hawkins, Maxwell, The Complete Cases of the Jones Brothers (Leander & Horatio Jones) | Buy this book
Long, Julius, The Complete Cases of Corpus Delicti Mort, Volume 1 (“Corpus Delecti” Mort) | Buy this book
Paige, Peter, The Complete Cases of Cash Wale, Volume 1 (Cash Wale) | Buy this book
Reeves, Robert, The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes (Robert Reeves) | Buy this book
Walsh, Thomas, The Night Watch/The Dark Window (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Stark House twofer, with an intro by Jim Doherty

October 2021 Paperbacks

Albert, Marvin H., The Girl with No Place to Hide (Jake Barrow) (r) | Buy this book
Ames, Dan, Hit Them Fast Hit Them Hard (Jack Reacher’s Special Investigators) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Capri, Diane, Straight Jack (The Hunt for Jack Reacher) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Child, Lee & Andrew, Better Off Dead (Jack Reacher) | Buy the audio
Cody, Liza, My People and Other Crime Stories (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Dowdall, Anna, April on Paris Street (Ashley Smeeton) | Buy this book
Gifune, Greg F., Velvet Elvis (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Gumpaw, Felix, Pup Detectives: Mystery Mountain Getaway (Rider Woofson & The PI Pack) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Herren, Greg, Bury Me in Shadows (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Nigojū & Umibōzu, The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 2 ( Kimitsuka Kimihi & Siesta) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Patterson, James, & Candace Fox, 2 Sisters Detective Agency (1: Rhonda & Baby Bird) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Pluck, Thomas, The Boy from County Hell (non-P.I.; Jay Desmarteaux) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

September 2021 Paperbacks

Bienia, Alice, Three Dog Knight (Jorja Knight) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Bruen, Ken, Callous (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Collins, Max Allan, Fancy Anders Goes To War: Who Killed Rosie The Riveter? (1: Fancy Anders) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Gardner, Erle Stanley, The Case of the Borrowed Brunette (Perry Mason) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Gumpaw, Felix, Pup Detectives: The Missing Magic Wand (Rider Woofson & The PI Pack) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Manchette, Jean-Patrick, The N’Gustro Affair (non-P.I; French noir) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Orgain, Diana, Cereal Killer (Kate Connolly & Vicente Domingo) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Rennison, Nick, editor, American Sherlocks (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Fifteen short detective stories written between 1890 and 1920, including tales by Melville Davisson Post, George Barton, Ellis Parker Butler, Samuel Gardenhire, Anthony M. Rud, John R. Coryell, , Anna Katherine Green, Arthur B. Reeve and Hugh Cosgro Weir.

August 2021 Paperbacks

Bracken, Michael, “Aloha Boys” (“Mo Ron” Boyette) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Part of P.I. Tales twofer Double Feature, with Frank Zafiro’s “Hallmarks of the Job.”
Cohen, Octavus Roy, Jim Hanvey, Detective (Jim Hanvey) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Reprint of classic 1921 collection of stories featuring backwoods detective Hanvey, with introduction by our pal Leslie S. Klinger.
Doherty, Jim, The Big Game and Other Crime Stories (non-P.I.; Dan Sullivan; collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Tales from behind the badge.
Easley, Warren C., No Witness (Cal Claxton) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Reynolds, William J., Moving Targets (Nebraska) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Rice, Craig, Eight Faces at Three (John J. Malone) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Stringer, Jay, Don’t Tell a Soul (1: Constantin McGarry) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Triptych, John, Oceans of Brass (Tommy “Dapper” Luoo) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Zafiro, Frank, “Hallmarks of the Job” (1: Stanley Melvin) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Part of P.I. Tales twofer, Double Feature, with Michael Bracken’s “Aloha Boys.”
Zimcosky, Steve, Polish Dragon P.I. (The Good Book) (Tom Sipowicz) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

July 2021 Paperbacks

Collins, Max Allan & Matthew V. Clemens, To Live and Spy in Berlin (non-P.I.; John Sand) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Davis, Norbert, The Price of a Dime: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Ben Shaley (Ben Shaley) | Buy this book
Daly, Carroll John, The Man in the Shadows: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Terry Mack (Three Gun Terry) | Buy this book
Dent, Lester, Luck: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Oscar Sail (Oscar Sail) | Buy this book
Gumpaw, Felix, Ghosts, Goblins and Ninjas (Rider Woofson & The PI Pack) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Harper, James, Atonement (Evan Buckley) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Hitchens, Dolores, Sleep With Strangers (1: Jim Sader) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Hitchens, Dolores, Sleep with Slander (Jim Sader) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Kemprecos, Paul, Killing Icarus (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Lepionka, Kristin, Once You Go This Far (Roxane Weary) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
McDermott, Will, Strangled by Death (Kolchak the Night Stalker)
Page, Norvell W., Black Harvest: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jules Tremaine (Jules Tremaine) | Buy this book
Patterson, James, & Adam Hamdy, Private Rogue (Jack Morgan) | Buy this book
Penzler, Otto, editor, Golden Age Detective Stories (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Roberts, Terry, My Mistress’ Eyes are Raven Black (1: Stephen Robbins; non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Swerdlow, Tommy, Straight Dope (1: Bobby Zorn) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Tinsley, Theodore A., South Wind: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy (Jerry Tracy) | Buy this book
Whitfield, Raoul, Laughing Death (non-P.I.; hard-boiled aviation) | Buy this book
Wilson, P A, Deadly Magic Dance (Fernlight & Bramble) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

June 2021 Paperbacks

Baia, Dion, Morris P.I.: The Men from Ice House Four (1: Walter Morris) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Block, Lawrence, A Writer Prepares (memoir) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Broe, Dennis, A Hello to Arms (Harry Palmer) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Capri, Diane, Jack of Hearts (Hunt for Jack Reacher) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Chaber, M.E., Death to the Brides (Milo March) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Chaber, M.E., The Twisted Trap: Six Milo March Stories (Milo March) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Coffin, Gary, Occam’s Razor (Rivka Goldstein & Elliot Forsman) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Collins, Max Allan, Double Down (Nolan) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Davis, Norbert, The Price of a Dime: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Ben Shaley (Ben Shaley) | Buy this book
Dent, Lester, Luck: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Oscar Sail (Oscar Sail) | Buy this book
Goldsborough, Robert, Trouble at the Brownstone (Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Greenwood, Kerry, Death in Daylesford (Phryne Fisher) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Gumpaw, Felix, The Soccer Mystery (Rider Woofson & The PI Pack) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Head, Cheryl A., Warn Me When It’s Time (Charlie Mack) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Hitchens, Dolores, The Cat Saw Murder (non-P.I.) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
McFetridge, John, Every City is Every Other City (Gord Stewart) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Nigojū & Umibōzu, The Detective Is Already Dead (1: Kimitsuka Kimihi & Siesta) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Orgain, Diana, Lethal Lullaby (Kate Connolly) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Ryan, Scott, Moonlighting: An Oral History (non-fiction) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Tarantino, Quentin, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Welsh-Huggins, Andrew, An Empty Grave (Andy Hayes) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Zackel, Fred, Drunk on Blood (Cricket West) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

May 2021 Paperbacks

Bouchard, Roxanne, The Coral Bride (non-P.I.; Joaquin Moralès) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Chaber, M.E., Green Grow the Graves (Milo March) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Chaber, M.E., The Bonded Dead (Milo March) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Chaber, M.E., Born to Be Hanged (Milo March) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Collins, Max Allan, Double Down (Nolan) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Reprints two early Nolan novels.
Hannah, Sophie, The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (Hercule Poirot) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Haring, Don, One More for the Road/The Weirdos (Larry Kent) (r) | Buy this book
Jenning, Patrick, The Long Winding Road of Harry Raymond (biography) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
A real-life detective’s journey down the mean streets of pre-war Los Angeles, and possibly Chandler’s inspiration for Marlowe.
Keliikoa, Mary, Denied (Kelly Pruett) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Paar, Howard, Top Rankin’ (non-P.I.; punk noir) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Silverman, Brian, Freedom Drop (1: Len Buonfiglio) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Talton, Jon, City of Dark Corners (1: Gene Hammons) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
White, Lionel, Steal Big/The Big Caper (non-P.I.) (r) | Buy this book
A Stark House two-fer.
Ward, Nathan, Ashes of My Youth (non-P.I.; historical noir) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

April 2021 Paperbacks

Butterfield, Frank W., The Case of the Jilted First Secretary (Carter Jones) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Cantrell, Tom, The Mysteries of Roy Huggins & the Deportation of Harry Carlisle (biography) | Buy this book
Chaber, M.E., Wild Midnight Falls (Milo March) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Chaber, M.E., The Flaming Man (Milo March) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Chaber, M.E., A Man in the Middle (Milo March) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Harper, James, Dig Two Graves (Evan Buckley) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Kendrick, Baynard, The Odor of Violets (Duncan Maclain) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
King, Richard, Banking on Life (non-P.I.; Linton & Bellechasse) | Buy this book
King, Stephen, If It Bleeds (collection) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Four new novellas from the master of horror, including the lead story featuring P.I. Holly Gibney.
Lawson, BV, Deadly Dance (Scott Drayco) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Leissner, Don, The Big Farewell (1: Unnamed) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Nava, Michael, Lies with Man (Henry Rios) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Pachter, Josh, editor, Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Parks, Adele, Just My Luck (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Patterson, James, & Adam Hamdy, Private: Moscow (Jack Morgan) (r) | Buy this book
Featuring Jack Morgan.
Terlson, Craig, Manistique (Luke Fischer) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Various, Crimeucopia: We’re All Animals Under The Skin (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Zimcosky, Steve, Polish Dragon P.I. (Midnight Cranes) (Tom Sipowicz) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

March 2021 Paperbacks

Bixley, George, Shrink in the Shadows (Slater Ibanez) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Boyle, William, City of Margins (non-P.I.; noir) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Brown, Carter, The Lover/The Mistress/The Passionate (non-P.I.; Al Wheeler) | Buy this book
Capri, Diane, Jack Frost (Hunt for Jack Reacher) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Collins, Max Allan, & Matthew V. Clemens, Live Fast, Spy Hard (non-P.I.; John Sand) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
De Noux, O’Neil, The Spy Who Used My Love (Lucien Caye) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Desrochers, Gene, Sweet Paradise (Boise Montague) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Enfantino, Peter, & Jeff Vorzimmer, The Manhunt Companion (reference) | Buy this book
Mystery geek heaven! The complete issue-to-issue guide to Manhunt, from January 1953 to April/May 1967, with story and author indexes.
Hughes, Dorothy B., Ride the Pink Horse (non-P.I. noir classic) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Jacobs, Chip, The Darkest Glare (true crime) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Keene, Day, The Kid I Killed Last Night & Other Stories (collection #7) | Buy this book
More classic stories from the pulps.
King, Stephen, Later (non-P.I., crime) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Mofina, Rick, Search for Her (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Morton, Mandy, A Pocket Full of Pie (Hettie Bagshot) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Paretsky, Sara, Deadland (V.I. Warshawsli) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Ravenal, M., The Arrangement (1: Tootsie Carter)
Sanderson, Jim, Gambled Dreams (1: Colton Parker) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Schecter, Harold, Maniac: The Bath School Disaster & the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer (true crime) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Staalesen, Gunnar, Fallen Angels (Varg Veum) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Viskic, Emma, Darkness for Light (Caleb Zelic) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Westlake, Donald, Castle in the Air (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

February 2021 Paperbacks

Bienia, Alice, Three Trials (Jorja Knight) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Gumpaw, Felix, The First Case (1: Rider Woofson & The PI Pack) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Gumpaw, Felix, The Tiger’s Eye (Rider Woofson & The PI Pack) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Harper, James, Legacy of Lies (Evan Buckley) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Luna, Louise, The Janes (Alex Vega) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Ollerman, Rick, editor, Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
A slew of hiss writing pals pay tribute to the gentleman from Texas with some tall tales of their own, including William Kent Krueger, Bill Pronzini, Joe R. Lansdale, Patricia Abbott, Ben Boulden, Michael Bracken, Jen Conley, Brendan DuBois, Charlaine Harris, David Housewright, Kasey Lansdale, Angela Crider Neary, James Reasoner, James Sallis, Terry Shames, S. A. Solomon, Sara Paretsky, Robert J. Randisi, SJ Rozan, and Eryk Pruitt. I wish I’d been invited to this party.
Orgain, Diana, Prams and Poison (Kate Connolly) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Pace, Ray, Disappearing Act: A Las Vegas Love Story, Sort of… (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Pachter, Josh, editor, The Great Filling Station Holdup (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Jimmy Buffett.
Pitts, Delia C., Murder My Past (S.J. Rook) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Tefler, Tori, Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, & Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion (non-fiction) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!

January 2021 Paperbacks

Ames, Dan, The Man Who Dies Here (The Jack Reacher Cases) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Beetner, Eric, Two in the Head (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Brubaker, Ed, & Sean Phillips, Pulp (no-P.I.; graphic novel) | Buy this book | ComiXology/Kindle it!
Collins, Max Allan, Shoot the Moon (and More) (non-P.I.; crime) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Fisher, Rudolpn, The Conjure-Man Dies (non-P.I.; crime classic) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Goldberg, Lee, Bone Canyon (non-P.I.; Eve Ronin) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Ide, Joe, Hi Five (Isaiah “I.Q.”Quintabe) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Mosley, Walter, Trouble is What I Do (Leonid McGill) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Neely, Richard, The Plastic Nightmare/While Love Lay Sleeping (1: Gus Klein) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
From Stark House, classic reprints, including basis for the film Shattered.
Orgain, Diana, Rockabye Murder (Kate Connolly) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Pinter, Jason, A Stranger at the Door (non-P.I.; Rachel Marin) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Swartzwelder, John, The Spy with No Pants (Frank Burly) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Stallings, Josh, Tricky (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Toney, Wilson, Not Worth That Much/Drug of Choice (Bug & Roche) (r) | Buy this book
Various, Guns & Tacos, Vol. 3 (collection; non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
New crime stories by Michael Bracken, Trey R. Barker, Eric Beetner & Alec Cizak.
Woods, Stuart, Hit List (Stone Barrington) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Woolrich, Cornell, The Bride Wore Black (non-P.I.; noir classic) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Zafiro, Frank, Sugar Got Low (noir collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Zimcosky, Steve, Polish Dragon P.I. (The Lineage Sword) (Tom Sipowicz) | Buy this book | Kindle it!