Author: Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unparalleled take on the private eye novel — fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the author is famed. No Room at the Morgue came out after Jean-Patrick Manchette had transformed French crime fiction with such brilliantly plotted, politically charged, unrelentingly violent tales as Nada and The Mad and the Bad. Here, inspired by his love of Dashiell Hammett, Manchette introduces Eugene Tarpon, private eye, a sometime cop who has set up shop after being kicked off the force for accidentally killing a political demonstrator. Months have passed, and Tarpon desultorily tries to keep in shape while drinking all the time. No one has shown up at the door of his office in the midst of the market district of Les Halles. Then the bell rings and a beautiful woman bursts in, her hands dripping blood. It’s Memphis Charles, her roommate’s throat has been cut, and Memphis can’t go to the police because they’ll only suspect her. Can Tarpon help? Well, somehow he can’t help trying. Soon bodies mount, and the craziness only grows.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 6585934016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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"The Rue Morgue Murders" is a pioneering tale in the mystery genre, in which detective Auguste Dupin uses his acute observation and logic to solve a brutal double murder in Paris, revealing a surprising and unusual outcome.

Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441016716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire for "The Laundry," must stop ruthless billionaire Ellis Billington from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue," from the ocean's depths for the purpose of ruling the world...

Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307740757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle—a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.

Author: Jonathan Latimer
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480486132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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A vanished corpse leads a hard-drinking PI on a madcap chase More than forty corpses fill the cold Chicago basement, but no crime has been committed here. After all, there are supposed to be bodies in the city morgue. Tonight, one is attracting particular attention: a beautiful young woman whose apparent suicide captured the imagination of every newspaper editor in town. Learning how and why she died is too great a task for any cub reporter. Only Detective Bill Crane is up to the job. A few minutes after Crane wakes from a nap in the morgue, the mysterious woman’s body has disappeared. With the howls of the mental patients as a soundtrack, Crane leads the police on a wild search through the hospital and across Chicago, stopping for a nap or a cocktail whenever the situation demands. It may be a matter of life and death, but that is no reason to rush.

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008207127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike.

Author: Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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A New York Review Books Original Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eyes on a backwater burg—where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to town, she means to sniff out old grudges and engineer new opportunities, deftly playing different people and different interests against each other the better, as always, to make a killing. But then something snaps: the master manipulator falls prey to a pure and wayward passion. Aimée has become the avenging angel of her own nihilism, exacting the destruction of a whole society of destroyers. An unholy original, Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern detective novel into a weapon of gleeful satire and anarchic fun. In Fatale he mixes equal measures of farce, mayhem, and madness to prepare a rare literary cocktail that packs a devastating punch.

Author: Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590177207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew—a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette’s celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.

Author: Ethan Jones
Publisher: Knightsville Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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What if the agency mole were you? Europe Clandestine Service secret agents Justin Hall and Carrie O'Connor are hunting terrorists plotting an attack against a Belgium train station. The agents are close to dismantling the jihadists' cell, when news of a classified intelligence leak threatens to destroy Justin's career and land him in jail. Forced to follow orders and leave Carrie behind, Justin is dispatched to Iraq with a new operative to find the source of the leak. There's just one problem. In order to find the leak and stop the terrorists in time, he may just have to go rogue, and if he does that, there might be no coming back… The Belgian Bagman is the perfect edge-of-your-seat espionage thriller that will electrify you with fast-paced action, rich characters, and superbly-crafted plots. If you like Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn or Ian Fleming, you’ll love The Belgian Bagman. Reviews ★★★★★ "Ethan Jones continues the Justin Hall series with a well-written novel. He only leaves you wanting more. There are a lot of writers that follow this but barely meet Ethan's level of skill." ★★★★★ "Wow!!! I don't know where to begin except to repeat myself and say "Wow"!!! My heart is still pounding from the thrill and suspense. This is Ethan Jones at his best. Super spy Justin Hall is back at work again. He keeps you on the edge of your seat beginning on page one and not letting up until the end of the novel. Follow along as you are led down a winding pathway of intrigue and covert ops." ★★★★★ "If you are looking for one super book that will keep you biting your nails in its entirety then this is most definitely the one for you!! I read a lot of books, most of which I really enjoy, but this one has to be at the top of my list for most entertaining!!" ★★★★★ "Another great Justin Hall thriller. Ethan Jones has really outdone himself this time. This is a fast-paced book full of twists and turns and the centre of action has been shifted to Europe. Ethan has added so much depth to Justin's character that one feels he has surpassed Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp. Fast-paced, with twists and turns around every corner, this is by far the best book of the series." ★★★★★ "#1 Amazon Bestselling author Ethan Jones proved himself on this page-turner once again, why he is known around the world for his espionage writing. The book was well written…” The Justin Hall Series This best-selling series has thousands of five-star reviews and hundreds of thousands of sales and downloads. Each book is a clean, self-contained international espionage mission without cliffhangers and can be enjoyed on its own. A high-octane thriller, with terrorist subterfuge all wrapped up and ready to explode! Scroll up, click and get lost in the adrenaline-drenched world of Justin Hall now! If you love assassinations, conspiracies, crime, espionage, military, political, psychological, technothrillers, terrorism, suspense, spy thrillers, secret agents, clandestine covert missions, and action & adventure with series favorites such as Jack Storm, Justin Hall, Javin Pierce, Carrie O’Connor, or Max Thorne… You’ll love this book.

Author: Morgan Rogers
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488077509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E! * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others! A LibraryReads Pick “HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it.” — Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal When becoming an adult means learning to love yourself first. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her parent’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she’s able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.