Paperbacks

2024

September 2024 Paperback

• Berney, Lou, Dark Ride (non-P.I.) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Cudmore, Libby, Negative Girl (Martin Wade) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Welsh-Huggins, Andrew, Sick to Death (Andy Hayes) | Buy this book 

August 2024 Paperbacks

• Lansdale, Joe R., Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Phillips, Gary, Only the Wicked (Ivan Monk) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Thomsen, Jim, The Killing Rain: Left Coast Crime 2024 Anthology | Buy this book | Kindle it!

July 2024 Paperbacks

• Bieson, Sheri Chinen, Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style (non-fiction) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Helms, Richard, Holy City (1: Whitlock)
• Koryta, Michael, An Honest Man (non-P.I.) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Penzler, Otto, editor, Golden Age Whodunits (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
  Penzler digs up some tasty nuggets from the twenties and thirties from suspects usual and unusual, including short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, Helen Reilly, Vincent Bénet, Clayton Dawson, Frederic Brown and Ellery Queen.
• Phillips, Gary, Bad Night is Falling (Ivan Monk) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Richards, K.D., Lakeside Secrets (West Investigations) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Shames, Terry, Guilt Strikes at Granger’s Store (non-P.I.; Samuel Craddock) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Stella, Charlie, Joey Piss Pot (Artie Adler)
• Young, Pamela Samuels, & Dwayne Alexander Smith, Sounds Like a Plan (1: Mackenzie Cunningham & Jackson Jones) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!

June 2024 Paperbacks

May 2024 Paperbacks

• Enfantino, Peter, The Wild World of Off Beat Detective, Crime and Sleaze Digests (reference) | Buy this book
• Hazard, Robert, Hacking New York (non-fiction) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Phillips, Gary, Violent Spring (1: Ivan Monk) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
  Intro by Walter Mosley.
• Woolrich, Cornell, & Lawrence Block, Into the Night (non-P.I.) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
  Woolrich’s last novel, completed by Block.
• Weizmann, Daniel, Cinnamon Girl (Adam Zantz) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

April 2024 Paperbacks

• Collins, Barbara & Max Allan, Cutout (non-P.I.)| Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Darter, Larry, Life Can Be Murder (Rick Bishop) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Drake, Arnold, The Steel Noose (non-P.I.; noir) (r) | Buy this book 
• Flagg, John, Death’s Lovely Mask (Hart Muldoon) (r) | Buy this book  | Kindle it!
• Flagg, John, Murder in Monaco/Death’s Lovely Mask (Hart Muldoon) (r) | Buy this book
• Gunn, James, Deadlier Than the Male (aka “Born to Kill”) (r) | Buy this book
• Huston, Charlie, Catchpenny (1: Sid Catchpenny) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Keene, Day, Mrs. Homicide/Naked Fury/Murder on the Side (non-P.I. noir) (r) | Buy this book 
• Mofina, Rick, Someone Saw Something (non-P.I.) | Buy the book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Ollerman, Rick, & Greg Shepard, editors, The Stark House Anthology | Buy this book
  Pure pulp for now people! Stark House celebrates its 25th with a whopper collection of short stories from some of their fave hard-boiled and noir authors, including Peter Rabe, Lionel White, Helen Nielsen, Harry Whittington, Day Keene,  Bruno Fischer and more, plus P.I. stories from Henry Kane, Frank Kane and Stephen Marlowe.
• Patterson, James, & Matt Eversmann, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians (tribute) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Shepphird, John, Deception Specialist (1: Jack O’Shea) | Buy the book | Buy the audio | Kindle it! 
• Rhino, Greg, Who By Fire (1: Dame Polara) | Buy this book 

March 2024 Paperbacks

• Ardai, Charles, Death Comes Too Late (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Beaver, Jim, Blood Show (1: Rick Buchanan) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Burnett, W.R., Nobody Lives Forever/Tomorrow’s Another Day (non-P.I.; noir) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Cody, James P., Top Secret Kill (1: Brian Peterson) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Cody, James P., Search and Destroy (Brian Peterson) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Cody, James P., Your Daughter Will Die! (Brian Peterson) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Cody, James P., The French Killing (Brian Peterson) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Coggins, Mark, Geisha Confidential (August Riordan) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Denfeld, Rene, Sleeping Giants (1: Jack Palmer) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• King, Dane, Off the Books (Nick Forte) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

February 2024 Paperbacks

• Ames, Dan, Easy to Kill (Jack Reacher’s Special Investigators) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Beetner, Eric, The Last Few Miles of Road (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Brown, Carter, The Tigress/The Exotic/Angel! (Al Wheeler; non-P.I.) (r) | Buy this book 
• Carter, Kim, The Root of All Evil (Clara & Iris) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Clark, Jack, Nobody’s Angel (1: Eddie Miles) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Gumpaw, Felix, A Royal Fishing Scam (Pup Detectives) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Jessup, Richard, Night Train to Paris (non-P.I.; noir) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Kemprecos, Paul, The God in the Sea (“Soc” Socarides) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

January 2024 Paperbacks

• Ballinger, Bill S., The Body in the Bed/The Body Beautiful (Barr Breed) (r) | Buy this book 
• Hamilton, Ian, The Fury of Beijing (Ava Lee) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Hartman, Alan J., I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight | Buy this book | Kindle it!
  Crime Fiction Inspired by One-Hit Wonders
• Kelter, Lawrence, Man-Killer (1: Gina Cototi) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Krishtalka, Leonard, Native Blood (Harry Przewalski) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Patterson, James, & Hamdy, Adam, Missing Persons (Jack Morgan, Private) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Richards, J.D., A Stalker’s Prey (West Investigations) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Rosten, Leo, The Dark Corner/Sleep, My Love (Bradford Galt/non-P.I.) | Buy this book 
  The inspiration for two classic noirs, finally in print again.
• White, Robert, Northtown Angelus (Raimo Jarvi) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

2023

December 2023 Paperbacks

• Gischler, Victor, Fast Charlie (1: Charlie the Hook) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Heller, Lorenz, Wild is the Woman/Lovers Don’t Sleep (non-P.I.) (r)  | Buy this book 
• Stout, Rex, Seed on the Wind (non-P.I.) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

November 2023 Paperbacks

• Burbara, Rawya Jarjoura, editor, East Jerusalem Noir (Akashic noir collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Campbell, Colin, Ruins of Midnight (1: Mick Habergham; non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Daly, Carroll John, The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Vol. 3 (collection) | Buy this book
• Davis, Frederick C., The Complete Cases of Bill Brent, Vol. 3 (collection) | Buy this book
• Davis, Norbert, Sand in there Snow (Jim Daniels) (r) | Buy this book
• Eitan, Maayan, editor, West Jerusalem Noir (Akashic noir collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Flynn, T.T., The Yin Shee Dragon: The Complete Cases of Mike & Trixie, Vol. 2 (collection) | Buy this book
• Gardner, Erle Stanley, The Case of the Rolling Bones (Perry Mason) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!Herren, Greg, Mississippi River Mischief (Scotty Bradley) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Hockensmith, Steven, Partners In Crime (Old Red & Big Red Amlingmeyer; collection)  | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• The Complete Cases of Cass Blue, Vol. 2 (collection)  | Buy this book
• Red, Anthony, The Stuffed Men: The Complete Cases of Jigger Masters, Vol. 3 (collection) | Buy this book
• Wieland, Chris, The Body on the Beach (Kat Dylan; YA)  | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Wolson, Morton, The Complete Cases of Cash Wale, Vol. 2 (collection) |Buy this book
• Worts, George F., The Screen of Ice: The Complete Cases of Gillian Hazeltine, Vol. 2  | Buy this book

October 2023 Paperbacks

• Capri, Diane, Bet on Jack (Kim Otto & Carlos Gaspar) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Charag, J.N., Galilee (1: Mark Ash) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Dent, Lester, Six White Horses: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 3 (Click Rush; collection)  | Buy this book 
• Goldberg, Lee, Crown Vic (1: Ray Boyd) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Helms, Richard, Vicar Brekonridge (1: Vicar Brekonridge) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Hockensmith, Steve, Hunters of the Dead (Old Red & Big Red Amlingmeyer)  | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Jakubowski, Maxim, Just a Girl With a Gun (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Phillips, Gary, The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Terlson, Craig, Three Minute Hero (Luke Fischer) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Unger, Lisa, & Steph Cha, editors, The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 (anthology) | Buy this book  | Buy the audio | Kindle it!

September 2023 Paperbacks

• De Noux, O’Neil, Smooth (Lucien Caye) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Dent, Lester, The Devils Smelled Nice: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 2 (Click Rush; collection) | Buy this book 
• Duncan, Bill, Rafferty Rules (1: Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, Last Seen Alive (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, Poor Dead Cricket (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, Cannon’s Mouth (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, Fatal Sisters (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, False Gods (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, Wright & Wrong (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Duncan, Bill, Down the Barrel (Rafferty) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Fazzi, Cindy, Multo (1: Domingo) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Kurtz, Peter, The Shades Dripped Red (Nick Montaigne) | Buy this book |  Kindle it!
• Towles, Amor, & Otto Penzler, editors, The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Woo, Sung J., Deep Roots (Siobhan O’Brien) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!

August 2023 Paperbacks

• Bixley, George, The Saucer-Heads (Slater Ibanez) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
• Divello, Sara, Broadway Butterfly (1: Julia Harpman) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Kuhlken, Ken, Damned Hot (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Lansdale, Joe R., Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale (collection; non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Lincoln, John, Grey in the Dark (Gethin Grey) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Oates, Joyce Carol, editor, A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Osborn, Richard A., Peoria Nights (Nick Stihl) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
• Patterson, James, & Adam Hamdy, Private: Rome (Jack Morgan, Matteo Ricci, Private) | Buy this book
• Patterson, James, Private Beijing (Jack Morgan; Private) | Buy this book
• Smith, Alexander McCall, A Song of Comfortable Chairs (Precious Ramotswe) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio  | Kindle it!
• West, Holly, editor, Killin’ Time in San Diego (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

July 2023 Paperbacks

• Ballard, W.T., That’s Hollywood: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Bill Lennox, Vol. 1 (Bill Lennox) | Buy this book
• Brocklebank, Katherine, White Talons: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Tex of the Border Service  (non-P.I.) | Buy this book
• Champion, D.L., Murder Pays 7 to 1: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Rex Sackler, Volume 2 (Rex Sackler) | Buy this book
• Constiner, Merle, The Hound with the Golden Eye: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock, Vol. 2 (LutherMcGavock) | Buy this book
• Dent, Lester, Talking Toad: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 1 (Click Rush)  | Buy this book 
• Hammett, Dashiell, Zigzags of Treachery: The Complete Black Mask Cases, Volume 1 (The Continental Op) | Buy this book
• Terlson, Craig, Samurai Bluegrass (non-P.I.; timetravel WTF?) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Torrey, Roger, The Case-Hardened Samaritan: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Dal Prentice, Vol. (non-P.I.) | Buy this book
• Von Doviak, Scott, Lowdown Road (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

June 2023 Paperbacks

• Bidulka, Anthony, Livingsky (1: Merry Bell) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
• Block, Lawrence, The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder (Matt Scudder) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
• Francis, Felix, Hands Down (Sid Halley) (r) | Buy this book  | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Goldman, Matt, Gone to Dust (1: Nils Shapiro) (r) | Buy the book | Buy the audio | Kindle it! 
• Gordon, David, The Pigeon (Joe the Bouncer) | Buy the book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Jung, Rob, Judgement Day (The Chimera Chronicles) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Kalteis, Dietrich, The Get (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Kendrick, Baynard, Blind Man’s Bluff (Duncan MacLain) (r) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
• Patterson, James, & Adam Hamdy, Private Moscow (Jack Morgan; Private) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Ripley, W.L., Springer’s Max Bet (Cole Springer) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

May 2023 Paperbacks

• Albert, Neil, September Wars (Dave Garrett) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Barron, Laird, The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Block, Lawrence, The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men’s Adventure Magazines | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Butterfield, Frank W., The Vicious Vintner (Nick Williams & Carter Jones) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Capri, Diane, Grounded Truth (Michael Flint) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
• Helms, Richard, Paper Walls/Glass Houses (short story collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Leclere, Eric, The Harvesters (Xavier Lombard) | Buy this book
• Morton, Mandy, The Windmill Murders (The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Phillips, Gary, editor, Get Up Offa That Thing: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of James Brown (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

April 2023 Paperbacks

• Campbell, Collin, Double Exposure (Grant & McNulty) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Capri, Diane, Bulletproof Jack (The Hunt for Jack Reacher) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Collins, Max Allan, Mad Money (Nolan) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
  Collects the novels Spree and Mourn the Living
• Darter, Larry, Missing Time (T.J. O’Sullivan) | Buy this book 
• Foster, Lori Duffy, No Time to Breathe (Lisa Jamison) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Harper, James, See No Evil (Evan Buckley) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Last, Jerold, Bloody Delta Dawn (Roger & Suzanne) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Mofina, Rick, Everything She Feared (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Myers, Ruth M., Murder Mutts (1: Heebs Kelly) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Sanders, J.R, Bring the Night (Nate Ross) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Wiebe, Sam, Sunset and Jericho (Dave Wakeland) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

March 2023 Paperbacks

January 2023 Paperbacks

• Bixley, George, Trail of the Blue Agave (Slater Ibanez) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
• Block, Lawrence (editor), Playing Games (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Capri, Diane, Trace Evidence (Michael Flint) | Buy the book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Darter, Larry, China Doll (Rick Bishop) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Glenn, Teel James, Ghostmaker Inc. (1: Jack Silence) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Hamilton, Ian, The General of Tianamen Square (Ava Lee) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Hellman, Libby Fischer, DoubleBlind (Georgia Davis) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Last, Jerold, Peril in Paradise (Roger & Suzanne) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
• Perry, Thomas, The Left-Handed Twin (Jane Whitefield)(r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Shames, Laurence, Relative Humidity (Pete Amsterdam) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
• Zafiro, Frank, Hope Dies Last (Stefan Kopriva) | Buy this book | Kindle it!

(nv) = novella
(ss) = short story.
(r) = reprint.
(LP) = large print

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