Books tagged: hardboiled

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Identity Crisis    by Debbi Mack
Price: $3.99 USD. 70480 words. Published on June 17, 2009. .

A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae’s client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with a private investigator to discover the truth.
Deadly Sting: A Deacon Bishop Mystery    by Michael Paulson
Price: $3.99 USD. 86390 words. Published by Rob Preece on July 1, 2009. .

It sounds like an easy job--trail a woman from the airport to her destination and call in where she went. In fact, the job sounds too easy for hardboiled P.I. Deacon Bishop. Still, he needs the money. So... Unfortunately, Bishop is right. Before he can say 'sting,' he's caught in a web of deadly redheads, angry terrorists, murder and... honeybees.
Chasing Ghosts    by Lee Driver
Price: $4.99 USD. 70990 words. Published by Full Moon Publishing on September 21, 2009. .

What if everything you knew about your past was wrong? What if who you thought you were was all a lie? The answers lie in a series of numbers which lead Dagger to a remote city...one mile below the surface, technologically advanced yet abandoned. Or is it? This is the fourth book in the Chase Dagger Series which combines mystery with urban fantasy.
Full Moon Bloody Moon    by Lee Driver
Price: $4.99 USD. 63900 words. Published by Full Moon Publishing on September 30, 2009. .

A series of gruesome murders leads a cop and a professor to the doorstep of Chase Dagger, a P.I. whose cases tend to resemble X-Files. But when the two men try to convince him that the killer has been around for 200 years, Dagger has his doubts. Could this evil really have been passed on through generations? Or is it just your normal, everyday serial killer? A great blend of mystery and horror.
The Good Die Twice    by Lee Driver
Price: $0.99 USD. 70900 words. Published by Full Moon Publishing on October 31, 2009. .

A woman is murdered five years after her alleged death. The first in the Chase Dagger Series which combines mystery with fantasy. (Every detective should have a shapeshifter for a partner.) "The attendant breezy sex, violence, and action, coupled with bits of Indian lore and Einstein the talking macaw, should have readers clamoring for the projected next novel." -- Library Journal.
The Cost of Opening    by Geoffrey Thorne
Price: $1.99 USD. 9540 words. Published by The Winterman Project  on January 1, 2010. .

What do you get when you mix a hardboiled detective, a stripper with a cashbox for a heart and a simple magic charm? In the city of Arcana you get trouble of the world-shattering, life-eating kind with only one lonely sorceress standing between humanity and oblivion. Geoffrey Thorne, author of RED/Shift, presents a tale of dark magic, tragic love and ancient bonds. For mature readers.
Rose Head    by Robert T. Jeschonek
Price: $0.99 USD. 11610 words. Published on March 13, 2010. .

In a world where everyone has a flower for a head, who can stop the serial killer called the Pruner? Enter Inspector Glisten, a hard-boiled, rose-headed cop who'll stop at nothing to cut down the Pruner. But when the trail leads to a seedy garden of horrors he never imagined, Glisten fights for his life against an explosion of deadly flower power that could uproot his world in a harvest of death.
Crimefactory issue 2 Volume 1    by Keith Rawson
Price: $1.50 USD. 28860 words. Published on March 26, 2010. .

CRIMEFACTORY IS THE PREMIERE MAGAZINE OF HARDBOILED AND NOIR CRIME FICTION!! ISSUE 2 FEATURES NEW FICTION BY DAVE ZELTSERMAN, RAY BANKS, KIERAN SHEA, PATTI ABBOTT, JOSH CONVERSE, STEPHEN D. ROGERS, AND GERARD BRENNAN! WITH NEW FEATURES BY REED FARREL COLEMAN, CRAIG MCDONALD, CHARLIE STELLA, JIMMY CALLAWAY AND THE NERD OF NOIR!
The Know Circuit    by Gary Ballard
Price: $2.99 USD. 56610 words. Published on May 2, 2010. .

Artemis Bridge can get you what you need no matter how immoral or illegal. When the city of Boulder is trapped in a mysterious dome, he sets aside his detachment to help his bodyguard Aristotle. Every step he takes towards the dome deepens the mystery, with flaming dragons, robotic golems and disturbing visions driving Bridge to a life-altering conclusion.
Laird Barron (ology)    by Blue Tyson
Price: Free! 166680 words. Published on May 16, 2010. .

About the work of horror writer Laird Barron, and is a companion to the Laird Barron (ology) website http://lairdbarron.blogspot.com and collects the content found at the site. The various entries and elements can also be browsed there. Barron as a writer often works in a Lovecraft type tradition, using his own Pacific Northwest and in particular Washington State mythos. Also noir influences.