Books tagged: hardboiled mystery

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Scrawny Pete    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 10760 words. Published by WMG Publishing  on June 29, 2010. .

Crime reporter Atkins discovered Scrawny Pete at the scene of a murder-suicide. The hard-bitten reporter took to the cat, and the cat took to him. Together they traveled through the city on the police beat, until the day they came across another crime, one that Scrawny Pete understood. Includes complete bonus story, "The Secret Lives of Cats."
No Candles for Antiochus    by Barry Ergang
Price: $0.99 USD. 4840 words. Published on September 26, 2010. .

A hardboiled Hanukkah story set in a dystopian future. Its last line is rather memorable.
Disintegration    by Scott Nicholson
Price: $3.99 USD. 82340 words. Published by Haunted Computer Books  on October 23, 2010. .

Identical twins vie for control of a family empire built on deceit, cruelty, and dark secrets--and one woman stands between them while another hovers like a predator waiting for the first to fall. A dark crime thriller from the author of The Skull Ring, The Red Church, and Speed Dating with the Dead.
The Disappeared: A Retrieval Artist Novel    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $6.99 USD. 96820 words. Published by WMG Publishing  on February 6, 2011. .

New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card calls the Retrieval Artist series “some of the best science fiction ever written.” Io9 says Miles Flint is one of “the top ten greatest science fiction detectives of all time.” The Disappeared is Flint’s very first adventure, the story that turns him from a police detective in the Armstrong Dome on the Moon into a Retrieval Artist.
Short Stories of Earl Staggs    by Earl Staggs
Price: $2.99 USD. 53530 words. Published on April 18, 2011. .

A collection of published stories by Derringer Award winning author Earl Staggs. A mixture of Mystery, Crime and Humorous stories to satisfy readers who like variety.
Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping)    by Kelli Stanley
Price: $3.99 USD. 92350 words. Published on April 26, 2011. .

Nox Dormienda is the award-winning debut novel of critically-acclaimed author Kelli Stanley (City of Dragons), and the first of a series in a new genre: Roman Noir. Featuring Arcturus, a hardboiled protagonist in the best Philip Marlowe tradition, Nox is a different kind of historical mystery, a suspense thriller that combines a classic noir style with the rich texture of the ancient past.
Consequences: A Retrieval Artist Novel    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $6.99 USD. 102160 words. Published by WMG Publishing  on April 30, 2011. .

Mixing interstellar politics and police procedural, Rusch turns out a satisfying SF mystery. Flint’s internal conflicts are deftly portrayed, and the gritty realism of the murder investigation meshes well with the alien setting. This [third] entry in the Retrieval Artist series should please SF and mystery fans alike, and can be read independently. RT Book Reviews
First Feature    by Jason Blacker
Price: $4.99 USD. 101870 words. Published on May 17, 2011. .

First Feature is a bitingly wry detective whodunit featuring ex-LAPD's not so celebrated detective Anthony Carrick as he juggles mafia lords, drug addled neophytes, nymphomaniacs, gay counterculture, vegan hippies and tinsel town's dark side in a quest to uncover a homicide in the midst of his own personal turmoil.
Money Ain't Nothing    by Jason Blacker
Price: $0.99 USD. 8200 words. Published on May 18, 2011. .

Money ain’t nothing if you’ve got a lot of it. But then again, a lot of money won’t necessarily buy happiness either. In this Anthony Carrick mystery, hard boiled detective Anthony Carrick is asked to solve the murder of a rich dame’s son. Police think it’s an accidental death, but could it be something more sinister?
Dying on the Edge    by Francine Craft
Price: $0.99 USD. 73160 words. Published on August 4, 2011. .

An engrossing mystery of one woman’s obsession with another woman’s husband that can only end in disaster.