• July 2012 Hardcovers
• Hamilton, Steven, Die a Stranger (Alex McKnight). Buy this book
  
  
• June 2012 e-books
• Estleman, Loren D., Burning Midnight (Amos Walker).. Buy this book\
  
  
• May 2012 Hardcovers
• Spillane, Mickey, and Max Allan Collins, Lady, Go Die! (Mike Hammer).. Buy this book
  
  
• April 2011 Hardcovers
• Arthurson, Wayne, A Killing Winter (Leo Desroches)...Buy this book
• Lansdale, Joe R., The Edge of Water (non-P.I.). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Perry, AnnSallis, Driven (non-P.I.; sequel to Drive). Buy this book
  
  
• March 2012 Hardcover
• Coben, Harlan, Stay Close (non-P.I.). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• John, Steven, Three A.M. (1: Tom Vale). Buy this book
• Parks, Brad, The Girl Next Door (Carter Ross).. Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Perry, Thomas, Poison Flower (Jane Whitfield)...Buy this book
  
  
• February 2012 Hardcover
• Bazell, Josh, Wild Thing (non-P.I., Pietro Brnwa). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Dorsey, Tim, Pineapple Grenade (Serge A. Storms). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Harvey, John, A Darker Shade of Blue . Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  Anthology includes all eight stories featuring P.I. Jack Kiley, plus more.
• Lochte, Dick, Blues in the Night (1: Dave "Mace" Mason).. Buy this book
• Lutz, Lisa, Trail of the Spellmans (Izzy Spellman, et al) .. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Patterson, James, & Mark Sullivan, Private Games (Peter Knight of Private).. Buy this book . Kindle it!
• Schow, David J., Upgunned (non-P.I. noir comedy). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Sturges, P.G., Tribulations of the Shortcut Man (Dick Henry). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Webb, Betty, Desert Wind (Lena Jones). Buy this book
  
  
• January 2012 Harcovers
• Bilal, Parker, The Golden Scales (1: Makana). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Carr, Howard, Hard Knocks (1: Jack Reilly). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Crais, Robert, Taken (Elvis Cole). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Evanovich, Janet, & Dorien Kelly, Love in a Nutshell (1: Kate Appleton).. Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Goldberg, Lee, Mr. Monk on Patrol (Monk).. Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Hall, Parnell, $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles (Puzzle Lady) . Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Leonard, Elmore, Raylan (non-P.I., but Justified in its inclusion).. Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Lescroart, John, The Hunter (Wyatt Hunt).. Buy this book. Kindle it!
• McKinty, Adrian, The Cold Cold Ground (non-P.I.; Sgt. Duffy & The Troubles).. Buy this book
• Mosley, Walter, All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill).. Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Paretsky, Sara, Breakdown (V.I. Warshawski).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Parker, Jefferson T., The Jaguar (non-P.I.; Charlie Hood).. Buy this book . Kindle it!
• Patterson, James, & Maxine Paetro, Private: #1 Suspect (Jack Morgan).. Buy this book . Kindle it!
• Penney, Stef, The Invisible Ones (1: Ray Lovell).. Buy this book . Kindle it!
• Ward, Robert, The Best Bad Dream (G-Man Jack Harper, non-P.I.).. Buy this book . Kindle it!
• Woods, Stuart, D.C. Dead (Stone Barrington)... Buy this book. Kindle it!
  
  
• December 2011 Hardcovers
• Brod, D.C., Getting Lucky (Robyn Guthrie). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Bruns, Don, Too Much Stuff (James Lessor & Skip Moore). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Coleman, Reed Farrell, Hurt Machine (Moe Prager). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Forman, Steven M., Boca Daze (Eddie Perlmutter)
• Hall, James W., Dead Last (Thorn).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Kovacs, Ed, Storm Damage (1: Cliff St. James).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Roker, Al & Dick Lochte, The Talk Show Murders (Billy Blessing, non-P.I.). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• November 2011 Hardcovers
• Connelly, Michael, The Drop (Harry Bosch).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Evanovich, Janet, Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum).. Buy this book.. Nook it!
• Grafton, Sue, V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone)...Buy this book
• Mortimer, John, Forever Rumpole (Rumpole) (r). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Todd, Jack, Rain Falls Like Mercy (non-P.I., Paint Family, circa WWII). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• October 2011 Hardcovers
• Bruen, Ken, Headstone (Jack Taylor)...Buy this book
• Dorsey, Tim, When Elves Attack (Serge A. Storms). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Harwood, Seth, This is Life (Jack Palms)...Buy this book
• Muller, Marcia, City of Whispers (Sharon McCone).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  A provocative and wide-ranging brick of a book, perfect for tossing through the plate glass window of "common knowledge." Pinker, a well-respected Harvard professor of psychology offers pretty conclusive proof that we humans may not be perfect, but there's still some hope.
  
• Wilson, F. Paul, The Dark at the End (Repairman Jack)..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• September 2011 Hardcovers
• Barclay, Linwood, The Accident (non-P.I.; domestic noir). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Burke, James Lee, Feast Day of Fools (Sheriff Hackberry Holland). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Child, Lee, The Affair (Jack Reacher).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Deverell, William, I'll See You in My Dreams (Arthur Beauchamp)... Buy this book
• Emerson, Jill (Lawrence Block), Getting Off (non-P.I.). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Levinson, Robert S., A Rhumba in Waltz Time (1: Chris Blanchard) .. Buy this book
• Lewis, Mitchell Scott, Murder in the 11th House
• Quinn, Spencer, The Dog Who Knew Too Much (Chet and Bernie).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Rozan, S.J., Ghost Hero (Bill Smith & Lydia Chin)......Buy this book ..Kindle it!
• Stanley, Kelli, City of Secrets (Miranda Corbie).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Woods, Stuart, Son of Stone (Stone Barrington).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Zeltserman, Dave, A Killer's Essence (non-P.I.).. Buy this book
  
  
• August 2011 Hardcovers
• Banks, Ray, Beast of Burden (Cal Innes).. Buy this book.. Kindle it
• Collins, Max Allan, Bye Bye Baby (2011; Nate Heller).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Krueger, William Kent, Northwest Angle (Cork O'Connor).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Levien, David, Thirteen Million Dollar Pop (Frank Behr).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Lippman, Laura, The Most Dangerous Thing (non-P.I. standalone).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Pelecanos, George, The Cut (1: Spero Lucas).. Buy this book.. Nook it!
• Sallis, James, The Killer is Dying. Buy this book.
• Shelby, Jeff, Liquid Smoke (Noah Braddock).. Buy this book
• Winslow, Don, The Gentleman's Hour (Boone Daniels).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• July 2011 Hardcovers
• Various writers, No Rest for the Dead (non-P.I.). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  We Are the World-type serial mystery novel by David Baldacci, Jeff Abbott, Lori Armstrong, Sandra Brown, Thomas Cook, Jeffery Deaver, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew F. Gulli, Peter James, J.A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Raymond Khoury, John Lescroart, Jeff Lindsay, Gayle Lynds, Philip Margolin, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Palmer, T. Jefferson Parker, Matthew Pearl, Kathy Reichs, Marcus Sakey, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline, R.L. Stine and Marcia Talley to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphona Society.
• Abbott, Jeff, Adrenaline (1: Sam Capra) ..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Abbott, Meg, The End of Everything (non-P.I. by Queen of Noir) ..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Butcher, Jim, Ghost Story (Harry Dresden) ..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Estleman, Loren D., Infernal Angels (Amos Walker).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Farrow, John, River City (Cinq-Mars returns!)
• Francis, Felix, Dick Francis' Gamble (non-P.I.; Dick's son finally rides solo).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Harvey, Michael, We All Fall Down (Michael Kelly). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Hayes, J.M., English Lessons (non-P.I., Mad dog & English)...Buy this book
• Hurwitz, Gregg, You're Next (non P.I.).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Pronzini, Bill, Camouflage (Nameless). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Randisi, Robert J., Fly Me to the Morgue (Eddie Gianelli & Rat Pack). Buy this book
• Rosenfelt, David, One Dog Night (Andy Carpenter).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Russell, Craig, The Long Glasgow Kiss (Lennox)
• Spiegelman, Peter, Thick As Thieves (caper novel).. Buy this book. Kindle it!
  
• Tierney, Ronald, Good to the Last Kiss (non-P.I.).. Buy this book
• Verdon, John, Shut Your Eyes Tight (Dave Gurney).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• June 2011 Hardcovers
• Evanovich, Janet, Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Finder, Joseph, Buried Secrets (Nick Heller).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Goldberg, Lee, Mr. Monk on the Couch (Adrian Monk). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Gran, Sara, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
• Littlefield, Sophie, A Bad Day for Scandal (Stella Hardesty)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
• Sakey, Marcus, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes (non-P.I. thriller)). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Wiley, Michael, A Bad Night's Sleep (Joe Kozmarski)). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• May 2011 Hardcovers
• Block, Lawrence, A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Matthew Scudder).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• DeMille, Nelson, editor, The Rich And The Dead (MWA anthology). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  Includes stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and S.J. Rozan.
• Earle, Steve, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (non-P.I.).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Faherty, Terrence, Dance in the Dark (Scott Elliott).. Buy this book
• Hamill, Pete, Tabloid City (Sam Briscoe).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Hamilton, Steve, Misery Bay (Alex McKnight).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• James, Bill, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence.. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  Sure, it cites everything from the Lizzie Borden story to the O.J. case, with stops along the way for the Boston Strangler, the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Black Dahlia, among others, but this isn't like any true crime book you've read lately. James -- best known as the baseball geek who deconstructed the National Pastime and gave us the Baseball Abstracts -- turns his statistician's eye on tabloid murders past and present, why Americans are horrified by them and, more importantly, why we can't stop talking about them.
• Knopf, Chris, Black Swan (Sam Acquillo). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Loehfelm, Bill, The Devil She Knows (non-P.I.). Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Parker, Robert B., Sixkill (The final Spenser) ...Buy this book
• Spillane, Mickey, & Max Allan Collins, Kiss Her Goodbye (Mike Hammer).. Buy this book
• Stone, Nick, Voodoo Eyes (Max Mingus)..Buy this book
• UlfeIder, Steve, Purgatory Chasm (auto mechanic Conway Sax). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• April 2011 Hardcover
• Connelly, Michael, The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Kerr, Philip, Field Gray (Bernie Gunther). Buy this book....Kindle it!
• Lutz, Lisa, & David Hayward, Heads You Lose (non-P.I. meta-noir).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Mackenzie, Jassy, Stolen Lives (Jade de Jong). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Shannon, John, A Little Too Much (Jack Liffey).. Buy this book
• Wall, R. Kathryn, Jericho Cay (Bay Tanner).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Woods, Stuart, Bel-Air Dead (Stone Barrington). Buy this book...Kindle it!
  
  
• March 2011 Hardcovers
• Arthurson, Wayne, Fall From Grace (1: Leo Desroches).. Buy this book..Kindle it!
• Atkinson, Kate, Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
• Black, Cara, Murder in Passy (Aimée Leduc).. Buy this book...Kindle it!
• Coben, Harlan, Live Wire (Myron Bolitar).. Buy this book..Kindle it!
• McLean, Russell, The Lost Sister (J. McNee) (r)...Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Mosley, Walter, When the Thrill is Gone (Leonid McGill)...Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Smith, Alexander McCall, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (Precious Ramotswe)...Buy this book. Kindle it!
• Wimberly, Darryl, Devil's Slew (Barrett Raines, non-P.I.).. Buy this book
• Winspear, Jacqueline, A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• February 2011 Hardcovers
• Bludis, Jack, The Last Sellout (Brian Kane)..Download it!
• Henry, Sara J., Learning to Swim (non-P.I., 1: Troy Chance).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Rosenfelt, David, On Borrowed Time (non- P.I. standalone).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Wilson, F. Paul, Jack: Secret Vengeance (Repairman Jack; YA). Buy this book...Kindle it!...Nook it!
• Yancey, Richard, The Highly Effective Detective Crosses the Line (Teddy Ruzak).. Buy this book.
  
  
• January 2011 Hardcovers
• Crais, Robert, The Sentry (Joe Pike).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Goldberg, Lee, Mr. Monk on the Road (Adrian Monk). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Green, Simon R., A Hard Day's Knight (John Taylor)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
• Haley, Richard, A Fatal Ambition (Frank Crane) ..Buy this book
• Hockensmith, Steve, World's Greatest Sleuth! (Old Red & Big Red Amlingmeyer)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
• Koryta, Michael, The Cypress House (non-P.I.). Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Oates, Joyce Carol, Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense...Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  The noir master returns with tales to scare little boys and grown men.
• Parker, T. Jefferson, The Border Lords (non-P.I., Charlie Hood)...Buy this book... Kindle it!
• Tierney, Ronald, Bullet Beach (Deets Shannahan)..Buy this book
• Woods, Stuart, Strategic Moves (Stone Barrington).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
  
  
• December 2010 Hardcovers
• Danticat, Edwidge, editor, Haiti Noir...Buy this book
  36th entry in Akashic's Noir series features stories from the hardluck Caribbean island, with brand-new stories by Edwidge Danticat, Smartt Bell, and a slew of writers you probably haven't heard of. Blow your mind.
• Estleman, Loren, The Left-Handed Dollar (Amos Walker)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
  
  
• November 2010 Hardcovers
• Bakker, R. Scott, Disciple of the Dog (1: Disciple Manning).. Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Champion, David, Bomber Bombs (Bomber Hanson).. Buy this book
• Coleman, Reed Farrel, Innocent Monster (Moe Prager)...Buy this book...Kindle it!
• Estleman, Loren, Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection (Amos Walker) ..Buy this book
• Larsson, Stieg, Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Boxed Set (Blomkvist & Lisbeth) ..Buy this book
  Fancy, schmancy slip-cased set of the three novels, each unjacketed, bound in full cloth and uniquely stamped, with maps and individual full-color endpapers, and On Stieg Larsson, a collection of essays about and correspondence with the author.
• Lehane, Dennis, Moonlight Mile (Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro) ..Buy this book
• Pronzini, Bill, The Hidden (non-P.I.)...Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Lochte, Dick, and Al Roker, The Midnight Show Murders (Billy Blessing) ..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Tapply, William, Outwitting Trolls (Brady Coyne) ..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Vachss, Andrew, The Weight (non-P.I.) ..Buy this book.. Kindle it!
• Walker, David J., Too Many Clients (Wild Onion Ltd.) ..Buy this book.

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