High Jinx (Blackford Oakes Mysteries, #7) (Blackford Oakes Novel)
by William F Buckley
When club owner Jake Justus and his wife, Helene, flee a sweltering Chicago summer for rural Jackson County, Wisconsin, they expect sweet-as-apple-pie locals and calm lakes for fishing. Instead, they become the bait: When the town's two-term senator is shot to death, Jake and Helene are held as material witnesses-and, if the fathead sheriff has anything to say about it, suspects. Attorney John J. Malone comes to help out his friends, but in a town where everybody knows everybody-be it by blood...
Solomon's Vineyard (Pure Pulped Classix, #2) (Blue Murder S.)
by Jonathan Latimer
'From the way her buttocks looked under the black silk dress, I knew she'd be good in bed'So begins the most hardboiled of Latimer's novels, whose notoriety meant that it was only published in unexpurgated form in the States in 1982, 40 years after its original publication. In this classic noir novel, St Louis private eye Karl Craven, who likes his steak rare, his liquor hard and his women fallen, arrives at the small town of Paulton to protect his wealthy client's daughter from a religious cult...
It’s a dog eat dog world, especially when all the dogs involved are hungry! For a sheltered mama’s boy like Demarcus, everything was all roses until a life-changing experience showed him that every rose has thorns. After a well-orchestrated set up, Demarcus's plans to go to college are derailed by a trip to state prison. It is while in the belly of the beast that the mama's boy has to make the choice between being a man or being a victim.Upon his release, Demarcus tries to get his li...
In the wake of his divorce, Christian Franco's entire life is falling apart. Losing his career and friendships, he begins to hang out in bars and pick fights, finding that his only way to meditative solace is through being beaten. After he's dies in a bar brawl, he suddenly recovers a childhood memory long lost to him. When he's resuscitated, he begins an increasingly desperate quest to die and be revived in order to uncover more memories and find out who he truly is.
Called upon to defend a case involving the crash of an Air Force plane in Germany, an American lawyer uncovers Top Secret documents code named "BLACK FYRE" which sweep him into the covert world of espionage and terrorists intent on striking America.
London, 1852: the world's capital city of crime; a city where murder and hangings are public entertainment, where reporters and balladeers vie with one another to be first to the next grisly, exclusive revelation. Among the panoply of killers awaiting execution is Chokee Bill, whose stranglings have set the capital abuzz. One of the balladeers, Henry Owler, is determined to extract a true confession from the killer. However, Chokee Bill claims he is innocent and that the real Fiend is still on t...
Downward Facing Murder (A Pick & Greenwood Mystery, #2)
by Ray Chapman