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On the cusp of legalization, Jerry Bertram runs afoul of some San Francisco bikers in the marijuana game. He flees straight up Highway 101 to Humboldt County to hide deep in the hills with a...

27 Days is a taut and topical political thriller narrated in laconic noir fashion by veteran LA PI Nick Crane. In the spring of 2019, Nick is on the run in the Pacific Northwest, pursued by a cabal...

It's 1960 and Frankie Valentine is doing just fine. The transplanted New York photographer is living it up in the Hollywood sunshine surrounded by beautiful women more than willing to dispose of...

Meet a real-life, twenty-first-century Renaissance man. A real-life ADRENALINE JUNKIE, a Memoir by Les Edgerton.Author: Les EdgertonPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Nov 19, 2018Number of...

All the Good in EvilAuthor: Joe RickerPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Oct 25, 2021Number of Pages: 318 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643962329ISBN-13: 9781643962320

Winner of the 2012 Spinetingler Award for Best Novel: Rising Star! When two of the Twin Cities' "Lost Boys"-young Somali men drafted to fight for terrorists back in the homeland-kill a pair of cops...

Beneath the Black Palms lurks the other side of living. Los Angeles-the siren, the beast-is the central antagonist within these eleven masterful, stylistically-diverse short stories. Nolan Knight...

"Gordon Gekko meets Janet Evanovich in this wry and winning caper-Jack Getze does it again!" -Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Award winning author of Truth Be Told Wall...

Three women are mad enough to kill him. Only one is a murderer. Left in charge of a third-rate Jersey Shore investment firm, suspended stockbroker Austin Carr becomes the prize in a war between two...

Who wants to kill Austin Carr? Everybody. He's a stockbroker. About to be ingeniously murdered -- snatched off a private fishing yacht by a live, six-hundred-pound giant bluefin -- a down-on-his-luck...

Jersey Shore broker Austin Carr wants out of the stock and bond business but un-hooking from his mobbed-up partner won't be painless. Angelina "Mama Bones" Bonacelli is best known for professional...

Some say he's a serial killer. Others say he's a vigilante doing what police can't or won't do. What's certain is that Dean Drayhart, a paraplegic, will soon sit on death row for killing...

BITTER WATER BLUES by Patrick Shawn Bagley. A country noir with a touch of dark humor about a blues-loving hitman, forced into one last job.Author: Patrick Shawn BagleyPublisher: Down & Out...

Published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, which was held in New Orleans in 2016. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canopy across a wide...

Amid the political storm surrounding California's anti-illegal alien Proposition 187, PI Duke Rogers and his very unPC sidekick Jack take on the case of Carlos, a murdered undocumented day worker...

BROOKLYN JUSTICE is a wild ride through the streets of the Borough of Churches. Private investigator Nick Ventura knows trouble-but not how to keep his nose out of it. A pool of blood spreading...

One of popular music's most prolific and creative composers, Elvis Costello has written songs in every conceivable genre: pop, reggae, rock, country, funk, soul and jazz, but also for full orchestras...

13 sordid and salacious tales of hustlers, lovers and losers, killers and thrillers carousing in a charade of lust, love, luck, and murder... where shifty, shady types clamor to survive, when no way...

PI Pete Fortunato, half-Italian, half-Jewish, who suffers from anger management issues and insomnia, wakes up one morning with a bad taste in his mouth. This is never a good sign. Working out of a...

Winner of the 2000 St. Martin's Press/PWA Award for Best First Private Eye Novel! San Francisco PI Jake Diamond is a hero who plays both sides of the private eye street. He is a careless dresser with...

Lenny Archer had more than a fair share of tough times and hard knocks, but he had finally decided to stay in the game rather than cash in his chips. Then, two late-night intruders at the Private...

With Choke on Your Lies, Smith presents his homage to one of his favorite detectives, Nero Wolfe, but written for the "internet porn" generation. Octavia VanderPlatts is wealthy, powerful, and...

From award-winning author, Richard Barre, come seven compelling short stories, four of them brand new. Each story is accompanied by a foreword from one of today's best authors: J.L. Abramo, Harlan...

Winner of the 2016 Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback PI Novel! Private Investigator Jacob Diamond and San Francisco Detective Sergeant Roxton Johnson are famous for not getting along. Cats and...

Participating in what seems to be a simple and profitable burglary, Lefty Wright finds himself charged with first-degree murder when he stumbles on the body of a San Francisco judge, which prompts...

Coast to Coast NoirAuthor: Andrew McAleer, Paul D. MarksPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 270 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

"Envelope-pushers! A truly WOW collection by the best mystery writers out there-full of surprises only they can pull off." -Thomas B. Sawyer, best-selling author of Cross Purposes and No Place to...

Whatever you call them, gumshoe, shamus, Pinkerton, detective, private eye, P.I., show, tail, investigator, and wherever you need them, from East to West, North to South. They're all here. This...

Renee was naked, lying under a thin sheet on a padded table. Suddenly, a metal tray holding cosmetic tools flew off the counter and hit the floor with a loud crash. There was no one near it. Only she...

The dog days of August in Brooklyn and the detectives of the 61st Precinct are battling to keep all hell from breaking loose. Innocents are being sacrificed in the name of greed, retribution, passion...