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Rather Be the Devil

by Ian Rankin – Little, Brown and Company (January 30, 2017)

Rebus investigates a cold case that just turned red hot.

As he settles into an uneasy retirement, Rebus has given up his favorite vices. There's just one habit he can't shake: he can't let go of an unsolved...

The Night Gardener

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (August 07, 2006)

Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been...

Equivocal Death

by Amy Gutman – Little, Brown and Company (May 31, 2003)

Just out of Harvard Law School, Kate Paine is on the fast track at Samson & Mills, the nation's richest, most powerful law firm. Assigned to assist the charismatic managing partner in a high-profile sexual harassment...

Hell to Pay

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (February 26, 2002)

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now...

Cinnamon Kiss

by Walter Mosley – Little, Brown and Company (August 31, 2005)

It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far...

Drama City

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (February 28, 2005)

Lorenzo Brown loves his work. In his job as an officer for the Humane Society, he cruises the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in...

Little Scarlet

by Walter Mosley – Little, Brown and Company (July 04, 2004)

An irresistible story of love and death, this Easy Rawlins mystery takes place during the devastating 1965 Watts riots. Easy's hunt for a killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes -- and a new life for...

Hard Revolution

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (February 29, 2004)

In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage.

Even Dogs in the Wild

by Ian Rankin – Little, Brown and Company (January 18, 2016)

Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis.

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She's investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in...

Shoedog

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (September 16, 2013)

From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" (Esquire) comes this powerful early novel--the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to...

Shame the Devil

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (May 29, 2009)

Several restaurant workers are murdered by a robber, whose brother is killed by police during the chaotic event. As everyone struggles to heal after the incident, the gunman is determined to kill everyone involved...

The Way Home

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (May 11, 2009)

Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman...

The Turnaround

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (July 31, 2008)

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty-five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening...

Blonde Faith

by Walter Mosley – Little, Brown and Company (October 09, 2007)

Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black...