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The Double

by George P. Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (October 08, 2013)

Every man has his dark side...Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers.

The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The...

Shoedog

by George P. Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (September 17, 2013)

From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" ("Esquire") comes this powerful early novel, now available in paperback for the first time--the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows...

The Night Gardener

Barry Best Novel 2007

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (August 08, 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...

The Sweet Forever: A Novel

by George P. Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (August 15, 2011)

One of the 1990s' rising stars of crime fiction delivers a bold, brilliant tale of mystery, revenge, and survival in the 1980s, when cocaine and money ruled the city streets and even the good guys wanted a piece...

King Suckerman: A Novel

by George P. Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (August 15, 2011)

In the summer of 1976, the nation's capital is gearing up for the Bicentennial. Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track, and the hot new film "King Suckerman" has everyone talking. Two knockaround guys named...

Hard Revolution: A Novel

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn #4

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (March 01, 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.

Bad Boy Brawly Brown

Easy Rawlins #7

by Walter Mosley & Judith Burnett Schneider – Little, Brown and Company (July 01, 2003)

Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When an old friend...

Hell to Pay

by George P. Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (February 27, 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...

The Turnaround

Hammett Prize 2008

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (August 01, 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 a...

The Way Home

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (May 12, 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...

Drama City

by George Pelecanos – Little, Brown and Company (March 01, 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...

Blonde Faith

Easy Rawlins #11

by Walter Mosley – Little, Brown and Company (October 10, 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...

The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel

Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer #1

Macavity Best Mystery Novel 2006, Shamus Best P.I. Hardcover 2006

by Michael Connelly, Big Kenny & Allen Rucker – Little, Brown and Company (October 01, 2005)

This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has...

Witch Hunt: A Novel

Jack Harvey Novel #1

by Ian Rankin – Little, Brown and Company (December 01, 2005)

She is an ingenious assassin, with as many methods as identities, a master of disguise with an instinct for escape.... She is Witch, and she makes for alluring prey, teasing her pursuers as she eludes them,...

Devil's Peak: A Novel

by Deon Meyer – Little, Brown and Company (March 26, 2008)

From rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forgiveness, and the race to catch a trained killer.

A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable...