Skyhorse / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled

Wendigo

by Vaughn C. Hardacker – Skyhorse (July 11, 2017)

Algonquin legend tells of the Wendigo, an evil spirit sent to punish mankind. It can possess a person and turn them into a monstrous creature consumed by a need to eat human flesh. For John Bear the Wendigo...

Our Lady of Greenwich Village

by Dermot McEvoy – Skyhorse (October 25, 2016)

In his brilliant second novel, Dermot McEvoy sweeps his readers into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known....

Sniper

by Vaughn C. Hardacker – Skyhorse (February 04, 2014)

When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, Boston homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate the case. Amidst the blood and terror, Houston discovers similarities,...

Purgatory Gardens

by Peter Lefcourt – Skyhorse (August 25, 2015)

Sammy Dee is a mid-level Long Island mafioso in witness protection. Didier Onyekachukwu was the corrupt minister of finance of the former Upper Volta. Both men find themselves in middle age, living in the Southern...

The Pallbearer

by Jordan Farmer – Skyhorse (November 20, 2018)

Lynch, West Virginia, is a husk of a town: houses collapsing, deserted coal mines, the money gone. The residents who have not abandoned their homes find themselves living in poverty with little-to-no job opportunities,...

Heir Apparent

by James Terry – Skyhorse (March 12, 2019)

A compelling and compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel that follows a hard-drinking PI accused of a murder he didn’t commit--or did he?

Eddie King wakes up one morning with a splitting...

The Fisherman

by Vaughn C. Hardacker – Skyhorse (June 02, 2015)

After tracking down a crazed sniper last year, homicide detective Mike Houston opted to leave Boston for the isolated mountains of Maine. He adjusted nicely to chopping his own firewood, relaxing in his log...