Beautiful, Naked & Dead

10 best books like Beautiful, Naked & Dead (Josh Stallings): Fun & Games, Small Crimes, The Deputy, The Bastard Hand, Frank Sinatra in a Blender, Every Shallow Cut, A Dangerous Man, GRINGA - In the Clutches of a Ruthless Drug-Lord, Hell on Church Street, All The Young Warriors

AuthorDuane Swierczynski
ISBN0316133280
Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner's entire family, fears one thing above all else: that he'll suffer the same fate.

Languishing in self-imposed exile, Hardie has become a glorified house sitter. His latest gig comes replete with an illegally...
AuthorDave Zeltserman
ISBN1852429712
Crooked cop Joe Denton gets out of prison early after disfiguring the local district attorney, which doesn’t help his popularity. Nobody wants Joe to hang around, not his ex-wife, his parents or his former colleagues. Meanwhile, local mafia don Manny Vassey is dying of cancer and keen to cut a deal...
The Deputy
AuthorVictor Gischler
ISBN1935562002
Toby is twenty-five, with a couple of years of junior college, a wife and kid, and a trailer. He's living in Coyote Crossing, working as a part-time deputy. When he gets a call about a dead body in the center of town, he pins his tin star to his Weezer T-shirt, slips into a pair of sweatpants, and grabs his revolver....
AuthorHeath Lowrance
ISBN0982843623
Charlie Wesley is not right in the head. He's escaped from a mental hospital up north and hitchhiked his way south, the voice of his dead brother urging him on. But when Charlie hits Memphis, the fine line between his delusions and reality shift in the form of the Reverend Phineas Childe-a preacher bent...
AuthorMatthew McBride
Nick Valentine has problems. He’s a drunken ex-cop who lives in his shabby office, hangs out at strip clubs, and has only one real friend—Frank Sinatra. But he’s one of the best private investigators in St. Louis. So when an inept crew robs a credit union, only Valentine can figure out who made off...
AuthorTom Piccirilli
ISBN1926851102

a man and a bulldog on a road trip through hell and memories with nothing left to lose...

such a tiny book to be so sad and yet so funny. and the humor and the pathos both largely come from a situation the author himself must be all too familiar with:a writer - who has had some success, but not the...
AuthorCharlie Huston
“Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where it’s at.”
–The Washington Post

“Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.”
–The New York Times Book Review

Reluctant...
GRINGA - In the Clutches of a Ruthless Drug-Lord
AuthorEve Rabi
I was twenty-one, a sassy university student who took crap from no one. While holidaying in Mexico, I was accosted by The Devil of Mexico called Diablo and shot, because the motherfucker mistook me for a spy.

Gringa - a modern–day, love story that will have you laughing, crying and wanting...
Hell on Church Street
AuthorJake Hinkson
*Re-Release day for Jake Hinkson's Hell on Church Street! 280 Steps is reprinting it in paperback and e-book and everyone should read this essential noir!* If there wasn't suffering, men would feel no need to believe in God. The sick part is, if there is a God, he must have planned it that way. I'd never...
All The Young Warriors
AuthorAnthony Neil Smith
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 on his home turf, detective Ray Bleeker is left devastated. One of the dead cops was his girlfriend.

The investigation grinds to a halt when he discovers that the...
AuthorTodd Robinson
ISBN1440557675
Boo Malone lost everything when he was sent to St. Gabriel's Home for Boys. There, he picked up a few key survival skills; a wee bit of an anger management problem; and his best friend for life, Junior. Now adults, Boo and Junior have a combined weight of 470 pounds (mostly Boo's), about ten grand in tattoos...
Two-Way Split
AuthorAllan Guthrie
ISBN0809556510
Robin Greaves is an armed robber whose professionalism is put to the test when he discovers his wife has been sleeping with a fellow gang-member. Robin plans the ultimate revenge, but things go from bad to worse when the gang bungles a post office robbery, leaving carnage in their wake. Suddenly they...
Untamed: The Complete Series
AuthorJen Meyers
All 5 books in the Untamed Series collected into this special omnibus edition. A unique, angsty, art-infused novel series akin to a sexy CW show, it is perfect for fans of H.M. Ward, Jamie McGuire, and Jennifer L. Armentrout.

Rich, beautiful, and wild, Reagan McKinley has everything she needs...but...
A Date with a Dom
AuthorRiley Murphy
Prelude to Requested Surrender

She wants to be friends and he wants to be lovers. She's vanilla and he's a Dom. She's not convinced this will work. He's positive they'll be great together.

A trial relationship it is.

So they make a pact. He agrees to give her the eight "hands-off"...
AuthorAnonymous-9
The hit-and-run driver took everything — his wife, child and legs. Now a paraplegic, Dean Drayhart unleashes payback on suspected hit-and-runners in Los Angeles with helper-monkey Sid as his deadly assistant.

Dean's gentle, doting nurse knows nothing about what he's up to. When Sid tears...
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