Bust

10 best books like Bust (Ken Bruen): Money Shot, 361, Sinner Man, Lemons Never Lie, Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44), Choke Hold, The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes, Charlesgate Confidential, Borderline (Hard Case Crime, #115), Night Walker (Hard Case Crime #16)

Money Shot
AuthorChrista Faust
ISBN0843959584
Ex-porn star and talent agent Angel Dare has been set up, beaten up, and left for dead. Now she's hiding from the law AND the bad guys who want a missing suitcase. What does Angel want? Revenge, and she'll do whatever it takes to get the men who ruined her life.

This was a fun read of the fast and furious...
361
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0843953578
The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad.

From the mind of the incomparable Donald E. Westlake - Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster...
Sinner Man
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN1785650017
LAWRENCE BLOCK’S FIRST CRIME NOVEL—
LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!

To escape punishment for a murder he didn’t mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another...
AuthorRichard Stark
ISBN0843955945
Perhaps the first clue that Donald Westlake was planning to close out the world of Richard Stark, the previous Grofield adventures involved him being dropped into someone else’s intrigue against his will; this one could have been a Parker story. It involves a job that is a definite "no" from the beginning,...
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0843959622
Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings, Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do...
Choke Hold
AuthorChrista Faust
ISBN0843963301
INSIDE THE WORLD OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS—AND MURDER...

Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to escape her past—not as a porn star, but as a killer who took down the sex slavery ring that destroyed her life. But sometimes the past just won’t stay buried. When a former co-star is murdered,...
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN1783297506
Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep...
Charlesgate Confidential
AuthorScott Von Doviak
An ingenious debut-novel unraveling the heist of the century, in 1946, 1986 and present-day Boston

A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years...
Borderline (Hard Case Crime, #115)
AuthorLawrence Block
THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS!

On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet  

MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... 

MEG...
Night Walker (Hard Case Crime #16)
AuthorDonald Hamilton
ISBN0843955864
Mystery fans in search of pure, unadulterated pulp noir should look no further than Donald Hamilton's 1954 Night Walker, a classic whodunit that is being reissued by Hard Case Crime for the first time in more than 30 years.

David Young is a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, returning...
AuthorGil Brewer
ISBN0843957700
HER WEALTHY STEPFATHER WAS DYING - BUT NOT QUICKLY ENOUGH

What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that's the life she was trapped in - until she met Jack.

Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery...
The Sins of the Fathers
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN0752834525

They tell me the Matt Scudder series starts slow, that it hits its stride with his fifth adventure, Eight Million Ways to Die. I don't know about that—at least not yet—but one thing I can say for sure: The Sins of the Fathers is plenty good enough.

Scudder was once a cop. But then a seven...
AuthorCharles Ardai
ISBN0843959681
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME!

Okay, not really. But what if, instead of having been founded 50 books ago, Hard Case Crime had been founded 50 years ago, by a rascal out to make a quick buck off the popularity of pulp fiction? Such a fellow might make a few enemies – especially after publishing...
Quarry
AuthorMax Allan Collins
ISBN0881500577
Quarry is hired to kill Albert Leroy, a virtual nobody. The job comes off without a hitch but when Quarry gets back to the apartment he'd been using as a lookout, his partner is dead and the money is gone. Quarry needs to know who hired them for the hit and the Broker is suspiciously uncooperative. Can Quarry...
The Man With The Getaway Face
AuthorRichard Stark


4.0 stars. After settling a vendetta against his former crew and starting a big, juicy new one against the entire Outfit in the The Hunter....PARKER (aka Mr. Badass MoFo)....IS …..BACK!! He has a brand new face thanks to some nifty plastic surgery performed by an “off the books” doctor...
Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0445403446
Should someone be put in prison for a practical joke?

Yes. All practical jokers belong in jail. Or hell.

Harry has been an unrepentant prankster his entire life, but now he has been locked up after one of his jokes went wrong which resulted in several injuries. Once inside he quickly...
Murder is My Business
AuthorBrett Halliday
MURDER AT THE RIO GRANDE

Ten years ago, private eye Mike Shayne did a job for one of the richest men in El Paso, digging up dirt on a boy courting the tycoon’s daughter. Now the daughter’s back, all grown up and dangerous. And so’s Shayne—but this time it’s to investigate murder...

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Quarry's List
AuthorMax Allan Collins
ISBN0881500585
After a botched hit at his lakehouse, Quarry goes looking for a hitman named Ash who has supposedly stepped into the void left by the Broker's unfortunate demise. Quarry quickly finds out things go a lot deeper than that. But what do Ash and his cronies have to do with the mysterious woman Quarry meets at...
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