Dancing Bear
7 best books like Dancing Bear (James Crumley): Miami Blues, Captiva, The Expendable Man, Briarpatch, A Drop of the Hard Stuff, How to Babysit a Grandma, Pop. 1280
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1400032466 |
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly...
| Author | Randy Wayne White |
| ISBN | 0425158543 |
Randy Wayne White is acclaimed as "wildly inventive" (The San Diego Union-Tribune), "a wonderful writer" (Paul Theroux), "a fine storyteller" (Peter Matthiessen), and "the rightful heir to John D. MacDonald" (The Tampa Tribune-Times). Now he delivers a wicked new thriller that sends government...
| Author | Dorothy B. Hughes |
| ISBN | 1903155584 |
The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Man as one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. ‘A late addition to the thirteen crime stories Dorothy B Hughes wrote with great success in one prolific spell between 1940 and 1952,’ it was, in his view, her best book. But it is far more than a crime...
| Author | Ross Thomas |
| ISBN | 0312290314 |
A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister—it's her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart—has died in a car bomb explosion. It's the chief of police calling—Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill...
| Author | Lawrence Block |
| ISBN | 0316127337 |
Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics...
| Author | Jean Reagan |
| ISBN | 0385753845 |
Celebrate the special bond between grandmas and grandkids in this delightful New York Times bestseller that puts the kids in charge of taking care of Grandma...if just for one day.
When you babysit a grandma, if you're lucky, you'll have a sleepover at her house! And with the useful tips found...
| Author | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316403784 |
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women.
Still,...
