Death Was the Other Woman
10 best books like Death Was the Other Woman (Linda L. Richards): Bust, The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15), The Lost Traveller, Saturday's Child, The Wycherly Woman, Chained to the Barbarian, The Big Book of the Continental Op, In Peppermint Peril, The Black Dove, The Company Man
| Author | Ken Bruen |
| ISBN | 0843955910 |
Max Fischer hires a hitman to kill his wife so he can marry his secretary, the surgically enhanced Angela. Little does he know, the hitman is actually Angela's boyfriend and they're plotting against him. Throw in a blackmailer who catches Max and Angela in a compromising position and you have Bust.
Trying...
| Author | Ed McBain |
| ISBN | 0843955872 |
Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.
Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are...
Danger comes to Cork in the seventh County Cork mystery from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly, and it’s up to Maura Donovan to find a way to protect all she’s worked for.
Pub owner Maura Donovan is settling into a charmed life in Ireland—until a mutilated body on her property...
| Author | Ray Banks |
| ISBN | 0151013225 |
Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord "Uncle" Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesn’t owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan’s psychotic son, Mo. Ordered...
| Author | Ross Macdonald |
| ISBN | 0375701443 |
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's...
| Author | Carol Townend |
| ISBN | 0373306423 |
HER WARRIOR SLAVE
Bound in chains, enslaved barbarian Sir William Bradfer stands proud in the Constantinople slave market. As a warrior, he’s trained in the art of survival. Lady-in-waiting Anna of Heraklea is betrothed to be married—against her will. Catching sight of the magnificent...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0525432957 |
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op--one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction.
Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works...
Joy Avon’s festive series debut featuring a book-themed tea party organizer will be tons of fun this Christmas for Lorna Barrett and Jenn McKinlay fans.
In the run-up to Christmas Eve, organizer of book-themed tea parties Callie Aspen and her lovable Boston terrier will have to conquer...
| Author | Steve Hockensmith |
| ISBN | 0312347820 |
In the summer of 1893, Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (a.k.a. “Big Red”) find themselves down and out in San Francisco. Though cowpokes by training, the brothers are devotees of the late, great Sherlock Holmes and his trademark method of “deducifying.” But when they...
| Author | Robert Jackson Bennett |
| ISBN | 0316054704 |
The year is 1919.
The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships that tie the world together. And, above all, they built Evesden-a shining metropolis, the best that the world has to offer.
But...
| Author | Mary Miley |
| ISBN | 1250051371 |
Vaudeville actress Leah Randall took on her most daring role ever when she impersonated missing heiress Jessie Carr in order to claim Jessie’s inheritance in The Impersonator. Now that the dust has settled around that tumultuous time in her life, Leah has adopted Jessie’s name as her own and moved...
Den efterlängtade femte delen i deckarserien om Fredrik Broman
Familjefoton med utstuckna ögon. Skrämmande brev utan avsändare. De nyblivna Fåröborna Henrik Kjellander och Malin Andersson står som levande frågetecken inför hoten som drabbat dem och deras barn. Vem vill göra...
| Author | Joe Gores |
| ISBN | 0752851829 |
From Chinatown's dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hammet, retired Pinkerton detective and struggling writer, it was all just grist to his fictional mill. Until the night his pal walked into a baseball bat. Then Hammett hung up his typewriter,...
| Author | James Sallis |
| ISBN | 0802776205 |
Take a little James Lee Burke, a touch of Ross Macdonald, and a dash of Raymond Chandler, the conventions of the classic American detective story and the fine, thoughtful writing of an original new talent - and you still don't quite have The Long-Legged Fly. This is a smart, tough novel teeming with life...
| Author | Richard E. Crabbe |
| ISBN | 0312203713 |
A great mystery/thriller dealing with a conspiracy by a group of ex-Confederate Army veterans to destroy New York's Brooklyn Bridge. Mr Crabbe steeps the reader in the atmosphere of 1880's America as a police detective, Tom Braddock, tries to foil the plot, following the death of one of the bridge building...
| Author | Gabriel Cohen |
| ISBN | 0312274580 |
It's not the dead body--Jack Leightner has seen hundred of bodies in his tour with the NYPD. It's not the dank setting--the narrow banks along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. So why does the sight of the fatally stabbed young man make the detective almost faint in the canal's tangled weeds?
Jack doesn't...
| Author | Mickey Spillane |
| ISBN | 0151014604 |
Mike Hammer has been away from New York too long. Recuperating in Florida after a deadly mob shootout, the private eye learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral—and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself....
| Author | Troy Jackson |
| ISBN | 1621371484 |
Upon unifying the seven warring states under one banner, the First Emperor of China began solidifying power for what he envisioned as a thousand-year reign.
Using those he conquered, the Emperor began a series of arduous projects, including the first Great Wall, the Linqu Canal, and a national...
