Fun & Games

9 best books like Fun & Games (Duane Swierczynski): Caught Stealing, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, The Deputy, The Cold Spot, Frank Sinatra in a Blender, Hell on Church Street, The Hard Bounce, Devil Red, Quarry

AuthorCharlie Huston
ISBN0345464788
It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care...
AuthorCharlie Huston
With a style that is razor sharp, an eye that never shies from the gritty details, and a taste for stories that simultaneously shock, disturb, and entertain, Charlie Huston is one of a kind. And The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is the type of story–swift, twisted, hilarious, somehow hopeful—that...
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....
AuthorTom Piccirilli
ISBN0553590847
Chase was raised as a getaway driver by his grandfather, Jonah, a con man feared by even the hardened career criminals who make up his crew. But when Jonah crosses the line and murders one of his own, Chase goes solo, stealing cars and pulling scores across the country….And then he meets Lila, a strong-willed...
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...
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...
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...
Devil Red
AuthorJoe R. Lansdale
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they’ve ever encountered—Devil Red.

When their friend Marvin asks Hap and Leonard to look into a cold-case double homicide, they’re more than...
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...
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