Suicide Squeeze
10 best books like Suicide Squeeze (Victor Gischler): Slide, The Corpse Wore Pasties (Hard Case Crime, #62), Fake I.D. (Hard Case Crime #56), Kiss Her Goodbye (Hard Case Crime #8), Beautiful, Naked & Dead, The Cold Spot, Saturday's Child, The Posthumous Man, The Cleanup, Ranchero
I'm telling you - these two characters, Max & Angela have got to be the two luckiest criminals in crime-lit history.
Max has to be the stupidest criminal in crime-lit history while Angela has to have the worst taste in men in crime-lit history.
These books are really in the black-humor...
| Author | Jonny Porkpie |
| ISBN | 0843961236 |
When Victoria Vice, widely hated in the burlesque world for being a blatant plagiarist, winds up dead, none other than Jonny Porkpie ends up being blamed. After all, he's the one that the entire audience saw hand her the prop bottle containing real poison. In order to clear his name, Porkpie goes on a quest...
Fake I.D. (Hard Case Crime #56)
Jason Starr writes dark characters like no other and Tommy Russo is a walking, talking curse upon the Earth and all who encounter him.
Tommy is an out of work actor by day, a bouncer by night, and a "degenerate gambler" all the time. He is offered the opportunity to buy into a syndicate with some...
| Author | Allan Guthrie |
| ISBN | 0843953551 |
Finalist 2006 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original — Finalist 2006 Anthony Award for Best Paperback — When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don't pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope. — But now Joe's got troubles of his own. His teenage daughter's found...
| Author | Josh Stallings |
| ISBN | 0615449867 |
"Josh Stallings is the kind of writer who shouldn't have to publish for himself, but here he is slugging it out the hard way. Just like one of the hardasses in his own books. The man knows what to do with paper and ink. Read the damn thing." -Charlie Huston "Someone once said of Raymond Chandler that he wrote...
| Author | Tom Piccirilli |
| ISBN | 0553590847 |
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...
| 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...
When Elliot Stilling killed himself, he thought his troubles were over. Then the ER doctors revived him. It’s infatuation at first sight when he meets his nurse, Felicia Vogan, a strange young woman with a weakness for sad sacks and losers. After she helps Elliot escape from the hospital, she takes...
| Author | Sean Doolittle |
| ISBN | 0440242827 |
Matthew Worth is a mess. Somewhere between a good cop and a bad screwup, he botched a marriage and a career. His fellow officers think he’s a joke. His commanders are tired of cutting him breaks. Even his wife has left him for a flashy homicide detective. Busted to night patrol at a robbery-prone Omaha...
| Author | Rick Gavin |
| ISBN | 0312583184 |
Repo man Nick Reid had a seemingly simple job to do: talk to Percy Dwayne Dubois— pronounced "Dew-boys," front-loaded and hick specific—about the payments he’s behind on for a flat screen TV, or repossess it. But Percy Dwayne wouldn't give in. Nope, instead he saw fit to go all white-trash philosophical...
“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...
| Author | Duane Swierczynski |
| ISBN | 0312343809 |
Jamie DeBroux's boss has called a special meeting for all "key personnel" at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Saturday in August.
When Jamie arrives, the conference room is stocked with cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees, "We're a cover for a branch of the intelligence community....
| Author | J.D. Rhoades |
| ISBN | 0312334192 |
The Devil's Right Hand is the story of Jack Keller, a man tormented by the nightmares he's had ever since a disastrous tour in Desert Storm. Destroyed by his experience, Keller now makes his living tracking bailjumpers for H&H, a North Carolina bail bonds company run by a reclusive, beautiful, and...
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...
