The Cincinnati Red Stalkings

8 best books like The Cincinnati Red Stalkings (Troy Soos): Devil in a Blue Dress, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, The Forever War, The Grifters, Faded Coat of Blue, The Long Firm, Ice Cold Heart

Devil in a Blue Dress
AuthorWalter Mosley
When a jobless World War II vet named Easy Rawlins is hired to find a woman, he finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and murder. Can Easy find Daphne Monet without becoming another victim? And what secrets is Daphne Monet carrying?

Devil in a Blue Dress is a throwback to the pioneers of noir like...
AuthorBen Goldfarb
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
AuthorMichael Patrick MacDonald
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"--the Irish-American Old Colony projects of South Boston--where 85% of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S.

In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the...
The Forever War
AuthorDexter Filkins
ISBN0307266397
From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.

Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam...
The Grifters
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316404055
To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.

Yet, hidden behind...
AuthorOwen Parry
ISBN0380976420
Veteran of Queen Victoria's wars and recent immigrant to America, Abel Jones believed he had left his days in uniform behind. Now, firmly rooted on the shores of his adopted land-where American has taken up arms against American in this most terrible of conflicts-he has signed on as a confidential agent...
AuthorJake Arnott
ISBN0340748788
A peppy, stylish tour of the London underworld of the 60’s and 70’s, punctuated by sudden bursts of gruesome violence. This is the story of Harry Starks, an East End gangster, a charismatic, feared, and fearless man as told by five very different characters who encounter Harry at different stages...
Ice Cold Heart
AuthorP.J. Tracy
ISBN0241345820
THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY BESTSELLER P. J. TRACY

A violent murder. An ice-cold killer . . .

On a bitterly cold winter night, Kelly Ramage leaves her suburban home, telling her husband she's going to meet a friend.

But she never comes back.

When...
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