The Cold Spot

Author	Duane Swierczynski
ISBN	0316133280

Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner's entire family, fears one thing above all else: that he'll suffer the same fate.

Languishing in self-imposed exile, Hardie has become a glorified house sitter. His latest gig comes replete with an illegally...

Author	Dave Zeltserman
ISBN	1852429712

Crooked cop Joe Denton gets out of prison early after disfiguring the local district attorney, which doesn’t help his popularity. Nobody wants Joe to hang around, not his ex-wife, his parents or his former colleagues. Meanwhile, local mafia don Manny Vassey is dying of cancer and keen to cut a deal...

Author	Ken Bruen
ISBN	0312384408

Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong...

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

Jake 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...

Author	Victor Gischler
ISBN	0440241715

Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike’s making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you’ve been hiding out for forty years. Until his past comes calling.

Mike’s...

Author	Ken Bruen
ISBN	0312304110

When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket,...

Author

Angus Stevenson

Citation by: M. Powell

Citation:

Reference Type: Dictionary

Call Number: 423

Cost: $46.63

Professional Review: Orme, M. (2011). Concise Oxford English Dictionary. Library Journal, 136(20), 148.

Content Scope: 3,00 new words added. Also...