The Instant Enemy

5 best books like The Instant Enemy (Ross Macdonald): In a Lonely Place, The High Window, Choir of Angels: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy\Those Christmas Angels\Where Angels Go, The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, Playback

In a Lonely Place

Author	Dorothy B. Hughes
ISBN	1558614559

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially...

The High Window

Author	Raymond Chandler
ISBN	0394758269

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.

"Raymond Chandler is a star of...

Choir of Angels: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy\Those Christmas Angels\Where Angels Go

Author	Debbie Macomber
ISBN	0778316734

Angels are all around us— Especially at Christmas!

Greg Bennett hates Christmas. Divorced, almost friendless and about to lose his business, he has no time for what he considers sentimental nonsense. It takes three irrepressible angels to show him the truth.

Shirley, Goodness...

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Author	Sam Kean
ISBN	0316381683

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they...

Playback

Author	Raymond Chandler
ISBN	0394757661

Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7), Raymond Chandler
Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in Britain in July 1958; the US edition followed in October that year. Chandler died the following year; Playback is his last completed...