Crime Fiction Classics
Explore the best Crime Fiction Classics with our curated list of timeless books. Discover gripping mysteries, thrilling plots, and iconic detectives in these must-read masterpieces.
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Jack Wakes Up
by Seth Harwood
What does an action movie one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money? In the three years since Jack Palms went clean-no drugs, no drinking, no life-he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he hits the streets of San Francisco to help a group of Czech drug buyers make one big score, a single drug deal that he hopes will set him up for life. But, when people start turning up dead, and an old nemesis on the police force calls, Jack finds himself with just 24 hours to track down San Francisco's biggest drug supplier or face charges that will put him behind bars. Only an Oscar-caliber performance will get him through this alive.
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Hit and Run
by Casey Moreton
A Supreme Court nominee hiding a career-breaking secret...Two giant tech companies locked in a legal fight to the death...An old espionage scandal that never quite faded away...A father determined to save his son from wrongful conviction...Harvard scholarship student Steven Adler has been framed by the wealthy and influential Calevetti family. Nick Calevetti committed murder, but it is Steven Adler who faces a life in prison. His father, Allan, knows he can't possibly afford the legal team necessary to fight the entire Calevetti family, and in desperation he turns to a weapon he never thought he would use. Allan Adler is the one man in the world who knows the truth about Supreme Court nominee Getty Fairfield...and Allan will do anything to save his son.Unbeknownst to him, however, other forces are at work in regard to Fairfield's appointment. The two largest and most powerful software corporations in the country are waiting on a Supreme Court judgment, and both are willing to bribe, steal, or murder to get a favorable decision. When Allan throws himself into their path, he may not be able to get out of the way in time.
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Darkness, Take My Hand
by Dennis Lehane
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro try to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist in the midst of an ever-growing body count and a list of clues that point impossibly to a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years.
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The Overlook
by Michael Connelly
In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against the culprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch's job to prove all of them wrong.
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Angels Flight
by Michael Connelly
A novel about the investigation of an attorney's murder in Los Angeles.
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Blonde Faith
by Walter Mosley
Fearing his friend, Christmas Black, has met his demise when the ex-Marine's daughter is left on his doorstep, reluctant L.A. detective Easy Rawlins finds the challenges of caring for a child further complicated by his ladylove's imminent marriage and another friend's murder accusation. 125,000 first printing.
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A Rage in Harlem
by Chester Himes
For the love of fine and wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson loses his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds and steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a crap table. Luckily for him, Jackson has a savvy twin brother, Goldy, who, disguised as a Sister of Mercy, earns a living by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. Now for the big payback...
