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  • Lawrence E. Rothstein The best mysteries with private detectives who pursue justice with both brilliant intellect and seat-of-the-pants, street smart action Book cover of Death of a Dude Book cover of Shell Game Book cover of The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink Book cover of Peril at End House Book cover of The Big Dig
  • Gayleen Froese The best hard-boiled comfort reads for a disappointing world Book cover of The League of Frightened Men Book cover of Ice Blues Book cover of Early Autumn Book cover of Falling Angel Book cover of Fletch
  • K.D. Richards The best books featuring big city private eyes Book cover of Broken Places Book cover of The Man Who Came Uptown Book cover of The Watchman Book cover of The Last Place You Look Book cover of Save Me from Dangerous Men
  • Will Zeilinger and Janet Elizabeth Lynn The best golden age detective stories Book cover of The Way Some People Die Book cover of The Thin Man Book cover of Kiss Me, Deadly Book cover of Farewell, My Lovely Book cover of Mischief
  • Gary Earl Ross The best mysteries that make characters of cities Book cover of The Maltese Falcon Book cover of Looking for Rachel Wallace Book cover of Deadlock Book cover of The Long Fall Book cover of Hollywood Homicide
  • Jack Slater The best books that are modern crime thrillers Book cover of Lethal Assumptions Book cover of The Girl Who Wouldn't Die Book cover of Chasing the Dead Book cover of Silent Scream Book cover of Malevolent
  • Lono Waiwaiole The best books to illustrate the catastrophic cost of doing business in the world of crime Book cover of The Hunter Book cover of Hell to Pay Book cover of Eight Million Ways to Die Book cover of The Widening Gyre Book cover of Flood
  • John L. DeBoer The best thriller novels that don’t skimp on character development Book cover of The Lion's Game Book cover of The Runaway Jury Book cover of The Wanted Book cover of Live Wire Book cover of Killing Floor
  • Richard Audry The best mysteries to tickle your funny bone Book cover of Gun, with Occasional Music Book cover of The Quiche of Death Book cover of Native Tongue Book cover of The Eyre Affair Book cover of McNally's Secret
  • Delia C. Pitts The best books featuring Black private eyes Book cover of Runner Book cover of Warn Me When It's Time Book cover of Pursuit of the Truth Book cover of August Snow Book cover of And Now She's Gone
  • Ashley Clifton The best literary novels masquerading as crime novels Book cover of Dog Soldiers Book cover of Devil in a Blue Dress Book cover of Miami Blues Book cover of The Moving Target Book cover of What Meets The Eye
  • Adam Plantinga The best modern books on tough guys Book cover of Hardcase Book cover of Tripwire Book cover of Small Vices Book cover of Devil in a Blue Dress Book cover of Small Mercies
  • M. Lee Prescott The best mysteries with humor, pathos, and a loveable woman sleuth Book cover of A is for Alibi Book cover of Y Is For Yesterday Book cover of One for the Money Book cover of Indemnity Only Book cover of Edwin of the Iron Shoes
  • Neal W. Fandek The best books on hard-boiled PIs Book cover of The Maltese Falcon Book cover of The Dain Curse Book cover of The Deep Blue Good-By Book cover of Bright Orange for the Shroud Book cover of The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • Michael Amedeo The coolest, darkest, most hardboiled American novels centering on private detectives Book cover of The Maltese Falcon Book cover of Build My Gallows High Book cover of The Long Goodbye Book cover of Devil in a Blue Dress Book cover of The Far Side of the Dollar
  • Ellen McGarrahan The best books about what it’s like – and what it takes – to be a real-life private eye Book cover of The Big Sleep Book cover of A Suitable Job for a Woman: Inside the World of Private Eyes Book cover of Cool Hand Luke Book cover of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Book cover of Saint with a Gun: The Unlawful American Private Eye
  • Simon Royle The best noir crime novels from old to new Book cover of Farewell, My Lovely Book cover of The Last Good Kiss Book cover of Blacktop Wasteland Book cover of Swag Book cover of Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Norman Green The best books about the fork in the road that you didn’t see coming, about change, and about redemption Book cover of Eight Million Ways to Die Book cover of The Con Man's Daughter Book cover of Down the River Unto the Sea Book cover of Deliverance Book cover of A Drop of the Hard Stuff
  • Joe Kilgore The best private eye books where the detective’s personality is as entertaining as the plot Book cover of The Long Goodbye Book cover of Strega Book cover of The Light of Day Book cover of The Lonely Silver Rain Book cover of Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Chuck Greaves The best crime fiction with a droll sense of humor Book cover of Plum Island Book cover of Some Buried Caesar Book cover of Get Shorty Book cover of March Violets Book cover of Devil in a Blue Dress
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