Best Organized Crime Novels - April 2024

Outta Crime: A Kat Makris Greek Mafia Novel

Two Godmothers. Zero Wands.It’s not easy being dead. Just ask Kat Makris. She’s stuck in an underground bunker, watching her own funeral, where more people are laughing than crying. Being dead has other consequences, too. Her face is in all the papers, her bank is convinced she’s an identity thief, and the sexy Detective Melas is under siege by his trampy ex-girlfriend, who happens to work for Greece’s version of the CIA.The timing couldn’t be worse; she just figured out where her missing father might be.Escaping Grandma’s cozy bunker is the only way find her dad—a feat that woul... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072JYNDH7
• ASIN: B072JYNDH7

Cleaver Square: a psychological murder mystery that's absolutely gripping (A DCI Morton Crime Novel Book 2)

The bleakest winter on record and a gruesome discovery bring DCI David Morton to the Hackney Marshes in search of a clue, any clue, as to the identity of a dead child found near the Old River Lea. Meanwhile, closer to home, Morton's long suffering wife Sarah comes to the conclusion that her man has been doing more than work during his late nights at the office. As he closes in on the mystery of the boy's identity his life begins to crumble and a terrible wrong is done to someone he loves. With all of London watching, Morton's impeccable ethics will be tested to their limit as he is forced to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00HGSVGSY
• ASIN: B00HGSVGSY
• Manufacturer: De Minimis

The Triple Shot Box (Goodey's Last Stand, Not Sleeping Just Dead & Fighting Back): Three Gritty Crime Novels

This special box set includes three gritty crime novels from Charles Alverson: Goodey's Last Stand, Not Sleeping Just Dead and Fighting Back. For fans of John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane and Elmore Leonard.Goodey's Last Stand (Joe Goodey #1) - Hailed as “...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria” (The New Yorker), this hard boiled mystery novel might be Joe Goodey’s last.After the San Francisco PD dismisses Joe Goodey from the force and runs him out of town for shooting the mayor’s cousin, the ex-detective's career prosp... [Read More]

• ASIN: B011FRT8YA
• ASIN: B011FRT8YA

A Minister in a Box: International Crime Thriller

When a Mossad agent pursues you, you should know that there is no safe place to hideIn an African country, a corrupt minister has stolen 2.3 Billion US Dollars and fled the country. A new president turns to a Mossad “fixer” – now retired and offers him 10 million dollars to have the former minister found and brought back, no matter what and how!This “fixer" puts together a team of three experts, comprising of one head of a mafia organization, one former intelligence agent and an anesthesiologist. They locate him in London and are now planning the best way to kidnap him without getting ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07N8YWLCJ
• ASIN: B07N8YWLCJ

One Hundred Years Of Tanner (A Tanner Novel Book 19)

During a visit to see Spenser in Wyoming, Tanner and Spenser discuss the first Tanner.And after Spenser is contacted by a client, Tanner and Romeo tag along to lend a hand.From REMINGTON KANEONE HUNDRED YEARS OF TANNER - A Tanner Novel - Book 19

• ASIN: B071VP79TZ
• ASIN: B071VP79TZ

Revelations (A Tanner Novel Book 20)

When an enemy delves into Tanner’s past, they uncover long buried secrets that rock Tanner’s world. The revelations usher in grief, as well as an unexpected joy.From REMINGTON KANEREVELATIONS - A Tanner Novel - Book 20

• ASIN: B076WMKL97
• ASIN: B076WMKL97

Manhattan Hit Man (A Tanner Novel Book 18)

Tanner returns to New York City and becomes involved in a war......as the Boston mob makes moves to take over New York City.Meanwhile, after Sara agrees to do a favor for an old friend things turn deadly and she finds herself fighting for her life.From REMINGTON KANEThe author of The TANNER SeriesMANHATTAN HIT MAN - A TANNER Novel - Book 18

• ASIN: B06VSBSMQV
• ASIN: B06VSBSMQV

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / ... a Dead Man (Library of America) (Vol 1)

• ASIN: 1883011469
• ASIN: 1883011469
• ISBN: 9781883011468
• Brand: Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Taken! - Secrets & Lies (A Taken! Novel Book 2)

Jessica White and her husband are back in Georgia to spend time at the home of an old friend who is getting married. However, when their friend's fiancee, Lena, goes missing, they become involved with not only the Russian mob, but also discover a plot to kill dozens of innocents.Jessica consoles their friend, George, as her husband once more defies the odds and helps Lena free herself from the bonds of her past while wrecking havoc on the streets of Atlanta.By REMINGTON KANETAKEN! - SECRETS & LIES

• ASIN: B00B2ZYRQU
• ASIN: B00B2ZYRQU

The Wounded and the Slain (Hard Case Crime)

THEIR VACATION IN PARADISE BECAME A DESCENT INTO HELL Their marriage on the rocks, James and Cora Bevan flew to Jamaica for a last chance at patching things up. But in the slums of Kingston James found himself fighting for his life – while Cora found her own path to destruction, in the arms of another man. Available for the first time in more than 50 years, this lost novel by legendary pulp author David Goodis is a stunning, shocking tale of cruelty, danger, desperation…and the possibility of redemption.

• ASIN: 0857683756
• ASIN: 0857683756
• ISBN: 0857683756
• Brand: Hard Case Crime
• Manufacturer: Hard Case Crime

In Crime: A Kat Makris Greek Mafia Novel

To heir is human ...Heir to Greece’s biggest crime family Kat Makris’ life is scheduled to explode when she’s catapulted into a counterfeiter’s deadly path, in this hilarious fourth installment of the Greek Mafia series.After a covert attempt to buy Marika a pregnancy test fails, everyone in Greece wants to know who is the father of Kat’s baby? If a rampant case of mistaken pregnancy isn’t bad enough, an encounter with Greece's National Intelligence Agency turns sour fast, and soon Kat finds herself stuck in Naples, Italy, with a probably-pregnant Marika and a crime lord’s nephew... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01KIUGAK0
• ASIN: B01KIUGAK0
• Manufacturer: Citizen A Press

Neon Prey (A Prey Novel)

Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in the new nail-biting #1 New York Times-bestseller from John Sandford.Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation.Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525536582
• ASIN: 0525536582
• ISBN: 0525536582
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Burden of Truth (Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series Book 1)

To defend her client, she must dig up a town’s darkest secrets. Defense attorney Cass Leary thought she’d escaped her hometown for good. But after leaving her high-paying job in Chicago, she decides to revisit her troubled past. When someone murders the beloved high school basketball coach and Cass steps in to defend the girl accused of the crime, she doesn’t expect the death threats that follow…Confronting the town that shunned her as a child, she unearths secrets that some would kill to keep buried. And after her client confesses to the crime, Cass detects a widespread cover-up. If s... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07MLTVJN8
• ASIN: B07MLTVJN8
• Manufacturer: Robin James Books

Good Crime: A Kat Makris Greek Mafia Novel

Have Greek car, will travel?The bad news:Kat Makris’ car just went up in flames.The good news:Kat has a new …Well, it’s not technically a car, but it could be if she squints and ignores the braying.Kat is going nowhere fast on her new mode of transport, but the world is changing shape around her. Dad is thinking of selling her childhood home; the devastatingly sexy Detective Nikos Melas is no longer speaking to her; and scrumptious Xander, double agent, has been keeping his distance.The ground under her feet lurches sideways again when the Godfather of the Night himself, Baby Dimitri, ro... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07C93STN2
• ASIN: B07C93STN2

Weaver of Fate - A Supernatural Thriller: A Detective Capella Crime Novel (Detective Capella Mystery Thriller Series Book 2)

A Thriller!The explosion had flipped her onto her back, and had stripped off a good deal of skin. Adelina looked down at her exposed ribs. She’d seen them so many times as she’d relived this day that she’d become desensitized. She reached up slowly with her left hand, the one that still worked and pulled the Saint Christopher medal from her shirt, placing it prominently on her chest. She’d tried other “changes” in the seconds before her death, crawling, pleading, cursing… they had come to nothing. Adelina struggled to stay conscious, lay her head back on the street and waited. It... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00YQAKMV2
• ASIN: B00YQAKMV2

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 - eBook

The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski.This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir

• UPC: 789038058
• Rating: 3.5

The Mammoth Book Best International Crime - eBook

Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers.They cover the full spectrum of crime fiction, from noir

• UPC: 317126132
• Rating: 5.0

Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books

A concise commentary on the finest mystery books ever

• UPC: 25666051
• Rating: 3.5

Bloody Scotland : New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers

Twelve of Scotland's most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country's architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and

• UPC: 295463383
• Rating: 5.0

Bloody Scotland: New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers - eBook

Twelve of Scotland’s most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country’s architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and redemptive.Scotland has often been depicted as a land of haunting, misty

• UPC: 929869163
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition - eBook

This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable

• UPC: 664945513
• Rating: 5.0

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps : The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s

Here are 45 of the best stories and the major writers who ever appeared in celebrated pulps like "Black Mask, Dime Detective," and "Detective Fiction Weekly." These are the classic tales that created the genre

• UPC: 5620628
• Rating: 3.5

A.C. Organized: The Nomolosa Crime Family - 1.0 - eBook

Organized-(Black Mafia Tale)Organized, is a tale about a Mobster in his late 60's that's been in the game for a long time and wishes to depart the game a 'living legend', however, his men have

• UPC: 497810353

The Best of American True Crime - eBook

The Best of American True Crime 16 of The Best Murder Stories, of the high profile 'Titans, of America: 1. Michael Alig: The Life and Death of the Party 2. Michael Rockefeller 3. The Gruesome

• UPC: 264367522

The Best of True Crime - eBook

The Best of True Crime 15 of The Best stories of true crime: 1. Heidi Fleiss: The Million Dollar Madam 2. Grim Reality: Jasmine Fiore and Ryan Jenkins 3. Haunted Crime Scenes 4. Helen Brach:

• UPC: 723246346