HOW LIKE A GOD
Rex Stout
June 2024

Nero Wolfe creator Rex Stout’s brilliant first crime novel

INTO THE NIGHT
Cornell Woolrich, Lawrence Block
May 2024

The lost final novel by the author of REAR WINDOW

DEATH COMES TOO LATE
Charles Ardai
March 2024

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hard Case Crime:
20 stories from the writer Stephen King calls "a master of the short story"

NOBODY'S ANGEL
Jack Clark
February 2024

Discover Quentin Tarantino’s favorite novel of the year

FAST CHARLIE
Victor Gischler
December 2023

The novel that inspired the movie starring Pierce Brosnan and James Caan

SEED ON THE WIND
Rex Stout
November 2023

The brilliant lost novel from the creator of Nero Wolfe!

TOO MANY BULLETS
Max Allan Collins
October 2023

Nathan Heller hunts for the truth behind RFK’s assassination.

LOWDOWN ROAD
Scott Von Doviak
July 2023

Pursuit doesn't come any hotter.

MAD MONEY
Max Allan Collins
April 2023

The last, largest and deadliest of Nolan’s classic heist stories!

FOOLS DIE ON FRIDAY
Erle Stanley Gardner
February 2023

Cool & Lam return—in a favorite case of Raymond Chandler!

THE BIG BUNDLE
Max Allan Collins
November 2022

Nathan Heller makes his Hard Case Crime debut!

THE HOT BEAT
Robert Silverberg
September 2022

Only she could save him from a dance with death.

THE NEXT TIME I DIE
Jason Starr
June 2022

He thought he was going to die. What happened was far stranger.

TOUGH TENDER
Max Allan Collins
March 2022

A pro never returns to the scene of the crime

CALL ME A CAB
Donald E. Westlake
February 2022

The final novel from Donald E. Westlake

QUARRY'S BLOOD
Max Allan Collins
February 2022

What happened to Quarry after THE LAST QUARRY?

FIVE DECEMBERS
James Kestrel
October 2021

"A crime epic for the ages."—DENNIS LEHANE

DOUBLE DOWN
Max Allan Collins
May 2021

Nolan and Jon return, to tackle a skyjacking and a vigilante’s war on the Mob

CASTLE IN THE AIR
Donald E. Westlake
March 2021

The world’s most devious thieves race to steal a king’s ransom

LATER
Stephen King
March 2021

Only the dead have no secrets

SKIM DEEP
Max Allan Collins
December 2020

The first new Nolan novel in 33 years!

SHILLS CAN'T CASH CHIPS
Erle Stanley Gardner
November 2020

Fast cars...dangerous women...and Cool & Lam on the case!

KILLER, COME BACK TO ME
Ray Bradbury
August 2020

Honoring Ray Bradbury’s Centennial—The Definitive Collection of the Master’s Crime Fiction

ARE SNAKES NECESSARY?
Brian de Palma, Susan Lehman
March 2020

"It's like having a new Brian de Palma picture."
—MARTIN SCORSESE

DOUBLE FEATURE
Donald E. Westlake
February 2020

What’s hidden behind the silver screen?

KILLING QUARRY
Max Allan Collins
November 2019

Who’s been hired to hit the hitman?

BLOOD SUGAR
Daniel Kraus
October 2019

A Halloween nightmare from the co-creator of THE SHAPE OF WATER

THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY
Joyce Carol Oates
July 2019

The definitive edition of Joyce Carol Oates’ stunning exploration of the mind of a maniac

THE COLORADO KID
Stephen King
May 2019

Stephen King’s original Hard Case Crime title returns—for the first time in 10 years!

A BLOODY BUSINESS
Dylan Struzan
April 2019

The true story of the rise of organized crime in America

BROTHERS KEEPERS
Donald E. Westlake
February 2019

Can a monk on Park Avenue save his home from the wrecking ball?

SO MANY DOORS
Oakley Hall
November 2018

"Beautiful, powerful, masterful."—MICHAEL CHABON

THE COUNT OF 9
Erle Stanley Gardner
October 2018

Are Cool and Lam down for the count? Or just for the count of 9...?

CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL
Scott Von Doviak
September 2018

Would the heist of the century take a century to unravel?

UNDERSTUDY FOR DEATH
Charles Willeford
July 2018

Lost for nearly 60 years—Willeford’s savage dissection of love, adultery, and murder-suicide in the Sunshine State.

THE LAST STAND
Mickey Spillane
March 2018

A brand new Spillane novel on the master’s 100th birthday!

HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER
Donald E. Westlake
February 2018

The most ingenious caper ever by the master of the heist story

TURN ON THE HEAT
Erle Stanley Gardner
November 2017

Nothing burns hotter than an old flame.

QUARRY'S CLIMAX
Max Allan Collins
October 2017

Quarry returns—to save the life of a notorious pornographer who’s on another killer’s hit list

FOREVER AND A DEATH
Donald E. Westlake
June 2017

The lost thriller from Donald E. Westlake that almost became a James Bond movie!

SNATCH
Gregory Mcdonald
February 2017

The creator of FLETCH presents a master class on the art of the snatch

THE KNIFE SLIPPED
Erle Stanley Gardner
December 2016

A never-before-published novel by the creator of Perry Mason!

SINNER MAN
Lawrence Block
November 2016

The long-lost first crime novel of Lawrence Block!

QUARRY IN THE BLACK
Max Allan Collins
October 2016

A deadly new assignment for the star of QUARRY on Cinemax

SOHO SINS
Richard Vine
July 2016

There is a fine art to murder.

THE NICE GUYS
Charles Ardai
May 2016

1970s L.A. Smog, killer bees, sideburns, Atari...and two guys trying to make it as private eyes.

PIMP
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
March 2016

Dealing, producing...all in a day’s work for a drug lord. Or in Hollywood.

CUT ME IN
Ed McBain
January 2016

When his partner stopped a bullet, he came to her for answers...

QUARRY'S VOTE
Max Allan Collins
October 2015

Quarry was happily settled—until the man in the suit offered him a million dollar contract.

QUARRY'S CUT
Max Allan Collins
October 2015

On a snowed-in movie set, are there two killers at work?

QUARRY'S DEAL
Max Allan Collins
October 2015

Has Quarry finally met his match?

QUARRY'S LIST
Max Allan Collins
October 2015

As Quarry tries to build his new life, someone is out to end it

QUARRY
Max Allan Collins
October 2015

The very first appearance of the killer known as Quarry

THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES
Lawrence Block
September 2015

She could tempt a man to murder—and beyond

SO NUDE, SO DEAD
Ed McBain
July 2015

Ed McBain’s first crime novel—lost for over 50 years!

THIEVES FALL OUT
Gore Vidal
April 2015

The lost pulp novel by one of America’s greatest writers

QUARRY'S CHOICE
Max Allan Collins
January 2015

Even killers for hire can choose who they kill.

EASY DEATH
Daniel Boyd
November 2014

'Tis the season...

A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
Lawrence Block
August 2014

When you can’t call the cops, you call Scudder.

BRAINQUAKE
Samuel Fuller
August 2014

The lost novel by the writer/director of SHOCK CORRIDOR, THE NAKED KISS, PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET and THE BIG RED ONE

BORDERLINE
Lawrence Block
May 2014

Some borders you can never cross back

THE WRONG QUARRY
Max Allan Collins
January 2014

There are killers and then there are murderers. Not the same at all.

BINARY
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

A million people would die—unless he could enter the madman's mind!

GRAVE DESCEND
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

Something’s going down off the coast of Jamaica

DRUG OF CHOICE
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

Was it the formula for pleasure…or for torment?

THE VENOM BUSINESS
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

The deadliest creatures can be the most beautiful

ZERO COOL
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

The heat is on

EASY GO
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

Men would kill for the treasures of the last tomb

SCRATCH ONE
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

Murder stalks the French Riviera!

ODDS ON
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
October 2013

Is the perfect heist about to go up in smoke?

THE SECRET LIVES OF MARRIED WOMEN
Elissa Wald
October 2013

How far would he go? And how far did I want him to...?

JOYLAND
Stephen King
June 2013, September 2015

The #1 best-seller by STEPHEN KING—now in original and illustrated editions!

WEB OF THE CITY
Harlan Ellison
April 2013

If you cross them, they will kill you.

SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT
Max Allan Collins
February 2013

Murder steps off the comic book page—and into the spotlight.

THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS
James M. Cain
September 2012

The lost final novel by the author of DOUBLE INDEMNITY, MILDRED PIERCE, and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.

THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
Ariel S. Winter
August 2012

She was beautiful. He was damned.

FALSE NEGATIVE
Joseph Koenig
June 2012

There's no glamour in the grave.

BLOOD ON THE MINK
Robert Silverberg
April 2012

The money was counterfeit—but the danger was real!

THE COMEDY IS FINISHED
Donald E. Westlake
February 2012

Comedy is easy. Dying is hard.

CHOKE HOLD
Christa Faust
October 2011

Every fighter needs an angel in his corner.

THE CONSUMMATA
Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
October 2011

She consumed men like fire—but what a way to burn...

QUARRY'S EX
Max Allan Collins
September 2011

You never forget your first.

GETTING OFF
Lawrence Block
September 2011

What woman doesn’t enjoy a little death...?

CATCH AND RELEASE
Lawrence Block
September 2013

17 Explorations of Darkness by the MWA Grandmaster

69 BARROW STREET/STRANGE EMBRACE
Lawrence Block
May 2012

Murder, New York style—from the heights of Broadway to the sordid depths of Greenwich Village...

MURDER IS MY BUSINESS
Brett Halliday
August 2010

Time hadn’t tamed her...and neither could he!

MEMORY
Donald E. Westlake
April 2010

The lost novel from MWA Grandmaster Donald E. Westlake

THE VALLEY OF FEAR
A. C. Doyle
December 2009

They all answered to...the BODYMASTER!

THE CORPSE WORE PASTIES
Jonny Porkpie
December 2009

Sometimes there’s no difference between the naked and the dead.

QUARRY IN THE MIDDLE
Max Allan Collins
November 2009

Quarry’s back—and caught in the middle...

HONEY IN HIS MOUTH
Lester Dent
October 2009

They shared the same face—but could they share the same woman?

LOSERS LIVE LONGER
Russell Atwood
September 2009

She was no man’s damsel in distress.

STOP THIS MAN!
Peter Rabe
August 2009

He carried death everywhere he went.

PASSPORT TO PERIL
Robert B. Parker
July 2009

On the run—behind the Iron Curtain!

FAKE I.D.
Jason Starr
June 2009

There’s more than one way to lose it all at the track.

CASINO MOON
Peter Blauner
May 2009

Sometimes every punch is below the belt.

HOUSE DICK
E. Howard Hunt
April 2009

What goes on behind closed doors at a Washington D.C. hotel?

THE CUTIE
Donald E. Westlake
March 2009

There are many ways to sell yourself.

THE DEAD MAN'S BROTHER
Roger Zelazny
February 2009

It would take more than luck to find the Vatican’s missing millions—in the jungles of Brazil...

KILLING CASTRO
Lawrence Block
January 2009

Some lust for power—others, for retribution...

FIFTY-TO-ONE
Charles Ardai
December 2008

When it came to crime, she wrote the book.

GUN WORK
David J. Schow
November 2008

It’s all about choosing the right weapon.

THE FIRST QUARRY
Max Allan Collins
October 2008

Killing is a young man’s game.

THE MAX
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
September 2008

Max and Angela are going down.

BABY MOLL
John Farris
August 2008

No man escapes the sins of his past.

NO HOUSE LIMIT
Steve Fisher
July 2008

They backed the world’s greatest gambler to bring down an honest man.

SOMEBODY OWES ME MONEY
Donald E. Westlake
June 2008

Even a New York cabbie can get taken for a ride.

THE MURDERER VINE
Shepard Rifkin
May 2008

In the Deep South, the days are lovely—but the nights are murder...

SHOOTING STAR/SPIDERWEB
Robert Bloch
April 2008

When murder comes to Hollywood, only a reluctant con man and a one-eyed private eye can deliver justice.

MONEY SHOT
Christa Faust
February 2008

It would take more than bullets to stop Angel Dare.

A DIET OF TREACLE
Lawrence Block
January 2008

She was a good girl—until she found her way to Greenwich Village...

DEADLY BELOVED
Max Allan Collins
December 2007

Some men deserve to die.

DEAD STREET
Mickey Spillane
November 2007

Men would kill for the secrets locked in her head.

SLIDE
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
October 2007

Some people just aren't suited for the lines of work they choose.

KILL NOW, PAY LATER
Robert Terrall
September 2007

Why would a party girl make him a party to murder?

FRIGHT
Cornell Woolrich
August 2007

A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how the nightmare begins. But with whose death will it end...?

SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Richard Aleas
July 2007

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

BLACKMAILER
George Axelrod
June 2007

What did a gorgeous Hollywood starlet have to do with the disappearance of a Nobel Prize winner’s last manuscript?

THE WOUNDED AND THE SLAIN
David Goodis
May 2007

Their vacation in paradise became a descent into hell.

THE VENGEFUL VIRGIN
Gil Brewer
April 2007

Shirley's wealthy stepfather was dying—but not quickly enough...

ROBBIE'S WIFE
Russell Hill
March 2007

Screenwriter Jack Stone knew better than to get involved with another man's wife...didn't he?

LUCKY AT CARDS
Lawrence Block
February 2007

Professional card sharp Bill Maynard was hungry for action—but not nearly as hungry as the wife of his latest mark.

THE PEDDLER
Richard S. Prather
December 2006

Tony Romero's women offered paradise—for a price...

THE LAST MATCH
David Dodge
October 2006

The beautiful heiress on his trail brought a whole new meaning to the term "hot pursuit"...

THE GUNS OF HEAVEN
Pete Hamill
September 2006

One reporter is all that stands between New York City and a terrorist attack.

THE LAST QUARRY
Max Allan Collins
August 2006

The ruthless hitman Quarry comes out of retirement to kill...a librarian?

LEMONS NEVER LIE
Richard Stark
July 2006

Grofield never wanted to get involved with Myers’ crazy plan to heist a brewery payroll—but now he's involved, whether he likes it or not...

STRAIGHT CUT
Madison Smartt Bell
June 2006

Tracy knew something was up when he took the assignment in Rome, but he didn’t realize it involved drug smuggling—or that his his beautiful ex-wife was caught in the middle of the plot...

BUST
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
May 2006

When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath.

WITNESS TO MYSELF
Seymour Shubin
April 2006

Alan Benning knew he was guilty...but of what?

SAY IT WITH BULLETS
Richard Powell
March 2006

Bill Wayne took the road trip through the West to find out which of his former army buddies shot him in the back and left him for dead—but the would-be killer isn't just waiting to be found...

A TOUCH OF DEATH
Charles Williams
February 2006

The burglary sounded like an easy score—but Lee Scarborough didn’t count on having to face off against a woman as ruthless as Madelon Butler.

NIGHT WALKER
Donald Hamilton
January 2006

Navy Lieutenant Dave Young wakes up with his face in bandages, another man’s name on his hospital chart, and a beautiful stranger claiming to be his wife...

THE GUTTER AND THE GRAVE
Ed McBain
December 2005

Matt Cordell may be a drunk—but he’s still the best detective in New York City...

THE GIRL WITH THE LONG GREEN HEART
Lawrence Block
November 2005

Hayden and Rance had a scheme to bilk a wealthy entrepreneur out of a fortune, but they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone, an amateur with the soul of a grifter...

DUTCH UNCLE
Peter Pavia
July 2005

Harry had done his time and wanted to stay clean—but with his pockets full of drug money and a dead body at his feet, it wasn't going to be easy...

BRANDED WOMAN
Wade Miller
July 2005

Beautiful jewel smuggler Cay Morgan landed in Mazatlán with a gun in her purse — and a vendetta in her heart.

PLUNDER OF THE SUN
David Dodge
May 2005

On the trail of the lost treasure of the Incas — with every fortune hunter in South America closing in!

361
Donald E. Westlake
May 2005

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler destroyed Ray Kelly’s life. Now it’s his turn.

KISS HER GOODBYE
Allan Guthrie
March 2005

When his daughter is found dead, underworld enforcer Joe Hope will stop at nothing to find the person responsible.

HOME IS THE SAILOR
Day Keene
March 2005

Swede Nelson just wanted to meet a nice girl and settle down. So how did he find himself on the run, wanted for murder?

THE CONFESSION
Domenic Stansberry
November 2004

Forensic psychologist Jake Danser needs to prove himself innocent of strangling his beautiful young mistress. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did it?

TWO FOR THE MONEY
Max Allan Collins
November 2004

After 16 years on the run, will Nolan bury the hatchet with the Mob — or will they bury him first?

LITTLE GIRL LOST
Richard Aleas
October 2004

Miranda Sugarman was going to become a doctor. So how did she end up shot to death on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club?

TOP OF THE HEAP
Erle Stanley Gardner
October 2004

The client had a perfect alibi for the night Maureen Auburn disappeared — but nothing made private eye Donald Lam suspicious like a perfect alibi.

FADE TO BLONDE
Max Phillips
September 2004

Ray Corson agreed to protect Rebecca from a smut-peddling gangster. He just didn’t count on having to become a gangster himself to do it.

GRIFTER'S GAME
Lawrence Block
September 2004

Joe Marlin thought he was just stealing the man’s luggage. But what he wound up stealing was 60 cubic inches of raw heroin — and the man’s wife!