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Hard Boiled Crime Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.94 — 174,487 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,748 ratings — published 1930
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,628 ratings — published 1934
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,453 ratings — published 1940
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,680 ratings — published 1949
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,896 ratings — published 1929
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 32,056 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 51,302 ratings — published 1934
The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,361 ratings — published 2018
Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,648 ratings — published 2000
The Ghosts of Belfast (Jack Lennon Investigations #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,784 ratings — published 2009
Night School (Jack Reacher, #21)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.03 — 82,753 ratings — published 2016
False Memory (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,326 ratings — published 1999
The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,508 ratings — published 2005
Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport, #18)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,186 ratings — published 2008
Dead Man's Shoes (DI Fenchurch #7)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,175 ratings — published 2020
Pegasus Descending (Dave Robicheaux, #15)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,871 ratings — published 2006
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,556 ratings — published 2010
Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 123,366 ratings — published 2002
The Whisperers (Charlie Parker, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,349 ratings — published 2010
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,264 ratings — published 1993
Light of the World (Dave Robicheaux, #20)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,704 ratings — published 2013
The Force (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,651 ratings — published 2017
The City (The City, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,364 ratings — published 2014
Comes a Horseman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,327 ratings — published 2005
Dead Lock (DI Nick Dixon, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,096 ratings — published 2018
Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,030 ratings — published 2001
Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,380 ratings — published 2011
Robicheaux (Dave Robichaux, #21)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,134 ratings — published 2018
Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,128 ratings — published 2018
The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,944 ratings — published 2018
The Rat Stone Serenade (DCI Daley, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,454 ratings — published 2016
Well of the Winds (DCI Daley, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,268 ratings — published 2017
City of Sinners (Harry Virdee #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.36 — 999 ratings — published 2018
Chinese Puzzle (The Destroyer, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,057 ratings — published 1972
The Face of Evil: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert Black (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.68 — 219 ratings — published
Death Check (The Destroyer, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,134 ratings — published 1972
De jongen in de sneeuw (Holger Munch & Mia Krüger, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,845 ratings — published 2018
American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,695 ratings — published 2010
The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.03 — 53,372 ratings — published 2006
The Sinner (Tom Killgannon #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.94 — 452 ratings — published 2019
The Jack Reacher Cases: Complete Books #1, #2 & #3 (The Jack Reacher Cases Boxset)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,027 ratings — published
The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,760 ratings — published 2013
Kill 'Em All: A True Story of Abuse, Revenge and the Making of a Monster (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,292 ratings — published 2019
The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 21,938 ratings — published 2017
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 272,033 ratings — published 2005
Babes in the Wood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 898 ratings — published 2020
Cry Baby (Tom Thorne, #17)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,197 ratings — published 2020
Dark Blood (Logan McRae, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,379 ratings — published 2010
The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,437 ratings — published 2009