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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 — 172,680 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,466 ratings — published 1930
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,306 ratings — published 1934
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,023 ratings — published 1940
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,494 ratings — published 1949
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,588 ratings — published 1929
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,450 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,513 ratings — published 1934
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,533 ratings — published
Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 122,019 ratings — published 2002
The Whisperers (Charlie Parker, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,261 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 — 11,184 ratings — published 1993
Light of the World (Dave Robicheaux, #20)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,667 ratings — published 2013
The Force (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,165 ratings — published 2017
The City (The City, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,262 ratings — published 2014
Comes a Horseman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,321 ratings — published 2005
Dead Lock (DI Nick Dixon, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,894 ratings — published 2018
Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,744 ratings — published 2001
Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,367 ratings — published 2011
Robicheaux (Dave Robichaux, #21)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,087 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 — 86,675 ratings — published 2018
The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,922 ratings — published 2018
The Rat Stone Serenade (DCI Daley, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,421 ratings — published 2016
Well of the Winds (DCI Daley, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,242 ratings — published 2017
City of Sinners (Harry Virdee #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.35 — 973 ratings — published 2018
Chinese Puzzle (The Destroyer, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,055 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 3.69 — 218 ratings — published
Death Check (The Destroyer, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,129 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 — 11,575 ratings — published 2018
American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,733 ratings — published 2010
The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.03 — 52,625 ratings — published 2006
The Sinner (Tom Killgannon #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.96 — 442 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 4.15 — 1,996 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 — 2,704 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 3.97 — 2,271 ratings — published 2019
The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 21,716 ratings — published 2017
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 265,084 ratings — published 2005
Babes in the Wood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 887 ratings — published 2020
Cry Baby (Tom Thorne, #17)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,123 ratings — published 2020
Dark Blood (Logan McRae, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,253 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 — 3,402 ratings — published 2009
Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me (Spenser, #48)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,138 ratings — published 2021
Sorrow Bound (DS Aector McAvoy #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.03 — 952 ratings — published 2021
Tall Order (Dan Shepherd #15)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,081 ratings — published 2018
No Sweet Sorrow (DCI Daley #11)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,308 ratings — published
Boy in the Well (DI Westphall #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 382 ratings — published
Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.22 — 106,284 ratings — published 2007
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 145,836 ratings — published 1999
World's End (Cullen and Bain #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 553 ratings — published
Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as hard-boiled-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 127,211 ratings — published 2000