Ken Bruen, Author, Jason Starr, Author . Hard Case Crime $6.99 (254p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5591-0
This first-time collaboration between two rising crime fiction writers is a full-tilt, rocking homage to noir novels of the 1950s, taking full advantage of the neo-pulp Hard Case Crime imprint. Wealthy, successful New York City business owner Max...
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Ken Bruen, Author, Jason Starr, Author . Hard Case Crime $6.99 (221p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5776-1
Bruen and Starr follow up last year's Bust
with another dark, twisted, no-holds-barred tale that hits all the noir buttons and then some. Since he was betrayed by his mistress/former assistant, Angela Petrakos, who left him with nothing to his
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Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-78329-569-2
In Bruen and Starr’s scattershot fourth Max Fisher noir (after 2008’s The Max), a new designer drug called PIMP (an acronym for peyote, insulin, mescaline, and psychosis) is poised to give the ne’er-do-well New York City “businessman” (i.e., drug...
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Jason Starr, Author . Vintage/Black Lizard $12 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-72709-2
Computer systems salesman Richie Segal knows things are bad, but he has no clue how bad they can get in this effectively bleak successor to the noir tradition of Jim Thompson and David Goodis. Problems with his job, problems with his marriage...
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Jason Starr, Author . Vintage/Black Lizard $12 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-72711-5
Mickey Prada is a quiet, unassuming teenager working in a fish market and living in Brooklyn, but by the end of this merciless, action-packed black comedy, he might as well be living in hell. Starr (Cold Caller; Hard Feelings) delivers a wild ride...
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Jason Starr, Author . Vintage/Black Lizard $12 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-7506-5
After fumbling a casual pickup in a bar, financial journalist David Miller realizes his wallet has been lifted, and he quickly descends into Manhattan's underbelly in Starr's sinister black comedy. Life has been rough lately: deeply...
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Jason Starr, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-312-35972-0
In this strangely fascinating riff off classic noir, baseball slugger Jake Thomas gets a hero's welcome on a quick trip home to Canarsie. With millions in endorsements on the line, he's anxious to announce a wedding date with his high school
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Jason Starr, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-35974-4
Murder stalks a love triangle in New York City in Starr's low-key thriller, his most crowd-pleasing novel to date. Katie Porter believes her encounter at the health club with Peter Wells is total chance. What she doesn't know is that Peter
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Jason Starr, Author . Hard Case Crime $6.99 (251p) ISBN 978-0-8439-6118-8
Starr (The Follower
) traces the life of a New York bar bouncer down on his luck in this sinister noir tale. Tommy Russo, an aspiring actor, wants in on the deal of a lifetime: purchasing a racehorse with several other backers. Gambling addict Russo
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Jason Starr, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-312-38706-8
A bungled burglary sparks Starr’s darkly humorous crime thriller. Carlos Sanchez wasn’t expecting anyone to be home, much less have an entire clip emptied into him as he reached the top of the stairs of the brownstone he breaks into in...
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Jason Starr, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $14 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56858-161-3
Noir devotee Starr's jet-black kidnapping/extortion thriller has attitude to spare. Too bad it doesn't have wit and style to match: his all-too-familiar venture into James M. Cain territory is populated by a cast of paper-thin, exceedingly...
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Jason Starr. Ace, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-441-02008-9
Manhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black, black humor in this sly urban fantasy thriller from crime author Starr (Panic Attack). When ad man Simon Burns suddenly gets the axe, his wife, Alison, looks on the bright side. Now Simon can become...
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Jason Starr. Ace, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-937007-55-3
Simon Burns and his single dad cronies from The Pack (2011) return in this similarly dark and humorous look into what life is like in modern Manhattan when you suffer from a "lycanthropic disorder." NYPD homicide detective Geri Rodriguez is trying...
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Jason Starr. Polis (PGW, dist.), $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-940610-64-1
A surfeit of toxic behavior surrounds the aptly named Savage Lane in a supposedly idyllic Westchester, N.Y., suburb, the setting for this creepy—not in a good way—domestic suspense novel from Anthony Award–winner Starr (The Craving). Mark Berman, a...
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Jason Starr, Author, Mick Bertilorenzi, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo Crime $19.99 (188p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1286-5
There seems to be a serial killer at work in New York, hacking up young men in elaborately grotesque ways, and a drunken ex-cop claims that it is the work of some sort of druidic witch, eating souls for immortality. But there's never any...
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Jason Starr. Oceanview, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60809-314-4
Manhattan real estate agent Jack Harper, the hapless narrator of this uneven crime novel from Starr (Savage Lane), hasn’t made a sale in months. A recovering alcoholic, he loves his eight-year-old son, but his marriage to the boy’s mother, Marie, is
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Jason Starr. Hard Case Crime, $14.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-78909-951-5
New York attorney Steven Blitz, the narrator of this intriguing SF thriller from Starr (Fugitive Red), is preparing to defend a celebrity artist accused of murdering three men when his manic-depressive wife, Laura, kicks him out, demands a divorce,...
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