Hammet Award
The Hammett Award is given annually to authors in the field of crime writing, whether fiction or non-fiction. It was first awarded in 1992, by the North American branch of the International Association of Crime Writers. It acknowledges literary excellence by a U.S. or Canadian writer.
Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
by: Jonathan Eig
Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most notorious criminal in rich new detail.From the mom
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
by: Tom Franklin
In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and
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Iron River
by: T. Jefferson Parker
On a dusty highway just north of the United States/Mexico border a man named Mike Finnegan is struck by a fast-moving vehicle and flung into the desert. Miraculously, he survives and winds up in a hospital in the tiny border town of Buenavista, seemingly in full possession of his faculties-including the eerie
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The Nearest Exit
by: Olen Steinhauer
Milo Weaver has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA in Olen Steinhauer's brilliant follow-up to the New York Times bestselling espionage novel The Tourist The Tourist, Steinhauer's first contemporary novel after his awardwinning historical series, was a runaway hit, spending three weeks on the New York Times
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