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Finalist for the Edgar® Award and the Shamus Award!
Little Girl Lost
Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor.
Ten years earlier, Miranda had been P.I. John Blake’s girlfriend. Now he must uncover her secret life as a strip tease queen. But the deeper he digs, the deadlier the danger...until a shattering face-off in an East Village tenement changes his life forever.
LITTLE GIRL LOST is the stunning debut novel from Edgar Award-winning author RICHARD ALEAS. And the excitement continues in John Blake’s shocking second case, SONGS OF INNOCENCE, also available from Hard Case Crime.
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Shamus Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Novel of the Year
Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever—and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers could blow the lid off New York City’s sex trade...if they don’t kill him first.
Richard Aleas’ first novel, LITTLE GIRL LOST, was among the most celebrated crime novels of the year, nominated for both the Edgar and Shamus Awards. But nothing in John Blake’s first case could prepare you for the shocking conclusion of his second...
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For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend’s death in an attempted abduction. But what if she didn’t actually die? What if she somehow secretly survived, but lost her sight, her memory, and everything else she had...except her enemies?
Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved—or to lose her for good.
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In the cutthroat world of organized crime, Tony Romero was headed straight for the top. But his path was littered with bodies and broken dreams—some of them his.
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Bill Wayne’s bus tour through the West becomes more than he bargained for when bodies start turning up at every stop!
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From the casinos of Monaco to the jungles of Brazil, from Tangier to Marrakech to Peru, the chase is on when a handsome swindler tries to escape the beautiful heiress out to reform him.
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Con man Joe Marlin accidentally steals a suitcase full of heroin, then plots to kill the man he stole it from— with help from the man’s wife!
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The client had a perfect alibi for the night Maureen Auburn disappeared—but nothing made P.I. Donald Lam