The Secret Lives of Married Women (24 page)
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Shamus Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Novel of the Year
SONGS
of INNOCENCE
by
RICHARD ALEAS
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...
R
AVES FOR
SONGS OF INNOCENCE:
“An instant classic.”
— The Washington Post
“The best thing Hard Case is publishing right now.
”
— The San Francisco Chronicle
“His powerful conclusion will drop jaws.
”
— Publishers Weekly
“So sharp [it’ll] slice your finger as you flip the pages.”
— Playboy
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Sexy Suspense From An MWA Grand Master!
GETTING OFF
A Novel of Sex and Violence
by
LAWRENCE BLOCK
WRITING AS JILL EMERSON
So this girl walks into a bar. When she walks out, there’s a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better.
She’s been doing this for a while, and she’s good at it.
Then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her.
And now she’s a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down.
Crossing them off her list...
R
AVES FOR THE
W
ORK OF
L
AWRENCE
B
LOCK
:
“Sometimes you open up a book and you just know: You’re in the hands of a master.
”
— The Washington Post
“Addictive.
”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Reads like it’s been jolted by factory-fresh defibrillator pads.
”
— Time
“Block grabs you...and never lets go.
”
— Elmore Leonard
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The Lost Final Novel by the Author of MILDRED PIERCE and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
The COCKTAIL Waitress
by
JAMES M. CAIN
The day Joan Medford buried her first husband, her fate was sealed. For on that day she met two new men: the handsome schemer whose touch she’d grow to crave and the wealthy older man whose touch repelled her—but whose money was an irresistible temptation...
This never-before-published novel by one of crime fiction’s most acclaimed authors will remind you why Cain is considered, together with Hammett and Chandler, one of the true giants of the genre.
“Here, long after anyone would have expected it, is the voice of James M. Cain, as fresh and as relevant as ever.
The Cocktail Waitress
will involve you, and then shock you with an ending you’ll never forget. This is a true rarity: a reader’s novel that’s also a literary event.
”
— Stephen King
“How considerate of the postman to ring a third time, delivering Cain’s final gift to us thirty-five years after his death.
”
— Lawrence Block
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All-Time Best-Selling Author!
JOYLAND
by
STEPHEN KING
College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart. But he wound up facing something far more terrible: the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life— and what comes after—that would change his world forever.
A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old—and about those who don’t get to do either because death comes for them before their time—JOYLAND is Stephen King at the peak of his storytelling powers. With all the emotional impact of King masterpieces such as
The Green Mile
and
The Shawshank Redemption,
JOYLAND is at once a mystery, a horror story, and a bittersweet coming-of-age novel, one that will leave even the most hard-boiled reader profoundly moved.
A
CCLAIM FOR
S
TEPHEN
K
ING
:
“An immensely talented storyteller of seemingly inexhaustible gifts.”
— Interview
“Stephen King is so widely acknowledged as America’s master of paranormal terrors that you can forget his real genius is for the everyday.
”
— New York Times
“Stephen King is superb.
”
— Time
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