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3 years

It seems I'm always talking about death these days, but every time I think I'm done, someone else gets taken away. Sunday it was the kind, wry, supportive, smart, wonderful Chuck Verrill, @StephenKing 's legendary editor and agent. I feel lucky to have had 17 years to know him.

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It broke my heart today to read of the death of Paul Auster, one of my favorite writers since reading the New York Trilogy in the late 80s. So many other great books since: THE MUSIC OF CHANCE, LEVIATHAN, MOON PALACE, 4321. Do yourself a favor and read him. He's worth it.

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5 months

Check out the beautiful 20th anniversary display from @LahaskaBookshop

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5 months

Discover the thrilling world of @hardcasecrime 's pulp editions! Dive into our dedicated display and experience the excitement for yourself.

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4 years

Big news! @StephenKing returns to #HardCaseCrime with LATER in March:

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3 months

Finally got to the Strand and bought the book I’ve been aching to get. I’m reading it backwards, so started with “The Answer Man.” If you can read that story without tearing up, you’re made of stone.

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11 months

Just read HOLLY by our friend @StephenKing , and it's one hell of a good detective novel. Mystery readers should definitely check it out.

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2 years

A thousand congratulations to @JamesKestrel for winning the Edgar Award for Best Novel tonight, for the extraordinary FIVE DECEMBERS. So well deserved. I only wish the man could’ve been there in person to receive it. It was an honor to represent him.

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4 months

Love this so much! One of my favorite stores in the world, going all-in for Hard Case Crime's 20th.

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4 months

Celebrating 20 years of @HardCaseCrime !!!

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2 years

Just in! Advance copies of our big summer title, @vondoviak ’s raucous road trip across 1970s America. Two cousins from Texas, a truck full of stolen weed, a homicidal sheriff & dreams of glory that might just end in flames. An absolutely irresistible book.

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5 years

And here's the announcement, as covered by Entertainment Weekly:

Exclusive: Legendary director Brian De Palma to publish debut novel

Martin Scorsese is an early fan. He says of the 'Scarface' director's debut novel, 'It's like having a new Brian De Palma picture.'

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3 years

Coming in 2022: a long-lost crime novel (unseen for 60+years!) by science fiction grandmaster Robert Silverberg. Featuring a new intro by the author and 3 bonus stories from his early days writing for the pulps...

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1 year

Another taste of what's coming next year for our 20th anniversary: the first new edition in 35+ years of @CornellWoolrich 's final novel, completed by @LawrenceBlock -- and revised for this edition, with a new ending. A summer '24 title, so not available for pre-order yet. Soon.

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3 years

Now it can be told: Donald E. Westlake's final unpublished novel -- a real gem, sweet and sharp and touching and funny -- is coming in February.

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1 year

A follow-up to our post of a few days back: we took down that tweet about the run-on sentence from a submission we got because people who criticized us for it were right: it was unkind and might have made the author feel bad. (He graciously accepted my apology for it, but still.)

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8 months

As we barrel toward our 20th-anniversary year, we want to say thank you to everyone out there who has read any of our books. (Extra thanks to the handful of you that have read all of them!) It's been a wild ride. Lots to come in the next 12 months.

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2 years

Before Twitter goes kablooie, here's a peek at our last book of 2023: a true lost novel by the great Rex Stout, unpublished for more than 90(!) years and, I think, one of the best he ever wrote. It's a wicked psychological jigsaw puzzle; cover by Robert McGinnis.

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3 years

At the risk of inspiring jealousy (apologies), I just finished an advance copy of BILLY SUMMERS by @StephenKing , and it is an astonishing book, truly special, and I hope all of you read it when August comes. One of his very, very, very best.

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2 months

17 years after MONEY SHOT, @FaustFatale brings Angel Dare back in THE GET OFF, and @CrimeReads just revealed the Paul Mann cover and the first chapter. This book is *amazing*. Heart-wrenching, painful, suspenseful, beautiful.

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2 years

Just a small detail from an upcoming cover -- probably our first book of 2024. More info to come...

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3 years

Two weeks from today, BILLY SUMMERS from @StephenKing arrives in stores, and I can't reiterate strongly enough just how terrific a book it is. It is many, many things, not just a great crime novel, but it IS a great crime novel, and any fan of Hard Case Crime should read it.

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2 months

We want to give you a peek at what some of the other wonderful stores who celebrated our 20th anniversary got up to. We don't have photos from/of everyone, but here are some we do have and are excited to share. Once Upon a Crime in MN went classic wire spinner rack...

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11 months

Very excited to show you the cover for our new printing of LEMONS NEVER LIE, its first ever in trade pb. (Copies ran out of our pocket-sized 2006 edition and Abby Westlake agreed we should reprint in the larger format to match all our recent editions of Don's books.)

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11 months

Coming October 10: Nathan Heller investigates the assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy In Max Allan Collins’ TOO MANY BULLETS. (First finished copies just in from the printer.)

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4 months

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we teamed up with 20 indie booksellers across America (all of North America, since one is in Ontario!), who have put up Hard Case Crime displays like the ones you see here. We can't thank them enough. 1/

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8 months

Our first publication of 2024 is a new edition of Jack Clark's heartbreaking NOBODY'S ANGEL, featuring a gorgeous new cover by Claudia Caranfa -- and a quote from Quentin Tarantino saying it's his favorite novel he read all year:

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5 years

Very excited to announce the 1st new Nolan novel in more than 33 years! Followed by reissues of all the old ones, two at a time. Can't preorder these yet, but we'll let you know when you can.

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1 year

Folks, we all have days we're proud of and...other days. Thanks, sincerely, to everyone who gave us the feedback we deserved after we posted a sentence from a submission as an example of not-great writing. It was thoughtless, and we've taken the post down.

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7 months

Love the sight of our books so lovingly presented!

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Hey @CharlesArdai @HardCaseCrime check this display at the awesome @WaterstonesGla ! The noir is strong here in Scotland!

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2 years

Here's a gander at the cover for our big Summer 2023 title: LOWDOWN ROAD by the brilliant @vondoviak , cover by the equally brilliant @studiotstella .

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3 years

A portion -- just a portion, mind you -- of an upcoming cover. Just a tease. The book is still being written.

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7 months

For all writers who struggle with rejection, I share this letter from Collier's magazine to Ray Bradbury in 1946, rejecting his submission. The story, "Powerhouse," was ultimately shortlisted for the O. Henry Award.

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8 years

Erle Stanley Gardner's first new book in 45 years, and @DitaVonTeese was kind enough to pose for Robert McGinnis' cover painting

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2 years

Delighted to reveal the stunning cover by Paul Mann for Max Allan Collins' NEXT Nathan Heller novel, after next month's THE BIG BUNDLE. This one's called TOO MANY BULLETS and it will be the definitive take on the assassination of RFK. Publication in Fall 2023.

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3 months

Today is publication day for the great Rex Stout’s very first crime novel, HOW LIKE A GOD, not published for more than 50 years! It’s a ferociously good book. Challenging — written mostly in the second person (“You climb the stairs, a gun in your coat pocket…”) — but SO good.

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2 years

A thousand thanks to the brilliant @AH_AdamHughes , who blew us away with his cover for the original GUN HONEY and is back for Joanna's second adventure, GUN HONEY: BLOOD FOR BLOOD. Nobody does it better.

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2 years

You can now see all the covers for Issue 1 of GUN HONEY: BLOOD FOR BLOOD on @ICV2 and @bleedingcool , including another of our four cosplay covers with the brilliant, beautiful, and bold Tabitha Lyons ( @Artyfakes ). More at

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11 months

Coming next June: another lost masterpiece by Rex Stout, his very first crime novel, unpublished for the past 50 years. The cover is a posthumous collaboration between the amazing Ricky Mujica (creator of the art for the last INSIDIOUS movie) and the legendary Robert Maguire.

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7 years

A discovery we're very excited about: a rare Willeford that's been unavailable for more than half a century. Coming next summer!

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6 years

Tomorrow kicks off the 15th anniversary year of @HardCaseCrime . We're thrilled that our crazy labor of love has run this long and we can't wait to bring you more great reads. Check out samples from our first 4 books of 2019 at

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4 years

The front covers (yes, plural) of the hardcover limited edition of LATER by @StephenKing have just been revealed by @EW . Ordering starts tomorrow at 11AM EST at

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9 months

Just got our first advance review copies of DEATH COMES TOO LATE, the upcoming 20th anniversary collection by Hard Case Crime founder/editor Charles Ardai (reaching bookstores in March) — 20 stories, including Edgar winner “The Home Front”

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3 years

The Washington Post on LATER: "King’s writing in LATER is as clean, direct and evocative as it’s ever been…the crime-driven plot is propulsive [and] some of the lines just take your breath away…you’re in the hands of a master storyteller."

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1 year

Excited to share the cover of our second upcoming Rex Stout discovery, unpublished for 50+ years: his first crime novel and one of his greatest, HOW LIKE A GOD. Nearly a century after its writing, it's still a shocker. Publication next summer (sorry for the long wait!).

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4 years

Just added Donald E. Westlake's CASTLE IN THE AIR to our website, so you can read a sample from the opening: (And if you think that's exciting, just wait till you see what we have to tell you about in August!)

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1 year

We're gearing up for Hard Case Crime's 20th anniversary next year, and the first title to be revealed is this collection of 20 stories by Hard Case Crime's co-founder/editor, Charles Ardai:

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7 months

Kirkus just reviewed INTO THE NIGHT by Cornell Woolrich (completed by Lawrence Block): "A claustrophobic pulp nightmare...required reading for fans of vintage noir."

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19 days

Coming in March 2025: THE COLLECTED JOHN LAW by Will Eisner and Gary Chaloner, foreword by Denis Kitchen.

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3 years

Very excited to announce we're publishing a new book by the great @JasonStarrBooks in 2022, a noir nightmare with a mind-bending twist. The title? THE NEXT TIME I DIE.

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2 years

RIP to the great Peter Straub, who was not only a wonderful writer but a mensch and a friend to Hard Case Crime. This is a painful loss.

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4 years

Although spy fiction isn't our beat, RIP to the great John le Carre, one of the last remaining giants of his generation. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD remains a flat-out masterpiece.

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6 months

Just got word that LOWDOWN ROAD, already nominated for the Edgar Award, has also been nominated for the Barry Award! We're so happy for @VonDoviak and for the book's success. If you haven't read it yet, this'd be a great excuse to pick it up...

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4 years

To bring a smile to your face, here's a glimpse of our next #DonaldEWestlake book, coming in 2021. Assuming there are any bookstores open in 2021.

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4 years

The last of the new Nolan covers is in! Here's the full set, starting with the brand new Nolan (SKIM DEEP), which is coming out in November:

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5 months

Love this!

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My local store knows the score. @HardCaseCrime

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2 years

For everyone who asked if Cool & Lam would return: yes. Next spring, with a blurb from Raymond Chandler, no less.

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3 years

More 2022 news: Nathan Heller, Max Allan Collins' most acclaimed protagonist, makes his Hard Case Crime debut next fall in THE BIG BUNDLE.

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1 year

Proud as hell of Hard Case Crime cover artist @studiotstella for painting the official poster for the new Indiana Jones film. A beautiful piece of pulp art. (And Tony now joins @DrewStruzan in the pantheon of artists who've done both HCC and IJ!)

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4 years

Watch next week for an announcement about ordering the hardcover limited editions of LATER by Stephen King (This is the paperback: )

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3 years

5 years in the works, our new comic book series GUN HONEY is coming in September, with covers by Bill Sienkiewicz, Robert McGinnis, Adam Hughes, and more. Interiors by the remarkable Ang Hor Kheng. Written by Edgar and Shamus Award winner (and HCC co-founder) Charles Ardai.

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3 years

A peek at a new book coming for Valentine's Day 2022. You can see it's set out west, though the territory there is arid enough you might not expect to find any lakes.

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1 year

Next reveal for our 20th anniversary: Quentin Tarantino picked NOBODY'S ANGEL by Jack Clark as his favorite novel of the year, and we're bringing it back in February with all new cover art by Claudia Caranfa. This is a truly wonderful book:

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4 years

As promised: feast your eyes on the cover for KILLER, COME BACK TO ME, our upcoming Ray Bradbury centennial collection. Pre-order from a local bookseller at

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4 years

We have some exciting news to share on Monday. Watch this space.

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9 months

Just in from the printer: the brand new, first ever paperback edition of Max Allan Collins’ wonderful Nathan Heller novel THE BIG BUNDLE (a Shamus Award finalist, and one of my favorites in the series)

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3 years

Drugstores in NYC are displaying Valentine's Day candy and stuffed bears already, so I feel justified in reminding you about our big Valentine's Day release: CALL ME A CAB, by the brilliant and much missed Donald E. Westlake.

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11 months

On my way to get a flu shot, I stumble across this. Why I love living in NYC.

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5 years

Two of our longest-running titles were briefly unavailable (we sold out all the copies we'd printed!), but I'm happy to report they're back. If you've never read MONEY SHOT ( @faustfatale 2008) or THE LAST QUARRY ( @MaxAllanCollins 2006), you're in for a real treat.

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6 months

Yesterday was pub day for NOBODY'S ANGEL. I really can't encourage you enough to read this book -- it's one of the finest we've ever published.

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2 years

News of the year: the great @LawrenceBlock has written a new Bernie Rhodenbarr novel, THE BURGLAR WHO MET FREDRIC BROWN. You'll get no spoilers from me, but it's terrific. I recommending re-reading the others in preparation. :)

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3 years

We congratulate all the nominees for this year's @EdgarAwards (just announced), including the very deserving @JamesKestrel for Best Novel finalist FIVE DECEMBERS.

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6 years

Continuing our preview of our upcoming 15th anniversary year: a staggering 1st novel by Dylan Struzan covering the entirety (yes, all 13 years!) of Prohibition, released on Prohibition's 100th anniversary:

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4 months

Hitting bookstores one week from today: INTO THE NIGHT, the final novel by REAR WINDOW author Cornell Woolrich, completed by modern master Lawrence Block, with a new, never-before-seen ending. It will chill your blood and break your heart.

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4 years

First glimpse of our big Fall 2021 title: FIVE DECEMBERS, set partly in Hawaii where this photo was taken. It's an astonishing, stunning, beautiful, painful, unforgettable novel, a detective story unlike any you have ever seen before. Not exaggerating. This one is special.

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6 years

In just 4 weeks, Charles Willeford's rarest crime novel comes to stores for the first time since 1961. Preorder at or from your favorite local bookseller.

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2 months

"True noir...a grotesquely memorable ride," says the Wall Street Journal of INTO THE NIGHT by Cornell Woolrich and Lawrence Block. Get a copy today at .

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8 months

First _new_ book of our 20th anniversary is this collection of 20 stories by Hard Case Crime founder/editor Charles Ardai, including Edgar winner "The Home Front," Shamus finalist "Nobody Wins," Year's Best selections, and more. Pre-order at

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1 year

LOWDOWN ROAD by @vondoviak is racking up raves: Kirkus calls it "a wild ride" and PW praises "razor-sharp dialogue and high-octane action...ever-escalating grindhouse madness." AKA the perfect summer read. Coming July:

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3 years

From a 1960 novel I'm proofreading: “Thirty-five cents, sailor.” Marty peeled a bill off his roll and slid it across the bar top. Thirty-five cents for a glass of beer seemed awfully expensive. But this was New York, he reminded himself. Everything cost too much.

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1 year

This just in from the printer: the final installment in our revival of Max Allan Collins’ fabulous Nolan novels. Collects SPREE and the rare proto-Nolan novel MOURN THE LIVING. 400+ pages. Arriving in stores (or your mailbox) next month.

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4 years

One week from today would've been #RayBradbury 's 100th birthday. Our new collection of his crime stories arrives in stores Tuesday. Support a local bookseller:

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4 years

Publishers Weekly on KILLER, COME BACK TO ME by Ray Bradbury: "Bradbury’s flair for dazzling imagery elevates pulp fiction...This tribute volume should appeal to more than just Bradbury fans."

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9 months

Big day tomorrow: 3 great reads hitting stores! FAST CHARLIE by Victor Gischler, basis for the new movie; SEED ON THE WIND by Rex Stout, lost for 93 years; and the paperback of Max Allan Collins' THE BIG BUNDLE starring Nathan Heller

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4 years

For any fans of #RayBradbury , check out the cover of the new collection we're publishing on his 100th birthday. Pre-order from a local bookseller at

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1 month

Just one issue left of GUN HONEY: COLLISION COURSE (issue 4, coming in August), and I'm so happy to share this homage cover by the brilliant Nuno Pereira.

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4 years

Coming around this time next year.

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4 years

The final results of our Top 10 voting closely resemble the early look we gave here, with one exception: like a longshot at the track that breaks out in the final stretch, Donald Westlake's SOMEBODY OWES ME MONEY cracked the list at #7 .

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5 years

Happy new year, all. Sorry for the long time between posts. We have lots of cool books coming, starting with this one in a month: One of my all-time favorites from Westlake and fairly little known. (Not just because we gave it a new title!)

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5 years

In the email newsletter we sent out this morning, we shared this snippet of art from a 2020 title (not yet announced) featuring a certain character's first new appearance in more than 30 years. We are VERY excited to see him back.

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1 year

Yellow.

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4 years

On the possibility that more bookstores might be open by then (and more people able and inclined to go shopping at them), we've pushed our June title, SHILLS CAN'T CASH CHIPS, back to September. Hopefully no other delays will be necessary.

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4 years

In a week, HBO premiers a gorgeous new hardboiled PERRY MASON series in which Mason is...a private eye? Seems to owe more to Erle Stanley Gardner's Cool & Lam novels:

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3 years

Coming in 2022 from @JasonStarrBooks : THE NEXT TIME I DIE, an exquisitely dark story that makes Cornell Woolrich look like Mr. Rogers.

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2 months

Congrats (and thanks) to Booktenders in WV, one of the wonderful indie bookstores who took part in our 20th anniversary celebration. They really pulled out all the stops, transforming their front window into a Hard Case Crime cover and more! Find them at

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