HARD CASE CRIME (AUDIOBOOKS)
Nobody does more beautiful paperback books today than Hard Case Crime (HardCaseCrime.com). But the gorgeous art gracing its covers isn’t the end of HCC’s charms. HCC is an ongoing collection (now more than 50 books) of crime: Hardboiled, Noir, and Mystery – mixing the old, lost, and forgotten masterpieces of yesteryear with brand new novels by crime fiction’s most powerful writers of today. The shame of it is, only a very few of these terrific novels are available as audiobooks. Here’s the lot…
HCC-001:
Grifter’s Game
By Lawrence Block; Read by Alan Sklar
5 CDs – 5 Hours 17 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published: 2006
ISBN: 9781602834538
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HCC-004:
Little Girl Lost: A John Blake Mystery
By Richard Aleas (aka Charles Ardai); Read by L.J. Ganser
Audible Download – Approx. 6 Hours 36 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
Published: April 13, 2010
John Blake and Miranda Sugarman dated in high school, but after graduation they went their separate ways: he stayed in New York City and became a private investigator, while she moved to the midwest and settled down to a safe, respectable life as an eye doctor. Or so he thought – until the day, 10 years later, when he opened the Daily News and saw Miranda’s photo staring out at him under the headline “STRIPPER MURDERED.” John wants to find out how Miranda ended up stripping for a living. What happened to Miranda’s college roommate, Jocelyn, who also dropped out when Miranda did? And just how was Miranda involved with small-time drug dealer Murco Khachadurian? The closer John gets to the answers, the more dangerous and violent the case becomes, until a bloody assault on someone close to him leads John to a shocking discovery and a shattering face-off with the person responsible.
HCC-006:
The Confession
By Domenic Stansberry; Read by L.J. Ganser
Audible Download – Approx. 7 Hours 3 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
Published: June 2010
Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he’s also got a mistress. And when Jake’s mistress is found strangled to death with his necktie, it’s up to him to prove he didn’t do it. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did?
HCC-009:
361
By Donald E. Westlake; Read by L. J. Ganser
5 CDs – Approx. 6 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published:
The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad. From the mind of the incomparable Donald E. Westlake comes a devastating story of betrayal and revenge, an exploration of the limits of family loyalty and how far a man will go when everything he loves is taken from him.
HCC-013:
The Colorado Kid
By Stephen King; Read by Jeffrey DeMunn
4 CDs – 4 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0743550404
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HCC-014:
The Girl With the Long Green Heart
By Lawrence Block; Read by Alan Sklar
5 CDs – Approx. 6 Hours 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published: February 2009
ISBN: 9780792737957
She was every man’s dream – and one man’s nightmare. Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover – and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay…
HCC-015:
The Gutter and the Grave
By Ed McBain; Read by Richard Ferrone
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published: December 1st 2008
Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45. Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s just like the old days – only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end.
HCC-022:
Lemons Never Lie
By Richard Stark; Read by Steve Aveson
5 CDs – Approx. 5 Hours 25 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published: August 2008
ISBN: 9780792746843
When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately–which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane–so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn’t a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality. That’s when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable of…
HCC-028:
Lucky At Cards
By Lawrence Block; Read by Alan Sklar
5 CDs – Approx. 5 Hours 6 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisjher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published: August 1, 2007
ISBN: 9780792748465
On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action…but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing wife of Bill’s latest mark. Together they hatch an ingenious scheme to get rid of her husband. But in life as in poker, the other player sometimes has an ace up his sleeve.
HCC-033:
Songs of Innocence: A John Blake Mystery
By Richard Aleas (aka Charles Ardai); Read by L.J. Ganser
Audible Download – Approx. 7 Hours 34 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
Published: April 13, 2010
While investigating the apparent suicide of a beautiful college student with a double life, detective John Blake finds his own life in danger when he makes a startling discovery that could blow the lid off New York City’s sex trade.
HCC-040:
Money Shot
By Christa Faust; Read by Susie Bright
Audible Download – Approx. 6 Hours 47 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible Ltd
Published: August 7, 2010
They thought she’d be easy. They thought wrong. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her, even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way….
HCC-044:
Somebody Owes Me Money
By Donald E. Westlake; Read by Stephen Thorne
Audible Download (or 6 CDs) – 6 Hours 37 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America / Audible.com
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9780792754534
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HCC-051:
Killing Castro
By Lawrence Block; Read by Henry Leyva
4 CDs – Approx. 4 Hours 45 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published: January 2009
ISBN: 9780792759751
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HCC-053:
The Cutie
By Donald E. Westlake; Read by Stephen R. Thorne
Audible Download – Approx. 5 Hours 27 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America / Audible.com
Published: March 2009
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