Born Bad
by Andrew Vachss | 
When the Women Come Out to Dance
by Elmore Leonard | 
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
by Patricia Highsmith | 
The Secret of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton | 
Mermaids on the Golf Course
by Patricia Highsmith | 
Grasshopper
by Barbara Vine | 
The Man Who Knew Too Much
by G. K. Chesterton | 
Twelve Red Herrings
by Jeffrey Archer | 
Hollywood Nocturnes
by James Ellroy | 
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
by Walter Mosley | 
Enough Rope
by Lawrence Block | 
The Female of the Species
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
The Incredulity of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton | 
Kiss Me Again, Stranger
by Daphne Du Maurier | 
Eleven
by Patricia Highsmith | 
Shella
by Andrew Vachss | 
The Getaway Man
by Andrew Vachss | 
A Treasury of Sayers Stories
by Dorothy L. Sayers | 
They Can Only Hang You Once
by Dashiell Hammett | 
Unusual Suspects
by James Grady |
A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A two-bit graffiti artist with a taste for Nazi-ganda finds himself face-to-face with three punks out to make a mark of their own'??literally'??with a tattoo needle. From neo-noir master Andrew Vachss comes Everybody Pays, 38 white-knuckle rides into a netherworld of pederasts and prostitutes, stick-up kids and fall guys'??where private codes of crime and punishment pulsate beneath a surface system of law and order, and our moral compass spins frighteningly out of control. Here is the street-grit prose that has earned Vachss comparisons to Chandler, Cain, and Hammett--and the ingenious plot twists that transform the double-cross into an expression of retribution, the dark deed into a thing of beauty. Electrifying and enigmatic, Everybody Pays is a sojourn into the nature of evil itself'??a trip made all the more frightening by its proximity to our front doorstep. From the Trade Paperback edition.