These hardboiled mystery authors paint a bleak and lurid portrait of a New York City filled with unsavory characters, depraved violence, and gritty action. The crisp prose full of snappy...

Though their work is set in different countries, both authors write gritty, hardboiled, action-packed mysteries featuring disturbing violence, unsavory characters, bleak and unflinching...

Andrew H. Vachss is another author of bleak and gritty hard-boiled mysteries featuring violent, troubled, and amoral protagonists wading through seedy situations and dealing with unsavory...

These authors write action-packed, fast-paced hardboiled stories of vigilantes with troubled pasts who help those whom the law cannot or will not protect. Andrew H. Vachss' stories...

Though Stephen J. Cannell's work is less disturbing and gruesome, like Andrew H. Vachss he writes fast-paced, action-packed suspense stories featuring tough, macho loners who are personally...

These authors' works have the genre "hardboiled fiction"; and the subjects "private investigators," "former police," and "organized crime."