Books like The Yiddish Policemen's Union
In an alternate history where Jewish refugees settled Alaska, a hard-drinking detective investigates a murder in the Yiddish-speaking metropolis of Sitka.
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The Chill
Lew Archer is hired by Alex Kincaid, a young man whose bride, Dolly, walked out the day after their wedding, and finds that Dolly was a witness in a murder case years before.
The Galton Case
Lew Archer is hired by the lawyer of Maria Galton, a rich and dying old woman, to find her son Anthony, who ran off with a girl more than twenty years ago and was never heard from again.
Motherless Brooklyn
Lionel Essrog, a Brooklyn orphan with Tourette's syndrome, is one of the Minna Men, the boys Frank Minna took in and turned into his crew of not-quite detectives, and when Frank is stabbed on a stakeout Lionel sets out to find who did it.
The Long Goodbye
Philip Marlowe befriends Terry Lennox, a scarred, polite drunk married to a millionaire's daughter, and when Terry asks for a ride to Tijuana, Marlowe is drawn into a case that reaches deep into Los Angeles money and power.
Black Cherry Blues
Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans cop grieving his murdered wife, runs a bait shop in New Iberia with his adopted daughter, until an old friend draws him into trouble with oil men and the mob.
March Violets
In Berlin in 1936, with the Olympics about to open, Bernie Gunther, a police detective turned private investigator, is hired by a steel magnate to recover a diamond necklace stolen from the safe of his daughter and son-in-law, who died in a fire.
Truth
Stephen Villani, head of Melbourne's homicide squad, has a dead young woman in a luxury apartment, a family coming apart and bushfires closing in on the city.
The City & the City
A detective investigates a murder in a city where two distinct populations share the same streets but are forbidden from seeing each other.
The Neon Rain
Fishing in a bayou outside New Orleans, Detective Dave Robicheaux finds the body of a young woman in the water, and when he refuses to let the case go, he is warned off by people from both sides of the law.
Indemnity Only
V. I. Warshawski, a private investigator in Chicago, is hired by a man calling himself John Thayer to find his son's missing girlfriend, and finds the son shot dead in his apartment instead.
The Broken Shore
Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective recovering from injuries, takes a posting back in his home town on the south-west coast of Victoria, and a rich old man is bashed in his home.
The Plot Against America
An alternate history where Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in 1940 and steers America towards fascism, told through a Jewish family in Newark watching their country betray them.