From Goodreads:

Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women — a decade apart — told in reverse.

It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards — Day 15 to Day 1 — from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.

Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.

From Goodreads:

On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.

A woman's corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave's chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.

The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that's clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman's corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county's powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton's investigation altogether. So do Brockton's other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.

Carved in Bone is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.

From Goodreads:

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.

This was Cain's only novel. He is considered by some to be the most hard-boiled of writers.

"In the matter of grim hardness Dashiell [Hammett] paused on the threshold. Paul [Cain] went all the way." —Captain Joe Shaw, editor of Black Mask during its golden era

"[Fast One represents] some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner." —Raymond Chandler, author, The Big Sleep

I]From Goodreads:[/I]

Billed as "the most hard-boiled novel of the 1930s" and featuring one of the most brutal finales in crime fiction history, some say this lost 1933 masterpiece took hard-boiled crime writing too far. In the last days of Prohibition and the first days of the Depression, East Coast crime bosses are vying for control of Los Angeles. Caught in the middle of the intrigue is Gerry Kells, a former New York enforcer now living a life of ease on the West coast. As the fiercely independent Kells rejects the appeals of various crime bosses who want to make use of his talents, powerful forces align against him. Being framed for a murder turns out to be the least of his troubles and as the stakes get higher, and the odds get longer, it's only Kells' nerve and toughness that keep him one step ahead of the law—and the reaper.

From Publishers Weekly:

Enthusiastic blurbs even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estleman can sometimes leave readers feeling as if they must have read a different book altogether. Not this time. Box's superb debut, the first in a series introducing Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, should immediately make him a contender for best first novel or even best novel awards. Young Joe is struggling to fill the shoes of his mentor, legendary Vern Dunnegan, as warden of Twelve Sleep County, and trying to support his wife and growing family on the meager salary he makes. The hours are long, the work hard but satisfying, and Joe's honesty and integrity would pay off if he could avoid "bonehead moves" like ticketing the governor of the state for fishing without a license, for instance, or allowing a poacher to grab Joe's firearm from him. When that very same poacher turns up dead and bloodied in Joe's woodpile with only a cooler containing unidentified animal scat, his life, livelihood and family will never be the same. Upping the excitement are a couple of murders, local political and bureaucratic intrigue, a high-stakes pipeline scheme and an endangered species that Joe's eldest daughter "discovers." No one has done a better job of portraying the odd combination of hardy and foolhardy folk that make their homes in Wyoming's wilderness areas, or of describing the dichotomy between those who want to develop the area and those who want to preserve it. Without resorting to simplistic blacks and whites, Box fuses ecological themes, vibrant descriptions of Wyoming's wonders and peculiarities, and fully fleshed characters into a debut of riveting tensions. Meet Joe Pickett: he's going to be a mystery star.

From Goodreads:

This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or -- mistaken for Alex -- was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side. Alex knows she's in final jeopardy...and time is running out. She has to get into the killer's head before the killer gets to her.

From Goodreads:

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, grey eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.

From Goodreads:

In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder

Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop, his chickens have stopped laying eggs, and everything he owns is mortgaged — even his cow. He has no money, no prospects, and nothing to do but hang around filling stations, wondering where his next drink will come from. As far as hooch goes, there's no place like Smut Milligan's, where Breath of Spring moonshine sells for a dollar a pint.

A bootlegger with an entrepreneurial spirit, Milligan has plans to open a roadhouse, and he asks Jack to run the till. The music will be hot, the liquor cheap, and the clientele rough. But the only thing stronger than Milligan's hooch is his greed, and Jack is slowly drawn into the middle of Smut's dalliances with a married woman, the machinations of corrupt town officials — and a savage act of murder.

Software jail break for the 6th, 7th, and 8th generation devices listed in the title.
Software jail break for the 9th generation device (KOA2) still requires some work.
The KOA2 "hotfix" package does not auto-reinstall the jail break. No ETA on a resolution.

Step #1 below describes how to learn what nickname your device has here based on its serial number.

Will this jail break work on my current firmware?
If the third field of your firmware version number: 5.8.7.0.1 is larger than 7 this jail break will not work on your device.
That means it will not work on: 5.8.8, 5.8.9, 5.8.10, ..., 5.8.99999999.
Please do not even think of asking if this message still means what is written. The message is kept current.

There is a single, complex, special case for 5.8.9.0.1 firmware version. If you get a Kindle with that firmware version, please just post in this thread before you do anything to it, your device **might** be one of the rare exceptions.

If jailbroken on an earlier firmware version, the jailbreak is known to survive the update to either 5.8.8, 5.8.9, 5.8.9.2, 5.8.10, 5.8.11.
Untested with an update to 5.9.2
It should survive an update to any firmware version. It is designed to be viral.

None of our add-ins are protected across updates, you must always re-install them.

The G090LK, G090LL (Black and White, PW-3, 32GB, Wifi only) models along with the corresponding two Wifi+3G versions are partially supported.
See: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=291336

Testing (touchscreen devices listed in title):
Attached below is a "Dummy" installation package which will test the jail break installed on your device.
If it runs, your JB is complete. If it fails to run, your JB is missing or damaged.
This dummy install package will not install anything, only write a report document in the top level of visible USB storage (dummy_updatetest.log, example attached below).
If this test package fails to write its report, follow these directions exactly and completely Step #0 to and including Step #8.

PW-2 users running firmware 5.4.4.2 or older, go directly to:
PW-2 Early firmware versions, jail break

For prior (grayscale) Kindle models, see:
Legacy devices, jail breaks

Credits:

Release Policy:
It is our policy to use a 'single point of maintenance' model for our released items, with one exception:

• NiLuJe's snapshots, use: (filter prefix: tools, show threads).
  Users should always check the snapshot thread for the most recent build of our after-market add-ins.

Make Ready:
Consider the following bullet list a "Step #0" that can be done in any order.

• For some firmware versions, your Kindle must be registered with Amazon to access the required menus.
  • The general rule to cover all versions, is: If not yet registered, do that now.
    Read the rest of this specific section before connecting to the Internet.
  • Some of the more recent firmware versions are very aggressive about doing an OTA (Over The Air) update.
    Which will currently update to a version that can not be jail broken.
  • Currently the best way to avoid OTA updates is to add the OTA blocker directory (folder) name to the top level of visible USB storage.
    The blocker directory is named: update.bin.tmp.partial
    Use that exact name, no additional extension, no contents.

• Remove any device passcode or parental control passcode you may have set.
• If you have an ad supported (Special Offers) model consider unsubscribing it at your Kindle account.
  If you do unsubscribe from special offers, be sure to give your Kindle enough time on-line for Amazon's servers to update its local status files.
• Is your Kindle fully charged?
  Get started with that now, put it on a wall charger to be certain.
• Only do one step at a time.
  They are intended and designed to be done one at a time.
  At the completion of a step, if the file you previously put at the top level of visible USB storage is still there, remove it.
• Your Kindle should remain off-line (in airplane mode) during this procedure.

Step-by-Step:

1. Positively identify the nickname of your Kindle model from the serial number.
   Use four of the first six characters, older Kindles: xxxx xx, newer Kindles: xx xxxx in this table:
   Serial Number Nicknames
   The factory images **are not** model locked, your care taken with this step is your Kindle's only protection! If not found in the table, STOP HERE and tell us.
2. Prepare your Kindle for running an earlier version of the firmware.
   The Kindles have two user storage areas, the one seen over the USB cable and a hidden one.
   The process that wipes the hidden one will also wipe what can be seen over the USB cable.
   
   Spoiler:

   • Make backup copies of the contents of /documents
     You are about to wipe them all out, if you have them pushed to your Kindle's cloud, you should be covered.
     You should not need copies of the contents of /system - the 'system' should re-build them for you.
   • Do not copy the contents of /documents back to the Kindle until after you have returned to the same firmware version that you copied them from.
     The indexer might go crazy if you try anything else than 'back to same place, with same version running'.
   • You are about to lose all personalization of your kindle.
     You can't reach that hidden directory they are stored in and it is this database that causes most of the problems, so it MUST go.
   • Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Menu -> Reset
     Or whatever the path is on your current firmware version.
     This is the infamous "Reset (to factory defaults)" menu choice, but in this case it is a requirement, a must use entry.

     This is the ONLY TIME you should ever use the Reset menu entry in the lifetime of the device because it wipes out the jail break survival code that is about to be added in step 6 below.

   
   NEVER AGAIN USE THE "Reset" MENU ENTRY.
   Never, ever, unless you intended to wipe out the jailbreak survival code. Which you really, really, need.

   If you should happen to trigger the "Reset" action by accident (nobody does it intentionally after reading the above), you can find a package on coplate's snapshots thread that will restore the jailbreak survival code you just destroyed.
   The special purpose package linked above is placed in the root of visible USB storage and run using UYK menu entry.
   It is intended to install without MrPI even on customer firmware builds as recent as the 5.8.10 version.
   

3. Download your model's initial factory firmware image to your computer from one of these (IPv4 only) links.
   The *.md5 validation file may be used to confirm that the download was complete and correct.
   • Primary (Confirmation panel but no wait delay.)
     
     Spoiler:

     • KOA
       factory_KOA_5.7.4_initial
       factory_KOA_5.7.4_md5
     • KV
       factory_KV_5.5.0_initial
       factory_KV_5.5.0_md5
     • KT3
       factory_KT3_5.8.0_initial
       factory_KT3_5.8.0_md5
       
     • KT2
       factory_KT2_5.6.0_initial
       factory_KT2_5.6.0_md5
     • PW3
       factory_PW3_5.7.4_initial
       factory_PW3_5.7.4_md5
     • PW2
       factory_PW2_5.4.3.2_initial
       factory_PW2_5.4.3.2_md5

   • Secondary
     
     Spoiler:

     • KOA
       factory_KOA_5.7.4_initial
       factory_KOA_5.7.4_md5
     • KV
       factory_KV_5.5.0_initial
       factory_KV_5.5.0_md5
     • KT3
       factory_KT3_5.8.0_initial
       factory_KT3_5.8.0_md5
       
     • KT2
       factory_KT2_5.6.0_initial
       factory_KT2_5.6.0_md5
     • PW3
       factory_PW3_5.7.4_initial
       factory_PW3_5.7.4_md5
     • PW2
       factory_PW2_5.4.3.2_initial
       factory_PW2_5.4.3.2_md5

4. After validating the downloaded file, transfer the initial factory image from your computer to your Kindle.
   Do not panic if the update is not immediate, it usually takes 10 minutes or longer.
   If there is not a very noticeable delay and when you check USB storage the file has disappeared, that means this method will not work on the firmware version currently installed on your Kindle.
   
   Spoiler:

   1. Connect Kindle to PC with the USB cable.
   2. Place the downloaded update_*.bin file in the topmost, visible level of USB storage (alongside of /documents).
   3. Eject and/or Safely Remove (term depends on OS) the Kindle, USB storage.
   4. Remove the USB cable.
   5. Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Menu -> Update Your Kindle
   6. Confirm
   7. Wait

   
   ** The PW-2 is a special case at this point in the directions **
   1. Use the prior 'universal jailbreak' from this post:
      Old Universal Jail Break
   2. After completing those directions, skip the next two steps here and continue with Steps #7 and #8 below.

5. Download and install the current version of Branch Delay's factory firmware jail break.
   This step installs two files, our signature certificate and a 'Jail Broken' document.
   If the 'Jail Broken' document is not on your Kindle in the /documents folder after the completion of this step, then the certificate is not on it either!
   If this happens to you, stop here and post about the problem, there is no reason to continue if the JB is now missing.
   
   The current version is attached to its release post, see:
   Factory Image Jail Break
   
   Spoiler:

   1. Connect Kindle to PC with the USB cable.
   2. Place the downloaded file (an archive - as is) in the topmost, visible level of USB storage (alongside of /documents).
   3. Eject and/or Safely Remove (term depends on OS) the Kindle, USB storage.
   4. Remove the USB cable.
   5. Home
   6. Search bar, enter:

      
      ;installHtml
      

      Press 'return'
      Yes, the semi-colon is part of the search bar command string.

6. Download and install the current 'hotfix'
   The current version is attached to its release post, see:
   Jail Break Survival Code
   
   Spoiler:

   1. Unarchive the release archive package.
   2. Connect Kindle to PC with the USB cable.
   3. Place the Update_jailbreak_hotfix_*_install.bin in the topmost, visible level of USB storage (alongside of /documents).
   4. Eject and/or Safely Remove (term depends on OS) the Kindle, USB storage.
   5. Remove the USB cable.
   6. Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Menu -> Update Your Kindle
   7. Confirm
   8. Wait

7. You can now update your Kindle to a newer firmware version, the jailbreak will survive.
   • Current firmware version by OTA:
     Allow the Kindle to connect to the Internet and wait.
     It will update over the air to the current firmware version
     OR:
   • Manual download from Amazon and install a selected firmware version.
     • To prevent OTA updates, add the OTA blocker directory (folder) name to the top level of visible USB storage.
       The blocker directory is named: update.bin.tmp.partial
       Use that exact name, no additional extension, no contents.
     • You can get any released firmware version from the Amazon download server.
       The following gives direct links to the Amazon USA download server for selected firmware versions.

       Note that older versions in some countries, such as Germany, use different builds than the ones in this list.
       In those cases, use instead the download link(s) you would normally use.
       The technique of only changing the numerical version in those URLs to select older versions is expected to work the same as on the USA servers.

       It has also been discovered that most recent versions are no longer geographically different.
       The change **might** have happened at about the same time Amazon changed their download organization (@ fw-5.8.5 in this list).
       

     • Amazon
       
       Spoiler:

       • KOA
         customer_KOA_5.7.4_update
         customer_KOA_5.8.1_update
         customer_KOA_5.8.2_update
         customer_KOA_5.8.5_update
         customer_KOA_5.8.7.0.1_update
       • KV
         customer_KV_5.7.4_update
         customer_KV_5.8.1_update
         customer_KV_5.8.2_update
         customer_KV_5.8.5_update
         customer_KV_5.8.7.0.1_update
       • KT3
         customer_KT3_5.8.1.1_update
         customer_KT3_5.8.2_update
         customer_KT3_5.8.5_update
         customer_KT3_5.8.7.0.1_update
       • KT2
         customer_KT2_5.7.4_update
         customer_KT2_5.8.1_update
         customer_KT2_5.8.2_update
         customer_KT2_5.8.5_update
         customer_KT2_5.8.7.0.1_update
       • PW3
         customer_PW3_5.7.4.1_update
         customer_PW3_5.8.1_update
         customer_PW3_5.8.2_update
         customer_PW3_5.8.5_update
         customer_PW3_5.8.7.0.1_update
       • PW2
         customer_PW2_5.7.4_update
         customer_PW2_5.8.1_update
         customer_PW2_5.8.2_update
         customer_PW2_5.8.5_update
         customer_PW2_5.8.7.0.1_update

8. All of the models covered in this thread must use one of the two following installation methods for update_*.bin name format packages.
   The KOA and KT3 owners must use the new installation methods.
   The other device models may use either the old or the new installation methods.
   
   Spoiler:

   1. Any of our after-market add-ins, with an update_*.bin format filename requires the use of the Mobileread Package Installer (MrPI).
      • Get the MR Package Installer from the KUAL and KUAL extensions section of:
        https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=225030
      • This is an "un-archive to top level of visible USB storage" package.
        Be sure that the un-archive tool you use has options set to create directories.
      • KOA and KT3 owners:
        You must run the installer with your new, search bar command: ;log mrpi
        Other models covered in this thread may do the same or may run it from KUAL.

   2. Nearly all of our after-market add-ins require an application launcher.
      • Get the KUAL package from the KUAL and KUAL extensions section of:
        https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=225030
      • Beginning with version 2.6.40 of the release, the archive contains three (3) different builds of KUAL.
        The 'keyboard' version, the '(old) touchscreen' version, and the new 'KOA, KT3' version.
      • This is not a substitute for reading the README.txt file included in the archive bundle, but ...
        • KOA and KT3 owners:
          You must use the update_*.bin format package of KUAL and you must use the MrPi installer to install it.
        • Other devices:
          The archive still contains the previous 'document' style of KUAL, used by just placing the (correct) KUAL document into the /documents folder of USB storage.
          Note: The new (update_*.bin format KUAL) will run on all touchscreen devices running firmware 5.1.2 or newer.

      • "Nearly all applications require an application launcher" - I was expecting someone to ask . . . .
        KUAL is one of the applications that does not required an application launcher.
        It has a mime type associated with it that tells the system how to run it, when it is selected.

   
   These update_*.bin package name format packages must be re-installed after each firmware update.
   The MrPI application can handle multiple update_*.bin packages at the same time, just put them all in /mrpackages and trigger MrPI.

From Goodreads:

Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women — a decade apart — told in reverse.

It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards — Day 15 to Day 1 — from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.

Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.

From Goodreads:

On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.

A woman's corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave's chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.

The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that's clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman's corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county's powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton's investigation altogether. So do Brockton's other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.

Carved in Bone is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.

From Goodreads:

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.

This was Cain's only novel. He is considered by some to be the most hard-boiled of writers.

“In the matter of grim hardness Dashiell [Hammett] paused on the threshold. Paul [Cain] went all the way.” —Captain Joe Shaw, editor of Black Mask during its golden era

“[Fast One represents] some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner.” —Raymond Chandler, author, The Big Sleep

I]From Goodreads:[/I]

Billed as "the most hard-boiled novel of the 1930s" and featuring one of the most brutal finales in crime fiction history, some say this lost 1933 masterpiece took hard-boiled crime writing too far. In the last days of Prohibition and the first days of the Depression, East Coast crime bosses are vying for control of Los Angeles. Caught in the middle of the intrigue is Gerry Kells, a former New York enforcer now living a life of ease on the West coast. As the fiercely independent Kells rejects the appeals of various crime bosses who want to make use of his talents, powerful forces align against him. Being framed for a murder turns out to be the least of his troubles and as the stakes get higher, and the odds get longer, it's only Kells' nerve and toughness that keep him one step ahead of the law—and the reaper.

From Publishers Weekly:

Enthusiastic blurbs even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estleman can sometimes leave readers feeling as if they must have read a different book altogether. Not this time. Box's superb debut, the first in a series introducing Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, should immediately make him a contender for best first novel or even best novel awards. Young Joe is struggling to fill the shoes of his mentor, legendary Vern Dunnegan, as warden of Twelve Sleep County, and trying to support his wife and growing family on the meager salary he makes. The hours are long, the work hard but satisfying, and Joe's honesty and integrity would pay off if he could avoid "bonehead moves" like ticketing the governor of the state for fishing without a license, for instance, or allowing a poacher to grab Joe's firearm from him. When that very same poacher turns up dead and bloodied in Joe's woodpile with only a cooler containing unidentified animal scat, his life, livelihood and family will never be the same. Upping the excitement are a couple of murders, local political and bureaucratic intrigue, a high-stakes pipeline scheme and an endangered species that Joe's eldest daughter "discovers." No one has done a better job of portraying the odd combination of hardy and foolhardy folk that make their homes in Wyoming's wilderness areas, or of describing the dichotomy between those who want to develop the area and those who want to preserve it. Without resorting to simplistic blacks and whites, Box fuses ecological themes, vibrant descriptions of Wyoming's wonders and peculiarities, and fully fleshed characters into a debut of riveting tensions. Meet Joe Pickett: he's going to be a mystery star.

From Goodreads:

This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or -- mistaken for Alex -- was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side. Alex knows she's in final jeopardy...and time is running out. She has to get into the killer's head before the killer gets to her.

From Goodreads:

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, grey eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.

From Goodreads:

In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder

Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop, his chickens have stopped laying eggs, and everything he owns is mortgaged — even his cow. He has no money, no prospects, and nothing to do but hang around filling stations, wondering where his next drink will come from. As far as hooch goes, there's no place like Smut Milligan's, where Breath of Spring moonshine sells for a dollar a pint.

A bootlegger with an entrepreneurial spirit, Milligan has plans to open a roadhouse, and he asks Jack to run the till. The music will be hot, the liquor cheap, and the clientele rough. But the only thing stronger than Milligan's hooch is his greed, and Jack is slowly drawn into the middle of Smut's dalliances with a married woman, the machinations of corrupt town officials — and a savage act of murder.