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There’s nothing like a page-turner to kick off a new season. With this prize pack, 10 lucky winners will have the chance to take home a stack of crime fiction that proves the most unlikely detectives make for the best adventures.
Whether you’re interested in a Depression-era outlaw chase, a hard-hitting noir in the underbelly of San Diego, or a Japanese mystery featuring an amateur detective and his feline partner, this Hachette Book Group lineup has something for every kind of reader.
Hachette Book Group is one of the largest trade publishers in the United States, home to imprints publishing everything from literary fiction to genre favorites like these.
10 lucky winners will take home this crime fiction prize pack, which you can learn more about below!
This giveaway is open from September 4 through midnight on September 22, 2026.
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About the Books
Die Famous
On the day Savannah Cody spots her first gray hair, she decides it’s time to murder the father of her only child. Edward “Nickel” Terhune is the getaway driver for the Brady Gang, one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals—with an enticing bounty set on his head.
Dragging her son and her father, Wendell, a retired railroad detective, along for the quest, Savannah embarks on a journey to find the man she once loved and the nation now fears, journeying across an America transformed by the Great Depression.
But Alford—and soon, the FBI—notice that the closer the family gets to Nickel, the less clear Savannah’s motivations seem to be…
Tear the City Down
Coltrane Davis is at once a knight and a hustler. He has risen to wealth and success, graduating from San Diego’s back alleys to the halls of power through his partnership with Saul Sollman, a crooked kingmaker among the city’s elite.
Running multimillion-dollar scams with Saul, he has been Saul’s fixer, but now he wants out of the hustle so that he can focus on his teenage daughter’s burgeoning tennis career and finally be the dad he has always wanted to be.
But when the Los Angeles Chargers’ star running back vanishes one evening before a big game, Coltrane is drawn into an investigation of what happened by Saul and his protégé, the player’s agent.
The stakes escalate with a gut-punch when the trail leads into San Diego’s underworld of drugs and prostitution and reveals clues to the disappearance of his daughter’s best friend, whose loss has haunted him.
A Game of Cat and Killer
Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood— and women. When a young female student is found murdered, he’s given two choices―review the harrowing crime-scene photographs or head to Hagoromo Women's College to investigate―and reluctantly opts for the latter.
But the threat escalates with additional murders, and soon Katayama has a different surprise on his hands: a calico cat named Holmes, orphaned when the dean himself falls victim.
Surely that’s the last thing Katayama needs. Until Holmes begins to display uncanny investigative instincts of her own...
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Note: The sweepstakes is open to all legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, DC who are 18 years of age and older by September 14, 2026.
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