Private investigators and detectives Books

Texas PI Kelly McWinter's three person agency often works with the Fort Worth Sheriff's Department and handles investigations as diverse as chicken killing ghosts, Mexican migrant cocaine smugglers, suspicious baby adoptions and the worst case Kelly's...

One day, an elderly woman came to visit Mr. Hawthorne, crying and demanding to see him. She claimed that her daughter-in-law's head was missing and insisted that she needed to find it to prevent her son from being punished. Mr. Hawthorne, along with...

A man crushed by profound grief seeks solace at Elvis Presley's mansion...Three shunned children embark on a peculiar quest that changes their lives...A despondent writer finds new hope when he meets a crazy cat lady... A missing lion revives the...

A small-town scandal. A stolen fortune. And a women's club with nothing to lose.When Biddy Bramley returns to her hometown of Pooka, Indiana, after her husband's passing, she expects awkward reunions, petty gossip, and a fresh start-not rumors that her...

Spring is blooming in Little Firling, and the village garden fair is in full swing - bunting flaps, jam is fiercely judged, and flowers compete for botanical glory. Retired literature professor Annabel Lennox Deighton is content to show off her herb...

Every village has its secrets. Little Firling has a body.Welcome to Little Firling, a sleepy Cornish village where the tea is strong, the secrets are stronger, and the cliffs have stories to tell.When newly retired professor Annabel Lennox Deighton finds...

The insidious Tarot Slayer is loose in Red City.The body of Ragnar's dad was posed like an image from a tarot deck - the Slayer's calling card.Ragnar got the news after an outlaw biker gang of evil werewolves hunted him down, forcing him and his band to...

The mind is a mysterious place...Retired psychology professor and clairvoyant Dr. Winifred Parsons is always game to find out more about-and improve-her psychic abilities.So when the invitation comes to join a group of visiting British and Russian...

Mystery meets romantic comedy in the Comet Cove Mysteries!They're rival reporters chasing the biggest scoop Comet Cove has ever seen. She wants a serious story. He wants glitz and gossip. The problem is, they just might want each other. Comet Cove,...

Containing 11 gripping, tense, heart-wrenching short stories exploring the nastiest parts of human behavior, from theft to murder to mayhem, throw in some of the "lesser" darkness that humans can provide during the holidays, and read all about them in...

In the world of amateur theatre, the deadliest performance is yet to come...Perry Juke is excited to take on the part of Algernon in The Windstanton Player's adaptation of The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde. As rehearsals begin, Perry is...

"Ralph Ellis delights the reader with engaging characters, a suspenseful plot, and laugh-out-loud humor." -Kim McCollum, author of What Happens in MontanaIt's the summer of 1974, and Woodward and Bernstein have vanquished Nixon from the White House. In a...

"Mixing Romance and Mystery in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!" "A fun and spunky heroine, a plot involving an old castle in Strasbourg make this a fast-paced, delightful read." --Rhys Bowen, New York Times best-selling author "A fabulously entertaining novel,...

A killer's in the frame-and Ginny Fellows is running out of time to focus.When a local photographer turns up dead, theatrical agent Ginny Fellows is reluctantly pulled into the case. Ginny must unravel a web of newsroom secrets and hidden rivalries...

When the lifeless body of one of his former students tumbles out of a coffin in the middle of a funeral, Hashea Paris knows one thing for sure-something is terribly wrong. A jazz musician by trade and the charismatic leader of The Excelsior Band, Hashea...

Hollywood comes to Saint-Maurice!I, Julie Belmain, do not read the gossip magazines. But even I have heard of the four Hollywood actors - superheroes no less - who have made reservations at my newly opened hotel. They're here to tour the Beaujolais...

Hollywood comes to Saint-Maurice!I, Julie Belmain, do not read the gossip magazines. But even I have heard of the four Hollywood actors - superheroes no less - who have made reservations at my newly opened hotel. They're here to tour the Beaujolais...

A father vanishes on a quiet lake. The police call it an accident-his daughter knows better.Tilly Lafleur didn't come home to solve a mystery. She returned to Balsam Bay after her father's sudden disappearance expecting grief-not a dog she didn't ask...

A graveyard ghost leads investigators to a corpse hidden in an abbey's wall.When Sheriff Zachariah Fitch hears about a corpse found inside the wall of Maltby le Marsh Abbey, he wants nothing to do with the investigation since that is where his estranged...

Welcome aboard the Polly Pepper Playhouse reunion cruise, where the golden age of TV celebrities collides with treacherous tides in this page-turning cozy comedy/mystery.Polly Pepper, the queen of TV musical comedy, is battling professional stagnation...

An introverted fairy, a secret society of undertakers, and a talking cat-what a deadly combination!In the Mistbrook Manor Funeral Home, Lyra Moore prefers the company of the dead to the living. As a fairy in hiding and the town's funeral director, she's...

Polly Pepper is a living legend, complete with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. With her brilliant comic timing, she could send audiences into tearful hysterics with even the lamest rubber chicken joke. But that was thirty years ago. Those glory...

"In our hyper vigilant states our hearts did wrestle, determined to live and fight. We were willing to sacrifice contentment for that single, valuable breath."Will Adira outwit the dark horse?Adira Cazon grew up with her parents in Mira, an unsympathetic...

July 1914: a peaceful Suffolk summer as the world prepares for war. When Winifred Smy becomes the governess to young Melka Eary, she finds herself once again at odds with everyone after witnessing the death of a local man. But was it just an...

Trouble is in the wind for wedding planner and amateur sleuth Sydney Riley. Her boss, Glenn, has grown secretive, her best friend, Mirela, is hiding something, and Sydney's daily routine at the Race Point Inn has grown stale. Her father's unexpected...

The story opens with Sam Ryan and his move to his new office in North Hollywood. The case deals with a woman that has been missing from her husband for two decades. She began asan actress that got her start in the movies in nineteen-fifty-eight. She was...

新本格代表作家麻耶雄嵩颠覆性出道作绝版多年，全新修订再版名侦探与铭侦探的对决！麦卡托鲇的最后一案致敬《黑死馆杀人事件》和埃勒里·奎因多重解答 崩坏结局 暗黑前卫内容简介京都近郊伫立着一座具有欧洲哥特风格的洋馆，那是今镜家的宅邸苍鸦城。私人侦探木更津悠也因为同时寄来的一封委托书与一封恐吓信，与助手香月抵达今镜家，自此踏入了苍鸦城的杀戮世界。今镜家成员一个个身首异处，还出现了匪夷所思的密室、死而复生的幽灵。死神在苍鸦城展开暗黑的羽翼，无人能猜透凶手的意图与布局，困境中，另一位侦探麦卡托鲇登场......

Step into the heart of the Bronx with Detective Amaya Storm, a razor-sharp private investigator whose knack for solving mysteries is only rivaled by her fierce loyalty to her community-and her three remarkable feline companions.When a popular Bronx...

First book in a new series.After a bitter divorce 5 years ago, after moving from California to a small rural town in Montana, Paige Bishop could actually say she was happy with her life. Her son, Marc was thriving in this paranormal community. She had a...

Art in the park leads to murder in the dark, creating another crime for the Shepherd sisters to solve.Savanna Shepherd, an art expert turned elementary art teacher, is planning the Art in the Park festival for her hometown of Carson, Michigan. But...

A cozy mystery set in 1875 Cartersville, Georgia. Clay and Deekie get involved in the investigation surrounding the death of an elderly woman, whose German immigrant neighbor is accusing a beautiful young gypsy woman of having murdered. A mysterious snow...

Kate Harper finds herself in the glamor and high fashion of Palm Beach as she is assigned to help renovate a beachfront estate. Home to cosmetics mogul Cassie VanLangen, the palatial estate hosts one final gala prior to reconstruction. The night is...

A TV cooking show murder-Angelina Amalfi, a gourmet cook who is also the assistant to a famous chef with his own television show, finds life a tasty treat. But her treat sours when her mentor's last supper turns deadly and he's poisoned in his own...

Criminally good mysteries happen during the Christmas season. A sense of crime waiting to happen runs through everything, and people get lured into a feeling of false security. Criminals take advantage.Short stories in this intoxicatingly rich,...

Katelyn Took came home to settle her grandmother's estate, only to discover not only did Gram leave seventeen cats. But Ruth Beauregard, a childhood chum, had moved in. Ruth was confused, penniless, and abandoned by her in-laws because they believed she...

Josie Ashbury was a successful Hollywood actress with a booming career-until an on-set breakdown sends her back to her small Ohio hometown to recover. Taking a job teaching at her old high school, Josie is beginning to put the pieces of her life back...

What is real or only an illusion?Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects that levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant who disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at...

When retired maintenance man Frank Sinatra finds Darell Willows's body in the swimming pool of the Last Gasp Motel in Omnipodge, California, Frank must deal with the responding police officer making wisecracks about his name while trying to figure out...

Dalton Hawks has a problem. He drinks, he fights crime, and he brings the bad guys to justice.Okay..so, what's the problem?The problem is, Dalton can't remember his crime-fighting antics when he wakes up the next day.The problem is that Dalton Hawks is...

Nichts vertuscht ein großes Geheimnis schneller als ein frisches Grab. Jemand mit einem Skalpell und einem Einbalsamierungstisch pflanzt Leichen unter dem Namen anderer Leute ein. 4.4 Sterne auf 807 US Kindle-Bewertungen! SPANNENDE NEUE...

No way in. No way out. Who killed the party host? Follow the clues with Gwen in this present-day homage to locked room mysteries of the Golden Era in Milford Bed & Breakfast, book four in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery SeriesGwendolyn...

Sandy Barrett's hiking escapades were usually uneventful and relaxing, until the day she risked her life saving a trapped seagull and tumbled down a 100 metre cliff. After tree branches miraculously broke her fall,...

With the Archbishop's blessing, Helen and I are spending Lent building a relationship built on love--but without physical intimacy. And yes, it's as hard as it sounds. But this penitential season, I have other work to do. I need to rebuild my...