Private investigators and detectives Books

Nestled in the heart of a quaint village lies "Emma's Eats," a charming bakery known for its delectable pastries and the warm smile of its owner, Emma Thompson. But the serene life of Lavender Lane is disrupted when a mysterious book falls into Emma's...

Two santas, one dead body and a whole coffee shop full of suspects... A festive party turns sour when one of the guests is found dead. All clues point to Springdale's butcher, Lottie Benson. She's known for her mercurial temper and she was seen arguing...

Sherlock Holmes is sent to America to negotiate on behalf of Mycroft while a serial killer has Scotland Yard in a twist. The clock is ticking, and only Sherlock Holmes can piece together the clues to stop the killing spree. With an ocean span away,...

Enjoy your stay in Picklesquare, an enchanted small town full of magic and murder... Claws and Conundrums: Little did I know that a mischievous tabby cat would become my ticket to freedom, using his uncanny ability to grant me visions and help me solve...

How could a painting be stolen from a museum without a single door or window being broken?Two young women and one young man lead unobtrusive lives working at a Victorian coffee house, for the owner Mr. McDougal. But when a famous painting is stolen, they...

Molly's last visit to Scotland involved her in a long-hidden murder. Now she's back, hoping for a more peaceful time with her lover, her friends and her beloved bloodhound. Life is going her way until the village's most interfering inhabitant is poisoned...

Enter the world of Adriana, not an easy one. When her spiritual guide fails and hell is break loose on her convent she will must run for her life since she is the only witness left a live. Now she must run from her immediate past and hide away with the...

BOOK 5 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries by USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottNow that Mimi Capurro and Charles Parks are co-owners of Gotcha Detective Agency, and Mimi is single again, all should be going well, especially since they...

Hard-boiled private investigator Luigi Ferro is summoned to an elite boarding school in Ravenna to solve the brutal murder of a wealthy Swiss student. Amidst polished oak's opulence and shadowy streets' secrecy, Ferro unravels a web of clues and red...

Band 3 - Privatdetektiv Rico Monn ermittelt:Rico Monn soll sich in eine Sekte einschleusen und Beweise sammeln, die zu einer Anklage des Sektenführers führen. Doch Monn kommt in einen Sog und wird aktives Mitglied der Sekte.Der Sektenführer Holger Brand...

Frühling 2023: Der Oldtimerliebhaber Dr. Joe Heilsberg aus Oelde bereitet sich mit seiner großen Liebe J.B. auf die Oldtimer-Rallye 'Rund um Oelde' vor.Zu Pfingsten besuchen sie seinen ehemaligen Doktorvater Phil Mälzer in Ludwigsburg zu einer besonderen...

Max Steiner, ingénieur en missiles balistiques au Centre des Landes, se retrouve dans une situation inextricable, il est l'objet d'une véritable chasse à l'homme. Accusé par la police qui le traque, il est aussi recherché par les services français pour...

These shoes were made for more than just walking.I didn't belong.Not with the things I'd done. Not with my past.To move forward, I needed to finish what I'd started all those years ago. I had to face him. My only barrier to the life I wanted was me, and...

When a scavenger hunt turns up a dead body, dog walker Andi Grace Scott will have to make a dogged effort to collar the culprit . . . Setting out for a day of fun on her town's first-ever scavenger hunt, Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is...

Two murders, mirror image victims... one trail to the killer.Private Investigator Fen Maguire is called in to assist a new police chief in solving a woman's murder on the Guadalupe River. All evidence points to a long-time homeless person, prompting a...

There's more to this game than dodging paintballs... a killer is on the loose. Newly licensed private investigator Fen Maguire gets his next case - to investigate an extortion ring putting the squeeze on loggers in the piney woods of East Texas...

A killer stalks small town Seales, Kentucky. If returning home to Kentucky because her grandmother was dying wasn't bad enough, Ash Jericho loses her cousin to murder. Worse, Ash becomes the main suspect. Ash realizes she'll have to find the...

Amelia is back on quirky Findlater Island. This time with her car and all her worldly possessions. But she's not even out of the ferry terminal before she spots another potential victim of foul play.She doesn't need the distraction of another murder to...

Mira's dream of fixing up the new house is put on hold while she works at the diner to make some much-needed cash. So, when a patron of the Soup and Scoop is poisoned and Mira's famed mushroom soup is called into question, she'll stop at nothing to find...

Holly Day isn't who she thinks she is.Forced into hiding in the small town of Gravestone, she's under strict instructions not to use her magic. If only it were that easy. When her rat familiar unearths a human bone-in Holly's backyard-she's on the case...

The body of a young woman is found roughly buried in a remote spot in the Queensland Gulf Country. Forensic evidence from maggots in the body suggests that she must have been killed in Papua New Guinea, but the body could not possibly have moved...

Over 47,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 5 short stories from some of his most popular series, you know you're in for an amazing treat and will be...

5 gripping, unputdownable Bettie Private Eye stories from the imagination of Connor Whiteley. An International Bestselling writer, Connor presents 5 very fun and outstanding Bettie stories in this one volume...

Love can be the death of you ...American Eve Holdsworth is living her quintessential English dream in a picturesque village in the countryside. Meeting an attractive stranger adds to the appeal. But Ben Dryden is a pariah in Eve's new...

Almost 50,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 5 short stories from some of his most popular series, you know you're in for an amazing treat and will be...

A Private Eye Convention. A Power Vacuum. A Poisoner On The Loose.Powerful people stepping down leads to danger.Private Eye Bettie English organises Private Eye Con. She hears her friends are stepping down. Bettie fears the fallout.More than she realises...

A Papal legate, on a secret mission to England from Rome, is discovered dead. How did he die? And why? Mycroft Holmes, master of many of the secrets of the realm, calls in his younger brother Sherlock to discover the answer to these questions.When he...

Nurse Kate Palmer is Cornwall's answer to Miss Marple! But when a body turns up in her own garden can Kate solve the crime? Or is the murder a bit too close to home? Kate Palmer is stunned when she wakes up one morning to discover the body of a man...

Meet Belinda Penshurst. Castle owner, dog lover... crime solver? Belinda Penshurst loves her home village Little Challham, with its shady lanes, two pubs and weekly market, and she's determined to keep it peaceful. She may live in Challham Castle...

Organ harvesters are his prime target. Leon Cazador is on FBI liaison duty in Charleston, South Carolina when a dead child is found with a kidney missing. Suspecting an old foe, he jumps into action when a convoy of trucks with kidnapped children...

A lifetime dedicated to research.An unsolved murder case.A killer who will stop at nothing to complete his masterpiece.Dana Grays' life is dedicated to studying the past until an unsolved murder thrusts her parents' cold case back to life.As the head...

Some perpetrators of crime deserve only one fate-no prisoners.When Leon Cazador discovers the body of a fellow investigator who was working with the British National Crime Agency to infiltrate a pedophile group that uses the pursuit of golf as a cover...

Calli Westbrook is a failure. Well, maybe she's not a failure, but her amazing private eye themed business certainly is. All she wants to do is tuck her fedora under her arm, retreat to suburbia, and lose herself in a cozy mystery. Instead, she comes...

If laughter is the best medicine, John Smith belongs in everyone's medicine cabinet.  In In$urance to Die For, a scam artist's plan for making money off of insurance turns deadly.  John Smith, an insurance investigator as ordinary and...

Mrs. Boyd's first mystery Murder Breaks Trail had an Alaskan background, and introduced F. Millard Smyth, small-town groceryman with a passion for detective fiction, who was forced to turn detective himself. In her second story, Doom in the Midnight...

"On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me the reason your husband had to die." ​ Anna Greenan finds the cryptic lyric shoved against her front door. Each day of Christmas brings Anna a new stanza with a new clue...

"Poignant and funny, studded with characters who haunt your imagination long after you've read the final page." -Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author of Cave of BonesWhen everyone would prefer to look the other way, can one man cut...

San Diego Private Investigator, Brig Ellis, is hired by a wealthy industrialist to help him acquire the final horse in a set of twelve palomino miniatures that once belonged to the last Emperor of China. What begins as a seemingly reasonable assignment...

In Hollywood, five people in the movie industry agree to participate in a devious and ingenious lottery to commit murder. The lottery is designed so that four of the five will have no way of knowing who the actual killer is. Their intended victim is Abel...

"When the Klan Comes to Pasadena, Intimidation Takes a New Form in DARK SPIRITS, a Historical Cozy Mystery by Alice Duncan"The Ku Klux Klan has opened a chapter in Daisy Gumm Majesty's home town of Pasadena, California. Worse, Klan members...

Ghost Seeks Help from Fake Spiritualist in Spirits Revived, a Historical Cozy Mystery by Alice Duncan--Pasadena, California, 1926--While conducting a séance for a client with more money than sense, Daisy Gumm Majesty is surprised when a seemingly...

Camping Trip Dampened by Murder in Cat Among the Fishes, a 9 Lives Cozy Mystery from Louise Clark--Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada—The long-promised Jamieson-Armstrong family camping trip takes a pause with news of murder at the local fish farm...

            Vietnam veteran Charlie Alderfer, having defied the odds and regained his health in the VA’s hospice, goes home to resume his well-earned retirement. He hires Ben, an 18-year-old...

Rooting out deception is Jack O'Shea's stock-in-trade. <br><br>On the road to redemption from his criminal past, reformed-swindler-turned-private-eye Jack O'Shea investigates a strange death at a shadowy Northern California mountain college-a...

The darker side of Sherlock Holmes and the romantic side of Doctor Watson are both revealed in this enthralling second novel in Arthur Conan Doyle's detective series. Thick fog swirls through London, winding its way down Baker Street towards flat 221B...