Private investigators and detectives Books

John Micco è un capitano dell'Esercito Italiano, in congedo a seguito di un attentato durante una missione in Iraq. Una mattina, quando ormai la vita sembra averlo relegato tra gli alcolizzati e i debitori, suona alla sua porta la sua vicina di casa per...

A Portland socialite is found dead at the bottom of the stairs of her N.E. Alameda Street mansion under suspicious circumstances. Was Charlene Davies murdered or was it just a simple, albeit tragic, accident.With each chapter, Detective Bill Karb and...

As you probably know, cats are no mean singers. In fact we can probably compete with your most popular songbirds out there when it comes to belting out a tune. So when Odelia was tasked to write an article about Tab Fitch, the well-known pop star, it was...

The day had finally arrived when Odelia was about to give birth to a new member of the family. Unfortunately the day had also arrived that Gran decided to adopt a dog and gift him to Chase. And if that wasn't bad enough, two murders took place that...

Sheila Lowe "wins readers over with her well-developed heroine and the wealth of fascinating detail" (Booklist) in this captivating mystery set in Hollywood, where forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose knows that despite the words it forms, a pen will...

Innkeeper and vineyard owner, Avery Parker, is finally getting some time off to enjoy an afternoon with the Stammtisch women.Avery and her tight-knit group of friends embark on an idyllic winery tour, only to stumble upon a shocking discovery: a body...

A mysterious tragedy from years ago remains unsolved until a stranger arrives in town seeking vengeance.April May is intrigued by the fog-shrouded lighthouse where a troubled woman lost her life a decade earlier. When the woman's sister chooses to...

April May needs a new hobby-something other than finding dead bodies!There's more to life than running a tearoom and baking tasty treats. As the weather cools and fewer tourists visit, April decides to explore a new hobby. She joins a painting class, is...

Vengeance knows no bounds.How far would you go?Life is never simple, especially with a last name like Riot. Recently returned from their wedding trip, Bel and Riot are looking forward to settling into their new partnership and family. But their first day...

"I have been a fan of Steve's accounting series since its inception. I have followed Ben and Sharon's adventures to Philadelphia, Malta, Belgium, Finland, and New Orleans. This time they are at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. As always with Steve's...

When Samantha Kidd is invited to fill a vacated spot in a secret society, she jumps at the chance. The group's mission is to preserve famous fashion patterns through memorization and pass them down to future generations, but Samantha's dreams of Chanel...

Arsène Lupin, an aristocratic thief, burst onto the scene in 1905 as the French answer to Sherlock Holmes. Stylish, rogue, and fiendishly clever, Lupin eludes the law as he concocts capers, heists, and, often, schemes to right a wrong or help the...

When a mystery is discovered in the trunk of a 1951 Plymouth convertible, four unlikely people are drawn together, some with questions, some with answers. Of all the forks in life's road, the car was the least expected. 

Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A...

The Anthony Award-winning fourth book in the Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian. A perilous painting leads Zoe Faust and Dorian Robert-Houdin on an alchemical adventure in Portland, Oregon, in search of...

The third book in the Anthony Award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian. An unsolved crime from 1942. A dangerous secret linked to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. And a woman threatening to expose...

Reporter Mary Fanning finds the body on the bed, poisoned. Mary Fanning finds the body on the bed in the house next door. Smart, tough and inquisitive, she covers the murder trial as the first woman reporter for the Kansas Daily Tribune. Amid the...

Book two of the Mysterious Devices series of clockwork cozies set in the Magnificent Devices world!A chance meeting brings old friends ... and new enemies ...Daisy Linden and her sister Frederica arrive by airship in Santa Fe, capital of the Texican...

Don't miss the first book in the Anthony Award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian. A chance for a new beginning in Portland, Oregon. A stowaway from Paris who needs help deciphering an ancient book...

A murder, missing loot from a famous heist, and an ancient book that could spell life or death for alchemist Zoe Faust's favorite gargoyle. Don't miss the second book in the Anthony Award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today...

TO FIND A MISSING GIRL AND CATCH A KILLER A FEARLESS AMATEUR SLEUTH MUST FACE LIFE-THREATENING TERROR AND BETRAYAL. Angkor, Cambodia: Home of the world-renown temples made famous in the Tomb Raider movie. Also home to a people still recovering from...

Book eleven in the bestselling cosy mystery series, which follows Aussie photographer and witch Lily as she navigates a new life in the UK.Lily's feeling a bit out of place at a high-end fashion show, but she can't wait to see Will's sister, Sarah,...

A tropical storm isn't the only thing brewing in the New Orleans' French Quarter in 1956. When someone threatens Reverend Fountain's singer friend Genny Duval, asking her to pay money for a song she recently recorded, and the woman who brokered the...

A future that cannot be escaped...I love pretty dresses, planning my marriage, and figuring out how to become a dancer.Corpses don't feature in my plans. My parents, the corpses, and my grave magic have other ideas!I've inherited a power I don't want,...

Eine Prise Mord im Paradies, ein Schuss ruinierter Ruf und ein Spritzer Rivalität. Das englische Landleben war noch nie tödlicher ...Ich stecke in der Klemme, als mir Lady Philippa Audley die entscheidende Aufgabe überträgt, einen Tod zu verhindern. Das...

You can take one trip in time to change history.You can save millions or save a loved one.So what do you do?Harry Hook's older sister Lily vanished on her fourteenth birthday twenty-six years ago, a traumatic event that influenced his decision to join...

Emily Monk and Uncle Cornelius are off to Mexico, but this is no package holiday!It's the Day of the Dead festival, and Emily and Uncle C are joining the crowds at Janitzio Island, where the locals are honouring the dead with sugar skulls, marigolds and...

In Manchester, vigilantes are setting traps online to expose sexual predators and once they have a suspect in their sights they're taking the law into their own hands, acting as judge, jury and executioner.When the suicide of a troubled woman near to...

To uncover the truth, she must bury her past...Hope Gilmour was born bad. Cruel blood runs through her veins, and she is loathed even by her family.But when her boyfriend is killed during a romantic picnic, Hope is abducted and dragged away by a strange...

An uninhabited Scottish island.Ten stranded strangers.A murderer on the loose.Ursula Smart, along with her dysfunctional family, heads to Scotland for a gentle weekend of foraging and camping in the Outer Hebrides.Their boat capsizes. Washed up on an...

It's a glorious autumn evening in Tarnfield when Deborah Arbiter falls to her death.What was she doing on the roof of her old Georgian country house, St Jane's?People think Deborah was up there inspecting a leak. But Suzy Spencer doesn't believe the...

A faded country house in the middle of nowhere.The guests are snowed in.The murders begin.Withering and waspish, Ursula Smart (not her real name) gate-crashes her mother's book club at an isolated country house for a long weekend retreat. Much to...

Along the rugged coast of Whitby, dark dealings are afoot.The discovery of a headless corpse out at sea has everyone on high alert. The dead man is a notorious villain, last seen sailing his luxury yacht round the Med.Now he's all washed up in the North...

Some liaisons are deadlier than others . . .After a long day of meetings, Arnold heads back to his hotel room. That's when he hears it.A ragged scream coming from Room 307.Arnold races to the door to find his boss, Simon Brent-Ellis, in bed with a...

THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE WINNER VICTORIA DOWD'S LATEST MYSTERY!If you love Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood, Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz, Faith Martin and Sophie Hannah, you'll love this brilliant whodunnit.The phones are out.The roads have flooded...

While recovering from illness, Scarlett Green discovers a murder took place at a house in Tooting, where she once lived. Although the murder was thirty years earlier, she remembers her life there in vivid detail, and shares her information with the...

A house with a secret. A woman with nothing to lose. When Maggie sees the beautiful Venetian blinds moving in the Caldwells' front window, she freezes. Her favorite neighbours Cady and Josh are away, so who is in their house?The pretty young woman who...

By the time I realized the truth about Daniel it was too late. But the truth about me? He never saw that coming... Dr Daniel Ashcroft was perfect: handsome, romantic, protective. I thought I was so lucky. But then I heard the rumors about his...

Jilted grooms, sudden deaths, broken hearts and threatening letters. All in a day's work for super sleuth Kate Palmer!Nurse Kate Palmer thought the pretty Cornish village of Tinworthy would be the perfect place for a peaceful retirement. She couldn't...

What secrets do the peatlands hide?An octogenarian distiller is wary of the goings-on in his distillery. The only person he can turn to is innkeeper Aileen Mackinnon. Amateur sleuth Aileen Mackinnon has a knack for numbers and accounting. After all,...

The Adventures of Philippine Maximine, P.I. is your modern equivalent of old radio shows that were heard over a radio wrapped in oak with its humming tubes filling the room with the wafting scent of electric ozone. Join Philippine Maximine in a series of...

Be careful what you wish for... it may come true.When Bernie, Adam and their friends travel to the idyllic town of Heywood, Arizona, to witness a marriage, they never expected to find the officiating minister poisoned to death.With the Heywood sheriff...

A tourist is shoved from a cliff. It's up to an unruly ghost to solve the murder.When Bernie and her ghostly grandmother, Ruby, witness the killing of a tourist from a far, they find themselves ensnared in a vengeful group of suspects, each having an...

Cameron Weaver is just a normal high school kid living in Henderson, NV, in the shadows of Las Vegas and all of its opulence and glitz, until his math teacher seats him beside Kyla Hudson. Kyla is one of the hottest and brightest girls at Foothill High...

When Marianne is jilted by Seth the very morning their Caribbean cruise sets sail, she boards the magnificent MS Minerva as a reluctant solo traveler, never imagining the imbroglio that awaits her on what was meant to be a romantic getaway. Upon meeting...