Private investigators and detectives Books

Liars and Tycoons and Perfume, Oh My! In the hilarious, award-winning romantic mystery The Sweet Scent of Death, PR account executive and transplanted Southerner Jill Cooksey is trying to launch a new fragrance for her client and prove to herself...

Spoiler Alert: description contains spoilers for book one in the series.Now that Billie knows she's able to shapeshift outside of her limited territory, she's determined to find other shapeshifters and get some of the answers she thought were out of...

In a remote camp outside Roswell, New Mexico, bumbling, big-hearted Franklin Becker sets out alone at midnight to find an alien spacecraft. When he comes up missing, and his ufologist friend is found dead, Franklin's wife, Wendy, battles other...

Detective Sam Lawson heads to Martha's Vineyard for another entertaining and suspenseful page-turner. He had hoped his impromptu trip the island would be a chance to take some time off and rekindle his relationship with Carla Davenport. But when a...

A child's body is found in a marshy bog on Cape Peril, an island off Maine, in 1952. Private investigator Dana Greer, running from a cold case and a failed marriage, is intent on finding the murderer. A series of long kept secrets complicate the...

The March of Time is book 2 in the Bart Bridges PI series.Book 1, Echoes of Doubt, found Bart in the Witness Protection Programme, having changed his name to Cyrus Bartholomew, a clock maker.When things begin to go wrong and dead bodies pile up, Bart no...

Predators are turning one of Portland's guilty pleasures into a nightmare.Adult entertainers from one of the City of Roses' less-than-reputable strip clubs, the Sweet Mackerel, have gone missing. The club's owner and his financial partner, a Russian...

<i>A missing woman. A suitcase full of drug money. An ex-cop with nothing to lose.</i> <br><br>A roadside shooting ended both his career and his marriage and sent ex-state trooper Henry Malone back to his childhood home in...

“If Agatha Christie ran Unix Conventions”The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead’s work—or expose him as a fraud.When a tragic death devastates the...

President Sybil Norton Daniels's presidency is tumultuous, to put it mildly. In this, the eleventh book of the series, there are rumors of war and some serious skirmishes, a legal battle over secession moving seriously through the courts, and beaucoup...

On a hot, sultry weekday of summer, in the bank of the small agricultural town of Geneva, business has been bustling all afternoon. Just after the doors have been closed for the day, a knock is heard -- and inwards burst two men, who seize the clerks and...

Eddie Collins, private eye and part-time Hollywood actor, is hired by ageing actor, Sam Roth, to locate his disowned son, Jack Callahan. Roth hopes to reconcile their relationship before his “Martini Shot” last scene of the day, as he is in...

Forced to move back home to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia after her father and brother end up in jail for running a Ponzi scheme, Sophie Parker does the best she can. While living with her curmudgeonly aunt, she works as a wench waitress at a...

The 12 short stories featured in this volume were the catalyst for the first literary fandom, the success of The Strand Magazine, and Arthur Conan Doyle's lifelong career as the writer of the Sherlock Holmes adventures.Enter the smoky rooms of 221B Baker...

The farmers in the village of Fanoosak maintained a cohesive bond against the drifters, who lived in a nearby swampy island. In 1941, the Soviet Union invaded the Caspian Sea region and struck an immense fear on the villagers. The short-lived...

Quando Parker Avery pega a maleta de Olivia Nelson, ela a envia, Kay e Iris para Nelspruit em busca de um relógio perdido, mas como eles logo descobrem, o relógio é mais do que uma posse sentimental. É um dispositivo eficiente...

Floured Felonies, Donut Mystery #27 in the New York Times Bestselling Series by Jessica Beck.When an ice storm hits April Springs, it freezes more than the trees and power-lines as one of the town's residents perishes outside.  But soon Suzanne and...

What does it take to solve a murder in a supermarket parking lot? A mischievous husky dog, an entrepreneurial high school student, and a little lasagna lady with a whole lotta heart!When Luella Genova witnesses a hit-and-run in the parking lot of the...

She texts dead people... Sydney Farina, full-time baker and cynic, is having a bad enough week when her boss forces her to go into work on her day off. When she arrives to find her boss's corpse on the floor, her week gets a whole lot worse...

PEPPERONI PIZZA CAN BE MURDER by Chris Cavender (Pizza Lover's Mystery Book 2)From the Pizza Lover's Mystery Series, first published by Kensington.Praise for The Pizza Lover's Mysteries"Pizza lovers will relish Cavender's delightful first in a new cozy...

Murder strikes again in the small town of Berry Cove. Dana Sweet, part time mystery riddles blogger who has inherited the Cozy Cupcakes Café from her late grandmother, is once again drawn into a strange murder with a bizarre twist.The Holiday...

Looking for the perfect cozy mystery to read tonight? In Queer and Cozy Mysteries, you'll be treated to THREE tales of blackmail and murder featuring amusing incidents, hilarious dialogue and LGBT characters!In MURDER AT THE OFFICE, Sharon and her...

Stranded and snowed-in, a murderer walks among them… Lost and struggling after her retirement from the Force, detective Rita Knight hopes that escaping to a quiet life with her boyfriend Billy is exactly the thing she needs to move on and...

Will Rhonda and Rita's new life in Clovedale Falls and their dreams for the future be over before they even begin?Rita and Rhonda Knight are forty-four-year old twin sisters who retire from law enforcement and move to the quaint north Georgia town of...

Blended Bribes, Donut Mystery #43,From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck!As Suzanne Hart is coming home from visiting her college roommate, Autumn, she spots smoke in the sky above downtown April Springs, North Carolina.  She fears that...

Ignoring the fact that the Russian mob has a hit out on her, Stephanie St. James, AKA Miss Prim & Proper, throws herself into planning a glamping trip for Swamp Team Three. It's an uphill battle to convince Fortune, Gertie, and her great-aunt Ida...

It's almost time for graduation, and Eastern College is in trouble. A prominent alumna is dead, and a faulty computer program is jeopardizing student records and financial aid. It's up to Steve and Rochester to dig into the situation and retrieve the...

I take his head in my hands and force him to look at me. "Nate," I say again, this time more forcefully, "where did all this blood come from?" This seems to get through, and his unseeing eyes struggle to focus on mine as one whispered word escapes his...

Do you enjoy samples, say a box of chocolates, filled with assorted samples to pick from?  Here is a box set of cozy mysteries and cozy paranormal mysteries to try out. Each book is the first in the series to give you a taste of what the series...

A body is discovered on the floor of the cat café, and all the black cats are missing! Sixty-something cat shelter volunteer Lynley Cannon always finds more trouble than a cat in catnip, but this time it's not about her. Someone is targeting very senior...

Después de que una situación desastrosa hace que Parker Avery pierda su puesto en el Departamento de Policía de Orlando, abre una firma de investigación privada. Sin embargo, el negocio no es lo que pensaba que sería, y...

CD gets some cases in Florida, falls in love with the place and builds a home there.A developer is murdered. A stock broker is murdered. A young boy is murdered. Thereis a druggie execution that wasn't.CD gets to know some of the continuing characters...

As the third book in the series begins, Grant's Crossing is preparing for the annual Fall Fair and Halloween. They weren't prepared for another murder and the mystery around it. As Alysha Grant continues building her career, and overseeing Leven...

An annual tradition. A few fun-filled days of adventure. A peaceful, pristine mountain covered with fresh snow. A mysterious disappearance. An untimely death.Samantha Shepherd leads a group of six up a mountain. Two days later, she comes down with only...

Rusty clippers, precision scissors and a dead Curly.Kit went back to school to learn hairdressing and hoped it would kickstart a new career. Taking out the final challenge and winning the coveted matte black precision scissors is the sign she needs.But...

Digging up the past can be deadly...Garnet McGee is back in Pitchford, wondering what to do with her life now that she's finished her master's thesis in psychology. Then she receives a call from the FBI's Special Agent Singh. A body has been found, and...

A visit to an open house brings Stormy Day into the center of a troubling murder.The local police aren't lacking for suspects. The victim, Realtor Michael Sweet, was a bully who made countless enemies over his years in Misty Falls.The problem for Stormy...

Knitting Can Be Murder!I'm not a cop. I'm a soon-to-be-ex-wife, and former full-time mom who works part-time at the local yarn store. The biggest mystery I've ever solved is finding a missing knitting needle tucked behind my ear after spending all...

"Hard to believe this is the 17th Quilters Club cozy mystery by Marjory Sorrell Rockwell. Following the adventures of the denizens of Caruthers Corners, Indiana, as these amateur sleuths solve puzzlers about quilts and crooks and crazies is as addictive...

"We love the adventures of husband-and-wife sleuths Will and Betsy Black. One of my favorite books took place in Jamaica. Now they back on that island, looking for buried treasure. But will Harry Dog beat them to the prize? I loved the dialect-filled...

An amateur sleuth named Bonnie and her kitty companion Clyde, with names like those, what could possibly go wrong?Life hasn't sparkled too brightly for Bonnie Balfour over the past few years, but a heart-breaking divorce has brought her back to her small...

She's into high tech. He's into homicide. The North Woods rock and roll when a savvy cyber-sleuth teams up with a hunky homicide cop to route corporate miscreants and to solve a murder. When she arrives in Wisconsin's North Woods to determine who is...

~ TWO NOVELLAS ~In his years as a decidedly amateur detective, Thomas Martindale has called on various professionals to get him out of the dangerous situations he often finds himself in. Only a fool would do the things he has done but his friends have...

The southeast corner of Oregon, where wild mustangs run, is not the usual place where a former investigative reporter turned college professor hangs out. When Margot Tateman, an old high school friend, calls Thomas Martindale for help in finding her...

In June 2011, September was weeks away, and the full dread of the approaching anniversary hadn't yet settled on New York City's residents. But from One Police Plaza to the FBI's grim headquarters in Washington, D.C., the top brass harbor a rumbling in...

Things happen in the middle of the night, even on a golf course. Money changes hands, and sometimes wives. Transactions are agreed upon. In the end, someone always pays the price. Father Joe Mulligan teams up with his boyhood friend, Detective...

Face down a brutal killer and risk your life in the process? Or deny a friend's final request and let a murderer roam free, while justice goes unserved?Arianna Jackson has hunted down clues, pieced together impossible puzzles, and confronted the worst of...