Private investigators and detectives Books

"They say the past always comes back to haunt us. I don't know who 'they' are, but I'd prefer a good haunting over the stuff that blindsides me every time I walk out the door." - Arianna JacksonJust when life doesn't seem like it couldn't get any...

A much-needed vacay...Sun, fun and a few refreshing adult beverages...Not a trouble in the world-until murder hijacks the itinerary...AJ and her pals Leah and Nicoh attempt to escape their troubles in the Valley of the Sun for a short vacation in SoCal...

In this true crime-flavored novel, Detective William Boyett is called out on Mardi Gras evening in Mobile, Alabama to investigate the discovery of a young woman's body wrapped in a carpet in a vacant lot a few blocks from the parade route.Over the next...

Large print edition.Free of her curse, Luna Lane's resident witch, Dahlia Poplar, sets foot outside of her paranormal small town for the first time in her life. Accompanying her new professor boyfriend on a tour of literature sites across the country,...

When a cold-blooded killer has his sights trained on you, it's probably a good time to start weighing your options.You can run.You can hide.Or, if you're Arianna Jackson, you can deal with the problem head on and give him a dose of his own medicine...

College student Eve Sawyer senses something disturbing at Murder Creek—the site named for infamous murders committed centuries earlier and where Lacey Walken went missing.Twenty years ago, Lacey disappeared without a trace ... except for her bloody...

It s been worth the wait. One of the authors most requested by Crippen & Landru readers throughout its 25-year history has been mystery writer William Brittain, whose fiction challenges the reader with tricky plots presented in a unique style. For...

John Dickson Carr, the grand master of locked room mysteries and impossible disappearances, was also the master of the creepy radio play. For the first time, all the scripts for the classic 1948 radio series, Cabin B-13, are printed in this volume, and...

An Actor to Die ForBartender Avalon Nash's youthful crush has become a Hollywood star, but does he even remember her? Why are the women he dates turning up dead? Does Avalon dare let her long-time dream come true, knowing she might be next? Avalon must...

Dead bodies, a complicated love life, a conflict between the local drug cartels, and a favour owed to the local bikies have Tara scrambling to stay ahead of the game.Just another Tuesday for Tara Sharp.Sharp Edge is book 4 in the Tara Sharp series...

Not every holiday goes to plan . . . When a young man arrives at the British Consulate in Majorca wanting to see the Consul, Elaine Martin, he tells her that a British girl has been murdered in the party town of Magaluf and that local police are...

In the heart of Victorian York there is a shop like no other. Mrs Holden may be widowed, childless and infirm, but her unexpected venture quickly becomes the talk of the town. With the help of Tobias Michael, his daughter Irene, and a beady-eyed crow,...

The Maid of Kent pub sits in the village of Cobshaw and at the centre of controversy.The local descendants of the Plantagenets and the Tudors each have an eye on the property, but for different reasons. The current owner Percival needs to sell, but will...

Francesca Eve, chef, caterer, and baker extraordinaire, has never desired the limelight. But when she's accepted onto the country's favourite cooking competition, she can't help but wonder - what would it be like to win? The one thing she'd never...

Greed like a magnet draws the culprit and the victim toward the centre. The victim must sow what he will not reap and the culprit shall reap what he has not sown. In a society where the majority are dying in the midst of the plenty, I am a...

His friend was killed. Who's next?Tom O'Banion loves his hometown of Muskegon, Michigan. He has his dream job as the choral director at Muskegon High School. He has a beautiful teacher friend, Maria, that he's hoping he'll marry. One of his best friends,...

Most of us come into this world with an inborn need for religion, a higher power to believe in. However, when fear and misunderstanding are the driving forces behind that desire, the result is rarely a good thing.Eight years ago, Laura Bradford...

Zack and Jillian are back in Pomme Valley after their wedding and honeymoon, and life is filled with exciting plans, such as enlarging the winery and building their new dream home. Zack's consulting cases for the police have been few, and the couple's...

There's cash missing from a local charity thrift shop-lots of it. And when it looks like her surrogate grandma might be accused, there's nothing for Charlie to do but take a job there and try to catch the thief from the inside and clear Elsa's name. As...

Summer on the coast of Maine can be an idyllic time. That is, until Wolfe and Baker are hired to find who tried to steal a mouse. What starts out as innocuous as a fireman saving a cat from a tree quickly morphs into something far deadlier. Johnson...

An intimate member of the Esposito family becomes the victim of murder by heroin overdose. Suspicion is cast on the gangster kingpin from Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, Frank Vinson, but Mickey Barksdale, Boston's equivalent in the criminal world, might bear...

Wally Sample-John Bekker's overzealous and often confused friend, and heir to the Sample Iced Tea Company-returns to ask for Bekker's help one more time...At a company bachelor part, Wally meets and falls in love with a stripper named Barbara 'Bubbles'...

Brock "BJ" Janoff and his older brother Jonas run a private investigation firm in Venice, CA. BJ is randomly approached by a stranger on the street with a proposition he can't refuse - one million dollars to deliver a single envelope to a hotel lobby...

<i>Can Moonlight and his Elvis impersonator sidekick survive a murderous gang of Hollywood obsessed Russian mobsters? </i> <br><br>Dick Moonlight can't help himself. Moonlight, the private detective known as Captain Head-Case due...

Homecoming queen. Cheerleader. Heroin addict. <br><br>Meadow Charles had all the promise in the world-and secrets to hide. Someone else tried to hide Meadow's secrets when they murdered her and left her body at the Parker County landfill...

Klaw, Murdoch, and Kerrigan-AKA the Suicide Squad-are the best the F.B.I. has to offer. Through nearly two dozen adventures, they battled spies, saboteurs, and even super-villains! This collection includes their next three stories:"The Suicide Squad in...

Sere, ghastly, the Severed Hand brought its grisly warning to New York. Its citizens must pay the extortioner's price or die, their living bodies slowly, agonizingly transformed into rigid mummies! The police were helpless, and only Richard Wentworth, in...

The first hard-boiled detective character, "Three-Gun" Terry Mack is collected for the first time. This groundbreaking series from the pages of Black Mask magazine set the template for all Black Mask authors to follow. Written by Carroll John Daly, Terry...

The Black Mask writings of one of the great detective pulp writers are finally collected in book form. Author Norbert Davis broke in to the pages of the prestigious Black Mask magazine while still in college: sales which launched his influential pulp...

Laughing Death is a story of gunfire and airships, of love and revenge. Sanford Greer (S.G.), Prosecuting Attorney of Center City, is put "on the spot" by five men. Gary Greer, who is the pilot in charge of the South Side Airport, starts out to get those...

HumanMade Top 105 Best Suspense, Thriller, and Mysteries of All TimeHokee Wolf is a trained Native American shaman, and by using his unusual skills became Idaho's most successful private investigator.On a sunny afternoon in sleepy southeastern...

Amanda Beckwith is a classic underachiever who finally hits the jackpot when she marries Santa Barbara wellness guru Geoff Martin. She is fast becoming the envy of her hip, 30-something girlfriends when Geoff dumps her for Bree, his massage therapist...

In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murderFor Francis, life with David grows more dangerous by the day. When sober, he is charming, but when he drinks, he is violent, slashing Francis’s paintings and...

When Walter Raleigh, a down-on-his-luck English gentleman-adventurer, rescues a man in Arminia from three attackers, he throws in with his new-found friend-and suddenly finds himself employed, for this friend is someone extraordinary.This book assembles...

When Autumn, the attractive young coroner of Cabbageville township, meets Matt in a near-collision on Main Street, they discover they have much in common. First, they're next-door neighbors now that Matt owns his family's ancestral estate. They're also...

Vacation with the characters you love from the Hollywood Whodunit series in a top-secret summer spinoff. Solving this case might be her claim to frame.Over the past five years, the Sunlight Swindler has stolen priceless paintings in broad daylight...

A collection of 4 books. Rest in Pieces . You can run your mouth too much . and end up machete practiceBlood and Gold a long-time resident on Isla Colón is murdered. There are millions of dollars in gold bars in an old safe.Die Trying. It can be a...

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.Superstar model,...