Private investigators and detectives Books

Perfect for fans of Scott Turow and John Lescroart, The Practical Navigator is a smart, fast-moving legal thriller where everyone's motives-and desires-are in question.Membership in the Great Arcadia, an exclusive East Coast yacht club, is pretty much...

November 1928, New York City. No one can keep a secret like high society - especially when that secret is murder.There are two things Penelope Harris would rather do than get involved with another murder-sing opera and flirt with Thom Lund. When two...

Elise Edwards in a cocoon of routine designed to protect her from the outside world. When her brother is murdered, she's forced to confront her past.Working with her nemesis to investigate the murder, she uncovers shocking secrets... including her...

When Renee Holden's father dies, his daughter suspects murder. Then the quiet Arizona retirement community where Renee lives is horrified by a violent assault. Lead police detective Jose Villegas enlists the help of two retiree residents- Molly Levin and...

A wealthy business owner asks investigator Claire Chastain to solve a simple case. Is his employee stealing or not?From the moment she's hired, subtle clues tell her something's wrong: the unbusinesslike business owner, the lingering scent of a woman on...

Pamela Arnold has done it again: another fast-paced suspense thriller that slices through a multitude of dangers, always stays on track, and keeps readers intrigued.Lively seniors Biddy and Justin, with no time to unpack after returning home from an...

Third-grade teacher and aspiring artist, Kate Boswell has been through a lot in her forty years of life. She faced her childhood friend's murder, a late-term miscarriage, and most recently, the death of her husband. When Kate sells a series of drawings...

"A truly gifted writer who has proven herself a master of the mystery/suspense genre, Alice Duncan's "Bruised Spirits" is another uncompromisingly entertaining read from cover to cover . . ." ~ Midwest Book Reviews--1920s,...

Caroline Steele, intrepid amateur sleuth, starts graduate school at the University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance.  Caro finds herself in a notbed of academic intrigue and clashing artistic egos.  A disdinguished professor is...

Emily Carson was an elementary schoolteacher married for ten years to a real estate broker named Sam. One day Sam unexpectedly vanished. She picked up the missing person’s case of her husband when local police were unable to come up with any...

At the end of the weekly 9 holes of the WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golf Association) Nick Jones, a.k.a Sherlock to his golf partners, finds a well-dressed potential client waiting for him. Nicknamed "The Suit" by one of the friends, the client came to...

It is the summer of 1960. Sweet Water Springs is a small upstate town that had known better times. Herb Wyman has come home to be the town's sheriff after having been dismissed from the city detective squad. Early each morning, Sheriff Wyman mounts his...

Caitlin O'Brian is a most effective detective in the McGee Agency, but she does not always play by the rules... or the laws. She is angered at the core by a spate of kidnapping and trafficking of little girls. In her mind, the law is inept, and its...

Howard Giordano's charismatic protagonist, Luke Rizzo, is back in The Dark Side of the City. In this story, Rizzo takes on the Mafia. Again collaborating with his favorite FBI agent, Rizzo brings down a flourishing money-laundering operation, all the...

Chocolate should not be associated with sudden death. Claire is only guiding readers to the sites of mystery books; she isn't responsible for the body in the chocolate factory. She doesn't want to discover murder in the city of York or any part of...

Michele "Micky" Knight, a New Orleans PI, meets an out-of-town team of investigators who are working a human trafficking case. They want someone local to show them around. It sounds easy, and a woman with smiling green eyes is asking. But it stays easy...

In The Man in the Brown Suit Anne Beddingfeld’s chance witnessing of a man being killed in a subway station leads her to become involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers, and political intrigue where she and mystery readers meet the...

King Charles Island, a sleepy British colony in the West Indies, comes suddenly awake after the terrible murder of its most influential citizen. The supposed culprit is the hapless Peregrine Gore - assistant to banker sleuth Mark Treasure - but he'd...

As a hard-boiled Hollywood PI enlists Al Capone’s help to save the Marx Brothers, Kaminsky “makes the totally wacky possible” (The Washington Post).   It’s 1941 and the Marx Brothers’ first movie for MGM, Go West, has...

To save his estranged son, a monk risks breaking his vows in this “moving and suspenseful” entry in the Silver Dagger Award–winning medieval mystery series (Booklist).For Brother Cadfael in the autumn of his life, the mild November of...

The twelfth-century Welsh monk is caught up in civil war and captured by Danish mercenaries, in the Silver Dagger Award–winning medieval mystery series.In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen and...

The medieval monk digs for clues when a body is unearthed by a plow: “His detecting talents are as dazzling as ever” (Publishers Weekly).When a newly plowed field recently given to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul yields...

In this “marvelously entertaining” mystery, a hard-boiled Hollywood private eye investigates a murdered Munchkin on the set of The Wizard of Oz (Newsday).   A year after The Wizard of Oz’s smash success, the yellow brick road is...

Strangers seek refuge at the abbey as floodwaters rise, a body falls, and a relic vanishes—in this “top drawer” mystery featuring the twelfth-century monk (Chicago Sun-Times)In the chill, rainy autumn of 1144, two groups of visitors...

For Holocaust survivor Frank Wolf, what matters most is helping people. After relocating to New York City after the war, he takes on a new career as a detective. In these three stories, all set in the 1970s, he sets out with methodical determination to...

A Rose for Mrs. Lilac is the third book concerning Betty Lilac, a Tarot Reader extraordinaire and an amateur sleuth. In this story we return to Caronsburg and meet once again with she and her friends, wacky and otherwise. It is a friend, Annabelle...

Eddie London might be the worst detective in all of Summerport. Then again, he assures himself, it's a pretty big city. But when Veronica Lawrence hires him to find her missing husband, Eddie sees his chance to transcend the low-stakes (and low-paying)...

Golf, intrigue, and dark secrets collide in "Death on the Back Nine", the gripping sixth installment of the award-winning Myrtle Beach Mystery Series, set against the backdrop of the prestigious Swaying Palms Golf Course.Clark Thomas, a bookstore owner...

Book store owner and coffee slinger, Clark Thomas, finds himself involved in another murder investigation. This time in a double murder at the popular Tidal Creek Brew House in Myrtle Beach's Market Common.What seems like an open and shut case for the...

When a young woman is found murdered in the woods behind the local veterinarian's office, the four Hurley sisters (Daisy, Lily, Rosie, and Amy) assume it is a tragedy that has nothing to do with them. But when the woman is identified as Skylar Smith, the...

Clark Thomas has a lot on his plate. A new book. A beautiful woman far from home. A missing fiancé. And a mysterious dead body plunges him headfirst into his latest real-world Myrtle Beach investigation.He meets a beautiful young woman stranded by her...

When a woman Clark Thomas has never seen before sits down across from him in his bookstore, she gives him an invitation to dinner . . . and murder.He takes the beautiful stranger up on her offer. Her father is the host. He is a retired Hollywood music...

On a beautiful spring day in New York City, writer Daniel Freund receives two surprises. First he finds a long sought after 1953 edition of The Great Gatsby free for the taking on the steps of a building right down the block. The other occurs when he...

Senior sleuth Virginia is back and better than ever in the third book in the Breeze Village cozy mystery series by Kate Maclean.The newest resident of Breeze Village, Virginia is enjoying a fresh chapter of her retirement. Her days are spent knitting,...

In the sleepy town of Clearwater, people are dying for a little charm.Lilliann "Lillie" King returned to her hometown after being left at the altar by her three-year fiancé for one of her best friends, a thing she never thought she'd do. During her first...

When Mary MacIntosh does not seek reelection as a prosecuting attorney in Sheridan Wyoming, she is approached by FBI prof or John Douglas to consult with him and the FBI on solving serial murder cases in the United States. John calls Mac to discuss a...

For years, someone has been killing prostitutes on the same day of the same month; in their business room. However, the first one was a mistake. All of the killings were in the state of California with the exception of one that was in Las Vegas. The...

When a stay-at-home mother of four hauls her kids and camp trailer over Colorado's Continental Divide, she has no clue that she is leading her family into the epicenter of a murder mystery.Jean Branning's priority for the summer is to reunite her family...

Ein charmanter Krimi, der Ihr Herz höher schlagen lässt! Kommissarin Christina Weber hat alle Hände voll zu tun: In ihrer beschaulichen Heimatstadt Rothenburg ob der Tauber geschehen plötzlich mysteriöse Morde, die nach den Karten des Tarot inszeniert...

11Murder strikes again and 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 drawn into strange murders with bizarre twists. The first eight books...

Se tutti i vostri incubi si realizzassero?L' "incubo" era all'interno dei sogni delle persone.Ma adesso prende vita quando si svegliano.Sparisce non appena porta a termine il suo compito......uccidere il sognatore.Com'è possibile catturare o uccidere un...

La carta de Vanessa me dejó en estado de shock. Años después de haberla conocido en Afganistán, lo que no esperaba era recibir noticias suyas y todavía menos que, presa del pánico, nos pidiera a Sherlock Holmes y a mí que acudiéramos a la mansión en la...

Inferno of Shadows is a gripping crime thriller that follows Detective Sarah Thompson as she faces one of the most challenging cases of her career. A series of arson attacks leaves a trail of destruction across the city, with no clear motive or suspects...

*** LARGE PRINT*** - PERFECT FOR THOSE WHO PREFER LARGE PRINT I'm tone deaf, I have no sense of rhythm, and yet I'm allowed to sing karaoke, occasionally, while solving murders in Po'thole aka Pothole to anyone north of the Florida Georgia state line...

One killer podcast... Following a series of murders months earlier, the elderly residents of Egret's Loft are finally breathing easy again as they gear up for a community-sponsored family weekend. Madeline Delarouse has been looking forward to spending...

In the charming coastal town of Seagrove Harbor, the annual Harvest Festival is a celebration of community, food, and friendship-until tragedy strikes. When beloved organic grocer, Maria Alvarez, collapses after sampling her famous salsa, the idyllic...

Detective Saduj is drawn into a chilling investigation when Santiago Santana, a man haunted by his past at The Children's Home, hires him to track down his former fellow residents. What starts as a simple reunion of childhood acquaintances soon spirals...