Private investigators and detectives Books

Dr. Mia Reid arrives on the Isle of Skye for a summer dig. She learns her friend and trusted colleague, Dr. Ethan Carter, is dead and valuable artifacts are missing. Interpol agent and Mia's former lover, Luke Forbes, is working the case with the police...

'There's a body! Down by the bridge!' It's November 1900 in rural Hope Bridge, New York. The town is bustling with the chaos of construction workers, steam engines, and horse-drawn wagons as a new iron trestle rises over the Duncan Creek. Amid the...

It is the mid-1930s in the English village of Vale Thorn. Sir James Ravenwood, a collector of macabre artefacts and an expert in the occult, is hosting a weekend party at his country house, Warlock's Gate, in order to celebrate the unveiling of his...

Maddie Sparks believes she has found the perfect balance in her life-Zack, the man she loves, a book she loves writing and volunteer work at a local museum with a granddaughter she adores. An old flame from Zack's past arrives and drives a wedge into...

Jack looked up at the giant, dead body brazenly hung on the quaint Welcome to Darrington sign. He turned to the town’s mayor. “Mayor Lewis, when you said people had nothing to fear, it pricked the killer's vanity. He’s...

What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light… The silhouette stood at the edge of the woods like a spider watching a fly enter its carefully crafted web. Only a few more steps and she’d be within its grasp. Stacy Shaw...

This is a detective novel starring Hannah, a disgraced cop down on her luck. But don't mistake her for just the short-order cook she appears to be. For one thing, she may be the worst burger-flipper in South London. For another her need for ready cash...

And Then There Were...SomeAt long last, the renovations of stately Captain's Seat are mostly complete!To celebrate, mystery bookseller and sometimes amateur sleuth Ellery Page decides to throw a house-warming party and invite his New York theater friends...

When Milo agreed to accompany his friend Mark for a weekend getaway with six other men in northern Arizona, he did not anticipate a snowstorm stranding them all in their lodge. But they make the best of it. Their biggest concern is how they're going to...

Charli Rae Warren doesn't plan on striking it rich as the owner of an independent bookstore in Hazel Rock, Texas-especially one with a pink armadillo as its mascot. But when an ingenious advertising campaign puts her business on the map, it ropes in some...

When kindergarten teacher Charli Rae Warren hightailed it out of Hazel Rock, Texas, as a teen, she vowed to leave her hometown in the dust. A decade later, she's braving the frontier of big hair and bigger gossip once again . . . but this time, she's...

Charli Rae Warren is back home in Hazel Rock, Texas, spending her time reading, collecting, and selling books-at least, the ones that don't get eaten first by her father's pet armadillo. Running the family bookstore is a demanding job, but solving...

For professional organizer Maggie McDonald, moving her family into a new home should be the perfect organizational challenge. But murder was definitely not on the to-do list . . . Maggie McDonald has a penchant for order that isn't confined to her...

As a professional organizer, Maggie McDonald brings order to messy situations. But when a good friend becomes a murder suspect, surviving the chaos is one tall task . . . Despite a looming deadline, Maggie thinks she has what it takes to help friends...

The killer robots are having a quick cigarette outside the church hall.Filming is underway on the latest series of The Professor, a long-running television drama. Simon Turing has a small part in one episode, his first TV role. His character, David Egan,...

On the U.S./Mexico border, people disappear...Jessica Watts has gotten less picky about the booze she'll drink and the jobs she'll take. But when she's asked to find the missing daughter of a shady Mexican business mogul, the quest hits close to home for...

In a small Maine town, secrets are hidden beneath the surface along the shore...Summer. 1978.Private investigator Jake Horn is looking forward to a weekend with his daughter, away from the busy streets of Boston. But an early morning jog leads them to a...

When beauty, wit and intelligence are center stage, it makes this private investigator's job even tougher than it already is.When the police refuse to investigate the disappearance of Mallory Carver's niece, Julie, her family turns to private...

When she's not busy practicing medicine, Dr. Myaisha Douglas writes mysteries. She'd like to devote more time to her personal relationships, but murder intervenes. The twin sister of a Greensboro Women of Color Writing Group member dies suddenly. Myaisha...

Vera has been fragmented, like a broken vase pieced back together. Is she reinforced and stronger in those once broken places or will she fall apart again? Is Kintsugi only about broken vases or is it true about broken people too?As she struggles to...

Ross Lake was a small and quiet town, the kind where everyone knows each other. When Sara Jensen, a twenty-two-year-old graduate of the police academy, took a position with the Ross Lake Police Department, she never expected to see any action. Then one...

The most beautiful places often hide the deadliest secrets.Life in the mountains isn't as peaceful as Detective Jack Martin expected. Just as things settle down after his last case, a congressman's plane is blown out of the sky and comes to rest in the...

When murder invades Haydn's opera stage, scandal isn't far behind . . .Charged with ensuring that an imperial wedding transpires without mishap, composer Joseph Haydn has his hands full. Barely seventeen, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, the imperial bridegroom,...

Chase Gordon has the life.The former Marine works part-time as a bartender to support his life island-hopping on his 40-foot sailboat. When the pretty young wife of one of his fellow Marines shows up looking for her husband, Chase steps in to help her...

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer...The night before the ancient well-dressing tradition in the Derbyshire village of Castledale, the dressers work feverishly to get the displays finished in time. However, someone has got in ahead of schedule...

Death Comes to the North CountryWelcome to Canton, NY, a small farming town nestled in the northern foothills of the Adirondack mountains. It's the 1930s, and to an outsider's eye, this looks like an idyllic village mostly untouched by the Great...

Families sure know how to bring the drama!All MC Barker wants is to make it through a week with her newfound birth family so she can spend Christmas with her closest friends. Those plans are put in peril when she stumbles over a dead body and becomes the...

Stolen identities, a cult, a kidnapping, an attempted murder, and a budding romance . . . Join Private Investigator Liz Adams, and her lie-detecting Labrador, Duke, in the scenic town of Carmel By-the-Sea, as the pair investigate the mystery of stolen...

A pompous Pomeranian and visiting media from France lead to unexpected trouble that ends in murder! French media visit Misty Valley for a puff piece on Pierre. Or so he believes. The press is really there to view the plans for development in Misty Valley...

In books 4-6 of this cozy mystery collection, disgraced soap opera star and amateur sleuth, Samantha Rathbone, continues to navigate her new life in a small town and solve the pesky murders that keep happening with the help of her quirky friends…...

Collette waited impatiently for Esther Rose and Patrick to return from their honeymoon so she could give them a piece of her mind for taking on the mysterious case of the murdered judge without her! Esther Rose promised never again will Collette be left...

After falling in love with the charm of "The Old Station House," Faye Lantern moves into the sleepy village of Petworth, wanting a quiet life - where no one would ask her about the heart-breaking death of her father or her despair about the man she...

HACKER'S HELL: A Contemporary Hacker's NovelHave you ever wondered how bad information stealing will get? Have you spent hours and hours trying to prevent, then correct a credit theft? Do you believe cell phones, laptops, social media, and the cloud are...

Audra Leighton leaves behind a dark past in the city in exchange for quaint small-town living. Her plans of a quiet life are quickly derailed when she stumbles upon a journal left behind by the previous owner of her home. Through the journal, she...

A wedding, an Italian resort full of Fae, and a decades-old murder! A family holiday isn't all that's brewing for Ebrel and her friends in the quiet seaside Italian resort. Ebrel's human father is getting married, and the new in-laws are as mundane as...

Trouble brews in small towns.Accepting she's a witch isn't enough for Jess's snarky cat familiar. Not only does she have to keep the potion shop running while learning to make said potions, she has to solve another mysterious death.Jess can smell...

In this crime mystery, Dorothy Dennehy accepts her first major case since the tragic death of her fiancé. Putting her emotions aside, she focuses on an assignment which takes her to Detroit. She is determined to find answers when a released...

SERPENT POINT: A Contemporary Vigilante NovelDoes the boundless greed of some pharmaceutical CEO's bother you? Have you, or a family member been hurt by it? Maybe hooked on opioids? Maybe you've wondered if seeking retribution is morally right? Or...

A holiday Grinch is out to steal Christmas from the animals.  The Furry Friends Foster Families December Donation Drive is in full swing when Kat Harper and her friend Imogene Little receive a devastating blow. A Christmas quilt set to bring in a...

When Lucas moved to a small village in the middle of nowhere, he did not expect that it to present him with a mystery that would unravel some of his own family history.Aided by his girlfriend Louellen, he sets about to discover why so many in the village...

The lady of the night - was dead before morning.Michael Kells is a British secret agent waiting for his next assignment in France and when he comes across a beautiful woman - almost too beautiful to be true - who seems extraordinarily interested in him...

Some people dream of a gentle retirement enjoying crochet or cricket, but for two sexagenarians, a more cadaverous future awaits...Newly retired teachers, Etta and Dora, take a walk along an old mule track connecting their mountain-top villages, each...

When T-Rock Hernandez is tossed off a ten-story building, not much is made of it because he's homeless. Oddly, he had a life insurance policy amounting to $1,000,000.Red Stick Insurance asks Niki Dupre to investigate before paying this large amount, but...

The first four books in John Broughton's 'Jake Conley Mysteries', now available in one volume!Elfrid's Hole: Aspiring novelist Jake Conley wakes from a coma to find he has synaesthesia and heightened psychic abilities. When researching King Aldfrith,...

Die besten Freunde von Silke und Siley kommen zu Besuch und statt gemütlichen Ausflügen geraten sie alle mit in einen Mordfall, der verworren ist und mit einem Brand endet.Siley hat bei diesem Fall Hilfe von seiner Hundefreundin Emma und gemeinsam...