Private investigators and detectives Books

'Your tattoo... it's exactly like mine.' She hesitates. 'But - I've never noticed it before. I must have had it since I was little.' The ink markings on both of them are delicate, barely visible. Interlinked triangles in the shape of a daisy. But how can...

Amateur detective duo Flora Steele and Jack Carrington have gained a reputation for crime-solving. But will they be able to untangle the latest baffling murder in the cosy village of Abbeymead?Sussex, 1957: When Flora and Jack hear that Percy Milburn - a...

In the seaside town of Whitecliff, everyone looks out for each other. Everyone knows your name. And everyone knows your secrets... Moonlight falls on the figure of the girl standing on the red-tiled roof. Her white dress and blonde hair flutter in...

Family secrets. Disappearing informants. Can this PI prove her worth... or will she get caught in the crossfire?Jorja Knight is desperate for a fresh start. Reinventing herself after a brutal workplace shooting, she's determined to make her life as a...

The special ingredient in the ravioli at Romano's Family Restaurant is... MurderGina Romano, budding restaurateur, loves running her family restaurant serving up delicious pastas and pizza pies. She's made such a splash in small town Lake Basil, New...

Riches to rags. ... Chaos never calms. ... Time fades memories. ... Or at least most of them!Who knew two small maker's marks could lead to such chaos? Doreen has been enjoying a few well-earned days of peace and quiet after solving her last mystery. But...

Johnnie Brandon is found dead while out shooting rabbits with his friends, and the problem is: Accident, Suicide, or Murder? It is all made very complicated by the financial entanglements in which his rapscallion of a father has tied up the estate, and...

Riches to rags. ... Chaos is still present. ... Memories are fading, ... but not for everyone!The problem with notoriety is unfair expectations. When Mack's mother, Millicent Moreau, requests Doreen's help with a small problem she's kept hidden for...

Cupcakes are sweet ... but vengeance is sweeter.Every day, Baz, Peggy, Carole, and Madge get together to knit, drink tea, and dole out death to keep the streets of south-east London safe.When the ladies get wind of a recent string of attacks on young...

In the year 2028, the human race made the momentous decision to colonise the moon. In the year 2043, the first murder on the lunar settlement occurred. Dr Adrian Whittaker was found 3km from the safety of the habs, his spacesuit broken and completely...

Feisty Catherine de Barnes - Catney to her friends - has got her eye on local doctor Linton Heath but when he keeps getting called away, she turns to online dating. Then one of her dates becomes a suspect in the murder of ex-policeman Dean Court and...

New Liberty weaves together the lives of Hector Miguel Navarro, a young Hispanic police officer, and members of two vicious gangs. He is assigned to a gang unit to gain plain clothes experience. He is exposed to human trafficking, drug sales, alcoholic...

Raegan O'Rourke is a former investigative reporter with a secret: she can touch things and see events that have happened in the past. She's just used her ability to solve a twenty-five-year-old cold case in the northwoods of Minnesota when she's called...

Minnie heads to Savannah in an attempt to leave behind some of the most difficult months of her life. She's sure a quiet vacation on the water will give her the break she needs to regain her strength, her clarity, and contemplate her next step. But...

Andrea Biscotti has a lot to juggle: She's helping pop star Madison Beech move into her newly-renovated Beach Hill estate and prepping her family's rental cottages for the start of the summer season-just a few days before Beach Hill's annual Memorial Day...

Several months after arriving home from her service as a United States Army Signal Corps operator in the Great War, Arabella Stewart is focused on saving her family's resort. The first day of the season starts with excitement and anticipation but ends...

It begins when the naked body of a businessman is discovered in a bathtub surrounded by a bizarre selection of props left behind by the killer as a taunt to law enforcement. Two more murders with similarly staged scenes connecting them to the first soon...

Medical school is inevitably a challenge, but when you discover a family member on the Gross Anatomy dissection table, it becomes a nightmare.Jet Townsend appears to be on a roll: a perfect MCAT score, a medical school close to home, and a painful past...

Wedding bells are ready to ring in Heartwood Hollow... maybe.One of matchmaking baker Joanie's couples is getting married. But not everyone is happy about the upcoming union, and a decade's old grudge between the two families is threatening the marriage...

Headline: Furry Found Flattened in the ForestMikaela "Mike" Mitchell, reporter for Daisy, TX, and maid of honor for her best friend's wedding, has everything under control-until she trips over a dead guy in a fur-suit.She promised the big day would be...

East Texas private detective Sam Lawson is in a race against time when his fiancé, Carla Davenport, is abducted by a notorious serial killer bent on revenge.  Taunting Sam and the FBI, the killer reveals the exact time he will murder Carla. Sam...

A police detective who wants a lifetime of love, a private investigator who values her independence, and their struggle to trust each other.Private Investigator Candice Shane had a good reason for breaking up with her university boyfriend Alex Delaney...

Book two in the epic Third Chance Enterprises series, Dear Durwood is a standalone mystery pitting uncompromising principle against big city greed.

Damned if you do. Dead if you don't...When infomercial writer Walt Asher heard the news about a truck full of dead bodies abandoned on the interstate, he knew The Kith had returned. When he finds the corpse on his couch with a note pinned to it's...

PI Steve Rockfish's morning meeting was supposed to focus on a case of straightforward harassment. Two clients had purchased a miniature golf course and instantly became victims of vandalism and projected intolerance.But as the team investigates, a...

After a decade dominating the expat scene in Rome, Faye Masters has had enough beautiful art, delicious food, and bureaucratic nonsense to last a lifetime. She's just about decided to pack up and head home when a rival drops dead at one of Faye's famous...

You can run. You can hide. But in the end, the past catches up with you.Lana, a young mother who suffered a traumatic event 11 years ago, has been living under an assumed name. When she visits her hometown to check if it's safe to reclaim her identity,...

When Victor and Vincent learn that their beloved older brother Mario murdered his girlfriend, Grace Conner then committed suicide, the twins set out to prove the Oakland police department is wrong. Mario must be vindicated, and family honor must be...

The fiery festivities of the Symphony's annual Fourth of July extravaganza feature cannons, liberty bells, and fireworks. But the noise covers gunshots which leave a shifty Board member dead and Emily Wilson's friend, KC, the prime suspect. Can Emily...

Maya Mallick, Seattle P.I., receives a call from her mother Uma, who lives in Jaipur, India. It appears that Uma's partner Neel Saha, a gemologist, has been arrested by the police on charges of stealing a rare ruby. The heirloom, an object of much...

In this second book of the Darcy Moreland Mysteries, Darcy notices yellow police tape and Detective Hank Nelson's pickup in front of an old home not far from the TV station where she works. It is likely a homicide. She calls for a camera crew and is...

  Twenty-eight year old Carmen Karlaff, owner of a native grass and wildflower seed farm in northwestern Minnesota is surprised when her employees find a dead body in her big bluestem field. Her best friend, Jessica, is accused of the murder...

Would you buy a "cursed" diamond? New York diamond dealer Max Rosen would. He doesn't believe in curses. But that was before the wife of the famous jeweler who sold him a supposedly "cursed" gem ended up dead. Soon, Max's...

An entertaining thriller about the power of cult leaders, and a must-read for fans of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." -BestThrillers.comBillionaire Charles Dillard and his wife Oksanna hire private investigators Matt Singer and Jamal Wade to track down...

Knat Lio is a teenage boy who fancies himself a private detective. While on summer vacation, he is hired for some real detective work, investigating a man’s involvement in an armed robbery.Antoine Fluellyn (Flu) is a supremely gifted football star...

In this latest Matt Moretti-Han Li thriller the clandestine unit known as Nemesis, a joint Chinese-American off-the-books organization, is faced with its first challenge just minutes after it's activated by the presidents of the United States and China...

Zack and Jillian rush home from their previous case at the distressing news that her kitchen shop, Cookbook Nook, has been broken into and ransacked. It's a puzzle indeed, when it appears the only thing the thief took were some tubs of ice cream from the...

Crime reporter Evie Hartley was at the height of her career, but a series of ethical missteps cost her everything. Now, she's working for a small-town newspaper's culture section, trying to prove to everyone, especially herself, that she's able to do her...

The Vanishing Pharmacist, Sequel to The Unholy VengeanceThe Vanishing Pharmacist is a multilayered thriller that invites the reader into a world that offers insight into what it means to be a woman in peril.The novel takes you down the dark road of what...

More than fireworks are exploding at North Pole Beach when Nico's mother, Jingle Belle Kringle, comes to visit, spoiling all their Christmas in July festivities.Mrs. North knows her eccentric mother-in-law can be a handful, but even she cannot foresee...

Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring '20s and introduces us to Hungarian PI, 8 Ballo, who is hired to find the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The search will lead him to cross paths with Dorothy Parker, Zelda and F...

Rasmussen Carter is grooming Lily Miller, a young jazz singer, to be a star. She's singing at the Greenwood-the new incarnation of the Esposito-now owned and managed by Baron Loftus, the nephew of Sweetie Bogan, an aging jazz diva. The night Lily debuts,...

Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and...

"I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it."This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes.Langdon is a...

There's different kinds of fire...William Randolph Packard Hearse... Dutch has his hand in at least two, maybe three kinds of fires. He's investigating the mysterious house-fire that left Fisher Pulaski in the city morgue without a single burn on him...

There's trouble in River City! The much celebrated city manager, Stacy Lamar, darling of the liberal media is missing. She has vanished overnight and the SAPD hasn't got a clue as to what has happened to her. They come up empty after a week long...

Seventy-five years following the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, an elderly Nisei hires Ava Rome to find out how his best friend, a Japanese-American Buddhist priest, died in the Tule Lake Internment Camp. <br><br>In the course...

It's the first time Lou Crasher discovers a corpse. What hurts is the woman, Trix Rockland, was a friend. His instinct screams for him to back out of the apartment and call the law. But Lou being Lou, he hops into investigation mode. Naturally, that's...