Private investigators and detectives Books

A 1920s cosy aboard a yacht on the Scilly SeasGolden-age gadabout Anty Boisjoly, his valet Vickers, the weary and wary Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when...

My name is Megan and I have a knack for two things: discovering dead bodies and uncovering secrets.I don't go looking for dead friends and neighbours. They just show up.Like when my best friend and I are on our way to lunch, and stumble across Jill...

Finding a killer is like knitting a blanket; you take it one clue and one stitch at a time.Sophie the corgi and I have a lot in common, we both love cookies, we're both short and cute, we both adore our hand-knit sweaters, and we both want to find the...

Two men possessed by their visions square off like Charolais bulls over who owns a Minnesota mineral spring. Dr. Robert Hartwell returns home from San Francisco driven to open a meditation center at the spring and finds the road to his property gated and...

In a secluded cabin deep within the woods, an ominous stranger is about to change the lives of six unsuspecting teenagers forever ...When Owen ventures outside and mysteriously vanishes, Jackson and Aiden set out to find him. As night descends and the...

In the heart of London's prestigious Harley Street stands a foreboding mansion, shrouded in mystery and whispered tales of dark secrets. "The Black-House" is a place where shadows linger, and the echoes of its past reverberate through its halls.Renowned...

When Jolene Whitley was forced to move home to Whistler's Hollow, she thought she'd put all of this behind her. It didn't take long for her to realize how untrue that was.As mystery deepened and relationships formed with her former bully and the gaggle...

Partners in Janus Investigations, Lafayette "Lafe" Larson and Mike Zwygert jokingly refer to themselves as the "two ugly detectives" due to their looks.But Lafe and Mike face real ugliness when a young Down Syndrome woman unexpectedly shows up in their...

The Red Widow is a fast-paced mystery thriller that draws heavily on the author's 37 years working in the chaos of a dying American newspaper business. As the subtitle says, the book is "A Story of Journalism, Treachery, Betrayal and Murder" in...

Sometimes a high-tech crime calls for a very low-tech solution, as Nick and Stella Buckley learn when they match wits with a devious and cunning killer . . . Every year the Creators' Cavalcade draws the most innovative and cutting-edge minds in...

Witchy Expo Services. We host your convention, expo, or trade show-with a dash of magic!Nimue Toothaker, recently named co-Head Witch General Manager of Witchy Expo Services, is finally getting a handle on the job-and the dual-personality warlock with...

Turning over a new leaf in bucolic Vermont, Stella and Nick Buckley soon discover that country life comes with its own special kind of pleasures-and perils . . . Leaving New York City behind for the rustic farmhouse they bought in rural Vermont,...

Lady Georgiana Spencer. A dream-shattering realization. A masked murder. Can Lady Spencer rise above her disappointments and save an innocent house maid from the hangman's noose?Georgi has been admitted to Grantabridge University, one of only four women...

"A masterful whodunit..."-A ReviewerThe fourth book in the Florida Keys Mystery series.Fishing guide and part-time sleuth Sam Sawyer is with a client in the remote backcountry of Everglades National Park, when they come upon the abandoned remains of an...

For 135 years a Confederate treasure has lain buried. Digger, Don Gannon's childhood friend, is murdered. His fiancée vows to avenge his death. Harriett Roth masterminds a search for the killer and the lost gold.Prepare to board the Last Train to...

*Finalist in the 2022 Indie Cozy Mystery Tribe Book of the Year Awards*A new job, a new friend, and a newly adopted furry companion. Then there's the dead body in her new office.Libby Ballard, director of the history museum in the small town of Dogwood...

Charlie Parker's brother, Ron, is ready for the happiest day of his life when he will marry long-time girlfriend Victoria Morgan. Charlie will be matron of honor, her husband Drake the best man. But when Charlie stops by the bride's house to pick...

Lexie Lovell tosses Rosedale Investigations a real challenge when she hires them to find her brother, a brother she never existed until her father's will was read. His estate is to be split between them, but when the Rosedale Team investigates, the...

Congressional staffer Kit Marshall is looking forward to a much-deserved summer vacation in the Outer Banks. When the mayor of the beach town turns up dead, Kit and her friends need to put their fun on hold to help solve the crime. 

In the summer of 1967, a Florida bookie is found dead in a Chicago motel, a businessman is missing along with a satchel of money, and Private Eye Harry Strummer is in the middle of it.

When a symphony musician is murdered, bashed with her own bassoon, flute player Emily Wilson becomes the prime suspect. To save herself and secure justice for her murdered friend, she must find the killer.

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "Laurel and Jack are back! Once again I have to hold on to my hat while we zip around Europe and land in lovely Florence where author Ritter Ames lures me in with her delightful vignette of Italian life seen through the eyes...

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "This fast-paced, action-filled whodunit was enjoyable and hard to put down. The mystery was good, the characters are likeable and it was fun to watch all the pieces come together in this well-written drama. I'm looking...

Born into a family of thieves, Wendy Winkworth becomes a private investigator because "you don't go to jail if you're caught." In 1950, 24-year old Wendy is hired by the mobster/owner of the Star Spangled Girls Baseball League to...

When the dust settles after the Foggy Point Civil War re-enactment, one casualty turns out to be really dead, and his identity sends shockwaves through the community.Does a long-lost quilt that suddenly reappears hold a clue? Harriet and the Loose...

The new broom sweeps clean...Dot Sayers sat at her desk, huffed on the plastic card that was her new class A Private Security licence, and buffed it with her sleeve. She was now a fully licensed private investigator!Problem is, she knows there's...

Margaret, 'Dimpy' Gruar resides in the Mountain View Residential Manor at Kinross, a small town in the north of Tasmania. In A Deadly Manor, the second in the Dimpy Gruar mystery series, Dimpy discovers the body of a naked man floating in their brand new...

THE DEEPEST SHADOWS HIDE THE DARKEST TRUTHEsme Quentin is reminded of a painful past when Max Rainsford, a journalist colleague of her late husband Tim, turns up unannounced asking about a story Tim reported on thirty-five years ago - the murder of an...

An ex-husband. A former best friend. A kidnap.When Charlotte's ex-husband Idris, the newest star of the Vipers' Nest TV Show, is kidnapped, his current wife Michelle reaches out to Charlotte for help. It's a difficult request, considering that Idris...

Step into the world of The Griffin pub, where the ordinary veneer of a Friday night masks a labyrinth of secrets waiting to be unearthed. "Paper Trail" by Lyndon Haynes delivers a riveting tale of intrigue and consequence that grips readers from the very...

Saxford St Peter is having an open gardens day! But one of the villagers has murder not marigolds in mind... And now Eve Mallow needs to unearth a killer.  Everyone in Saxford is delighted when jeweller Cleo Marbeck suggests a prize for the...

Georgina Drake - photographer, proud mum, and amateur detective - tackles a case that's a little too close to home... Georgina Drake is taking promo photos of a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, and her daughter Bea's first starring role. But the drama...

The death of a school friend forces Rachel McKenzie to confront a remorseless killer in her Highland hometown... Rachel is no stranger to the darkness in the hearts of men. When the body of a young woman is found, tragically killed in her own home,...

You stare hard at the man in the photo, you're sure that's your brother. But he's been dead for years . . . hasn't he?Steve was just four years old when he was told his two-year-old brother Zac had died. Steve remembers his brother's strawberry-shaped...

Jo Hughes has almost forgotten her career as a PI. Her astrology business is taking off and she's put investigating on hold. Yet, suddenly there's David Macy, her old boss, walking through the door, eating a cherry Bakewell, asking her to help on a case...

Glamorous widow Isabella Portland is in desperate need of Arnold Landon's help. She suspects that at least some of the priceless antiques her late husband left behind were stolen.And Arnold has heard the rumours. The mysterious circumstances surrounding...

Events decades before in Germany haunt the present lives of several of the characters. What starts as a favour for a friend in Halifax by retired judge Hamish Cameron turns into a web of intrigue and murder. But just as he and his detective-agency...

Riches to rags. ... Chaos quiets. ... Crime is circling. ... And cold cases never cease ...After almost a month in picturesque Kelowna, Doreen Montgomery still can't keep her notoriety to a minimum or her nose out of other people's business. Now those...

He's just trying to make ends meet.Mac Durridge ekes out a living as a P.I. on Australia's idyllic NSW Central Coast. When the wife of a prominent politician is kidnapped and suspected to be hidden somewhere on the Central Coast, Mac is recruited to...

From Dream Job to Deadly Nightmare...Isobel's move to Hong Kong was meant to be the opportunity of a lifetime. But when she unwittingly witnesses a brutal murder, she becomes entangled in a sinister web of corruption that threatens to consume her...

When Catherine de Barnes' work on a cruise liner sinks lower than the ocean bed, she returns home to Much Slaughter to lick her wounds and try to salvage the wreck of her relationship with Dr Linton Heath.But she's barely unpacked before the murder of...

5th April 1910. 10:15 am. The perfect morning for the perfect murder.When a well-dressed man is found brutally murdered in a Suffolk village train station, the police - certain that they 'have their man' - move confidently to arrest his murderer. But a...

1940s Wichita, Kansas World War II is over, but shamus Dwayne Wheeler is about to be caught up in a war of his own. Charged with the safekeeping and transferring of works of art that are sold and traded among a cabal of wealthy collectors, he is...

1940s Wichita, Kansas Local shamus Dwayne Wheeler is in the middle of the freewheeling no-holds-barred postwar underworld. Enjoying steady work as a bounty hunter for a local bail bondsman, he can often be found tracking down and apprehending...

The curtain comes down on murder in OVERTURE TO MURDER, the third novel of the Julia Kogan Opera Mystery series. Julia heads to the San Francisco Opera, this time with her significant other, former NYPD detective Larry Somers, and their five-year-old...