Private investigators and detectives Books

When his girlfriend, Jillian Russo, washes up on the shore of the Merrimack River in Essex County, Massachusetts, Carmen Vaughn immediately finds himself the main suspect in her murder investigation. Desperate, he turns to his college professor and...

Isobel Amsel is wasting away in an asylum. Mad with boredom, she recklessly risks her future wandering the countryside.  When an excursion nearly turns deadly, Isobel fears one of her enemies is targeting her, but she quickly discovers something far...

Wren's fourth and final writing assignment: a haunted campground near a Florida beach.Wren and Rascal, her protective Labrador Retriever, arrive at a nearly abandoned, neglected campground. Wren discovers clues to a cold case in old letters. Are the new...

When Southwest Pennsylvania's summer rains flood the Casselman River, State Police Trooper Jim Duncan finds a John Doe body in what is initially believed to be a tragic accident. But when a second victim, John Doe's partner in an environmental...

In Echoes of Her, the 12th installment of the Martina Monroe series, a maze of family secrets and shocking revelations unravel. By the time Kay was six, she had lost both her mother and sister. With only fuzzy memories of them, she had pleaded with...

Where did COVID-19 come from? In this riveting thriller, When Times Get Rough, two scientists who have found the truth are targeted for assassination by the Chinese Communist government.The secret is in the DNA - the biological signature that makes...

 Seashell Virgin: A Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe Novel - Coming October 31Mystery, Intrigue, Wit, & Drag QueensHomo Heroes vs Injana Politico Ponce Brothers. Fast paced fun. Touching and tawdry. Churchies, crooks, and rapscallions scheme to close our...

Some friendships can be murder...Arianna Jackson—AJ to her friends—has experienced enough drama in the past six months to last her a lifetime. Finding out she’s adopted and a twin to the girl she found brutally murdered and dumped in...

Stand Against the DarknessThere is a rising wickedness in American, something hidden from the past that is rising to make itself known in our present. Something so unfathomable that it targets a sitting U.S. Congressman while targeting a small-town...

Moorehaven Mysteries: Book 3Christmas has come to Moorehaven. With only one guest to take care of in the Victorian writer's-retreat B&B, Pippa decides to attend a swanky party with her boyfriend, Lake, and his estranged one-percenter family. But...

A midlife crisis turns into the adventure of a lifetime-but will she survive it?Wynne has just booked a 25th anniversary trip to Aruba when she catches her husband cheating on her. After divorcing the jerk, she decides to go to Aruba alone to figure out...

Chasing the Dead: Death Stings is a stand-alone mystery introducing Sir James Marchant, a recently widowed landowner who is running a sanctuary for retired Police horses. It is also the first of three books featuring Sir James and reveals an ancient...

The young girl trembles with fear as she stares at the gun pointed in her direction. She knows there's no point in screaming. No one will hear her on the mountain. As thunder breaks overhead, she silently prays that someone will at least find her body so...

An amateur sleuth is tasked with clearing the name of an accused man...Julia Ford's dream of running a bookshop in the small Somerset town of Biddle Rhyne is fast becoming a nightmare, with the lack of traffic and high running costs.So when the door...

The second book in J Wilcox's 'Leslie and Bennett' series. It should be the perfect holiday; the boutique hotel, the picturesque Devon coastline, the uncharacteristically beautiful weather. But, away from his cooking and his garden, Leslie is bored. That...

Bookshop owner and amateur detective Flora Steele teams up with handsome crime writer Jack Carrington to unravel a curious murder in the village of Abbeymead!Sussex, 1957: When Flora and her partner-in-crime-solving, Jack, arrive at the charming church...

A winding path leads past the beautiful begonias to an overhanging oak tree. But underneath, a deadly secret is hiding... Beth Haldane cradles a warm cup of tea and admires the view of crisp, red autumn leaves scattering the lawn of her little...

Alfred and Ettie Palmer are back for another stunning standalone Victorian mystery.Wrexham, 1884. Eight years earlier they'd been warned never again to interfere with police business. But it seems their skills are needed once more. A body deliberately...

Roxxy Foxx, Retired US Airforce Security Forces Sniper, is a daring Private Investigator in the river city of Sacramento, California.Sacramento is the hub of the western United States for human trafficking. The human trade business is big money, and The...

THE WOMAN I WANT DEAD - A sequel to THE WOMAN I BEFRIENDED. Years have passed since Ellie unmasked a local serial killer, yet the terror reemerges when she starts receiving unsettling text messages."Thought I'd be caught by now?"Now as a private...

As a private investigator, you seldom deal with attempted murder. Most cases involve some sleaze bag cheating on his or her spouse. Occasionally, a case comes along where the victim wasn’t simply sitting at home watching the late show while their...

A young woman is stabbed to death in Wichita. Within hours police nab a suspect and put him behind bars. The case is open and shut, until a university professor calls on Pete Stone, Private Investigator, to prove that the suspect is innocent. He hires...

Billie Blackwater is the only shapeshifter in the mountain town of Juniper, Colorado-at least since her father accidentally shot her mother, thinking he was protecting the family from a mountain lion. Now, Billie works at the historic Silver Coin Hotel,...

"A delight for mystery lovers and celebrity fans alike. Skillfully intertwining elegance and corpses, humor and pathos, Deserving of Murder earns a well-deserved standing ovation from even the most discriminating of audiences." -Michael Giorgio, author...

Sociology professor Felix Thayer is brilliant but hateful. A near genius in his field, but impossible to get along with. When his colleague Michael Hartness is found murdered in his office, it doesn't surprise anyone that Thayer is arrested for the crime...

Discover this delightful cozy mystery series, from the prize winning author of the American Fiction Awards and Chanticleer Award! When Katie's spring break plans for a romantic getaway with Pete fall apart, she skips a chance to go skiing with her...

"A mystery novel that takes place in one of the more unique settings in existence: the White House executive residence, home of the First Family. Murder, romance, treachery, and a suspenseful struggle all ensue as the main character struggles to solve...

In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell. As Pleasant Day struggles with her mother's distance, her father's infidelity and the death...

Death and Gold Haunt Thea's Search for Max in Death by Doodlebug, a Cozy Mystery from Carol Caverly.--Present Day, Garnet Pass, Wyoming--When Thea Barlow is left at the altar by her fiancé, Max, everyone, including the police, thinks she's been...

A Disastrous Bridal Shop Visit Draws Amateur Sleuth, CiCi Winslow, Into the Path of a Drug Ring in Double Vision In Ripley Grove, a Cozy Mystery from Shirley Worley--Present Day, Ripley Grove, Kansas--CiCi is shocked to learn the owner of a local bridal...

“I’m dying as fast as I can,” Gaby Maoret tells private investigator Nick Polo. “But it’s not fast enough for them.”Them are the two brothers of Gaucho Carmichael, Gaby’s former lover, who disappeared seven years...

Old flames. New secrets. Delayed justice. Now private investigators, Manhattan Sloane and Finn Harper have just landed their very first big job--a contract to clean up a hefty load of unsolved crimes in San Francisco. On day one, the two women step into...

<p>In March of 1982 in Barnsfield, Massachusetts, attractive Patricia Kent turned thirty years old and was a successful realtor. She had taken over her father’s business after he suffered a debilitating stroke which he was slowly recovering...

Death Valley lives up to its name when a murder draws Ellery Queen into the strange practices of a religious cult.   It’s 1943, the war is raging, and sleuthing scribe Ellery Queen wants to do his bit. After a tortuous cross-country drive, he...

This classic tale follows the unexpected adventures of a mild-mannered English vicar who finds himself embroiled in international intrigue. When the vicar's roguish brother Edmund returns home with a mysterious cargo and dubious associates, the quiet...

Eddie Noone, the dwarf private detective from coupling, is back in seven new stories including:"One With A Bullet" - a former actress asks Eddie to prove that her husband's suicide-by-prop-gun was really murder."Tolkien 'Bout My Generation" - Eddie's...

The Invisible Event is a mystery novel written by John Davys Beresford and originally published in 1915. The story revolves around a wealthy family, the Herriards, who live in a grand country house. When a murder occurs in the house, the family members...

Would you help an old friend if it cost you happiness?After years of turmoil, John Cutler's life is on level ground. He's reconnected with his daughter, started a business, and found new love.Now, an old friend rolls into town with a simple agenda-prove...

John Cutler Investigations is open for business. Unfortunately, things aren't running smoothlyStarting a private investigation business isn't as easy as the movies make it seem. Former cop John Cutler is learning this the hard way. Soon after opening,...

Most days, Sara Ann's physical and learning disabilities keep her indoors and alone--except on Thursdays. That's when Mrs. James, her tutor, comes to teach her reading and writing. But this Thursday is an exception. Today Mrs. James has brought along a...

The rich are buying the American West up and down the Rocky Mountains, and now a hedge fund billionaire, Leonard Hamm, has bought Lakota P.I. Howard Moon Deer's favorite ski area, San Geronimo Peak, pouring money into new hotels, condos, and a restaurant...

In the picturesque town of Brevard, nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains, tranquility and beauty hide a sinister secret. When local artist Evelyn Monroe is found dead in her gallery, the Tuesday Night Book Club, led by the intrepid Mary Wescott,...

Are you ready for the thrilling sequel to Traci Simmons' story? It's been two years since we last saw her, and now she's starting a new chapter with Officer Randall Wells. As their relationship deepens, a shadow from their past emerges with a dangerous...

Elizabeth Finch, Private Investigator; a hard working woman trying to do her best in a city that's all but rotten to the core, Carlson Flats. As she closes in on the end of one case, another is dropped right into her lap by an infamous fixer named Colson...

Within twenty-four hours, Alexis Danforth's world is shattered. She loses her parents and her job.Rummaging through the attic she discovers family secrets and returns to her hometown of Cryptic Cove; a quiet, sleepy little town perched above the sea.The...

In "The Secrets of the Tainted Trough", imagine waking up from a nap to see a donkey and a horse peering through the screen door, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what? Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this...