"Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!" No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's husband was dead, brutally stabbed in the neck. The evidence against her is...
Private investigators
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
- Author:Moody, BillSummary:
Pianist Evan Horne’s European interlude lands him a gig in Amsterdam, where the old jazz clubs are alive and well. But here he unexpectedly finds himself reliving the last days of legendary trumpeter Chet Baker, who died under...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Stone Barrington heads to Key West to find the missing son of a wealthy man in the latest installment in Stuart Woods' New York times bestselling series.
- Author:Bidulka, AnthonySummary:
Going home is not always the best answer. Forced to leave behind her big city dreams, Merry Bell returns to Livingsky Saskatchewan to start over. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie...
- Author:Moss, JohnSummary:
Harry Lindstrom is a Toronto-based investigator. Hired by a woman to prove her son is a killer, he is drawn into the saga of a murderously dysfunctional family. His harrowing odyssey takes him to Stockholm in the dead of winter and...
- Author:Ford, CattSummary:
Meet Grey Randall, a hard-boiled detective whose sense of humor makes it hard for him to stay strictly noir. It's 1948 in Las Vegas —the newborn Sin City — and he's just landed his first murder case. He's more at ease among the lowlifes...
- Author:Hatcher, Robin Lee.Summary:
Olivia Ward arrived in Bethlehem Springs alone--with no job, no home, and no money--after her manipulative ex-husband used his power and wealth to destroy everything. Six years later, the peaceful life she rebuilt is once again turned...
- Author:Krueger, William KentSummary:
The author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O'Connor series-a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the...
- Author:Galbraith, RobertSummary:
"I seen a kid killed...He strangled it, up by the horse." When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike...
- Author:Armstrong, CharlotteSummary:
This MacDougal Duff Mystery launched the career of the Edgar Award-winning "American queen of suspense novelists" (New York Telegraph). Feeling unmoored since the death of her father, twenty-year-old Bessie Gibbon has left upstate New...
- Author:Green, R. G.Summary:
Sequel to 'When Past Comes to Present' Seven months after the recapture of Miles Trubett, a new murder grabs headlines in Wheaton City, IL. The police believe the case is closed—or would be if they could find their suspect. However, the...
- Author:Poulsen, David A.Summary:
A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat. On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to...
- Author:Crowley, IsobellaSummary:
Remy is down to his last $100,000... He's in dire straits. While his rapidly dwindling checking account is a problem, Remy finds out the last company he owns is run by something that goes bump in the night. And she is willing to bump...
- Author:Round, JeffreySummary:
2013 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery--Winner
When missing persons investigator Dan Sharp attends a wedding, he finds himself investigating more than one murder. Dan Sharp, a gay father and missing persons...
- Author:Crais, RobertSummary:
A gripping novel that envelopes L.A. detectives Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets and murder.
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the west coast-and out on a limb-in this "stylish whodunit" (Detroit News) filled with romance and murder. Stone's trip to Venice -with a fiery Mafia...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress--and sometime lip model--Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady...
- Author:HILL, ReginaldSummary:
Joe Sixsmith, Luton's premier PI, is naturally on the side of the Law. Trouble is, the Law isn't always ready to return the compliment. When Joe turns to the town's top law firm for help in a motor insurance dispute, he...
- Author:Child, LeeSummary:
A discharged soldier is framed for a murder by the chief of police in a small town in Georgia where he has just arrived. When the soldier learns that the murdered man was his brother he breaks out of jail and carries out his own...
- Author:Green, R. G.Summary:
Detective Eric Geller just saw his case against crime boss Victor Kroger thrown out of court. Convinced there’s more to the dismissal than contaminated evidence, Eric shifts from investigating Victor to investigating the judge,...