Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger...
Private investigators
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Author:Francis, FelixSummary: - Author:Francis, FelixSummary:
Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing...
- Author:Anderle, Michael, Crowley, Isobella, Clarke, Ell LeighSummary:
The secret world is being hidden by a vampire hundreds of years old-and her human frat-boy apprentice. He might shape up to be an asset if she doesn't kill him first. Between setting up the office and hiring new preternatural staff,...
- Author:Lovesey, PeterSummary:
Bath police detective Peter Diamond suffers no fools. Now his nightmare has come to pass: he has to collaborate with the most preposterous kind of fool he can imagine. The self-styled Johnny Getz (his business card proclaims he "...
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Author:Wong, S. G.Summary:Enter the world of Crescent City, an alternate history 1930s "Chinese Los Angeles" and home turf of private investigator, Lola Starke... A simple job. A den of thieves. A woman committed to the truth. It’s a straightforward case: find a...
- Author:Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Undead novels comes a delightfully addictive new series about past lives and bad habits. It's been less than two months since her mother was murdered, and already Insighter Leah Nazir is...
- Author:Green, Simon R.Summary:
At an unveiling of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, Ishmael Jones finds a body next to the empty sarcophagus. Ishmael rejects the theory that the mummy's curse is to blame. But he can't explain the strange, shuffling footsteps in...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries, soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express. The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the...
- Author:Goldsborough, RobertSummary:
Nero Wolfe's favorite newspaper faces a hostile take-over, and the paper's staunchest supporter is suddenly found dead. Master sleuth Nero Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war.
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story. On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Hercule Poirot is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor on board is inclined to put it down to a...
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Author:Lewis, Mitchell ScottSummary:Someone is bumping off rock’s wrinkled royalty. After the death of the third aging rock star, 58-year-old Freddie Finger, lead singer for multi-platinum Rocket Fire, astrologer detective David Lowell is brought into the case. Freddie...
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Author:Southin, GwendolynSummary:TouchWood Editions is proud to introduce the first female sleuth in our selection of mystery novels. Author Gwendolyn Southin uniquely blends the charm of gumshoe techniques with the fresh perspective of a developing female detective....
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Author:Hansen, JosephSummary:When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing.
- Author:Straley, JohnSummary:
The fourth entry to John Straley's Alaska P.I. series finds Cecil Younger with a contract to kill. Cecil Younger is a man that takes comfort in the absurdity of the universe, and the universe is obliging him when he gets a call...
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Author:Zanetti, RebeccaSummary:Under siege. That's how Ryker Jones feels. The Lost Bastards Investigative Agency he opened up with his blood brothers has lost a client in a brutal way. The past he can't outrun is resurfacing, threatening to drag him down in the...
- Author:Wallace, KaliSummary:
An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic asteroid mine in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day . Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Ariadne Oliver, Queen of Crime Fiction, has been asked to devise a "Murder Hunt" for a f̊te at Nasse House, the home of Sir George Stubbs. But she begins to suspect that someone is manipulating the scenario of her game and fears that...
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Author:Harvey, JohnSummary:The stylish tale of a dead poet, a rediscovered pulp novel, and a lovely lady with a story to sell from the author of the Charles Resnick Mysteries. Ex-Metropolitan Police Officer Jack Kiley spent his career discerning fact from fiction...
- Author:Butcher, JimSummary:
Vampire Marva demands that wizard Harry Dresden find the Word of Kemmler for her. But Marva isn't the only one searching for it, as necromancers and students of Kemmler descend on Chicago.
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Virgil Flowers is sent to Bluestem, a small town where everyone knows everyone else, to investigate the murders of a man burned to death in his home and a doctor and his wife, unaware that he is tracking a murderer who may be targeting...
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