In the search for the truth, the line between fact and fiction is beginning to fall out of focus It is 1903, and Lily Temple is a beautiful silent-film actress who spins fairy tales and plays frivolous roles in front of the cine-camera...
Private investigators
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Author:Politano, Joanna DavidsonSummary: - Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
Canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie search for a missing child at a wilderness camp. The mother thinks the boy was snatched by his father--her ex. But Chet's sniffing sends the case in a different direction.
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Presents the second part of the author's Mysteries of Winterthurn.
- Author:Unsworth, Simon KurtSummary:
Murder in the land of God sends the devil's detective to heaven Thomas Fool-the resilient investigator doomed to catalog Hell's atrocities in Simon Kurt Unsworth's stunning debut, The Devil's Detective-is back. The...
- Author:Unsworth, Simon KurtSummary:
Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that flows through Hell. His job holds no reward or satisfaction, because Hell has rules but no...
- Author:Riordan, RickSummary:
Tres Navarre, Ph.D., has taken a summer teaching job at the University of Texas at Austin. He plans to live with his brother Garrett, a computer wizard, while enjoying a laid-back academic term. But when Garrett's partner in a start-up...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
Reward seeker Colter Shaw faces a ticking clock with murderous consequences in this riveting short story.A serial kidnapper is on the loose in a small town in Maine, targeting wealthy women and demanding a huge ransom in bitcoin for...
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Author:Hammett, DashiellSummary:The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people...
- Author:Straley, JohnSummary:
When Louise Root, a new client of Cecil Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of an environmental law violation that has deadly repercussions. Cecil finds he is unable to leave behind Root,...
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Author:Galbraith, RobertSummary:Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator until John Bristow asks him to look into the death of his sister, supermodel Lula Landry, ruled a suicide by the police. The case plunges Strike into the world of...
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Author:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear, and thirty-seven short stories from the Adventures, Memoirs and Return of Sherlock Holmes....
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Author:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear. Included are illustrations by Sidney Paget, George Hutchinson, James Greig & Charles...
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Author:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear, and thirty-seven short stories from the Adventures, Memoirs and Return of Sherlock Holmes....
- Author:Washburn, L. J.Summary:
Zachary "Buck" Williams asks Phyllis to help him throw a big Easter shindig with games and food and an egg hunt, inviting everybody from the whole county to join in the fun. It's a beautiful spring day in Weatherford,...
- Author:Gilman, DorothySummary:
From the best-selling author of the famous Mrs. Pollifax series comes another delightfully eccentric and sage female sleuth-the exotic Madame Karitska. Although she is a genuine countess, Marina Elena Provovnitchek Gaylord Von Domm...
- Author:Preller, JamesSummary:
When an important prop goes missing on the set of Spy Guy, Jigsaw Jones, who is an extra on the television program, needs to track down the thief to save the show.
- Author:Preller, JamesSummary:
Jigsaw and his sidekick Mila feel that Bigs Maloney is keeping something from them due to his weird behavior, and the detective team must battle the pouring rain while trying to find the truth.
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Author:Barnes, LindaSummary:As a former Boston cop, Carlotta Carlyle thought she had seen it all-but that was before she became a private eye ... In The Snake Tattoo, a London Times outstanding book of the year, Carlotta Carlyle's former boss, Lieutenant Mooney,...
- Author:Hansen, JosephSummary:
During a high-stakes paintball game, a hardcore supremacist gets accidentally hit by a very real bullet, but insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter knows that a man this hated seldom dies by chance.
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant is an American agent who's been given the plum assignment of locating beautiful young model Philippa Crosby. But when Philippa's trail ends at the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, Stuyvesant...
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