Police Private Investigator

Jayme Fredricks had just been released from prison after serving almost a year, for a murder he never committed. He happened to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time and when he was identified for killing a woman he actually had known from the past, he was arrested and thrown in the slammer. He pleaded not guilty to murder and aggravated assault, but was still convicted, on very flimsy, circumstantial evidence. He was devastated and so was his family, but there was nothing anyone could do. He knew he was innocent, but no one would believe him, all except his best friend, Marnie Paine. ...

It was April 1, 1998, when the bodies of two teenagers, a young fella and his girlfriend - both high school seniors - were found among the trees on a lonely road just inside the city limits. The bodies had been stripped and left for the wild animals to...well, you get the idea. The cops had a good idea who the killer was, but they never could prove it, so the case went cold until April 1, 2012, when local DA, Larry Spruce, asked me to take a look at it.

Let sleeping dogs lie. If only that were the case throughout Bell County, Texas, things would’ve returned to the serenity that once defined it. A quiet, and peaceful place was what Hank Davidson wanted as his retirement home. After a high-risk, violent career as an FBI-trained serial killer detective, crime was the last thing Hank wanted. He also had no intention to fall in love, but crime also played a part in that, or at least solving crime did. Bell County’s numerous historic cemeteries were once revered for honoring the heroic sacrifices of it’s citizens and soldiers. The recent ...

Parker is thinking about the rest of his life and contemplating marriage, when a dark-haired gypsy shows up at his door, insisting on learning the esoteric art of Aikido. She is an odd one, but comes in with a fist full of money and swaying hips. Parker isn't hooked, but can't keep his eyes off her.

Striking a balance between the pros and cons of his job isn’t going to be easy, especially now that his reputation is growing. Harris has helped to solve a few more high-profile cases, and some people aren’t too happy about that. He thought that it would help get him more clients, and he’s getting noticed all right - by the wrong kind of people.

Zwei Brüder. Zwei Leichen. Zwei Fälle? Kriminalkommissar Holger Brinks wird mit einem Vermisstenfall betraut: Victoria Sommer, eine der drei Gründerinnen eines Smoothie-Startups kurz vor dem Durchbruch, ist verschwunden. Privatschnüffler Charlie Brinks soll derweil für eine alte Flamme deren Ehemann Robert beim Seitensprung ertappen und langweilt sich zu Tode. Dann jedoch verschwindet auch Robert auf mysteriöse Weise. Holger und Charlie erkennen nicht nur, dass die beiden Fälle zusammengehören, sie hegen auch den Verdacht, dass die verbliebenen Smoothie-Damen etwas damit zu tun haben.

Calvin Watters spent three hard years on the Vegas streets, working the depths of the red light district. When a string of escort murders surfaces and the LVMPD has no answers, they realize that there is only one man they can turn to for help. Calvin vowed to never return to his former life, but this new case pulls him back in. As he hits the streets, his honed survival skills kick in, and the PI must call upon his past experience to outwit a worthy opponent.

Una extraña mujer le encarga a Rojo que encuentre a su marido. Él acepta, a cambio de una generosa suma. Lo que parece un asunto fácil de resolver, se convierte en un turbio caso que pondrá en peligro su vida. Han pasado algunos años desde su regreso a Alicante, los fantasmas del pasado lo perturban y Rojo no encuentra su lugar en la ciudad. Un error laboral le obligará a tomar una excedencia de un año. Sú única forma de seguir a flote es aceptando la oferta de una mujer, para que encuentre a su marido desaparecido, un extravagante empresario de la noche alicantina.

All favors come with a cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get his private investigator's license, former crime reporter Russell Avery finds himself paying. Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a troubling video: a made-for-YouTube cell phone snippet chronicling the same kind of questionable use of force that had set New York City, Ferguson, and Cleveland on fire in recent years. The same use of force that he's been covering up for Newark PD.

Hollywood Division detective Ben Malone is caught up in a run of bad luck. The worst of it, his unfortunate entanglement in three separate fatal on-duty shootings in less than a year at a time when activists are protesting the use of deadly force by police and provoking riots all over the country. The spate of shootings has his LAPD superiors spooked and questioning his judgment. Is Malone too quick to use deadly force?

The disappearance of firearms police officer Jonah Colley's young son almost destroyed him. A phone call from an old friend leads Jonah to the warehouse Slaughter Quay, and the discovery of four bodies, with a link to his son's case. Attacked and left for dead in the dark, Jonah is the only survivor. Under suspicion himself for what happened at Slaughter Quay, Jonah uncovers a network of secrets and lies about the people closest to him—forcing him to question what really happened to his son all those years ago...

This may be the most challenging of Logan’s cases. When former child star and America’s Sweetheart is kidnapped off the set of a Western film, a producer hires Logan to take on the case. However, complications soon arise, and he’s now not only searching for a kidnapper but a crazed murderer as well.

Since Burt retired at 52, he’s been bored. After a chance encounter with a mugger he decides he might just be meant to save the world one crime at a time. And voilà, Burt’s Private Investigations is born. Before he knows it, he’s in deep and possibly over his head. He stumbles onto a dead body, which turns out to be the daughter of the town’s country club owner who has rumblings of mob ties in his past. The clues lead him all over the North Georgia mountains, but the most intriguing ones lead to an end of the world compound and its charismatic leader.

London is steaming under a summer of filthy heat and sudden storms - and Detective Nick Belsey, of Hampstead CID, is trying to stay out of trouble. But then somebody sets him a riddle. How does a man walk into a dead-end alley and never come out? And then reappear - to snatch a girl, to dump a body beneath a London skyscraper, to send Belsey a package of human hair? The answer lies underground, where the secrets degenerating beneath the city's sickly glitter are about to see the light of day.

“Fast-paced, original, engaging…” New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry Private Investigator John Rockne is determined to find out who is responsible for the brutal murder of a young man in Grosse Pointe. A contract killer known only as The Spook wants to keep the truth buried forever. Rockne quickly uncovers a series of dark secrets with ties to his own tortured past. HARD ROCK is a thrilling conclusion to the bestselling crime novel DEAD WOOD. “The first private eye novel in a long time that just swept me along for the ride.” Edgar-nominated author Craig McDonald

Louise Penny, con su prosa envolvente y sensual y su talento para subyugarnos con los mínimos detalles del entorno y los rasgos más sutiles de los personajes, no hace más que subrayar la sempiterna ignominia que permanece agazapada en el fondo del ser humano, lista para dar el zarpazo en cualquier instante.

A serial killer is on the loose in Boston… In this most intriguing third book of the Harry Sweet series, Harry has left the Boston Police Department and no one, including Private Investigator Shane McCurdy, seems to know where he’s gone. When Shane’s daughters’ best friend, Margot O’Neill, turns up as the serial killer’s latest victim, Shane knows he needs Harry’s help to solve the case. Will Harry and Shane be able to work together to bring Margot’s killer to justice? By the end, the chase for the killer will be the biggest personal and professional challenge of their lives...

"A smart detective story stuffed with sharp prose and snappy one liners." -Indie Reader In the follow-up to the international bestselling novel DEATH BY SARCASM, Los Angeles based private investigator Mary Cooper is hired to track down a missing child. The case quickly leads her into the seedy underworld of Los Angeles' pornography industry where Mary's on again off again boyfriend Jake Cornell has been working undercover for the LAPD. As Mary investigates, she soon uncovers a world in which no one is who they claim to be. Armed with her .45 and a heavily sarcastic wit, Mary vows to rescue ...

A #1 Mystery in both the US and the UK. Mary Cooper is back, and this time she's searching for a killer who seems to enjoy playing with his victims' minds as much as he does with their lives. The book begins with the brutal slaying of a corporate executive under circumstances that can only be considered bizarre. Mary is hired to find out who killed him, and why. Soon, she is caught up in the often lurid world of celebrity psychologists and their infamous patients. "Mary Cooper is a riot!" - Amazon.com

Annabelle—Annie, thank you very much—Jordan’s got a new lease on life. She’s starting A New Chapter. Literally. Her great-aunt—one she’d never head of, has left her a bookstore—A New Chapter—to run. Sure it means leaving Jersey behind and going to the Carolinas, where everything is slow and meandering, but what else’s a new divorcee to do? A break-in at the bookstore not long after Annie arrives in town is just one of the mysterious events that follows. Finding out about a father she knew nothing about, a family history that belongs in fiction, and a hunky private ...