Private Police

Gus Mackie's police detective friend, Bernie Longmire, comes to Gus with an offer of a special case. It has to be handled quietly since a country's fate is at stake. The country has a king and his daughter is missing. Bernie is tasked with finding her, before the king and queen go back home from the United State for an important celebration. But if they don't have the daughter with them, the king's rule may be in jeopardy.

An eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support the status of those in power at the destructive expense of those without it. From 1958, China declared war on sparrows, contributing to the deaths of more than 10 million people. In the 19th century, the Shuar people of Ecuador were driven by economic need to wage bloody wars to procure shrunken heads for the Western curio market, which nearly destroyed their society. There have been 55 prime ministers of Great Britain, of whom 48 have been privately educated, creating a society built for and by the privileged.

Dopo che gli avvenimenti raccontati nel precedente romanzo, Attenti al gorilla, lo avevano fatto finire all'ospedale, Sandrone Dazieri, è finalmente guarito dai suoi malanni. Ma per un tipo così è difficile stare lontano dai pasticci. Torna a Cremona, in convalescenza a casa della madre, incontra una ragazza meritevole di seduzione e finisce dritto dritto sul cadavere di un albanese. Sembra uno di quei casi risolto in partenza, però Sandrone, che i particolari li osserva, non è affatto convinto.

It was time for Gus to move to a better office and out of a slum area in Detroit. Police homicide detective Bernie Longmire, and Angela, Gus' daughter, agree to help him move into his new office. Going back to the old office to get ready to move, they find a woman crying at Gus' door. She has a problem: She doesn't know where her husband is at. Did he run off with another woman or is he dead in a shallow grave? They were able to get the story from her despite all the crying she was doing, and Gus took the case.

Calgary, Alberta, gears up for its 10-day Stampede festival. When a hoarder dies in a suspicious house fire, adjuster Paula Savard sets the revelry aside to handle the property insurance claim. But Paula’s interviews with the hoarder’s bickering heirs raise questions. What are they hiding from each other and the police? Are they trying to help or to sabotage the investigation? Did one of them set the blaze to kill a relative and hasten an inheritance?

Negli ultimi mesi del 2011 il piccolo villaggio di Airone, a pochi chilometri da Bologna, è sconvolto dalla misteriosa scomparsa della diciassettenne Celeste Maccaferri. Parallelamente alle consuete indagini della polizia, Fiorella Benedetti, conduttrice televisiva senza scrupoli, assolda l’investigatore privato Galeazzo Trebbi. L'intento della conduttrice è quello di andare più a fondo alla questione ma, soprattutto, confezionare un perfetto caso mediatico.

"Ho bisogno di te, Antonio" dice la quasi ex-moglie al commissario Mariani: per un attimo crede che Francesca voglia tornare con lui. Gli sta chiedendo invece di occuparsi della scomparsa di Cabel, un muratore albanese. Mariani si applica con abnegazione per trovare il giovane e finalmente lo rintraccia, ad Asti. È in fin di vita, ma prima di cadere in coma riesce a pronunciare soltanto una parola: cuorenero... La trama della sesta indagine della serie del commissario Mariani si muove su uno sfondo di crudeltà e aberrazione, vita di strada e sfruttamento di minori.

When an old friend comes calling, Caroline finds herself embroiled in a case involving clandestine meetings, bank robberies, a shady import-export business, and the murder of an FBI agent. And where this fearless female sleuth goes, Tupper Jones is sure to follow—only this time, following her could mean a long walk off a short pier into Lake Michigan.

Himmelherrgottsakrament! - Noch ein Giftmord! Was ist nur los in der kleinen, beschaulichen Nachbargemeinde? Wurde der betuchte Autohausbesitzer aus Wiesent tatsächlich mit seinem eigenen Honig ermordet? Wie Hinterdobler es hasst, dieses goldgelbe, klebrige Zeug! Als wäre es erst gestern gewesen, spürt er noch heute diesen bohrenden Schmerz, der ihn als Zehnjähriger durchfuhr, als sein kariöser Zahn damit in Berührung kam.

Halloween is a time for children to go door to door trick-or-treating. For Doyle and his girlfriend, Poppy, it's a time to catch a ghost. Poppy is investigating an insurance claim of a woman who says she was pushed down a flight of stairs by a ghost in a posh but very old hotel in Detroit. She enlists Doyle to help, and they try to get to the bottom of the claim.

Something Very Bad Is Happening In Good Isle. A picture-postcard beautiful little town on the shore of Lake Michigan, Good Isle is where the wealthy buy summer homes. Bad things just don’t happen in this quaint little town. That is, until Billy “Dynamite” Dawkins, a legend in Detroit’s boxing history, disappears. John and Ellen Rockne, both in Good Isle for different reasons, are asked to look into the famous boxer’s disappearance. Before long, they are both drawn into a dark side of Good Isle that until now, had remained the town’s most notorious secret. “Fast-paced, engaging...

Lucius Anoraq is hired by a wealthy Pasadena widowed emu with a mean streak to find a missing daughter-in-law who stole a gold coin worth a small fortune. Only things don’t quite add up until Anoraq discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and exploitation.

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.

Packender Plot, spannend bis zum Schluss! Vier Hunsrücker Freunde planen den großen Coup. Auf einen Schlag reich werden, alle Sorgen los sein und die große, weite Welt vor sich haben! Ihr Plan ist beinahe ein Kinderspiel. Er setzt einfach darauf, dass Kinder ihren Eltern mehr wert sind als alles Geld der Welt. Wenn ein Elternteil dann noch im politischen Rampenlicht steht und der andere ein angesehener Anwalt mit gut gehender Kanzlei ist, lässt sich die Forderung leicht in Millionenhöhe treiben!

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?

Gino Cataldi loved three things: his wife, his son, and his job as a cop. Cancer took his wife. Drugs have his son. And Gino is pulling desk duty, suspected of killing a drug dealer. Every night he dreams of a chance to make things right. That chance comes when a high-society woman is brutally murdered, her body parts spread all over town. The investigation quickly hits a dead end...until a late-night caller with too much information contacts Gino.

Ostern 1903. In den Armenvierteln von London werden französische Prostituierte gekreuzigt aufgefunden. In der Kleidung der Leichen entdeckt man mysteriöse Nachrichten. Diese Kreuzigungs-Morde sorgen für internationales Aufsehen und belasten einen anstehenden Staatsbesuch des englischen Königs beim französischen Präsidenten, bei dem sich beide Großmächte einander annähern wollen. Inspektor Bradstreet von Scotland Yard und die Londoner Polizei tappen im Dunkeln. Zur Klärung der Mordserie wird Sherlock Holmes vom König direkt beauftragt.

Someone was killing all the males that were next in line, the Upper Lakes pack were afraid who would be next. Detective Robins was just finishing up her last case, after 15 years on the force, she decides it is time to retire. But she knows she needs something else to do, so becoming a private investigator was right up her alley. She was getting burnt out from hunting killers and kidnappers, so with her partner a German Shepherd wolf mix, Robins decided it was time to stop the hunting. Until one morning, Louis shows up at her door asking for help.

On a day when Casey Stone, a New York City private investigator, was worrying about his unpaid bar tab at Pat's Bar and Grill, a long-legged, blonde beauty named Rosemary Kelly walked into his office and handed him $2,000 to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption 16 years ago. Apparently the child's father, who abandoned Rosemary when he found out she was pregnant, felt remorse for his actions and secretly established a trust fund for their child, which now exceeded one million dollars. The trust was activated when he died recently.

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