Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators

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Finding Bailey Mae (BookShots)

James Patterson

"Have you seen my cousin...alive?"Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is abducted. Now he'll call on every lethal skill to track her down-b...

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Published: Jan 2017

Silent Night (Spenser)

Robert B. Parker

"Brann does a seamless job…Diehard Parker fans will be delighted."  -Publishers WeeklyA special treat for the holiday season - a rumination on Christmas, family, and the meaning of home as conceived by Robert B. Parker. ...

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Published: Nov 2014

Malicious: A Mitchum Story (BookShots...

James Patterson

Did my brother kill your husband?Mitchum is back. His brother's been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum wi...

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Published: Feb 2017

Ice and Stone (A Sharon McCone Myster...

Marcia Muller

Private Investigator Sharon McCone goes undercover to investigate the murders of two Indigenous women in remote Northern California in this gripping, atmospheric mystery in the New York Times bestselling series.  When the bo...

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Published: Mar 2022

Margaret Truman's Deadly Medicine: A ...

Margaret Truman

Donald Bain continues the beloved Capital Crimes series with Margaret Truman's Deadly Medicine, a gripping tale of greed, betrayal―and murder.If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more eff...

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Published: Dec 2017

Heart of Barkness

Spencer Quinn

THE INSTANT USA TODAYBESTSELLER Spencer Quinn's Heart of Barkness is the latest in the New York Times bestselling series that the Los Angeles Times called "nothing short of masterful"... Chet the dog, "the most lo...

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Published: Jun 2020

Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davi...

Darynda Jones

Sometimes I wrestle my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle.—Bumper StickerMost girls might think twice before getting engaged to someone like Reyes Farrow—but Charley Davidson is not most girls. She's a paranormal private eye and gr...

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Published: Aug 2014

Switcheroo

Aaron Elkins

The Skeleton Detective is back.A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same...

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Published: Feb 2016

Family Values

G. M. Ford

Returning to Seattle after a business trip, retired PI Leo Waterman is shocked to find his girlfriend, Rebecca Duvall, unconscious on the bathroom floor, her house filled with gas. Officials believe it was a suicide attempt in the wak...

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Published: Aug 2017

Of Mutts and Men (A Chet & Bernie Mys...

Spencer Quinn

Spencer Quinn's Of Mutts and Men is the latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that the Los Angeles Times called “nothing short of masterful"…When Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in ...

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Published: May 2021

Unexpected Night: Henry Gamadge #1

Elizabeth Daly

First in the Henry Gamadge series. Bibliophile-sleuth Henry Gamadge investigates the bizarre death of Amberly Cowden and uncovers murder and mayhem in the midst of a troupe of impoverished actors.

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Published: Jul 2013

Old Scores: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel...

Will Thomas

"Wonderful...Thomas balances his rich historical context with a contemporary feel...nothing dull or fussy in this book." ―Milwaukee Journal-SentinelIn 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to ope...

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Published: Oct 2018

Dick Francis's Refusal

Felix Francis

Six years ago, private investigator Sid Halley retired. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand-enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter, he gave up that life, and he thought nothing would ever lure him ...

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Published: Jul 2014

The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom (T...

Erle Stanley Gardner

A lawyer is sucked into a couple's hostile divorce in this mystery with "a stellar ending" from the original detective series that inspired the HBO show (Kirkus Reviews). Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman w...

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Published: Jun 2020

Black Plumes

Margery Allingham

The slashing of a valuable painting at the renowned Ivory Gallery in London, one of the most prestigious art galleries in the world – followed by the murder of the proprietor's son-in-law, Robert, sets the stage for another finely t...

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Published: Jul 2016

The Long and Faraway Gone

Lou Berney

With the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Michael Connelly, Edgar Award-nominee Lou Berney's The Long and Faraway Gone is a smart, fiercely comp...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlo...

Benjamin Black

"SOMEWHERE RAYMOND CHANDLER IS SMILING . . . I LOVED THIS BOOK. IT WAS LIKE HAVING AN OLD FRIEND, ONE YOU ASSUMED WAS DEAD, WALK INTO THE ROOM."--Stephen King"It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin...

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Published: Feb 2015

Naked Came the Florida Man: A Novel (...

Tim Dorsey

Can it still be hurricane season? Must be, because here come Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned bro, Coleman, in Tim Dorsey's gonzo crime caper." -TheNew York Times Book Review The "compulsively irreverent and shock...

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Published: Dec 2020

No Sunscreen for the Dead: A Novel (S...

Tim Dorsey

A USA Today Bestseller!The Sunshine State's most lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storms, kills it in this zany adventure from the "compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) king of mayhem, New York Times best...

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Published: Jan 2020

The Pope of Palm Beach: A Novel (Serg...

Tim Dorsey

From Florida's king of mayhem—"compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey—comes a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms.No ...

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Published: Dec 2018

Tiger Shrimp Tango: A Novel (Serge St...

Tim Dorsey

Determined to save a damsel in distress, the Sunshine State's favorite serial killer and encyclopedia of Florida lore Serge Storms dances a tango of death and mayhem in this funny and dementedly entertaining crime caper from Tim Dorse...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Daddy's Girl Decoy (Jim McGill No...

Joseph Flynn

Nothing lights a fire under Jim McGill like the thought of someone threatening his family. So when he gets a call from his elder daughter, Abbie, about a frightening development, he's ready to rip somebody a new one. Only he learns th...

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Published: Sep 2016

The Devil on the Doorstep

Joseph Flynn

When you win reelection to be president of the United States by one electoral vote, as Patricia Darden Grant has done, you're going to make a lot of people angry. Some of them might even try to change the outcome by violence. The Secr...

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Published: Nov 2013

Heavy on the Dead (A Leo Waterman Mys...

G. M. Ford

One body on the sunny beach is all it takes for PI Leo Waterman to feel a chill.After seven months laying low in Ocean Beach, California, Seattle PI Leo Waterman has finally stopped looking over his shoulder—specifically, for the ve...

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Published: Jul 2019

Soul Survivor

G. M. Ford

PI Leo Waterman is back at it—investigating a very domestic crime that turns into a national nightmare in this upbeat page-turner of a mystery.Why would a teenager with no prior record suddenly assassinate a city councilman? Retired...

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Published: Jul 2018

The Dark Side of the Road

Simon R. Green

ISHMAEL JONES IS ON THE CASE. Paranormal private detective Ishmael Jones is invited to his employer's country house for Christmas just in time to become embroiled in a locked-room mystery with a supernatural twist. CALL HIM ISH...

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Published: Sep 2022

Lightning Strike: A Novel (18) (Cork ...

William Kent Krueger

An instant New York Times bestseller, this prequel to the acclaimed Cork O’Connor seriesis“a pitch perfect, richly imagined story that is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an evocative, emotionally charged coming-of-a...

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Published: Jul 2022

Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard)

Joe R. Lansdale

Edgar Award-winner and fan favorite Joe R. Lansdale is back with Hap and Leonard's latest caper: investigating the disappearance of a revivalist cult leader's daughter.Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair-Hap, a self-proclaimed white ...

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Published: Mar 2019

Holmes Entangled

Gordon McAlpine

From the Edgar®-nominated author of Hammett Unwritten and Woman with a Blue Pencil comes a startling meta-fiction tale told in the voice of Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1920s' London, Cambridge, and Paris, Holmes's final adventure leads h...

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Published: Mar 2018

The Bluegrass Files: The Bourbon Brot...

F. J. Messina

Bourbon, Bullets, and Blood! Sonia Vitale and her partner, Jet - two young, female private investigators in Lexington, Kentucky - find their resources stretched when they are asked to solve a crime of vengeance that threatens to disru...

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Published: Mar 2019
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