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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this part memoir, part literary true crime, the author becomes consumed by a sexual assault investigation that grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, and, when everything around her implodes, she must figure out how to win the case without losing herself.
Author
Series
Imposters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dire straits force Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother to become private investigators in London. When Sir Merrick Livingstone hires them to look into the father of Marigold's best friend for suspected international espionage, she is determined to discover the truth, and even more determined to keep her heart from getting involved.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge, and leads to the investigation of the deadly acts being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.
86) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. He's racked up a fortune and become a living legend, but all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses over Lara, whose life now hangs in the balance. Once...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the governor of the state of Washington asks him to investigate a snuff film found on her grandson's phone, J. P. Beaumont, no stranger to human depravity, is shocked by this horrific crime and discovers that this murder has much wider implications.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
89) Bitter brew
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
P.I. Savanna Reid launches a discreet investigation into the apparent assisted suicide of Dr. Jennifer Liu's friend, Brianne, but when Dr. Liu encounters the same unique mixture of lethal drugs in a second body, they are forced to expose a poisonous killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eagerly accepting a security detail job on a luxurious Alaskan cruise to protect a famed mystery writer, Savannah Reid tackles a particularly dramatic case when her charge inexplicably flees the ship and is killed in a suspicious accident.
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery, young, naïve and set to inherit an enormous fortune, goes missing, PI Philip Marlowe and Anne Riordan, head of her own all-female detective agency, search for this woman who doesn’t want to be found, encountering a dead body along the way.
Author
Series
Dead boy detectives volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Boy detectives Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland use the fact that they are dead to help with their investigations, but when they save a girl named Crystal Palace, they open a case that leads to the same school where they died decades earlier.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 25
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agreeing to investigate a cold-case file to help clear a young woman's name, struggling private investigator Robert Brixton finds himself in the underworld of Savannah's power elite and uncovers a secret government organization of contract killers who perform "patriotic" assassinations.
Author
Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Vacationing in California while her new husband, Jack, attends a business conference, private investigator Regan Reilly checks out a vegan family friend's concerns about an unscrupulous investment manager and uncovers a vast scam extending throughout the California coast.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Working as a private investigator in New Mexico, former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn comes to the aid of Ornella Neppi, who has made a mess out of her uncle's bail bonds business and needs Gunn's help in bringing in an elusive criminal who jumped bail.
98) Saving faith
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
A plot by the CIA to blackmail members of Congress into giving the agency more power. For the plot to succeed, a beautiful Washington lobbyist has to be killed, but a detective comes to her aid and they turn the tables on the plotters.
99) Stolen prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas Davenport's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings. But it just doesn't seem to fit, until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life.
100) Veronica Mars
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After walking away from her past as a teenage private investigator, Veronica Mars goes back to her hometown to help her old flame Logan Echolls fight a murder charge.
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