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Charlene "Charlie" Mack is a PI in Detroit. Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlie has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition. Her team of investigators are highly skilled and trustworthy, but she secretly struggles with her sexual orientation and a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. When Charlie and her crack team head to Birmingham, Alabama following the...
2) Maggie Terry
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"Post-rehab, Maggie Terry is single-mindedly trying to keep her head down in New York City. There's a madman in the White House, the subways are constantly delayed, summer is relentless, and neighborhoods all seem to blend together. Against this absurd backdrop, Maggie wants nothing more than to slowly re-build her life in hopes of being reunited with her daughter. But her first day on the job as a private investigator lands her in the middle of a...
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Receiving an urgent message from the nephew of her hospitalized business partner, Andy Nolan--a nephew who is killed minutes later--restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless embarks on a solo quest to identify the culprit and the victim's link to other killings.
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2022
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A private eye and a vigilante priest face off to bring down a corrupt band of evildoers—by the book, or off the books. Her way, or his.
Years ago, Aubrey Blake joined the police force to make a difference. She almost lost everything in the pursuit of justice. Now she's about to do it again.
Disillusioned with her former career, she makes a living as a private detective. A living, but not a life.
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Gloria Morris is a legendary smart, relentless and sometimes deadly private detective who kicks a lot of butt. She's also a B-girl who has fallen in love. Though romance is in the air in San Francisco, so is debauchery. While investigating the theft of some opulent jewelry, Gloria hears rumors about human trafficking in the area. Maneuvering through the streets of The City in her quest for the truth, she hunts amidst myriad thieves, murderers, musicians,...
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Charlie Mack and her crack team private investigators have been asked to take on a seemingly impossible task-to identify and thwart an attack on the upcoming Detroit Auto Show. With a $100K incentive and the help of a dozen freelancers, Charlie and her team slowly begin to unravel a twisted plot that runs through several countries and even more bank accounts. But finding out who's behind the deadly plot only solves half the problem, because Charlie...
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The filmmaker and author of the Vernon Subutex trilogy delivers "a terrific page-turner . . . a compelling punk, queerish spin on the noir genre" (Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts).
Apocalypse Baby is a smart, fast-paced mystery about a missing adolescent girl traveling through Paris and Barcelona. She is tailed by two mismatched private investigators: the Hyena, part ruthless interrogator, part oversexed rock star,...
Apocalypse Baby is a smart, fast-paced mystery about a missing adolescent girl traveling through Paris and Barcelona. She is tailed by two mismatched private investigators: the Hyena, part ruthless interrogator, part oversexed rock star,...
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When district nurse Mary Grey and her lover Harriet accept an invitation to visit the latter's godmother in the beautiful Lake District, they're hoping for a relaxing outing. But from the very start, they find themselves pulled into a web of intrigue, resentments, deceit, and violent passions.Young newlywed Rachel Florry is found on the lawn with her skull smashed in and there's no shortage of suspects. From the girl whose fiancée Rachel stole, to...
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When an antipornography activist dies after a provocative speech, Pam Nilsen dives headlong into Seattle's feminist community to uncover a murderer The Seattle Conference on Sexuality is a lightning rod for controversy, with big politics and even bigger personalities descending on the city to discuss issues ranging from pornography to violence against women. Loie Marsh is one such personality, an outspoken critic of porn slated to speak on a panel...
10) Murder and Gold
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New York City, 1954.
Two women are found murdered. One is Lorraine Quinn, Cantor Gold's most recent one-night-stand. The other is political power broker and aspiring New York socialite Eve Garraway, a regular client of Cantor's stolen art trade.
Police nemesis, Lieutenant Norm Huber, wants to pin the murders on Cantor, send her to prison, and put her in the electric chair. He'll get evidence on her any way he can. Into this cauldron of danger and...
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When Charlie Mack is hired by her ex-husband's new wife, things get awkward quickly. Her ex, Franklin, has been charged with his brother-in-law's murder. Charlie and Pamela both believe he didn't do it; it's the only thing they will ever see eye-to-eye on. But he's also in hiding for some reason neither of them understands. To the police, it adds up to guilt, but to Charlie, it indicates that Franklin has stumbled into an unplanned, and perhaps life-threatening,...
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Someone is murdering the homeless in Detroit's Cass Corridor-by immolation. These horrific crimes wouldn't require an investigation by Charlie Mack and her crack team investigators, except one of the burned bodies is identified as her mother's friend. There's a lot wrong with this case: the police won't admit a serial killer is on the loose, drug trafficking intersects with the deaths, and a rogue cop is involved. The timing also couldn't be worse-Charlie...
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When a guilt-ridden client has an unexpected change of heart, the Mack team's careful preparation for his grand jury testimony is blown to smithereens. Now, Charlie and Gil must pull out all the stops to defend him from his new enemies and the estrangement of his father. Meanwhile, Charlie reports for jury duty and unwittingly begins to unravel a disturbing plan to alter the outcome of a crime lord's conspiracy trial. Before she knows it, Charlie's...
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A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of arson fires and robberies at mosques, temples, and black churches around Detroit, eluding police and federal agencies. The most recent fire, at a mosque in Dearborn, kills a respected imam. His children-suspicious are of law enforcement's treatment of Muslims, and afraid of reprisal-hires Charlie Mack and her team of investigators to find...
15) Hunting Gold
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Lambda Literary Award-winning author returns with a stunning mystery proving that Noir is the new black.
A golden city of prosperity, energy, the exciting engine of the American Dream. Just underneath, though, is a dark city, with darker ambitions. This is the world of Cantor Gold, dapper art thief and smuggler, who has her own way of securing the rewards of the American Dream. In the conformist 1950s, when same-sex romance was illegal, Cantor decides...
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