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A private investigator follows a trail of blood and bodies to find his latest target--or die trying.
"Noland Twice, a star athlete turned private investigator, can find anyone, no matter how far they run or how well they hide. He works the Orlando-Tampa corridor, a bizarre land where theme parks and tourists coexist with drug deals and crooked businessmen. When a shady local executive, Valkenburg, goes missing, Noland is the only man for the job....
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[2023]
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Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
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"When a wealthy socialite is found dead on her luxury yacht, her daughter Lainey hires private investigator Kate Weller to look into the matter. Agnes Westin created plenty of enemies during her climb to the top of society, many with a taste for revenge -- but did any of them feel strongly enough to kill her? Kate has another reason altogether for returning to Pensacola, Florida, the only town she has ever called home. Her brother Liam has spent the...
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Indianapolis's least employed PI, Albert Samson, heads to southern Indiana in search of a missing woman. Facing insolvency and imminent eviction, private detective Albert Samson finally catches a break. Elizabeth Staedtler hires him to find her missing friend, Priscilla. But is Priscilla really missing or has she simply run away from her husband? Conducting an investigation in an unfamiliar city lands Samson a stint in lockup, two murderers on his...
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Indianapolis private eye Albert Samson must prove the innocence of an unstable war veteran on the hook for murder. Martha Jerome chose struggling PI Albert Samson because he's the cheapest detective in Indianapolis. She wants Samson to find evidence that will exonerate her son-in-law, Ralph Tomanek, who has been charged with manslaughter. A troubled Vietnam veteran who's been in and out of mental hospitals, Tomanek fired his shotgun and killed a man...
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Albert Samson mysteries volume 3
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PI Albert Samson takes on a new and deceptively dangerous case in the dead of an Indianapolis winter. After a Florida vacation spent at the horse races - turning a measly profit of eighty-two cents before expenses - private detective Albert Samson is back in slushy, freezing Indy, where, thankfully, it's a short walk from his living room to his office door. On this night, he opens it to find a hesitant stranger in an overcoat standing there. With...
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"Private Investigator Edwina "Eddie Shoes" Schultz's most recent job has her parked outside a seedy Bellingham hotel, photographing her quarry as he kisses his mistress goodbye. This is the last anyone will see of the woman... alive. Her body is later found dumped in an abandoned building. Eddie's client, Kendra Hallings, disappears soon after. Eddie hates to be stiffed for her fee, but she has to wonder if Kendra could be in trouble too. Or is she...
8) Full circle
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Alan Bernhardt novels volume 5
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A dying art collector asks Bernhardt to revisit him in his darkest hour The first time Betty Giles went missing, her employers wanted her dead. They hired Alan Bernhardt, theater director and sometimes PI, to find her, but when he discovered their scheme, he drew a sawed-off shotgun to save her life. Now Betty's missing again, hiding somewhere in Europe, and her old bosses want her found. Will Bernhardt deliver her to the man who once tried to have...
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Amos Walker novels volume 13
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PI Amos Walker of Detroit is hired to recover an illuminated medieval manuscript which was stolen for ransom. The assignment leads to information on the murder, twenty years earlier, of his partner and he reopens a probe.
10) Boneyard Ridge
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Private investigator Hunter Bragg must protect events planner Susannah Marsh from an anarchistic militia group and not let their mutual feelings for one another put her in further jeopardy.
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Albert Samson mysteries volume 4
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Indianapolis PI Albert Samson takes on a hospital, a pharmaceutical company, and the FBI. After his slowest summer ever, struggling and desperate private eye Albert Samson places an ad in the local paper, offering his services at a bargain price. Instead of new business, he gets an eviction notice. But his luck seems to change when Dorothea Thomas calls with an unusual tale of woe. Her brother, John, a chemist and pharmaceutical salesman, has been...
12) Find her a grave
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Alan Bernhardt novels volume 4
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To honor a dying don's last wish, a mob lieutenant searches for hidden diamonds After seven years ruling his empire from prison, Don Carlo remains as powerful as ever, but his heart is beginning to fail. On the verge of death, he begs his right-hand man, Bacardo, to look after his family. Not his wife and children, the don explains, but Louise and Angela-his daughter and granddaughter from a beloved mistress who died long ago. To Louise, the don bequeaths...
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Riley Thorn series volume 1
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[2024]
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"A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions. Just when things can't get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for a neighbor...who turns up murdered. Nick Santiago doesn't play well with others....
14) Diamond Head
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John Caine mysteries volume 1
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Winner of the annual St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest.
Newcomer Charles Knief spins a compelling mystery replete with scandal, intrigue, and an appealing new P.I.--retired U.S. Naval officer John Caine, living aboard his sailboat in the beautiful waters of Oahu, getting by doing "favors" for friends. But this time, the favor involves the brutal murder of Vice Admiral Winston's daughter, who it seems was involved in the...
15) Why she lied
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Martina Monroe volume 4
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"A missing mother and child. A secret past revealed. Will Martina and Hirsch discover the truth before they meet their end? In the thick of the current cold case investigation, PI Martina Monroe receives a hand-written letter from a desperate mother pleading for Martina and Hirsch to reopen the cold case of the woman's missing daughter and five-year-old grandson. Feeling a deep connection to the request, Martina knows that Hirsch and she have found...
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John Marshall Tanner seems to court adversity. While struggling to recuperate from a near-fatal gunshot wound, he meets Rita Lombardi, a fellow hospital patient who works among the strawberry pickers in California's Salinas Valley. When Tanner tries to contact Rita after her release, he discovers she has been brutally murdered. Suddenly, rumors abound that Rita was a revolutionary leader intent on bringing reform to the union in a town where both...
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"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after...
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It’s 1942, and as far as her father knows, Evelyn Bishop, heiress to an aeronautics fortune, is working as a translator in London. In truth, Evelyn—daring, beautiful, and as adept with a rifle as she is in five languages—has joined the Office of Strategic Services as a spy. Her goal is personal: to find her brother, who is being held as a POW in a Nazi labor camp. Through one high-risk mission after another she is paired with the reckless and...
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"During a heatwave in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, part-time reporter Lucy Stone becomes unseasonably entangled in handmade quilts--and a twisted case of murder... When a community center opens in town, many embrace it as a space where locals of all ages can gather and create. Others view it as a waste of taxpayer dollars. The director, Darleen Busby-Platt, is no less controversial. Intense and showy, Darleen has huge plans for her new role. But Lucy believes...
20) Eye opener
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Albert Samson mysteries volume 8
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Indianapolis PI Albert Samson gets his license back just in time to take on a high-profile, big-bucks case. After a falling out with a cop cost him his PI license, Albert Samson is thrilled to be reinstated. Within hours, he has two new clients. But the real payday arrives when he is co-opted onto the defense team for a man accused of a series of extremely ugly crimes. Of all the private eyes in town, why have the lawyers handpicked Samson for the...
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