Private Investigator Thriller

Death is coming to Bruncliffe; its target is Samson O’Brien. Oblivious to his impending date with fate, Samson is busy juggling a number of cases at the Dales Detective Agency. Too busy, in fact, to notice his partner behaving oddly. Because Delilah Metcalfe knows what is coming. A hitman. Sent from London with one objective: to finally silence the troublesome O’Brien before his corruption case can make it to court.

Troy and Eva Winters strap on their backpacks and start their one-week vacation on a wilderness trail in the rugged mountains of the Cascade Range in Oregon. They plan on meeting their good friends Jasmine and Michael Stevens at a high mountain lake on their second day in. To their surprise, their friends’ camp is deserted when they arrive.

In 1893 Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--a member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance.

Riley "Bear" Logan returns with his adopted daughter, Mandy, as they begin a new life away from the shadows Bear has operated in for the past two decades. But even a small town has secrets its inhabitants don't want to surface. And as Bear and Mandy get to know the locals, they realize things are not as they seem in the sleepy Upstate New York hamlet.

Paul Becker (le héros de "Monster") est au fond du gouffre. Obèse, divorcé, dépressif, ruiné... Il échappe miraculeusement à une tentative de meurtre alors qu'il s'est réfugié dans le parc de Yellowstone pour tenter de se refaire une santé. Mais il laisse croire à sa mort et se lance dans une enquête méticuleuse qui l'oblige à exhumer ses souvenirs d'enfances et les énigmes de son passé en Floride dans les années 70 pour découvrir qui a commandité son meurtre et pourquoi.

With a cheating boyfriend, a thankless career in waitressing, and her BA in English going to waste, Mira James jumps at the chance for a fresh start in rural Battle Lake, Minnesota. Right away she lands a job as a librarian, snags another as an on-call reporter for the weekly newspaper, and is swept off her feet by Jeff Wilson, a handsome archaeologist unearthing the town’s storied history. Moving here might be the best decision Mira’s ever made. Until she finds Jeff’s body between the library’s reference stacks.

Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright’s remote home on the Cornish coast. But before she can make sense of his confused words, he’s gone—not to be seen again until he’s found the next morning at the foot of the nearby cliffs.

Paul Becker, un jeune médecin, revient s'installer à Naples, une petite ville de Floride où lui et son ami d'enfance, Cameron Cole, aujourd'hui inspecteur de police, ont vécu leurs jeunes années en étroite complicité. Paul a ouvert une unité de soins d'urgence, une "Walk In Clinic" où l'on peut consulter de nuit, et malgré tous ses efforts, n'a plus que de rares loisirs à consacrer à sa famille.

Private investigators Troy and Eva Winters are looking forward to a visit with their old college buddy, Joe, when he invites them over for a barbecue and to talk over details of a case. The night soon turns awkward when Joe’s neighbors are overheard in an argument, which suddenly turns deadly silent. When Troy completes the assignment and brings the evidence to Joe, his friend is nowhere to be found. Troy’s life is soon in danger when he begins a search and stumbles across the neighbor’s evil secret.

McMurtrie’s old nemesis, Jack Willistone, is found dead on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Willistone had his share of enemies, but all evidence points to a forgotten, broken woman as the killer. At the urging of the suspect’s desperate fourteen-year-old daughter, McMurtrie agrees to take the case.

Crista Ferrone is watching her marriage fall apart. Her husband, Nick, has his own agenda and comes and goes as he pleases with no explanation of where he’s been. It isn’t unusual for him to come home at four o’clock in the morning. He pays no attention to his wife and two children.

Para entenderlo, primero deberás saber que tu padre tenía un hermano del que nunca te habló. Después, que ese hermano acaba de morir. Y por último, que en su testamento figuras como único heredero de una misteriosa propiedad en El Chaltén, un idílico pueblo de la Patagonia. Viajarás hasta allí para venderla, pero cometerás el error de hacer demasiadas preguntas. Entonces comprenderás que, treinta años después del crimen, en El Chaltén se esconde alguien dispuesto a borrarte del mapa con tal de que no llegues a la verdad.

On a cold winter morning in 1873, a crowd gathers on the shore of a Nova Scotia fishing village. A stormy sea has thrown a ship onto the rocks. The villagers work bravely to save the ship's crew. But many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all of the deaths. With the priest's help, Will - who grows up to be a famous detective - solves his first mystery.

In the spring of 1853, Private Detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theatre fire 10 years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs. Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theatre, she cannot turn away the woman in need. She agrees to take the case.

Date with Poison is the brilliant fourth novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective Agency series and is perfect of fans of M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin series and Gervase Phinn. A young teenager has gone missing. Can Samson O'Brien and Delilah Metcalfe find him? Spring is in the air in Bruncliffe. But not everyone is filled with the joys of the season. Implicated in the murder of a man in Leeds, the Dales Detective Agency’s Samson O’Brien is facing tough questions from the police....

Weeks after she got shot, Kenna is back. She’s living free of a past that held her in the grip of fear, determined to move on—and keep fighting. This PI isn’t going to let anything keep her from finding the lost and broken. After a deadly setback, Kenna realizes the case is far more complicated than she first thought. With an elite organization in the shadows, Kenna has to solve the case while a powerful enemy dogs every step and the echoes of her past threaten to tear her apart.

Working security for a wealthy Indian businessman sounds like easy money to PI Jim Bean. He’s charged with watching the man’s teenage daughter, the stubborn and spirited Zevah Ralen. His task is simple: keep the girl out of trouble during her father’s business trip to Las Vegas. But trouble strikes as soon as the assignment starts, when a group of kidnappers ambush Zevah outside the mall. Jim barely has time to handcuff himself to her before they’re both knocked out and transported to the kidnappers’ remote cottage hideout.

Former pro wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, now a fully fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter a new arena: women's flat-track roller derby. When old acquaintance Stormy Daze seeks his help finding her team's missing coach, Jed discovers that the turnbuckle-and-metal-chair mayhem of the wrestling ring pales in comparison to roller derby's four-wheeled ferocity.

Casey Derry has a gambling habit, and he knows he’ll get lucky one day if he just keeps trying. If only he can win big, he and his wife, Jen, can live happily ever after with no more worries, no more money problems, and no wondering whether they’re going to lose their house and live on the streets. With the last roll of the dice, he loses once again—his money and his dignity. It’s time to go home with his tail between his legs and endure Jen’s wrath and verbal abuse.

Marni Rome lives a happy life with her husband and two beautiful children. Her heart is filled with love for them. It’s a life that excites her every morning when she gets out of bed. She is lucky to be living in a beautiful home overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and she loves her career as a crime fiction novelist.