Police Private Investigator

#1 Hardboiled Mystery #1 Women Sleuths #1 Police Procedural Mary Cooper is a private investigator in Los Angeles with a penchant for solving crimes and extreme sarcasm. In DEATH BY SARCASM, Mary's uncle, a stand-up comedian, is brutally murdered. When Mary begins to investigate, she becomes the target of a sadistic killer who is bent on executing a bloody rampage. DEATH BY SARCASM is the first book in the Mary Cooper Mystery series. Other books include (in order) MURDER WITH SARCASTIC INTENT and GROSS SARCASTIC HOMICIDE. Dani Amore is an international bestselling author and winner of the ...

The disappearance of firearms police officer Jonah Colley's young son almost destroyed him. A phone call from an old friend leads Jonah to the warehouse Slaughter Quay, and the discovery of four bodies, with a link to his son's case. Attacked and left for dead in the dark, Jonah is the only survivor. Under suspicion himself for what happened at Slaughter Quay, Jonah uncovers a network of secrets and lies about the people closest to him—forcing him to question what really happened to his son all those years ago...

Hollywood Division detective Ben Malone is caught up in a run of bad luck. The worst of it, his unfortunate entanglement in three separate fatal on-duty shootings in less than a year at a time when activists are protesting the use of deadly force by police and provoking riots all over the country. The spate of shootings has his LAPD superiors spooked and questioning his judgment. Is Malone too quick to use deadly force?

Playboy Thompson C. Briephs has just been found strangled in his bed. The police believe the Newcastle Herald crossword editor, a scion of a blue-blooded New England family, died from kinky sex gone wrong. But cop-turned-private investigator Rosco Polycrates thinks there's a six-letter word for what happened. Enlisting the help of Annabelle Graham, the crossword editor for a rival paper, Rosco unearths a crazy quilt of suspects who had it in for the victim - and one of them was blackmailing him.

Clay Wolfe is a former Boston homicide detective who has left the police department to return home to Maine to care for his elderly grandfather and open a private detective agency. Haunted by being orphaned at an early age, and jaded by the corruption of the big city, Clay is happy to hit pause and investigate minor crimes. When he is hired to find out who sold the drugs that killed a six-month-old baby girl, he has no idea of the evil that he is going to uncover in the underbelly of his hometown.

On the set of a movie, Cass, 30, calls her assistant, Kristin, 20s, to tell her to pick her up from set and take her out after work. At a club, Cass meets Nic, 40s. Instantly attracted, Cass decides to take a role acting next to him in an upcoming feature. The two begin a romance and have their pictures across tabloid magazines as the hot new celebrity couple. This is the Hollywood that Hollywood fantasizes about.

En La naturaleza de la bestia, la undécima entrega de la popular y aclamada serie dedicada a Armand Gamache, el ex inspector jefe de homicidios de la Sûreté du Québec debe abandonar su tranquila vida de jubilado en Three Pines para investigar la desaparición de un niño. El caso destapa una serie de sucesos que conducen a un asesinato y que, a su vez, nos guían hasta un antiguo crimen: a lo mejor el monstruo que hace veinticinco años llegó a Three Pines y sembró la desgracia entre la población ha regresado.

All favors come with a cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get his private investigator's license, former crime reporter Russell Avery finds himself paying. Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a troubling video: a made-for-YouTube cell phone snippet chronicling the same kind of questionable use of force that had set New York City, Ferguson, and Cleveland on fire in recent years. The same use of force that he's been covering up for Newark PD.

London is steaming under a summer of filthy heat and sudden storms - and Detective Nick Belsey, of Hampstead CID, is trying to stay out of trouble. But then somebody sets him a riddle. How does a man walk into a dead-end alley and never come out? And then reappear - to snatch a girl, to dump a body beneath a London skyscraper, to send Belsey a package of human hair? The answer lies underground, where the secrets degenerating beneath the city's sickly glitter are about to see the light of day.

Nashville private investigator Jared McKean has a son with Down syndrome, a best friend with AIDS, an ex-wife he can’t seem to fall out of love with, and a weakness for women in jeopardy - until one frames him for murder. His DNA and fingerprints are found at the murder scene, his voice is on the victim’s answering machine, and the victim was killed with a bullet from his gun.

Haunted by the disappearance of his mother when he was eight years old, detective Hud Matthews begins his own investigation to find out what really happened so many years before. When a rare murder occurs in the lakeside community, Hud’s veteran skills are called upon to capture the killer. Pulled deep into the threads of the community with ties to the past, Hud quickly becomes a target, not only of the killer, but of those who wish the past to be left alone.

A serial killer is on the loose in Boston… In this most intriguing third book of the Harry Sweet series, Harry has left the Boston Police Department and no one, including Private Investigator Shane McCurdy, seems to know where he’s gone. When Shane’s daughters’ best friend, Margot O’Neill, turns up as the serial killer’s latest victim, Shane knows he needs Harry’s help to solve the case. Will Harry and Shane be able to work together to bring Margot’s killer to justice? By the end, the chase for the killer will be the biggest personal and professional challenge of their lives...

On a rainy summer day in the Danish suburb of Brabrand, the body of a ten-year-old girl is found in a dumpster. Detective Inspector Roland Benito, having recently moved from Italy to Denmark, is immediately put on the case. When the crime is linked to an online chatroom where the murdered girl had a profile, the hunt for the killer is on. Reporter Anne Larsen and photographer Kamilla Holm are covering the investigation for the Daily News, but the closer they look, the more entangled they become.

A #1 Mystery in both the US and the UK. Mary Cooper is back, and this time she's searching for a killer who seems to enjoy playing with his victims' minds as much as he does with their lives. The book begins with the brutal slaying of a corporate executive under circumstances that can only be considered bizarre. Mary is hired to find out who killed him, and why. Soon, she is caught up in the often lurid world of celebrity psychologists and their infamous patients. "Mary Cooper is a riot!" - Amazon.com

Scott Jericho thought he'd worked his last case. Fresh out of jail, the disgraced former detective is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected. Then a series of bizarre murders comes to light - deaths that echo a century-old fairground legend. The police can't connect the victims. But Jericho knows how the legend goes; that more murders are certain to follow. As Jericho unpicks the deadly mystery, a terrifying question haunts him. As a direct descendant of one of the victims in the legend, is Jericho next on the killer's list?

“I’m working on the greatest mystery ever!” was the last thing noted mystery novelist Mercedes Livingston said to seven-year-old Chris Matheson before walking out of Hill House Hotel never to be seen again. For decades, the writer’s fate remained a puzzling mystery until an autographed novel and a letter put a grown-up Chris Matheson on the trail of a cunning killer.

This may be the most challenging of Logan’s cases. When former child star and America’s Sweetheart is kidnapped off the set of a Western film, a producer hires Logan to take on the case. However, complications soon arise, and he’s now not only searching for a kidnapper but a crazed murderer as well.

As usual, 17-year-old Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She's not been seen since. Alice was popular and well-liked, and her boyfriend, friends and family are desperate to find her. But when the police start asking questions, it becomes clear that almost everyone has something to hide. Torn between a host of suspects, Detectives Beth Winter and Lucas Black don't know which way to turn. But then they receive a disturbing package: pages from Alice's precious diary. Who could have sent them? And have they done with Alice?

It was as close to ecstasy as the woman had ever been in her life. It was enlightenment. She was no longer Martha Abbott. She was a warrior of Marduk engaged in a war of purity. "You say your daughter is missing?" Clay Wolfe asked. The man in front of him was slightly disheveled. Red eyes. Fear creased his features.

Джек Ричер, бывший военный полицейский, после увольнения колесит по всей Америке, наслаждаясь свободой. Но сбережения заканчиваются, и он останавливается в курортном городке, чтобы их пополнить, - днем копает бассейны, вечером подрабатывает вышибалой в баре. Однажды эту размеренную жизнь нарушает частный детектив - как выясняется, Джека разыскивает некая леди из Нью-Йорка. Ее имя ни о чем не говорит Ричеру, и он не придал бы данный встрече значения, если бы вскоре не обнаружил в темном закоулке тело этого самого детектива со срезанными подушечками пальцев.