Private Eye Mysteries

When historian Willie Clarke dies suspiciously of dehydration just outside of a touristy ghost town, private investigator Jim Knighthorse is hired to find answers. It doesn't take the ex-football hero long to discover that the historian's death is connected to one of the West's most bizarre murder mysteries ever―that of a cowboy found mummified in the desert a hundred years ago with a bullet hole in his stomach. A cowboy now propped up in a curiosity shop for all the world to gawk at. As the two cases converge, it's up to Jim Knighthorse to untangle not one, but two murders. The Mummy ...

DEAD BROKE is the first in a gripping new crime series. A desperate gumshoe... A stolen antique... Jefferson Cole is about to find out that being a Private Investigator can be murder... Introducing the first book in a thrilling new crime series that will keep you on the edge of your seat! If you're a fan of LJ Ross, JD Kirk, Mark Dawson, and Ian Rankin, then DEAD BROKE is the book for you. Meet Jefferson Cole, an American Private Eye in London who is down on his luck and running out of funds. But when a wealthy client offers him a job to recover a stolen Chinese antique, Cole thinks he's ...

The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home if unequal P.I. enterprise. That is, until Lila is tipped off to an explosive piece of news. An old friend of their Aunt Ruth's—a lawyer and academic who’d committed suicide years ago—believes that Ruth was murdered. Prior to her death, Ruth had represented a chemist who’d been struggling to patent a dangerous synthetic opioid. But once the client, Travis Nutt, was poised to lose, he went rogue and unleashed the adulterant as a street drug with the power of cartel funding behind him.

Sarah Malloy has just helped with the delivery of a bouncing baby girl at her women's clinic, when she receives a visit from an engaging and determined young woman writing an article for New Century Magazine. Louisa Rodgers explains that she is researching the dangers of patent remedies. Sarah is only too happy to tell Louisa exactly what she thinks of the so-called medicines. A few days later, Sarah receives a visit from a bereft Bernard Rodgers, who explains that his daughter, Louisa, has been found strangled in the lobby of the building where New Century has its offices.

Stark Justice follows the adventures of a retired police detective who travels around the country in an RV - looking for trouble that often finds him first. Like a lot of men in his profession, he had a well-developed plan for his retirement. The RV was always part of it, his wife was the one who suggested it and she helped pick out the model down to the upholstery. But she died before he put his papers in; his only consolation was they had taken a weekend trip in the camper before she passed. She knew him, and made him swear he would not sell it, that he would go and live the life he ...

It’s early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she’s a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend want her found before that happens. To make sure, they’ve got Anne Riordan—now head of her own all-female detective agency—on the case, too.

When the police refuse to investigate the disappearance of Mallory Carver’s niece, Julie, her family turns to private investigator Tucker Randall and thus set off a dangerous chain of events. Julie disappeared while hiking in the beautiful yet treacherous Cherokee National Forest, and Randall, a former FBI agent with a haunted past, can’t understand why the police won’t get involved. But as he delves deeper into the forest’s secrets, he realizes that someone is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the truth buried, and he’s determined to solve the case and bring the missing girl home.

Ever since meeting James Martin, Alex's life has never been the same. The former federal agent turned private investigator has faced off against mercenaries, deranged crime lords, and art smugglers, and that's just what's happened since taking a job in the private sector. After the most recent brush with death, Alex is reconsidering her work, but the universe has other plans. Martin has been arrested for the murder of supermodel Caterina Skolnick. The body was found on his yacht, and he was the only person onboard.

Samantha Moon is back and fighting crime! Hired for what seems like another cheating spouse case, Samantha couldn’t be more surprised when the target of her surveillance seemingly walks in on a bank robbery. Is he somehow involved? Sam doesn't know, but a few twists and turns later, she soon finds herself hanging from a helicopter’s landing skid... and heading out to sea. Turns out, this is no ordinary cheating spouse case. Luckily, Sam is no ordinary private eye. Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE today!

Books 25, 26, and 27 in the international #1 bestselling "Vampire for Hire" series, including: MOON BLADE (Book #25) Vampire private eye Samantha Moon must find a killer, save a child, and wage war on an unimaginable enemy—in Moon Blade by USA Today bestselling author J.R. Rain. Sam doubts Detective Sherbet's new homicide case is the work of a vampire... Until she sees the body. Ever since that night in Hillcrest park so long ago, Samantha Moon knew her life would be far from ordinary. She never expected the weirdest part would be watching Tammy and Anthony turn into adults. Other than ...

It's the holidays, and Samantha Moon and her family are ready to get together and celebrate. No, they may not be your average family, but the love is just as real. It's two days before the big Thanksgiving meal when Sam receives a most unusual guest. Unusual because she hasn't seen her brother, Clayton, in twenty years. Turns out, he isn't just here for the pumpkin pies and yams. He's got a problem. He's been cursed and thinks his little sister is his best chance to fix it. With pie baking put on hold, Sam and company set out to break his curse, locate a kidnapped baby, and save the day. ...

As if learning vampires truly existed didn’t shock him to his core already, Max grapples with the reality that he’s been given real magic. Indeed, he has the power of all four elements literally at his fingertips. They say every good private eye story starts with a crying girl walking through the door. Crystal hadn’t been the first upset woman to ask Max for help, not in a town with a murder rate far worse than any big city. Unfortunately, he’d made the biggest rookie mistake of all...falling in love with a client. As if becoming romantically entangled didn’t complicate matters ...

It is early 1942. You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Sam Spade is rumored to be in Istanbul. The Continental Op has been drafted and is a sergeant in the Aleutians. Philip Marlowe is up at Little Fawn Lake investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Derace Kingsley. Lew Archer is in the army. Who's left? Nobody but C. Card. You haven't heard of C. Card? That's all right. Nobody has.

A Jersey comedy with a little romance! Atlantic City social worker, Lucy Womzak, had always been able to find the good in people, to make the best out of bad situations, and to cook her way out of stress. So when her husband, Lester, leaves her for a slightly younger (but much skinnier) woman, she's sure she has the skill set to handle it and re-create a happy home for her and her sixteen-year-old twins. After all, she still has the ability to make a decent meatloaf. But positive thinking and a degree in therapy can only go so far. When Lucy discovers Les led a secret life as a mafia-...

When a well-known local socialite’s body is found during a round of golf with his father, Harry Starke suddenly finds himself embroiled in what quickly becomes a very thorny murder investigation. Who killed Angela Hartwell and why? The answers lie somewhere along a twisty-windy path through the patrons and morals of an exclusive golf club where the members are seldom what they seem, and their goals are infinitely more complicated than a simple round of golf. Harry Starke’s investigation takes him into a world he’s very familiar with. A world of affluence, privilege, and corruption.

When Chet is sent to the principal's office, he finds a shocking surprise. Principal Zero (sometimes known as "Big Fat Zero") is acting friendly: quite unlike himself. He either has become a nice person (nawww!), been brainwashed, or is being impersonated by someone else.

There is a mole running loose. And there is serious danger looming! This cozy takes place within the Starbucks in the CIA building. There is something going on, and it is up to Super Spy Private Eye, to figure out just who is revealing top secret information, procedures and routines. Every moment captures your interest, and you wonder who can be trusted, and who is putting on an amazing act! You will be captivated by this story, in every which way.

Maggie Thomas likes to think she’s tough and totally into this private eye thing. She got off to a rocky start, but things aren’t so bad now. Until she discovers a couple dead guys. Plus, while at the scene of the crime her hot detective boyfriend Jake Jackson places her in handcuffs. At least she has the help of her assistant Dorothy Raye who likes to kick butt while wearing her orthopedic shoes. Wielding her knitting needles like weapons is only one of Dorothy's talents. Maggie finds herself in big trouble this time. Will she find the killer before she ends up dead in the water?

'I can't deny it, I just love these characters! ' - Goodreads reviewer Investment Trust boss Hugo Morgan has celebrated his fiftieth birthday by dumping his wife of twenty-two years and is now intent on marrying a younger model. Tasked with checking out the back story of the shiny new Mrs Morgan are ex-barrister turned private eye Maggie Bainbridge and her faithful assistant Jimmy Stewart. A SUSPICIOUS SUICIDE Beautiful and clever, twenty-three year old Chardonnay Clarke has died under the wheels of a tube train, leaving behind a heart-breaking message on her social media. But in DI Frank ...

Through 14 books, listeners have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past. This time, Grafton feeds you an entire feast, including the juice about Kinsey's first husband!