Private Eye Mysteries

On a blistering summer night, three thousand miles from Hollywood, a devastating fire erupts in a major movie studio’s film vault. Determined a tragic mishap by both local authorities and insurance investigators, young crack private detective Montague DiNardo, is hired by that same insurance company to confirm or dispute those findings. Initially, Monty affirms them. However, after a visit to what’s left of the vault and its contents, Monty decides to give the situation his full attention. As the young detective doggedly delves deeper into the what or who might or might not have caused ...

The latest riveting mystery in the Beach Detective series. Immerse yourself in a thrilling tale of mystery and suspense with “Beach Detective: Board of the Dings," the latest installment in a captivating series that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Meet Harry Lido, a tenacious young private investigator struggling to make ends meet in the sun-soaked coastal town of Redondo Beach, California. As fate would have it, he crosses paths with a remarkable woman in her nineties, who happens to be the owner of a beach house that has become the haunting backdrop for two chilling murders. ...

A young blind woman receives the world's first and miraculous binocular eye transplant, but questions surround the operation. Why was she selected? And why is a major charity so keen to put up the huge amount of collateral to make the operation happen? Enter Niall Burnet, unemployed and visually impaired journalist, who believes all is not as it appears and searches for answers.

A relentless gang war is the key to a shocking secretThe year is 1950. After graduating from college, Dapper Luoo stands at a crossroads. His parents want him to work in the family business, but he still dreams of becoming a private eye. Los Angeles is in turmoil. Mobster bosses Mickey Cohen and Jack Dragna are battling each other for control of the city’s underworld rackets, and Dapper is drawn into the fray when he’s given the unenviable task of finding a Chinese gang leader’s missing son. As Dapper gets closer to the truth, family secrets are laid bare, and he’s made privy to an ...

Bath's top detective, Peter Diamond, doesn't believe in jinxes. So when he's asked to investigate a top TV show plagued by a series of misfortunes, Diamond is unmoved. He's no fan of the show—which glorifies criminals and mocks the police—and the incidents were spread across six years. It's clear this is the press making a sensation out of nothing. So Diamond puts the junior member of his squad on the case. But when young officer Paul Gilbert goes on location with the TV unit and witnesses another near-death incident, Diamond is forced to take an interest.

Can private eye Nick Spanner and his partner Tianna survive an attack by vicious crime lord Mathias Brayderman and set the stage for his downfall? Many lives are at stake! It’s the year 2150 and private detective Nick Spanner and Tianna, his beautiful android partner from the planet Zeptadrina, have gathered enough evidence against dangerous crime lord Mathias Brayderman to not only please their client, one of Brayderman’s victims, but also to put Brayderman in jail permanently. But before they can turn over the evidence to Police Inspector Mayhew they are ambushed by Brayderman and his...

No one knows what happened to Tabitha Sorenson, a brilliant but troubled college student who vanished in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in school funds. Hired to find the missing young woman by her professor Dana Essex, private investigator Dave Wakeland is tossed into a world of suburban gangsters, corrupt authorities, and a contract killer with an unhealthy fondness for blades—all of them ready to guard their secrets at any cost. When the investigation takes a deadly turn, the young PI crosses borders—and lines—in his hunt for a sadistic killer.

When PI Dave Wakeland is hired by a terminally ill woman to discover the whereabouts of her adopted child, who disappeared as an adult more than a decade earlier, it seems like just another in a string of poor career decisions. Wakeland is a talented private investigator with next to zero business sense. And even though he finds himself with a fancy new office and a corporate-minded partner, he continues to be drawn to cases that are usually impossible to solve and frequently don’t pay. But it turns out this case is worse than usual, even by his standards.

Here are four hard-boiled detective short stories set in contemporary San Antonio, Texas. Nacho Perez, a former Marine drill instructor, uses his fists and his gun to get to the bottom of his cases. But he takes his lumps along the way.

Sleazy strip club owner Chaz Wellington Smith, III is at it again with an all-male revue called the Cheeky Monkey, catering to girls' nights out and bachelorette parties. Recently, his new venture has been plagued with annoying pranks that have turned costly, and of course, private eye Delanie Fitzgerald is the one he calls to find out who is center stage for all the mayhem.

A missing photographer. A slew of suspicious characters. And a bumbling P.I. who always seems to save the day. When a photographer mysteriously vanishes halfway through a real estate photoshoot, it’s down to everybody’s favorite Norwegian “Viking P.I.” Tommy to crack the case... except, his desk is bursting with more cases than he knows what to do with! But things take a strange turn when the local police write the disappearance off as not worth investigating. With the victim’s boyfriend contacting the Big Guns at KRIPOS (Norway’s FBI) – along with a spot of “convincing” ...

Der Fund einer grausam zugerichteten Frauenleiche erschüttert das Team der Mordkommission bis ins Mark. Der Toten wurde ein Messer mit einer mysteriösen Botschaft ins Herz gerammt, und in jedem ihrer Augen steckt ein Nagel. Will der Täter sein Opfer für etwas bestrafen, das es gesehen hat?

Two Heads are Better than One. Expect When One of Them is Attached to a Psychopath! When PI Steve Jobz wakes up naked in a seedy New Hampshire roadside motel, all four of his limbs bound to the bed posts, he realizes rather quickly that he should not have gotten so drunk the night before. When a pleasant, rather heavy-set Mary Poppins-like British lady lets herself into his room and reminds him of the porn film they made the night before, he soon senses he's about to be blackmailed. The bullets and the lies fly in this new killer thriller by New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus ...

A missing woman Steve Fraser is hired to find, but he soon realizes she keeps going missing.

Chicago, 1947. Private investigator "Matt" McBride runs afoul of corrupt politicians, vicious mobsters and a trigger-happy Texan femme fatale to prove that the "suicide" of his best friend was murder. Matt's perilous journey to track down the killer nearly dead-ends in a motor home on collision course with a cargo plane.

Murder is easy. Getting away with it is a whole different matter. Prominent Long Beach businessman Wilmer Judd is dead, gruesomely killed by his own employee, Sonny Cai. The case looks cut and dried, but Dapper Luoo isn’t convinced. From a brand new car that’s missing to the burnt-out remains of a corpse, too many things just don’t add up. Dapper thinks there’s some kind of cover-up, and heads out to find the truth. But in the gritty, complex streets of 1950s Los Angeles, one needs to look over their shoulder lest they end up dead too.

When a young immigrant woman and an exotic dancer are forced to flee men with guns and have no place to hide, Richard Noggin, PI, can't turn his back - even if helping out makes him a target. Richard plans to impress an aspiring politician by taking on a big white-collar case that could take him from the streets to an air-conditioned office. Instead, he's handed a cold case and quickly finds himself sucked into a shadowy world of sex, secrets and murder.

Grak is just an orc trying to get by. He also happens to be a private investigator. Who solves crimes with his fists. Join Grak on his many misadventures in this omnibus edition of the Orc PI series. Included in this complete edition are Grak - Private Instigator, Grak - Orc on Vacation, and Grak - Gnomercy. Grak - Private Instigator The city of Alyon is in trouble. Its citizens are turning into monsters. Not the good kind of monsters--terrifying, bloodthirsty, flesh-rending, citizen-killing monsters. When Grak's favorite barkeep tells him that he will get a lifetime supply of free alcohol ...

Jack Kiley, a professional soccer player turned private investigator, is hired to track down a soldier who has gone missing while on leave from Iraq. The soldier's mind is disturbed by what he has seen and done in the war, and he is armed. There are fears both for the man himself and for the safety of his estranged wife and two young children. Kiley's search leads him to Nottingham, where he teams up with D. I. Charlie Resnick.

For Vanessa, Pairs is a nightmare come true.But she tries her best to keep the creepy and downright terrifying down by being a fixer. So when she gets a job by the famous Madame VanGelder to retrieve stolen property its just another chance at two hundred francs a day and a pint of O negative every fourth day. Wrong. Buy Your Copy Today