Private Eye Thriller

NEVER ONE TO HOLD A GRUDGE, ALTON RHODE DECIDES TO HELP OUT A FORMER HOOKER WHO ONCE PLOTTED TO HAVE HIM KILLED. SHE WANTS HIM TO FIND OUT WHO MURDERED HER GRANDFATHER WITH AN ICE PICK! LORENE ROBILLARD BETRAYED ALTON RHODE AND ALMOST GOT HIM KILLED. NOW, SHE WANTS HIS HELP! ***The private investigator soon finds himself in a Southern town that has more secrets than pigeons on Confederate statues. But with two brutish killers straight out of “Deliverance” on his tail, Rhode is forced to call for backup. The new ally, making his own contributions to a rising body count, helps uncover a ...

Harry Starke loves a cold case, but this one is really cold, more than a hundred years cold. Family Matters is a tale that takes place on the lonely coast of Maine, where Amanda, a true believer in the paranormal, has inherited—you guessed it—a haunted house. At least that’s what the rumors say. It all begins when Amanda inherits the house, substantial assets, and a large sum of money from her grandmother. The windfall comes with a request to look into the disappearance of Elizabeth, Amanda’s great-great-grandmother, more than a hundred years ago.

Lester Caine, retired as a highly decorated New York City lieutenant detective after 25 years is now in the private eye cop business settling in West Palm Beach, Florida. He thought it was the perfect place for him, his Cadillac convertible, and the tanned socialites of Palm Beach. The PI business drew Lester into the shadowy side of murder.

Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective—until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work, but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling’s body was found, the cause of death was assumed to be suicide. Despite her talent and fame, she struggled with a host of demons. But as Kate digs deeper, she learns that Margot had a growing list of enemies

In this series, the noted duo of Miami-Dade detectives has been assigned to the elite Crime Buster Special Police Division. Now, they are police detectives under the commission of Captain Amanda Rodriguez to aid in catching the urban Street Slasher, the psycho serial killer that has the city on lockdown! The two already noted detectives are joined by a veteran detective who worked on the earlier serial killings and detective Malcolm Donavon joins them.

Janet Evanovich described SOUND OF BLOOD: "A great read with a shocking ending." TRAGEDY STALKS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR LOOKING INTO A SUSPICIOUS DEATH WHEN HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE WOMAN RESPONSIBLE. Bodies pile up from coast to coast as Jake Scarne uncovers a web of murder and fraud. ***“IF YOU LIKE THRILLING ACTION, CRACKLING DIALOGUE AND A TRAGIC LOVE STORY YOU WON’T SOON FORGET, THEN SOUND OF BLOOD, THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE JAKE SCARNE SERIES, IS JUST A CLICK AWAY!” (John Crudele, New York Post); “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ...

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.

February in Portland, Oregon, and what many are calling the Storm of the Century has left hundreds of abandoned cars and buses clogging the icy streets, shutting down the entire metroplex. Eddie Lombard, a tough, hard-boiled private eye, is facing another kind of storm. When Ericka Holland, Rikki to her friends, walked in off of those snowy streets and through his office door, a tempest followed hard on her heels. Rikki wasn’t just in trouble, she was trouble. Overwhelmed by Rikki’s beauty and touched by her vulnerability, Eddie immediately throws himself into her rescue with as little ...

Ex-federal agent turned vampire detective, Samantha Moon, finds herself investigating one of the strangest cases in recent memory. An unsuspecting client finds out he was murdered in a past-life...by one of the most notorious killers in history... Jack the Ripper. Now that same evil entity is back and chasing her client through time, ready to kill again. But the Ripper is no ordinary killer. With help from her best friend, Allison, and boyfriend, Kingsley, Sam delves deeper into the world of black magic than she ever has before to save her client's life. With time running out, the killer ...

Barry Stackpole was tough once. Amos Walker met him in a Cambodian shell crater when Walker was serving his country and Stackpole was on the payroll of the Detroit News, and they formed the kind of bond that war often creates. At war’s end, they returned to the Motor City, where Stackpole took to reporting crimes and Walker to solving them. A violent run-in with a big time mobster left Stackpole a leg and two fingers short, and he became an alcoholic. He has made several attempts to get his life straight since, but never quite managed.

Halloween is scary enough without people coming back from the dead! Private eye Alton Rhode is angered when a police pal is critically wounded while handing out candy to Trick-or-Treaters. Then, a spate of child murders shocks the community. Rhode uncovers a connection between the crimes. What he learns is scarcely believable -- and puts him in the sights of a perverted killer hiding in plain sight. "This was another terrific whodunit in the Alton Rhode mystery series. In each mystery, the methodology used by Rhode to solve the crime is completely plausible. That is one of the most ...

A tomato farm, a chicken barn, one hundred grand, and the Baja moon force Herman Harris to face his own mortality in this Southern California thriller.

Justis Fearsson is a weremyste. He wields potent magic, but every month, on the full moon, he loses his mind. He's also a private detective who can't afford to take time off from his latest investigation while his sanity goes AWOL. A legion of dark sorcerers has descended on Phoenix, wreaking havoc in the blistering desert heat. With the next moon phasing approaching, Jay has to figure out what connects a billionaire financier and a vicious drug kingpin to an attempted terrorist attack, a spate of ritual killings, and the murder of a powerful runemyste.

A journalist looking for a story sees someone he knows is dead. He went to her funeral and yet three years later she is standing ten feet in front of him. He takes her picture and so the nightmare begins. Suddenly he is cut off from the world. He has no phone, no internet, no credit cards and no money. He’s four thousand miles from home, wanted for a crime he didn’t commit and there are three trained killers hunting him to ensure he never files his story. Follow him across five countries on two continents as he struggles to stay alive.

The race for the White House is almost won. The company has maneuvered and manipulated for years and now owns the favored candidate. Then, without warning, something from his past raises its ugly head. All of their plans are about to come crashing down. It’s a disaster, but it can be fixed. The innocent die to protect the guilty and all seems well until they realize there is one tiny flaw in the plan. A beneficiary has appeared and must be silenced but she is running with two private eyes, Steph and Dean, and the chase crosses three states before the killing stops.

Cassie Woods just landed her first big case. Determined to prove herself as a private investigator and catch a cheater, Cassie discovers more than she bargained for, when the unveiling of a devastating secret initiates the emergence of an unwanted gift. Nothing is ever simple. Her personal life is chaos. Her professional life is a minefield. Her hormones are raging out of control.

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.

A PRIVATE EYE IS WARNED OFF A CASE HE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT! Alton Rhode was sitting in his office minding his business when a gunman walked in and shot up the place. He told the private eye he would come back and kill him, if he pursued the Frank Pace case. Since Rhode didn't know anyone named Frank Pace, and in fact had no clients at the time, he wasn't really worried about what was an obvious case of mistaken Identity. But later, a nun walked in and said she was looking for her brother, Frank Pace. He was about to hire Rhode but had been murdered, and his body misplaced. Then, things really...

A DYING HIT MAN TELLS A PRIEST ABOUT A HEINOUS CRIME INVOLVING A YOUNG GIRL. BUT HE DOES NOT SWEAR HIM TO SECRECY. THE KILLER'S ONLY REQUEST IS THAT THE POLICE CAN'T BE INVOLVED! ***Even powerful mobsters are expendable to a criminal financial mastermind who hides in plain sight among New York’s power elite.But in pursuing his deranged dream, the man has made a fatal mistake. There are some people, on both sides of the law, who want him to pay for killing the girl. In locales as varied as Paris, New York, Florida, and the Bahamas, MADMAN’S THIRST is a non-stop thrill ride, where ...

It's more than thirteen years since Steph Witton graduated high school. During her senior year she was a member of an after-school group called the English Club that was run voluntarily by a dedicated teacher. Now Steph is a private detective and that teacher has come to her to ask her to investigate because she thinks there is something suspicious about the deaths of several of her fellow club members. Is she right and, if so, does that mean Steph herself is in danger from a deranged serial killer?