Private Police

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.

Lives untangle, fates converge and blood is spilled as Inspector Iwata returns. Inspector Kosuke Iwata, formerly of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, is now working as a private investigator in California. He may have left his home country behind him, but the crimes he has to face here are just as horrific and as mystifying.

Jouer avec les esprits peut être dangereux. Tenez-vous-le pour dit ! Quatorze ans avant le début de ces événements, lors d’un passage à Montréal, une famille ontarienne voit son séjour se transformer en un véritable cauchemar lorsque Judy, leur fillette de sept ans, disparaît sur le site de la plage du parc Jean-Drapeau. Après une longue enquête policière infructueuse, la mère de l’enfant fait appel à Gabriel Longchamp, un célèbre illusionniste québécois qui possède également un don de médiumnité, pour le convaincre de retrouver sa fille.

Der zweite Crime Noir des Bestsellerautors. In seinem zweiten Kriminalroman nimmt Mark Benecke seine Hörer*innen mit in die düstere Welt des Kannibalismus, wo unbekannte Begierden und Fantasien die Privatermittler Becker und Funke an ihre Grenzen bringen. Mitten in Berlin taucht ein absonderlicher Fund auf: ein Koffer voller Menschenknochen. Die Behörden stehen vor einem Rätsel und ziehen die beiden Privatermittler Bastian Becker und Janina Funke zurate.

Dan Harper is just an ordinary guy, having an ordinary day…until he ruins his tie during lunch. When he visits a thrift store near his office for an inexpensive replacement, merely touching a secondhand tie triggers a flood of gruesome images only he can see. Are they hallucinations, or suppressed memories?

Gus has been hired by a man to find out if his secretary is cheating on him, even though the man is married. On top of that, the man's wife has had her half-million-dollar necklace stolen. Gus is conflicted when the wife hires him to find the necklace and tie her husband to the crime. Should he follow the cheating secretary, who may have the necklace, and turn her in?

Doyle decides to take a huge windfall of money from recovering Egyptian artifacts and take a vacation. He closes the business and go to Paradise, Hawaii. His new girlfriend, Poppy Drake, has decided to go along, and Doyle's secretary, Marge, is invited. Now in Hawaii, on a very secluded, private island, Doyle, Poppy, and Marge are loving the sun, sand, and the ocean, but they are drawn into the murders of guests. Doyle realizes he must solve the killings before Poppy, Marge, or himself become victims. Will he save Paradise before it becomes a living hell?

Annie Jordan’s new lease on life has taken a turn. With a new brother on the scene—one that everyone she knows is practically accusing of being a criminal element—she’s also found herself with a new roommate. It goes without saying that Bogart’s not happy about the roommate sitch. Of course, neither is Sam, and especially not Melanie. But hey, she’s got Mildred, and it seems she’s the only one who doesn’t hate Annie’s newly found brother. Prompted by curiosity—it killed the cat, right? Not humans?—Annie and Tyler submit their saliva for some DNA testing. They have ...

En la inhóspita inmensidad de las estepas mongolas, una familia de nómadas realiza un macabro descubrimiento: el cuerpo de una niña de cinco años enterrada junto con su triciclo. El comisario Yeruldelgger, un tipo temperamental marcado por la tragedia y a quien su trabajo ha llevado casi al límite de la locura, observa la escena del crimen con una mezcla de perplejidad y agotamiento infinitos. Apenas cinco horas antes se encontraba en Ulán Bator, en las oficinas de una empresa china, investigando la aparición de tres cadáveres salvajemente mutilados.

1896: Sherlock Holmes has once again hit the headlines, solving mysteries for the cream of London society. But among the workhouses and pudding shops of the city, private detective William Arrowood is presented with far grittier, more violent and considerably less well-paid cases. Arrowood is in no doubt who is the better detective, and when Mr and Mrs Barclay engage him to trace their estranged daughter, Birdie, he’s sure it won’t be long before he and his assistant Barnett have tracked her down.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Anything can happen under the hot Florida sun...and usually does. The first three Wade Carver Thrillers! MOLLY: When the sun is high, the drinks are cold and the drugs are flowing freely, there’s no more dangerous place in the world than south Florida. Unless, that is, you’re Wade Carver. A PI with a mysterious background and a man who literally takes no prisoners, Carver is hired to find, and rescue, a missing girl. Like just about everthing in Florida, the truth only starts to emerge after heavy doses of sand, sun, blood, booze and…bullets. SUGAR: Wade...

Annie Jordan’s newly opened can of worms sends her and Tyler on a trip. Two trips, as a matter of fact. They need to sort out the family matter. Whose father is who? Does what was in the past stay in the past or can Annie and Tyler unearth the mystery of their parentage? What about the mysterious woman who’s left her a message. Who is she? How does she fit in with Sam? Does she? Annie’s trying not to be overtly curious, but can you blame a girl—ahem, woman!—for wondering about this newly arrived stranger? Then there’s the matter of all the bad luck she’s been having. And the ...

Jayme Fredricks had just been released from prison after serving almost a year, for a murder he never committed. He happened to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time and when he was identified for killing a woman he actually had known from the past, he was arrested and thrown in the slammer. He pleaded not guilty to murder and aggravated assault, but was still convicted, on very flimsy, circumstantial evidence. He was devastated and so was his family, but there was nothing anyone could do. He knew he was innocent, but no one would believe him, all except his best friend, Marnie Paine. ...

Three Detective Al Harris Cold Cases in one volume. There's no such thing as a victim-less crime. An invitation to help solve a 20-year-old robbery is extended to Detective Al Harris. But the case quickly takes on a mythical quality when the stolen money is recovered by a couple of boys who followed a map to the spot where it was buried. Only half of the money remains, so where is the rest? Detective Harris takes the case thinking that a robbery with no deaths might be a pleasant break.

Gus Mackie's police detective friend, Bernie Longmire, comes to Gus with an offer of a special case. It has to be handled quietly since a country's fate is at stake. The country has a king and his daughter is missing. Bernie is tasked with finding her, before the king and queen go back home from the United State for an important celebration. But if they don't have the daughter with them, the king's rule may be in jeopardy.

An eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support the status of those in power at the destructive expense of those without it. From 1958, China declared war on sparrows, contributing to the deaths of more than 10 million people. In the 19th century, the Shuar people of Ecuador were driven by economic need to wage bloody wars to procure shrunken heads for the Western curio market, which nearly destroyed their society. There have been 55 prime ministers of Great Britain, of whom 48 have been privately educated, creating a society built for and by the privileged.

It was time for Gus to move to a better office and out of a slum area in Detroit. Police homicide detective Bernie Longmire, and Angela, Gus' daughter, agree to help him move into his new office. Going back to the old office to get ready to move, they find a woman crying at Gus' door. She has a problem: She doesn't know where her husband is at. Did he run off with another woman or is he dead in a shallow grave? They were able to get the story from her despite all the crying she was doing, and Gus took the case.

Calgary, Alberta, gears up for its 10-day Stampede festival. When a hoarder dies in a suspicious house fire, adjuster Paula Savard sets the revelry aside to handle the property insurance claim. But Paula’s interviews with the hoarder’s bickering heirs raise questions. What are they hiding from each other and the police? Are they trying to help or to sabotage the investigation? Did one of them set the blaze to kill a relative and hasten an inheritance?

Negli ultimi mesi del 2011 il piccolo villaggio di Airone, a pochi chilometri da Bologna, è sconvolto dalla misteriosa scomparsa della diciassettenne Celeste Maccaferri. Parallelamente alle consuete indagini della polizia, Fiorella Benedetti, conduttrice televisiva senza scrupoli, assolda l’investigatore privato Galeazzo Trebbi. L'intento della conduttrice è quello di andare più a fondo alla questione ma, soprattutto, confezionare un perfetto caso mediatico.

"Ho bisogno di te, Antonio" dice la quasi ex-moglie al commissario Mariani: per un attimo crede che Francesca voglia tornare con lui. Gli sta chiedendo invece di occuparsi della scomparsa di Cabel, un muratore albanese. Mariani si applica con abnegazione per trovare il giovane e finalmente lo rintraccia, ad Asti. È in fin di vita, ma prima di cadere in coma riesce a pronunciare soltanto una parola: cuorenero... La trama della sesta indagine della serie del commissario Mariani si muove su uno sfondo di crudeltà e aberrazione, vita di strada e sfruttamento di minori.