Private Police

Las vidas de Sean King y Michelle Maxwell, ex agentes secretos reconvertidos en investigadores privados, no atraviesan un buen momento. Además, Sean se ve forzado a investigar la muerte de un científico en la comunidad que se sitúa frente a Camp Peary.

When hunting monsters, you must be willing to become one. Gavriel Sévère lost everything in one devastating blow: his position as coroner for a murder he didn't commit, and the use of his legs for one he did. When his wife Olivia vanishes without a word, he believes he's lost her too. Alone, he drowns in hundreds of letters begging for help — missing children Scotland Yard dismisses as runaways. Then Olivia returns, haunted and changed, and she recognises what others have missed. Something from her own dark past. Something that could destroy her. Now Sévère must choose between the law...

When a popular high school senior is shot by police following a late-night robbery, chaos ensues. The actions of the officer are immediately called into question. Amid community protests, political grandstanding, department leaks, and reluctant witnesses, Byron and his team must work quickly to find the missing pieces. And when an attempt is made on the officer’s life, Byron shifts into overdrive, putting everything on the line. Was the attack merely retribution or something more sinister? The search for the truth may come at a price not even Byron can afford.

The principal led a secret life. Someone rigged his lawn mower to explode, sending him on a one-way flight to eternity. As Bobby lies dying, he has plenty of time to think about all the people he has wronged and who might have put him at death's door. New evidence uncovered by his daughter Ellen, a top-selling real estate agent, proves Bobby's problem was much worse than she ever feared. Former police lieutenant Red Wilder, a Harley-riding PI, resumes investigation of the cold case, an old obsession that ruined his career and possibly his life, as he sinks more deeply into alcoholism. Past ...

A woman goes missing. Her car is discovered in the Australian Outback, burnt out but there is no body. Her husband, her son and the local gigolo are all suspects but the case comes to a dead end then Police Constable Elizabeth West is bound, gaged and abducted by a ruthless killer. Can Detective Bigfoot save her? 'Deadly serious and laugh out loud funny.' Revised and Rewritten.

A short story satire for our times Young Billy Hoeksma, future governor of Michigan, is age six. He skips away from school one day in the early 1970s, urged on to steal a Playboy magazine. Young Billy heads off to the drug store in the wrong direction. He gets lost. When Billy is reported missing by embarrassed school authorities, his wealthy father, the rising right-wing business and political figure William "Will" Hoeksma, Sr., fears the boy’s been kidnapped. He orders his private security team – headed by the enigmatic Vietnam veteran Wilbur Tuttle – to find his son. And so the ...

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.

Sir Maurice Newbury is bereft as his trusty assistant Veronica Hobbes lies dying with a wounded heart. Newbury and Veronica's sister, Amelia, must take a sleeper train across Europe to St. Petersberg to claim a clockwork heart that Newbury has commissioned from Faberge to save Veronica from a life trapped in limbo. No sooner do they take off then sinister goings-on start to plague the train, and it is discovered that an old villain, thought dead, is also on board and seeking revenge.

From Thomas Fincham, the new voice in crime and suspense genre. A mystery that will keep you up all night to find out what happens next. Would you kill to save someone you love? Dillon Scott is a beloved actor who is found dead in his home. Detective Dana Fisher is called in to investigate Scott’s death and what she discovers may change everything she knew about him. Private Investigator Lee Callaway is on the brink of closing his PI business when he gets a case that looks deceivingly simple, but is anything but.

Tenacious and strong-willed investigator Arden Briar and her trusted partner Joe Carmon have spent years outside the confides of the law working thanklessly to rescue missing children and expose predators. In their most recent case, they search for the youngest Emmy winner, an 11-year-old television starlet. Traveling from the heart of urban Atlanta to the city’s surrounding rural wilderness, the investigators seek to uncover the truth behind the girl’s disappearance, but instead discover a secret that will have them questioning everything.

PI John Craine is hired to investigate the brutal murder of a Somali youth. The police are treating the murder as a gang-related crime, but the victim’s aunt claims the police are trying to cover up her nephew's death. While investigating the case, Craine learns of the sudden death of his friend Leon Mercer. It appears to be a tragic accident, but Craine soon finds himself entangled in two deeply suspicious investigations.

IT WAS A SIMPLE INSURANCE INVESTIGATION -- UNTIL THE LIES AND BODIES STARTED PILING UP! Alton Rhode starts out in a Northern nursing home and winds up in a Southern town, where a military academy may be more soiled than local Civil War statues covered in bird droppings. He uncovers a twisty financial conspiracy involving radioactive isotopes, sex, and murder. "ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES.” (John Crudele, New York Post); “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY.” (Florida Weekly); “A ...

A BEAUTIFUL INTERNATIONAL ASSASSIN STALKS THE WORLD'S MOST-POPULAR THRILLER WRITER! One author has already been savagely slain. Sebastian Quimper fears he will be next. With good reason. The police have a threatening letter. It claims terrorists will seek revenge because the famous Quimper “insulted” Islam in one of his books! The literary superstar will be the featured speaker at a conference in Manhattan. The N.Y.P.D. will be out in force to protect him. But Quimper’s publishers are still nervous. He sells millions of books and is the key to a huge publishing merger – if he stays ...

There are around 40 murders per day in the United States. It's not often that they are related. On a cold night in the suburbs of Philadelphia, an attorney returns home from a long day at work only to be gunned down getting out of his car. Two hours later and 20 miles away in southern New Jersey, a truck driver is shot while making a late night delivery. When the sun rises the next morning, many more unexplained homicides plague the Tri-State area.

A rapist on the loose, a young girl missing, a robbery at a leisure complex run by a low life, and an old man knocked down by a driver who wouldn't stop. Detective Inspector Jack Frost knew that there would be lots more to come.

The crime novel at its compelling best as David Jason, the star of the television series of the same name, reads R. D. Wingfield's A Touch of Frost.

Twenty years in the seaside town of Brighton, England, has given Paz Wheat the notion he’s seen it all as a private investigator. But that’s before young "wild spirit" Alison ("Mack") tumbles bewildered and unannounced into his office. For the buttoned-up Anglo-American there’s nothing more unnerving than a touch of the random, but what does this enigmatic bohemian want? Surely not the job that hasn’t even been advertised yet? It’s a mystery and he dislikes mysteries until they’re solved, and then he loves them.

Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, strong cups of coffee - and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff, expecting nothing more than a quiet ride. But now a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of this is reminding Sunshine why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that the trouble at her daughter's new school, plus a kidnapped rooster named Puff Daddy, and, well, the forecast looks anything but sunny.

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?

A child of Hell’s Kitchen and the bastard son of a beloved former police commissioner, Fritz Malone is all too familiar with New York City’s rougher side. So when a gunman opens fire at the crowded Thanksgiving Day parade, Fritz steps into action, giving chase. He then learns that someone dubbed "Nightmare" has been taunting the city’s leaders for weeks - and there’s more carnage to come, unless the city meets the madman’s impossible demands. The nervous police need an outside man, and Fritz fits the bill.

A missing private investigator is found locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still - both for his family and the police - is that his body was in an area that had already been searched. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is part of a new inquiry, combing through the mistakes of the original case. There were always suspicions over how the investigation was handled and now - after a decade without answers - it's time for the truth.