Police Private Investigator

One dark January night a car drives at high speed towards PI Varg Veum, and comes very close to killing him. Veum is certain this is no accident, following so soon after the deaths of two jailed men who were convicted for their participation in a case of child pornography and sexual assault...crimes that Veum himself once stood wrongly accused of committing.

My name is Sara Eden. My name is Sara Eden. My name is Sara Eden. My name is Sara Eden. This is all Sara Eden knows about herself. She was found at the age of 10, abandoned in a vat of water - a homemade sensory-deprivation chamber. Someone had placed her there - trapped for days in the dark, with only a cassette player taped to her head repeating again and again, 'My name is Sara Eden'. There were a handful clues: a battered cassette player, a cheap necklace, a few scraps of paper. And a Polaroid of a stranger with a handwritten note: 'Don't trust this man'.

In Eastern Europe four CIA agents are dead - geopolitical pawns caught in border dispute cross fire. Why were they there? Who sent them? Not even the President knows. Back in Washington, the Secretary of the Interior dies from an apparent allergic shock. As details emerge, so do suspicions that she was murdered. Investigating their respective cases, ex - Secret Service agent Joe Reeder and FBI Special Situations Task Force leader Patti Rogers recognize a dangerous conspiracy is in play.

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.

Jack Frost was supposed to be on holiday, but with one child dead and another reported missing, there was no chance, no matter how much it pained Chief Superintendent Mullett to recall his scruffiest, most irreverent officer to duty. Had the same person taken both boys? Was there any connection with the pervert who silently entered houses at night to stab babies in their cots? Questions, questions and more questions. And so very few answers.

Skip Stoner has finally returned to Key West, and as soon as he does, he gets a call from his dad, Larry, about an old friend's missing daughter. Dan, Red, and Skip head to Siesta Key, Florida in search of the young college girl, whose friends say they haven't seen her in days. Her boyfriend, a young man from an affluent family, has returned home without her, has retained a lawyer, and isn't talking.

Lucius Anoraq is hired by a wealthy Pasadena widowed emu with a mean streak to find a missing daughter-in-law who stole a gold coin worth a small fortune. Only things don’t quite add up until Anoraq discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and exploitation.

Ostern 1903. In den Armenvierteln von London werden französische Prostituierte gekreuzigt aufgefunden. In der Kleidung der Leichen entdeckt man mysteriöse Nachrichten. Diese Kreuzigungs-Morde sorgen für internationales Aufsehen und belasten einen anstehenden Staatsbesuch des englischen Königs beim französischen Präsidenten, bei dem sich beide Großmächte einander annähern wollen. Inspektor Bradstreet von Scotland Yard und die Londoner Polizei tappen im Dunkeln. Zur Klärung der Mordserie wird Sherlock Holmes vom König direkt beauftragt.

No Enemies Here is the ninth book in The Tales of Dan Coast series. In this latest chapter, join Dan and Red as they protect a marked man while they search for mob boss Joey Pantucco's missing nephew.

On the set of a movie, Cass, 30, calls her assistant, Kristin, 20s, to tell her to pick her up from set and take her out after work. At a club, Cass meets Nic, 40s. Instantly attracted, Cass decides to take a role acting next to him in an upcoming feature. The two begin a romance and have their pictures across tabloid magazines as the hot new celebrity couple. This is the Hollywood that Hollywood fantasizes about.

Reena Avery was caught up in the skin game. That’s why her husband killed her. Or so it seemed. But when Larry Kent looked Phil Avery in the eye, he was as sure as he could be that the man was innocent. From that moment on, he set out to find the real killer. But the real killer was always one step ahead of him, and every time Larry found a witness...the witness turned up dead!

Blutüberströmt betritt der psychisch kranke Martin Kolke das Büro der beiden Ermittler Richard Becker und Robert Schmidt. Der 21-jährige Martin behauptet, seine Eltern Hans-Werner und Roswitha Kolke ermordet zu haben. Die beiden Ermittler fahren umgehend zum Wohnhaus der Kolkes und finden tatsächlich die durch Messerstichen durchsiebten Leichen der beiden Ehegatten. Als die Ermittler den eigentlich schüchtern wirkenden Martin vernehmen, verstrickt sich dieser immer wieder in Unwahrheiten und Widersprüchen.

Dem inzwischen im Ruhestand stehenden Sherlock Holmes werden von Dr. Watson höchst brisante Nachrichten heran getragen. In den Kinos liefe ein neuer Detektivfilm mit überaus anrüchigem Inhalt. Die Hauptfigur sollte niemand anderem als Sherlock Holmes selbst darstellen. Dr. Watson ist um den guten Ruf des Meisterdetektives in großer Sorge. Doch auch Dr. Watsons guter Ruf steht auf dem Spiel, wie auch die Ehe mit seiner geliebten Mary.

Al Harris’s actions haven’t gone unnoticed, and not all that attention is good. After being questioned by a couple of mysterious men, Harris comes back to find his office in ruins and Judy attacked - and all his case files stolen. What is it about those cases that is so important? The resulting investigation will take Harris back to the city of Chicago. The famous days of Al Capone and the Untouchables might be over, but the mafia still rules Chicago in its own way, and Harris is about to find out for himself just how alive and kicking they still are.

Striking a balance between the pros and cons of his job isn’t going to be easy, especially now that his reputation is growing. Harris has helped to solve a few more high-profile cases, and some people aren’t too happy about that. He thought that it would help get him more clients, and he’s getting noticed all right - by the wrong kind of people.

Al Harris is not, and was not ever, an art connoisseur. But when a desperate young Jewish woman comes to him, convinced that her family’s stolen art is hidden somewhere in Woodlawn, Al is persuaded to take the case, as unlikely as it is that priceless European art has ended up in this small town.

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?

Gus Mackie was relaxing in his new office in a better part of Detroit when he saw the young girl in front of his building. She was reading the sign in the window telling the world that a private investigator worked there. Gus could see she was homeless and went to open the door as she stood looking apprehensive. She finally came in and told Gus about how she wanted to find her mother who gave her up for adoption when she was a child. The girl lived on the streets most of her life and wanted a family now.

Halloween is a time for children to go door to door trick-or-treating. For Doyle and his girlfriend, Poppy, it's a time to catch a ghost. Poppy is investigating an insurance claim of a woman who says she was pushed down a flight of stairs by a ghost in a posh but very old hotel in Detroit. She enlists Doyle to help, and they try to get to the bottom of the claim.

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?