Police Private Investigator

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?

Private detective Adrian Elias knows what trouble looks like, and ruthless mobster and lion shifter Sage Tamir was just that, with a capital "T". On top of smelling like heaven, the man has the face of an angel, with a body made for unbridled sin. A combination Adrian finds very hard to resist. Unfortunately, someone is trying to kill Sage, and they’re using magic to do it. Sage usually takes these types of matters into his own hands, but this time, he’s out of his league. He believes the only person who can help him is the down-on-his-luck detective.

How much of the past do you carry with you? It's a question FBI Agent Emma Griffin has dealt with throughout her career. This time is different. Months after a case brought her face to face with her own past and an unresolved disappearance that haunted her, she finds herself delving into the past of one of those closest to her. She learns about the turning moment of Dean's life and the torment that still follows him as they try to find closure for him. The investigation brings up another question possibly more difficult than the first.

William Arrowood, Victorian London’s less salubrious private detective, is paid a visit by Captain Moon, the owner of a pleasure steamer moored on the Thames. He complains that someone has been damaging his boat, putting his business in jeopardy. Arrowood and his trusty sidekick Barnett suspect professional jealousy, but when a string of skulls is retrieved from the river, it seems like even fouler play is afoot. It’s up to Arrowood and Barnett to solve the case before any more corpses end up in the watery depths.

Clara Morrow lleva muchos años trabajando en el más absoluto anonimato como pintora aficionada en Three Pines, un tranquilo pueblecito de las afueras de Montreal. Así que, cuando el Musée d'Art Contemporain de la capital decide acoger una exposición sobre su obra, Clara no da crédito a la noticia. La sensación de irrealidad y los nervios que la atenazan la noche del vernissage se prolongan en la cena que ofrece en su casa para amigos y miembros del mundillo artístico.

When you search for the missing, there’s no telling what you’ll find. PI Jessie Cole learned that painful truth firsthand when her sister disappeared. Now a new case will test Jessie and Ben once again. Owen Shepard, the public face of one of the country’s biggest health insurance companies, has become the target of a vengeful father. The man blames Shepard for his child’s death and plans to make the CEO know what it’s like to live with a broken heart - and watch others die.

The 30th gritty mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Bob Skinner series, not to be missed by readers of Ian Rankin and Peter May. Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service, but he's never far from a case. When his old mentor on the force, Jimmy Proud, finds himself in a desperate situation, Skinner gets pulled into a murder investigation that's been closed for 30 years.

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'.

Realistic, sharp-edged, and complex, Unspeakable is Sandra Brown's best yet. A beautiful woman locked in silence, a man stalked by dark secrets he can no longer outrun, and an over-the-hill peace officer seeking redemption must defeat their own demons before a tumultuous confrontation with a diabolical killer.

In Waldorf Pines, ostentation and pretension are the order of the day. But even by local standards, Martha Heydrich is a stone cold pain. She's the stay-at-home wife of a very rich husband, into everybody's business and rumored to be having an affair with a local teenager, Michael Platte. One morning she seemingly vanishes, and that night her husband returns home to find the pool house ablaze. Once the fire is extinguished, police discover two bodies - one is Michael Platte and the other is presumed to be Martha....

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.

La Navidad está a la vuelta de la esquina, y en Quebec eso significa nevadas que encandilan, luces de colores y encuentros con amigos ante una chimenea encendida. Sin embargo, para Armand Gamache, el inspector jefe de la Sûreté du Québec, estas fechas normalmente festivas quedan ensombrecidas: algunos de sus mejores agentes del Departamento de Homicidios han sido trasladados a otras unidades, lleva meses sin hablar con su viejo amigo, el teniente Jean-Guy Beauvoir, y fuerzas hostiles están alineándose contra él.

When a middle-aged man returns to a small town claiming to be a teenager abducted by a cult 30 years prior, a former detective steps out of retirement to uncover the truth. But picking at old wounds tends to make them bleed. After a scholarly 14-year-old girl vanishes on Halloween night, uncompromising yet isolated private investigator Arden Briar dives deep into the Georgia underground to find the victim. Faced with overwhelming odds, Arden enlists the help of the victim’s damaged father, a veteran with a short fuse. Will Arden’s temporary alliance be the solution or her downfall?

This coastal mystery and suspense thriller box set includes the first three books in The Dangerous Coast of Florida suspense series - Dead in the Water, Burned in the Water, and Poisoned in the Water.

En La naturaleza de la bestia, la undécima entrega de la popular y aclamada serie dedicada a Armand Gamache, el ex inspector jefe de homicidios de la Sûreté du Québec debe abandonar su tranquila vida de jubilado en Three Pines para investigar la desaparición de un niño. El caso destapa una serie de sucesos que conducen a un asesinato y que, a su vez, nos guían hasta un antiguo crimen: a lo mejor el monstruo que hace veinticinco años llegó a Three Pines y sembró la desgracia entre la población ha regresado.

Джек Ричер, бывший военный полицейский, после увольнения колесит по всей Америке, наслаждаясь свободой. Но сбережения заканчиваются, и он останавливается в курортном городке, чтобы их пополнить, - днем копает бассейны, вечером подрабатывает вышибалой в баре. Однажды эту размеренную жизнь нарушает частный детектив - как выясняется, Джека разыскивает некая леди из Нью-Йорка. Ее имя ни о чем не говорит Ричеру, и он не придал бы данный встрече значения, если бы вскоре не обнаружил в темном закоулке тело этого самого детектива со срезанными подушечками пальцев.

On a rainy summer day in the Danish suburb of Brabrand, the body of a ten-year-old girl is found in a dumpster. Detective Inspector Roland Benito, having recently moved from Italy to Denmark, is immediately put on the case. When the crime is linked to an online chatroom where the murdered girl had a profile, the hunt for the killer is on. Reporter Anne Larsen and photographer Kamilla Holm are covering the investigation for the Daily News, but the closer they look, the more entangled they become.

A transplant to the upstate New York hamlet of Sylvan, all Laney wants is a peaceful life for herself and her son. But things rarely remain calm in her life - and when her neighborhood summer block party explodes in shocking violence and ends with the disappearance of two women - including her friend - she’ll need all her skills as a PI to solve a mystery that reaches far beyond her small town.

When syndicated romance columnist John Hunter is found dead from an apparent overdose, the townspeople of the sleepy hamlet of Eastpoint accept the outsider's death in stride, until Police Chief Hank Reed discovers a secret room filled with lewd paintings featuring local married women.

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.