Private Investigator Thriller

Aimée's childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop where he is shot to death. Laure's gun has been fired, there is gunpowder residue is on her hands, so she is charged with her partner's murder. As the police close ranks against the alleged cop killer, Aimée is determined to clear Laure's name.

Частному детективу Василию Макаровичу Куликову и его верной помощнице Василисе под силу раскрыть любое преступление – вернуть украденные драгоценности, найти похитителя, распутать узел таинственных убийств. Поэтому новое дело – слежка за тещей заказчика – поначалу кажется проще пареной репы. Зять подозревает, что между посещениями косметолога, парикмахерской и фитнес-центра любимая родственница крутит роман с молодым красавцем, тем самым показывая дурной пример своей дочери и бросая тень на всю семью.

Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. In der Reihe Die neuen Abenteuer werden einige der bislang unter Verschluss gehaltenen Aufzeichnungen von Dr. Watson über die Fälle des Sherlock Holmes nun erstmals der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.

Miami, 1951. With a flurry of UN engagements bringing Mrs. Roosevelt to vibrant South Beach, Kay Thompson is thrilled to escape the post-Christmas blues in Washington DC—and distance herself from the sting of her recent breakup with private investigator Tim O’Malley. The dizzying sights and sounds of Miami reach their peak at the Copa City Club, where a late-night meeting with singer Josephine Baker reveals a troubling truth: Baker's bold stand against segregation has made her a target.

When a homeless man’s body is found in a derelict school, Victor Mitchum knows it wasn’t an accident. He knew Sawney from his own days on the streets. Sawney was clean, scared, and being hunted by dangerous people. Working with private investigators Kasper and Zofia Dąbrowski, Victor traces the events that led to Sawney’s death. His search leads him into Manchester’s hidden places—disused buildings, private security firms, and communities forced to live in the margins.

Raised in a military family, Max Rossi learned at an early age that he was a fixer by nature. A person destined to step in and fix whatever needed fixing. Fix other people’s problems. After entering the military, his abilities were quickly recognized as special skills. Skills that were honed into fieldcraft mastery. For his country, as a special operative, he uses his skills to perform clandestine missions around the world. For his community, as a neighbor and friend, he uses his skills to gift favors. Favors to those who have fallen victim to the underlives and dregs of society.

Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. In der Reihe „Die neuen Abenteuer" werden einige der bislang unter Verschluss gehaltenen Aufzeichnungen von Dr. Watson über die Fälle des Sherlock Holmes nun erstmals der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.

For FBI agent Blake Wilder, the past is inescapable. And the one lead she had, regarding the mysteries of her past, only led to dead bodies and dead ends. When Blake is assigned a new case, they find that their victim has been stuffed into a barrel — in pieces. Their search for the killer propels them onto a grim and twisted path filled with confusion and false leads. And for the first time in her career, Blake fears that she may not be able to solve this gruesome case.

The Adventure of the Dying Detective, in some editions simply titled The Dying Detective (first published 1913), is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Together with seven other stories, it is collected as His Last Bow (published 1917). Dr. Watson is called to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare tropical disease, Tapanuli fever, contracted while he was on a case. Watson is shocked, not having heard about his friend's illness. Mrs. Hudson says that Holmes has neither eaten nor drunk anything in three days.

The magic continues when North Carolina history mixes with the paranormal in the Max Porter paranormal mysteries. Fun, funny, suspenseful, and scary, this omnibus edition includes three audiobooks in the best-selling series: Southern Gothic, Southern Haunts, and Southern Curses.

One dark Friday evening in October, Dillon Harper and Brian McDaniel went out to drink a few beers and smoke a little marijuana. Their bodies were found hours later on the railroad tracks north of town. They’d both been struck by the midnight train. The autopsies revealed copious amounts of alcohol in their system so their deaths were deemed accidental. However, the brothers of the two men believe the investigation was botched and, knowing them as they did, don’t believe they were drunk, high, or stupid enough to just lay down on the railroad tracks and go to sleep.

Headlights cut through a hot summer night along a backroad in Central Florida. The driver flicks his eyes constantly from the road ahead to the rearview mirror, his heart pounding as he expects to see the heatless glow of another pair of lights closing in on him. The driver is George Wilman, a chemical engineer from a covert facility. Well, he was. Now George is on the run. After discovering that a breakthrough water treatment project that he was developing was only one part of a sinister plan, George blew the whistle and fled. His salvation is dependent upon his wits and guile.

Titus drove to Florida to murder a man. Fresh from prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Out for blood. But when a distraught mother begs him to track down her missing daughter, the former detective can't help himself. He dives head-first into a sleazy South Beach underworld of lowlife thugs, celebrity wannabes, and drug-fueled sex parties. Titus soon finds himself up against an organized crime boss, a crooked politician, and a hard-nosed detective.

Jake Crosby has traded in a stockbroker's suit and tie for a standard-issue uniform. As a newly minted Mississippi game warden, he has two tough cases to cut his teeth on - the ongoing robbery of wealthy hunters and the ruthless search for a rumored hidden fortune.

PI Billie Carlson is in Cleveland following a lead on the whereabouts of her son, Lucas. But when the trail goes cold, she is forced to return to Glasgow and a life of waiting and praying that one day she might see him again. Back in the office and ready to throw herself into work, she picks up a call from Lars, an old friend from her teenage years in Sweden. He tells her some devastating news. His younger sister, Astrid, was found dead in the Highlands, frozen to death with traces of drugs and alcohol in her system.

Auf Wega 5 tobt ein Wahlkampf. Die Kandidaten scheinen auch vor gewalttätigen Mitteln nicht zurückzuschrecken. Sherlock Holmes soll mit Dr. Watson und dem Ersten Offizier Tornot nach dem Rechten sehen. Bald gibt es ein erstes Opfer.

Auf Wega 5 tobt ein Wahlkampf. Die Kandidaten scheinen auch vor gewalttätigen Mitteln nicht zurückzuschrecken. Sherlock Holmes soll mit Dr. Watson und dem Ersten Offizier Tornot nach dem Rechten sehen. Bald gibt es ein erstes Opfer.

When a teenager disappears from a posh ski resort, her millionaire father, Nikolaus Winter, hires Carolina McKay to bring his daughter home safe and in one piece. A promise that may be impossible to keep. Overwhelmed with suspects, Carolina enters a world of money, control, and jealousy as she tries to unearth what happened to Maurah Winter. All signs point to her running away, until a much darker threat emerges. One that involves those closest to her.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson reisen nach Deutschland an die Ostsee. Professor Schilling, Holmes früherer Studienkollege, bittet den großen Detektiv um Hilfe. Auf der verbotenen Insel Riems befindet sich eine Forschungsstätte. Eine junge, ambitionierte Ärztin wird früh morgens im dortigen Schweinestall tot aufgefunden, nachdem sie sich mit Professor Schilling am Abend zuvor verabredet hatte. Sie wollte den Professor über eine gefährliche Entdeckung berichten, die sie gemacht hat.

Five teenage girls from a small town in Oregon disappear without a trace. Were they kidnapped, or have the five friends perpetrated a massive hoax? Nine hundred miles away, in Las Vegas, a woman with a dark secret vanishes on her way to meet friends for dinner. Those friends are Del Honeycutt and best-selling mystery author Sabrina Spencer in Las Vegas for a book convention.