Private Investigators Mysteries

Following the bombshell ending of Kill Your Darlings, Declan Walsh has a new job, a new office and a new remit—but when a City of London art gallery discovers the star of their latest exhibition dead, with only a signed, painted "kiss" on his neck to go on, Declan and his team must investigate a murder that involves brutal vengeance, a family linked to a painting stolen by the Nazis in WW2, and a long-forgotten promise.

Auf der Suche nach einer verschwundenen Kollegin wird der mürrische Wiener Privatermittler Peter Hogart nach Prag geschickt. Doch die Goldene Stadt zeigt sich ihm von ihrer düstersten Seite: Binnen Stunden hat er nicht nur einige äußerst zwielichtige Gestalten, sondern auch die Prager Kripo gegen sich aufgebracht. Nur die junge Privatdetektivin Ivona Markovic, die gerade eine Reihe bizarrer Verstümmelungsmorde untersucht, scheint auf Hogarts Seite zu stehen. Als die beiden bei einem Anschlag nur knapp dem Tod entrinnen, wird klar, dass es eine Verbindung zwischen ihren Fällen geben muss.

I'm not saying the entire magical population of North Yorkshire want us dead. Just the majority. Which is why we fled Leeds to hide out in the dubious safety of the seaside town of Whitby. But lying low isn't really in our skillset, and when one of our few remaining friends is taken by the sea, we can't just walk away. We've got to get her back. Especially as her partner is a reaper with a scythe that can slice through reality, and the whole situation might be a teeny, tiny bit our fault. We're not going after Emma alone, though.

DS Kat Ballantyne is still reeling from a revelation that turned life as she knew it upside down. But when a dog walker discovers the body of a woman among the standing stones known locally as the Three Sisters, there’s no time to focus on her own troubles. Kat is drawn back to work to investigate. At first, the death appears to be an accident. But then Kat discovers an infinity symbol branded onto the dead woman’s abdomen.

Penny Dahl está desesperada para encontrar a filha, Bonnie, que sumiu sem deixar vestígios. Em busca de ajuda profissional, ela liga para a agência Achados e Perdidos, sob o comando de Holly Gibney. A detetive reluta em aceitar o caso, porque deveria estar de licença, mas algo na voz de Penny faz com que Holly não consiga ignorar o pedido.

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.

In Rudie se eerste Kassie Kasselman-roman, Slagyster, ontmoet ons vir Carl Bester, gevalle oudspeurder. In Vloek is Carl terug. Hy kan na SA kom–sy bannelingstatus uitgewis, teen ’n prys. “Ons vergeet jou sondes in ruil vir ’n teenprestasie,” sê sy nuwe werkgewer. Hy moet ’n lykbesaaide saak van internasionale belang help ontrafel. Nou sal hy weer soos ’n volbloedspeurder moet redeneer om dié saak saam met ’n spul rookies op te los.

Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body - and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave.

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887).

Marnie Baranuik is confident that her new psychic detective agency will be a great success, and she has eight million business cards to prove it. But before the paint even dries on her open for business sign, she's summoned to face the Demon King Asmodeus in His own playground, the revenant court, home of the undead nobility, to participate in a conclave of the most powerful immortals on Earth.

1688, The Netherlands. Master Mercurius has just settled back into his life as a lecturer at the University of Leiden when he is once again summoned by the Stadhouder, William of Orange. A message from William is never good news, but he is not a man you can say no to. So Mercurius finds himself once again uprooted and at the center of dangerous political plot. William has decided it is time to expand his empire and launch an attack on his nemesis, the French King Louis XIV.

Maddie Clark seeks out Private Investigator Dev Haskell in The Spot bar. They had a short term relationship years earlier. Now Maddie owns a number of barbecue restaurants and she'd like Dev to provide security at an event. He accepts the job. Two days after the event he's contacted by Maddie. Someone has kidnapped her dog, Banshee, a Samoyed and her six puppies. Each puppy is valued at $7000. Dev begins the investigation and along the way takes a young ne'er-do-well on board to try and get him straightened out.

Mason had killed him in cold blood years ago, but somehow, the Lullaby Killer is back. He’s taunting Mason with letters printed in blood. They threaten a slow, painful death…but not before his secrets are spilled. Desperate to keep the weight of his crimes from crushing his family, Mason is forced back into his run-and-gun life as a private investigator, as he tracks down the man bent on destroying his life - the man who will do anything to ruin him. Mason is caught up in his most dangerous case yet.

Joe is a retired Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, moonlighting as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town. In his newest assignment, Joe is sent to take out a shadowy figure named Zahir, who made the New York crime families' hit list by hijacking heroin shipments bound for US dealers and funneling the money to terror cells. Which means that Gotham's underbelly has brought Joe back to the one place in the world he doesn't want to revisit.

After leaving the service, Lee 'Red' Gammon sets himself up as a private eye in New Orleans. In less than two years, he's managed to make an enemy on the local police force and set up a network of eccentric if reasonably reliable informants. Chief among these is Masaka, who appears to be an Oriental girl in her twenties but may be something entirely else. She has an unsettling way of appearing and disappearing without notice, and bringing particularly odd cases to his attention. Cases he would rather do without. First, he had to prevent the summoning of a demon.

Private Investigator, Catherine Winter has seen it all in her many years as a Southern California PI. Widowed and in her sixties, she has no desire to retire. She frequently says she will not give it up as long as she can hit a target with a .357 slug. Determined, and dedicated, she often works alongside the Los Angeles police in investigating crimes.

Золотой век детектива подарил нам множество звездных имен. Произведения таких писателей, как Агата Кристи, Гилберт Честертон, Эрл Стэнли Гарднер, Рекс Стаут, развивали и совершенствовали детективный жанр, их романы, безоговорочно признанные классикой, по сей день любимы читателями и являются эталоном качества для последующих поколений авторов детективных историй. Почетное место в этой плеяде по праву принадлежит Джону Диксону Карру (1906–1977) – виртуозному мастеру идеально построенных «невозможных преступлений в запертой комнате».

Эркюль Пуаро и его давний знакомый капитан Гастингс встречаются в загородном поместье Кавендишей в Стайлзе. Кто-то отравил богатую хозяйку имения - миссис Эмили Инглторп. Возможно это ее муж Альфред, который, похоже, нацелился на наследство? Но ее пасынки, служанка и даже садовник также могли оказаться убийцами. Под подозрение попадают практически все обитатели Стайлз-Корт. Пуаро внимательно изучает жителей имения, пока не находит недостающее звено в цепочке расследования.

Now living in Los Angeles with former Navy SEAL Nick Reno, artist Perry Foster comes to the rescue of elderly and eccentric Horace Daly, the legendary film star of such horror classics as Why Won’t You Die, My Darling? Horace owns the famous but now run-down Hollywood hotel Angels Rest, rumored to be haunted. But as far as Perry can tell, the scariest thing about Angels Rest is the cast of crazy tenants - one of whom seems determined to bring down the final curtain on Horace and anyone else who gets in the way.

Nearly two dozen girls are found dead in a shipping container on the shores of New York City. No one knows where they came from or how they got there. But one man is compelled to find out why they died, no matter the cost.... Ex-NYPD detective Damien Drake has no business meddling in a police case, especially with what happened on the last one. But when the only survivor from the shipping container shows up at their doorstep with a horrific tale of drug smuggling, human trafficking, and links to a dangerous cartel, there's no way they can turn her down...can they?