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New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine and Tommy Fortuna have a lot of resolutions for the new year, whether it's continuing to build up their detective agency or planning their wedding, the two are looking forward to the future. On their way to Times Square to celebrate, the two witness a brutal stabbing. When Tommy tries to chase down the culprit, Viviana tries her best to save the man. She's unsuccessful, but Viviana hears his final words: a whispered...
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A sadistic KGB colonel hires Drum to locate a dead man Axel Spade would not have liked the way he died. An international fugitive, Spade would have preferred being gored by a bull or gunned down by Interpol to dying quietly in his bed. But a weak heart claimed him in his sleep, and so Chester Drum, Washington PI and the closest thing Spade had to a friend, scatters his ashes in the Atlantic. Drum's old flame, Marianne Baker, is by his side, but...
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When the small town of Rosemont, Louisiana wakes up to find a bank vice-president murdered, bank funds stolen, and his little stepdaughter, Darla, missing the police and the FBI rush to the scene. However, the parents and grandparents of the missing child wants a more personal touch. They hire Ladonna of the Rose Detective Agency.As Ladonna searches for Darla she runs into family deceit, hoodoo spells, and the answers to mysteries in her own past....
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Detective Mike Shepherd chases sadistic Ferlin Husky Lewis, a self-proclaimed survivalist, who escaped from police. Shepherd ruins his only suit, misses an important dinner date, and loses Lewis.Ferlin, so incensed by Mike chasing him, decides to murder Mike and anyone who gets in the way.
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An old-timer visits New York City for a team reunion, but someone takes him out at the ballgame in this sharp-witted PI mystery.
Widowed ex-cop and PI Paul Finley still sticks close to his father-in-law-a bond rooted more in shared grief than shared affection-and one of Joe's biggest passions is the annual Brooklyn Dodgers Banquet, where he gets to hang out with the aging heroes of Ebbets Field. But this year, a onetime scrub for the Dodgers is...
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A troubled homicide cop chases a killer with an artistic sensibility. Marketing executive Peter Barrows spends his nights scouring Greenwich Village for wannabe models. He lures them back to his studio with promises of stardom, getting their hopes up just before he snaps their necks. Then his work begins, arranging their corpses to be photographed, giving them the grace and poise they never possessed in life. Peter Barrows is an artist - and death...
7) Lady Afraid
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Desperate to recover her son, a yacht designer turns to a hard-bitten captain for help Sarah Lineyack's in-laws hated her the moment she married their son. They hated her when she was pregnant, and they hated her even more after the car crash that killed their darling boy but spared Sarah and her child. While Sarah recovered, the Lineyacks stole her baby, claiming she was an unfit mother and tricking her into believing there was nothing she could...
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A real estate deal turns deadly. The land owner, Charlie Taylor, is killed, and Matt Doran, the developer is missing. Now Kramer Construction is pushing for control of the land. Billie Ross, of Ross InvestigationServices, is hired by the missing man's sister. As Billie digs deeper into the mystery her own safety is at stake.Is the missing real estate developer a murderer, or a victim? The police suspect Charlie's death is the reason Matt is missing,...
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Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in Financial Crimes with the Australian Federal Police.
The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars - Australia's first and only EV manufacturer - hires him to root out the fraud costing what is now her company upwards of $5 million a month over the past year.
Nick reluctantly takes the case - we all have bills to...
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Justice for Elizabeth is K. L. Dempsey's newest thriller, which once again points out his unique talent for creating and defining his characters. The novel illuminates the dark corners faced by a smalltown lawyer Luke Black, whose modest goals in life are defined by his annual three resolutions:
That he will continue his long-term effort to destroy the popular belief that all lawyers are necessarily dishonest.
That his net worth will reach his...
11) Die Laughing
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L.A.'s oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe is back and more relentless than ever in the highly anticipated fourth Amos Parisman Mystery!When a legend of late-night comedy is found brutally murdered in his Hollywood home, suspicions immediately fall on his former partner, Benny Wolfe. An unlikely killer, old and frail, Wolfe hasn't made a public appearance in years. But after an impromptu visit from the police takes an unexpected turn-focusing...
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The North County flower fields are a full rainbow of colors, set majestically on the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The only factor spoiling the perfect postcard setting was the murder of Charles Westway. Why was he beat to death with a hardwood Louisville Slugger, when the second body found, a sheriff's deputy, was shot? The beloved local news anchor's darkest secrets unfolded. The mystery expanded from San Diego to the streets of Hollywood...
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A hobo turns up dead in a bin. Among the gawkers is Acey Albert Tapp, a jobless man facing the death of his mother. Acey finds employment with an aging PI. He takes on a case involving a local woman gone missing for five decades, and again crosses paths with the deceased drifter. Only this time the sighting is in an old photo showing the hobo and the missing woman as teenage sweethearts. Coached by his mentor and boss, and despite a series of seemingly...
14) Full Circle
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A dying art collector asks Bernhardt to revisit him in his darkest hour The first time Betty Giles went missing, her employers wanted her dead. They hired Alan Bernhardt, theater director and sometimes PI, to find her, but when he discovered their scheme, he drew a sawed-off shotgun to save her life. Now Betty's missing again, hiding somewhere in Europe, and her old bosses want her found. Will Bernhardt deliver her to the man who once tried to have...
15) Downpour
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A car is found neatly parked on the side of the road. A short time later, the spot is marked by a cross. Tapp and team are hired to find the missing driver, a middle-aged, Michigan woman. The investigation leads to similar cases where women vanish while on the road, and crosses appear shortly afterward. Where are these women? And what is the meaning of this common thread of car and cross?
16) Deadly Passion
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While investigating the murder of a beautiful socialite Detective Lanny Boone uncovers a corrupt gambling cartel that eliminates opposition from any quarter. Having made the connection between the murder and the cartel Boone presses for evidence to convict … and is drawn into a crossfire he might not survive.
17) Dead Center
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Hastings chases a serial killer who preys on the glitterati Tony Frazer takes a wide berth when he sees the homeless man. A millionaire playboy, he does not consort with street people, and is in the process of skirting the derelict, eyes averted, when the stranger calls his name. The king of the society pages turns just in time to be struck by three silenced bullets, slumping to his knees and dying there in the gutter. Although witnesses insist the...
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An old man juggles his final wishes including romance, revenge and a reversal of fortune for people whose lives he has all but destroyed. At the same time, a group of ex-cops juggle retirement with a dogged sense of justice. And bridging the two is Acey Tapp, a private investigator. When paths cross and clues surface with a regularity that is anything but chance, the match is on. Playing the roles of King, Bishop and Pawn are a rusty gun, an orphan...
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When private investigator Paul Finley is hired to find a missing teenager who turns up dead, he comes up against the powers-that-be in an affluent Long Island community who have a problem distinguishing sex and murder from their fantasy baseball games. Complicating matters further is his involvement with a beautiful widow whose own elusiveness may or may not be connected to the death of the teenager.
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An inspector and four uniformed constables arrive one morning, unannounced, at Greystones, the imposing and remote country house of the Elderly family. Inspector Biggs brushes past the immaculate and outraged butler and demands to see John Elderly, head of the family. Behind the dark oak library door is the scene of a struggle; overturned and disarranged furniture, the telephone receiver is off the hook… Where has the master gone? Who has cut the...