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Series
Gulliver Dowd novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate ways. So when Ellis is discovered beaten, unconscious and left for dead not far from the pier early the following morning, Gulliver is horrified—and suspicious.
He sets out to find the attacker and learn why the boy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Nelson DeMille.
Dotan Naor, an Israeli private investigator, ousted from Shin Bet—Israel's internal security service—goes to Thailand to find Sigal Bardon, a beautiful young girl from a wealthy Israeli family. Sigal has disappeared in Bangkok—completely. Dotan has connections in Thailand and he's familiar with Bangkok's dark side—the narrow alleys with bars and hookers, trenches of stagnant water, hotel...
Author
Series
Gulliver Dowd novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of the most powerful Mafia don in New York goes missing, the don's right-hand man comes to Gulliver Dowd for help. Problem is, the right-hand man and Dowd despise each other. Plus, the don knows who murdered Dowd's sister, Keisha, but refuses to share that knowledge with Gulliver. Still, Dowd makes a devil's deal and hunts for the girl. Old secrets and lies boil to the surface, threatening to destroy the lives of everyone involved....
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Prison-for-profit scheme thrusts insurance investigator into his disturbing past—and extreme danger
Jay Porter, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire, is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse, Jay meets Nicki, a young college intern, who tips him off to a possible...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Roger Jackson is a grouch. He drinks too much with the wrong sorts of people. He dislikes where he lives—Beaumont, Texas, a small, humid southeast Texas town caught between a marsh and an impenetrable forest, between racial and social strife, between rival versions of Jesus. He dislikes his job—taking photos of cheating spouses. He dislikes his past. (He could have been a lawyer.) And now, he finds himself entangled in a crime. When the police...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Vuelve Hrcules Poirot, el detective ms clebre de la historia de la novela negra, en un nuevo y apasionante caso.Hrcules Poirot viaja en un lujoso autocar a la exclusiva mansin Kingfisher Hill: Richard Devonport le ha pedido ayuda para demostrar que su prometida, Helen, es inocente del asesinato de su hermano, Frank, pese a que ella misma ha confesado el crimen. En el trayecto, una joven sufre un ataque de nervios y exige apearse: afirma que si permanece...
7) Rigged
Author
Series
Jake Longly novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Love triangle—motive for double murder? First loves are never forgotten. Ever. Certainly not for Tommy "Pancake" Jeffers. His first-kiss, sixth-grade love, Emily, who he has not seen since grammar school, is sliding toward divorce in the artsy Gulf Coast town of Fairhope, Alabama. Longly Investigations has been charged with looking into the finances involved. When Emily doesn't appear for their nervously anticipated meeting, Pancake's radar goes...
8) Cheap Heat
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jack accompanies the self-styled "U.S. Grant"—an old college buddy—and his regional wrestling promotion on their fall tour in hopes of sniffing out the mystery and escaping his troubled past...and to avoid any more harrowing run-ins with the deadly Aesir gang. Struggling with a budding romance, the specter of his college-era mistakes, and the undercurrents of a fanatic pro wrestling fandom, some of whom may just be willing to kill, Jack soon finds...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a teenager disappears from an elite boarding school, local police throw the seemingly innocuous case to their neighborhood PI. Enter Jack Dixon: college dropout, ex-cop, and ex-cook. What should be a simple case quickly turns sour, pushing Jack into the path of Nordic biker cultists and vicious drug dealers. But the houseboat-dwelling PI is determined to find the truth—and the missing kid—even though his persistence leads him into a thorny...
10) A-List
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nothing is easy in The Big Easy
PI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, a local college coed. Ford, in the Big Easy for a location shoot, remembers little of the evening and nothing of the murder. And, to make matters worse, Kristi is the niece of a local mafioso-type who...
11) The Blue Dragon
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco’s Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn’t exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn’t intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn’t a...
12) Disappearing Act
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At age twenty, Leena O'Neil walked away from her old life. Anything to avoid becoming a lawyer like her mother and older sister, Georgia. Three years later, Georgia contacts her, convinced that her husband is trying to kill her rather than divorce her. Reluctantly, Leena agrees to help. But the stakes go up when Georgia's husband, Mark, is murdered. Now she wonders if the person who killed Mark is out to get Georgia as well. Armed with several online...
13) The Boardwalk
Author
Series
Gulliver Dowd novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gulliver Dowd is finally on the verge of unraveling the mystery behind his sister’s murder when the man who is supposed to give him the scoop, NYPD Detective Sam Patrick, is gunned down on the Coney Island Boardwalk. As Dowd delves into Patrick’s accidental shooting, he uncovers a pattern of corruption and deceit involving organized crime and the police. But there are tough choices to be made. Just how much is Gulliver willing to sacrifice in...
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Series
Zig and Nola novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
WHO IS NOLA BROWN? Nola is a mystery -- Nola is trouble -- And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies...
15) Seed on the wind
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legendary 'Nero Wolfe' creator Rex Stout - unpublished for more than 90 years - presents a psychological puzzle and a heroine you'll never forget.
16) The cutting edge
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Series
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City from their honeymoon in Italy to discover a killer is terrorizing New York City. Dubbed the Fiancé Killer, their latest foe targets newly engaged couples by following them into jewelry stores, ending the couples' lives just before they can purchase the ring that symbolizes the future that will never be theirs. As panic grips the city, Rhyme and Sachs quickly spring into action with the full weight...
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English
Description
As media attention rouses excitement for the upcoming motion picture, readers will want to pick up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a gripping collection which includes many of the famous cases--and great strokes of brilliance--that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Mercy Watson the pig goes missing, all of Deckawoo Drive is in an uproar. The Watsons are inconsolable, and the local police, fire, and animal control departments are no help whatsoever. Bossy neighbor Eugenia Lincoln is not quite as sad as she might be, but thankfully her sister, Baby Lincoln, has the idea to hire a private investigator. Granted, Percival Smidgely, PI, may be more bumbler than gumshoe, but his pigeon, Polly, is there to point...
20) Parting shot
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it . . . wouldn't you? After a tragedy rocks the community of Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for...
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