Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives

"e;If you are looking for a perplexing plot, with a surprising end and a spicy thread of humor and romance, this is it!

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Tragically widowed, Thea Kozak is tall, brave, and trying to rebuild her life.

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Chicago Journalist Thea Barlow Digs Deep to Unravel the Mystery of a Legendary Wyoming Brothel and Uncovers a Modern-Day MurdererThea Barlow, Chicago native and newly minted editor for the city's Western True Adventures Magazine, is on her first assignment: prove her worth by unravelling the mysteries of Halfway Halt, a defunct brothel in Hijax, Wyoming.

When a student is found drowned in the campus pond of a prestigious New England boarding school, Thea Kozak is called in for crisis management.

Smart and funny, Thea Kozak is carving out a career for herself while trying to win her critical mother's approval.

After surviving her husband's tragic death, then solving her sister's murder, Thea Kozak thought her amateur detective days were over, until she met a woman who had it all, and then some.

In Hawaii to help run a conference, Thea Kozak is determined to find time to relax--until the conference chairwoman is found dead.

Thea Kozak's sometimes rocky relationship with Maine state police detective Andre Lemieux has flourished.

A dry cleaner-turned-amateur sleuth investigates her ex-husband when his new wife-to-be turns up dead in this cozy mystery.

Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation's capital.

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Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation's capital.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who's leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan.

Tex Larimee, a grizzled sheriff, leaving the deserts of Cactus County, Arizona, behind and blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of New York.

Third in the mystery Secrets trilogy set in the Florida Panhandle, featuring Old Doc Berber as sleuth.

In the second installment of the Secrets trilogy, things are not always as serene as they seem in the little Florida Panhandle village of Port St.

Michael Biehl's first two novels, mysteries featuring medical law, were highly critically acclaimed.

Most towns have their secrets.

After surviving a nearly fatal encounter with his nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes returns to 221B Baker Street.

Kristin Ginelli, Chicago-cop-turned-religion-professor, is horrified when her new Muslim faculty colleague is targeted with a hate crime by self-styled white supremacists.

For fans of Karin Slaughter and Erin Kelly.

'Gritty, violent and very dark, it is a real page turner.

ONE MURDER.

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.

There's only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif .

'Spooky and hilarious' - Mandasue Heller on The Accidental MediumSet in Newcastle, Gin Palace rejoins Tanz, the Accidental Medium and an unwilling crime solver, as she grows accustomed to her rather unusual gift - communicating with the dead .

The Accidental Medium is the first book in a hilarious series from Tracy Whitwell featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, is about to become an unwilling crime-solver.

'Beautifully written, unflinching and brimming with adventure' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra'Immersive storytelling, a rollicking mystery and a take-no-prisoners heroine' - Stylist1896, Bannin Bay, Australia.

In the seventh novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series, Date with Betrayal, betrayal is rife in the idyllic Yorkshire Dales as Samson O'Brien, owner of the Dales Detective Agency, is targeted by a hitman.

Julia Chapman's sixth Dales Detective Agency novel, Date with Deceit, sees Delilah going undercover at a shoot involving dangerous criminals.

'An engrossing and evocative read.

'Fast-moving and entertaining'Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonEnter a world of magic and adventure in The Library of the Dead by T.

From the international number one bestselling thriller writer, David Baldacci, comes a gripping mystery about a college football player's investigation into the unsolved disappearance of a fellow player who seemingly vanished into thin air.

They say you can't choose your family .

'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet SisterThe case is unexceptional, that is what I know.

'Stupendously engaging'Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonOur Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T.

Poisoned pooches and a missing teenager bring our detective duo back together in Date with Poison the fourth cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective Agency series.

This volume contains the collected stories of the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of London street urchins who are hired by the great detective Sherlock Holmes to help him with his investigations.

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The Incredulity of Father Brown is a 1926 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G.

A Mystery For the Ages!

Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party.

The Rasp introduces the world to the amazing Anthony Gethryn, an ex-secret service agent, and occasional newspaper correspondent.

She was the last person in the world I expected to see.

Collected here in one omnibus edition are four novels and ten short stories by the incomparable Agatha Christie; that's over nine hundred pages and three hundred thousand words of some of the greatest murder mysteries ever written.