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Series
Private justice volume 1
Language
English
Description
A tenacious reporter turns to a handsome private detective to help her solve a mysterious disappearance the police say never happened--but someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Author
Series
John Henry Cole novels volume 5
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
John Henry Cole worked for years in Cheyenne, Wyoming-first as a policeman, and later a detective. He enjoyed the work, despite its dangers, but it was time for a change. So he decided to open his own agency, one staffed by former lawmen like himself. In practice they might be bounty hunters, but he hired men he had worked with before that he knew and trusted to be honorable and professional-and then they got to work.
And work it was. Cole's agency...
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English
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In this, her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduced readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. The list of suspects is long and includes her gold-digging new spouse and stepsons, her doctor, and her hired companion.
6) Third girl
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 31
Language
English
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Description
In this breathtaking Agatha Christie mystery, the Third Girl sharing a London flat with two others announces to Hercule Poirot that she's a murderer and then disappears. The masterful investigator must figure out whether the missing girl is a criminal, a victim, or merely insane. Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast confessing that...
7) Taken
Author
Language
English
Description
"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
Author
Series
Steve Vail novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NINA DOBREV AND AARON ECKHART
"Terrific pace, surprises galore….Move over Jack Reacher, here comes The Bricklayer." -James Patterson
Someone will kill and kill again if it means he can fool the FBI . . .
Ex-FBI agent Steve Vail is more than happy to leave the Bureau behind, but they aren't through with him yet. A group called the Rubaco Pentad is holding the FBI up for buckets of cash, with an escalating body...
Author
Series
Troubleshooters volume 11
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Private investigator Ric Alvarado and his girl Friday, Annie Dugan go undercover working for notorious crime boss Gordon Burns to prove his ties to terrorist activities.
11) Northwest angle
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through and strands Cork O'Connor and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island. Amid the wreckage they discover an old trapper's cabin, and find the body of a murdered teenage girl. Outside under a tangle of branches lies a baby boy, hungry and dehydrated but still very much alive. Then powerful forces intent on securing the child pursue them to the isolated Northwest...
Author
Series
Private justice volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Four years after the loss of her husband and son in a boating accident, Kate Marshall spots a boy on a mall escalator who she is convinced is her son and seeks the help of private detective Connor Sullivan when the police doubt her story.
13) Hallowe'en party
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery, Hallowe'en Party. At a Halloween party, Joyce-a hostile thirteen-year-old-boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'....
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English
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"Holly Cramer's past choices have finally caught up to her, but she never expected them to endanger her baby.Though Holly's stumbled through most of her adult life as a party girl, she longs to live a more stable life for her daughter. Then police show up to question her about the whereabouts of Creed Kershaw, Lily's father. She has kept his identity a secret from friends and family she never even told him about the pregnancy. Now he's a person of...
15) Tamarack County
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Series
Language
English
Description
Faced with a series of dark occurrences that are linked to a twenty-year-old murder, private investigator Cork O' Connor must stop a vengeful force before his family and friends pay the ultimate price.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In tranquil Branscombe, New Hampshire, for the holidays, PI Regan Reilly and her NYPD husband Jack, suspense writer Nora Reilly and funeral director husband Luke, and lottery winner-turned-sleuth Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy find themselves investigating shenanigans involving the local mega lottery in the midst of preparations for a festival celebrating old-fashioned Christmas values.
17) Double trouble
Author
Series
PJ Sugar novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
With one solved case under her belt, PJ Sugar is ready to dive into her career as a private investigator. Or at least a PI's assistant until she can prove herself to Jeremy Kane, her new boss. Suddenly PJ's seeing crime everywhere. But is it just in her head, or can she trust her instincts? When she takes on her first official case-house-sitting for a witness in protective custody-Jeremy assures her there's no danger involved. But it soon becomes...
18) Private Paris
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
While visiting Private's Paris office, Jack Morgan finds himself in pursuit of a client's granddaughter, who is on the run from a drug dealer and investigating the deaths of several of France's cultural elite.
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English
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John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations when he was shot and seriously injured. Now, fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker to appear in his court within thirty days. Cole isn't inclined to go, but he knows whatever's on Judge Parker's mind is serious and decides...
20) Heat wave
Author
Series
Twilight Cove trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
He hired her to find his long-lost daughter, not to fall in love. California private investigator Kat Vargas lives a lonely life of danger with a painful past. Desperate for rest and relaxation, she leaves the city lights of Long Beach to house sit in Twilight Cove, a tiny beach town. Having recently found out about the baby he fathered when he was in high school, Ty Chandler has been eager to find her. After he learns about the P.I. in his neighborhood...
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