As with Kenna’s excellent, Shamus-nominated first novel, this one features the world-weary and tough P.I. Kate Miles as she tackles a new murder mystery—actually two murder mysteries, one old and cold, one new and hot. Very hot indeed, as the setting this time is an idyllic California mountain town plagued by wildfires. There’s heat, also, in the budding romance between Miles and local man, to whom she is powerfully attractive. Another fascinating and suspenseful P.I. tale from Kenna.
Told in alternating timelines, this gripping mystery about a PI and her quest for answers is full of twists and turns, perfect for fans of Allison Brennan and Gytha Lodge.
Struggling private investigator Kate Myles is shattered to learn her late father isn't her biological dad. She's still reeling when she discovers that an unknown distant relative is the prime suspect in a decades-old murder investigation. Trying to convince her to take on the case for free, an old colleague recommends her as an investigator for a recent arson murder in the same small town.
Another vivid and beguiling mystery from Canadian author Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson. Set in Toronto in the 1960s, the book follows Patrick Bird (the loveable P.I. from Stefanovich-Thomson first novel) as he tries to solve the murder of a reclusive tenant in his mother-in-law’s boarding house. What begins as a gritty, urban whodunnit soon opens-up into a thriller involving an international conspiracy. I haven’t been so wrapped-up in a historical novel since Walter Mosley’s "Devil in a Blue Dress".
A missing tenant, an irate mother-in-law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house ― out-of-work PI Patrick Bird is back in business.
Patrick Bird thought he was helping his mother-in-law collect back rent from a deadbeat tenant at her Ossington Avenue rooming house, not starting a new investigation. But when he discovers Jack Turner's third-floor darkroom is demolished and the photographer is missing, the other tenants come under scrutiny: Mr. Yusuf, the international student training to be a doctor; Danny Blinken, the shifty taxi driver; and Shirley Burton, the young nurse far from home.
This is a damn-near perfect cozy mystery. It's got a great setting (a small town in the New Jersey Palisades), and the main character, Lacey, is smart and likable. She just wants to get on with her life, running her party-planning business and maybe enjoying a glass of wine or three with her aunt, a soap opera star. But, of course, murder intervenes.
It's got a genuinely twisty mystery, and even has a budding romance between Lacey and her old classmate, Derek.
I found myself wanting to visit Willow bluffs—never mind the murders!
After inheriting her mother's printing and party-planning business, Lacey Langdon moves back to her sleepy hometown of Willow Bluffs, perched on New Jersey's Palisades. When her great aunt, Tessa Langdon Vander Horn, a well-known and beloved soap opera star, sells her nineteenth-century estate and donates ten acres to the development of a community park, Lacey's new venture is put at the helm of the opening ceremony. But the festivities quickly come to an end when the body of town councilman Glenn Hartman is found on the bank of the Hudson River. Partnering with her former classmate, lawyer Derek Conover, they…
A private investigator follows a trail of blood and bodies to find his latest target–or die trying–in this riveting thriller perfect for fans of Jeffery Deaver and Mick Herron.
Noland Twice, a star athlete turned private investigator, can find anyone, no matter how far they run or how well they hide. He works the Orlando-Tampa corridor, a bizarre land where theme parks and tourists coexist with drug deals and crooked businessmen. When a shady local executive, Valkenburg, goes missing, Noland is the only man for the job.
Within hours of taking the case, Noland realizes nothing about this case is going to be easy, and he recruits his friend Kiril to help him with the dirty work when he finds a dead body. But the corpse isn’t the missing man–it’s the body of one of the partners of his construction firm. There’s only one clue as to Valkenburg’s whereabouts: a set of strange numbers hastily scrawled on the dead man’s arm.
When Noland discovers that the numbers are a set of GPS coordinates, he follows the trail to a construction site. At the exact location inscribed on the body, there’s a box buried in the dirt. Inside, he finds a handwritten journal–and a woman’s severed head.
Propulsive and unpredictable, this gritty P.I. thrill ride races through a criminal world where nothing is ever as it seems.
