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"The first in a trilogy of whipsmart novels--soon to be a BBC TV series--about a destructive, British-born Indian private investigator, and his ragtag team of eccentric coworkers, who handles high-profile cases so undercover that they never make the headlines--perfect for fans of Sherlock, Castle, and Scandal"--
2) Cold blooded
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"Fourteen years ago, high school track star Sydney Adams was gunned down in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The investigation yielded useless clues, and the case went cold. But homicide detective Augustus Knox never gave up on finding Sydney's killer. Now, retired from the police force and with only months to live, he enlists the help of private investigator Jocelyn Rush to clear the case once and for all. Armed with little more than a theory as to...
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PI Kowalski investigates the seedy side of the high life in a case of murder, sex, and devastating lies.Jeff Lyons, wealthy businessman and CEO of Lyons Media, hires PI Kowalski on unlimited expenses to find his missing daughter, Tamsin. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance are ominous: her roommate has been murdered and a man has threatened Tamsin's life.Nothing is at it seems-Kowalski finds himself in a race against time with a killer,...
4) Magic city
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A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime forty-two years earlier. After it mysteriously reappears, the photo is burned in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day killing spree reaching from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House.What the killer did not know is that a copy of the photograph...
5) Silencer
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Earl Hammond, the wealthy patriarch of a family of ranchers, lies dead, shot just as he was to donate his Coquina Ranch to the state to preserve it from developers. Spearheading the plan to save this environmental treasure was Thorn, a reluctant heir to a secret family fortune, who now finds himself in terrible danger as well. A pair of deviant brothers, both contract killers, kidnap and imprison him in a sinkhole-a dungeon from which there is no...
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The heat is on for Alyx Cruz as she struggles to find a balance between work and play. . .
After a wild semester, the sisters of Beta Gamma Pi are worried that Alyx's partying is ruining their reputation on campus. When Alyx receives devastating news about her mom, and learns that because of her low grades her scholarship is on the line, she needs help fast. That's where tutor Cody Foxx comes in, a handsome grad student who's going to get...
After a wild semester, the sisters of Beta Gamma Pi are worried that Alyx's partying is ruining their reputation on campus. When Alyx receives devastating news about her mom, and learns that because of her low grades her scholarship is on the line, she needs help fast. That's where tutor Cody Foxx comes in, a handsome grad student who's going to get...
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PI Kowalski peels back the layers of a sunny, idyllic Aussie town, and exposes the darkness underneath.PI Matt Kowalski's first case is personal. When his uncle coerces him to investigate the brutal murder of a cousin he barely knew, he can hardly refuse-besides, he needs the money. Still, he feels too old to be wearing all black in The Gong, a beach town in New South Wales.Clues point him in many directions, including an ex-bikie ice trafficker,...
8) The Wronged
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A complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow's deadly underworld.
Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son's suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue, Cameron is sure it's another case closed. But, the body laid out on the slab isn't the man he's looking for. And, it isn't a stranger. Suddenly, a routine investigation becomes a desperate fight for...
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"Another floater surfaced in the Rio Grande last night. It was the headline story on the all-news radio station I listen to on the way to work. Authorities on either side pull twenty to thirty bodies out of the Rio each year, some accidental drownings, some deliberate. What made this one unusual was the fact that he had identification -- and money. "Human smuggling constitutes one of the less savory aspects of Brady Investigation's case load. Jack...
10) Circle of Bones
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The first in a nerve-shredding new British crime thriller series from Malcolm Richards. A killer on the loose in Cornwall. A PI on a desperate hunt to unmask him. For eighteen years, private investigator Blake Hollow has been haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend. Now, Blake has returned home to Cornwall to care for her injured mother – just as another local teenager goes missing. Troubled by painful memories, Blake is determined...
11) Whistleblower
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When a medical whistleblower goes missing, private investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on the case.
Gavin Law exposed a tragic case of medical malpractice but now he's missing. It's just another case for Glasgow PI, Charlie Cameron, until he comes to believe Law was murdered.
Did the disgraced surgeon abandon his sacred oath to become a killer? Or. did the hospital itself have Law permanently silenced? As Charlie digs deeper, he discovers...
12) Felina
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"They will kill him. You must find him for me." Those were the words that got me into this mess. They had been uttered by Felina Ochoa, a young woman just barely old enough to work in Rosa's Bar on San Antonio Street in downtown El Paso.
Of course it wasn't just the words. Some cynics would say that a young, attractive woman could make an old warhorse like me sit up and bark like a seal in spite of his better judgement.
Jack Brady, ex-SEAL and current...
13) The Accused
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When Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is, drawn back into Glasgow's dark underworld...
Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knows Kim Rafferty is bad news the moment they meet. Desperate people always spell trouble in his experience, and Mrs. Rafferty is as desperate as they come. What she is asking for is insane and if he agrees to help the wife of the notorious East-End gangster, the consequences for them both could be...
14) Swindled
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He's out there somewhere. He's taken everything from me, and... I hate him!' Lottie Beautiful, but a little spoilt, Lottie Thorogood leads a charmed life. Returning home from horse riding one day, she finds a stranger, drinking tea in the family drawing room — a stranger who will change her life, forever. Hannah After a bad decision cut short her police career, Hannah Sandlin is desperate to make her mark as a private investigator. She knows she...
15) Inlet Boys
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PI Kowalski peels back the layers of a sunny, idyllic Aussie town, and exposes the darkness underneath.
PI Matt Kowalski's first case is personal. When his uncle coerces him to investigate the brutal murder of a cousin he barely knew, he can hardly refuse-besides, he needs the money. Still, he feels too old to be wearing all black in The Gong, a beach town in New South Wales.
Clues point him in many directions, including an ex-bikie ice trafficker,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Howard Wallace lives by his list of rules of private investigation. He knows more than anyone how to work with what he’s got: a bathrobe for a trench coat, a makeshift office behind the school equipment shed, and not much else—least of all, friends. So when a hot case of blackmail lands on his desk, he’s ready to take it on himself . . . until the new kid, Ivy Mason, convinces him to take her on as a junior partner. As they banter...
17) The way we roll
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Beta Gamma Pi volume 2
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Pledging wasn't in Malloy Murray's plans, but it might be exactly what she needs...
Malloy Murray has never had any close girlfriends, so she wasn't really feeling the whole "sorority" thing, but Malloy has to pledge - her mother, the National President of Beta Gamma Pi, is counting on it. After meeting some of the sisters at a party, the idea of becoming a Beta isn't actually so bad. And when Malloy runs into Kade, the guy she's been crushing on,...
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Valuable land, oil, and murder make strange bedfellows.
Denny McConnell, Private Investigator, is hired to research the deeds, land swaps, and old lawsuits regarding Texas ranchland and oil, the rights to which are now disputed by Wendy Axtell Shearer. Obstacles develop, in part, because of Wendy's charming but flawed character.
Denny puts to good use his engineering skills, and becomes entangled in the bitter family feud that includes murder, mayhem,...
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A cure for cancer is stolen in Dallas, Texas, and now people are being killed. Denny McConnell, PI, is on the case.When the young woman who, with four others, stole the promising cancer medicine is knifed in the gut, Denny is hired by her mother to find the killer. Soon after, Denny is kidnapped and mistaken for a man who stole a plutonium purification process, and he becomes enmeshed in an increasingly deadly affair. A week later, the young woman's...
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Has technology been used as a weapon in the murder of two victims? Denny McConnell, PI, is on the case.Denny is hired by Amber Fagerstrom's law firm to help prove her innocent of the murder of Bad Boy Philip McDuggle. When another murder takes place in Ft. Worth, allegedly by the wife of the man for whom Denny provided expert testimony, Denny suspects the two cases are connected. Each of the two victims was involved in a coal venture, and Amber happens...