Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators

"A shaggy, satisfying valentine to Chicago's seedy uptown." --KIRKUS

The body of a small-time drug dealer washes up in Belmont Harbor among the yachts of Chicago's wealthy. Convinced that this murder connects to her husband's suicide two years prior, wealthy widow Janice Fairs hires private eye Paul Whelan to investigate.

Whelan's investigation takes him into the rarefied air of the wealthy, where he begins to discover unlikely connections between the two men in the harbor. But Whelan isn't the only one snooping, and he discovers himself an unwitting player in a game of...

"This series is a small treasure." --BOOKLIST

Chicago Private Investigator Paul Whelan takes the case when an elderly woman asks him to look into the disappearance of Tony Blanchard, a young man she'd taken in after his parents died. Instead, Whelan discovers a string of murders, all tied to a car-theft ring.

All the evidence suggests that Tony is dead as well, but Whelan keeps digging until he finds himself surrounded by a dangerous maze of silent witnesses, crooked cops, and people willing to kill to keep the truth from surfacing. When a friend from Whelan's past emerges--a friend...

"This series is a small treasure." --BOOKLIST

Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to find a missing street hustler named Sam Burwell. As Whelan delves into Burwell's past, the world of street vendors and corner musicians, he uncovers old enmities and love affairs, but his search for Burwell comes up empty. That is, until Burwell is found murdered.

Soon Whelan is swept up into a whirlwind of old feuds, dark pasts, unlikely romances...and a killer hiding in plain sight.

"This series is a small treasure." --BOOKLIST

A killer terrorizes Chicago's diverse Uptown neighborhood. Private investigator Paul Whelan's specialty is tracking down missing persons, but when his good friend is found slain in an alley, Whelan is steered down a path of violence as he searches for answers.

His investigation is interrupted by the arrival of an attractive young woman, Jean Agee, who is on her own search for her missing brother. But as clues lead Whelan to believe the two cases may be connected, the body count rises quickly, and he finds himself racing to catch a killer...

"An underappreciated, carefully crafted series." --BOOKLIST

Margaret O'Mara's brother disappeared thirty years earlier, so when his last known associate is found murdered, O'Mara hires Chicago PI Paul Whelan to investigate.

Whelan makes the rounds through seedy bars and dilapidated apartment buildings, discovering connections to a long-gone Chicago amusement park where another murder took place forty years prior.

Soon, Whelan finds himself navigating his way through dark pasts, deep secrets, and a mystery that may cost him his life.

If you enjoy Jim Richards, Arthur Doyle, and Gus Mackie, each from their own books, then this is the crossover book for you. A convention of private investigators draws Jim and his Vegas team of investigators back to Detroit, Michigan where they meet the likes of Doyle and Gus. The three men end up investigating two murders in the Detroit MGM Grand Hotel where the convention is being held. Detroit Police Detective Bernie Longmire, Gus' friend, is in charge of the case but he let's the three investigators run loose to help solve who murdered the two men. Lots of questions and an introduction...

When a man is brutally murdered and the suspected killer has disappeared, the family of the victim hire private investigators Jake and Annie Lincoln to track down the missing murderer.
A dangerous and deadly pursuit begins, in which both the hunted and the hunters become embroiled in a lethal conflict that could result in the Lincolns forfeiting their own lives in their battle to bring a ruthless killer to justice.
About This Mystery Series
Book 1: Blood and Justice
Book 2: Cold Justice
Book 3: Justice for Hire
Book 4: Captive Justice
Book 5: Justice Overdue
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James Ford's three-year-old daughter is abducted by a criminal with a past grudge. But revenge is best served cold. A stalker threatens Phil Menser's daughter preventing him from helping James locate Lily. Can both their children be saved before it is too late?

Follow New York's City's Schwartz, P.I. on a laugh-out-loud investigation into whether a professional football player has been kidnapped with a mutilation ransom demand sure to keep you turning the pages and keeping a careful count of your own digits. Schwartz and his trusted cohorts take you on a head-scratching, belly-laughing investigation that Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade and Spenser never came afoot of. Is it a counterfoot or not? Leave it to Schwartz to (wise) crack the case. This project is sponsored in part by the Florida Keys Council for the Arts, the State of Florida, Division of...

Where do you go for the answers to questions that no one wants answers to? If no one wants those answers, why do you care? How does a cliche' 1940's hard boiled detective fit in with modern industrial espionage? Easy, he doesn't unless you FORCE him to. Lastly, how many bad puns and obscure 1990s to early 2000s computer references can you make in just one book? Lead on with private dick Mac N. Tosh to find out.

Ten years ago, two children never made it home from school. The police thought they caught the killer. They were wrong. As the ten year anniversary looms, the real murderer begins to kill again, and he meticulously covers his tracks. However, an amateur private detective with demons of his own and a penchant for bad decisions has decided to take the case. Once he begins to ask the right questions, the killer decides to put a stop to the investigation, one way or another. The victims are never coming home, and Lincoln Pierce will have to fight to keep the ones he loves from being added to the...

On the morning of a very important day in her life, Ellen Cooper is faced with a heart-wrenching dilemma. Going against her best instincts, she makes a rash decision that ends up having dire consequences. Before the day is over, she's suspected of not one, but two murders, and kidnapping. Can the capable private investigator, Zachary Marchand, untangle the web of lies and misinformation he's been given? Will he figure out who's telling the truth and who's not, before anyone else goes missing or is killed? And does he realize that by pursuing this case, he has also made himself a prime...

Chicago private detective Nick Lane loves order, discipline and safety in his life, thanks in part to his devoted business partner Stephanie Williams. But when police ask them to help investigate a witness who has discovered a body in a bloody downtown alley, Nick and Stephanie are drawn into a grisly, violent game with a master criminal mind who wants to keep them on the losing end of the game and silent forever.

What if someone is out there? What if they know where you work, where you play, who you hold dear and know who you love? What if you're a police lieutenant with years of experience and training in charge of a major homicide unit yet, to your knowledge, whoever it might be has broken no laws, committed no crimes? What if you're wrong? Old sins never die and they never grow old or complacent. They simply wait patiently for the right moment, the right time to return. Wait until a time when you least expect them, a time when you think they are long buried in a distant past. Then and only then...

Lucky thirteen is not so lucky for an old acquaintance of Spencer Hardesty and Trey Banner in the newest Spencer Hardesty Novel. When Trey is visited by an old friend who died in the trunk of a car, Spencer and Trey end up back in California looking for his body after promising the poor soul to get closure for his sons. Only it may have been one of his sons that caused the old man's death and Spencer uses his L.A. resources to prove it one way or another. In a house filled with emotion, fear and regret, Spencer Hardesty discovers that the promise 'no matter what' can be one hard promise to...

Detective Moses Byone is back With his trusted partner, former antiques dealer Armond Fontenot, they tackle a case that is over one hundred and fifteen years in the making. Investigating chests of gold and silver stolen during the Civil War, Mose and Armond find themselves in the midst of a violent and enigmatic case. When their client Marcel Lavolier comes up murdered, they must solve his questionable and mysterious death if they are to escape the danger alive. With an incredible and astonishing ending Death on Canal Street delivers the supernatural darkness, intrigue and mystery known for...

The D'lberville Bayou Murders is a crime mystery that involves Ronald Benoit and his investigative team of experts called the Gravediggers. Benoit is no longer an FBI agent. He takes cases according to the clients' specifications and dispenses justice.

After an assassin's bullet stops Helen Meeker dead in her tracks her friends must find the man who fired the shot. From the streets of Washington D.C. to the stockyards in Chicago with a side trip to the heart of Texas, danger and intrigue dog a secret government team as Helen hovers between life and death. Will an enemy's blood offer a second chance at life and the key to finding out what a mysterious tall man really wants? Old friends unite with new characters in this exciting episode of In The President's Service.