Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Description
Winner of the 1993 PWA/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel contest, The Heaven Stone introduces a fresh voice in author David Daniel and a likable new protagonist in Alex Rasmussen, ex-cop turned private investigator, who is drawn into the world Lowell, Massachusetts's, Cambodian refugee community.
The only member of his family to escape the killing fields of Cambodia, Bhuntan Tran wound up in the decaying factory town of Lowell. Working...
2) The Widower
Author
Description
When Mary Malone gave up teaching and sleuthing to assist her big brother Private Investigator Matt Malone, she envisioned herself helping him with all his cases, never dreaming he would pick and choose what she did, including banning her from any involvement in his newest case, the disappearance of Fumiaki Kato, who owns twenty-five Minnesota community newspapers. What's Mary supposed to do then when she discovers the case she's handling connects...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world... and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But even as Easy takes his first step in the investigation he trips. He falls into the memory of things...
4) Retribution
Author
Series
Description
Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida.
He now makes his way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything...
Author
Series
Description
The third title in Edgar Award-winning author Stuart Kaminsky's Lew Fonesca mystery series, Midnight Pass
Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless auto wreck, he got up and left his old life--and when his car gave out in sunny Sarasota, Florida, he stayed. He takes small process-serving gigs and various odd jobs helping people out, and he tries, although maybe not as hard as he should, to fix the gaping hole...
Author
Description
On an October evening in 1949, lawyer turned private detective Lawrence Mallory thinks he's taking his wife, Kate, out for an evening of wine, lobster, and other frivolities. What he doesn't realize is that he's about to embark on the most perplexing and complicated case of his career not to mention the most dangerous.While at dinner, he and Kate run into Noreen Logan, a somewhat ditzy one-time flapper and an old flame of Mallory's. Upon learning...
Author
Description
"The Premium Collection of Agatha Christie" presents a treasure trove of 40 novels and stories, showcasing the unparalleled talent of the iconic mystery writer. This illustrated anthology features a diverse array of characters, including the legendary Hercule Poirot, the charming Tommy and Tuppence, the enigmatic Mr. Quin & Satterthwaite, the astute Colonel Race, and many others.
In "Poirot Investigates," readers are treated to a series of short stories...
8) Vengeance
Author
Series
Description
Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State Attourney's Office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. Headed for Key West, the Toyota broke down in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Sarasota, Florida. Buoyed by the friendship of a few trustworthy souls, Lew settled there, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attourneys.
Now, Lew...
Author
Description
Two early stories of daring crime-solving by private detective Boise Montague. "The West Indian Manner" features the murder of a seamen whose wife comes looking for answers and gets more questions. "Horror Set Death" shows the deadly side of show business when a crew member winds up dead on the set of a horror movie, Boise must solve the murder fast to keep the film from shutting down. Both stories feature thrills and island mystery as only Gene Desrochers...
Author
Description
Una nueva novela de Roberto Sánchez donde nada es lo que parece. En junio de 2018 se localiza un yate varado en aguas internacionales. Está siendo consumido por el fuego. No hay rastro de sus tripulantes, los Vila Monsonís -una conocida pareja de abogados de Fotheringale-, ni del patrón del barco.Desde ese momento, se abren todas las hipótesis sobre qué ha podido ocurrir en alta mar. No hay testigos.El caso genera muchísima expectación mediática...
Author
Description
Alexandre Grimbert, détective privé spécialiste des crimes impossibles, est de retour dans cette enquête hivernale !Le plus célèbre des détectives Creusois enquête sur l'assassinat de Pierre Dufresne. Mais comment le suspect le plus crédible, un bonhomme de neige trnant au beau milieu du jardin, a-t-il pu tuer l'agriculteur, en cette matinée enneigée, à quelques jours de Noël ?Un nouveau mystère en apparence insoluble, pour tous les...
12) Treno Locale
Author
Description
Treno locale: un avvincente giallo britannico che terrà il lettore con il fiato sospeso fino all'ultima pagina…Nella sera di sabato 15 gennaio 1977, un treno locale per pendolari è costretto a fermarsi nella stazione di un piccolo villaggio, a causa di un'insolita bufera di neve. La giovane infermiera Jennifer Evans, ansiosa di tornare dalla famiglia, decide di percorrere a piedi gli ultimi chilometri fino alla propria casa, in un paese vicino....
13) Denial
Author
Series
Description
Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up and up.
Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience...and another that may break his heart.
The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old age home despite the...
14) The Very Least
Author
Series
Description
San Diego, Tijuana, Lake Tahoe): A dear friend of Clifford Hickey's cousin Bo crosses the border on the run from a charge of molesting children in a church nursery school. Because Bo believes him innocent, journalist Clifford agrees to investigate. Soon he has made enemies of gangsters, politicians, and tycoons on both sides of the border. That's the bad news. The good news: he meets Jodi McGee who helps him discover his purpose and write this story....
15) Mainely Wicked
Author
Description
Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and wendigos. "You ever hear of the Church of Satan?" Jewell asked.There was silence around the fire. The flames danced and flickered, casting shadows in the dark May night. Langdon took the bottle from Richam...
Author
Description
Demand Generation
A straightforward homicide inquiry; just another day at the office for Detective Inspector Bailey Troy. But her investigation is destined to uncover a murderous conspiracy of unimaginable proportions.
A beautiful young woman, heiress to her father's biotech fortune, lies dead - killed by an assassin's bullet to the head. The obvious suspect is Isaac Church, a smart but hormonal young IT geek with a good reason to hold a grudge and...
17) Membership Ties
Author
Description
A woman is missing, and she was a member of an exclusive club with binding secrets!When a college girl goes missing, P.I. Bich "Jade" Pham is hired to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. Little does she know, the missing woman was part of a clandestine group that orchestrates simulated kidnappings for their own amusement. Before she can uncover all of the details about the missing woman's involvement, Jade becomes a target herself.Will Jade...
Author
Description
A series of shots cut through the night, and moments later, Gordon Crane's friend is lying on the ground. Lucas Jones clings to life, and the only thing that matters to Gordon is finding whoever tried to take his life. The mystery of Jones' shooting is tied to a case he was looking into, the murder of a man named Zack Riggs nearly twenty years prior. The more Gordon investigates, the more he becomes convinced that solving the crime from the past will...
Author
Description
In a small Maine town, secrets are buried deep along the shore…Summer. 1978. Private investigator Jake Horn is looking forward to a weekend with his daughter, away from the busy streets of Boston. But when they head out for an early morning jog, the last thing they expect is a murder scene on Goose Rocks Beach. Within less than twenty-four hours, the cops arrest the brother of a local restaurateur who owns a popular eatery on the Kennebunk River....
Author
Series
Description
When William Lorrimer is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head, the inquest has no difficulty in returning a verdict of suicide. Lorrimer had lost the love of his life to another man, and he had written a letter to his former lover explaining why and how she had ruined his life. There could be no doubt that he killed himself.
But when a mysterious stranger arrives in the village of Little Marsham, suspicions of murder soon begin to circulate....
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for?
Search Hurst Public LibraryOr request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request