After a colleague dies, Lomax get roped into a deadly search for missing gems Four gunmen storm a jewelry store in downtown Denver, wounding a guard and killing a child. They leave with $2.1 million in gems and one hostage: the store manager, who turns out to be in on the job. Most of the gang winds up dead, but the manager lands in jail. Two decades later, he's up for release, the gems are still missing, and a whole lot of dangerous men will be watching...

Private investigator Alex Rasmussen has loved carnivals since he was a boy, and what better way to enjoy one as a grown man than with a lovely woman at his side? As he and his date stroll along the midway, playing games of chance, the soft September night is torn by a scream. Rasmussen rushes to a nearby field to find a woman's body in the weeds. One of the carnival workers---a man with trouble in his past and a motive for murder---is arrested and...

Amiable, wisecracking Alex Rasmussen was first introduced--to great acclaim--in The Heaven Stone, which won the PWA/St. Martin's Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and was also named one of the best mysteries of the year by the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Now ghosts from the past and a murderous Halloween haunt his second case. A former cop gone private, Rasmussen makes a living in the decaying New England mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts....

In David Daniel's Goofy Foot, private investigator Alex Rasmussen, embarking on a rather routine search for a missing teenager, finds himself in cold water that couldn't be hotter, as the simple task balloons into a case of murderous surfers and a heart-stopping search for a killer. Kirkus Reviews raves, "The characters are painfully human, the dialogue sharp without being over the top, and the small-town ambience dead-on."

One of Shell Scott's friends, a writer working on an expose, turns up dead-and his manuscript is missing. Of course, Shell Scott is hot on the case!

Percy Andreae (1858–1924) was an English-American brewer and influential anti-prohibitionist during the early part of the 20th century. He was born in Clapham, London to a German father, Carl Andreæ of Frankfurt, and an English mother, Emilie Sillem. During the 1890s, Andreae published short stories and novels, many of which first appeared in The Windsor Magazine. His fiction drew on his roots, incorporating international mystery and suspense with...

Was wäre die Freiburger Kantonspolizei ohne ihr ehemaliges Mitglied Jean-François Murith, der als Bruder Marius im Freiburger St.-Martins-Kloster lebt? Immer wenn es schwierig wird, greift der beleibte, kettenrauchende Inspektor Schneuwly zum Telefon, um sich bei Marius Rat zu holen. Dieses Mal ist jedoch nicht nur Marius' Rat gefragt, denn es geht um einen geheimnisvollen Mord in einem nahegelegenen Zisterzienserkloster. In einer Vollmondnacht...

Krise? Welche Krise? Als Fahrradkurier hat Ex-Privatdetektiv Max Koller genug zu tun. Und wird dann doch rückfällig: Als ein Bekannter, der Schriftsteller Robert Usedom, erschossen aufgefunden wird, nutzt Koller die Vermisstenanzeige einer Lokalpolitikerin für eigene Ermittlungen. Er kommt einem Umweltskandal auf die Spur, jagt einen selbsternannten Rächer und lernt zutiefst verunsicherte Mitmenschen kennen. Die Krise ist überwunden, aber der...

An egomaniac crook comes to town and issues a challenge to Nick Carter: I have come to town to do business. I give you notice before I begin, because I am quite certain you will be informed immediately after I commence operations. It really makes little difference; you cannot reach me. Really, my dear Nick, I have a contempt for the so-called detective ability. You, with your Ida, Chick, and Patsy, are a little better than the rest, but you are in...

A self-proclaimed sock detective inside her parents' New York City laundromat, 10-year-old Magnolia Wu and Iris, a new friend from California, set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, meeting people and uncovering the unimaginable along the way.