С. Дж. Розан0.0 It flows through the Bronx like a river between banks of faded elegance. And at the end of the avenue called the Grand Concourse is the place people go to die, the Bronx Home for the Aged. The only trouble is the people dying there are going before their time.
Bill Smith has been hired by an old friend to investigate the brutal killing of a young security guard on the Bronx Home grounds. Going undercover, Smith wades out into a sea of violence and lies washing up against the old brick building. When a second murder is committed, Smith knows that there's a method to the madness. With the help of bright, young Chinese-American investigator Lydia Chin, Smith uncovers a web of corruption that's found a home in the Bronx. Now he has to figure out who will die next.
Дик Фрэнсис4.2 Трагизм работы детектива заключается в том, что порой приходится проливать свет на факты, которые ломают жизнь людям. Эту горькую истину еще раз подтвердило расследование, предпринятое бывшим жокеем, а ныне частным детективом Сидом Холли. Ведь главным подозреваемым оказывается его лучший друг, всеобщий любимец, звезда телевидения Эллис Квинт.
Эрл Эмерсон0.0 "EMERSON AGAIN DELIVERS THE GOODS, dishing out humor, suspense, and heart-pounding action in heaping portions."
--Booklist
Marian Wright is an amateur sleuth in the employ of two attractive young women eager to catch up with their no-account ex-lovers. But when Marian's investigation ends abruptly and ferociously, Seattle private eye Thomas Black has a new case on his hands.
Picking up the pieces of Marian Wright's search for her clients' rogue boyfriends, Thomas encounters a network of people--from ex-cons and prostitutes to other private investigators--all webbed together by a chilling common thread. It's a discovery that speaks volumes about the zealousness of Marian's manhunt, and even suggests a monstrous reason for her sudden death. Yet equally monstrous is an unknown, baseball bat-wielding assailant who seems hell-bent on making sure Thomas Black's investigation stays closed. . . .
"Emerson adds another smoothly written book to his popular series."
--The Seattle Times
"GRITTY."
--Publishers Weekly
Парнелл Холл0.0 When Manhattan private eye and part-time actor Stanley Hastings gets an offer to have his screenplay produced, he thinks he's finally hit it big. But when corpses keep turning up, he sees he will have to re-write the ending, to catch the killer.
Дик Лохте0.0 When Terry Manion, the New Orleans private investigator introduced in "Blue Bayou," agrees to work for Pierre Reynaldo, the king of exploitation TV, he doesn't have a clue about what he's getting into. Reynaldo wants to reopen a case the police slammed shut thirty years ago -- the racially motivated murder of Tyrone Pano, a black militant leader. But the more Manion learns about the case, the more personal it becomes. Both Manion's father and his revered mentor, J.J. Legendre, had ties to Pano that might have been better left buried."The Neon Smile" takes the reader back to 1965, a fateful year for J. J. Legendre. It is then that Legendre, a young and cynical homicide detective, tackles both the Pano case and a series of brutal murders committed by a killer as clever as he is cold-blooded. Each victim is found with a voodoo doll, the signature previously employed by a nineteenth-century murderer known as the Meddler. Legendre connects past and present to end the Meddler's new reign of terror.
But things are never what they seem in the Big Easy, and three decades later Manion must make a couple of connections his mentor missed -- between the Meddler killings and the Pano case, between the violent unrest of the sixties and today's more subtle racial politics.
The "Chicago Tribune" thought "Blue Bayou" possessed "the same kind of energy and imagination as prime Elmore Leonard and even vintage Richard Condon." This time that energy and imagination combine for a fast-paced thriller that spans three decades of fear, corruption, and violence.
Уильям Ясперсон0.0 Searching for a missing teenager, private eye Peter Boone finds his curiosity piqued when the girl's father and brother appear unconcerned at her disappearance and comes to wonder if bringing her back is the right thing to do.
J.D. Knight0.0 A rich kid charged with his third cocaine offense skips bail, and his old man hires Oakland, Calif., PI Virgil Roy Proctor to find him.
The job pays well, real well. And the search turns into a job even more lucrative--and dangerous--when the death of a wealthy aunt turns it into a missing-heir case.
J.D. Knight skillfully entangles his story with offbeat and entertaining twists and odd characters, including a San Francisco palm reader and various skinheads, bikers and indoor marijuana farmers.
Virgil Proctor's the kind of PI with connections all over town, a man who once seemed to have it all together but didn't quite fit into the life he once shared with his ex-wife (the one who named their kid before he could get to the hospital).
No regrets. He likes where he is, although a little more economic independence would be just fine. He's a guy who appreciates the reality as well as the absurdity of his situation: "Only $110 a week for his studio apartment overlooking St. Mary's Cemetery. The best neighbors in the world next door, holding down the rent and the noise at the same time."
He's nothing if not pragmatic, and when he finally gets to the bottom of the case, after some heavy beatings and a stint in prison, he makes sure the villain will get what's coming to him. This first novel, like its PI, manages to get the job done.
Shelley Singer0.0 An alternative newspaper runs a series of interviews with Mattie, a 12-year-old homeless boy. When Mattie turns up dead, it's up to Barrett to find the murderer--before he strikes again. From the author of Following Jane and Picture of David.
Стивен Уомак0.0 With his cash flow down to a slow drip, times are tight for Nashville gumshoe Harry James Denton. Things are tough all over Music City, U.S.A. And in some instances, they're murder, as Harry finds out the hard way when he lands a case he'd rather not touch.
When rising country singer Rebecca Gibson is found viciously beaten to death in her home, a heap of damning evidence points straight to her ex-husband, Slim Gibson -- half of the struggling songwriting team with whom Harry shares office space and an occasional beer. Slim and Rebecca were last seen making beautiful music at a local club just hours before the killing. Yet while probing beneath the sweet harmony, Harry discovers the dark history of a marriage made somewhere south of heaven -- and delves into the cutthroat world of the C&W music business, where deceit, betrayal, passion, and vengeance are sung about . . . and ruthlessly performed.
"A rising star among the current crop of American novelists." -- Nashville Banner
Ричард Барр0.0 There are seven of them. Children -- innocents -- whose long-buried remains are uncovered by a flash-flood. No one knows who could have committed such a crime. Clues are scarce, and with the media turning the story into a law enforcement nightmare, time is short. Only Wil Hardesty, a private eye who has more in common with the case than anyone knows, is willing to push hard enough -- and dig deep enough -- to find the cruelest of killers. The killer of The Innocents...
Джеральд Муди Форд0.0 A soft-hearted sleuth with a rebellious streak left over from the '60s, Leo Waterman seems to get entangled in, every oddball situation from Seattle to Puget Sound. So when he's hired to locate Caroline Nobel, an errant mob heiress with an environmentalist's heart, Leo goes with the flow -- leaving behind the familiar sights of Pioneer Square to follow the landscape-loving activist into the rain-soaked Washington woods. But Caroline's conscientious cohorts are dragging her deeper into the murky waters of environmental sabotage. And her hotheaded enthusiasm can't be cooled, even after two people are brutally murdered. Caroline's onto something extremely toxic. And unless Waterman can clear the air, her deadly dedication could poison him as well.
Ruthe Furie0.0 At the end of a vicious divorce from her drunken and abusive P.I. husband, Fran realizes she needs work. But her only experience was working informally with her husband. So Fran seeks employment as a P.I. and realizes she must toughen up and take matters into her own hands. Because now her ex-husband has been murdered. Original.
Дэвид Хаусрайт0.0 Winner of the 1996 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. A Saint Paul PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife. Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the St. Paul Police Department homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. Tonight Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect. Taylor's career in the department ended after his wife and daughter were killed in a drunk driving accident. The culprit, John Brown, was sentenced to a measly six years for vehicular manslaughter, and Taylor vowed bloody vengeance in front of open court. After a few months of freedom, Brown is shot dead, and Taylor, now a private investigator, is called in as the obvious suspect. He didn't kill John Brown, but he will find out who did if-even it means tearing the Twin Cities apart from the inside out.
Allan Pedrazas0.0 From an exciting new author to watch comes a mystery featuring Harry Rice, Florida oceanside bar owner and part-time sleuth. When a simple robbery investigation turns into a complex case of adultery and murder, Harry is "encouraged" to leave the case alone.
