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."

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...

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...

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...

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!

Der Großgastronom Pit Baldauf möchte einen Biergarten eröffnen - ausgerechnet am Karlsgraben bei Treuchtlingen, der unter Denkmalschutz steht. Das erhitzt die Gemüter der Anwohner sowie der Historikerin Ricarda Held, die über die Geschichte des Landstrichs forscht. Das Projekt soll zu Fall gebracht werden. Da kommt die Leiche des Hobby-Archäologen Meindl, die im Karlsgraben entdeckt wird, gerade recht. KOK Hans Wörle ermittelt: Hat die Tat...

In this new paranormal mystery from the author of Fallible Justice, an investigator looks into multiple murders-of the same man . . . When private investigator Yannia Wilde returns to the conclave where she grew up-and to the deathbed of her father, the conclave's Elderman-she is soon drawn back into the Wild Folk way of life, and into a turbulent relationship with Dearon, her betrothed. Back in London, Tim Wedgebury is surprised when police...

Ron Reed, the ace pitcher of the L.A. Wave, the newest franchise in major league baseball, hires our "Celebrity PI" to surveille his lingerie model wife who he suspects is cheating. This fourth novel in the "Sherlock Jones" series of contemporary L.A. murder mysteries finds Sherlock, Sasha (his partner in Archer Investigations and sharpshooting lover), plus the WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golfers Association) "Disreputables" (his zany yet adept rag-tag...

When Sylvia Wilcox takes a leave of absence from the police force to investigate the untimely death of her husband, another mystery-the murder of several students from the local colleges-grabs her attention. The murder of the young men indicates that a serial killer may be roaming the backwoods of southeastern Michigan. Amid Sylvia's grief and search for answers surrounding the loss of her husband, she finds herself simultaneously involved in a dangerous...

Einstein Flint is an ex-rodeo rider, born in Brooklyn and raised in every other borough in the city.  Now, he's banged-up, burnt out and back in NYC, bouncing at Boom Boom's. Dasha Bragin was smart, fearless and...remorseless as desert sun. But now she's dead and the cops are pretty sure Flint is their guy.  Flint and Dasha had been a couple before the cops found her body, damaged in ways that don't allow the next breath. When word on the street...