Private Investigators

The next novel from the best-selling crime author David Baldacci. Amos Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a terrible hit....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor....

A deadly enemy will rise again.... Ella Praeger has always felt like an outsider. So when she is called to join the ranks of The Group, a force for good operating in the shadows, her world shifts. She is gifted a purpose - and a dangerous legacy....

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas, only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.....

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy....

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent....

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved....

There has never been a murder on Alderney. It's a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand new literary festival. Private investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book....

Meet Happy Doll. Hap to his friends. He's a LA private detective living a quiet life along with his beloved half-Chihuahua, half-terrier, George.... 

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet....

When one such creature threatens an independent tutor, Harry Dresden must shake off the blood and dirt of his most recent battles and rise to the occasion, even when it turns out that the new predator is far more dangerous and connected than first appearances would suggest....  

Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie - a college student with a side job working for the tough but tender private eye - dreams of being an investigator herself....

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag - cars, houses, women....

No one's tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost an entire year, and his life finally seems to be calming down. For once, the future looks bright. But the past casts one hell of a long shadow....

Ten grippling short stories of Arsène Lupin: one of the most famous and intriguing figures of French detective literature. He was created by Maurice Leblanc...

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in....

The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Dresden as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in Chicago....

A client claiming she was murdered in a past life is a novel dilemma even for Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator....

David Baldacci's heart-stopping Hour Game is the second fast-paced thriller in the King and Maxwell series....

Caught as a teenager at a wild party, and sent home in disgrace, Lucy Sheridan is finally returning to Summer River 13 years later....

Adele Schumacher isn't a typical worried mom. When she hires Elvis to find her missing son, a controversial podcaster named Josh Shoe, she brings a bag filled with cash, bizarre tales of government conspiracies, and a squad of professional bodyguards....

It's been four months since the events of Sight Unseen, and Kendra Michaels is obsessed with trying to track down serial killer Eric Colby....

Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first 20 years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project....

A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case, but Sean Duffy isn’t easily deterred....

Funnier than Psycho...more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge...shorter than War and Peace...the second Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul....

Während Holmes und Watson nach der undichten Stelle suchen, ist auch der fünfte Mord nicht zu verhindern. Diesmal ist ihnen das Opfer jedoch aus den bisherigen Erhebungen bekannt. Offenbar verfügen die Täter über Einblicke in die Ermittlungstätigkeiten.

Nachdem die Ermittlungen zur Mordserie bislang von der Öffentlichkeit ferngehalten worden waren, landet nun ein kritischer Bericht in der Presse. Dieser unterstellt Scotland Yard und Holmes Unfähigkeit und malt ein übertriebenes Bedrohungsszenario.

Ein dritter Mord geschieht, der wiederum dem bisherigen Muster entspricht, aber in Grausamkeit und Perfidie eine neue Ebene erreicht. Angesichts der Eskalation erscheinen rasche Ermittlungsfortschritte unerlässlich, um die Serie zu stoppen.

Der vierte Mord weist Ähnlichkeiten zu den Taten Jack the Rippers auf, gehört jedoch unweigerlich zur Todsündenserie. Erstmals gibt es Zeugen sowie eine überraschende Erkenntnis: Der Täter handelt nicht allein, sondern hat einen Komplizen.

1903. A darkness has descended on London. A series of grisly murders are uncovered, trophies taken, bodies arranged and soon there are whispers of Jack the Ripper’s return. A new client arrives at Baker Street seeking Sherlock Holmes’s help: Dr. Jekyll claims his friend has been wrongfully accused of the hideous crimes, a friend called Mr. Edward Hyde, whose very existence relies on a potion administered by the doctor himself. But the case becomes more complicated, more unsettling than simply proving Mr. Hyde’s innocence.

A wealthy doctor invites many friends to spend a week at a giant ski villa…only to wind up dead. The police call it a hunting accident. His much-younger wife doesn’t buy it. Darby Piper, a seasoned private eye, and Tate Porter, who inherited half of the detective agency, are glad to take the case. They go undercover as a romantic couple at the villa, where guests are still enjoying their free luxury vacation and catered meals.

Inspektor Lestrade muss gegenüber Holmes eingestehen, dass die Polizei über keinerlei Spuren oder Zeugen verfügt. Indessen scheint klar, dass der Täter an seinen willkürlich ausgewählten Opfern Spiegelstrafen vollzieht, die mit ihren Lastern korrelieren.

Das Muster der Mordserie scheint mit den sieben Todsünden des christlichen Glaubens in Zusammenhang zu stehen. Holmes und Watson wollen daher Hintergrundwissen und Rat eines Experten einholen und suchen eine Jesuitenkirche auf.

"Skandalgeschichte im Fürstentum O..." (Originaltitel: "A Scandal in Bohemia") ist eine Erzählung des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, die erstmals im Juli 1891 im Strand Magazine erschien. Es handelt sich hierbei um die erste Erzählung, die Doyle mit den Figuren Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson schrieb. 1887 und 1890 hatten die beiden Romane "Eine Studie in Scharlachrot" und "Das Zeichen der Vier" das Fundament für den Hauptkanon der Sherlock-Holmes-Erzählungen gelegt.

Auf Wunsch des Premierministers höchstpersönlich wird Holmes zu einem anderen Mordfall abgezogen. Allerdings zeigen sich erstaunliche Parallelen zwischen den beiden brutalen Verbrechen, weswegen Holmes die Aktivität eines Serientäters vermutet.

Als Dr. Watson seinen alten Freund Sherlock Holmes in der Baker Street besucht, bittet ihn dieser um Mitarbeit in einem aktuellen Mordfall. Da er ohnedies gerade Strohwitwer ist, willigt er ein - eine Entscheidung, die er bei der Besichtigung des Tatortes rasch bereut.

Finola nutzt eine ruhige Phase in der Detektei und nimmt spontan eine Rolle in der Theatergruppe ihrer Cousine Tamlin in Aberdeen an. Die vorherige Hauptdarstellerin fällt wegen eines Unfalls mit Fahrerflucht aus. Als es bei den Proben für das Stück erneut ein Unglück gibt, wird Finola jedoch misstrauisch... Sie hört sich unauffällig bei den Schauspielern um - es scheint nicht alles so eitel Sonnenschein zu sein, wie sie ihr glauben machen wollen.

Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it's Doll's past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle—a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he'd seen her she'd been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter. Now, years later, Mary claims Ines is alive and has recently made contact.

In addition to being San Diego's supernatural mediator, John Smith is the city's least successful private investigator. Those two careers collide when what was supposed to be a simple infidelity case draws the attention of the local werewolf pack. John soon finds himself pressed into service mediating a separation between the pack's married leaders. Even under normal circumstances, divorce is hell. But when werewolves are involved? It's murder.

Evie, Countess of Woodridge, is on a mission to rescue her favorite modiste from the consequences of an unfavorable review. Her quest is a timely diversion as her granny, Toodles, appears to be suffering from a case of restlessness. All goes well until Evie's public clash with the journalist responsible for the article is followed by the journalist's death. The circumstances are suspicious and the police is warning Evie to stay away from the case. While she is happy to comply with the detective's request, the killer has other ideas and goes one step too far . . .