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Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused
...Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cecil Younger, local Alaskan investigator, is neither good at his job nor at staying sober. When an old Tlingit woman hires him to discover why her son, a big game guide, was murdered, he takes the case without much conviction that he'll discover anything the police missed. He really just needs the extra cash. But after someone tries to kill him, Younger finds himself traveling across Alaska to ferret out the truth in the midst of conspiracies, politics,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Physical Desc
354 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth and computer expert Aimée Leduc, a Franco-American, hunts for neo-Nazis in Paris following the murder of a Jewish woman. As part of her investigation she becomes involved with an Aryan supremacist. First in a projected series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
341 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimee barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aimée is drawn to the run-down Sentier district of Paris when a mysterious woman tells her she will find her long vanished mother there, and in her search, she learns that her mother was once a member of a notorious terrorist gang.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
276 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is kept locked at night. But there is no apparent motive....
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 5
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
284 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spirited Aimee Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, Rene, who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor-to hand over a check and bring a package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger's death and leaves her with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs and a trove of ancient...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Intrepid Aimee Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, policewoman Laure Rousseau, who's charged with shooting her partner to death, in Black's chilling sixth novel to feature the Paris PI. Aimee knows the solution to proving Laure's innocence lies somewhere in the hilltop maze of the seedy Montmartre neighborhood-perhaps with a boy who says he witnessed the murder, or an aging prostitute, or any of a number of toughs or even Corsican...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history and culture of ancient Greece; and examines major archaeological sites including buildings constructed during the age of Pericles and ancient treasures, wall paintings, statues, and other artifacts.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 7
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paris computer expert Aimee Leduc, alerted by an anonymous phone call to look in her courtyard, finds an abandoned infant, and her search for the baby's mother leads her into a plot involving espionage, environmental degradation, and murder.
13) The séance
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Oujia board summons the spirit of detective Beau Kidd who wants to clear his name in the "Interstate-Killer" murders. Christina Hardy must convince Jett Braden, a cop-turned-writer, that she holds the key to catching the real killer.
15) Blacklight blue
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning an investigation into a third cold case described in a book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin, Scottish scholar and amateur detective Enzo MacLeod finds himself confronting a diagnosis of a terminal illness and attacks by someone out to frame him for murder.
16) The death dealer
Author
Series
Harrison Investigation volume 7
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
366 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Genevieve O'Brien knows all about nightmares. She survived two months as a psychopath's prisoner. And now a new menace stalks the city. Spooked by the bizarre slayings, she turns to private investigator Joe Connolly, her past rescuer, friend and...hopefully something more, if he would just quit avoiding her.
At first Joe isn't even sure there is a case. But the body count rises, and it's clear that a twisted killer is on the loose. Even more unsettling...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 8
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
305 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc accepts the marriage proposal of her former lover, Yves, and then finds herself trying to avenge his murder, which is connected to Turkish-Kurdish politics and Islamic terrorism.
Author
Series
Jack Lennon investigations volume 1
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fegan, an IRA killer who served twelve years in Ireland's Maze Prison, discovers love at an inopportune moment in his life, and while the ghosts of his innocent victims demand appeasement--forcing Fegan to find and kill the men who called for their murders--Fegan works to keep his leading lady and her young daughter safe from harm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The main suspect is a powerful guru named Maharaj Swami, who seems to have done away with his most vocal critic. Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator, master of disguise and lover of all things fried and spicy, doesn't believe the murder is a supernatural occurrence, and proving who really killed Dr. Suresh Jha...
20) Collusion
Author
Series
Jack Lennon investigations volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover Marie McKenna and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. But now an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs.
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