Showing posts with label private investigator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label private investigator. Show all posts
Friday, August 8, 2025
Blood in the Shadows
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
The Entitled
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A deceptively complicated retrieval throws Nicole into London's criminal underworld
Travel to London and retrieve Abigail Fletcher, a 17-year-old in a study abroad program at the prestigious King’s College in London. The assignment sounds simple enough.
But Abigail’s return is put on indefinite hold when she’s charged with the murder of her boyfriend, a former student at King’s. Nicole believes Abigail has been framed, but the victim’s tight- knit circle of friends and relatives are most unwilling to talk to an American detective. Further complicating the case, is Abigail’s defiant and uncooperative demeanor.
As evidence stacks up against Abigail, Nicole discovers that she herself has become the next target. Nicole’s first solo case abroad as a private detective has just turned a lot deadlier than she ever anticipated.
Read an Excerpt
“Wait!” she said. “I heard you were a friend of his. I’m looking into his background. Won’t you just answer a few questions?” He paused, looking at her through a crack in the door.
“I knew him when I was little”—he pronounced it lit-ull— “in primary school. That’s a long time back, innit? He was a year older.” He gave a self-deprecating smile. “I thought he was a good bloke ‘cause he stuck up for me when the bullies were beatin’ on me. But later…"
"Later? What happened then?”
The young man shrugged, closing the door more so he was peeking through a slit.
“Anybody who talks about it…” He shook his head and shut the door.
About Nancy Boyarsky...
Reviews compared The Swap to the mysteries of Mary Higgins Clark and praised Nancy for contributing to the "women-driven mystery field with panache" (Foreword Reviews) as well as for their "hold-onto-the-bar roller coaster" plots (RT Book Reviews). Kirkus had special praise for The Bequest, concluding, "Boyarsky's weightless complications expertly combine menace with bling, making the heroine's adventures both nightmarish and dreamy." Her most recent mystery, The Entitled, fifth in the series, received praise from Foreword Reviews for "vibrant street scenes, swift pacing, and Nicole's steely nerve." It was chosen by Apple Books as one of the most anticipated books of the fall.
Before turning to mysteries, Nancy coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband, Bill Boyarsky. She has written several textbooks on the justice system as well as articles for publications including the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and McCall's. She also contributed to political anthologies, including In the Running, about women's political campaigns. In addition to her writing career, she was communications director for political affairs for ARCO.
The first book in the series, The Swap, won a gold medal Erik Hoffer Book Award. In response to the controversial and incendiary themes explored in the third Nicole Graves mystery, Liar Liar, Nancy Boyarsky was invited to present at the American Library Association Annual Conference in 2018 on "Women-Driven Mysteries in a Post #MeToo World."
Each book of the Nicole Graves mystery series can be read as a stand alone. Readers are invited to connect with Nancy through her website.
Website: http://www.nancyboyarsky.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Entitled-Nicole-Graves-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1611533244
BN: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-entitled-nancy-boyarsky/1136434135
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Friday, November 27, 2020
The Two Fathers
The Two Fathers
Sam Dyke Investigations Book 11
by Keith Dixon
Genre: Mystery
Why does Jessica Hastings come home late several times a week?
Her
husband asks Private Investigator Sam Dyke this simple question. Dyke
doesn't want the case: he doesn't do divorce work ... but Brian
Hastings doesn't want a divorce, he wants an explanation.
When
Sam finds out what Jessica is doing, it opens up more questions. And
when Brian Hastings goes missing, they're questions he feels
compelled to answer.
At
the centre of the mystery is a man who most people in Manchester
don't know--Larry Stone. But those who do know him, know that far
from being the simple florist he seems to be, he's actually the
biggest crook in town. He's powerful, he's dangerous, and he's
currently working a deal with a Dutchman who's even worse.
And
Sam is now caught in Stone's sights as he works to find Brian
Hastings, to solve a couple of murders, and to prevent Stone
corrupting even more members of his own family than he already
has.
Before
the biggest deal of Stone's crooked career goes down.
Keith Dixon was born in Yorkshire and grew up in the Midlands. He's been writing since he was thirteen years old in a number of different genres: thriller, espionage, science fiction, literary. Two-time winner of the Chanticleer Reviews CLUE First in Category award for Private Eye/Noir novel, he's the author of eleven full-length books and one short-story in the Sam Dyke Investigations series and two other non-crime works, as well as two collections of blog posts on the craft of writing.
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Two ebook anthologies of the first 7 books in the
series
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Hide and Seek
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Playing a mystery game seems the perfect way to celebrate Jamie Kydd’s promotion to Detective Sergeant rank. But the game turns real when a body turns up in the pretend crime scene. Perhaps worse than spoiling the party, the corpse is someone Jamie knows.
Even though the police
take on the case, Jamie asks his friend, former police detective Michael
McLaren, to also investigate—concerned that the victim’s criminal past may
dampen the Constabulary’s usual fervor to nab his killer. It seems to have been
a smart decision, for the police aren’t expending a lot of energy on the
inquiry.
Suspects float around
McLaren…half truthful, hard to find.
More like wraiths than flesh and blood.
If the victim’s burglary partner, ex-wife, or childhood friend didn’t
kill Dan, who did?
It’s a desperate game
between McLaren and a killer who’s playing Hide and Seek.
My review...
This is a rather long review for me. I don’t like to read
long reviews and I try not to write them. There were just too many neat aspects
in this story to ignore.
Hiestand has McLaren is back but the tables have turned a
little. The tough cases are in someone else’s backyard for a change. McLaren’s
mate Jamie is being promoted and they’re having a party. While it might be the
surprise of a lifetime it most certainly is not the one they were planning.
Another great Michael McLaren story. My favorite character
is back mending stone walls and helping people solve crimes; people that really
need help. And yet, someone is lying; you know how mysteries are...someone is
always lying.
Although the POV hasn’t changed, the author has managed to change
the spotlight to shine on a secondary character and she’s done a good job of
it. She’s almost made Jamie and McLaren seem as if they were partners again; working
together as they did years ago.
Hiestand is excellent at making her characters come alive. Her
writing is poetic. “...grey clouds heavy with potential rain fanned eastward
from the western horizon. Everything earthbound took on their dense, somber hue...”.
Between her expressive writing and skill
at character description, it’s almost as if she creates a stage in your mind;
as if you’re watching a “play”.
There were two other aspects I thought were great in this
book. The author created a lot more tension during the action scenes. Made me
want to read even faster. And secondly, she made it impossible to know who the bad
guy/girl was right til the very end.
This is Book 12 of a series titled “The McLaren Mysteries”.
While it can be read as a stand-alone, you’ll be missing out on a lot of
McLaren cases if you don’t read the whole series.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Killer Soul Mate
A Jane Larson Mystery
Mystery, Suspense
Date Published: January 2020
Publisher: Melange Books
Jane Larson is back, and trouble abounds on New York’s Upper East Side!
A new client hires Jane to undo the terms of a matrimonial agreement with her ex-husband, the owner of a prosperous hedge fund who does not like to lose. At the same time, Jane’s landlord is working to evict her from the storefront law office where her mother had practiced for many years, and Jane is forced to fight to save her mother’s legacy. However, it seems there is no way she can win.
All too soon, the bodies begin to pile up and Jane has to figure out who is responsible before she becomes one of the victims. Meanwhile, a guy named Gary is trying to worm his way into her life, and, even though she thinks he is much too young for her, she starts to fall for him. The problem is that he has a habit of showing up where the murders occur. Can she trust him?
About the Authors
Anne Rothman-Hicks and her co-author, Ken Hicks, have lived and written books together in New York City for over forty-five years. Their Jane Larson Mystery/Suspense novels are set on New York City’s Upper East Side, and KILLER SOUL MATE is the fourth in the series that includes PRAISE HER, PRAISE DIANA, WEAVE A MURDEROUS WEB and MIND ME, MILADY.
Anne and Ken have also created the Alice And Friends series for middle readers, including STONE FACES, BROWNSTONE FACES, and SPLOTCH.
Finally, Anne and Ken have published two books for ‘tween readers, featuring New Yorkers Jenny and James, as well as Whitehair, the talking pigeon they find in Central Park. THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM is set in New York City. REMEMBERING THOMAS, begins in modern-day New York City until Jenny and James step through a time portal and find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Manhattan during the Revolutionary War.
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