The Reluctant Detective Goes South

Author : Adrian Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798647703194

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The Reluctant Detective Goes South by Adrian Spalding Pdf

The Reluctant Detective Goes South is a stand-alone humorous crime novel following the escapades of Martin Hayden and his irreverent sidekick Susan. Just because Martin runs a detective agency, it does not mean he has any intention of investigating anything, except the lunchtime menu at his favourite Michelin-starred restaurant. However, for the benefit of his mother he must occasionally appear to be working. Consequently, he agrees to help an old school friend who has found himself on the wrong side of the law and is now serving his community service in a charity centre in south London. Not that Martin ever wanted to visit such a place, but old dormitory chums help each other. Things become complicated for Martin when his eager assistant Susan sees a pile of parking tickets strewn across his desk. She believes his number plate has been cloned and decides they should investigate and find the culprit. Martin is not so sure that another investigation is such a good idea. After all, he has enough money to support his privileged lifestyle and pay the fines without question. Never one to be discouraged, Susan follows the leads, which take them to a run-down south London council estate, where Martin is introduced to a side of the capital he never imagined existed. Before long, Martin is reluctantly mixing with drug dealers, sex chat-line operators, loan sharks, ageing criminals plus an unbearable little girl, all of whom he considers to be UPS (unpleasant people sorts). Yet nothing will stop Susan getting at the truth, not even a male, good-looking Italian who collects saucy postcards and charms her with chilled Italian white wine.

Author : Tom Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1953603009

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It's C.T.'s first case. He wants an easy one.Instead, he gets Alice.C.T. Ferguson spent years as a hacker. He lived in Hong Kong, working against the Chinese government. Then they found him, threw him in jail, and eventually kicked him out. In Baltimore, C.T. sets himself up as a private investigator.Then Alice walks in.She's sure her husband is cheating on her. C.T. looks into it but isn't convinced. He soon discovers Alice has serious problems of her own.When Alice's troubles get even worse, C.T. finds his own life in danger. With a liar for a client and enforcers hounding him, can C.T. prevent his first case from becoming his last?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marplesi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Reluctant Detective by Anonim Pdf

A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, a Charlottetown private investigator, leaves Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter a small savings account and his business, where Anne has worked as office manager for six years. What follows is Anne's struggle to protect her family, find justice for her clients, and forge a new life for herself.

Author : Nury Vittachi
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312320590

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The Feng Shui Detective by Nury Vittachi Pdf

East meets West in this delightful new crime series featuring feng shui master Mr. C.F. Wong

Author : Martha Ockley
Publisher : Lion Fiction
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782640684

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The Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley Pdf

Arriving back in the region of her birth – Winchester in Hampshire – Faith Morgan, newly ordained priest in the Church of England, witnesses the dramatic death of a fellow priest during a communion service at a church in Little Worthy. He has been poisoned with a pesticide mixed with the communion wine. One of the police officers who turns up at the scene is Ben Shorter, Faith’s ex long-term boyfriend. They trained as police officers together, until Faith’s vocation took a different turn. Her relationship with Ben changed too at this point as she became uneasy with his drive for convictions, seemingly at any cost – even that of the truth. Most reluctantly Faith is drawn to dust down her detective skills, even as she picks her way through the delicate relationships of a church and village reeling from the death of a well-loved minister. Just what was the deceased's relationship with an attractive widow ...?

Author : Kwan
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636140186

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The Reluctant King by Kwan Pdf

The King family is on the political rise in New York City, but must weather the violent storm wrought by their darkest secrets. “K’wan is exceptionally gifted at ratcheting up suspense . . . There’s no denying the writer’s talent for dark, gritty fiction. It’s a page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews Meet the Kings, one of the most influential families in New York City. In the power circles of the movers and shakers, they are regarded as modern-day royalty. A politically connected father, a socialite mother, and three promising children: they look every bit the all-American family . . . but every family has secrets. Some darker than others. Of all the children, Shadow is the least like the rest of the Kings. To call him soft wouldn’t be quite accurate, but he lacks the leadership qualities of his older brother, Ghost, or the ruthless tendencies of his sister Lolli. Shadow is just . . . Shadow. Instead of accepting his role in the “Monarchy” created by his father, Shadow would rather spend his days chasing women and hanging out in the hood with his best friends, Fresh and Pain. He is totally oblivious to the perils that come with his last name—until danger introduces itself. On the night of their mother’s fiftieth birthday gala, their father, Chancellor, is set to announce his plans to turn his political focus beyond his current position as a member of the city council. He has tasted the benefits that come with holding office, and has the power and influence to make a serious run at climbing the political ladder. The future is looking bright for the King family. That is, until the devil comes to claim his due, and threatens to destroy everything Chancellor has worked to build. To survive the coming storm, each member of the royal family will have to make a sacrifice, even those who are reluctant to wear the crown.

Author : Finley Martin
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781894838863

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The Reluctant Detective by Finley Martin Pdf

A single mom finds herself taking over a private investigation business in coastal Canada in this involving crime thriller. A young widowed mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, an Ontario cop turned Charlottetown private investigator, has left Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter a small savings account and his business, where Anne has worked as office manager for six years. Anne has faced hardships in her life before, but she’s about to begin a whole new kind of struggle—to protect her family, find justice for her clients, and forge a new life for herself in this picturesque place that has become her new home.

Author : Finley Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1894838785

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The Reluctant Detective by Finley Martin Pdf

A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, a Charlottetown private investigator, leaves Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter a small savings account and his business, where Anne has worked as office manager for six years. What follows is Anne's struggle to protect her family, find justice for her clients, and forge a new life for herself in this page-turning thriller.

Author : Kinky Friedman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553576337

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God Bless John Wayne by Kinky Friedman Pdf

“Kinky Friedman is to the detective novel what Frank Zappa is to rock and roll: a gleeful gadfly who delights in offending purists. . . . There's just no stopping him. And who wants to?”—People Since Sam Spade, no private investigator has been charmed to see a deadbeat client darken his door—and country singers turned amateur detectives are no exception. That goes double for deadbeats who are their friends. So when Ratso—longtime pal, assistant crime solver, and notorious nonpayer—comes to Kinky with a case of his own, the Kinkster is reluctant to take it on. But if there's one thing a country singer relates to, it's mamas, and it's his long-lost birth mother that adoptee Ratso is seeking. The case turns sour in a hurry, and soon it gets hard to tell the murder victims from the suspects. One thing's for certain: Kinky would rather have a deadbeat for a client than be a dead dick. Praise for God Bless John Wayne “Brash, crass and colorful.”—Houston Chronicle “How is this mystery writer different from all other mystery writers? . . . We don't read him, for instance, to find out what happens next. We read him to find out how far he will go.”—The Washington Post Book World “God Bless John Wayne is another triumph for the Kinkster—the perfect mix of mystery, literature and wit.”—The Associated Press

Author : Chick Lung
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456724566

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The Reluctant Politician by Chick Lung Pdf

The book begins with the kidnapping of Tony Denton's sixteen year old niece at a car wash and his involvement with the police as they try to locate her. Things start going wrong when police officers are pulled from the kidnapping case to work as decoys on a sting in the red light district, arresting prostitutes and their "johns". Tony losses it as he rants and raves against management of the police force in his hometown. When people tell Tony to stop griping and do something about it he reluctantly runs for sheriff, and to his surprise he wins the office. His only promise on the campaign trail had been that he would not allow any of his officers to be involved in arresting prostitutes or their "johns's", nor would he allow an officer to arrest anyone using drugs, which causes an uproar within the relgious community. Tony is so successful at taking his police officers away from these two areas and putting them to work solving the brutual murders and rapes that take place in his town that within the first two years the number of all major crimes in the town take a major nose dive. Even the papers in larger cities take notice and begin writing accounts of the small town sheriff that has a new method of fighting crimes. Soon Tony is being asked to run for higher office and this starts the remarkable story of the reluctant politician who changes the system, but as is always the case with the old saying, "be careful what you wish for, it might come true", in Tony's case he pulls the nation down a slippery slope faster and faster to destruction.

Author : Jedediah Berry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101019962

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The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry Pdf

"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." --The New Yorker Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original, The Manual of Detection marks the debut of a prodigious young talent. Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency located in an unnamed city always slick with rain. When Travis Sivart, the agency's most illustrious detective, is murdered, Unwin is suddenly promoted and must embark on an utterly bizarre quest for the missing investigator that leads him into the darkest corners of his soaking, somnolent city. What ensues is a noir fantasy of exquisite craftsmanship, as taut as it is mind- blowing, that draws readers into a dream world that will change what they think about how they think.

Author : Lawrence Lynch
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040496334

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The Last Stroke: A Detective Story by Lawrence Lynch Pdf

Author : Vince Evans,Nate Evans,Paul Hindman
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402234200

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The Mystery of Merlin and the Gruesome Ghost by Vince Evans,Nate Evans,Paul Hindman Pdf

Guaranteed to crack you up! Bacon and Eggs walk into a diner. The waitress says, "We don't serve breakfast." (This has nothing to do with this book.) All kids have to go to school, even detectives' sidekicks. But Rat really doesn't want to. That is, until he finds out that he might be King Arthur reborn and gets invited to join Merlin's Institute for the Knowledge of Everything. But there is a problem. Princess Lily, Humpty and Rat's new friend, claims there is a ghost haunting the school. And not just any ghost one that eats magic! Can our three heroes banish the ghost from the school? Or will the ghost splatter and scramble Humpty and his friends? Don't forget to read Humpty's first egg*citing case: Humpty Dumpty Jr: Hardboiled Detective The Case of the Fiendish Flapjack Flop

Author : Mari Hannah
Publisher : Witness Impulse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062323539

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The Murder Wall by Mari Hannah Pdf

The Murder Wall: It's where you look death in the face. Months after discovering a double homicide in a sleepy village, detective Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the crime. When a new murder gives Daniels her first case as officer in charge, she jumps at another chance to get it right. But even more shocking than the brutal killing is the fact that Daniels recognizes the corpse. Eager to prove herself, she decides to keep her connection to the dead man a secret from her team, putting her career in jeopardy as her personal and professional lives threaten to collide. As the killer continues to claim his victims, Daniels unearths baffling clues in her search for connections among the murders . . . and while she draws closer to finding the culprit, he is watching her.

Author : Angelin Sydney
Publisher : Massachusetts Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781386979036

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Loving Faith and Hope (Oh, the Complications, #1) by Angelin Sydney Pdf

Loving Faith and Hope is one of the best love triangles ever. This gorgeous story is not a run-of-the-mill tale of love and despair. It is so much more. What happens when relationships get into difficulties? Luke is in love with Faith, but he also loves his surrogate sister, Hope. Everything is going well in his work and love life until Hope rushes headlong into trouble. Soon, they find themselves in the middle of an unfolding crime drama as they get tangled in a money laundering web. Luke and Faith find themselves slowly ripped apart. To complicate matters, Hope falls in love with Joe Di Nozzi, who is also Victor Carabella. Could he trust Joe/Victor not to hurt Hope? After saving Hope from a fiery conflagration, Luke finds himself in the Burns unit. Gripped in the claws of self-pity, he thinks of himself as disfigured, yet Faith thinks of him as merely scarred. Would he be able to see himself as the hero she believes he is? Faith offers unconditional love, would Luke accept it? Would he take it?