Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+6601+6643+4294961287 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692787 At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. Chris had taken a secretive personal leave and hadnt spoken to anyone from the office in days. The Private team retraces his footsteps to the cases he was investigating before his disappearance: a billionaire, a world-famous soccer player, and a seedy nightclub owner - and theyre all suspects. As Private digs further into Chriss past, a terrifying history is revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685508 At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. Chris had taken a secretive personal leave and hadnt spoken to anyone from the office in days. The Private team retraces his footsteps to the cases he was investigating before his disappearance: a billionaire, a world-famous soccer player, and a seedy nightclub owner - and theyre all suspects. As Private digs further into Chriss past, a terrifying history is revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731643 The latest of the Isaac Bell adventure series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615524 A high-end prostitute is found brutally murdered on the London docks, and Monks quest to discover the truth behind her death leads him down a shocking path, littered with secrets that have been buried since the infamous Opium Wars. Monk must unravel the victims link to the widow of a dead doctor, and the doctors vanished report on the misuse of opium, before the killer strikes again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272110 Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arringtons much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453377 Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1167089 Spenser is hired by the Hammond Museum to protect Dr. Ashton Prince as he attempts to exchange money in return for a recently stolen painting. However, when the exchange goes awry, Spenser sets out to personally find the stolen painting and bring the thieves to justice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1090414 A woman is shot as she waits for her train to work. An hour later, a second woman is gunned down as she rides an elevated train through the Loop. Two hours after that, a church becomes the target of a chemical weapons attack. The city of Chicago is under siege, and Michael Kelly, cynical cop turned private investigator, just happens to be on the scene when all hell breaks loose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1127119 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1044053 When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress--and sometime lip model--Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than hed expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1446418 Its 1950, and Bernie has arrived in Argentina seeking asylum after being falsely identified as a Nazi war criminal. There he investigates the murder of a wealthy bankers daughter in a case reminiscent of one he worked in Germany 18 years before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1205604 Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Drus uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of violence escalates, and Pike himself becomes a target, he and Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem and that everything he thought he knew about them has been a lie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959879 Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitutes corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993194 As Charlie Parker investigates the death of his father he begins to question all he has ever believed about his parents and himself. In the background lurks a man and woman who seem bent on putting an end to Charlie Parker. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999234 Doc Sportello is bewildered when an ex-girlfriend returns to recruit him in a plot to kidnap a wealthy construction executive. Soon, Sportello finds himself in the midst of a thrilling conspiracy with an undercover cop and a group of dentists who are swindling the IRS. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=974946 When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on his clients girlfriend, he finds a connection to a seven-year-old suicide and a pile of gambling debts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1046731 Frank Meyer had the American dream-until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminals.--Publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=785098 The latest tale featuring the popular and flawed detective Dave Robicheaux takes him from the bayous of Louisianas New Iberia Parish to the wild mountains of Montana. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1348020 Hollywoods newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis Cole to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. Its the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep--until it turns out to be a nightmare.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836613 There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, and the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gentlys bill for saving the human race from extinction: no charge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=708722 Lawyer Stone Barrington represents a sleazy con man with the goal of bring down infamous mafia boss Carmine Datilla. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=708725 When someone faxes details of her affair with a well-known businessman to national opinion-makers, Amanda Dart, gossip columnist, hires Stone Barrington, lawyer and P.I., to find the faxer. But as the faxes grow more scathing and expose the sins of others in the gossip trade, panic sets in and Barrington has to work fast. If he doesnt, the most respected society folks might do anything--even kill--to clear their names. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749854 In Dallas, Texas, former PI Oswald wants to leave his old life of navigating the underworld behind. But he cant say no when Dr. Anita Nazari calls. She needs help protecting her daughter from a sadistic monster known only as the Professor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=704661 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=622357 On the Thanksgiving morning in New York City, Fritz Malone witnesses a shooting and chases the gunman. The police stop him and deliver him to the police commissioner, who informs Fritz that someone dubbed Nightmare has been taunting the citys leaders for weeks, warning of an imminent attack on the citizenry. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641628 Stone Barrington has inherited a house on the island of Dark Harbor, Maine, from a cousin after the death of him and his family which the local police believe to be a murder/suicide. Stone along with Lt. Dino Bacchetti, CIA agent Lance Cabot and Holly Barker go to Maine to look into the deaths. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=683812 Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesnt know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=485258 Amy Leatheran is hired by archaeologist Dr. Leidner to work as nurse and companion for his wife who is subject to fits of nervous terrors. During their travel to an ancient site in the Iraqi desert, Mrs. Leidner proves to be demanding, yet fascinating. She gradually warms to Amy and, taking her into her confidence, she reveals the source of her terror. Events come to a terrible climax that results in murder. Hercule Poirot must rely on a drop of blood as the only clue to his investigation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=515895 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=455627 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=831741 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=403097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=570657 Investigator William Monk and his wife Hester desperately hope to save a friend accused of cold-blooded murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765307 A bullet through a windowpane brings Robicheaux back in contact with the Sonnier family, childhood friends whose morality is scarred by a history of abuse. Welton, once a pilot for the CIA-backed Air America; Lyle, a television evangelist; and Drew, a girl-woman with a bitter past, form an extraordinarily close-knit family whose guarded secrets make it impossible for Robicheaux to protect them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753039 Lord Wimsey comes to the aid of mystery writer Harriet Vane, who stands trial in the death of her fiance who was poisoned exactly as described in one of her novels.