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Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
1890s San Francisco. Former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, tackle two seemingly unrelated cases that are complicated by two murders and the interference of Sherlock Holmes.
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mystery volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
4) Spook
Author
Series
Nameless detective volume 28
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After a near brush with death, the Nameless Detective searches for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who was brutally slain, a search that leads him to a small California town rife with murder and mayhem.
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens.
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mystery volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Sharon McCone is issued with an ultimatum by her old employers - take a promotion - a desk job designed to curb her often unorthodox behaviour - or leave, just when her new lover has gone missing.
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mystery volume 22
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When one of her investigative operatives is arrested for major credit card fraud, Sharon McCone's efforts to prove the woman's innocence are complicated by evidence that supports her guilt and points to a larger conspiracy.
8) Beyond Eden
Author
Language
English
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Description
Lindsay, a successful model with a shadowy past, must confront her demons when she becomes involved with a private investigator.
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mystery volume 33
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When her father is left in a coma by a racially driven beating during the holiday season, private investigator Sharon McCone resolves to bring the attackers to justice, only to find herself targeted by hate-filled, racist threats.
10) Vixen
Author
Series
Nameless detective volume 40
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. A series of twists and turns drive the story to a truly shocking climax. For not until then do the detectives realize how devilish Cory Beckett really is, a femme fatale who has brought something new to the species--new, and terrible. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hired by a wealthy banker to nab an extortionist who has threatened to reveal personal secrets unless he receives more money, John Quincannon and Sabina Carpenter find the case turning deadly when a courier is found dead in a locked room.
12) Fever
Author
Series
Nameless detective volume 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before—propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher—and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce. A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency...
13) Nightcrawlers
Author
Series
Nameless detective volume 30
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Unaware of links between a series of gay hate crimes and the kidnapping of a young girl, investigators Bill, Jake, and Tamara tackle difficult cases when Jake pursues leads related to an attack on his son's partner.
14) Ice and stone
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mystery volume 35
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When two women are brutally murdered in northern California, their deaths are the latest atrocities in a surge of violence targeting Indigenous women in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, local officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, and they soon join the ranks of other unsolved homicides, quickly forgotten by law enforcement. Private Investigator Sharon McCone knows better, and so does the organization known as Crimes Against...
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes don't commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter. But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light. The seemingly impossible disappearance of her body creates an even more serious problem for the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. Sabina hadn't wanted to take the assignment, but her partner...
16) The breakers
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mystery volume 34
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite destination for the city's elite during Prohibition. But...
17) One got away
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Series
Nikki Griffin volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Nikki Griffin, a private-investigator when she isn't running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Franciscofamilies has been defrauded by a con-man, and her furious son enlists Nikki to find the money. And find the con-man. Nikki isn't a fan of men who hurt women. Her secret mission, born of revenge and trauma, is to do everything she can to remove women fromdangerous situations-and to punish the men responsible....
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Series
Evander Mills volume 2
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
19) Lavender house
Author
Publisher
A Forge Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist. Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene's recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret--but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who...
Author
Series
Spellman files volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
For the first time in Spellman history, Isabel Spellman, P.I., might be the most normal member of her family. Yet as a number of cases pile, Izzy won't stop hunting for the answers--even when they threaten to shatter both the business and the family.
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