Showing results for "The Call" in Modern Detectives

Returning to work after an enforced absence, Detective Kay Hunter discovers she wasn’t the only victim of her previous investigation. DI Devon Sharp remains suspended from duties, and the team is in turmoil. Determined to prove herself once more and clear his name, Kay undertakes to solve a cold case that links Sharp to his accuser. But, as she gets closer to the truth, she realises her enquiries could do more harm than good.

When defense attorney Jackson Taylor takes on the case of a lifetime, he's prepared to fight for justice. His childhood friend—the son of a powerful senator—has been accused of a brutal murder. Jackson is certain the man he grew up with couldn't be a killer. But when shocking evidence links his own father, a former small-town sheriff, to the crime, Jackson's unshakable trust in the truth is pushed to the breaking point. Jackson remains steadfast in his quest for justice.

Think your husband is unfaithful? Call Fitz. Niccolo "Fitz" Fitzhugh is the retired cop who runs Fitzhugh Investigations, whose business revolves around digging up dirt for local divorce lawyers. He knows, maybe better than anyone, how an unfaithful male thinks. After all, his police career came to an abrupt end when he slept with the police chief’s slinky wife - and he’s sleeping on his office couch because his own wife, cellist and college professor Dr. Grace Darcy, believes he hasn’t changed his ways.

Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin - the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's - for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill's life.

New York, 1934. The cat burglar called The Smoke turns good Samaritan. A down-on-his-luck boxer has been swindled, beat up, and tossed to the streets. Using his special skill set, The Smoke is determined to help the poor sap. But after he stumbles over the body of a fight promoter with a freshly crushed skull, the Smoke and his new boxer friend become prime suspects for murder.

It was a game of cat and mouse right from the start. Mallory Queen, a former State Department man who’d gone freelance, had a plan. He wanted to trade Willis Browning, a CIA-held double-agent, to the Russians in return for a spy named Vordak, who possessed a vast amount of information relating to Russia’s space program. The CIA would never willingly release its prisoner, of course, but because Vordak was the bigger prize, Queen decided to snatch Browning away from them. So he enlisted private eye Larry Kent - a former CIA man himself - to mastermind the kidnap...