Showing results for "The Stars" in Private Investigators

Hollywood, 1940: It's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's arm. Since then he's scratched out a living as a private detective - but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him. Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising position with an underage woman. Although Flynn insists it's a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Peters is to deliver the blackmailer 5,000 dollars and return with the photo negative.

Sometimes one phone call is all it takes . . . Amber Reed is a newspaper admin assistant tasked with making up the horoscopes. Her imaginary predictions seem as close as she'll ever get to excitement - until a desperate phone call plunges her into the middle of a celebrity murder investigation.
Battling to convince the scarily handsome special agent assigned to solve the case that she can help him catch the killer, Amber's fighting something far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined.

Manchester PI Kate Brannigan finds herself with no choice but to take the only case on offer: bodyguarding a paranoid soap star. But the glitzy world of showbusiness has a darker side. And as Kate scratches the surface, she uncovers dramas, threats and bitter rivalries. And when a self-styled ‘Seer to the Stars’ is murdered, Kate is left with more questions than answers.

Is Harlow Hayes an innocent popstar or a heartless murderer? It's time to find out... I’m a global sensation adored by millions, and my star only seems to keep rising. My fans say I speak directly to them through my music, that I know who they are. How else could I write such visceral...

Danger lurks behind every spotlight in comedian David Studebaker’s laugh-out-loud debut novel. Worlds collide when Lance Ford, San Francisco’s favorite playwright/yoga instructor, finds out his pregnant wife, Emmy, is quitting her job as a police officer and moving them in with her parents in Dallas, Texas.

A Hollywood celebrity and her entourage bring mayhem and murder to Blairstown. P.I. Hannah and her super-sleuthing beagle Mazie sniff out the real killer? P.I. Hannah isn't exactly keen when she hears that her old high school nemesis turned actress is returning to Blairstown to film a documentary about her life. While most of the town is enamored with Jacklyn Waters, Hannah has seen her true colors. Jacklyn decides to host a party at Colin, Hannah’s boyfriend’s restaurant.

Drei Erzählstimmen für drei starke Frauen, die im Untergrund Londons auf Verbrecherjagd gehen. Fünf junge Frauen verschwinden spurlos in London. Die drei Privatdetektivinnen Isla Wright, Abigail Walker und Emma Ferguson nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und folgen den spärlichen Spuren tief in die Sprayer-Szene. Dort lauert eine Wahrheit auf sie, die tödlicher ist, als sie ahnen. Wo die Polizei längst aufgibt, bleiben sie dran – selbst wenn sie dabei ihr Leben riskieren.

To the world at large, Miranda Shake is a big star best known for her work on the long-running television series, The Adventures of Amazing Woman. But Abraham Snow knew her by another name, Melanie Shaw. Before the fame, they were childhood friends. Now, reconnected after so many years, Snow has fallen for her once again. When Miranda Shake is found dead on New Years morning, having apparently jumped from the roof of her condo while wearing her TV superhero costume, everyone is quick to call it suicide, another troubled star taking her own life. Everyone except Abraham Snow.

Die Schulden seines Erbbauernhofs wachsen von Tag zu Tag, der neu eröffnete Reiterhof wartet vergeblich auf Kunden und seine Angebetete Angelika macht sich rar. Als ob Lorenz Lovis damit nicht schon genug um die Ohren hätte, geschieht auch noch ein Mord - ausgerechnet in seinem Weinberg! Der Verdacht fällt auf seinen Knecht Paul, der in der Mordnacht so einen Rausch hatte, dass er sich an nichts erinnern kann. Hinzu kommt erschwerend: Bei der Toten handelt es sich um die streitsüchtige Jasmin Oberegger, die mit Paul ständig in Konflikt war.

They said it was an accident. He had to prove murder. Legendary rocker Sir Vance Monaco’s parachute failed. When he hit the ground at 200 mph, his body turned into unset jelly. With no hard evidence, the police ruled it an accident. Collin Todd, PI had to prove murder. The odds were against him. Could he do it, or would he have to hand back the fee he so desperately needed?

В парке в пригороде Рима исчез ребенок. Недалеко от места, где мальчика видели в последний раз, найдено тело его матери. Следователи подозревают главу семейства. Прибывшая на место преступления Коломба Каселли категорически не согласна с официальной версией. Однако ей приходится расследовать дело частным образом, ведь после трагических событий, связанных с гибелью людей в парижском ресторане, она готова подать в отставку.

Daisy McDare's vacation plans go awry when a washed up rock star turns up dead and the local detective thinks Daisy's cousin Addison is the killer. Daisy arms herself with cupcakes, one-liners, and plenty of spunk to find the killer before her cousin goes to jail for a crime she didn't commit.

Private eye Ron Shade and news reporter Alex St. James nearly ran into each other in the final chapters of their respective adventures, A Final Judgment and Deadly Interest. Little did they know that their chance encounter would place them on a future collision course. Now, in Dead Ringer, their first adventure together, Shade is looking for Bob Bayless, a dead-and-buried executive who was recently spotted playing blackjack in Vegas, while Alex fights off the attentions of a creepy mortician who’s a little too eager to show Alex his backroom moves.

Ein Brandanschlag auf den Direktor der Landwirtschaftsschule entfacht ein Feuer der Intrigen, bei dem Hauptkommissar Toni Hinterdobler in einem Netz aus Lügen, Geheimnissen und persönlichen Racheakten ermittelt, um die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. "Feuertod", der neue Bayernkrimi von Martina Schmid Klappentext: Als Hauptkommissar Hinterdobler diesmal zum Schauplatz eines Verbrechens gerufen wird, bleibt ihm buchstäblich die Spucke weg - eine Seltenheit für den hartgesottenen Ermittler.