private investigators

Invited to an exclusive literary festival on an island off the English coast, Hawthorne and Horowitz find themselves investigating a murder amidst a local feud over a disruptive power line.

"In 2018, Russian exile Sergei Skripal and his daughter were nearly killed in an audacious poisoning attempt in Salisbury, England. Soon, the identity of one the suspects was revealed: he was a Russian spy. This huge investigative coup wasn't pulled off by an intelligence agency or a traditional news outlet. Instead, the scoop came from Bellingcat, the open-source investigative team that is redefining the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. We are Bellingcat tells the inspiring story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists-working together from their computer screens around the globe-to crack major cases, at a time when factbased journalism is under assault from authoritarian forces. Founder Eliot Higgins introduces readers to the tools Bellingcat investigators use, tools available to anyone, from software that helps you pinpoint the location of an image, to an app that can nail down the time that photo was taken. This book digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most important investigations-the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria, the identities of alt-right protestors in Charlottesville-the the drama and gripping detail of a spy novel."--Amazon.

Suspecting a camouflaged octopus is behind mysterious sightings in the Natural History Museum's new coral reef exhibit, Sherlock Bones and his team are surprised to discover a long-haired, green beast of unknown origin hiding in the museum's swampy habitat.

When sister and brother duo Dino Detective and Awesome Possum discover Grandma Thunderclaps's pizza is missing all its pepperoni, they jump into action to find out who is to blame.

"When Awesome Possum notices yet another sock has gone missing in the wash, his suspicions are raised. He senses foul play. If they aren't in the laundry . . . who could be taking them? Feels like the perfect case for Dino Detective and Awesome Possum private eyes!"--OCLC.

Private detective Leonid McGill struggles with hard times, personally and professionally, reluctantly accepts a job from a beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of money, but after he learns the reasons why she fears for her life, Leonid is certain that if his family's misadventures do not kill him, this case will.

Private investigator Easy Rawlins is hired to find Elizabeth Eady, aka "Black Betty", who has left chaos and mayhem in her wake.

"After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate"--OCLC.

"Doppo Kunikdia is an idealist and straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just as he's planned … until one day, he's paired up with the agency's newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated - and it looks like the detective agency's sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too!" -- Back cover.

"In the . . . Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child"--OCLC.