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Q is for quarry

2003
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself on the trail of a killer when she is hired by two ill and aging cops to help them solve the mystery of an eighteen-year-old murder in which the victim was never identified.

R is for ricochet

2005
Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey Millhone to watch his daughter, thirty-two-year old Reba, who has just gotten out of jail, and make sure that she stays away from drinking, drugs, and gambling, but Reba is soon re-united with the ex-boss who got her into jail, land developer Alan Beckwith.

Twelve sharp

2006
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum discovers she is being stalked by a crazed woman and sets out to find the mysterious woman and uncover her connection to a dangerous murderer.

Ultraviolet

2007
Private investigator Jane Kelly is hired by Violet Purcell, who is the prime suspect in her ex-husband's murder, so Jane and her pug, Binky, set out to prove Violet's innocence and find the real killer, which turns out to be a bigger problem than Jane imagined when new suspects turn up at every turn.

Plum lucky

2008
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum wades into the middle of a confusing case of stolen race horses and dirty money when her Grandma Mazur finds a duffle bag full of cash on St. Patrick's Day, buys a Winnebago, and heads to Atlantic City.

Electric blue

2007
Apprentice private investigator Jane Kelly becomes caught up in a web of greed, mental illness, deception, betrayal, and lies when Orchid, the elderly, slightly dotty matriarch of Lake Chinook's wealthy Purcell family, is murdered in the midst of Jane's efforts to convince her to give up control of the family fortune.

Love bites

a Sofie Metropolis novel
2011
Sofie Metropolis, a private detective in Queens, New York, is hired by the neighborhood vampire to prove he is not responsible for a string of killings, while her mother Thalia volunteers her to look for a missing woman Thalia has adopted in absentia, and bounty hunter Jake Porter and Greek baker Dino vie for her attention.

Whisper to the blood

2009
Part-time private investigator Kate Shugak helps her boyfriend, state trooper Jim Chopin, investigate two deaths connected to the mining of gold in an Alaskan national park.

Blacklist

a V.I. Warshawski novel
2003
Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.

Total recall

a V.I. Warshawski novel
2001
Private investigator V.I. Warshawski agrees to help her friend uncover the secret his family is hiding from him, but as V.I. learns more about the past, the terror of the Holocaust comes back to haunt her.

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