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2) Good as gone
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk works as a private contractor, recovering children kidnapped by their own estranged parents. Haunted by the still unsolved disappearance of his own daughter, he won't touch stranger abduction cases. Then six-year-old Lindsay Sorkin disappears from her parents' hotel room in Paris, and the French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can spend years in a French jail for his actions during a past case, or he can find Lindsay....
Author
Series
Truth volume 002
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennsylvania to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents' deaths, Lorna Temple joins forces with private detective T. J. Dawson in a twenty-year-old case involving the disappearance of two children.
Author
Series
Mile high noir volume 4
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Felon turned private eye Gus Corral isn't doing too well after getting whacked in the head with a baseball bat following his last big case. He was unconscious for a couple of days and still can't see right. Plagued by headaches, there are days he can't think straight. Tired, sore and disoriented, he takes his sister's advice to get out of Denver and help their cousins in Eastern Colorado. George Montoya's son, Matías or Mat, has run off again. The...
5) Never let go
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
As a forensic genealogist, Willow Anderson is following in her late grandfather's footsteps in her quest for answers about a baby abducted from the hospital more than twenty years ago. The case may be cold, but things are about to heat up when someone makes an attempt on her life to keep her from discovering the truth. Ex-FBI agent--and Willow's ex-flame--Austin McKade readily offers his help to protect the woman he never should have let get away....
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"He has nothing and everything to lose...When a seventeen-year-old boy goes missing while camping with his buddies in the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend, the case is right up PI Charlie Dodge's alley. Charlie's reputation for finding missing people--especially missing kids--is unparalleled. Unfortunately, trouble seems to be equally good at finding him. Charlie's still in the thick of it when bad news arrives regarding his wife, Annie, whose early onset...
Author
Series
Crimson Lake volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear-and where others vanish into thin air... Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators-disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldn't have come...
Author
Series
Kinky Friedman mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Investigating the disappearance of an eleven-year-old autistic boy, Kinky Friedman is also challenged to discover the whereabouts of a missing cat and enlists the help of Steve Rambam, an octogenarian with poor eyesight.
Author
Series
Kinky Friedman volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
It's a case of missing kid and missing kitty when Kinky Friedman, private dick extraordinaire and animal lover nonpareil, attemps to find a young, autistic New York boy and a three-legged Texas cat named Lucky, both of who have disappeared.
10) Payoff
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tapped to oversee a ransom exchange involving a movie mogul's abducted daughter, former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk learns that the kidnappers have no intention of returning the girl, a discovery that prompts a quest through the most dangerous cities of South America.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When Bernie is invited to give the keynote speech at a private investigator convention, his intrepid canine companion is secretly targeted by the high-profile person in charge, an agenda that is complicated by a missing boy and a familiar-looking puppy.
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
One-time police detective Peter Diamond loses his job as a security guard when he fails to spot a small Japanese child hiding in the furniture department of Harrods. Weeks later, she's still unclaimed; Diamond is unable to forget the frightened eyes of the silent little girl and takes on the challenge of uncovering her identity. Now Diamond is back in the sleuthing business, following a trail that leads from London to New York to Tokyo and to a shocking...
13) The ghost clause
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon's widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel--after revealing that the deed contains a "ghost clause," an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted....
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult's rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers. Once accepted into the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in exchange for one of their own daughters....
Author
Language
English
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Description
On his third day in Death Valley, Rick Fallon comes upon a deserted Toyota Camry, and soon thereafter, the almost-dead body of Casey Dunbar. Having rescued her, Fallon soon learns what had driven her to give up on life--and, his own life on hold, he resolves to unravel the twisted and dangerous strands of hers, a quest that leads him to the glitter-dome of Las Vegas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hired by wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, to find his missing son, photographer and private eye Sarah Bain must figure out if the kidnapping is a cover-up for murder, especially when the case intertwines with her search for her father who disappeared 20 years earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-20th-century London, aristocratic gay sleuth Colin Pendragon and his partner Ethan Pruitt try to solve the murder of Lady Arnifour's husband, as well as the disappearance of a street urchin's sister.
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Although Eric and Andrew have been trying to keep up a semblance of normal life, they know their thirteen-year-old son Jack has been having a tough time of it since they separated. They've been concerned, but now they're terrified--Jack has run away from home. It happened once before, just after the separation, but then it was only a matter of hours before Eric found him. This time, Jack disappeared with his cousin, and the two of them haven't been...