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Valerie de Chavannes, a financier's daughter, summons Kayankaya to her villa in Frankfurt's diplomat's quarter and commissions him to find her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. She is alleged to be with an older man who is posing as an artist. To Kayankaya, it seems like a simple case: an upper class girl with a taste for adventure. Then another seemingly posh job turns up: a major publisher needs to protect a writer who has offended Islamist groups...

Returning to the tough streets of North Beach where he had grown up, street-wise private detective Dante Mancuso is struggling to rebuild his life when he is asked to help clear a fellow investigator who has been charged with a notorious thirty-year-old homicide.

Unexpectedly promoted to detective when his predecessor goes missing and a supervisor is killed, agency clerk Charles Unwin struggles with inexperience and nerves during a case in which he encounters bizarre clues and is framed for murder.

New installment in the acclaimed mystery series that features the first Chicana detective in American literature Annotation: A new installment in the acclaimed mystery series that features the first Chicana detective in American literature.

PI Kinky Friedman of New York has to protect a country singer, whom Indians are threatening to kill. They blame him for the death of a medicine man.

Hoping to bring some Tinseltown money to the Valley, the mayor lures a movie studio to town to shoot their next production, a big-budget Western in the classic tradition. The star is none other than ruggedly handsome--and notoriously badly behaved--Thad Perry. When the mayor decides that someone needs to keep an eye on Thad so that he doesn't get into too much trouble, Bernie and Chet are handpicked for the job. The money is good but something smells...

After losing his partner in a shootout, Detective John Tallow discovers an apartment filled with guns that were each used in an unsolved murder stretching back over twenty years.