Gare Marx has been a PI for all of five minutes when he discovers he sucks at it. The mob wants money he never borrowed, he’s suspected of murdering someone he hasn’t met, and he’s hired to find a woman who may be involved in some extremely shady business. That, and his secretary is an amoral jiu jitsu-loving sociopath. . . .
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A federal hate crimes investigator is sent to Johnstown, PA, his hometown, to assist in the investigation of a string of murders with a racial bias motivation. Going home leads him to confront a past that he has tried to forget. . . .
In October 1929 Berlin, Germany, a young but brilliant detective begins to investigate a series of bizarre and gruesome murders. As he delves deeper, he finds himself drawn into a literal underworld populated by demons, both mythological and otherwise. . . .
Thistledown Copperbottom is a cat living in Columbus, Ohio with his person, Tabitha Silverstein. When his best friend’s owner is murdered Thistle promises to help him find the killer, dragging Tabitha along for the ride. . . .
Veteran detective Jake Burleigh is chosen to solve a case using an amazing new technology. It’s only after he finishes the job that the real mysteries begin. Strangers in the Brain is a mysterious detective noir blended with a delirious, dreamlike sci-fi twist. . . .
Deucalion Chronicles is a meta-series containing many stories all set within the same universe. So what’s that universe look like? To put it in TvTropes terms, it would be Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera, full of Magitek. Or, to put it another way, it’s what happens when high fantasy gets out of the dark ages, shoots past urban fantasy, and . . .
Told in the style of classic pulp fiction and film noir, each week you can catch up on the latest in the adventures of none other than Samuel Swift, a private eye with a penchant for cases that are dark, dreary, and fraught with more than a touch of the supernatural. . . .
In an alternate past where magic is recognize as a true science, people are starving for land. To alleviate the burden, the government of Great Britain created floating islands, gigantic city that travels the sea. On the Island of King James, two people that have nothing in common must understand what is the link between a series of grotesque . . .
The British Isles, the 16th century. Decades ago, the fae returned to the mortal world. Released by a coven of magicians after centuries of imprisonment, they swept across the British Isles, covering the land with a tangled forest of enchanted trees. Cities fell. Thousands died. Only a handful of cities were saved. Years later, the people of the . . .
A robot and an assassin team up to fight crime in the western suburbs of Minneapolis—for money, natch. And except for the evil uber-corporations and their leprechaun representative, an immortal witch and her dragon henchman, zombies, mysterious artifacts, competitive ninjas and a restaurant owner with proof that this all happens in an alternate world, things are pretty okay. . . .
The Investigators follows the adventures of a private investigation firm based in India. A variety of cases ranging from serial killings to leakage of funds from multi-national companies are tackled by The Investigators. Readers also get a chance to win free e-books, games and more by solving the mystery before the protagonist Dharmesh Singh does. Clues and hints are dropped . . .
A detective story taken out of time and space. The greatest monster in history and his accomplice must solve the riddle of a series of murders and why they are back . . . in downtown LA! . . .
Eelsvale: Population 1,355. Magic: Some. Sally Carter writes the fiction column in The Eelsvale Pages, but is a little low on weekly originality. Then she meets Detective Hood, recently turned freelance (reasons unknown). He has bit of a reputation, and a knack, for trouble, and doesn’t seem to mind her company (or else he probably wouldn’t keep turning . . .
“Fisson Chips” is quirky, madcap romp about a new PI having a very bad first day. Gare Marx started a private investigating business with his partner Matthew Richardson. When Gare shows up for work, the guy painting the sign on the door refuses to finish until he gets more money. This starts a chain of events that ends with broken [more . . .]
"Strangers in the Brain" is the story of Detective Burleigh, who participates in an experimental form of detective work—he uses a device called the Flytrap to enter the mind of a criminal and extract where he’s hidden the bodies of the people he’s murdered.
While the premise is similar to the [more . . .]