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When gruff and intimidating security consultant Max Stillman appears without warning in the San Francisco office of McClaren Life and Casualty and begins asking questions and scrutinizing files, the employees can't help wondering just which of them he's been hired to investigate. The first to find out is young data analyst John Walker when Stillman's mysterious investigation leads out of town, he announces he's taking Walker with him.
Walker has...

Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him that something's wrong. So wrong that he violates his own cardinal rule—"You don't get personal, you don't get emotional. Whatever you do, you don't...

Lawrence Sanders concludes his bestselling Commandment series with a sizzling tale of hot-blooded lust and stone-cold murder Nothing gets by Dora Conti. Her latest case brings the tough-as-nails claims adjuster to the mean streets of New York, where Lewis Starrett, a wealthy society jeweler, has been fatally stabbed. Though the killer was apparently an amateur, there was a lot of power behind the knife's thrust. The victim lived in an eighteen-room...

"After the loss of his wife and child in a plane crash, former NYC firefighter Sebastian Martin is nearing alcoholic oblivion when his brother offers him a last-chance job opportunity as an insurance fraud investigator. Despite his reservations, he soon discovers he has an instinct for the job. A move to Dallas, where he learns it's okay to be alive, proves to be his salvation. Investigating fraudulent claims for a dead child and another for a missing...

"Set in the mid-1960s, Fadeout centers on the disappearance of a Southern California radio personality named Fox Olson. A life insurance claim is filed by Olson's widow and the company holding the policy sends their best man to investigate. The problem is that Olson's body was never found. As Dave Brandstetter begins his investigation, he quickly finds that none of it adds up."--

"Jane Bunker returns in another thrilling, small-town mystery set in Down East Maine. It seems like everyone in Green Haven knows that Jane Bunker has scored an invite to the ultra-exclusive Summer Solstice Soiree--and they all assume she'll be in attendance, as one of the few eligible single women in town. Of course, that's the last place Jane would like to be; hobnobbing and making small talk with the upper crust isn't exactly her idea of a good...

"When the much loved owner of a surfing-themed gay bar on the boardwalk is found dead, with a local hustler standing over him, the police believe it to be an open-and-shut case, but death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter knows better, in this hardboiled and entertaining portrait of 1970s gay culture."--

Police Chief Ben Orton had a gift for making enemies. He was proud to count among them hippies, homosexuals, and subversives of every race and religion. When his body was found, head smashed in, the people of his California seaside domain were shocked -- less because of the gruesome murder than because someone had finally dared to cross Ben Orton. That someone, the cops immediately claimed, as gay activist Cliff Kerlee. But insurance investigator...

Who could have guessed that running employee background checks at the Hi-Data Corporation would make freelance insurance investigator D. D. McGil the target of a ruthless killer? For D.D. a thirty-something former English professor whose fiancé died two years ago the routine job should have been a welcome distraction. Is it possible that her eccentric Aunt Elizabeth's newfound Robert Burns relic - worth millions if authenticated - is somehow connected?...