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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Miss Janie is at the end of a long and full life, but she has no intention of crossing that finish line until she's found her girls... It's been ten years since Teresa and Kayla shook off the dust of Birthright, Texas, went their separate ways, and never looked back. Apart from their foster mom, Miss Janie, they don't have many fond memories of their hometown. Or of each other. Still, neither can forget the kind woman who opened her home and heart...
3) Mission road
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rick Riordan, triple-crown winner of mystery’s most prestigious awards—the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus—returns with a hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre crime drama. This time Navarre reopens a cold case to catch a killer getting away with murder . . . again.
“Riordan has a knack for showing readers a crazy good time.”—The New York Times Book Review
P.I. Tres Navarre...
“Riordan has a knack for showing readers a crazy good time.”—The New York Times Book Review
P.I. Tres Navarre...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Hired to locate the birth family of Will Knight, a college athlete, Texas heiress and PI Abby Rose finds her investigation taking a deadly turn when Verna Mae, the woman who found Will years ago, is murdered, leading her on a dangerous quest to find the truth and catch a killer.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy to investigate his father Ryce's alleged suicide. His dad was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and was found hanged in their backyard. Tatum believes his father...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Texas heiress Abby Rosehas no desire to work on a reality program except that her friend Emma Lopez, who has been raising her three younger siblings since her mother disappeared, needs a break; however, someone is determined to keep this episode off the air.
9) Hard rain
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver. When Annie's search turns up a different victim-shot...
Author
Series
Silhouette romance ; 1656
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Gwen Murphy, once the girl from the ranch next door, owed her aging Apache neighbor big-time. But deploy her private-investigator skills to a find a wife for Morning Hawk's greatgrandson? And move into his home to do so? Dang it! For years, virile Jess Logan had stirred feelings celibate Gwen wanted no part of. Once under Jess's roof - and his amused masculine scrutiny - Gwen did her best to procure him a spouse. Or did she? For Texas heat scorched...
11) Wild at heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
You can run from the past...but you can't hide from love
When private investigator Valerie Parker tails a cheating wife one night, it's business as usual – until the woman is murdered and the man she's with becomes the prime suspect. She's astonished to discover the man's identity: Alex DeMarco, a man she was once insanely in love with and who shattered her dreams and broke her heart… all in the same day.
As a cop, Alex feels obligated to offer...
Author
Series
Heart of Texas ; 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful stranger has come to Clearview, asking questions that are nobody's business. Cooper Owens also wasn't born yesterday. He knows that this out-of-towner is hiding a dark secret of her own. Much as he knows he should head in the other direction, he can't make himself turn away... P.I. Marlee Frampton always wanted to lead a nice quiet life, working as a cop in her local police department. But that dream came to an end when her sister was...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sawyer Buchanon was against hiring Jade Warren. The escalating threats against his family's construction business--and Sawyer in particular--don't warrant the time and money spent on a private investigator. Even if Jade's smart, beautiful and challenging in a way that intrigues him. Jade has personal reasons to mistrust any Buchanon--especially one as handsome and smooth as Sawyer. But everything she's been led to believe about the successful Buchanons...
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Series
Language
English
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"What will wealthy private investigator Cole Sullivan say when he discovers the woman he left years ago is the mother of his twins? Before Dani Moore can tell him to stay away, they share a searing kiss instead, confirming their explosive chemistry is far from over. But will Cole's own life-or-death secret -- the one that destroyed their relationship -- continue to keep them apart?"--
