18 books like The Black-Eyed Blonde

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Ticktock Dean Koontz · 1996 · ★ 3.8 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It's a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. Five sets of… Shares: California, Private investigators

Unnatural acts Kevin J. Anderson · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Another full caseload for the zombie detective . . ."  in this "inventive" urban fantasy novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews).   To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead   In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up—to work the night shift. But zombie detective… Shares: Kriminalroman, Private investigators

The Monkey's Raincoat Robert Crais · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld. Shares: California, Missing persons, Private investigators

Stalking the Angel Robert Crais · 1989 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He’s a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up. The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the bestlooking woman he’d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect “10” was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had… Shares: California, Private investigators

Private James Patterson & Maxine Paetro · 2008 · ★ 3.9 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The police can't help you Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily--and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their… Shares: California, Private investigators, Crime

Wrecked Tricia Fields · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When her longtime boyfriend, Dillon, is accused of murdering his secretary, police officer Josie Gray struggles with precinct disputes and memories of the last time she saw Dillon only to discover that she was the actual target in a multimillion-dollar con game. Shares: Kriminalroman, Missing persons, Crime

A Man Without Breath Philip Kerr · 2013 Bernie Gunter dances with the SS, the Gestapo, and his past. Shares: Kriminalroman, Private investigators

The Wrong Case James Crumley · 1986 · ★ 3.9 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of Meriwether, in the pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. he takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting… Shares: Missing persons, Private investigators

The Mexican Tree Duck James Crumley · 1993 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate C.W. Sughrue is at it again, and this time he's looking for a beautiful, kidnapped woman named Sarita Cisneros Pines. No one can find her -- not her well-connected Republican husband, not the FBI, not even a group of violent guys with South American accents. And when Sughrue starts searching, working his way from Montana to the Mexican border, he comes up empty too. Shares: Missing persons, Private investigators

Eye of the Storm Marcia Muller · 1988 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Eye (cyclone), a region of calmer weather found at the center of strong tropical cyclones Shares: California, Private investigators

The Shape of Dread Marcia Muller · 1989 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Bobby Foster, carhop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He’s already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club’s rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy’s body is still missing and Bobby’s confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperative’s final appeal sends San Francisco’s number one PI Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged… Shares: California, Private investigators

Missing You Harlan Coben · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé Jeff, the man who shattered her heart -- and who she hasn't seen in 18 years. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the… Shares: Kriminalroman, Missing persons

Compound Murder A Dan Rhodes Mystery Bill Crider · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "In Compound Murder, award-winning Bill Crider invites mystery fans on a new adventure with Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college campus in Clearview. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests… Shares: Kriminalroman, Crime

The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler · 1939 · ★ 3.9 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder Shares: California, Private investigators

The Moving Target Ross MacDonald · 1950 · ★ 3.9 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before.Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading… Shares: California, Private investigators

Matters of doubt Warren C. Easley · 2013 · ★ 3.8 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small town lawyer in the aftermath of his wife's suicide. Once a hardcharging L.A. prosecutor, he now lives in an old farmhouse overlooking the Oregon wine country. When a scruffy, tattooed kid shows up asking for help in solving his mother's cold case murder, Cal wants to say no. But the kid, who calls himself Picasso, has ridden a bike from… Shares: Kriminalroman, Crime

The Drowning Pool Ross Macdonald · 1950 · ★ 3.6 · 213p · ≈ 7h · Moderate “Archer wasn't going anywhere with the case. The women in it were getting to him. The one who had married for money was out to show him how little it now mattered. The one who was being blackmailed didn't care how Archer saved her mockery of a marriage. The young girl was the worst; too innocent to be involved in this sordid tangle. Three beautiful women. They had a way of distracting Archer—even… Shares: California, Private investigators

The high window Raymond Chandler · 1942 · ★ 3.7 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up… Shares: California, Private investigators

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