Ergebnis für "Blonde" in Privatdetektive

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in The Black-Eyed Blonde—also published as Marlowe as by John Banville—the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old...

It should have been a case like any other: a missing princess, a king willing to pay in gold for her return. But before he realizes it, private investigator Eddie LaCrosse, a slightly shopworn sword jockey with a talent for discretion and detection, is swept up in a web of mystery and deceit involving a brutally murdered royal heir, a queen accused of an unspeakable crime, and the tragic past he thought he'd left behind.

Someone had axed Fred Hunter, The Trib's resident muckraker, and his whole family. And I was suspect #1. I'm Dan Warden, newly deposed police chief of Oregon City. It was one of Fred's columns that led to my resignation in scandal. The prosecutor needed a trophy for the next election and my head was his prize.

Infidelity pays the bills, so says a wise old private eye. But for PI Johnny Delarosa, his routine cheating-spouse case turns into a tangled mess when his client, Mary Ann Bellamy, is run off the road and left for dead. Her husband, the owner of a cutting-edge aerospace technology firm, puts his career and marriage at risk by having an affair with his senior executive, the sexy, enigmatic Keira Kaine - the most brutal femme fatale to ever travel the realms of crime fiction.

With virtually identical women being murdered in Minnesota, panic is causing huge political pressure to get the killer off the streets. Celebrated investigator Cade Dawkins is given the hot potato case and hopes to get it wrapped up before the governor has his head. But the killer has his own agenda—one that goes beyond simply murdering knockout blondes. As it becomes a cat and mouse game between killer and investigator, Dawkins begins to realize he just may be the mouse.

Travis Anderson is the picture of success. Handsome, sexy, and rich he could have pretty much any woman he wants. Sadly, the only ones he seems to find think that size matters. The size of his wallet, that is. He needs a woman to love him for himself. Aubrey Grayson just might be the one he's hoped for.

Georgette "Gigi" Sidney is a woman on the run. Her ex-boyfriend's love was controlling, obsessive, and deadly. Now she's hiding out in Tremont, Montana, spending her days as a waitress and her nights in West Anderson's bed. She ought to be moving on to the next town, but her feelings for the handsome detective have complicated her plans. Everything in life has come easily for West Anderson. Until now. Despite the passionate nights he and Gigi have shared, she's constantly talking about leaving town.