Spy Mom
10 best books like Spy Mom (Beth McMullen): A Dangerous Fiction: A Mystery, Deadly Diamonds, Camouflage, Freya 800 AD, The Paris Directive, Agents of Change, Attorney-Client Privilege, Grains of Truth, Harry Lipkin, Private Eye, Suck It Up and Die
Author | Barbara Rogan |
ISBN | 0670026506 |
A romp of a publishing mystery that introduces Jo Donovan, literary agent-cum-detective, that will delight fans of Janet Evanovich, Lisa Lutz, Alan Bradley, and ABC's
Castle
Jo Donovan always manages to come out on top. From the backwoods of Appalachia, she forged a hard path to life among...
Author | John F. Dobbyn |
ISBN | 1608090922 |
What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of blood diamonds at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can...
Author | Bill Pronzini |
ISBN | 0765325640 |
Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife—and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it’s all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door.
His colleague, Tamara,...
Author | Jean Mead |
ISBN | 1903490731 |
Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the Viking raids on Britain.
Home was a longhouse, one of several in the settlement; a stockade protected the small community from bears and wolves roaming the vast glacial wilderness.
Freya's husband, Olaf, hungered...
Author | Gerald Jay |
ISBN | 0385535481 |
Christopher Reich: "Outstanding! A beguiling, atmospheric, and entirely entertaining novel that promises intrigue and suspense from the very first page. Inspector Mazarelle is a wonderful creation: a world weary, gimlet-eyed detective who must rouse himself for one last case. I expect to see...
Author | Guy Harrison |
ISBN | 1470097443 |
Karma has a new face...
In his debut, Guy Harrison writes a unique tale of corruption and espionage in what's been called "an exciting thriller with plenty of surprises" and "an exciting story packed with twists, disasters and suspense."
An amiable corporate manager by day and a matchmaker...
Author | Pamela Samuels Young |
ISBN | 0981562795 |
I swear whenever I feel a slump coming on, I just open up a Vernetta Henderson book and dive right on in!!
Being the fourth in a series, this books was really twisted, in that it had a lot of different small things going on, but it all lead back to one huge case. It starts off with a murder and a rape case...
Author | Lydia Crichton |
ISBN | 0988203499 |
When rigid pacifist Julia Grant is manipulated by U.S. Intelligence to take part in a covert mission in Egypt to help foil a major terrorist plot, she is torn between saving lives and becoming a pawn in her government's political agenda. But her troubles don't end there. As her mission unfolds, Julia...
Harry Lipkin, Private Eye
Author | Barry Fantoni |
ISBN | 0385536100 |
Meet Harry Lipkin, the world's oldest private detective: part Sam Spade, part Woody Allen, all mensch.
Harry Lipkin is a tough-talking, soft-chewing, rough-around-the-edges, slow-around-the-corners private investigator who carries a .38 along with a spare set of dentures. Harry specializes...
Author | Brian Meehl |
ISBN | 0385739117 |
Nearly two years after Suck It Up, all Morning McCobb wants is to complete his training at the NY Fire Academy and to stay head over heels in love with Portia for as long as the chronology-crossed lovers can, given that she's now eighteen and he's stalled at sixteen.
It's nearly the first anniversary...
Author | Jesse Kellerman |
ISBN | 0399159037 |
Arthur Pfefferkorn is a has-been, or perhaps a never-was: a middle-aged college professor with long-dead literary aspirations. When his oldest friend, bestselling thriller writer William de Vallèe, is lost at sea, Pfefferkorn is torn between envy and grief, for de Vallèe not only outshone Pfefferkorn...
Author | Greg Bardsley |
ISBN | 0062127713 |
Imagine a story by Ben Mezrich (The Accidental Billionaires, 21) of staggering financial improprieties infused with Tim Dorsey's (Hurricane Punch, Gator A-Go-Go) zany, over-the-top pure insanity, and you might have something somewhat resembling Cash Out, the rollicking debut novel by Greg Bardsley....
Author | Jenn Thorson |
ISBN | 0983804508 |
It’s the age-old tale of boy meets alien abductor. Boy meets stun-gun. Boy learns he’s the only one in the Universe who can save the Earth from extreme world makeover by inter-stellar landlords.
Yeah: he thinks it’s a bit much, too.
Like everyone else on his planet, Bertram Ludlow...
Author | Kate Brady |
ISBN | 1455502049 |
A RACE FOR SALVATION
For the past decade, psychologist Erin Sims has been helping victims of violent crimes move on with life . . . but the one person she can't save is the one who matters most. In only seven days, her brother will be executed for a murder he didn't commit. Convinced she knows the...
Author | Joshua Graham |
ISBN | 1451654693 |
After scattering her mother's ashes in Vietnam, photojournalist Xandra Carrick comes home to New York to rebuild her life and career. When she experiences supernatural visions that reveal atrocities perpetrated by American soldiers during the Vietnam War, she finds herself entangled in a forty-year-old...
Author | K.J. Larsen |
ISBN | 1590589238 |
What does a woman do when she discovers her husband is an incurable cheater? If she’s Cat DeLuca she launches the Pants On Fire Detective Agency. Now Cat does what two years of unholy matrimony taught her. She catches cheaters.When a client (Cleo Jones) shoots her cheating husband’s bum full...
Author | Alan Jacobson |
ISBN | 0983626014 |
An enigmatic covert operative. A skilled FBI agent with a dark past. And a terror plot unlike any in history. An explosion pulverizes the president-elect’s helicopter on Election Night. It soon becomes clear that the group behind the assassination attempt possesses far greater reach than the FBI...
Author | Angela Carling |
ISBN | 1935089544 |
After shy, quiet Lucy and her family move from their small hometown in Minnesota to Seattle, Washington, she is surprised when Ryan, the most popular boy at school, asks her out. Soon, she is swept up in a whirlwind romance and her naive and trusting nature allows her to fall head over heels in love with...
Working for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson delights in losing herself in antiques and folk traditions--and forgetting her messy love life. Then the outdoor ethnic museum becomes a murder scene. Does the missing Eagle diamond, a legendary gemstone unearthed in 1876, have anything to do with...
Author | Ken Bruen |
ISBN | 0802127339 |
Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for some off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to...
Stiletto 911: The Makeover Manifesto
Author | Vivian Valtas Schmidt |
ISBN | 0615494781 |
"No matter how bad you're feeling, you perk up when you have something to strut about-and in. But, while shoes are fun, stilettos represent a challenge. You can't possibly slip on a pair of four-plus-inch stilettos for the first time and walk the walk without wobbling. Everyone starts in flats, because...
Author | Betty Webb |
ISBN | 1464203105 |
Ferociously ambitious U.S. Senatorial candidate Juliana Thorsson has been keeping a secret. The horrific slaughter of a prominent doctor, his wife, and their ten-year-old son inside their Scottsdale home brings Thorsson to Private Investigator Lena Jones. The slain family s 14-year-old, Alison,...
Author | Derek Haas |
ISBN | 1605980684 |
He told you not to like him. To get close to Columbus, the Silver Bear, means death. Exactly whose death remains to be determined in Derek Haas’ highly anticipated new thriller.
Recouping in Europe after loosing his fence and best friend during his mission to assassinate his father,...