Created by Liz Milliron "I wish life was more like a movie." -- opening lines of The Enemy We Don't Know Be careful what you wish for. In The Enemy We Don't Know (2020), billed as "A Homefront Mystery," it's November, 1942, and the world (even the United States) is at war, and Buffalo, NY … Continue reading Betty Ahern
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Three is the Magic Number
Some Notable P.I. Trilogies The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster The Frank Clemons Trilogy by Thomas Cook The Black Mask Boys by William F. Nolan The Joe Kurtz Trilogy by Dan Simmons The Brenna Spector Trilogy by Alison Gaylin The Twenty-Year Death Trilogy by Ariel S. Winter The Terry Orr Trilogy by Jim Fusilli … Continue reading Three is the Magic Number
Terry Orr
Created by Jim Fusilli TERRY ORR is a New York City writer still devastated by the senseless death of his artist wife Marina Fiorentino and their young son, Davy, in Closing Time (2001). It seems some random looney pushed them in front of a subway train. It was an powerful and impressive debut, a first … Continue reading Terry Orr
Terry Lane (Taking the Falls)
Created by ?? Taking the Falls was a short-lived Canadian comedy/drama TV series about mouthy, brash private detective, TERRY LANE, who works with Catherine McVicar, a straight-laced hot-shot corporate lawyer working together in the tourist town of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Terry was played by Cynthia Dale, the popular star of the long-running Canadian legal drama … Continue reading Terry Lane (Taking the Falls)
Dorie Lennox
Created by Lise McClendon It's 1939, and Kansas City is jumping with swing music, fast cars and a bloody turf war between two rival gangs. In her feisty debut, One O'clock Jump (2001), a mobster hires private gumshoe DORIE LENNOX to follow his bargirl sweetie, who promptly takes a header off a bridge (hence the … Continue reading Dorie Lennox
The 2025 Shamus Awards Winners
From the Private Eye Writers of America The winners of the 2025 Shamus Awards have just been announced at the 2025 Bouchercon's Opening Ceremonies in New Orleans, Louisiana. The winners, as always, are in red. BEST PI HARDCOVER Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts (Vandy Myrick) Kingpin by Mike Lawson (Joe DeMarco) The Hollow Tree … Continue reading The 2025 Shamus Awards Winners
Annie McIntyre
Created by Samantha Jayne Allen "Life is long. Hard to see a shape or any kind of arc while you're living it." --Next of Kin A newly minted college grad finds herself back in her small hardscrabble hometown of Garnett, Texas, ANNIE McINTYRE is tired of waitressing and a life seemingly going nowhere (career opportunities … Continue reading Annie McIntyre
Ed Runyon
Created by Steve Goble "My name is Ed Runyon, and I'm a private investigator. I used to be a cop." -- Go Find Daddy When we first meet him in City Problems (2021), country boy turned big city cop ED RUNYON has parted ways with the NYPD, haunted by the missing children he never found, … Continue reading Ed Runyon
“Piece by Piece”
By Paul Sundeson Featuring Gil Barntree Holiday 2007 New Orleans March 1962 “Thirty cents a gallon for ethyl?” my partner Frank Whitney said. We were parked in his Mercury just up Burgundy Street from the garage. “No wonder they're not pulling in the customers.” Hyams Auto Repair was a long white barn with a tin roof … Continue reading “Piece by Piece”
E.J. Kane
Created by Michael E. Jimerson A thirty-year vet of the Texas Rangers, E.J. KANE now works as an "independent sleuth" and freelance security consultant in the East Texas badlands where "the bland, khaki shades of drought punished the landscape." He's the hero in this top notch, action-packed series that digs way deeper (and darker) than … Continue reading E.J. Kane