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The best Mystery Private Investigator books
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Catching Water In A net
by J. L. Abramo
The first Jake Diamond mystery. J. L. Abramo writing San Francisco hard-boiled with serious 50s-Hammett pedigree.
Red Sky
by Carl Brookins
A Carl Brookins Sean Sean PI novel. Minneapolis, a charter-fishing operation, and a missing person who has been gone longer than the family will admit.
Body Scissors
by Jerome Doolittle
The first Tim Lyon novel. Jerome Doolittle writing 1990 Washington crime fiction with a former-newspaperman protagonist. Sharp regional detail.
Strangle Hold
by Jerome Doolittle
Strangle Hold by Jerome Doolittle review. The 2nd Tim Lyon mystery. A DC investigator working a State Department leak case in the post-Reagan capital. Sharp regional texture.
Bear Hug
by Jerome Doolittle
Bear Hug by Jerome Doolittle review. The 3rd Tim Lyon mystery. A Maine-set congressional-staffer murder and the DC press corps closing in. Sharp regional intelligence work.
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