Private Investigator Laws

Not every danger comes in the form of a mega-threat like a Titan. Some predators are a lot cozier...more personal. When one such creature threatens an independent tutor, Harry Dresden must shake off the blood and dirt of his most recent battles and rise to the occasion, even when it turns out that the new predator is far more dangerous and connected than first appearances would suggest.

This book is a mixture of stories, tips and recommendations that were born out of www.PIADVICE.NET, which contains a collection of articles, podcasts and videos that I have created over several years. I’ve also included all the things I wish someone had told me before I entered the industry. At points, it may sound as though I am trying to convince you not to become a private investigator, but it is only because I want to be as transparent and authentic as possible. Becoming a private investigator led me to the life I now have, and there is value in the knowledge I have gathered over ...

Embark on a thrilling ride with Journey Into a Private Investigator's World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. This engaging book offers an insider's look at the captivating world of private investigations, infused with invaluable kernels of wisdom drawn from real-life experiences and steeped in the high-stakes drama of detective stories. With a diverse range of memorable cases compiled over fifteen years, this book is primed to be revealing, educational, and fascinating all at once. In Journey Into a Private Investigator's World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned you will discover: - In-...

When a gruesome murder rocks a peaceful Hamptons village, all the evidence points to one man. His only hope rests in a former prisoner—one-time jailhouse lawyer, now exonerated free man: defense attorney, Alfie Rainbird. Struggling with the mental scars of incarceration and following a string of reckless altercations with colleagues, Alfie Rainbird is forced to take a break while the board of his law firm decide whether to finally cut the volatile lawyer loose. When a body turns up in East Hampton and a young waiter is charged with murder, Rainbird is given a final chance, but it has a ...

"[John] Edward narrates dialogue so naturally that listeners will hear his conviction and picture his thoughtful gaze as he directs [Narrator Robert] Hilland's focus. Hilland becomes a strong believer, and listeners will as well." — AudioFile How a skeptical FBI agent reached out to a famous...

From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies. ​ As a park ranger with the...

We Find Answers: True Tales of a Real Private Investigator pulls back the curtain on real-life cases ranging from missing persons and military misconduct to insurance fraud and criminal defense. With decades of experience as a former Military Police Officer, OSI Special Agent, and private investigator, Michael J. West takes you inside the world of high-stakes decisions, hidden truths, and justice hard-won.

I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can’t shake. Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me to the point of obsession.

Private Investigations provides practical guidance on all aspects of the investigative process and details how the different phases come together to ensure a successful outcome. It teaches the fundamental elements of an investigation, i.e., surveillance, open-source intelligence gathering, the handling of informants, other covert activities, evaluation of evidence, and much more.

Clients hide things from their lawyers all the time. Pam Wilson makes it an art form. Pam’s been on the run from the law for years and she was getting away with it. The statute of limitations ran out on most of her crimes. For her spouse Charlotte? Not so much. Though they were aging, they looked forward to enjoying their golden years and, hopefully, forgetting about the past. Life got complicated when Charlotte became gravely ill, their daughter got pregnant with the child of a married man…a married man someone took shots at from a rare motorcycle Pam happens to own. When the man was ...

She doesn’t want to carry a gun. Why would someone want her dead? Amy Oaks is content to sit behind a desk at Wife for Hire and do her investigating on a computer. When a man pursues her for nefarious means, the cozy little world she's created for herself is turned into something unrecognizable, a world she never sought or wanted. Rookie police officer Mark Fields rescues a pretty woman from being hit by a bus. When she says she didn't fall, but was pushed, he doesn't believe her until he finds out she's also been receiving threatening notes. Assigned as Amy's protection until the culprit...

The award-winning author of Anybody's Daughter is back with a gripping tale of passion, deceit, and murder. Miles Slade looks every bit the successful lawyer, but his swanky office and designer suits hide some desperate truths. A flailing law practice. Massive debt. A dying sister in need of expensive care.

An unconscious man. No memory of who he is. When Meghan Miller finds an unconscious man in the alley, nothing in her life is the same again. Especially when he wakes up with amnesia and her business card is all he has in his pocket. With no money and no name, John Davidson, known as John Doe from the moment he opened his eyes, calls on the beautiful woman who saved his life. When he finds out she's a private investigator, he asks her to help him discover who he is. As bits and pieces of his memory returns, John realizes things are far more dangerous than he could have imagined. The two are ...

In this deliciously noir novel from the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll embarks on a quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child). Happy Doll is a charming...

During a communion service, the teenage son of a vicar attacks his father with an axe. The horrified congregation watch the son escape, and rumours arise that the boy was involved in devil worship. Professor Matt Hunter is brought in to advise, yet he quickly suspects the church attack may have a far more complex cause. Meanwhile, a 10-year-old boy called Ever grows up in a small Christian cult.

A sexy playboy billionaire. An independent female cop. One dangerous case that could destroy them both. Bolton Steele has never met a woman he couldn’t charm—or a thrill he didn’t chase. The youngest of the powerful Brothers Steele Private Investigators, he’s used to fast cars, beautiful women, and high-stakes games. But when a late-night pursuit collides with a determined female cop, Bolton’s life takes a turn he never saw coming. Cheri Lawson is fiercely independent, a no-nonsense officer with no time for billionaire playboys or their reckless ways. Yet when she literally runs ...

EDGAR AWARD FINALIST A private investigator revisits the case that has haunted her for decades and sets out on a deeply personal quest to sort truth from lies. CLUE AWARD FINALIST “[A] haunting memoir, which also unfolds as a gripping true-crime narrative . . . This is a...

Ex-crime investigator SCCunningham takes a gritty crime investigator’s lens and layers it with fearless divine reckoning, hot chemistry, sharp social commentary, and a no-holds-barred brand of justice. Building unforgettable morally-complex characters in a film-worthy world with a signature that’s unmistakably hers. ✨THE FALLEN ANGEL SERIES A disillusioned crime unit of ex-cons, ex-army, police, MI6, and trafficking victims, unknowingly work with unseen entities to dish karma on those who slip through law enforcement fingers. But these ain’t no ordinary angels! REVIEWS I want to be ...

Someone’s watching you… Living in a beautiful home on the edge of a council estate, Kara Bannon can’t imagine what it’s like to have nothing. An eerie phone call plays on her mind and within three days she loses everything – her job, her home and Justin, the only person she thought she...

Legal investigator Finley O’Sullivan has had a difficult year in the wake of her husband’s murder. But in her line of work, there’s no time to grieve. Her job is to protect the firm’s clients and defend their innocence through grueling investigative work. Ellen Winthrop is a force to be reckoned with in the financial world. In a male-dominated industry, she shattered the glass ceiling by empowering and promoting women. But now her husband is dead, killed in the Winthrop family home—and she stands accused of his murder.