by Jerome Doolittle (1992)
When a Houston savings and loan goes bankrupt and the owner dies,thousands of people lose their savings, including friends of investigator Tom Bethany.
Richard Haley
Wealthy financier Gil Bentley, anxious that his daughter's boyfriend isn't marrying her just for money, hires Frank Crane to ascertain Stuart Knight's background. Crane discovers that Knight is concealing his past; he's also seeing another woman, and seems to have far too much money. It appears that Knight was implicated in a major robbery some years before, and some of those involved are now being murdered.
Thomas Perry
Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy harper disappear. But not her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.--From publisher's description.
Carolyn Haines
When a contentious professor makes claims about the identity of a woman found in a mysterious Mississippi grave and implicates wealthy Zinnia families of having ties to a related scandal, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by a group of society ladies to clear their names only to discover another body in the professor's hotel room.
Michael Harvey
Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband. It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is offered nearly a quarter million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kelly's investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind: his wife, Marie, who has been ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly finds that everyone in Chicago has secrets, including the governor's wife. And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed....