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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This pair of stepbrothers have their sights set on just one woman ... Scarlet Drake is an insurance fraud investigator hot on the heels of the thief who stole a multimillion-dollar art collection from tycoon Michael Vandenberg's Hamptons estate. Unfortunately, the sexy Wolf of Wall Street is also her prime suspect--along with his equally mouthwatering stepbrother, Montana rancher Sam Reed. Scarlet quickly finds herself tangled up in the two devilishly...
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels (Joe Clifford) volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Insurance investigator Jay Porter's investigation of a motor vehicle accident claim leads him to a political kickback scheme involving first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to privately owned hardcore behavioral modification centers.
4) If she wakes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tara Beckley, a senior at Hammel College in Maine, is driving a visiting professor to a conference when a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara a prisoner of locked-in syndrome. She is fully alert, but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead-- but why? Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look in to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, she can tell...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and a noble English woman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS, Master Keaton uses his knowledge and combat training to uncover buried secrets, thwart would-be villains, and pursue the truth.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"An insurance adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual, Jack Wade investigates the destruction of one of the area's valuable estates in a fire that also kills the owner's wife and finds himself embroiled in a bizarre conspiracy involving the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, corporate corruption, and murder."--
8) Fadeout
Author
Series
Publisher
Syndicate books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd...
Author
Series
K-9 Special Ops volume 2
Publisher
Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After narrowly surviving a childhood fire that killed two of his friends, ATF Special Agent Brett Tanner knows what it's like to get too close to the flame. The trauma only spurs him and his K-9 partner to track down the arsonists targeting a Colorado town. This latest warehouse blaze looks suspicious as hell...and there's a body. Now it's murder. Fiercely independent insurance investigator Gemma Scott has been burned enough times to know she doesn't...
11) Double indemnity
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
12) Death claims
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Syndicate books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Since a burning accident that left him painfully disfigured, John Oats, a well-liked collectible book dealer, has been self-isolating at his beach house in Arena Blanca, California. An avid swimmer, John Oats had taken to night swimming to hide his injuries from daytime beachgoers. When his body is found one morning smashed against the rocks at the treacherous point near the house, the authorities rule it "Death by Misadventure." Insurance companies...
14) Master Keaton: 4
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS, Master Keaton uses his knowledge and combat training to uncover buried secrets, thwart would-be villains, and pursue the truth..
15) Master Keaton: 9
Author
Series
Master Keaton volume 9
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
16) Troublemaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Syndicate Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rick Wendell wouldn't hurt a flea. The big, jovial owner of the Hang Ten, a surfing-themed gay bay [that is, bar] on the boardwalk, was loved by regulars and new arrivals alike. But Rick was found naked and dead, with a local hustler named Larry Johns standing over him, smoking gun in hand. Wendell's death is ruled as a homicide and Johns is arrested. Everyone thinks it's a simple open-and-shut case. Everyone except the death claims investigator,...
Language
English
Description
A sleek insurance investigator has been assigned to solve a bank robbery that has Boston's finest completely baffled. Her sleuthing leads to the sophisticated, handsome and unbelievably rich Thomas Crown. The more she gets involved with the case, the more she becomes suspicious of his involvement.
18) Master Keaton: 6
Author
Series
Master Keaton volume 6
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Taichi Hiraga Keaton dreams of someday being the archaeologist who excavates the Danube Valley Civilization. Reality doesn't seem to be working in his favor, however, as being an insurance investigator keeps him busy and always in peril! With no rest in sight, what's in store for Master Keaton next?" -- cover.
19) Master Keaton: 2
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Insurance investigator Taichi Hiraga Keaton uses his training in archaeology and experience as a former member of the SAS to investigate the disappearance of an Olympic gold medal and the whereabouts of a German spy.
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