Books like Sleep With Slander (Blue Murder) by Dolores Hitchens

Four friends from New York’s West Side endure brutality in reform school, later turn to crime, and eventually seek vengeance against those who abused them, culminating in a courtroom confrontation that challenges their fate.

Teenager Serendipity Dahlquist races Los Angeles streets to recover her father's dog after it's snatched, enlisting the help of private investigator Leo “Bloodhound” Bloodworth in a quirky, city‑wide mystery.

Collins and McKechnie, special agents of the railroad police in LA, had a number of problems on their hands. There was the matter of that starving, badly beaten young Mexican whom Collins had found in the refrigerator car. He had whispered, "Joys" - Spanish for "jewelry". And then there was the blonde who reported $75 worth of baggage stolen. It was only later that she admitted, under questioning, that she had undervalued her loss by many thousand dollars. She neglected to mention those diamond baubles. McKechnie's case involved a shapely, violet eyed number who demanded to know what had really happened to her father in the freight yards. And what had happened to this money. When the cases merged into one, Collins and McKechnie found that they were up against something far from routine-large scale racketeering, with side effects of theft, brutality and murder.

A fast‑paced murder mystery where a former railroad employee, Tommy Collins, on the run after killing three people, threatens a southern California family as a special agent races to stop his deadly revenge.