Books like Raw data by Sally Chapman

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone takes on a case that turns into a mystery of a drunk ex‑convict’s death, forcing her to uncover hidden enemies and questionable evidence in Santa Teresa.

Elizabeth Lange, a grieving actress, investigates her sister's murder at a luxury spa in Pebble Beach.

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is summoned to Floral Beach, California, to prove the innocence of fugitive Bailey Fowler, the accused of a teenage girl's murder, amid town gossip, hidden revelations, and new threats.

Alexandra Lovell, a private investigator who specializes in making people disappear, must confront the mystery of her client’s real vanishing act.

We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining; how data are variously "cooked" in the processes of their collection and use; and conflicts over what can -- or can't -- be "reduced" to data. Contributors discuss the intellectual history of data as a concept; describe early financial modeling and some unusual sources for astronomical data; discover the prehistory of the database in newspaper clippings and index cards; and consider contemporary "dataveillance" of our online habits as well as the complexity of scientific data curation.

Detective Merci Rayborn faces division in her sheriff’s department after a deputy is shot dead and a wife is murdered—she believes the deputy was framed and must uncover the truth before more lives are lost.

When Benni Harper inherits her broken property, she and her family turn the old ranch into a quirky dude‑ranch, marrying quilting, horses and mysteries. But a buried body and a curious investigator threaten their new venture.

In California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, Ranger Anna Pigeon and her fellow firefighters are trapped by a raging forest fire. After survival, two of their own are dead—a victim of the flames and a murder victim—forcing Anna to hunt a killer as a winter storm cuts them off from help.