When a Little League coach wins a trip to Phantasy Baseball Camp, it sets in motion an unforgettable season with his beloved Philadelphia Phillies. Joe DiNatale, a thirty-nine- year-old insurance agent from Reading Pennsylvania, discovers that he has a magical pitch and through luck and circumstance receives an improbable try-out. Nobody is prepared to handle the instant rock-star celebrity and this average joe has to hold on to his home-town values for dear life. The ride gets bumpy durin...

Making $1,000 every working day as a PI is an achievable goal. How can you start doing so? Slogging every day just to make ends meet? Working long hours with no time for yourself? Maybe things are going well and you want to take your company to the next level. How would you sell your company when the time comes? Do you have an exit strategy.? Veteran Private Investigator John A. Hoda writes exclusively for Private Investigators. What might work for a Pizza shop or a Pest Control company ma...

A missing child. A deadly trade. A love caught between redemption and ruin.London, 1889. After surviving Jack the Ripper's reign of terror, Doctor Henry Jekyll and Francine Murphy dream of a peaceful future together. But their fragile hopes are shattered when Francine's estranged husband, Seamus, reappears—begging her to help find his sister's missing baby, stolen from a long-term foster home.Reluctantly, Jekyll joins Francine in the search, only to discove...

The complete series contains everything you need to learn about the business of launching, marketing and boosting your Private Investigation company. This book contains all three how-to books in the series. Written by veteran Private Investigator John A. Hoda, CLI, CLE specifically for persons that want to get into the business or for practicing private investigators who want to improve their business and marketing skills. Critically acclaimed by industry veterans, Hoda illustrates several...

Victorian London's marriage season turns deadly when a poisoned punch bowl and a dessert leaves two debutantes dead and an innocent girl holding the blame.Two deaths. One innocent girl. And a poison no one can name.London, 1890. The Season is in full swing. The wealthy and landed set are mixing and mingling with purpose—marriages to be made, fortunes to be joined, alliances to be secured. Then a punch bowl is poisoned. Then a dessert. Two debutante...

An utterly unique, Victorian-era mystery with a clever play on the famous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale, where the monster becomes the hero, and lines are crossed along the way.Unbeknownst even to himself, the kind, gentle, quietly brilliant Dr. Jekyll has created an alter ego—his polar opposite, the dark and dangerous Mr. Hyde. A little bit Dexter, Hyde hunts down criminals to make them pay for their sins. But his "good deeds" go too far and, now, wanted for murder...

Thinking of starting your own Private Investigation Business? Want to take your passion for investigating and your pension from the police department or government service but you are not sure how to turn your investigative expertise into a successful second career? Veteran investigator John A. Hoda talks you through the entire launch sequence from planning and design to lift-off. This is a book specifically for persons wanting to become a private investigator. First or second-year private...

You are a great investigator or you have a great team, but you are struggling to find good-paying, fast-paying customers on a steady basis. Worse, You have suffered from pricey marketing schemes that didn't work. Some of the techniques taught on the internet leave you feeling like a sleazy used car salesman. Veteran investigator John A. Hoda cuts through the noise and lays out scalable and replicable marketing plans for the wide spectrum of investigative services. This is not a one-size-fi...

Not sure how to launch or grow your private investigation business? This short read will save you time, money and grief. Written by veteran PI John A. Hoda, it lays out the essentials you need to address before even buying business cards or making a website. John coaches private investigators exclusively as The PI Coach and has talked to hundreds of private investigators that are struggling to survive and thrive. He has distilled his teachings into this book to help you focus on what is mo...