Harry Starke Genesis Series

She was the one that got away.   It was a dark and stormy night… No kidding, it really was.   I'd quit the police force only a couple of days earlier - that was back in 2008 - and I was on my way to a poker game at the Sorbonne when a shadow crossed in front of my car. It went by so fast I didn't have time to stop. I hit the brakes hard and swerved into the mud at the side of the road.   I looked out through the deluge, but it was difficult to make out the figure coming towards the driver's side window. Instinctively, my hand went for my gun and rested on the grip, but as the figure came closer I could see it was a girl. Her hair, dark, bobbed, was plastered to her head and face. The raccoon eye shadow smeared above her eyes had run in rivulets down her cheeks. She looked like one of the walking dead, but more than that she looked scared, really scared. What the hell is she doing out here alone in this kind of weather? I wondered as I let go of my gun and rolled the window down a half-inch.   "Get in the back," I yelled at her, and flipped the lock so she could open the door. And that's how it all began. Had I known what I was getting myself into I might have done differently… No, I wouldn't. Anyway, that's how I became a private detective.   Start binge reading today!

Who wants Senator Andrew Hawke dead? How many must die to make it happen?   It was a bad day all round for Tommy Biscotti and his friends. All Tommy wanted was a few pills. What he got was a bullet in the back. Hammerhead, Tommy's source, got two in the head. Jake Burke, Hammerhead's sidekick, got his brains blown out. Pretty standard stuff for the low life's of the underworld… But what did it all have to do with Senator Andrew Hawke's run for governor?   Who is the assassin?   To Harry Starke the answers seem obvious… but as we all know, in the real world nothing ever is...

A brutal murder.  Why did Sandra McDowell have to die?   A condemned assassin. What was her connection to an aging hitman twenty years on death row with only days left to live?   Can Harry unravel the nightmare world of… The Raven? Or is he in over his head this time?   The Raven is a mind-bending mystery thriller, a twister of a tale that will keep you up reading long into the night. You can't read just one!

A chance encounter. A plea for help. A detective too tired to care.   Brandon Beck hung himself, or did he? Was it suicide or cold blooded murder?   On a cold dark night in February, Harry Starke runs into someone he hasn't seen in almost 25 years. The man has a problem. He asks Harry for help. Harry turns him down, and thus becomes the last person to see Brandon Beck alive. Did Beck hang himself? Was he murdered? Either way, why?   Harry Starke, now the prime suspect, vows to find out.  

Cassie Morgan was just 17 years old when she died at the hands of a sadistic killer. Homicide Detective Harry Starke caught the case and he knew right from the beginning that it was going to be a bad one, and he was right. Too many clues, too many suspects, too many bodies and a police chief more interested in his career than justice for the victims.   For Harry, it was the last straw, and it had been a long time coming.

Two dead teens. A case gone cold. A twisted tangle of clues and dead ends.   One Dark Night… Geeze, was that ever a doozy of a case? It was April 1st, 1998 when the bodies of two teenagers, a young fella and his girlfriend, both high school seniors, were found among the trees on a lonely road just inside the city limits. The bodies had been stripped and left for the wild animals to… well, you get the idea. The cops had a good idea who the killer was, but they never could prove it, so the case went cold… until April 1st, 2012 when local DA, Larry Spruce, asked me to take a look at it.   Right from the get-go, I knew it was going to be a bad one, and it was. My name is Harry Starke. I'm a private investigator. You want to know how bad it was? Read on.    

A case thirty-five years cold. No witnesses, suspects or leads. Two detectives who won't let go.Based on a true, unsolved crime.   My name's Harry Starke. I'm an ex-cop turned private investigator.   It was a rainy Monday morning in June 2012 when Peter Sheffield walked into my office and made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Two weeks in sunny Florida all expenses paid. The catch was I had to solve a thirty-five year old cold case.   Sheffield's parents were killed in a particularly nasty hit and run accident. The driver and the pickup truck that hit them were never found.   An accident? That was the original finding, but was it? Sheffield was convinced otherwise. Me? I had an open mind and made no promises.   So, Kate and I headed south in search of sun, sea, sand and… a killer.

Ten years ago, Bryce Manning committed suicide… or did he? He left a note, but his body was never found. What really happened to Bryce Manning? In Liar Liar, Book 8 in the Harry Starke Genesis series, PI Harry Starke is tasked with solving the ten-year-old cold case of Bryce Manning, a 19-year-old university student whose death was declared a suicide by the police. But Harry, skeptical at first, soon realizes that the case isn't as simple as it seems, and that the people closest to Brice may be hiding some dark secrets. As he delves deeper, Harry uncovers a web of lies and deceit that will leave you on the edge of your seat. With twists and turns at every corner, Liar Liar is a thrilling ride from start to finish. Don't miss out on this latest mystery in Blair Howard's best-selling series.