A tragic death. A guilt-ridden PI. A brutal path to justice.Private Investigator Harry Starke spends sleepless nights wandering the city streets. His perpetual attempt to clear his head takes a dark turn when a frightened young woman runs past him and hurls herself off a bridge to her death. Wracked with guilt over letting the woman’s life slip through his fingertips, he vows to find out what drove her to make that fateful plunge.
Who Killed Tom Sattler? Who Stole $350 Million from New Vision Strategic Investments?
It’s up to Harry Starke to Figure it out. The call came on a Tuesday evening in the middle of August at around nine-thirty. It was from an old school friend that Harry Starke hadn’t heard from in almost five years, and he hadn’t thought about him in almost as long.
For More Than Ten Years She Lay Beneath the Floorboards of Hill House
For more than ten years, she waited. Who was she? Who put her there? Why? Harry Starke vows to find the answers to those questions, but how?
They found Angela Hartwell lying in the shallow waters beside the golf course. There was not a mark on her, yet she was dead, strangled. How could that be?
Once again, it’s up to Harry Starke to find out. The investigation takes him into a world he’s very familiar with, a world of affluence, privilege and… corruption.
Emily Johnston is GONE. She’s been GONE for more than a week. She’s also the daughter of Harry Starke’s one-time boss and nemesis, Chattanooga Police Chief Wesley Johnston. Harry and Chief Johnston haven’t seen eye-to-eye in a long time, but when Johnston needs help, he knows there’s only one man he can turn to.
Harry Starke loves a cold case, but this one is really cold – more than a hundred years cold.
Family Matters is a whimsical tale, a flight of fancy. It takes place on the lonely coast of Maine, where Amanda, a true believer in the paranormal, has inherited a haunted house. Or at least that’s what the rumors say.
Shadows from the past. A brutal murder. This time it’s personal.
It takes only one phone call to turn Harry Starke into a monster. It begins when Harry’s kid brother is brutally murdered, his body thrown into the murky waters of the Tennessee River.
Murder and Mayhem in the U.S. Virgin Islands
It was one of those beautiful, balmy days on Calypso Key in the US Virgin Islands. The sky was blue and a cool breeze was blowing in off the ocean as Harry and Amanda took their vows. All of their friends were there and all was well with the world… and then the sky fell.
On a balmy afternoon in May 2002, wealthy stockbroker Peter Nicholson was turkey hunting with three friends in Prentice Cooper State Forest when he tripped, fell on his shotgun, and accidentally shot himself… dead, but did he? 15 years later, as a last resort, Nicholson’s mother asks Harry Starke to find the truth. As we all know, Harry loves a cold case, but…. As always, there’s a twist in the tale.
When a detective is this good, his family inevitably ends up in the crosshairs…
Harry Starke has lost count of the criminals he’s put behind bars, and death threats are part of the job description. But when a sniper’s bullet comes within inches of Starke’s wife, his whole world changes. It turns out an ex-congressman with an axe to grind doesn’t just want to kill the detective. He wants Starke to suffer…
There’s a Fine Line Between Genius and Insanity…
Maggie Hart, a student at UTC, was abducted on Labor Day. Her body was found five days later on the RiverPark. She’d been strangled. She wasn’t the first, nor would she be the last. Harry Starke, recovering from a near-death experience, is dragged reluctantly into an investigation that quickly turns into a cat and mouse game between Harry and a very clever killer, Harry being the mouse. Emoji is an action-packed, lightning-paced story with an explosive finale you’ll not see coming.
When horseplay becomes deadly, it’s up to a retired detective to clear his friend’s name…
Harry Starke is chomping at the bit to take up his old badge. When his longtime friend becomes the lead suspect in his wife’s murder, he fights to get back on the case. Despite damning evidence and his old partner’s warnings to steer clear, Harry is determined to prove his friend’s innocence.
Hoodwinked is the 12th standalone mystery in the captivating Harry Starke series. If you like grizzled private investigators, high-society intrigue, and shocking twists, then you’ll love Blair Howard’s twisty mystery.
An elite Iranian military unit. A missing tactical nuclear weapon. An aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence. It began when an FBI informant was brutally gunned down outside a soccer stadium…
Apocalypse is the 13th standalone novel in a series of hard-boiled thrillers. If you like tough-as-nails heroes and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love Blair Howard’s latest gritty, edge-of-your-seat thriller.
An elite force of private military contractors. A ragtag band of aging war heroes and civilians.
It began with a simple kidnapping. It ended in an all-out private war. In Harry Starke’s world, nothing is ever quite as it seems. His wife is lying in hospital in a coma. His best friend and business partner is not who he says he is.
She appeared out of nowhere. A chance encounter. And then she was gone, abducted.
The shadow crossed in front of the car 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. Looking out through the deluge it was difficult to make out the figure coming towards the driver’s window, but as it came closer I could see it was a girl, just a kid.
A brutal murder. A condemned assassin with days left to live. No one could figure out exactly why Sandra McDowell had to die. What was her connection to The Raven, an aging hitman twenty years on death row with only days left to live? Clues are plentiful, but all are dead ends. The Raven is a mind-bending mystery thriller, a twister of a tale that will keep you up reading long into the night.
It was late Friday evening when they discovered the body. The girl had been in the concrete pipe for more than a week. The daytime temperatures were hitting 120 degrees. It was the stench that drew the kids to her. Who was she? Who put her there? Who… killed her?
A brutal murder. An embattled cop. A cold case nobody wants.
They found her lying in the mud on the banks of South Chickamauga Creek. She’d been stabbed forty-four times. The killer was never found. Twenty-three years later the case lands on Kate Gazzara’s desk. With her career in jeopardy, she finds herself plunged into a frantic race against time… and members of her own department.
It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…
Saffron was the first. T.J. Bron found her naked body lying beside a dumpster at the rear of the Sorbonne. Four weeks later, a teenage couple looking for a quiet spot to get it together find a second victim.
The gripping series continues as homicide detective Kate Gazzara faces the most personal—and deadly—case of her lifetime.
On a cold morning in October, 1987, Ohio State Patrol Officer Dan Walker finds an odd box on a quiet, county road. Twenty-five years later, in 2012, and more than 600 miles away, a young woman vanishes without a trace and another is found dead from what appears to be an overdose.