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On a bitterly cold night in midwinter a beautiful young woman throws herself off Chattanooga's Walnut Street Bridge. Harry Starke was there, on the bridge, and he want's to know why Tabitha Willard decided to kill herself. Was it his fault?"....she saw me, stopped running, put her hands to her mouth, looked desperately around, then turned, ran to the rail, and started to climb...."Tormented by guilt and the thought that he might have caused the girl's...
2) The Assassin
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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...
3) Genesis
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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...
4) Hill House
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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?The trail has gone cold and Hill House is a desolate ruin with many secrets. To find the answers Harry must embark upon an investigation that will put him and those close to him in deadly danger, take him to the lost and long-forgotten streets...
5) The Raven
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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. You can’t read just one!
Join Harry Starke as he...
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A Late-Night Phone Call. A Voice from the past. An Apparent Suicide. The phone call came on a Tuesday evening in the middle of August. Harry Starke hadn't heard from his old school friend in almost five years, and he hadn't thought about him in almost as long. Tom Sattler wanted to meet, and it wouldn't wait until morning. But when Harry arrived at Sattler's home less than an hour later, he found him lying in a pool of blood with a single gunshot...
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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.
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A chance encounter. A plea for help. A detective too tired to care.
Brandon Beck hanged 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,...
9) Hit and Run
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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...
10) One Dark Night
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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...
11) Stark
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A brilliant young geologist is bludgeoned to death after his firm reports a mammoth gold find. Homicide detective Harry Stark must determine whether the man was killed because he was going to expose the report as a fake, or did a twisted romantic affair lead to his murder?
12) Stark Choice
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Homicide detective Harry Stark takes a twisting path to solve a million-dollar jewel robbery and murder, a path that leads him to a mob connection, an insurance scam and a depraved family. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Detective Mary Weems, is on a similarly tortuous path toward solving a cold case of a rape-murder that brings her into contact with another depraved family.
13) Stark Shadows
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Young, successful men with unblemished reputations-each of them living a contented, "normal" life-are being murdered, one month apart. The killings seem to be unconnected, but are they? Are there dark secrets in the dead men's pasts? Homicide Detective Harry Stark has to untangle the mystery of the links among these men in a case that takes him and his partner, Noel Harris, on a tortuous and deadly trip into the world of shadows.
14) Checkmate
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Angela Hartwell was dead, strangled, with not a mark on her. When a well-known local socialite's body is found during a round of golf with his father, Harry Starke suddenly finds himself embroiled in what quickly becomes a very thorny murder investigation. Who Killed Angela Hartwell and why? The answers lie somewhere along a twisty-windy path through the patrons and morals of an exclusive golf club where the members are seldom what they seem, and...
15) Family Matters
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Harry Starke loves a cold case, but this one is really cold, more than a hundred years cold. Family Matters is a tale that takes place on the lonely coast of Maine, where Amanda, a true believer in the paranormal, has inherited - you guessed it - a haunted house. At least that's what the rumors say. It all begins when Amanda inherits the house, substantial assets, and a large sum of money from her grandmother. The windfall comes with a request to...
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The Lolita Conspiracy - The Last Straw - One Dark Night
Three more riveting crime stories you'll not be able to put down.
The Lolita Conspiracy
A chance encounter. A plea for help. A detective too tired to care. Brandon Beck hanged 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 twenty-five years. The man has a problem. He asks Harry for help. Harry...
17) Gone
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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. But Johnston's jurisdiction ends at the city limits and when Emily's body is discovered in a remote part of the county, Harry has to deal...
18) Harry Starke
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Why was she on the bridge that terrible night?
Who was she running away from?
Why did she leap to her death in the murky waters below?
Tabitha Willard was a beautiful, wealthy young woman with everything to live for, so why did she take her own life?
What did powerful US Congressman Gordon "little Billy" Harper have to do with it?
And then there's Lester, "Shady" Tree, a crooked entrepreneur and a man with secrets. What about him?
Harry Starke, an...
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Harry Starke: Books 16, 17 & 18Three more riveting Harry Starke thrillers with more than 3500 5-star ratings between them.Has Harry's past finally caught up with him?End Game Book 16: The game's afoot, only Harry has no idea… Not yet anyway.It seems his enemies are endless, and his career and life are always at stake. This time, though, he may not make it out unscathed.Unhinged Book 17: There's something strange going on at Clearwater Psychiatric...
20) Liar Liar
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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...
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