Download or read book Harry Starke written by Blair Howard and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's almost midnight, bitterly cold, snowing, when a beautiful young girl, Tabitha Willard, throws herself off the Walnut Street Bridge into the icy waters of the Tennessee. Harry Starke is there, on the bridge. Wrong time, wrong place? Maybe. He tries, but is unable to stop her. Thus begins a series of events and an investigation that involves a local United States congressman, a senior lady senator from Boston, a local crime boss, several very nasty individuals, sex, extortion, high finance, corruption, and three murders. Harry has to work his way through a web of deceit and corruption until finally.... Well, as always, there's a twist in the tale, several in fact. Harry Starke is a big fish in a small pond. He's a tough individual with a past and a conscience. He has friends in high places. He's single, successful, wealthy, a womanizer, well educated, and he will hurt you if he needs to. This is the first book in the series of Harry Starke novels.

Download or read book The Lt Kate Gazzara Series Books 1 3 written by Blair Howard and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Kate Gazzara - The first three thrillers: "Brace yourself for a serious assault on your senses and sensibilities." - GHS If you love police procedurals, realism, fast-paced nonstop action, strong women detectives, it's time you met Kate Gazzara, a dedicated female detective in world dominated by men. She's often driven to the point where she has step way over the line, and she does. Kate's addictive. You can't read just one. "Holds you on the edge of every page!!! Can't stop until you read the next and then...the next and next." Amazon Reviewer Grab your copy of these three bingeworthy thrillers now!

Download or read book Two for the Money written by Blair Howard and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 wound to his head and .22 revolver lying close to his hand. Was it suicide, or was Tom Sattler murdered? If so, by whom and why? The search for answers plunges Harry into a far-reaching investigation that involves murder, corruption, organized crime, and duplicity. As always, there's a twist in the tail. Scroll up and grab a copy today.

Download or read book Emoji written by Blair Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a serial killer on the loose in Chattanooga. 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 multiple times. 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.

Download or read book Checkmate written by Blair C. Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They found Angela Hartwell lying in the shallow waters beside the golf course. There wasn't 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. To solve the mystery, he must deal with three murders, a beautiful used car dealer, her lovely twin sisters, and a crooked banker. Not to mention Burke and Hare, two crazy repo men who will stop at nothing to protect their employer's interests. There's also the matter of an ingenious, sadistic killer. But nothing is ever quite what it seems....

Download or read book The Night of the Hunter written by Davis Grubb and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, National Book Award–finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton’s expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap’s Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in the course of an armed robbery. Ben never told anyone where he hid the ten thousand dollars he stole; not his widow Willa, not his lawyer, nor his cell-mate Henry “Preacher” Powell. But Preacher, with his long history of charming his way into widows’ hearts and lives, has an inkling that Ben's money could be within his reach. As soon as he is free, Preacher makes his way up the river to visit the Harper family where—he hopes—a little child shall lead him to the fortune that he seeks. Foreword by JULIA KELLER

Download or read book Quick and Easy Furniture You Can Build with Dimensional Lumber written by Blair Howard and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ensures woodworkers will get the most for their money when it comes to purchasing and building with framing lumber. It covers every aspect of the furniture-making process with step-by-step instructions, precise measurements, full-color photos, tips, and sidebars.Special sections detail everything from board selection to finishing techniques, so even beginners can get great results. Projects include matching end tables, computer desk, lawn chairs, window box, coffee table and more.

Download or read book The Shanghai Moon written by S. J. Rozan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that involves tracking down a valuable brooch, the Shanghai Moon, which disappeared during WWII.

Download or read book The Emerald Atlas written by John Stephens and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A strong . . . trilogy, invoking just a little Harry Potter and Series of Unfortunate Events along the way."—Realms of Fantasy Siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage. Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about. Until now. Before long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey through time to dangerous and secret corners of the world . . . a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And—if an ancient prophesy is true—what they do can change history, and it's up to them to set things right. "A new Narnia for the tween set."—The New York Times "[A] fast-paced, fully imagined fantasy."—Publishers Weekly "Echoes of other popular fantasy series, from "Harry Potter" to the "Narnia" books, are easily found, but debut author Stephens has created a new and appealing read . . ."—School Library Journal, Starred Review

Download or read book Mechanismo written by Harry Harrison and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1978 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Without Remorse written by Blair Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and 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 and, as we all know, Harry loves a cold case. As always though. There's a twist in the tale.

Download or read book Old Dog New Tricks written by Gordon Carroll and published by Gordon Carroll LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gil and Max are tasked with finding the killer of a Sheriff’s Deputy. Hired by the fallen officer’s wife, they come into conflict with a biker gang, Mexican Cartels, The Italian Mafia, and even the police. Can Gil and Max solve the crime while surviving their internal conflicts? And what about Pilgrim? Continue the journey now.

Download or read book Rum Punch written by Elmore Leonard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerful…clever…astonishing…a delicious read.” —Detroit Free Press Rum Punch is classic Elmore Leonard—the electrifying thriller that served as the basis for the acclaimed film Jackie Brown by director Quentin Tarantino, starring Pam Grier, Robert DeNiro, and Samuel L. Jackson. Leonard’s story of a not-altogether-blameless flight attendant on the run from her vicious gun-running sometime employer who sees her as a troublesome loose end, Rum Punch is “the King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) at his sharpest and most ingeniously entertaining. In fact, People magazine calls it, “Leonard’s best work. He brilliantly reaffirms his right to the title of America’s finest crime fiction writer.” Enjoy this sensational noir winner from the creator of the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TV’s hit series Justified, and see why the great Elmore Leonard stands tall in the company of America’s most legendary crime fiction masters: John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al.

Download or read book The Jockstrap Murder written by Vincent Lardo and published by MLR Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Gavin uncovers a political scandal that makes Watergate read like FIFTY SHADES OF LAVENDER. At the Vice President's party in Washington, Mike Gavin is approached by Matthew Bokowski, a young reporter who tells Mike he knows of a political scandal tantamount to Watergate but refuses to tell Mike what it is. Super model Johnny Jones comes home to his Greenwich Village apartment to find a corpse strangled with a jockstrap. The victim is Matthew Bokowski. Mike teams up with his lover, tennis pro Jack Montgomery, and prick tease NYPD Lieutenant James Rocco to solve THE JOCKSTRAP MURDER. Mike makes a play for Rocco and scores but their sex party is shockingly interrupted. A senator, his son, his son's lover and a blackmailing paparazzo join the trio for the ride from New York, N.Y. to Washington, D.C.

Download or read book Calaway Jones written by Blair Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stand absolutely still Amanda, ' she read, 'and you won't get hurt.' Two seconds later a bullet from a sniper's rifle shattered the driver's side window of her Lexus SUV. That's how it began, early on a Friday morning when Amanda, Harry's wife, found the note tucked under her windshield wiper. The incident was quickly followed by a series of events that would put his family and friends in deadly danger, and test Harry to his limits.

Download or read book Aftermath written by Blair Howard and published by Harry Starke Novels. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Once again Harry says never again, but when his intellectually disabled uncle is kidnapped and becomes a pawn in a deadly game of cat and mouse, he finds himself plunged back into a life he so desperately wants to leave behind... Aftermath is the 14th 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. Grab a copy today and hang on tight; you're in for a wild ride!

Download or read book Kids on Brooms written by Jonathan Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You pull your wand from the folds of your cloak, and its glowing blue end illuminates the door in front of you--the entrance to the banned books section. You watch as the copper snakes twist and turn around the lock that keeps students like you out. But you've been left with no choice. Your barn owl hoots softly upon your shoulder as you raise your wand to the knob and whisper the unspoken words. Kids on Brooms is a collaborative role-playing game about taking on the life of a witch or wizard at a magical school you all attend- a place full of mystery, danger, and thrilling adventure. From dealing with strict professors to facing down mythical beasts, players will get the opportunity to ride brooms, brew potions, and cast powerful magic as they uncover the incredible secrets their school and its inhabitants hold. Built using the ENnie Award-Winning Kids on Bikes framework, it is a rules-light, narrative-first storytelling game perfect for new players and gaming veterans alike!"--Back cover.