Vaughn G. Hardaker. Skyhorse, $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-62636-557-5
Four people lie dead on Boston Common at the outset of Hardaker’s hard-hitting, if predictable first novel. To Det. Mike Houston’s trained eye, the evidence points to an experienced sniper, someone trained, as Houston was, by the U.S. Marine Corps....
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Vaughn C. Hardacker. Skyhorse, $16.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-63220-479-0
Hardacker (Sniper) fails to generate much heat in this rather clumsily put together thriller that never jells into a coherent whole. Mike Houston and Anne Bouchard are private investigators, once partnered as Boston cops and now romantically...
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Vaughn C. Hardacker. Skyhorse, $16.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-5107-0531-9
In this hard-hitting crime novel from Hardacker (Sniper), Deborah Hollis, a member of an old-money New Hampshire family, hires PI Ed Traynor to find her sister, Melinda, who took off for Los Angeles to become an actress and hasn’t been heard from in
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Vaughn C. Hardacker. Skyhorse, $16.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-5107-1852-4
After a promisingly gritty opening, Hardacker’s sequel to 2016’s Black Orchid devolves into a run-of-the-mill crime novel. When the Rockingham County, N.H., sheriff asks PI Ed Traynor to identify a body, Traynor is stunned, though not surprised,...
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