Bøger af A. E. Howe

Criminal investigator Larry Macklin is enjoying a relaxing family vacation on the Florida coast... until a body washes up next door and all hell breaks loose. It's soon apparent that the island's hapless police chief is not up to the task of finding a murderer.As more bodies are discovered, Larry and his father are drawn into the investigation against their will and far out of their jurisdiction. The situation is not improved by the arrival of the local sheriff, Will Duncan, a harsh man who resents the Macklins involvement.Larry soon finds himself juggling both the murder investigations and his father's increasingly tense relationship with the rival sheriff. When Duncan charges an innocent man with one of the murders, Larry knows he's running out of time. Will he be able to find the real killer before his father is arrested for obstruction of justice... or worse?

The specter of corruption has hovered over the Adams County Sheriff's Office for months. Criminal investigator Larry Macklin is convinced he's identified a mole for drug dealers within the department, but he doesn't have enough evidence to prove it.Larry's attention is diverted when a recently released suspect in a series of rapes is shot and killed in the act of raping and murdering a woman... or so it seems. But the more Larry digs into the case, the more it becomes clear that the incident is part of a larger conspiracy-one that could have a devastating effect on his father's career as sheriff.Larry is desperate to find the real killer and to protect the reputation of the sheriff's office, but it just might lead him to make the biggest mistake of his career.

Following his resignation as an investigator with the Adams County Sheriff's Office, Larry Macklin is working part time as a reserve deputy and trying to decide what to do with his life. He's drawn back into investigating against his will when his friend, Shantel Williams, asks for his help to find her missing niece, Tonya. While Larry initially believes that there's a reasonable explanation for Tonya's lack of communication with her aunt, it quickly becomes obvious that her disappearance is part of something more serious. The Swamp Hacker, a serial killer who stalked Adams County fifteen years ago, has returned and is killing again. Unable to resist the hunt for a predator that eluded the sheriff so many years ago, Larry agrees to assist with the current investigation. It becomes a race against time as the murders become more brutal and more frequent. Will the killer escape justice a second time?

Criminal investigator Larry Macklin faces a classic who-done-it when Conrad Higgins, a local antiques dealer with questionable ethics, is found shot in his own home.Larry soon realizes that half the town had reason to hate the man. Is the murderer the next door neighbor with an ax to grind? The friendly nursing home volunteer who believes Higgins swindled her mother? The rich silent partner with a checkered past? Or even Higgins's nephew, who's on the run from his own personal demons.Larry barely has time to wrap his brain around all the options when one of the suspects is viciously attacked and another disappears. It's going to take all his skills as an investigator, and a little help from his partners and friends, for Larry to crack this case.

After inviting a vampire to live in her basement and stopping a cult from summoning an ancient evil, Josephine Nicolson figures she's seen it all. But that's before her small Alabama town becomes the hunting ground of a bloodthirsty monster.The local sheriff is convinced that a wolf or a bear is responsible for the grisly deaths, but Baron Dragomir Blasko is sure the sheriff is wrong. He believes a werewolf is stalking the community and that he is the only one who can stop itEnlisting the aid of friends old and new, Blasko and Josephine set out to find the beast before it can kill again.

Though happy to be back at his job as a criminal investigator, Larry Macklin is struggling to adapt to life with his new partner. But concerns about his work relationship quickly take a back seat to his personal life when his irrational ex-girlfriend, Marcy, returns to town.Larry soon has bigger problems when members of a prominent local family are killed off one by one. As he tries to find the murderer before anyone else in the family loses their life, Larry's investigation intersects with a hare-brained search for stolen Nazi gold.Are the bumbling treasure hunters-Marcy among them-somehow responsible for the murders? Or is someone else picking off members of the family for financial gain? With a long list of suspects and a very short list of motives, Larry is going to need a lot of luck to solve this case.

The peace of spring is shattered for criminal investigator Larry Macklin when his best friend, Pete Henley, is accused of brutally killing his daughter's ex-boyfriend. Larry knows that Pete is innocent, but the evidence is heavily weighted against him. Before Larry can even begin to clear Pete's name, he is pulled off of the case to investigate another murder where the prime suspect is the local chief of police. As Larry investigates the latest death, it soon becomes clear that the murders may be related, part of a string of killings stretching back almost two decades. In order to solve the case, Larry will have to risk everything he holds dear-his ethics, his friendships, his loyalty to the sheriff's department... and his life.

There is evil afoot in the town of Sumter, Alabama... and it's not the vampire in Josephine Nicolson's basement.A man is found stabbed through the heart and the blame is placed on Ronnie Dunn, the brother of Josephine's maid. Not long after, another man is found with a knife in his head and the most obvious culprit is local sheriff's deputy, and Josephine's ex-flame, Bobby Tucker. Convinced that neither man is guilty of the crime he's accused of, Josephine enlists the aid of Baron Dragomir Blasko to help find the real murderer. What follows is a dark journey into the occult that just might get them all killed... or signal the end of the world.