\\Alternative cover edition for ASIN: B076H9C28F here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...\\ What would you give, how far would you go, to find a lost child and redeem your soul? And will it ever be far enough? Ten years ago, Linda Clayton's son Daniel disappeared. The love and support of her husband Robbie was all that kept her sane—until the day he ran away. Makes you thankful you're not Linda Clayton. Wise-cracking, street-smart PI Evan Buckley thought his problems were bad enough. When his latest case ends in disaster, he’s at the end of his tether—until fate throws him headlong into Linda Clayton's desperate world and a long-dead investigation that everybody wants to stay that way. But Evan never does what everybody wants, and he vows to uncover the truth—and in the process kick into touch the demons that come to torment him every night. As the suspense ratchets up, he’s caught in a desperate fight for his life with a stone cold killer who will go to any lengths to protect his secrets ... With action-packed twists and turns and a pace that doesn’t let up until the thrilling conclusion, Bad to The Bones is a brilliant start to a gripping new crime series from James Harper. Bad To The Bones was previously published as Cruel Comfort/In Cold Blood.

A man who can't remember. Another who refuses to forget. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth. It’s five years since his wife disappeared, but wise-cracking, street-smart private-eye Evan Buckley is still reeling. Tormented by demons and consumed by his unrelenting quest for the truth, he loses himself in other people's problems. When college buddy Jesse Springer shows up with a wad of explicit photographs that arrived in the mail, Evan is roped into the most bizarre case of blackmail he’s ever encountered—because Jesse swears blind he can’t remember a thing. But can Evan believe him? And if things weren't bad enough, a psychopathic killer from the past embarks on a crusade of psychological revenge and twisted mind games that threaten to plunge Evan back into his darkest days. Adrift in a sea of betrayal and lies as the body count climbs, Evan is forced to choose between his gut instinct and the blatant evidence—and the only thing he knows for sure is the wrong choice will be punished with death.

Fifty years of guilt. Answers that do more harm than good. A child who might never have existed. Fifty years ago Frank Hanna made a mistake. He’s never forgiven himself. Nor has anybody else for that matter. Now the time has come to atone for his sins, and there’s only one person he can trust . . . Wise-cracking, street-smart private-eye Evan Buckley has had some tough cases in his time. Looking for somebody who might never have existed may well be the toughest, peeling back fifty years of lies and deceit to uncover the tragic story hidden underneath. Trouble is, not everybody likes a happy ending and some very nasty people are out to make sure he doesn’t succeed. To make matters worse, Evan’s own past is back to bite him with a vengeance, as his nemesis, Carl Hendricks, feeds his festering hatred from his prison cell, and sets a killer with a bow and a grudge on Evan's tail.

An isolated getaway for two in the mountains. Four desperate men on the run. It's not going to end well for someone. WHEN maverick P.I. Evan Buckley wins a free trip for two to an exclusive luxury hotel buried in the mountains of upstate New York, a well-earned rest should be guaranteed. After almost meeting his maker on his last case, he needs it. But when an armed gang on the run from a botched robbery that left a man dead invade the hotel and take Evan’s partner Gina hostage along with the other guests and their spirited seven-year-old daughter, Evan’s got his work cut out. As the armed men become increasingly desperate and more violent, one of them develops an unhealthy obsession with Gina. Cut off from help, Evan will do anything to save her and the other hostages, but his daring plan could get them all killed if she fails to play her perilous and crucial role. And as if that wasn’t enough, the old hotel has got a few shameful secrets of its own. Only one thing’s for sure - there ain’t no such thing as free.

"This is the type of story that will probably haunt you forever. I know it will me." They told him she was dead. Now he's not so sure. And there are easier ways to learn the awful truth . . . WHEN Levi Stone pushes a picture of his wife Lauren in another man’s arms across private-eye Evan Buckley’s desk, Evan’s all set to show him the door – because he doesn’t do that sort of sleazy gutter work anymore. But then Levi drops a bombshell that makes Evan change his mind – fast. And it’s not only the uncanny and unnerving similarities to the unsolved disappearance of his own wife, Sarah. As Evan digs deeper into Lauren’s shadowy past, the things he unearths force Levi to face the bitter truth – that he never knew his wife at all – or any of the dark secrets that surround her mother’s death and the disappearance of her father. And Evan isn’t the only one looking for Lauren. A man from the past she never knew, evil incarnate, sends his dogs to hunt her down, to exact his rightful revenge. It’s payback time and Evan’s caught in the middle of a lethal vendetta. But who is the hunter and who is the hunted?

A journey without end. A woman with no shame. Down that road lies only pain. Haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his wife Sarah, PI Evan Buckley loses himself in other people’s problems. But when Sarah’s scheming and treacherous friend Carly shows up promising new information, the past and present collide violently for Evan as he goes head-to-head with cold-blooded killers to track down the enigmatic Dixie for her. He knows he can’t trust her, but he hasn’t got a choice when she confesses what she’s done, leaving Sarah prey to a vicious gang with Old Testament ideas about crime and punishment. To make things worse Dixie’s brother Jackson, a man with a grievance in his heart and a home-made garrotte in his hands, takes an unhealthy interest in Evan’s exploits as the case goes from frying pan to fire in short order.

Two roads. One reckless decision. No turning back. EVAN BUCKLEY’S wife Sarah went to work one day and didn’t come home. He’s been looking for her ever since. The Road To Deliverance is her story. A chilling lesson in the life-shattering consequences of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of how a seemingly trivial decision made in the space of one vengeful second can set you on a road from which there will be no return. As Evan digs deeper into the unsolved death of a man killed by the side of the road, the last known person to see Sarah alive, he stirs up a can of worms that threatens not only himself but everyone dear to him. Re-tracing the footsteps of Sarah’s torturous journey, he unearths a dark secret from her past that drove her desperate attempts to make amends for the guilt she can never leave behind. And as his six-year search draws to a close, Evan, like Sarah before him, discovers a bitter truth – there are some roads you walk alone.

What would you give in exchange for your soul? WHEN PI Evan Buckley’s mentor, Elwood Crow, sends him down to the Florida Keys to check up on an old friend, neither of them are prepared for the litany of death and destruction that Evan unearths, taking them back fifty years to the jungles of South East Asia and the atrocities committed in the name of a war everyone wants to forget - everyone except for the nameless specter that Evan must go up against, a man who they said never came home. Meanwhile Detective Kate Guillory battles with her own demons in her search for salvation, moving inexorably down the road to her personal Armageddon, to a place where justice and vengeance are without distinction, to a bloody confrontation with her nemesis, the deviant Joseph Liverman. As their two paths converge and the secrets buried deep in Crow’s past come to light, each of them must make an impossible choice that stretches conscience and tests courage, and in the end demands sacrifice – what would you give to get what you want?

When Gene Rivers is brought in to identify the body of a murdered woman he last saw twenty years ago, he knows the past has finally caught up with him, that he will soon pay the price for the mistakes he made back then. Unsure whether the killing marks the close of unsettled business or the start of a new chapter, he employs PI Evan Buckley to investigate, lifting the lid on old grievances and buried injustices that have festered for half a lifetime. In a small town on the Maine coast, Evan unearths a series of brutal unsolved murders, and the more he digs, the more the evidence points to a far worse crime hidden beneath forty years of lies and deceit.Meanwhile Evan’s own past refuses to lie still as, unknown to him, Detective Kate Guillory scratches an itch with unforeseen and disastrous consequences, increasing the burden weighing on his conscience as he faces an impossible dilemma – disclose the terrible secrets he’s uncovered or assume the role of hanging judge and dispense a rough justice of his own.

After Jay Killinger is mistakenly shot dead in PI Evan Buckley's place in Laredo, Texas, Evan learns that Jay left a mysterious package for him with his attorney. Ignoring all sensible advice and his own fears, Evan sets off on a reckless, ill-fated road trip through the southern states in a vain attempt to banish the demons that haunt him and shore up his courage before confronting the dark secrets that await him. What did Jay leave him? And who are the relentless grim men who will kill to get to it first?Everything changes when he stops for a young girl huddled at the side of the road on a deserted stretch of highway. It’s clear she’s running away from someone or something, however vehemently she denies it. At times angry and hostile, at others scared and vulnerable, he’s almost relieved when she runs out on him in the middle of the night. Except he has a nasty premonition that he hasn’t heard the last of her. Nor does it take long before he’s proved horribly right, the consequences dire for himself and Detective Kate Guillory.Meanwhile the dogs of his past continue to snap at his heels as his mentor Elwood Crow’s son Caleb pursues an agenda of his own, forging an unholy alliance with the spiritual and moral blight that is Avery Pentecost, calling into question where his allegiances truly lie.As if Evan needed reminding, touch evil and evil touches you back in ways you won’t easily forget.

It's a fine line between the road to redemption and the highway to hell. They told him his wife Sarah hanged herself in a mental asylum after they took her child away. Now a different woman's body is in her grave and PI Evan Buckley has a stolen psychiatric report in his hand and a tormented scream in his head. There's only one thing he knows for sure. Someone is lying to him. Detective Kate Guillory knows more than she’s saying. She’s convinced it’s a deadly trap set by Evan’s nemesis, Newcomb, the man who told him his wife was dead. Despite the risks, Evan can’t walk away and leave the questions that haunt him unanswered – not if he wants to keep his sanity intact. With his morale worn thin and all of their futures at risk, he joins forces with a disgraced ex-CIA agent on a journey to confront the past. It’s a dangerous and difficult quest that leads him to the jungles of Central America and the aftermath of a forgotten war, where memories are long and grievances still raw. And when a chilling crime left undisturbed for more than thirty years is unearthed, it’s Evan’s own conscience that’s on the line. Will he sacrifice a part of his own humanity in the hope that all their pasts can finally be laid to rest?

What you don't know can't hurt you.Twenty years ago, Detective Kate Guillory's father committed suicide. He was a cop too, one of the best. Nobody has ever told her why. Told her not to ask if she knows what's good for her. Afraid of the answers, she stuck her head in the sand. Not any longer. Now a man is stalking her, and she's got a nasty premonition that he knows more about her family's past than she does.With her sanity stretched to breaking point and her self-esteem at a dangerously low ebb, PI Evan Buckley calls a temporary truce with her partner Ryder, setting aside their long-standing animosity in the hope of discrediting the mounting evidence that points to the unholy secrets of Kate's legacy.The search takes him to the coal mining mountains of West Virginia and the hostile aftermath of a sinister cult abandoned decades earlier. As he digs deeper into the unsolved crimes committed there and discovers the stalker's bitter grudge against Kate, one thing becomes horrifyingly clear - what started back then isn't over yet.And the more he unearths, the more he gives the lie to an oft quoted maxim - what you don't know can't hurt you.

Revenge proves its own executioner. After PI Evan Buckley intervenes to break up a fight in his local bar and saves Boston heiress Arabella Carlson from being stabbed to death, she doesn’t even stick around long enough to say, thank you. But then she’s good at disappearing. Her family haven’t seen or heard from her in over thirty years. Hired to find her and bring her home safe before the killers hunting her get lucky, Evan finds himself caught up in the middle of a family feud that suddenly isn’t as open and shut as it first seemed. There’s more than money at stake as Evan opens up old wounds, peeling back a lifetime of lies and deceit to lay bare the tragic story hidden underneath. Someone’s about to learn a painful lesson the hard Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Forty years ago a man was brutally gunned down in an unsolved bank robbery. When PI Evan Buckley takes on the impossible job of recovering a stolen religious icon, he soon comes up against a host of people hell-bent on keeping the truth buried. As everybody from the retired lead detective to a clandestine government agency to a ruthless mafia gang lies and deceives him, he's plagued by one inescapable question - why was a supposedly innocent man killed for no reason?As the killings continue after almost half a century, he's drawn ever-deeper into the world of the enigmatic woman at the heart of the mystery, a militant activist who fought against a forgotten war. There, he discovers that there are no limits to the horrific crimes men’s greed drives them to commit, not constrained by law or human decency.Caught up in a fateful convergence of his own troubled past and that of Avery Pentecost, a man who causes the grass to die beneath his feet, he struggles on in an attempt to atone for his untold sins, to do for another woman what he couldn’t do for his own lost wife.A breathtaking, twisty adventure, Atonement is the latest Evan Buckley mystery, one that you won’t be able to put down until you’ve turned the final page.

When a young boy’s remains are found in a shallow grave on land belonging to PI Evan Buckley’s avowed enemy, the monster Carl Hendricks, the police are desperate for Evan's help in solving a case that's been dead in the water for the past thirteen years. Hendricks is dying, and Evan is the only person he’ll share his deathbed confession with. Except Evan knows Hendricks of old. Did he really kill the boy? And if so, why does he want to confess to Evan? As he revisits the original cold case, Evan's honesty and motives are questioned by the lead detective who failed to solve it. Worse, he soon finds himself at the center of some very unwelcome attention, the shadow of a killer's crosshairs hanging over him. Nor is he the only one to awaken a dormant killer as Hendricks finds out the hard way that he’s set events in motion that he can’t control. The deeper Evan gets drawn into the case, the worse the betrayal at its core becomes, until once more he's forced to take up the reluctant mantle of hanging judge, his fate to decide who should pay and who will walk free.

When upcoming country music star Taylor Harris hires a private investigator to catch her cheating husband, she gets a lot more than she bargained for. He says he’s found a secret in her past that even she’s not aware of - a curse on her life, a blood feud hanging over her for thirty years. But when he disappears, it’s down to PI Evan Buckley to pick up the pieces. Was the threat real? And if so, did it disappear along with the crooked investigator? Or did it just get worse? Heading down to small-town Jasper in East Texas to follow in his unscrupulous predecessor’s footsteps, Evan finds himself embroiled in the lies and dark secrets that flourish in the tightly-knit community where outsiders are resented and people have their own ways of dealing with them. From the local lead detective to a retired dirty cop to a shady figure hiding behind the facade of a secret shell corporation, Evan quickly gets on the wrong side of them all. And as his search draws to a close, inflaming old scores dormant for half a lifetime and laying bare the biggest lie of all, he’s forced to put a heavy burden on his unsuspecting client, one that he knows all too well himself.

When PI Evan Buckley’s mentor, Elwood Crow, asks a simple favor of him – to review a twenty-year-old autopsy report – there’s only one thing Evan can be sure simple is the one thing it won’t be. As he heads off to Cape Ann on the Massachusetts coast Evan soon finds himself on the trail of a female serial killer, and the more he digs, the more two questions align themselves. Why has the connection not been made before? And is Crow’s interest in finding the truth or in saving his own skin? It’s a difficult line Evan is forced to walk when the answers he finds threaten to drive a wedge between himself and Detective Kate Guillory as he struggles with his conscience and she with her duty, a grievous criminal act from their shared past only making things more difficult still, demanding compromise of them both. And as the case draws to a close and Evan unravels twenty years’ of duplicity and obfuscation, one simple mistake leads to unforeseen and disastrous consequences while at the same time teaching him a painful lesson too late – that even those you trust the most will let you down.

When the heir to a billion-dollar business empire goes missing in the medieval city of Cambridge in England, it soon becomes clear to PI Evan Buckley that the secretive family who hired him to find Barrett Bradlee haven't told him the whole truth. Far from it. Worse, Barrett’s problems didn’t start until he asked the wrong people the wrong questions about his own family. As Evan tracks Barrett from the narrow cobbled streets of the city to the windswept watery expanses of the East Anglian fens, one question refuses to go unanswered - what lies behind Barrett's obsession with the US Air Force base at Lakenheath, the heart of the CIA's covert operations in England at the height of the Cold War? As the mystery unravels, Evan finds himself caught up in a violent showdown that's been brewing for sixty years, a bitter feud between Barrett's family and that of a ruthless politician at the core of the British establishment, a powerful and desperate man with everything to lose who'll stop at nothing to prevent the dark secrets of his own family's past from coming to light.

When Ava Hart's boyfriend, Daryl Pierce, is shot to death in his home on the same night he witnessed a man being abducted, the police are quick to write it off as a case of wrong place, wrong time. Ava disagrees. She's convinced they killed him. And she's hired PI Evan Buckley to unearth the truth. Trouble is, as Evan discovers all too soon, Ava wouldn't recognize the truth if it jumped up and bit her on the ass. Things immediately get off to a disastrous start for Evan and his partner, Detective Kate Guillory, when a cruel twist of fate throws them back into the darkest days of their shared past, the guilt and demons they hoped they'd put behind them rudely awakened. The deeper Evan digs, the higher the lies pile up and the faster he goes nowhere. From Ava herself to Daryl's bitter widow to a dirty cop to a vicious gang of outlaw bikers, the list of suspects just keeps on growing. Only one thing's for sure. If he's to have any chance of solving it, he needs to get to the bottom of the most insidious lie of all - what is Ava hiding, and why?

Five years ago, a light aircraft owned by Mexican drug baron and people trafficker Esteban Aguilar went down in the middle of the Louisiana swamps. The pilot and another man were found dead inside, both shot to death. The prisoner who’d been handcuffed in the back was nowhere to be found. Nor was a couple of million in dirty cash or something else a lot more valuable in the wrong hands. Suddenly it’s payback time for PI Evan Buckley. He owes crime boss Stan Fraser a favor – and Stan doesn't like to be told, no. Find his son Arlo who just went missing trying to get to the bottom of the unsolved cold case down in Louisiana - or face the consequences. From a corrupt politician whose career is on the line to the psychopathic brother of the prisoner who escaped to a retired cop nursing his dreams of bloody revenge, everybody’s got an agenda. There's only one thing they can all agree on - Evan has to be stopped before he uncovers the truth. With his every move dogged by the enigmatic minder Stan's saddled him with, Evan knows that if he can't find Arlo and bring him home in one piece, he might as well not come home at all.