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Harry Caine
Harry Caine
Series · 7 books · 2003-2020
By
David Shaffer
Books in series
#1
Burned
2005
Harry Caine, a licensed Florida PI, operating his investigative agency in West Plam Beach, finds a way to attract big money clients. The Palm Beach kind of big money. His new client, Evans Enterprises owns a network of car dearlerships from West Palm Beach to Key Largo. The corporation finds itself under attack when used cars mysteriously explode, catch fire, or fail, due to a variety of other causes. Lawsuits proliferate and the negative and highly visible media coverage promises to destory the company's business. Harry accepts the task of finding who and why someone is on a missioin to destroy Evans Enterprises. His investigation soon reveals a deeper, darker mystery, fueled by envy, hate and revenge. A slow burning hate motivated by an act of simple greed committed forty years earlier.
#2
Dead Right
2006
Based on a true unsolved crime, Harry Caine, a licensed Florida PI, was working cases in West Palm Beach when a satisfied client recommended him for an assignment he couldn’t turn down, up north in the deep south of North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad area. Harry and his assistant, Mona Morgan, take on an unsolved, nine- year-old murder that has never been declared cold. The investigation leads Harry to a wife beater, a homosexual sociopath, and secret software operations of a major credit card company. Harry and Mona demonstrate their skills as professional investigators in this intriguing mystery motived by love, greed and the desire to kill.
#3
Paid In Full
2003
Harry Caine is a licensed California private investigator that closed his one-man detective agency in Silicon Valley, to try a new way of life in Washington, D.C. In a short time he becomes dissatisfied with his new job and builds a getaway boat, intending to sail away to the Caribbean Islands and never look back. On the way south from Washington, D.C., a boating accident requires repairs, but Harry doesn’t have enough money to pay the bill. A nefarious boat yard controller, exiled from his family’s crime business in New Jersey, offers Harry a job delivering some boxes from Daytona Beach to a Silicon Valley scientist/inventor. Harry discovers the contents of the boxes he has delivered and is hired to find the who’s and why’s of a counterfeiting scheme, stolen currency paper and two murders. He gets caught up in this compelling coast-to-coast mystery and finds himself back in the detective business
#4
The Double Lie
2011
Harry Caine and Mona Morgan’s second North Carolina assignment is to develop exculpatory evidence in support of the client’s son, who has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend in North Carolina. The client’s son, Frank Sanford, is currently serving a twenty-year federal sentence for perjury and is desperately searching for a way to have the perjury sentence reduced to time served, and the murder charge doesn’t help his chances In the course of the investigation Harry and Mona discover a possible connection to the multiple murders of the Carpenter family in Henry County, Virginia...an unsolved six year old case that drew national attention due to the abduction, and subsequent murder, of the Carpenter’s daughter, Jill. The tension mounts as Harry and Mona dream up ways to obtain a confession in the two cases, notwithstanding the fact that neither case has an eye witness... and one case has no body or a crime scene.Things run smoothly until Harry and Mona serendipitously become the next victims in this crushing tale guaranteed to deliver a non-stop reading adventure.
#5
Wake-Up Call
2008
It was a standard ‘locate’. One that Harry Caine and his assistant, Mona, normally spent no more than a day resolving. But this unusual case turns into something much bigger and becomes Harry’s highest profile assignment. Harry’s and Mona’s life, and the well being of the Florida population from Key Largo to Daytona Beach, is at stake. West Palm Beach’s top private-detective team steps up to the plate in this gripping novel of international payback involving Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez in partnership with the infamous Colombian drug cartel. It’s Harry’s job to discover where his client’s husband has gone, and more importantly, why.
#6
Mona's Lament
2012
Private investigators Harry Caine and Mona Morgan have been hired by the son of a missing father who wants closure.in his burning desire to determine the what, who, where, when, and why of this mystery. The authorities have declared the father lost at sea or somewhere in the Florida everglades when his plane disappears from the air-controllers’ screens. As Harry and Mona close in on the solution, the profile of a serial killer begins to immerge. The action takes place on the water, in the air, and on the ground. The story is set in West Palm Beach, the small town of Pahokee on the shores of Lake Okeechobee, the rolling hill country of Ocala, Florida, and Eleuthera Island in the Bahama.
#7
A..B..C..Dead
2020
Private investigators Harry Caine and Mona Morgan are gaining notoriety in south Florida as a smart, tenacious team who can solve cases no one else will touch. When a wealthy Palm Beach matron learns about their recent successes, she hires them to reinvestigate a 10-year-old cold case: The homicidal poisoning of her then 20 year old daughter. Harry and Mona go on the hunt. With help from a Federal Immigration officer and a retired FBI profiler, they unearth new evidence including the killer’s identity, his bizarre M.O., and a string of unsolved homicidal poisonings over the past decade that appear to be the work of their suspect. The hunt takes them to the Florida Keys and back, and a final confrontation in Miami’s Little Havana. During the investigation, Harry confronts a truth that could change his relationship with Mona, forever.
Author
David Shaffer
Author · 7 books