Blake Banner
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"There is nothing unusual about a young Catholic girl from the Bronx winding up raped, beaten, strangled and decapitated -- unless she winds up that way in Lefthand Canyon, in the Colorado Rockies, where there hasn't been a murder since 1922. Then it's unusual enough to become a problem for the sheriff of Lee County. And when he finds no blood at the scene and no physical evidence, it becomes more than a problem. It becomes a headache -- for five...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"When the body of a tramp was found in a dumpster on Lafayette and Bryant in the Bronx, with no papers and no ID, the case was filed as unsolved -- another victim nobody cared about, shot by some punk nobody cared about.
That was twelve years ago.
Then Detective Stone notices that the 'tramp' had a hundred dollar haircut and manicured nails. That makes him curious. He wants to know, who dresses a murder victim up as a tramp, then leaves them in...
3) Let Us Prey
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"It seemed to be a cold case like any other. So much so that Stone and Dehan hadn't even considered reviewing it-- until private investigator Karl Baxter requested a copy of the police file. Then Stone got curious.
Why did a second rate PI in the Bronx want to look into the case of a low life petty criminal found tied to a chair in his apartment, beaten and shot through the heart? And that question led to other questions, like, whose was the second...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"It was November in New York. It was raining,, it was cold and the trees all looked like skeleton's hands. And Detective John Stone was having a problem with habeas corpus, because all there was of the body, was two bare arms. Two bare arms that somebody, twelve years ago, had put in a lock up in the East Bronx. What they had done with the rest of the woman, nobody knew. But as Stone and Dehan start to investigate, two things become clear: whoever...
5) Dying Breath
Author
Series
Harry Bauer volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Description
When your only training is as a first class killer, it can be hard to find a job on Main Street. Unless you work for Cobra, the secret agency that takes out the worst of the world's trash. So when Harry Bauer left the Regiment, the toughest special ops outfit on the planet, Cobra offered him a job, taking out the trash.
Bauer had grown up fighting for survival on the streets of the Bronx. He knew everything there was to know about hard reality,...
Author
Series
Harry Bauer volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Description
One thing Harry Bauer knew for certain: He was not a man who could ever fall in love and make a home. Until it happened. And then he knew something else. He had to give up his job as an assassin for Cobra. He could not lie to that woman, he could not bring danger into her life. But then a hit squad came after him, and Cobra made him an offer he could not refuse. One last job, the Einstaat Brief, and they would keep her safe.
One last job: A job that...
Author
Series
Harry Bauer volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"What do you do when the only skill you ever learned was how to kill, when you’re among the best of the best, but they tell you you can’t do that anymore? What do you do when they send you home from Afghanistan and tell you to get a job, like everybody else? But you’re not like everybody else. After eight years as a trooper in the SAS, fighting the secret, untold wars in the deserts and the jungles of the world, Harry Bauer has been kicked out...
Author
Series
Dead Cold Mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Detective John Stone of the NYPD has the best arrest record in the 43rd precinct. But he's a dinosaur who belongs to another age. Detective Carmen Dehan has such a bad attitude that nobody at the precinct can stomach her. Captain Jennifer Cuevas wants them both out of the way and thinks they make a perfect pair. So she gives them the Cold Cases file -- the cases nobody gives a damn about. She has no idea just how hot a cold case can get.
Ten...