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When your ex becomes your client, the only thing more dangerous is the truth.

Boston, 1978. Private investigator Jake Horn has spent years learning to live with ghosts.

His wife’s murder. His uncle’s failing PI agency. The daughter he raised alone, now away at college. Even the ’74 Nova his grandmother left him—one of the last things in his life...

January, 1979. Jake Horn didn’t start the fire—but now he’s standing in the flames.

A snowstorm hits Boston the night a mysterious woman calls Jake’s office asking for help. She never shows. Hours later, police find a body in the snow two blocks away. When the woman finally surfaces, she’s got a story: her wealthy car dealership owner husband...

Summer, 1978. Jake Horn came to Maine for a weekend with his daughter, not another body.

Emily heads back to college in New Hampshire in a few days, and Jake’s determined to make this time count. After months apart, he’s finally got her to himself. No cases. No ghosts. Just a quiet beach town and a chance to be the father he’s been trying to be...

Before Jake Horn was on his own, there was his uncle.

Boston, 1969.

The Horn Detective Agency is struggling, and the man who built it knows things are coming to an end.

Jake Horn arrives late one morning, distracted and exhausted—raising his young daughter alone after the murder of his wife.

Expecting to be reprimanded, he’s instead asked to...

U.S. Marshal Charlie Harlow has kicked in a hundred doors, but this time, it cost him a friend...

Now the Justice Department wants answers, and Charlie is under the microscope.

Haunted by guilt and regret, he throws himself into a new case: tracking a fugitive hiding out on his girlfriend’s quiet horse farm.

It should be routine.

It never is.

When...

When justice fails, Charlie Harlow’s not afraid to take the law into his own hands…

Deputy U.S. Marshal Charlie Harlow refuses to stand by and watch when someone’s in trouble. So when a teen he tried to help suddenly goes missing, he has a hard time stepping aside to let the local authorities do their job.

And when he senses the case isn’t being...

Deputy U.S. Marshal Charlie Harlow is under fire… In more ways than one.

When a routine transport in the Smoky Mountains goes awry and a prisoner in Charlie’s custody disappears, he is thrust into a showdown he never sees coming.

Charlie quickly discovers the case is far from what it seems. Deceit lurks around every corner, and betrayal runs deep,...

Writing about crime is a lot more fun than being caught up in it...

After former crime journalist Joe Sheldon is forced to resign from one of the nation’s leading newspapers, he finds solace in sipping his vodka cranberries, listening to vinyl records in his high-rise Miami apartment.

But the bills are piling up, and Joe can’t seem to catch a...

Writing about crime is a lot easier than being at the center of it…

For former crime journalist and struggling want-to-be author Joe Sheldon, the only thing worse than stumbling upon a dead body is being the prime suspect in the murder.

With his face potentially front and center on missing surveillance video and a witness who saw him with the...

The one thing that can ruin a good night of fooling around is a murder in the morning…

Former crime journalist Joe Sheldon has really taken to his new role, tracking down deadbeats for his bookie friend Dickie.

It’s a far cry from covering the dark side of Miami for the local rag.

He enjoys getting to act like a tough guy, even if he goes out of...

Now that Henry’s on his own, it’s not just his PI business that’s falling apart…

After a trip to the West Coast of Florida to visit his parents, he’s not exactly sure what he’s supposed to do next. With his partner, Alex, now gone, he’s feeling a bit lost. He’s even considered walking away from Walsh Investigations for good.

But everything changes...

After six long years in prison, Dennis Malloy is determined to straighten himself out. But life on the outside’s not easy. He just can’t seem to catch a break...

His luck seems to change when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong and the bag of loot lands at his feet. Dennis could do the right thing, of course. But he’s broke. And desperate.

With his...

Officer Sean Coyle’s making one last run working the streets at a time when most cops his age are trading in their badges for fishing poles.

When a relative goes missing, he finds himself on a collision course with Danny Womack, a small time crook without an ounce of fear in his veins.

But Sean learns the hard way Danny’s not about to let some...

George Sisco’s still not convinced a life without crime is all it’s cracked up to be...

As part of the Massachusetts inmate re-entry program, Dr. Amy Marlow is tasked with getting him back on the right track after another stint behind bars. But George has something else on his mind…

When his ex-brother-in-law Louie tries to persuade him to get...

When the drinks are flowing and the money’s good, crime is one temptation George Sisco finds hard to resist...

After three years behind bars in a Rhode Island state prison, all George wants is to live a somewhat normal life. Maybe he’ll meet a nice girl...open the restaurant he always talked about in the yard.

But after a couple of beers and a...

After a three-year stint behind bars, George just wants a normal life. Maybe even find a nice girl and settle down...

But when you sleep on your sister’s couch and work part time in the back of a pizza joint, life on the outside can be complicated.

Is one more crime the answer?

George’s ex-girlfriend’s a cop who won’t give him the time of day....

From the outside, Peggy appears to have the perfect life. She loves her husband and lives in a nice house in a pleasant neighborhood.

She doesn’t ask for much.

But Peggy’s world is shattered when her best friend shares a devastating secret Peggy didn’t need to hear.

From the outside, Peggy appears to have the perfect life. She loves her husband and lives in a nice house in a pleasant neighborhood.

She doesn’t ask for much.

But Peggy’s world is shattered when her best friend shares a devastating secret Peggy didn’t want to hear.

He knows he’s more than just another washed-up ex-cop. Solving a murder will help him prove it...

A straight-shooter who lives on a boat and likes a drink or two, Henry’s frustrated he can’t even land work as a dispatcher. And his job running security for a local baseball team is far from his idea of excitement.

But it pays the bills.

The morning...

One Sunday morning, John Thompson went out for a ride on his bike. He never made it home.

Was it really just an accident?

That’s the question ex-wife Angela Thompson has for the Sheriff’s Office. But they refuse to investigate further…

She’d been told by a mutual friend that if anyone can get to the truth, it’s Henry Walsh. He’d only recently aced...