Jake Horn Mysteries

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, and the daughter he’s raised alone.

These days, he’s desperate enough to take almost any job.

Except one.

When his ex-fiancée walks...

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

Nancy 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...

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...

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...