When a flash flood uncovers the grave of seven murdered children, scarce clues and media attention hamper the investigation, but private eye Wil Hardesty digs deeper to find the killer. Reprint.

The Innocents

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Barre, Richard

Mystery

BERKLEY

A mysterious and popular private eye with a deep, dark past, Wil Hardesty is the focus of a gritty novel in which the author plunges further into Wil's dark past to a distant place where murder and friendship collide. By the author of The Innocents.

The Ghosts of Morning

Literature & Fiction

United States

Berkley Hardcover

The critically lauded winner of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel for The Innocents sends private eye Wil Hardesty on the case of a seventeen-year-old airplane wreck, a supposed suicide, and a skeptical daughter. Reprint.

Bearing Secrets

Southern California private investigator Wil Hardesty becomes involved in the controversy swirling around recently paroled country music star Doc Whitney, convicted of killing his wife and daughters years ago, who some think is innocent and some want dead.

Blackheart Highway (Wil Hardesty Novels)

Literary

A popular private eye with a mysterious background, Wil Hardesty is the focus of a gritty novel in which the author plunges further into Wil's dark past to a distant place where murder and friendship collide. By the author of The Innocents. Reprint.

Contemporary

Berkley Prime Crime

After being paroled from prison, a former country music star imprisoned for the murder of his wife and children returns to California's dusty Central Valley to seek revenge. Reprint.

Blackheart Highway

Burning Moon: Library Edition

Blackstone Pub

Burning Moon Lib/E: A Wil Hardesty Novel (Wil Hardesty Novels (Audio))

Blackstone Publishing

Burning Moon: A Wil Hardesty Novel (Wil Hardesty Novels (Audio))

Blackstone Audiobooks

In 1990, a flash flood rips through a lonely section of the California desert, unearthing the skeletons of seven murdered children. Amid the outcry for justice following the discovery, the media gives them a name: The Innocents. The Innocents case soon becomes a pressure cooker of media hype and political heat. Who are they? Who put them there? How were they killed? Clues are negligible: a nick in the bones that tells investigators the murder weapon was likely a knife, and a tarnisned Saint Christopher medal bearing the inscription Vaya Con Dios, Benito. Papa, 1967. One man recognizes those words, fully understands their meaning; they were once inscribed on the final gift to a six-year-old son who promised to be good. The man is Ignacio Reyes. Reyes must find out who killed his child; he knows, however, that the answer will unleash long-buried demons of memory and desperation, he turns to Wil Hardesty, a troubled private investigator who knows all too well about such things. He still grieves for his own young son. As Hardesty digs deep, aided by a risky deal with the law, he exposes monstrous crimes, other burdens of guilt to be shouldered and discarded, and the chance, finally, to forgive himself for his own loss. But now he and those close to him have become the hunted.

Walker Co

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The Innocents

The Ghosts of Morning

Bearing Secrets

Blackheart Highway (Wil Hardesty Novels)

The Ghosts of Morning

Blackheart Highway

Burning Moon: Library Edition

Burning Moon Lib/E: A Wil Hardesty Novel (Wil Hardesty Novels (Audio))

Burning Moon: A Wil Hardesty Novel (Wil Hardesty Novels (Audio))

The Innocents