The Blue Edge of Midnight

Blue Edge of Midnight

Jonathon King

Bt Bound

Orion an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

Shadow Men

It begins with an 80-year-old mystery.  Three men - a father and his two sons - vanished without a trace while working as labourers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Florida Everglades.  Now, years later, a series of letters are unexpectedly discovered by a descendent of these men.  Driven by the need to know what happened to these lost members of his family, he starts asking questions - and is quickly stonewalled.  With nowhere else to turn, he enlists the help of former Philadelphia police officer, Max Freeman. Living in his isolated shack on an ancient river in the Glades, Max starts his investigation into the fate of these men.  A newly minted PI working with his friend and attorney, Billy Manchester, Max is surprised to meet resistance at every turn.  The search for the truth quickly turns violent - and Max finds he has more to worry about than just 80-year-old ghosts.  For there are powerful interests that want to make sure that the shadows of the past remain undisturbed, including some who will kill to ensure that they do.Combining powerful storytelling and rich characters, SHADOW MEN firmly establishes Jonathon King as a new master of modern crime fiction.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

orion#

A Killing Night

Max Freeman has been working more or less officially as a private investigator in South Florida when he gets a call from Detective Sherry Richards, who was once his lover. Three female bartenders have gone missing and Sherry thinks that there may be a serial killer out there working the bars, targeting potential victims. A former cop buddy of Max's called O'Shea has become the prime suspect and Sherry asks Max to check him out. Colin O' Shea has a history of violence, rule-breaking and alcoholism. The man has a reckless side to his character, an angry and unpredictable nature kept just under control. Colin and Max grew up together on the streets of Philadelphia. Both third generation cops, in O' Shea, Max sees a younger, edgier version of himself. Max wants to believe in his innocence, but when it emerges that O' Shea previously dated two of the missing women, he's not so sure. Torn between the evidence and his gut instinct, Max decides to back O' Shea. Could he be taking the side of a killer? As Max delves into O'Shea's past, he finds himself pulled back into some history of his own. Back to Philadelphia, to a rookie cop with a boiling temper and his fingers round the handle of a gun. Who exactly is Max trying to save? Meanwhile, the killer's victims are somewhere out there, waiting at the dark edge of the glades...

When Max Freeman's one-time girlfriend, Detective Sherry Richards, asks him to help nail an ex-cop she suspects of killing several young women in South Florida, he agrees. Then he discovers that her suspect once saved his life. Caught between his loyalty to Sherry and his debt to his former brother in blue, Max begins to dig into his fellow officer's shadowy, troubled past-only to come face to face with his own.

Killing Night

Eye of Vengeance (SIGNED)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Dutton

A veteran crime reporter, Nick Mullins was no stranger to scenes of violence and loss. He was well practiced at keeping tragedy at arm’s length with a professional detachment - until he was forced to face his own tragedy when a drunk driver took the lives of Nick’s wife and one of their two daughters, forever shattering his world. Now, with a nine-year-old to raise on his own, Nick struggles to balance single fatherhood with a career that daily puts him into the dark corners of death and justice. When a convicted murderer is dramatically and publicly gunned down with a single bullet to the head in front of a county jailhouse, Nick is immediately dispatched by his newspaper to cover the story, pressing his old police contacts with his usual mix of subtle charm and brazen questioning. But when he realizes that the victim was the subject of one of his old stories, Nick is drawn into the investigation himself. Before long he’s one step ahead of the cops in the hunt for a cold-blooded killer…a sniper who has a talent for targeting criminals, and who makes it clear that he has his eye on Nick.  With his career, family, and life on the line, Nick plays a delicate and potentially deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the police, the Secret Service, and his editors - all of whom are watching Nick’s every move as he fights to find the shooter before he strikes again. A stirring page-turner bristling with an intense, gritty realism and filled with vivid and unforgettable characters, Eye of Vengeance is Jonathon King at his very best.

Eye of Vengeance

Thrillers & Suspense

Orion Publishing

An Edgar Award-winning AuthorIt begins with an eighty-year-old mystery. A father and his two sons vanished without a trace while working as laborers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Everglades. Now, years later, a descendent of these men discovers a series of letters, starts asking questions - and is quickly stonewalled. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists the help of former Philadelphia cop Max Freeman.

United States

Thorndike Press

The Blue Edge of Midnight Lib/E (Max Freeman Novels (Audio))

Blackstone Publishing

<p>It is legend, the burning of the Styx. For over a hundred years, the destruction of a black community on the blossoming new island of Palm Beach has been folklore. Historic photos prove the Styx existed, but century-old memories muddle the truth of its demise. What happened to a ragtag collection of homes and rooming houses that once sheltered the great Henry Flagler s hotel workers at the turn of the 20th century? The legend is steeped in rumor, but the racism of the age, the uncommon wealth and privilege that came to the wilderness of Florida, and the greedy scramble to grab a piece of a new Eden are undeniable truths. Jonathon King s novel The Styx is a fictional story of what happened in the later years of the 1890 s, when the great migration to Florida changed the state forever. With deft descriptions of New York s Lower East Side, the Wild West towns and villages of a newly discovered Florida, and the majesty of Palm Beach s new Royal Poinciana Hotel, King tells a story of murder and cover-ups, power turned greedy, society women behaving badly, and good people doing what good people must always do to build a real civilization.</p>

The Styx

Middle River Press

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