Richard Barre

A Wil Hardesty Mystery

1 - The Innocents (Jun-1995)
2 - Bearing Secrets (Jun-1996)
3 - The Ghosts of Morning (Jun-1998)
4 - Blackheart Highway (Jun-1999)
5 - Burning Moon (Mar-2004)

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  The Innocents
  

  • Jun-1995
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  A Wil Hardesty Mystery - 1
  

  There are seven of them. Children--innocents--whose long-buried remains are uncovered by a flash flood. No one knows who could have committed such a crime. Clues are scarce, and with the media turning the story into a law enforcement nightmare, time ...

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  Bearing Secrets
  

  • Jun-1996
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Wil Hardesty Mystery - 2
  

  Now Hardesty must face more than just his past when the discovery of the seventeen-year-old wreckage of a plane--and its illicit cargo--prompts the suicide of '60s radical Max Pfeiffer. But Pfeiffer's daughter knows it wasn't suicide. She wants Harde...

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  The Ghosts of Morning
  

  • Jun-1998
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Wil Hardesty Mystery - 3
  

  In The Innocents, Shamus Award-winning author Richard Barre introduced readers to Wil Hardesty. Now The Ghosts of Morning plunges into Wil's past -- where murder and friendship collide... Denny Van Zant was Wil Hardesty's best friend. Together they ...

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  Blackheart Highway
  

  • Jun-1999
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Wil Hardesty Mystery - 4
  

  California P.I. Wil Hardesty is a man whose search for the truth always seems to draw him back into his own troubled past. Doc Whitney was country music star whose career had just gone platinum when he was convicted of brutally killing his wife and y...

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  The Star
  

  • Dec-2002
  • / Mystery
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  Bethany
  

  • Nov-2003
  • / Suspense
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  "Bethany" is the second in a Rod Serling-like series by award-winning mystery writer Richard Barre. Precariously balanced between the wife he has lost to cancer and the unending road ahead, Frank is big-rigging a night run of Christmas trees through ...

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  Burning Moon
  

  • Mar-2004
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Wil Hardesty Mystery - 5
  

  Jimmy Tien and his pregnant girlfriend, Wen, were on a small boat that sank in rough weather off the Southern California coast. Jimmy's father, Vinh Tien, a former North Vietnamese soldier, doesn't believe that his son's death was an accident and hir...

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  Echo Bay
  

  • Apr-2004
  • / Suspense
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  In Echo Bay, the past is on a collision course with the present. August 1940: In driving rain, in darkness, Lake Tahoe’s fabled steamship, Constance, slips beneath the surface of Echo Bay. Present: Sean Rainey, ex-PR fixer, failed husband, once-hot...

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  Wind on the River
  

  • Oct-2004
  • / Historical
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  Third in Richard Barre's series of redemptive, mysterious Christmas novels from Capra Press, including Bethany (2003), The Star (2002). Dakota Territory, 1879: Played-out gunman Jubal Pyne, hours from the posse that would hang him and the blizzard th...

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  Christmas Stories: In the Tradition of Rod Serling: The Complete Collection
  

  • Nov-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  From award-winning author Richard Barre come seven compelling short stories, four of them brand new. Each story is accompanied by a foreword from one of today’s best authors: J.L. Abramo, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Michael Koryta...

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  Lost
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / Thriller
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  Who hasn’t dreamed it? Lost in today’s siren-scream world, coming apart at the seams, the chance to ditch the pressure and find...yourself. For the fragmenting Metcalfs -- long-adrift Ben, world-class sailor Kate, coming-of-age Shay -- a friendâ€...

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Award-Winning Books by Richard Barre

The Innocents
1995 Shamus Award -- First P.I. Novel