Harry Stark Mystery

Young, successful men with unblemished reputations-each of them living a contented, "normal" life-are being murdered, one month apart. The killings seem to be unconnected, but are they? Are there dark secrets in the dead men's pasts? Homicide Detective Harry Stark has to untangle the mystery of the links among these men in a case that takes him and his partner, Noel Harris, on a tortuous and deadly trip into the world of shadows.

Homicide detective Harry Stark takes a twisting path to solve a million-dollar jewel robbery and murder, a path that leads him to a mob connection, an insurance scam and a depraved family. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Detective Mary Weems, is on a similarly tortuous path toward solving a cold case of a rape-murder that brings her into contact with another depraved family.

A brilliant young geologist is bludgeoned to death after his firm reports a mammoth gold find. Homicide detective Harry Stark must determine whether the man was killed because he was going to expose the report as a fake, or did a twisted romantic affair lead to his murder?