Eddie Dancer Mystery

All Shook Up is a fast-paced, hard-edged, energetic page-turner featuring Eddie Dancer - Canada's newest and toughest private eye who might have learned his craft at school with Robert B. Parker's Spenser, Robert Crais' Elvis Cole, or Lawrence Sanders' Archy McNally. Two years as a city cop have convinced Eddie he's better off working for himself. When he's hired to track down a tough, professional bank robber, Eddie has no idea he's about to pry the lid off a very nasty cans of worms - worms who will stop at nothing to put him in the ground. When he runs up against a pair of disgraced ex-bikers, he uncovers a macabre connection between the ex-bikers and the "fate worse than death" that has befallen many of the city's hookers - a fate that leaves them, irreversibly, in a vegetative state. Eddie wonders if he has bitten off more than he can chew, but with the help of his friend Danny "Many Guns," Eddie uncovers evidence of a major conspiracy stretching from the city's back streets and tattoo parlours to the very top of the prison system food chain. Will Danny save his friend and partner from the "fate worse than death," or will the bad guys finally get their revenge on the man who's exposed them? All Shook Up is the first in the Eddie Dancer series - a fast read that mixes humour with a memorable plot, an impressive array of characters, and enough twists to keep pages turning to the very end. When he learns the true meaning of "a fate worse than death," Dancer knows he's bitten off more than he can chew. Mike Harrison has worked in the advertising business for much of his life and has an eclectic mix of interests that include motorcycling, hiking, cooking, and hypnosis. When he's not writing, he loves reading, watching movies, and spending time with his family. He lives in Okotoks, Alberta, with his wife and two cats.

When Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is about to be arrested. Eddie learns that the deadly intrigue goes further back than the present time - to a two-hundred-year-old manuscript, written by Franz Anton Mesmer, and recently purchased by Dr. Maurice. The manuscript, written in Old Italian, appears to be a catalyst that sparks killing sprees, as history shows that Mesmer's great-great-granddaughter, who smuggled the manuscript out of East Germany, became the first of many women to die horribly at the hands of a demented serial killer. But what's the connection? Eddie arranges to have the manuscript translated, but when he goes to collect it, he discovers the translator dead, her head brutally crushed by a killer who specializes in breaking bones very slowly. Eddie's investigation unearths gruesome information about England's notorious Newgate Prison, once frequented by Mesmer but long since burned to the ground. The paparazzi are all over Eddie and Dr. Maurice's wife as Eddie works to disprove Scotland Yard's claim that Dr. Maurice is a monster. Eddie is determined to help the good Doctor and prove the police wrong. But are they? Calgary detective Eddie Dancer flies to England to solve an ancient mystery in the second book of the bestselling series. Mike Harrison has worked in advertising for much of his life and has an eclectic interests that include motorcycling, hiking, cooking, and hypnosis. He lives in Okotoks, Alberta, with his wife and two cats. This is his second book.

Paul Menzies is an out-of-shape, middle-aged advertising executive, who arrives at work one morning to discover he's lost his job. Downsized. That evening, he stops by a bank machine to check his finances. Ahead of him, a scruffy young couple is arguing about the state of their own finances. When the muscular husband, Victor Shriver, loses his temper and smacks his wife hard, Paul steps in and hauls the young thug backwards across the lobby. Which is the only clear image caught by the bank's security camera. In the ensuing brawl, Shriver puts Paul in hospital for nearly a week. Despite the severity of his injuries, the cops have little choice but to lay charges against Paul for assault. Victor Shriver has found himself a sharp little lawyer, and between them they smell money, asking for $50,000. Instead Paul offers to fight Victor, mano a mano, in a boxing ring. Three rounds. If Shriver wins, Paul will pay him and the assault charges will be dropped. If Paul wins, no money changes hands and the assault charges will still be dropped. When she realizes there's nothing she can do to dissuade her husband, Paul's feisty wife, Valerie Menzies, hires Eddie Dancer to stop the fight. But it's too little, too late and when the heat of the media spotlight focuses on the "mismatched fight of the year," even Eddie realizes he's beaten. As the world's press and the TV networks pour into town for the main event, Eddie finds himself reliving some unresolved issues of spousal abuse from his own past. And once that lid is off, there's no way Eddie can ever get it back on again. The third installment of the Eddie Dancer series, an abused wife hires Dancer to stop a deadly fight between two unmatched opponents - one of whom is her husband. Mike Harrison has eclectic interests that include motorcycling, hiking, cooking, and hypnosis. He lives in Okotoks, Alberta, with his wife and two cats. This is his third book.