Blair Howard has 43 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 12 ratings. The most-rated is The Harry Starke Series: Books 1-3.
The Harry Starke Series: Books 1-3
Summary
Three complete novels. More than 300 five and four-star reviews. If you love Harlan Coban, Tami Hoag, Michael Connelly, or Lee Child, you'll also love Harry Starke. Harry is no Reacher or Bosch clone. He's a force unto himself, but the fans love him. If you like realism, fast-paced, nonstop action, you'll love Blair Howard's highly acclaimed series. Grab this box set of the first three stories now. You won't want to stop listening!
©2016 Blair Howard (P)2017 Blair Howard
Apocalypse
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An elite Iranian military unit. A missing tactical nuclear weapon. An aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence. It began when an FBI informant was brutally gunned down outside a soccer stadium. A tactical nuclear weapon has gone missing somewhere in the Middle East and is thought to have been smuggled into the United States by a small group of Iranian terrorists intent on chaos and destruction. The target? Unknown, but the FBI’s local director is convinced that it’s the Sequoya nuclear plant and that the clock is ticking. Convinced that the threat is real and that his only link to the terrorists is Harry Starke’s nemesis, Shady Tree, he turns to Harry for help. But Harry has demons of his own to deal with, and the hunt for Tree quickly turns into a race against time. Apocalypse is the 13th stand-alone novel in a series of hard-boiled thrillers. If you like tough-as-nails heroes and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love Blair Howard’s latest gritty, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Buy Apocalypse today and hold on - you’re in for a wild ride!
©2018 Blair Howard (P)2018 Blair Howard
Aftermath
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An elite force of private military contractors. A ragtag band of aging war heroes and civilians. It began with a simple kidnapping. It ended in an all-out private war. In Harry Starke’s world, nothing is ever quite as it seems. His wife is lying in hospital in a coma. His best friend and business partner is not who he says he is. Once again Harry says never again, but when his intellectually disabled uncle is kidnapped and becomes a pawn in a deadly game of cat and mouse, he finds himself plunged back into a life he so desperately wants to leave behind....
Aftermath is the 14th standalone novel in a series of hard-boiled thrillers. If you like tough-as-nails heroes, and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love Blair Howard’s latest gritty, edge-of-your-seat thriller.
©2019 Blair Howard (P)2019 Blair Howard
Sapphire
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The gripping series continues as homicide detective Kate Gazzara faces the most personal - and deadly - case of her lifetime. On a cold morning in October, 1987, Ohio State Patrol Officer Dan Walker finds an odd box on a quiet, county road. Twenty-five years later, in 2012, and more than 600 miles away, a young woman vanishes without a trace and another is found dead from what appears to be an overdose. In 2015, street-smart Lieutenant Kate Gazzara is suddenly transferred to the Cold Case Squad and assigned her first case. But as she painstakingly goes over the file she discovers a connection to all three incidents. Is there a serial killer on the loose, one who has been killing for almost three decades? The case promises to be more complex than Kate first thought. Thrust into a tangle of family secrets, murder, intrigue, and with a new partner by her side, she suspects that there were ulterior motives for her reassignment. Why was she assigned to this particular case? Why did Chief Johnston suddenly reassign his best detective, Kate Gazzara, to investigate cold cases nobody else could solve? Was there a police cover-up all those years ago? What does her long-time nemesis Assistant Chief Henry Finkle have to do with it? Kate knows that she will have to tread carefully. Her career, and perhaps even her life, is at stake.
©2018 Blair Howard (P)2019 Blair Howard
The Harry Starke Series: Books 10 - 12
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Three complete novels. Books 10, 11 and 12. The Harry Starke saga continues - more than 1,000 five and four-star reviews. Now you can continue the ride: almost 900 pages of murder, mystery, sex, corruption, and revenge, all the ingredients for three mind blowing thrillers. From the lightning-paced quest for revenge by an assassin hired by Harry's arch enemy in Calaway Jones, to the hunt for an ingenious serial killer in Emoji, to murder, sex, and alternative lifestyles in Hoodwinked, they will keep you listening late into the night - you won't be able to put them down! Anyone who is a fan of Harlan Coben, Lee Child, or Tami Hoag, will love these latest stories in the Amazon best-selling Harry Starke series.
©2018 Blair Howard (P)2018 Blair Howard
The Harry Starke Series: Books 7-9
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Books seven, eight and nine in the Harry Starke series of mystery novels. Anyone who is a fan of Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, or Tami Hoag will love Harry Starke. Thousands of copies have been downloaded. More than 300 five and four-star reviews. Now you can continue the ride with this collection. Murder, mystery, sex, corruption, and revenge - all the ingredients for three mind blowing whodunits. From murder and revenge in Retribution, to murder and corruption in the Caribbean in Calypso, to the ultimate whodunit: the 15-year-old cold case of the murder of Peter Nicholson in Without Remorse, they will keep you listening late into the night - you won't be able to put them down!
©2017 Blair Howard (P)2017 Blair Howard
The Harry Starke Series: Books 4-6
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Books four, five, and six in the Harry Starke series of mystery novels. Anyone who is a fan of Harlan Coben, Lee Child, or Tami Hoag will love Harry Starke. And they do. Thousands of copies have been downloaded. More than 200 five and four-star reviews. Now you can continue the ride with this collection full of murder, mystery, sex, corruption, and revenge, all the ingredients for three mind-blowing whodunits. From murder and corruption in Checkmate, to murder, sex, and alternative lifestyles in Gone, to the 100-year-old cold case in Family Matters, they will keep you listening late into the night.
©2016 Blair Howard (P)2017 Blair Howard
Comanche
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On a dark day in April 1865, a band of former Confederate guerrillas slaughtered more than 40 Comanches, most of them women and children. This began a six-month reign of terror along the Santa Fe Trail as Comanche chief, White Eagle, took his revenge. The US Cavalry was assigned the task of tracking White Eagle and his warriors down. Lieutenant Colonel Ignatius O'Sullivan's orders were to either bring them in or kill them. O'Sullivan, with two companies of cavalry, tracked the Comanches through the mountains for more than six weeks, until.... O'Sullivan took to the trail in July of 1865, and followed them into the mountains along the northern border of Comanche lands. Can he bring the wily chief and his well-armed warriors to bay? Can his soldiers fight the Comanche on their own ground? And which of them will survive the battle?
©2015 Blair Howard (P)2017 Blair Howard
Nicolette
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Nobody knows what horrors Nicolette Percy endured the night she was murdered. Kate Gazzara caught the case and at first she thought it would be a quick and easy closer. She was wrong. With every passing day, the case became more complex. And then she made a mistake that almost cost her her career....
©2020 Blair Howard (P)2020 Blair Howard
The Mule Soldiers
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On a balmy day in April 1863, Union Colonel Abel D. Streight, at the head of a brigade of federal infantry, set out on a 220-mile ride to destroy the Western and Atlantic railroad at Rome, Georgia. The most fascinating thing about the raid is that Streight's brigade of four infantry regiments, almost 1,800 soldiers, was mounted on mules, a huge problem in itself; few of his men had ever ridden a horse, let alone a mule. But not only did Streight have almost 1,600 stubborn and wily animals to contend with, he soon found himself being relentlessly pursued by the inimitable Confederate cavalry commander, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The raid soon turned into a running battle between Streight's raiders and Forrest's cavalry. For Streight, it was a long and tortuous journey across Northern Alabama. For Forrest, it was one defeat after another at the hands of the very "able" Abel Streight, even though he, Forrest, had the advantage of home territory and the sympathy and aid of the local populace. There are some wildly hilarious moments involving the mules and their new masters; or is it the other way around? There's plenty of action and suspense and an unforgettable cast of characters, real and fictional, animal and human; some you will come to love, some...not so much. They say that truth is stranger than fiction. This amazing story proves the point, for the end of the story is...well, unbelievable. The Mule Soldiers is the true story - fictionalized - of Colonel Abel Streight's raid into Northern Alabama that took place from April 19th to May 3rd of 1863. It is an enthralling and bittersweet story that will stay with you long after you have you have finished listening to it.
©2014 Blair Howard (P)2015 Blair Howard
The Chase
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During the last few days of the Civil War, a company of Confederate raiders rode into the small Kansas town of Elbow. There they raped, pillaged and murdered among the local populace, thus triggering a chain of events and a chase that extended for more than 1,000 miles across the grasslands and mountains of Kansas and the deserts of New Mexico. Along the way, Confederate Lieutenant Jesse Quintana, a ruthless, cold-blooded killer without a conscience, along with his men massacred a band of Comanche women and children, fought two battles with Comanche War Chief White Eagle, and murdered and plundered his way southwest along the Santa Fe Trail. Quintana had a nine-day start over his pursuers, Captain Ignatius O'Sullivan and Sergeant Major Boone Coffin, along with an Osage Indian scout and a small company of Federal cavalry. The climactic end to the chase came among the mountains on the Mexican border six weeks after it began. You will remember O'Sullivan and Coffin from the author's previous novel, The Mule Soldiers. Their adventures continue. Scroll up and download a copy today.
©2015 Blair Howard (P)2016 Blair Howard
Hoodwinked
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Isla Tansy Mortenson Wallace was a noted local neurosurgeon, wife of local veterinarian Jim Wallace, and one of Chattanooga’s movers and shakers. That is until she was found dead on her own property.
Did she fall off her horse? Was she thrown? Was she murdered? And if she was killed, by whom, and how, and why? Why does Lt. Kate Gazzara not want Harry Starke anywhere near the case? Lots of questions and no answers.
Harry Starke is out of retirement, back on the job, and his long-time friend, Jim Wallace, is in big trouble. The evidence against him is overwhelming. To keep Jim from facing death row, Harry must find answers to all of those questions and, as usual, there is a twist in the tale.
©2017 Blair Howard (P)2017 Blair Howard
Victoria
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A sadistic killer. A tenacious detective. A shocking discovery. A vicious killer is on the loose in the small but affluent bedroom community of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. The local police are ill-equipped to handle a murder investigation. So they call on the expert: the tenacious and dedicated Detective Kate Gazarra of the Chattanooga PD. The killer is careful, leaving no obvious evidence and no motive. Lieutenant Gazarra must pursue high-profile suspects, navigate interference by the city’s elite, and get inside the mind of the killer. All while training in a new partner and appeasing the formidable Chief Johnston. Solving the case will require bold moves and actions that could end her career - but there’s a killer to stop...before he strikes again....
©2019 Blair Howard (P)2019 Blair Howard
Harry Starke
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Why did Tabitha Willard throw herself off the Walnut Street Bridge? It's almost midnight, bitterly cold and snowing, when a beautiful young girl, Tabitha Willard, throws herself off the Walnut Street Bridge into the icy waters of the Tennessee. Harry Starke is there, on the bridge. Wrong time, wrong place? Maybe. He tries but is unable to stop her. Thus begins a series of events and an investigation that involves a local United States congressman, a senior lady senator from Boston, a local crime boss, several very nasty individuals, sex, extortion, high finance, corruption, and three murders. Harry has to work his way through a web of deceit and corruption until finally...Well, as always, there's a twist in the tale - several in fact. Who is Harry Starke? Harry Starke is a private detective, a big fish in a small pond. He's a tough individual with a past, a conscience, and friends in high places. He's single, successful, wealthy, a womanizer, well-educated, and he will hurt you if he needs to. This book is the first in the series of Harry Starke novels.
©2015 Blair Howard (P)2015 Blair Howard
Calypso
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"There are four basic reasons why someone commits murder. The first and most powerful is love. The second - equally powerful - is hate. Almost equally compelling is revenge. The fourth is profit. Money. When one family member kills another, one or more of them is almost always the motive, and the murders on Calypso Key were no exception." - Harry Starke It was one of those beautiful, balmy days on Calypso Key in the US Virgin Islands. The sky was blue and a cool breeze was blowing in off the ocean as Harry and Amanda took their vows. All of their friends were there and all was well with the world...and then the sky fell. Harry draws the line at getting involved when the death of one of his father's friends intrudes upon his wedding day, until he finds out he owes the girl's father a debt he can never repay. And so he is dragged into an investigation of not just one murder, but two - and the wealthiest, most dysfunctional family he's ever met. The cast of characters includes a former Navy Seal - now a butler - a man up to his eyes in shady financial dealings, and the woman at the heart of it all, who was pushed to her death from a third-story balcony. Harry clears a few hours to enjoy the good life on Calypso Key, but as for the investigation...well, we all know that when Harry's involved, nothing is ever quite what it seems.
©2016 Blair Howard (P)2016 Blair Howard
Two for the Money
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Who killed Tom Sattler? Who stole $350 million from New Vision Strategic Investments? It's up to Harry Starke to figure it out. The call came on a Tuesday evening in the middle of August at around 9:30. It was from an old school friend that Harry Starke hadn't heard from in almost five years, and he hadn't thought about him in almost as long. Tom Sattler wanted to meet with Harry urgently, and it wouldn't wait until morning. When Harry arrived at Sattler's luxury home less than an hour later, he found him dead, lying in a pool of blood, a single gunshot wound to the head, and .22 revolver lying close to his hand. Suicide? If he was going to do that, why the hell did he call me? The search for an answer to that question starts Harry on a wide-ranging investigation that involves murder, corruption, organized crime, and deception.
©2015 Blair Howard (P)2016 Blair Howard
The Raven
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A brutal murder. A condemned assassin with days left to live. No one could figure out exactly why Sandra McDowell had to die. What was her connection to the Raven, an aging hit man 20 years on death row with only days left to live? Clues are plentiful, but all are dead ends. The Raven is a mind-bending mystery thriller, a twister of a tale that will keep you up listening long into the night. You can’t hear just one! Join Harry Starke as he tries to unravel the nightmare world of...The Raven.
©2019 Blair Howard (P)2019 Blair Howard
Gone
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Emily Johnston is gone. She's been gone for more than a week. She's also the daughter of Harry Starke's one-time boss and nemesis, Chattanooga Police Chief Wesley Johnston. Harry and Chief Johnston haven't seen eye-to-eye in a long time, but when Johnston needs help, he knows there's only one man he can turn to. But Johnston's jurisdiction ends at the city limits and when Emily's body is discovered in a remote part of the county, Harry has to deal with the imperious sheriff, Israel Hands and two incompetent county detectives. So begins an investigation that will take Harry on a wild ride across Signal Mountain, a case that will include a second murder, two cold cases, sex, alternative lifestyles, and deadly danger for Harry and his friends, until...well, as always, there's a twist in the tale.
©2016 Blair Howard (P)2016 Blair Howard
Chickamauga
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Chickamauga - A Novel of the American Civil War - is the story of a great battle of the Civil War and the people who fought it, many of them real and some of them the product of the author's imagination. Chickamauga is a story of the heroism, selflessness, and frailty of the men whose deeds are etched forever on the fields and forests at Chickamauga, the River of Death. Chickamauga is the story of the generals who planned the grand strategies that would be played out by lesser but braver men, and it's the story of heroism, desperate deeds, and death and destruction on a scale the like of which had never been seen before. Chickamauga is the story of Jesse Dixon and Patrick McCann, two boys in blue uniforms who must grow up before their time, and of Billy Cobb, a Confederate soldier who found himself at war, not only with the Union enemy, but also with his conscience. And it's the story of Sarah Bradley, the daughter of a Southern farmer, and Blake Winter, the Yankee colonel who fell in love with her. Chickamauga is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
©2014 Blair Howard (P)2015 Blair Howard
Saffron
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night.... Saffron was the first. T.J. Bron found her naked body lying beside a dumpster at the rear of the Sorbonne. Four weeks later, a teenage couple looking for a quiet spot to get it together find a second victim. The bodies continue to pile up. The killer's clever. Clues are scarce. Lieutenant Kate Gazzara is baffled. What few clues there are make little sense and generate more questions than answers. Can she figure it out and stop a sadistic killer's reign of terror? Find out.
©2018 Blair Howard (P)2018 Blair Howard