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    Three In a Box: The Rafferty P.I. Series, #1

    By W. Glenn Duncan

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    About this ebook

    The first three books in the Shamus Award-winning RAFFERTY: P.I series, from author W. Glenn Duncan

     

    RAFFERTY'S RULES

    In the middle of a burger-store holdup, the only thing standing between ten-year-old Vivian Mollison and certain death is a police officer named Rafferty.

    She lives. He gets fired.

    Fast-forward fifteen years.

    Vivian's parents are wealthy beyond counting while Rafferty spends his days as a private investigator, hustling on the streets of Dallas.

    So when he gets an out-of-the-blue phonecall from the Mollisons, Rafferty figures his long-awaited payday might have finally arrived.

    But things are never that simple and the story they have to tell is like nothing he's ever heard.

    Can Rafferty save Vivian again?

    Or is he already too late?

     

    LAST SEEN ALIVE

    Rafferty's killing time in the Hallston yacht club bar when he meets Cindy Lawson.

    Next morning he's in jail for killing her.

    The cops got it wrong. It happens.

    But that leaves the question: if Rafferty didn't kill Cindy, who did?

    Hallston is bucolic; a lakeside hamlet a long way from the big city.

    Peaceful streets, friendly neighbors, and family values. Just how the locals like it.

    But first impressions never tell the whole story.

    Everyone has something to hide in this small town where dark secrets surge and twist and intertwine underneath the picture-perfect surface.

    Rafferty will drag them all into view as he searches for a violent killer hiding in plain sight.

    It won't all be smooth sailing.

    Because some people will do anything to keep their secrets in the dark …

     

    POOR DEAD CRICKET

    Sandra 'Cricket' Dawes had undeniable proof of dangerous leaks and missing radioactive material at the nuclear facility run by Dormac-Chaffee.

    She was all set to deliver the incriminating documents to a reporter, then sit back and watch the company get shut down for good.

    Getting killed was never part of the plan.

    The Green Army environmental group wants Rafferty to recover the missing files and prove Dormac-Chaffee was behind Sandra's murder.

    Simple, right?

    Rafferty may not know much about nuclear physics but he can tell which direction the wind is blowing.

    And, in a case where no-one is who they seem, he'll need to be on high alert for every step.

    Because as Rafferty closes in on Sandra's killer,

    Deadly fallout is headed his way …

     

    .................................................................

    Praise for Rafferty P.I.

    "If you like Parker's Spenser, or Robert Crais' Elvis Cole you should love the Rafferty series." - Mark A. Johnson.

    "Rafferty is the best hardboiled PI of this era." - Wendy Green.

    "Any fan of Micky Spillane, the Jack Reacher novels, or Mark Yost's Rick Crane novels should absolutely venture into the world of Rafferty P.I." - Michael Raabe.

    "Duncan truly captured the pure essence of the definitive smart-ass private eye in his character Rafferty. Take part Sam Spade with a little Mike Hammer, mix in some Spenser and you have an awesome character." - Cliff Fausset.

    "This author goes on my list of great private eye writers along with Kinky Friedman, Elmore Leonard, and Lawrence Sanders." - Tricia Schiro.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherd squared publishing
    Release dateDec 26, 2017
    ISBN9780648223443
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