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Jason Wade Thriller Trilogy
COMPLETE DIGITAL SET OF THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED JASON WADE TRILOGY
1. The Dying Hour
2. Every Fear
3. A Perfect Grave.
Meet Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods.
BOOK 1 THE DYING After its publication, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) selected The Dying Hour as a Finalist for a 2006 Thriller Award in the category of Best Paperback Original. The book introduces Jason Wade who is working at
The Seattle Mirror, in a competition for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program. But unlike the program's other young reporters, who attended big name schools and worked at big metro dailies, Wade put himself through community college, and lacked the same experience.
Wade struggles with his troubled past as he pursues the story of Karen Harding, a college student whose car was found abandoned on a lonely stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest. How could this beloved young woman with the altruistic nature simply vanish?
Wade battles mounting odds and cut-throat competition to unearth the truth behind Karen Harding's disturbing case. Her disappearance is a story he cannot give up, never realizing the toll it could exact from him. The Dying Hour is a bone-chilling, mesmerizing page-turner that introduces readers to an all-too-human young hero who journeys into the darkest regions of the human heart to confront a nightmare.
BOOK 2 EVERY On an ordinary morning Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She turns her back for only a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees his empty stroller as Dylan is being abducted into a waiting van. Maria climbs into the van but is violently thrown to the road where she is left for dead as the vehicle vanishes without a trace.
As Maria fights for her life and her anguished young husband keeps a beside vigil, the FBI and police across metro Sea-Tac and Washington State search for Dylan.
Seattle Mirror reporter Jason Wade is under pressure to bring in a big story, and the Colson kidnapping could be it. It’s a bizarre case with pieces that just don’t add The Colsons are a hard-working couple. Former high school sweethearts. No problems. No enemies.
Then Jason and his dad, a private detective haunted by his former life as a cop, discover a grisly murder of a young woman that is somehow connected to the Colsons.
Now, in a dark Seattle underground of desperate dreamers and ex-convicts, Jason embarks on an investigation that parallels one led by Homicide Detective Grace Garner. They're both hunting for the one piece of the puzzle that connects the baby’s disappearance with a spine-tingling case of revenge. And time is running out, because whoever took little Dylan Colson is more dangerous than anyone could ever imagine. Every Fear takes suspense to a whole new level in a heart-pounding story that moves like a true crime case torn from today's headlines.
BOOK 3 A PERFECT Rookie crime reporter Jason Wade, a loner from the wrong side of the tracks, pursues the story of a murdered Seattle nun. The case leads him to a hermit nun who founded a mysterious religious order; and ultimately to the dark secret that has tormented his ex-cop father for decades. It culminates in a life-and-death struggle against the clock. With time running out, Jason and his father battle the odds to confront a terrible truth.
1. The Dying Hour
2. Every Fear
3. A Perfect Grave.
Meet Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods.
BOOK 1 THE DYING After its publication, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) selected The Dying Hour as a Finalist for a 2006 Thriller Award in the category of Best Paperback Original. The book introduces Jason Wade who is working at
The Seattle Mirror, in a competition for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program. But unlike the program's other young reporters, who attended big name schools and worked at big metro dailies, Wade put himself through community college, and lacked the same experience.
Wade struggles with his troubled past as he pursues the story of Karen Harding, a college student whose car was found abandoned on a lonely stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest. How could this beloved young woman with the altruistic nature simply vanish?
Wade battles mounting odds and cut-throat competition to unearth the truth behind Karen Harding's disturbing case. Her disappearance is a story he cannot give up, never realizing the toll it could exact from him. The Dying Hour is a bone-chilling, mesmerizing page-turner that introduces readers to an all-too-human young hero who journeys into the darkest regions of the human heart to confront a nightmare.
BOOK 2 EVERY On an ordinary morning Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She turns her back for only a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees his empty stroller as Dylan is being abducted into a waiting van. Maria climbs into the van but is violently thrown to the road where she is left for dead as the vehicle vanishes without a trace.
As Maria fights for her life and her anguished young husband keeps a beside vigil, the FBI and police across metro Sea-Tac and Washington State search for Dylan.
Seattle Mirror reporter Jason Wade is under pressure to bring in a big story, and the Colson kidnapping could be it. It’s a bizarre case with pieces that just don’t add The Colsons are a hard-working couple. Former high school sweethearts. No problems. No enemies.
Then Jason and his dad, a private detective haunted by his former life as a cop, discover a grisly murder of a young woman that is somehow connected to the Colsons.
Now, in a dark Seattle underground of desperate dreamers and ex-convicts, Jason embarks on an investigation that parallels one led by Homicide Detective Grace Garner. They're both hunting for the one piece of the puzzle that connects the baby’s disappearance with a spine-tingling case of revenge. And time is running out, because whoever took little Dylan Colson is more dangerous than anyone could ever imagine. Every Fear takes suspense to a whole new level in a heart-pounding story that moves like a true crime case torn from today's headlines.
BOOK 3 A PERFECT Rookie crime reporter Jason Wade, a loner from the wrong side of the tracks, pursues the story of a murdered Seattle nun. The case leads him to a hermit nun who founded a mysterious religious order; and ultimately to the dark secret that has tormented his ex-cop father for decades. It culminates in a life-and-death struggle against the clock. With time running out, Jason and his father battle the odds to confront a terrible truth.
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Published March 18, 2017
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About the author
Rick Mofina
66 books1,328 followersRick Mofina is a former journalist who has interviewed murderers on death row in Montana and Texas, flown over L.A. with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He's also reported from the Caribbean, Africa and Kuwait's border with Iraq. His true-crime freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, The Telegraph (London, U.K.), Reader’s Digest, Penthouse, Marie Claire and The South China Morning Post, (Hong Kong). He has written more than 20 crime fiction thrillers that have been published in nearly 30 countries.
His work has been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Louise Penny, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Lisa Unger, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.
The Crime Writers of Canada, The International Thriller Writers and The Private Eye Writers of America have listed his titles among the best in crime fiction. As a two-time winner of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award, a four-time Thriller Award finalist and a two-time Shamus Award finalist, the Library Journal calls him, “One of the best thriller writers in the business.”
Series:
* Tom Reed and Walt Sydowski
* Jason Wade
* Jack Gannon
Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award
◊ Best Novel (2003): Blood of Others
His work has been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Louise Penny, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Lisa Unger, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.
The Crime Writers of Canada, The International Thriller Writers and The Private Eye Writers of America have listed his titles among the best in crime fiction. As a two-time winner of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award, a four-time Thriller Award finalist and a two-time Shamus Award finalist, the Library Journal calls him, “One of the best thriller writers in the business.”
Series:
* Tom Reed and Walt Sydowski
* Jason Wade
* Jack Gannon
Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award
◊ Best Novel (2003): Blood of Others
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June 12, 2017
I finished the first book of the trilogy:THE DYING HOUR.
I have read three books written by Rick Mofina. Each book I gave a five rating--the top.
Rick Mofina is exceptional---suspense,action,believable plots,and excellent prose.
What else do you need?
THE DYING HOUR is creepy--scary---and a fun read.
The killers have a pathological hatred of women. They sharpen their tools of torture.
However,there is a rookie reporter--who digs,digs for a story and he on the killers.
Jason Wade is great character. I could not help rooting for him.
There are two more novels to read in this Trilogy----I have to pace myself--Reading
Mofina is like eating desert----I don't want to overindulge.
I have read three books written by Rick Mofina. Each book I gave a five rating--the top.
Rick Mofina is exceptional---suspense,action,believable plots,and excellent prose.
What else do you need?
THE DYING HOUR is creepy--scary---and a fun read.
The killers have a pathological hatred of women. They sharpen their tools of torture.
However,there is a rookie reporter--who digs,digs for a story and he on the killers.
Jason Wade is great character. I could not help rooting for him.
There are two more novels to read in this Trilogy----I have to pace myself--Reading
Mofina is like eating desert----I don't want to overindulge.
June 21, 2017
3 edge of the seat thrillers
I'm exhausted because Rick Mofina's writing doesn't let you put the book down until the story is finished. Jason Wade is a likeable hero, a lot like Mofina's other character, Tom Reed, but younger. These books are based in Seattle and start with Jason as an intern at the Seattle Mirror. There are the usual pushy editors and pressure on deadlines for stories. The Dying Hour tracks a serial killer, Every Fear tells the hunt for a kidnapped baby and A Perfect Grave is real mystery surrounding an absolute saint with seemingly no enemies. Every one was a cliffhanger making me keep turning the pages. Top stuff!
I'm exhausted because Rick Mofina's writing doesn't let you put the book down until the story is finished. Jason Wade is a likeable hero, a lot like Mofina's other character, Tom Reed, but younger. These books are based in Seattle and start with Jason as an intern at the Seattle Mirror. There are the usual pushy editors and pressure on deadlines for stories. The Dying Hour tracks a serial killer, Every Fear tells the hunt for a kidnapped baby and A Perfect Grave is real mystery surrounding an absolute saint with seemingly no enemies. Every one was a cliffhanger making me keep turning the pages. Top stuff!
September 3, 2017
Fabulous as usual
I liked this last of the Jason Wade Trilogy. I love Rick Mofina's writing style, so far none of his books has disappointed me. Love the ride! Keep 'em coming Rick.
I liked this last of the Jason Wade Trilogy. I love Rick Mofina's writing style, so far none of his books has disappointed me. Love the ride! Keep 'em coming Rick.
June 5, 2024
3.5 Stars
(For Overall Trilogy)
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