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The Evan Buckley Thrillers: Books 8 - 10
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BOOKS 8 - 10 IN THE USA TODAY BESTSELLING EVAN BUCKLEY CRIME THRILLER SERIES
SACRIFICE
When PI Evan Buckley’s mentor, Elwood Crow, sends him down to the Florida Keys to check up on an old friend, neither of them are prepared for the litany of death and destruction that Evan unearths, taking them back fifty years to the jungles of South East Asia and the atrocities committed in the name of a war everyone wants to forget - everyone except for the nameless specter that Evan must go up against, a man who they said never came home.
Meanwhile Detective Kate Guillory battles with her own demons in her search for salvation, moving inexorably down the road to her personal Armageddon, to a place where justice and vengeance are without distinction, to a bloody confrontation with her nemesis, the deviant Joseph Liverman.
As their two paths converge and the secrets buried deep in Crow’s past come to light, each of them must make an impossible choice that stretches conscience and tests courage, and in the end demands sacrifice – what would you give to get what you want?
ROUGH JUSTICE
When Gene Rivers is brought in to identify the body of a murdered woman he last saw twenty years ago, he knows the past has finally caught up with him, that he will soon pay the price for the mistakes he made back then. Unsure whether the killing marks the close of unsettled business or the start of a new chapter, he employs PI Evan Buckley to investigate, lifting the lid on old grievances and buried injustices that have festered for half a lifetime.
In a small town on the Maine coast, Evan unearths a series of brutal unsolved murders, and the more he digs, the more the evidence points to a far worse crime hidden beneath forty years of lies and deceit.
Meanwhile Evan’s own past refuses to lie still as, unknown to him, Detective Kate Guillory scratches an itch with unforeseen and disastrous consequences, increasing the burden weighing on his conscience as he faces an impossible dilemma – disclose the terrible secrets he’s uncovered or assume the role of hanging judge and dispense a rough justice of his own.
TOUCHING DARKNESS
After Jay Killinger is mistakenly shot dead in PI Evan Buckley's place in Laredo, Texas, Evan learns that Jay left a mysterious package for him with his attorney. Ignoring all sensible advice and his own fears, Evan sets off on a reckless, ill-fated road trip through the southern states in a vain attempt to banish the demons that haunt him and shore up his courage before confronting the dark secrets that await him. What did Jay leave him? And who are the relentless grim men who will kill to get to it first?
Everything changes when he stops for a young girl huddled at the side of the road on a deserted stretch of highway. It’s clear she’s running away from someone or something, however vehemently she denies it. At times angry and hostile, at others scared and vulnerable, he’s almost relieved when she runs out on him in the middle of the night.
Except he has a nasty premonition that he hasn’t heard the last of her. Nor does it take long before he’s proved horribly right, the consequences dire for himself and Detective Kate Guillory.
Meanwhile the dogs of his past continue to snap at his heels as his mentor Elwood Crow’s son Caleb pursues an agenda of his own, forging an unholy alliance with the spiritual and moral blight that is Avery Pentecost, calling into question where his allegiances truly lie.
As if Evan needed reminding, touch evil and evil touches you back in ways you won’t easily forget.
For readers who enjoy gritty, fast-paced crime thrillers, including those by Robert Crais, Robert B. Parker, Harlan Coben, John Sandford, Robert Galbraith and others.
BOOKS 8 - 10 IN THE USA TODAY BESTSELLING EVAN BUCKLEY CRIME THRILLER SERIES
SACRIFICE
When PI Evan Buckley’s mentor, Elwood Crow, sends him down to the Florida Keys to check up on an old friend, neither of them are prepared for the litany of death and destruction that Evan unearths, taking them back fifty years to the jungles of South East Asia and the atrocities committed in the name of a war everyone wants to forget - everyone except for the nameless specter that Evan must go up against, a man who they said never came home.
Meanwhile Detective Kate Guillory battles with her own demons in her search for salvation, moving inexorably down the road to her personal Armageddon, to a place where justice and vengeance are without distinction, to a bloody confrontation with her nemesis, the deviant Joseph Liverman.
As their two paths converge and the secrets buried deep in Crow’s past come to light, each of them must make an impossible choice that stretches conscience and tests courage, and in the end demands sacrifice – what would you give to get what you want?
ROUGH JUSTICE
When Gene Rivers is brought in to identify the body of a murdered woman he last saw twenty years ago, he knows the past has finally caught up with him, that he will soon pay the price for the mistakes he made back then. Unsure whether the killing marks the close of unsettled business or the start of a new chapter, he employs PI Evan Buckley to investigate, lifting the lid on old grievances and buried injustices that have festered for half a lifetime.
In a small town on the Maine coast, Evan unearths a series of brutal unsolved murders, and the more he digs, the more the evidence points to a far worse crime hidden beneath forty years of lies and deceit.
Meanwhile Evan’s own past refuses to lie still as, unknown to him, Detective Kate Guillory scratches an itch with unforeseen and disastrous consequences, increasing the burden weighing on his conscience as he faces an impossible dilemma – disclose the terrible secrets he’s uncovered or assume the role of hanging judge and dispense a rough justice of his own.
TOUCHING DARKNESS
After Jay Killinger is mistakenly shot dead in PI Evan Buckley's place in Laredo, Texas, Evan learns that Jay left a mysterious package for him with his attorney. Ignoring all sensible advice and his own fears, Evan sets off on a reckless, ill-fated road trip through the southern states in a vain attempt to banish the demons that haunt him and shore up his courage before confronting the dark secrets that await him. What did Jay leave him? And who are the relentless grim men who will kill to get to it first?
Everything changes when he stops for a young girl huddled at the side of the road on a deserted stretch of highway. It’s clear she’s running away from someone or something, however vehemently she denies it. At times angry and hostile, at others scared and vulnerable, he’s almost relieved when she runs out on him in the middle of the night.
Except he has a nasty premonition that he hasn’t heard the last of her. Nor does it take long before he’s proved horribly right, the consequences dire for himself and Detective Kate Guillory.
Meanwhile the dogs of his past continue to snap at his heels as his mentor Elwood Crow’s son Caleb pursues an agenda of his own, forging an unholy alliance with the spiritual and moral blight that is Avery Pentecost, calling into question where his allegiances truly lie.
As if Evan needed reminding, touch evil and evil touches you back in ways you won’t easily forget.
For readers who enjoy gritty, fast-paced crime thrillers, including those by Robert Crais, Robert B. Parker, Harlan Coben, John Sandford, Robert Galbraith and others.
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Published October 28, 2021
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August 16, 2024
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Sacrifice Book 8 of Evan Buckley Thrillers Boxset 3
There is plenty of graphic violence at times, but Sacrifice is still a fine read. We spend some time in this one in the Florida Keys, always a good trip whether by plane or library card. Evan and his elderly friend and co-P.I. Elwood Crow uncovers a new path in the search for Sarah. I enjoyed
Elwood and of course Detective Kate Guillory. I have to admit Kate's police shop partner Ryder, better known as 'Donut', is growing on me, and on Evan as well. Evan has apparently developed a bit of tolerance when dealing with Kate's friend and partner, but he is deeply invested in his Florida search for clues to Sarah's disappearance and doesn't see Kate's problems beginning to gather in her soul. Fortunately, Ryder has her back. We have an introduction to another woman who is potentially a hazard to the cause, a woman seeking retaliation for the death of her brother. It will take all of our 'Good Guys' to sort out this mess. I am a desert dweller, but love Florida, and the boats. Here in New Mexico, our biggest lake is Elephant Butte, a damming of the Rio Grande River the appearance and maybe at times little larger in size than the rain-filled imprint of an elephant's behind planted briefly in the mud.
#9 Rough Justice
We are mostly in small Maine towns again for this fast-flowing mystery, the past still an important part of their world today, and Evan and Kate must decide between polite, judicial justice and actual balancing of the scales - and the cost of putting themselves in charge of making that decision. a couple of amoral bad guys, but our team is up for the challenge. I go back and forth about the inclusion of Crow in our company of crime solvers. Is he a good guy at heart, or just another misguided victim? Only time will tell.
Rough Justice, #9 of the Evan Buckley Thriller series, has an intriguing, well-concealed, convoluted storyline and our usual crew of problem solvers. I enjoyed the addition of the bad cop in this one. We don't see that often enough. Every little town I've ever lived in had a bad cop everyone saw through but nothing could be done about controlling his power.
#10 Touching Darkness
Sacrifice Book 8 of Evan Buckley Thrillers Boxset 3
There is plenty of graphic violence at times, but Sacrifice is still a fine read. We spend some time in this one in the Florida Keys, always a good trip whether by plane or library card. Evan and his elderly friend and co-P.I. Elwood Crow uncovers a new path in the search for Sarah. I enjoyed
Elwood and of course Detective Kate Guillory. I have to admit Kate's police shop partner Ryder, better known as 'Donut', is growing on me, and on Evan as well. Evan has apparently developed a bit of tolerance when dealing with Kate's friend and partner, but he is deeply invested in his Florida search for clues to Sarah's disappearance and doesn't see Kate's problems beginning to gather in her soul. Fortunately, Ryder has her back. We have an introduction to another woman who is potentially a hazard to the cause, a woman seeking retaliation for the death of her brother. It will take all of our 'Good Guys' to sort out this mess. I am a desert dweller, but love Florida, and the boats. Here in New Mexico, our biggest lake is Elephant Butte, a damming of the Rio Grande River the appearance and maybe at times little larger in size than the rain-filled imprint of an elephant's behind planted briefly in the mud.
#9 Rough Justice
We are mostly in small Maine towns again for this fast-flowing mystery, the past still an important part of their world today, and Evan and Kate must decide between polite, judicial justice and actual balancing of the scales - and the cost of putting themselves in charge of making that decision. a couple of amoral bad guys, but our team is up for the challenge. I go back and forth about the inclusion of Crow in our company of crime solvers. Is he a good guy at heart, or just another misguided victim? Only time will tell.
Rough Justice, #9 of the Evan Buckley Thriller series, has an intriguing, well-concealed, convoluted storyline and our usual crew of problem solvers. I enjoyed the addition of the bad cop in this one. We don't see that often enough. Every little town I've ever lived in had a bad cop everyone saw through but nothing could be done about controlling his power.
#10 Touching Darkness
August 2, 2022
Great storytelling, thrilling and suspenseful.
A grratand fast read. Start at book 1 to get the fulleffectof this hapless detective 🕵️♂️ as he stumbles through each case, and lives to tell the tale.
A grratand fast read. Start at book 1 to get the fulleffectof this hapless detective 🕵️♂️ as he stumbles through each case, and lives to tell the tale.
October 10, 2022
As good as it gets.... The Evan Buckley saga continues.
This series is on of the best I have ever gotten into. I know there are seven more to go and it is all I can do to waste enough time for this review before I start the next one. Awesome!!!
This series is on of the best I have ever gotten into. I know there are seven more to go and it is all I can do to waste enough time for this review before I start the next one. Awesome!!!
March 4, 2024
Thrillers
The stories are so riveting, you can't read them fast enough. The author, James Harper, does not actually end the story with a cliffhanger, but you do want to know what comes next. Just don't think you can just read 10 pages or so, try a hundred at one time.
The stories are so riveting, you can't read them fast enough. The author, James Harper, does not actually end the story with a cliffhanger, but you do want to know what comes next. Just don't think you can just read 10 pages or so, try a hundred at one time.
December 27, 2024
Another.One
A thriller with a twist. Evan is again the man without a plan. Reliving his wife's last trip, finding a cat carrier with a girl attached. A whole new world. Good reads!!!
A thriller with a twist. Evan is again the man without a plan. Reliving his wife's last trip, finding a cat carrier with a girl attached. A whole new world. Good reads!!!
May 13, 2025
I am really liking this Evan Buckley series. Lots of mystery and action.
February 12, 2026
I got whiplash from the plot twists.
So good i binge read the series in 2 weeks. I loved the witty reparte and foreshadowing that kept me reading into the wee hours.
So good i binge read the series in 2 weeks. I loved the witty reparte and foreshadowing that kept me reading into the wee hours.
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