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1) Burn
Author
Series
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
When he is accused of stalking a woman he swears he's never met, a local businessman asks Fred Carver for help clearing his name Joel Brandt swears he's never met the woman before. His wife dead six months before, the small-time businessman is perplexed when Del Moray police inform him that a local woman, Marla Cloy, has accused him of harassing her. According to her, Joel has been lurking outside of her house, following her car, even assaulting...
Author
Series
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Forced into early retirement by a bullet to the knee, ex-cop Fred Carver undertakes a missing persons case that quickly places him in mortal danger When the criminal's bullet shattered his knee, Fred Carver's colleagues called him lucky. Between his pension and the insurance check, they said, he had a nice, easy retirement to look forward to. But Fred Carver would rather have his knee. His career finished, his marriage over, he takes a halfhearted...
3) Flame
Author
Series
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
When a client dies in a car explosion, Orlando detective Fred Carver learns the man may not have been who he said he was For Bert Renway, it starts out as a simple proposition: a fat bundle of money to spend a few weeks impersonating Frank Wesley, a local tycoon. But after a while Bert grows suspicious of the easy money, and seeks help in the shape of Fred Carver, an ex–Orlando policeman turned private investigator. Like Bert, Carver smells trouble,...
4) Hot
Author
Series
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Investigating cocaine smuggling in the Florida Keys, Fred Carver stumbles on a crime far worse than drug pushing When Henry Tiller barges into Fred Carver's office, the old man seems crazy. He tells a paranoid story about one of his neighbors on the sunny Florida Key where he makes his home-a wealthy man whom he suspects of using his yacht to run drugs. A young boy recently washed up on the beach, Tiller says, and he's certain it was murder. Carver...
5) Kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
When a client dies in a car explosion, Orlando detective Fred Carver learns the man may not have been who he said he was For Bert Renway, it starts out as a simple proposition: a fat bundle of money to spend a few weeks impersonating Frank Wesley, a local tycoon. But after a while Bert grows suspicious of the easy money, and seeks help in the shape of Fred Carver, an ex–Orlando policeman turned private investigator. Like Bert, Carver smells trouble,...
6) Lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
After an explosion causes his lover to miscarry, Fred Carver hunts for the man who planted the bomb Fred Carver's lover, Beth, is not a woman who wants to be tied down. When she learns that she is pregnant with the detective's child, she resists his attempts to marry her and initially wants to have an abortion. Finally, love wins out, and they decide to raise the child together. Stopping by the abortion clinic to cancel her appointment, Beth is...
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