This is the first three books in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter Mystery series.
Mystery, love, and action this series has it all.
BOOK 1: ALL THE GOOD GIRLS:Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.
Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found dead in a … neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found dead in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime.
Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.
Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.
BOOK 2: RUN GIRL RUN:
When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter.
Everything points to a murder-suicide.
They were homeless, living in their car, and the mother decided to end it all for them both by driving into the water.
But the case is not what it looks like, Detective Harry Hunter soon realizes.
Harry’s daughter is carrying devastating knowledge about their deaths, and soon she becomes the killer’s next target.
As Harry races to protect her, he is betrayed by someone he thought he knew, leaving him terrified of trusting anyone in a town filled with liars.
BOOK 3: NO OTHER WAY:
Three women went on a road trip to Key West. Only two returned. When asked what happened, their stories don’t completely match.
Who is telling the truth?
What are they hiding?
Detective Harry Hunter of the Miami PD is in church on a peaceful Sunday morning when a young teenager pulls out a gun and shoots his own father.
Once the shock is gone, Harry starts to ask himself the question no one else seems to care about: What makes a young boy want to kill his own father?
When more blood is shed, Harry suspects there’s a secret buried in this town that no one wants unearthed. What are the people around him not telling him?
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I love this author — everything I have read that has been written by her is exciting and hard to put down — love all her characters.
This was a great series. The characters were real, the story grabs you right from the start. A little different from some of the other books by Willow Rose but the quality of the work is still excellent as always.
Loved the characters. Just a little to short because I read it so fast. Lol. But like that the main character hunter was down to earth and was not A shame to show that a man can cry.
I really LOVE this series. I need her to write more Harry Hunter books.
In this box set, all 3 books about Harry Hunter’s cases are brought together. They’re not long stories. So, it is nice to have them all put together so you can follow the background story that involves his wife. This item becomes more and more important as the book proceeds. In every book, Harry also tackles another case.
1. ALL THE GOOD GIRLS
Detective Harry Hunter has a special hatred for drug dealers. His wife was an addict when he met her and has been clean since. They have a beautiful (now 14-year-old) daughter and should be happy. But 3 years ago, she relapsed without any obvious reason or signs, and overdosed; However they saved her life, she’s been in a coma ever since.
His boss Major Fowler has enough of his violent outburst against drug offenders and takes off the drug squad and wants him to focus on a new case. 4 young girls have been viciously slaughtered on a boat that belonged to one of their parents. A 5th girl has been found murdered in a dumpster. All of them were witnesses to an alleged rape a year earlier but refused to acknowledge it happened. The raped girl herself went missing 8 months ago. Hunter is not supposed to look into the case; his boss wants him to act as bodyguard to the alleged rapist. He despises the boy immediately and that only becomes worse the more he gets to know him. Police suspect that the missing girl is their killer, but Hunter doesn’t buy it.
The eventual solution wasn’t far from what I assumed but of course, there was an unexpected twist. The story is too short for any real character development, but the actors have interesting personalities and there’s real drama brewing up for the next tales.
There was a bit too much religious talk and praying in these stories for my liking, but as Harry’s dad is a pastor I can understand it to an extent. It may be what American readers like, but it doesn’t add anything to the story.
2. RUN GIRL RUN
Emilia, 11 years old, lives in her car with her mother and loves the schooldays but hates the long weekends when she has nothing to do. The nights are the worst, she wakes up every hour and has nightmares about a man with steel-grey-eyes. One night she wakes up when the car is pushed into the dock where they were parked, the last thing she sees is the man from her nightmares.
Harry Hunter, a successful police detective has a tough home life. His wife just woke up from a 3-year-long coma after a drug overdose but she’s nothing like her old self, she only says her daughter’s name and has no control over her body. Even with intensive revalidation, she’ll never recover completely. But bad luck strikes again when 14-year-old daughter Josie suffers a cardiac arrest and needs an urgent heart transplant. Emilia, who’s been declared brain dead, is a fitting donor. Despite being busy with the ‘four seasons’ case, Harry tracks down Emilia’s father and secures his consent for her being an organ donor.
Once recovered from the transplant, Josie starts showing differences in food favourites and dislikes, but she also has nightmares with peculiar details about Emilia’s death and that the car was pushed by this man instead of it being a suicide/murder by the mother. This, without her having any knowledge about the identity or manner of death of her donor. But it also meant that, if what Josie was dreaming actually happened, then somewhere out there was a murderer who had killed Emilia and Jennifer Garcia, and who was getting away with it. …
The theory behind this phenomenon is that memory is accessible or processed through the cells, and since the heart possesses cells similar to the brain, and it has been proven that the heart sends information to the brain, it may be possible that information about memories and traits may be transferred to the recipient’s brain. So that heart transplant recipients can receive information through the donor’s heart after it has become part of their body? That’s the theory.
This is a short, fast-paced read that keeps the tension up until the end. I buy the transplant-memory, as there are plenty of cases confirming this possibility (not that it happens all the time) but there are a bit too many coincidences for my liking to keep the story credible. If you overlook those, it’s a good book.
One thing to remark about this story is that the detective doesn’t seem to have much work to do. He has this ‘4 season’s case’ but without any new leads, there’s not much movement there. But wouldn’t he be assigned to other cases I ask myself, here it looks that his boss doesn’t have an idea what his detectives do and his department can’t be overly busy for his detectives to do whatever takes their fancy.
3. NO OTHER WAY
When Harry Hunter attends church one Sunday with his father and daughter there are noisy people in front of him. A father and his son are having a loud discussion that explodes into violence when the kid pulls out a gun. Harry tries to talk the boy down and almost succeeds when an armed policeman breaks the spell. It ends in a tragedy with both father and son being shot albeit both survive. Josie asks her dad why the boy did it and he can’t but wonder as well what the father must have done for Nick to bring a gun to church and shoot his father. His boss tells him that the boy is the son of the State Attorney and will be tried as an adult. The kid refuses to talk to anyone, not even to his lawyer. Harry asks if he can have a go with the boy.
It doesn’t take long to discover that 10 years ago the boy’s mother (the State Attorney’s wife) was murdered in Florida under mysterious circumstances. The statements of the 2 friends travelling with her are eerily similar (almost word by word) but also absurdly contradictory on a few important elements. Did his dad kill his mother, despite having an alibi? The father brings some very incrementing evidence (which I thought to be false) about his son and claims that he’s a pathological liar and wants him locked up for life. Spoken of parental love!
At home, things don’t look too well. Josie is 14 and starts being rebellious at times. His wife’s recovering after a 2-year-long come but her condition doesn’t seem to improve and since he’s been told that she knew about the human trafficking ring that he recently closed down, he starts to resent her. She’s transferred to a facility offering experimental oxygen treatment and finally, there’s some progress. At the same time, he knows that his crush on neighbour and best friend Josie is mutual but can’t lead to anything other than heartache.
Because of the police-corruption that was exposed as a result of the previous case which leads to a lot of job-losses and demotions, Harry is stalked, threatened even shot at and generally despised by many of his colleagues. Even his home and family aren’t safe. It is clear that they only scratched the surface of this organisation and that much more is still hidden. Eventually, Camille comes clear how she was involved with the human traffickers. Harry is disgusted with her, what she’s done and her excuses for doing so. But it’s now clear that the violence against their family isn’t just to shut up Harry, but even more to silence Camille as she knows all the details, names and secrets of the gang leaders.
This is a fast-paced story, things happen one after the other, with some home-life scenes as very brief breathers. But even those serve a higher purpose as the pieces of the puzzle gather and form an unpleasant, ugly picture of greed, selfishness, abuse, and corruption. Despite having guessed part of the story, the real and full picture was still a big surprise to me. It’s one of these cases when every time you think to know the truth, there’s a twist that changes things completely. The tension is kept nicely up throughout the whole of the book.
In this 3rd part, there’s more focus on the romantic elements and the main detective work is wrapped up earlier than usual. But there are of course the loose ends from the previous book that connects all the stories in this series.
I’m not certain if this is the end of the Harry Hunter series, but at the end of the book, the loose ends of the previous stories are all nicely wrapped up. It takes a few artistic surgeries to create a plausible HEA, but Harry, Josie, Jean and even Camille all deserve a new start in life and some direly needed rest as well. How exactly it all works out, you must find out yourself.