Tag Archives: Richard Barre
The Official Down & Out Books BOGO Offer – Entire Month of November and December!!!
Yep, you heard it right! Buy one, get one…FREE Here’s the dealio: 1. Buy any book published by Down & Out Books during November and December 2. Read and enjoy it 3. Post a review 4. Send an email with your posted review, the name you posted the review as, which Down and Out title [...]
Richard Barre’s BURNING MOON
Down & Out Books proudly releases BURNING MOON, the 5th Wil Hardesty novel by Richard Barre. The California Coast: Off San Miguel Island a fishing boat struggles in the battering-ram seas and blinding rain of a sudden squall… On the beach near his home, private investigator Wil Hardesty is approached by a Vietnamese fisherman. Vinh [...]
Get Crimespree Magazine #46 Mar/Apr before it arrives in your mailbox!
Crimespree #46′s cover feature is none other than Brad Parks. He is interviewed by Jon Jordan. Ayo Onatade talks with Belinda Bauer who won the CWA Gold Dagger in 2010. Scott Montgomery writes about the great Milton T. Burton. Keith Thomson explains how to construct a beer can bazooka (complete with pictures!) and Richard Barre [...]
The 4th Wil Hardesty Mystery is now available as an eBook!
Blackheart Highway By Richard Barre With The Innocents, Bearing Secrets and The Ghosts of Morning, Richard Barre has emerged as “one of the best hard-boiled detective novelists of the ‘90s” (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review). Now, with Blackheart Highway, he takes the genre for the ride of its life. Southern California P.I. Wil Hardesty is [...]
The third Wil Hardesty mystery, The Ghosts of Morning, available as an eBook
In his Shamus Award winning first novel, The Innocents, Richard Barre introduced audiences to Wil Hardesty, “a person trying hard to survive a few of life’s dirtier tricks” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). He’s a private eye with a deep, dark past–and an uncertain future. In The Ghosts of Morning, Barre plunges even further into Wil’s history, [...]
Recap of 2011 and a look into 2012
What a year! In seven short months, Down and Out Books dropped 15 books by seven authors as well as 13 issues of Crimespree Magazine. I, for one, cannot believe how much was accomplished. And that’s only the beginning. 2012 is shaping up to be another great year for you Constant Reader. Right out of [...]
Richard Barre’s Christmas Stories: In the Tradition of Rod Serling
For the first time ever, three of Richard Barre’s magnificent Christmas stories are collected along with the forewords. Come along for a journey with a few of the best short stories written in the last 20 years. These stories were originally published in very limited print runs over 3 years. THE STAR is a story [...]
Richard Barre’s 2nd Wil Hardesty novel, Bearing Secrets, is available as an eBook
The second book in the Wil Hardesty series by Shamus Award winner Richard Barre is available as an eBook. Everyone bears secrets. Some of them become the lies we live. Others become the lies that kill. Wil Hardesty knows about secrets and how they build, one on another, until the truth is buried. Faced with [...]
Richard Barre – The Innocents
Richard Barre’s The Innocents won the 1996 Shamus Winner for Best First P.I. Novel and is now available as an eBook. Synopsis: There are seven of them. Children–innocents–whose long-buried remains are uncovered by a flash-flood. No one knows who could have committed such a crime. Clues are scarce, and with the media turning the story [...]
