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 into a law enforcement nightmare, time is short. Only Wil Hardesty, a private eye who has more in common with the case than anyone knows, is willing to push hard enough–and dig deep enough–to find the cruelest of killers. The killer of The Innocents…

You pick up the Kindle version here and the Nook edition here.