Bücher von Dave Hart

A well-meaning journalist's ill-conceived exposé implicates Trenton's long-tenured police chief in a scheme to deceive the public by underreporting its homicides to the National Crime Bureau. When the police chief suddenly disappears, McKenzie 'Mac' Cole, a private investigator with a Jersey attitude is called in to investigate. The search for the missing police chief and answers to the conundrum left in his wake leads Cole on a winding road down along the New Jersey Shore and into the police chief's murky past. Tethered to the inquisitive female journalist the two find they have more in common than simply the goal of locating the enigmatic police chief and setting the record straight.When they discover that an obscure out of print book may hold the key to unlocking the secret to the mystery behind the manipulated records, the chasm in their relationship only widens until they find themselves on opposite sides of the table.

McKenzie Cole is a private investigator with a Jersey attitude. When a dignified aging moralist hires him to reopen a forty-four-year-old unsolved murder case so she can nail the coffin shut on her estranged first husband, Cole is skeptical. But it's a paycheck. Soon the "e;Hair"e;-raising mystery that ensues has Cole changing his tune. Challenged by conspiratorial cops anxious to keep the dead buried, a hermitic psychic harboring private visions of the past, and an assertive journalist with family secrets of her own, Cole finds himself back in school, where he learns that modern forensics applied to cold-case homicides can spawn unexpected results. In this latest McKenzie Cole tale-inspired by a true event-justice remains elusive until murder is laid to rest!

Dave Hart was born in LaSalle in southern Ontario in 1935 and moved to the lake country of northern Ontario when he was 10 years old. He was a guide at his parents new tourist lodge and was educated through correspondence courses. He did three years of high school at a boarding school then worked for a mine developing company as a prospector. After a couple of other short term jobs he was accepted into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and served for almost 21 years on small detachments in the arctic, Alberta andBritish Columbia. He spent two years in the Federal Public Service as Personnel Officer, but found it too boring and went into the general labour force as a welder, lumber grader, sawyer and grader operator. He was hired by the Village of Masset as foreman of Public Works and in six years moved to the Superintendant's position. Six years later, after the death of his second wife he retired and moved to Sundre, Alberta where he presently lives.

When one declared your enemy becomes your trusted friend...When Lee Karis, a simple working man, finds Benjamin Qasem, a fugitive POW, hiding in the local park one night, what begins as an act of kindness becomes a friendship stronger and more committed than either could have anticipated. But their friendship is unacceptable to the government and the cultural norms around them, and soon the two find that retreat to the seclusion of New York's forests is the only way to preserve their bond. One will give his life for his friend. And the other will face his soul's darkest day.