Jonathan Valin

A phone ringing after midnight means trouble, especially in private eye Harry Stoner's business. This time the 1:30 call is trouble, all right....

Clients never tell the whole story. He’d seen teens driven by desperation before. And Kirsten’s secrets were tied to an act so chilling that its reemergence could tear lives apart....

Mason Greenleaf - good teacher, good friend, fond lover - vanishes from his Mount Adams home one hot summer afternoon, leaving a haunting mystery behind him....

Detective Harry Stoner has seen better days. It's the middle of January and business is slower than a crawl....

To P.I. Harry Stoner, Ira Lessing had everything to live for: money, a beautiful wife, good friends, and a reputation that would do credit to a saint....

Cincinnati Cougars' Billy Parks was All-Pro…and missing. Harry Stoner's job was to find him and get him into shape for the season. But Billy's photo told Stoner he didn't like the man....

The professor was an eccentric old bird, and his daughter was a delicate flower....

Detective Harry Stoner has seen too much of the seamy side of life not to notice the tarnish on Los Angeles's glitter or the gritty reality behind the never-never land of TV's biggest daytime soaps....

Sheltered but precocious Robbie Segal has run away from home, a small brick house on an unexceptional street....

She was perfect. She smelled of toothpaste, talc, and something sweeter than lilacs....

Stoner is a private eye in the classic tradition: A loner with a history of failed relationships with women and all-too-successful relationships with bottles of scotch....