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    Sacrificial Ground
    Night Secrets
    Flesh and Blood
    Ebook series3 titles

    The Frank Clemons Mysteries Series

    By Thomas H. Cook

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    About this series

    Frank Clemons, an ex-cop turned private detective, faces a pair of perplexing cases on the mean streets of New York City
     
    The first case is simple. A wealthy man’s wife has grown distant, and he asks Frank Clemons, a private eye hardened by his past work on Atlanta’s homicide beat, to find out why. There are a number of simple reasons why a young woman might withdraw from her older husband, but the spurned spouse rejects them all. Her jewelry is disappearing, but he insists that she doesn’t have trouble with blackmail, drugs, or gambling. The answer must be more complex, and he begs Frank to find out what it is.
     
    Meanwhile, an old woman familiar to Frank from his nights haunting Tenth Avenue has been murdered, and a gypsy priestess claims that she killed her. But Frank is unconvinced, and unearthing these women’s secrets will force him deep into the dark side of a city that he still cannot call home.
     
    Night Secrets is the third book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysteriousPress.com Open Road
    Release dateJan 1, 1995
    Sacrificial Ground
    Night Secrets
    Flesh and Blood

    Titles in the series (3)

    • Flesh and Blood
      Flesh and Blood

      Flesh and Blood

      Thomas H. Cook
      3/5 - 1 rating
      3/5 - 1 rating

      Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates a brutal slashing   The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the South, but despite the glitz of his new surroundings and the beauty of the woman he shares them with, the city makes his skin crawl. Now a private eye, he is only at ease in the city’s darker corners, among the whores, gamblers, and pimps who call Eighth Avenue home. That affinity for the isolated is what draws him to Hannah Karlsberg, an elderly seamstress who deserved a better death than she got.   Hannah’s employer asks Clemons to find the victim’s next of kin, so the police can release the body for burial. As he learns about the dead woman’s past, which stretches back to the Lower East Side of the 1930s, Clemons becomes obsessed with unearthing the decades-old secret that led to her death.   Flesh and Blood is the second book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

      Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates a brutal slashing   The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the South, but despite the glitz of his new surroundings and the beauty of the woman he shares them with, the city makes his skin crawl. Now a private eye, he is only at ease in the city’s darker corners, among the whores, gamblers, and pimps who call Eighth Avenue home. That affinity for the isolated is what draws him to Hannah Karlsberg, an elderly seamstress who deserved a better death than she got.   Hannah’s employer asks Clemons to find the victim’s next of kin, so the police can release the body for burial. As he learns about the dead woman’s past, which stretches back to the Lower East Side of the 1930s, Clemons becomes obsessed with unearthing the decades-old secret that led to her death.   Flesh and Blood is the second book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

    • Sacrificial Ground
      Sacrificial Ground

      Sacrificial Ground

      Thomas H. Cook
      3/5 - 1 rating
      3/5 - 1 rating

      Edgar Award Finalist: A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl’s killer.   The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her—a white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a rich girl from a cold family, too genteel for the neighborhood where she died, and only the baby in her belly suggests how she might have gotten there.   For Detective Frank Clemons, the scene is far too familiar. Too close to how it was when he found his own daughter, dead in the woods by her own hand, her youthful beauty cruelly ravaged by depression. Her suicide ended his marriage and sent him on a downward spiral that has nearly claimed his own life. To hang on to sanity, he must do everything he can to find justice for the dead.   Sacrificial Ground is the first book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

      Edgar Award Finalist: A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl’s killer.   The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her—a white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a rich girl from a cold family, too genteel for the neighborhood where she died, and only the baby in her belly suggests how she might have gotten there.   For Detective Frank Clemons, the scene is far too familiar. Too close to how it was when he found his own daughter, dead in the woods by her own hand, her youthful beauty cruelly ravaged by depression. Her suicide ended his marriage and sent him on a downward spiral that has nearly claimed his own life. To hang on to sanity, he must do everything he can to find justice for the dead.   Sacrificial Ground is the first book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

    • Night Secrets
      Night Secrets

      Night Secrets

      Thomas H. Cook
      3/5 - 1 rating
      3/5 - 1 rating

      Frank Clemons, an ex-cop turned private detective, faces a pair of perplexing cases on the mean streets of New York City   The first case is simple. A wealthy man’s wife has grown distant, and he asks Frank Clemons, a private eye hardened by his past work on Atlanta’s homicide beat, to find out why. There are a number of simple reasons why a young woman might withdraw from her older husband, but the spurned spouse rejects them all. Her jewelry is disappearing, but he insists that she doesn’t have trouble with blackmail, drugs, or gambling. The answer must be more complex, and he begs Frank to find out what it is.   Meanwhile, an old woman familiar to Frank from his nights haunting Tenth Avenue has been murdered, and a gypsy priestess claims that she killed her. But Frank is unconvinced, and unearthing these women’s secrets will force him deep into the dark side of a city that he still cannot call home.   Night Secrets is the third book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

      Frank Clemons, an ex-cop turned private detective, faces a pair of perplexing cases on the mean streets of New York City   The first case is simple. A wealthy man’s wife has grown distant, and he asks Frank Clemons, a private eye hardened by his past work on Atlanta’s homicide beat, to find out why. There are a number of simple reasons why a young woman might withdraw from her older husband, but the spurned spouse rejects them all. Her jewelry is disappearing, but he insists that she doesn’t have trouble with blackmail, drugs, or gambling. The answer must be more complex, and he begs Frank to find out what it is.   Meanwhile, an old woman familiar to Frank from his nights haunting Tenth Avenue has been murdered, and a gypsy priestess claims that she killed her. But Frank is unconvinced, and unearthing these women’s secrets will force him deep into the dark side of a city that he still cannot call home.   Night Secrets is the third book in the Frank Clemons Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

    Author

    Thomas H. Cook

    Thomas H. Cook is the author of twenty-three books, including The Chatham School Affair, which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel, and, most recently, The Last Talk with Lola Faye.

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