In Richard Hawke's newest, House of Secrets, the people who know that Senator Andy Foster's charm can get the better of him have bugged the Shelter Island bungalow where the up-and-coming senator is enjoying a midnight tryst with a beautiful campaign adviser. But all hell breaks loose when a man carrying an iron pipe comes crashing through the bedroom's sliding glass door. Within seconds, the young woman lies bloodied, dead on the sheets, and Foster has fled in panic. And it's all on tape.
As momentum builds for Foster's likely selection as the next Vice President, the senator's only hope of keeping his involvement with the murdered woman secret is to locate his blackmailers. But even they don't have their hands on the devastating images. The man they used for the job has turned the tables and is blackmailing them. Are we talking a major mess here? You bet.
Richard Hawke's previous two novels, Speak of the Devil and Cold Day in Hell introduced NYC gumshoe Fritz Malone onto the mystery scene. The Washington Post decreed that Hawke "had me putting my hand over the next page to keep from peeking. [His] plot grabs us by the throat." With a different pen in hand, Hawke is known as the writer Tim Cockey, author of the award winning 'Hearse' series.
