Burial Ground: Writer's Cut (Alex Rourke Book 3)

(Twelve people. One night. No way out. Troubled private d...)

Twelve people. One night. No way out. Troubled private detective Alex Rourke comes to Tennessee mountain country on a thin lead to a past killing, the deaths covered up and unavenged. When the night comes down and people start dying, it's not just those around him he's looking to save in the storm-blasted valley in the middle of nowhere; he's desperately trying to hold on to his own crumbling sanity as he teeters on the edge of a complete psychotic break. Trapped in the run-down rest stop at the valley's heart, killers both outside and in, nowhere safe and no one to turn to, Alex is going to have to sort the real from the imagined, truth from fiction, fast if anyone's going to live to see morning... Originally released by Penguin in 2008, this 'writer's cut' version has been almost completely rewritten from the ground up to turn it into the story it should've been, and not the story it was. PRAISE FOR JOHN RICKARDS: "Rickards is a master of tension and pacing. In Rourke he has created a brilliant anti-hero lead on a par with John Connolly's Charlie Parker." - Crimespree Magazine "Rickards is one author who doesn't pull punches." - Spinetingler

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The Touch Of Ghosts: Writer's Cut (Alex Rourke Book 1)

("The thing with avenging someone is that the victims who ...)

"The thing with avenging someone is that the victims who deserve it the most are always the ones who'd want it the least." Boston private investigator Alex Rourke has had to overcome personal tragedy and the emotional trauma it's caused to him before. But that's nothing to what he faces when the disappearance of a young man from a tough part of town takes him to the back country of northern Vermont. Adam Webb wasn't the first person to vanish in this stretch of the Green Mountains, and he won't be the last. Ghost towns, drug trafficking, blood and violence, all secrets buried beneath the stark, clean white of the January snows. With everything Alex holds dear either taken from him or quickly slipping through his grasp, keeping his sanity - and his life - will mean getting to the root of the evil in the frozen state. If he still wants either of those things, that is... THE TOUCH OF GHOSTS: WRITER'S CUT is a heavily rewritten and re-edited version of a novel first published by Penguin in 2003. While both this and the original form of the story are mysteries, the redrafting process for the original turned the story largely into a conventional whodunnit - a form it was thoroughly ill-suited to - whereas at the time of first writing, the idea behind it was to create a crime thriller exploring the different ways people deal with loss and tragedy, where solving the crime took second place to coming through events with your humanity intact, and without grief and anger turning you into the very thing that had hurt you in the first place. This novel is the first in the newly-reworked Alex Rourke series of stories.

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The Desperate, The Dying, And The Damned (Alex Rourke Book 4)

(Phil Durand is a low level functionary within one of Bost...)

Phil Durand is a low level functionary within one of Boston's organized crime outfits. A delivery driver, nothing more. When his girlfriend Evie goes missing three days before they were due to leave town together to start a better, clean, life down in Florida, he turns to the only man he knows with a reputation for helping guys like him. Alex Rourke was once a respected investigator, first with the FBI and then in the private sector. Now he battles a long-term mental illness that's seen him slide from doing respectable work to ekeing out a living help those with no one else to turn to. Durand's missing girlfriend looks like just a bread-and-butter job for him and his sardonic, secretive assistant Kayleigh. But they soon find that something's very wrong with what they've been told. Has Evie genuinely been missing for a few days? Was she really Durand's girlfriend? Is their client lying, or deranged? And how does what happened to the missing woman tie in to the outfit Durand works for, not to mention a rival boss in a neighboring part of town? The race is on to find Evie, find the truth, and untangle the knots in Durand's story before one side, or another, does it for them... PRAISE FOR JOHN RICKARDS: "Rickards is a master of tension and pacing. In Rourke he has created a brilliant anti-hero lead on a par with John Connolly's Charlie Parker." - Crimespree Magazine "Rickards is one author who doesn't pull punches." - Spinetingler "Rickards is definitely one to watch." - Peter Robinson (Watching The Dark, Aftermath)

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The Darkness Inside: Writer's Cut (Alex Rourke Book 2)

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Alex Rourke (4 Book Series)

(From Book 1: "The thing with avenging someone is that the...)

From Book 1: "The thing with avenging someone is that the victims who deserve it the most are always the ones who'd want it the least." Boston private investigator Alex Rourke has had to overcome personal tragedy and the emotional trauma it's caused to him before. But that's nothing to what he faces when the disappearance of a young man from a tough part of town takes him to the back country of northern Vermont. Adam Webb wasn't the first person to vanish in this stretch of the Green Mountains, and he won't be the last. Ghost towns, drug trafficking, blood and violence, all secrets buried beneath the stark, clean white of the January snows. With everything Alex holds dear either taken from him or quickly slipping through his grasp, keeping his sanity - and his life - will mean getting to the root of the evil in the frozen state. If he still wants either of those things, that is... THE TOUCH OF GHOSTS: WRITER'S CUT is a heavily rewritten and re-edited version of a novel first published by Penguin in 2003. While both this and the original form of the story are mysteries, the redrafting process for the original turned the story largely into a conventional whodunnit - a form it was thoroughly ill-suited to - whereas at the time of first writing, the idea behind it was to create a crime thriller exploring the different ways people deal with loss and tragedy, where solving the crime took second place to coming through events with your humanity intact, and without grief and anger turning you into the very thing that had hurt you in the first place. This novel is the first in the newly-reworked Alex Rourke series of stories.

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