Böcker utgivna av A.W. Hartoin

A favor that can''t be refused, questionable couples, and plenty of poison. It''s about to get shady in a very sunny place. Vacations can be murder, especially when you''re Mercy Watts. The young nurse agrees to get away from it all to help a friend cope with a devastating loss and it''s not the worst idea. She could use a break from her godmothers'' lawsuit and a certain situation with the mafia. But, on a whim, Mercy''s mother decides that instead of a cruise their trip is going to be to Roatan, Honduras, a place known for scuba diving and lawlessness. A sunny place for shady people the locals call it and they''re not wrong. Mercy''s on the island less than twenty-four hours when she discovers that she hasn''t gotten away from anything. Her troubles hitched a ride and increased tenfold. The crux of her mafia problem is right there on the island. Lucia Carrow is related to the Fibonacci crime family and somebody has it in for her. They just keep missing their target. But is Lucia supposed to die or is her husband the intended victim? The Fibonaccis expect Mercy to protect Lucia and figure out who''s behind the attempts, but the deeper she dives, the more dangerous her vacation becomes. Mercy must stop a murder or she''ll be next on the hit list.

Would you commit a crime to save a child?Mercy Watts is off to Colorado for a ski trip with her boyfriend and his parents. She thinks her biggest problem will be pretending to be a normal girlfriend. A girlfriend that doesn''t know how to pick locks and absolutely never gets her face on the national news. But a desperate friend asks a favor that cannot be refused. A child in St. Louis is in desperate need of a drug that can only be found in Colorado. The problem? It''s illegal in Missouri. The math works for Mercy and she figures she can fit a little smuggling in between trips up the lift and dips in the hot tub. Simple, right? Not quite. Before she has a chance to do much of anything, a brutal crime is committed and Mercy becomes a suspect. The cops are all over her  and now she''s saddled with a pint-sized partner, a stalker, and a ticking clock. All she has to do is solve a crime in order to commit a crime. A child''s life hangs in the balance. No pressure.

What do a dead cop, a murdered bride, and a sizzling summer have in common? Mercy Watts, of course.Nurse and dutiful daughter, Mercy Watts is on vacation from her parents. The great detective and his loving wife are on a cruise and, for the first time in years, Mercy thinks she''s off the hook. She won''t be doing any investigating for the family firm. No tailing suspects. No background checks. Nothing but her own stuff for three whole weeks. She''s thrilled.But when Tommy''s old partner has a fatal heart attack out of nowhere, Dad has one of his famous feelings and orders Mercy to look into it. She tries not to get sucked in. She really does. But she is her father''s daughter. Soon Gavin''s death leads to a more grisly one, the death of a bride on her wedding day. Can the two be connected? Was Gavin murdered? Now Mercy can''t stop. You do for family. That''s all there is to it.

November 1939It''s been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty''s Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early. The earl uses his influence to make her a courier, a job well below her skills, but it''s not as simple as it seems. The new head of the service isn''t convinced of her worth and Stella has to use the opportunity to show him that she and other women can deliver for Britain or she''s out on her ear. That would be enough to make any newly-minted spy nervous, but the earl isn''t done. He has a favor to ask and the request sends Stella to a place that will haunt her forever. 

For newlywed Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it''s cracked up to be. She''s on her honeymoon, young and blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, Hitler''s first large-scale action against the Jews of Germany and Austria.  Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night''s atrocities first hand and, during the chaos their Jewish tour guide, Abel, disappears. They search the city only to find Abel arrested and being shoved into a boxcar. Abel gives Stella a package and asks two promises of her, to deliver the package to his family in Paris and not to exchange the package for his life, no matter what the Nazis promise her. Stella agrees and, before she knows it, she and Nicky are identified by the SS and being chased across Europe. Money and fame can''t help the young couple as it becomes clear the Nazis will do anything to get Abel''s package, including killing them. Stella must decide who and what she''s willing to sacrifice to keep a secret that Abel''s family has been guarding for five hundred years.

November, 1938It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn''t done. Abel Hershmann''s cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the family secret he carried. Stella and her husband, Nicky, follow, intent on warning them.But things don''t go to plan. Venice is flooded, Stella aggravates her injuries, and the cousins are no where to be found. Suspicions abound and friends are hard to find. Italy has fallen under Hitler''s spell and nothing is as it was. The Nazis and, in particular, SS Oberf├╝hrer Peiper still want their prize and believe Stella and Nicky have it. Stella will have to decide how far her loyalty goes and where she belongs: far away safe from the gathering storm or on the front lines with a chance to change the course of the coming war. Her choices will affect her family''s future for generations to come.