Vaughn C Hardacker: 5 books

Ancient horrors come to life in this “chilling supernatural thriller to be read . . . with all the lights on and the doors and windows locked” (Kennebec Journal). Algonquin legend tells of the Wendigo, an evil, cannibalistic spirit reborn in winter to possess and punish mankind. For John...

When Private Investigator Ed Traynor is summoned to a remote spot in the New Hampshire woods by his old friend County Sheriff Buck Buchanan, he's puzzled. Since leaving the force, Buck has never called him to a homicide scene before. But when he arrives, Ed learns that the victim is his brother, John....

When an actress turns up in the morgue, an ex-cop and a private investigator must hunt a vicious killer across Los Angeles, in “this hard-hitting crime novel” (Publishers Weekly).   Two months after leaving the comforts of her New Hampshire family estate, aspiring actress Melinda Hollis vanishes...

A Boston investigator becomes bait for a madman in this “suspenseful . . . cop-vs.-military thriller” by a Maine Literary Award finalist (Kirkus Reviews). When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate...

After tracking down a crazed sniper last year, homicide detective Mike Houston opted to leave Boston for the isolated mountains of Maine. He adjusted nicely to chopping his own firewood, relaxing in his log cabin, and simply enjoying the solitude of the mountains. But then his former partner,...