J.D. Hawkins Books
Listen, Jack Hawkins, and listen well... Mystery writer Jack Hawkins thinks it's just an oddbail prank caller reciting a quote from one of his detective novels. It is actually the beginning of a nightmare. You have just committed murder. You have killed to come alive. Now Jack Hawkins is the best known mystery writer in Boston and the prime suspect in this series of grisly murders terrifying the city. I am the death inside you. I am the voice in the dark. You create. I destroy You die... then I die. By the time Jack begins to guess what this madman means, it is too late. Far, far too late.
J.D. Hawkins, the wheelchair-bound writer-detective, finds himself caught up in a mystery involving kidnapped children, the murder of a private investigator, and the underground world of Boston's police department
Wheelchair-bound author Jack Hawkins complains only mildly when the producer of the TV movie made from his police novel changes the black widow of the title to a blonde, when her dead cop husband metamorphoses from black to a matching shade, and when the small, cynical Casey himself is made over to suit the appearance of the hunk who plays him. But then events that vary from mean pranks to potential murder begin to occur. Jack and his fiancee, Megan, are impelled into a search for the reason that this harmless and basically simpleminded film should be imperiling the lives of not only the actors and crew but some of Jack's policeman friends as well. What they find is alarming: Behind the tricks and the mayhem is an unbalanced mind—one capable of being clever, devious, and blindly determined on revenging an imagined hurt. The hunt takes Jack to an encounter with a hired assassin, to the estate of the leader of a right-wing military cult, and finally, into an underground hiding place where he is held, bound and helpless, in what is a terrifying prison and a perverted shrine. This is Rodman Philbrick's third novel about the ingenious and quietly dauntless Hawkins and his spirited Meg; readers who haven't met them previously will want to catch up quickly.
Crime writer J.D. Hawkins believes that "bad things happen when people lie, even when good people lie." Was macho crime writer Howard Holton living a lie up to the time when he drowned in the Nantucket surf? And why has Holton's unsolved death come back to haunt novelist Fiona Darling, who has a few secrets of her own to hide? When Hawkins and his gutsy life mate Megan Drew set out to prove that Fiona is the author of a certain manuscript, they stumble into a deadly family secret that will leave one victim hanging from a velvet noose and another running for her life. In a tale of intrigue, greed, and betrayal that will test his intimacy with Meg and put him at risk of felony arrest, Jack Hawkins must confront not only the dark nightmare that leads to murder, but the quirks and kinks of human nature—and that, as he and Megan discover, is the only real mystery worthy of our attention. Walk on the Wateris the fourth novel featuring J.D. Hawkins and Megan Drew, and in terms of complexity, suspense, and crackling good writing, it just may be the best yet.