Book Review: Do Unto Others by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: Do Unto Others

Subtitle: An Evan Buckley Crime Thriller (Evan Buckley Thrillers Book 20)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 20

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196224435-do-unto-others

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

It’s time to pay back a debt. Stan Fraser calls in to collect and asks Evan to find his son. Arlo disappeared many years before, but Stan believes his son is now in danger. Will Evan find him in time? Is Arlo still alive? And, does he want to come home?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is one of many books I’ve read by this author, and I look forward to reading more.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

Five years ago, a light aircraft owned by Mexican drug baron and people trafficker Esteban Aguilar went down in the middle of the Louisiana swamps. The pilot and another man were found dead inside, both shot to death. The prisoner who’d been handcuffed in the back was nowhere to be found. Nor was a couple of million in dirty cash or something else a lot more valuable in the wrong hands.

 

Suddenly it’s payback time for PI Evan Buckley. He owes crime boss Stan Fraser a favor – and Stan doesn't like to be told, no. Find his son Arlo who just went missing trying to get to the bottom of the unsolved cold case down in Louisiana - or face the consequences.

 

From a corrupt politician whose career is on the line to the psychopathic brother of the prisoner who escaped to a retired cop nursing his dreams of bloody revenge, everybody’s got an agenda. There's only one thing they can all agree on - Evan has to be stopped before he uncovers the truth.

 

With his every move dogged by the enigmatic minder Stan's saddled him with, Evan knows that if he can't find Arlo and bring him home in one piece, he might as well not come home at all.

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Book Review: See No Evil by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: See No Evil

Subtitle: An Evan Buckley Crime Thriller (Evan Buckley Thrillers Book 19)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 19

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131118206-see-no-evil

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Evan is hired by Ava to find the killer of her boyfriend. But things aren’t as they seem. He appears to have been shot because of something he had seen, but things don't fully add up when Ava denies having seen anything. Will Evan get to the bottom of things? Especially when the scene of a crime brings back memories for him and Kate Guillory?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is one of many books I’ve read by this author, and I look forward to reading more.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

When Ava Hart's boyfriend, Daryl Pierce, is shot to death in his home on the same night he witnessed a man being abducted, the police are quick to write it off as a case of wrong place, wrong time. Ava disagrees. She's convinced they killed him. And she's hired PI Evan Buckley to unearth the truth. Trouble is, as Evan discovers all too soon, Ava wouldn't recognize the truth if it jumped up and bit her on the ass. Things immediately get off to a disastrous start for Evan and his partner, Detective Kate Guillory, when a cruel twist of fate throws them back into the darkest days of their shared past, the guilt and demons they hoped they'd put behind them rudely awakened. The deeper Evan digs, the higher the lies pile up and the faster he goes nowhere. From Ava herself to Daryl's bitter widow to a dirty cop to a vicious gang of outlaw bikers, the list of suspects just keeps on growing. Only one thing's for sure. If he's to have any chance of solving it, he needs to get to the bottom of the most insidious lie of all - what is Ava hiding, and why?

About the Author:

Book Review: Never Go Back by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: Never Go Back

Subtitle: An Evan Buckley Crime Thriller (Evan Buckley Thrillers Book 18)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 18

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64836919-never-go-back

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

James Harper doesn’t disappoint in this new addition to the series.

Evan receives a request to find the missing grandson of a business tycoon. Did he disappear of his own volition or did something happen to him? To find out what happened, he needs to travel to Cambridge, UK, and soon things appear to point in a certain direction. But is all as it seems?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is one of many books I’ve read by this author, and I look forward to reading more.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

When the heir to a billion-dollar business empire goes missing in the medieval city of Cambridge in England, PI Evan Buckley heads across the Atlantic on what promises to be a routine assignment. But as Evan tracks Barrett Bradlee from the narrow cobbled streets of the city to the windswept watery expanses of the East Anglian fens, it soon becomes clear that the secretive family who hired him to find the missing heir haven't told him the whole truth.

 

Immersed in a thousand years of history and learning, Evan discovers that Barrett's woes stem from asking the wrong questions of the wrong people - questions about his own family. As he digs deeper, one question refuses to go unanswered - what lies behind Barrett's obsession with the US Air Force base at Lakenheath, the heart of the CIA's covert operations in England at the height of the Cold War?

 

As the mystery unravels, Evan finds himself caught up in a violent showdown that's been brewing for sixty years, a bitter feud between Barrett's family and that of a ruthless politician at the core of the British establishment, a desperate man with everything to lose who'll stop at nothing to prevent the dark secrets of his own family's past from coming to light.

About the Author:

Book Review: Once Bitten by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: Once Bitten

Subtitle: An Evan Buckley Crime Thriller (Evan Buckley Thrillers Book 17)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 17

Best read after earlier books in series? Possibly

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61867845-once-bitten

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Evan is back to solve a mystery. His mentor, Elwood Crow, sees his past rearing its ugly head and asks him to look into a 25-year-old autopsy report. Was this self-defence or murder? And is it really in the past?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed and full of suspense just like the other books in this series.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

I have read several books in the series and I enjoyed them all. On to the next in the series when that comes out.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense and mysteries, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

When PI Evan Buckley’s mentor, Elwood Crow, asks a simple favor of him – to review a twenty-year-old autopsy report – there’s only one thing Evan can be sure of: simple is the one thing it won’t be. As he heads off to Cape Ann on the Massachusetts coast Evan soon finds himself on the trail of a female serial killer, and the more he digs, the more two questions align themselves. Why has the connection not been made before? And is Crow’s interest in finding the truth or in saving his own skin?

 

It’s a difficult line Evan is forced to walk when the answers he finds threaten to drive a wedge between himself and Detective Kate Guillory as he struggles with his conscience and she with her duty, a grievous criminal act from their shared past only making things more difficult still, demanding compromise of them both.

 

And as the case draws to a close and Evan unravels twenty years’ of duplicity and obfuscation, one simple mistake leads to unforeseen and disastrous consequences while at the same time teaching him a painful lesson too late – that even those you trust the most will let you down.

About the Author:

Book Review: Old Scores by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: Old Scores

Subtitle: An Evan Buckley Crime Thriller (Evan Buckley Thrillers Book 16)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 16

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60774240-old-scores

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Another great story by James Harper. This book is a bit longer than most and as compelling as the others in the series.

Evan Buckley is enlisted by an upcoming country singer blackmailed by a PI she employed previously.

What is the secret that places her life in danger? Will Evan succeed to find the truth and save his client?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is another book I’ve read by this author but I look forward to reading more.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

When upcoming country music star Taylor Harris hires a private investigator to catch her cheating husband, she gets a lot more than she bargained for. He says he’s found a secret in her past that even she’s not aware of - a curse on her life, a blood feud hanging over her for thirty years. But when he disappears, it’s down to PI Evan Buckley to pick up the pieces. Was the threat real? And if so, did it disappear along with the crooked investigator? Or did it just get worse?

 

Heading down to small-town Jasper in East Texas to follow in his unscrupulous predecessor’s footsteps, Evan finds himself embroiled in the lies and dark secrets that flourish in the tightly-knit community where outsiders are resented and people have their own ways of dealing with them. From the local lead detective to a retired dirty cop to a shady figure hiding behind the facade of a secret shell corporation, Evan quickly gets on the wrong side of them all.

 

And as his search draws to a close, inflaming old scores dormant for half a lifetime and laying bare the biggest lie of all, he’s forced to put a heavy burden on his unsuspecting client, one that he knows all too well himself.

About the Author:

Book Review: The Judas Gate by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: The Judas Gate

Subtitle: (Evan Buckley #15)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 15

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59747681-the-judas-gate

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

A lot has happened since the first books in this series and some of the information in these is missed by not having read those books yet. Still it can be read as a stand-alone.

Several years earlier, Evan caught Carl Hendricks, a murderer now in jail. Or, he would be if he wasn’t dying of pancreatic cancer. When the body of a young boy is found in what was his back garden, he summons Evan for a deathbed confession in the hospital. But all isn’t as it seems.

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the fourth book I’ve read by this author but I look forward to reading more. I’m tempted to buy the earlier books in the series to get a full picture of what happens to Evan.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

When a young boy’s remains are found in a shallow grave on land belonging to PI Evan Buckley’s avowed enemy, the monster Carl Hendricks, the police are desperate for Evan's help in solving a case that's been dead in the water for the past thirteen years. Hendricks is dying, and Evan is the only person he’ll share his deathbed confession with. Except Evan knows Hendricks of old. Did he really kill the boy? And if so, why does he want to confess to Evan?

 

As he revisits the original cold case, Evan's honesty and motives are questioned by the lead detective who failed to solve it. Worse, he soon finds himself at the center of some very unwelcome attention, the shadow of a killer's crosshairs hanging over him. Nor is he the only one to awaken a dormant killer as Hendricks finds out the hard way that he’s set events in motion that he can’t control.

 

The deeper Evan gets drawn into the case, the worse the betrayal at its core becomes, until once more he's forced to take up the reluctant mantle of hanging judge, his fate to decide who should pay and who will walk free.

About the Author:

Book Review: A Rock and a Hard Place by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: A Rock And A Hard Place

Subtitle: (Evan Buckley)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series:

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: only via his reader’s list

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

An alcoholic woman is stabbed in an alley. Evan finds out when he receives part of her inheritance. But why did she leave him money and why was she killed?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the third book I’ve read by this author but I look forward to reading more.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspenseful murder mysteries, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

WISE-CRACKING, street-smart private-eye Evan Buckley’s not used to getting something for nothing. So when an unexpected windfall lands in his lap, he’s intrigued. Not least because he can’t think what he’s done to deserve it.

Written off by the police as one more sad example of mindless street crime, Evan feels honor bound to investigate, driven by his need to give satisfaction to a murdered woman he never knew. As he digs deeper he finds himself in the midst of a murder that’s stranger than most.

As the mystery unravels Evan discovers there’s no breaking the ties that bind families together even in the face of an impossible dilemma.

About the Author:

Book Review: Fallen Angel by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: Fallen Angel

Subtitle: (Evan Buckley)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series:

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: only via his reader’s list

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

A young woman falls to her death from her window. The police think it’s suicide but her sister can’t believe this and calls in Evan Buckley to investigate. Has a recent breakup with her boyfriend anything to do with her death?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the second book I’ve read by this author but I look forward to reading more.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

WHEN Jessica Henderson falls, naked as the day she was born, to her death from the window of her fifteenth floor apartment, the police are quick to write it off as an open and shut case of suicide. The room was locked from the inside, after all.

 

But Jessica’s sister doesn’t believe it and hires the man the police call that idiot Buckley to investigate. The deeper Evan digs, the more he discovers the dead girl had fallen in more ways than one. And if that wasn’t enough, everybody gets a hard lesson in just how wrong you can be when you only see what you want to.

 

As the mystery unravels, two things become abundantly clear – Jessica was no angel and Evan’s not the idiot people think he is.

About the Author:

Book Review: Kentucky Vice by James Harper

 Book Review

 

Basic Details:

Book Title: Kentucky Vice

Subtitle: (Evan Buckley #2)

Author: James Harper

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 2

Best read after earlier books in series? Can be read as stand-alone

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37370765-kentucky-vice

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

When one of Evan’s friends receives explicit pictures in the mail where he is the subject but has no recollection of the events, he enlists his friend’s help. However, things never go as you think and both Evan’s and Jesse’s lives are in danger.

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-packed, and full of suspense.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the second book I’ve read by this author but I look forward to reading more.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a mystery full of suspense.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Possibly
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

A man who can't remember. Another who refuses to forget. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

 

It’s five years since his wife disappeared, but wise-cracking, street-smart private-eye Evan Buckley is still reeling. Tormented by demons and consumed by his unrelenting quest for the truth, he loses himself in other people's problems.

 

When college buddy Jesse Springer shows up with a wad of explicit photographs that arrived in the mail, Evan is roped into the most bizarre case of blackmail he’s ever encountered—because Jesse swears blind he can’t remember a thing. But can Evan believe him? And if things weren't bad enough, a psychopathic killer from the past embarks on a crusade of psychological revenge and twisted mind games that threaten to plunge Evan back into his darkest days.

 

Adrift in a sea of betrayal and lies as the body count climbs, Evan is forced to choose between his gut instinct and the blatant evidence—and the only thing he knows for sure is the wrong choice will be punished with death.

About the Author: