The Johnny Hawke WW2 Thrillers Books 1-5 (Johnny One Eye #1-5)
(By David Stuart Davies)
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BOOK 1: FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
1940. One-eyed, self-employed detective Johnny Hawke is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman found brutally stabbed in her own bed. As he digs deeper, he finds a connection between her murder and the fading film actor Gordon Moore. He then discovers there is a runaway boy who claims to have witnessed something terrible. Johnny must find the witness before someone else does.
BOOK 2: COMES THE DARK
1941. A desperate murderer is using the blackout to his advantage, leaving a string of strangled prostitutes littered around London’s streets. Johnny Hawke finds a lead that takes him to Britannia Club, a dangerous underground organisation hell-bent on assisting a Nazi invasion of Britain. It’s up to Johnny to find the killer and bring them down. But the murderer might be closer than he thinks . . .
BOOK 3: WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
1942. A killer rogue soldier, Harryboy Jenkins, is on the loose in London. He has murdered a reverend and is now on a murderous spree. Meanwhile, Johnny is hired to investigate a suspected husband’s infidelity. But his progress is slowed by shadow authorities attempting to warn him off. Not only does Johnny uncover more than a simple affair, he also comes face-to-face with Jenkins in a lethal showdown.
BOOK 4: REQUIEM FOR A DUMMY
1943. Successful ventriloquist Raymond Carter receives death threats over the telephone in the voice of his own dummy. In fear for his life, he calls on the services of Johnny Hawke. But when a cast member from Carter’s radio show is brutally murdered instead, Carter becomes the main suspect. Then Carter’s girlfriend is murdered. Even Johnny has trouble finding convincing evidence of his client’s innocence. Has the killer really been under their noses the whole time?
BOOK 5: THE DARKNESS OF DEATH
1943. Johnny is dealing with a strange client who swears he’s seen the ghost of his wife on the tube platform. Meanwhile, a sinister new protection racket has set itself up on Johnny’s streets, operated by the re-invigorated Bernstein gang.”
