Blair Howard

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  • Bibliography:
    66 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2013
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Harry Starke Novel

1 - Harry Starke (Sep-2015)
2 - Two for the Money (Oct-2015)
3 - Hill House (Dec-2015)
4 - Checkmate (Feb-2016)
5 - Gone (Jun-2016)
6 - Family Matters (Apr-2016)
7 - Retribution (Aug-2016)
8 - Calypso (Oct-2016)
9 - Without Remorse (Jan-2017)
10 - Calaway Jones (Mar-2017)
11 - Emoji (Jun-2017)
12 - Hoodwinked (Nov-2017)
13 - Apocalypse (Jun-2018)
14 - Aftermath (Mar-2019)
15 - Backlash (May-2021)
16 - End Game (Jul-2021)
17 - Unhinged (Aug-2022)
18 - Jokers Wild (Oct-2022)
19 - Presumed Dead (May-2023)
20 - Train Wreck (Oct-2023)
21 - Dead Pool (Dec-2023)
22 - Subterfuge (Feb-2024)

Harry Starke: the Early Years

1 - Genesis (May-2019)
2 - The Raven (Aug-2019)
3 - The Assassin (Nov-2019)
4 - The Lolita Conspiracy (Apr-2020)
5 - The Last Straw (Sep-2020)
6 - One Dark Night (Feb-2021)
7 - Hit and Run (Nov-2021)
8 - Liar Liar (Mar-2023)

A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel

1 - Jasmine (Sep-2017)
2 - Cassandra (Apr-2019)
3 - Saffron (Apr-2018)
4 - Sapphire (Nov-2018)
5 - Victoria (Jul-2019)
6 - Genevieve (Nov-2019)
7 - Cassidy (Jan-2020)
8 - Georgina (May-2020)
9 - Nicolette (Aug-2020)
10 - Catherine (Dec-2020)
11 - Alexandra (Apr-2021)
12 - Cameron (Aug-2021)
13 - Feathers (Jan-2022)
14 - Samson (Sep-2022)
15 - Indigo (Dec-2022)
16 - Caroline (Jan-2023)
17 - Charlotte (Aug-2023)

A Novel of the American Civil War

1 - The Mule Soldiers (Dec-2014)
2 - The Chase (Mar-2015)
3 - Comanche (May-2015)
4 - Three Days in Hell (Jul-2015)

Peacemaker

1 - The Peacemaker (Feb-2020)
2 - Dangerous Games (May-2021)
3 - The Extinction Protocol (Sep-2021)

A Randall & Carver Mystery

1 - Never Say Dead (Aug-2023)

Sovereign Stars

1 - Avenger (Jun-2022)
2 - Gods of War (Jun-2022)
3 - Armored Fleet (Nov-2022)
4 - The Enemy Within (Sep-2023)
5 - Defector: Part 1: Imperator (Jan-2024)

Book List in Order: 66 titles

  • Chickamauga

    Chickamauga:A Novel of the American Civil War Just after first light on the morning of September 18th, 1863, in the deep woods on the banks of Chickamauga Creek, a single brigade of Federal infantry stumbled into a full division of Confederate c...

  • The Mule Soldiers

    A Novel of the American Civil War - 1

    The Mule Soldiers is the true story - fictionalized - of Streight's Raid into Northern Alabama that took place from 19 April to 3 May 1863. A brigade of Federal infantry, led by Colonel Abel D. Streight, set out on a 220-mile ride to destroy the West...

  • The Chase

    A Novel of the American Civil War - 2

    During the last few days of the Civil War, a company of Confederate raiders rode into the small Kansas town of Elbow. There they raped, pillaged and murdered among the local populace, thus triggering a chain of events and a chase that extended for mo...

  • Comanche

    A Novel of the American Civil War - 3

    On a dark day in April 1865, a band of former Confederate guerillas slaughtered more than forty Comanches, most of them women and children. This began a six-month reign of terror along the Santa Fe Trail as Comanche chief, White Eagle, took his reven...

  • Three Days in Hell

    A Novel of the American Civil War - 4

    Three Days in Hell (Historical Fiction) A Novel of the American Civil War For more than two months, Union General William Rosecrans and his Army of the Cumberland pursued General Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Chat...

  • Harry Starke

    A Harry Starke Novel - 1

    A tragic death. A guilt-ridden PI. A brutal path to justice.Private Investigator Harry Starke spends sleepless nights wandering the city streets. His perpetual attempt to clear his head takes a dark turn when a frightened young woman runs past him an...

  • Two for the Money

    A Harry Starke Novel - 2

    Who Killed Tom Sattler? Who Stole $350 Million from New Vision Strategic Investments? It's up to Harry Starke to Figure it out The call came on a Wednesday evening in the middle of August at around nine-thirty in the evening. It was from an old schoo...

  • Hill House

    A Harry Starke Novel - 3

    For more than ten years, she lay beneath the floorboards of Hill House. For more than ten years, she waited. Who was she? Who put her there? Why? Harry Starke vows to find the answers to those questions, but to do so he must embark upon an investigat...

  • Checkmate

    A Harry Starke Novel - 4

    They found Angela Hartwell lying in the shallow waters beside the golf course. There wasn’t a mark on her, yet she was dead, strangled. How could that be? Once again, it’s up to Harry Starke to find out. The investigation takes him into a world h...



  • Family Matters

    A Harry Starke Novel - 6

    Harry Starke loves a cold case, but this one is really cold-more than a hundred years cold. Family Matters is a whimsical tale, a flight of fancy. It takes place on the lonely coast of Maine, where Amanda, a true believer in the paranormal, has inher...

  • Gone

    A Harry Starke Novel - 5

    Emily Johnston is GONE. She’s been GONE for more than a week. She's also the daughter of Harry Starke’s one-time boss and nemesis, Chattanooga Police Chief Wesley Johnston. Harry and Chief Johnston haven't seen eye-to-eye in a long time, but when...

  • Retribution

    A Harry Starke Novel - 7

    RETRIBUTION - Harry Starke Book 7 "I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat." Muhammad Ali They say revenge is a dish best s...

  • Calypso

    A Harry Starke Novel - 8

    "There are four basic reasons why someone commits murder. The first and most powerful is love. The second-equally powerful-is hate. Almost equally compelling is revenge. The fourth is profit. Money. When one family member kills another, one or more o...

  • Without Remorse

    A Harry Starke Novel - 9

    On a balmy afternoon in May 2002, wealthy stockbroker Peter Nicholson was turkey hunting with three friends in Prentice Cooper State Forest when he tripped and fell on his shotgun and accidentally shot himself... dead, but did he? 15 years later, as ...

  • Calaway Jones

    A Harry Starke Novel - 10

    ‘Stand absolutely still Amanda,’ she read, ‘and you won’t get hurt.’ Two seconds later a bullet from a sniper’s rifle shattered the driver’s side window of her Lexus SUV. That’s how it began, early on a Friday morning when Amanda, Har...

  • Emoji

    A Harry Starke Novel - 11

    Maggie Hart, a student at UTC, was abducted on Labor Day. Her body was found five days later on the RiverPark. She'd been strangled. She wasn't the first, nor would she be the last. Harry Starke, recovering from a near-death experience, is dragged re...

  • Jasmine

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 1

    It was late Friday evening when they discovered the body. The girl had been in the concrete pipe for more than a week. The daytime temperatures were hitting 120 degrees. It was the stench that drew the kids to her. Who was she? Who put her there? Who...

  • Hoodwinked

    A Harry Starke Novel - 12

    Isla Tansy Mortenson Wallace was a noted local neurosurgeon, wife of local veterinarian Jim Wallace, and one of Chattanooga’s movers and shakers. That is until she was found dead on her own property. Did she fall off her horse? Was she thrown? Was ...

  • Saffron

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 3

    Saffron was the first. T.J. Bron found her naked body lying beside a dumpster at the rear of the Sorbonne. Four weeks later, a teenage couple looking a quiet spot to get it together find a second victim. The bodies continue to pile up. The killer's c...



  • Apocalypse

    A Harry Starke Novel - 13

    An elite Iranian military unit. A missing tactical nuclear weapon. An aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence. It began when an FBI informant was brutally gunned down outside a soccer stadium. A tactical nuclear weapon has gone missing somewhere ...

  • Sapphire

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 4

    The gripping series continues as homicide detective Kate Gazzara faces the most personal—and deadly—case of her lifetime. On a cold morning in October, 1987, Ohio State Patrol Officer Dan Walker finds a wooden box on a quiet, county ...

  • Aftermath

    A Harry Starke Novel - 14

    An elite force of private military contractors. A ragtag band of aging war heroes and civilians.It began with a simple kidnapping. It ended in an all-out private war. In Harry Starke's world, nothing is ever quite as it seems. His wife is lying in ho...

  • Cassandra

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 2

    A brutal murder. An embattled cop. A cold case nobody wants.After being brutally murdered and left in the mud on the banks of South Chickamauga Creek, Cassandra's case went cold and her killer was never found. Decades later when it's reopened, it's a...

  • Genesis

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 1

    She appeared out of nowhere. A chance encounter. And then she was gone, abducted.

    The shadow crossed in front of the car so fast I didn’t have time to stop. I hit the brakes hard and swerved into the mud at the side of the road.

    Lo...

  • Victoria

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 5

    Three murdered women. Two dedicated detectives. One deranged killer. When three wealthy women are found murdered within hours of each other, beaten to death in their own homes for no apparent reason, and the only thing they have in common is the...

  • The Raven

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 2

    A brutal murder. A condemned assassin with days left to live.

    No one could figure out exactly why Sandra McDowell had to die.

    What was her connection to The Raven, an aging hitman twenty years on death row with only days left to l...

  • The Assassin

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 3

    Who wants Senator Andrew Hawke dead? How many must die to make it happen? It was a bad day all round for Tommy Biscotti and his friends. All Tommy wanted was a few pills. What he got was a bullet in the back. Hammerhead, Tommy's source, got two ...

  • Genevieve

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 6

    A brutal murder. An impossible Crime. Why did Genevieve have to die?

    Caught between two worlds, one where she didn’t belong, the other she couldn’t give up, Genevieve committed the ultimate deception and married into a world of mon...

  • Cassidy

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 7

    A string of murders. A killer on the hunt. A detective that can’t let go.

    When a farmer discovers a man’s in the passenger seat of his car, Captain Kate Gazzara is called in to lead the murder investigation. A simple carjacking gon...



  • The Peacemaker

    Peacemaker - 1

    A worldwide, deep state organization bent on peace at any price.Under any other circumstances, ex-CIA assassin Casey Wu would be trying to kill her former partner, ex-SAS sniper Albert Westwood. Instead, they must work together to foil a plot to star...

  • The Lolita Conspiracy

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 4

    A chance encounter. A plea for help. A detective too tired to care. Brandon Beck hung himself, or did he? Was it suicide or cold blooded murder? On a cold dark night in February, Harry Starke runs into someone he hasn't seen in almost ...

  • Georgina

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 8

    A forgotten cold case. A long dead dead teenager. A detective that can't let go.Every cop has an unsolved case they can't let go. Georgina Harrison was mine. I can't tell you why... Maybe it was because she was just a teenager, sweet sixteen, that it...

  • The Genesis Files

  • Nicolette

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 9

    Nobody knows what horrors Nicolette Percy endured the night she was murdered.Kate Gazzara caught the case and at first she thought it would be a quick and easy closer. She was wrong. With every passing day the case became more complex. And then she m...

  • The Last Straw

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 5

    Cassie Morgan was just 17 years old when she died at the hands of a sadistic killer.Homicide Detective Harry Starke caught the case and he knew right from the beginning that it was going to be a bad one, and he was right. Too many clues, too many sus...

  • Catherine

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 10

  • One Dark Night

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 6

    Two dead teens. A case gone cold. A twisted tangle of clues and dead ends.One Dark Night... Geeze, was that ever a doozy of a case? See? It was April first, 1998 when the bodies of two teenagers, a young fella and his girlfriend, both high school sen...

  • Alexandra

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 11

  • Backlash

    A Harry Starke Novel - 15



  • Dangerous Games

    Peacemaker - 2

    A new Peacemaker. A kidnapping, a murder and a phone call.Albert Westwood, aka Nero, former British special forces sniper extraordinaire and ex-mercenary, just wants to be left alone and live a normal life.The problem is he's a wanted man. A Queen's ...

  • End Game

    A Harry Starke Novel - 16

    End Game. Harry Starke Book 16The game's afoot, only Harry has no idea... Not yet anyway.It seems his enemies are endless, and his career and life are always at stake. This time, though, he may not make it out unscathed.Has Harry's past finally caugh...

  • Cameron

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 12

    Kate had no idea what she was letting herself in for when she answered the call that Monday morning. The brutal murder of Cameron Geffner started her along a trail more complex and shocking than any case she'd handled in her long career as a homicide...

  • The Extinction Protocol

    Peacemaker - 3

    They're back. Westwood and Wu in a stunning new thriller.The team is back. So is the Peacemaker with a new and deadly plot that could extinguish all human life on the planet... except for a select few, of course.It began when a respected Belgian viro...

  • Hit and Run

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 7

    A case thirty-five years cold. No witnesses, suspects or leads. Two detectives who won't let go.Based on a true, unsolved crime. My name's Harry Starke. I'm an ex-cop turned private investigator. It was a rainy Monday morning in June 2012 w...

  • Feathers

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 13

  • Avenger

    Sovereign Stars - 1

    Five years after physicist Mark Holder discovered the Slipstream Drive in 2058, humanity reached for the stars and began to colonize the galaxy. For centuries, humans continued to populate system after system without encountering intelligent alien li...

  • Gods of War

    Sovereign Stars - 2

    Fourteen months after first contact, as the Sovereign Star Systems prepare for another alien attack, Captain Richard Morian and the Avenger are ordered to Beta Arietis in the constellation of Aries where they hope to find new resources and perhaps ev...

  • Unhinged

    A Harry Starke Novel - 17

  • Samson

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 14



  • Jokers Wild

    A Harry Starke Novel - 18

  • Armored Fleet

    Sovereign Stars - 3

    In the footsteps of Asimov and Clarke.An epic interstellar adventure.The USF has assembled the largest battle fleet in its history as they prepare for the inevitable cataclysmic battle to come.Avenger, a Class C heavy battle cruiser, is sent on an ur...

  • Indigo

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 15

    What happened to 17-year-old Indigo Salazar?They found her in the trunk of an abandoned car with her throat slit.Why did she have to die? Who killed her?It was Sunday, Cpt. Kate Gazzara's day off, but with Samson at her side, she and her team must so...

  • Caroline

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 16

    When detective Kate Gazzara is called to investigate the brutal murder of a young couple, she has no idea that she's about to be drawn into a twisted game of cat and mouse with a ruthless killer. As the body count rises and the clues point to a seria...

  • Liar Liar

    Harry Starke: the Early Years - 8

    Ten years ago, Bryce Manning committed suicide… or did he?He left a note, but his body was never found.What really happened to Bryce Manning?In Liar Liar, Book 8 in the Harry Starke Genesis series, PI Harry Starke is tasked with solving the te...

  • Presumed Dead

    A Harry Starke Novel - 19

    Kelsey Hart is missing. She's been missing for three years . . .. . . Is she dead or alive? When Kelsey Hart disappeared three years ago, her older sister, Brit, never gave up hope. But as time passed, and she heard nothing from her sister, she knew ...

  • Charlotte

    A Lt. Kate Gazzara Novel - 17

    Were they simply victims of a tragic accident, or was it something more sinister?In a small but exclusive subdivision of Chattanooga, a devastating house fire leaves a family of five in ruins. The blaze claimed two victims leaving behind a shattered ...

  • Never Say Dead

    A Randall & Carver Mystery - 1

    When beauty, wit and intelligence are center stage, it makes this private investigator's job even tougher than it already is.When the police refuse to investigate the disappearance of Mallory Carver's niece, Julie, her family turns to private investi...

  • The Enemy Within

    Sovereign Stars - 4

    As the inter-dimensional enemy closes in on humanity's last stronghold, the saga continues.Commodore Richard Morian and the crew of the Avenger find themselves at the forefront of the battle against the Blues. As they face off against unimaginable fo...

  • Train Wreck

    A Harry Starke Novel - 20

    One dark Friday evening in October, Dennis Harper and Brian McDaniel went out to drink a few beers and smoke a little marijuana. Their bodies were found hours later on the railroad tracks north of town. They'd both been struck by the midnight train.T...

  • Dead Pool

    A Harry Starke Novel - 21

    Murder in Hilden Heights?Was Hattie Baker the victim of a serial killer?On a balmy, late summer morning in Hilden Heights Hattie Baker is found dead in her pool, and she wasn't the first. A socialite and successful business owner, Hattie was an excel...

  • Defector: Part 1: Imperator

    Sovereign Stars - 5

    The war against the Swarm isn't going well. The governments of the Sovereign Star systems are riddled with treachery, treason, duplicity and… defection. And the enemy is evolving.Enter the Imperator, an intelligent, technological alien entity ...

  • Subterfuge

    A Harry Starke Novel - 22

    Harry, Kate, and Samson together again. What happened to Gavin Glassdon? A missing person, two murders, an enigmatic Irishman and a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme bring Harry Starke, Captain Kate Gazzara and her trusty K9 companion, Samson, to...

  • Kingsley

    Kingsley Lynch fell to her death from a seven-story, downtown rooftop garden. Was it an accident, suicide, or was she pushed?  The two detectives assigned to the case decided she jumped. Her husband, an influential city councilor disag...

  • Madison

    Amidst the picturesque valleys and historic charm of Chattanooga, Tennessee, one tenacious female detective and her K-9 companion navigate a labyrinth of clues and deception in a gripping mystery thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat u...

  • Defector: Part 2: Renegade

    The year is 3284, six standard years since the Swarm broke through from their own reality and invaded the Sovereign Stars.Their purpose?To eradicate all human life from the galaxy. To them, the very concept of independent thought is an anathema.Now, ...

  • Duplicity

    Sometimes, a city needs a ruthless detective willing to cross the line.Recommended for fans of Davenport, Hammer, and Bosch._______________Mystery woman, Morrigan Doyle, is in prison.Finn Doyle, her son, has ties to the Irish mob in New York. He beca...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Blair Howard has published 66 books.

The next book by Blair Howard, Defector: Part 2: Renegade, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Blair Howard, Chickamauga, was published in March 2013.

Yes. Blair Howard has 7 series.
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