Book 1

Cuts Through Bone

by Alaric Hunt

Published 14 May 2013
Rachel Vasquez is contemplating quitting her boring job doing surveillance when her new boss, private detective Clayton Guthrie, lands the perfect starter case to test his new nineteen-year-old operative. A beautiful Columbia student and Manhattan heiress has been murdered. The gun belonged to her fiance Greg Olsen, an Afghan war veteran, and he's the one taking the rap. Guthrie is hired to get Olsen off, and fortunately he thinks Olsen smells clean of the crime. The detectives search for an elusive eyewitness, a vagrant whose testimony could turn the case around, while also butting heads with the NYPD, cracking doors at Columbia University, and crawling through the city's subterranean tunnels. To complicate matters, the murder could be part of a spree of killings being called the Barbiedoll murders, in which young women are killed for no apparent reason and with no suspect in sight. The NYPD would like to pin them all on Olsen, and his life will depend on Guthrie and Vasquez catching the real killer. Aided by Olsen's war buddy, the detectives gather clues that culminate in a bloody chase of one very determined and surprising killer.

Book 2

Godless Country

by Alaric Hunt

Published 25 August 2015
Clayton Guthrie is a private fixer for the aristocracy of New York City. His latest job is to protect a Manhattan heiress from a dangerous stalker. He hires retired bodyguard Abraham Swabe to protect her while he runs a trap operation assisted by his young operative, Rachel Vasquez, who juggles her new responsibilities while suffering from the shaky after effects of a shootout. Guthrie and Vasquez pursue the stalker across the city, from watching a quiet townhouse on the Upper East Side, to staking out New York University around Tompkins Square, and even crawling through the grimy industrial guts of Brooklyn. Searching for the stalker's hideout, they learn the identity of one of his previous victims. She was murdered, but the killer is still at large. Dark, riveting and hardboiled, Hunt's sequel to Cuts Through Bone is a thrilling mystery, sure to cement his reputation as one of crime fiction's most promising new authors.