The Genesis Files, Set 2

The Lolita Conspiracy - The Last Straw - One Dark Night

By: Blair Howard

Narrated by: Tom Lennon

Three more riveting crime stories you’ll not be able to put down.

The Lolita Conspiracy

A chance encounter. A plea for help. A detective too tired to care. Brandon Beck hanged 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 twenty-five years. The man has a problem. He asks Harry for help. Harry turns him down, and thus becomes the last person to see Brandon Beck alive. Did Beck hang himself? Was he murdered? Either way, why? Harry Starke, now the prime suspect, vows to find out.

The Last Straw

Cassie Morgan was just seventeen-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 suspects, too many bodies, and a police chief more interested in his career than justice for the victims. For Harry, it was the last straw, and it had been a long time coming.

One Dark Night

They were just a couple of kids. What did they know? Why did they have to die? One dark night in late summer of 1998, teenagers Hunter Flagg and Samantha Goodkind were murdered, shot to death in Hunter’s pickup. The killer stripped the bodies and left them together in a remote, wooded area on the riverbank just off Sailmaker Circle. Neither of the two high school seniors had been sexually assaulted. So why had they been stripped? Though Hunter came from a poor family and Samantha was the daughter of a local businessman, both were popular kids; Sam was a cheerleader. So why did they have to die? Who was the killer? Most people who knew the kids thought they knew, but charges were never made. And then, one bright morning, fourteen years later in 2010, while they were playing golf, ADA Larry Spruce asked his friend PI Harry Starke to take another look at the case. Harry agreed …

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