L. C. Hayden

I’ll have to confess, I may have a crush on Harry Bronson. He’s one of the good guys, a retired detective you’d want on your side in a bad situation. I picked up What Lies Beyond the Fence intending to take a quick peek, and read it later. I couldn’t put it down.
The story begins with Harry and his beloved wife Carol attending church services. A man approaches Harry, desperate to make contact with his granddaughter. Harry reluctantly agrees, assured it will be a safe and simple task. But that’s not the whole story. The granddaughter and her father are members of a mysterious cult. Harry is only allowed access to the cult by pretending his goal is to find a stolen book.
The story goes from one edge-of-your-seat moment to the next. I couldn’t imagine how Harry was going to get out of each predicament, but he manages, because he’s Harry Bronson.
I classify this as a wholesome read, compared to other thriller-paced novels, even though it deals with the subject of child sex trafficking. There are a few curse words, and Harry has a habit of using one in particular. However, the language and the violence are not offensive, just realistic. No child abuse occurs “on screen.”
I recommend What Lies Beyond the Fence for a fast-paced read with characters you care about.
… (meer)

Fans of Harry Bronson will be delighted with his newest adventure in When Memory Fails. The action is non-stop as Bronson accompanies his nephew and girlfriend to a Colorado ghost town in search of a lost ledger. When the family patriarch passed away in the early 1900s, he left behind a mysterious ledger containing lists of people the family wronged. He wants his granddaughter to set things right by paying people back. Then she, and the ledger, disappear. Fast-forward to modern day, and Bronson’s nephew comes to him for help when his girlfriend gets caught up in a deadly family dispute. But how can Bronson help when a blow to the head robs him of his memory? This installment in the series is a real edge-of-the-seat ride!… (meer)

In Hayden’s mystery novel, former Dallas police detective Harry Bronson was a man determined to find answers and would not rest until he uncovered them. When his sister calls him in a panic, he heads back to his hometown in Pennsylvania only to find she has been murdered. There had been a time when he’d been her fiercest protector and he turns that attention to focus on finding her killer. With help from his former partner, Harry heads out on a collision course with his past and enters the world of art and politics. With the body count rising, Harry stumbles across fraud, deceit and a love gone wrong.

A fast-paced addition to A Harry Bronson Mystery series.… (meer)