Books in the Harry James Denton series

How did Nashville P.I. Harry James Denton wind up working as a maintenance man in the world's most famous house of ill repute? Because the Feds made him a deal: help smoke out a money-laundering operation secretly being run in Reno's notorious, legendary, legal cathouse, the Mustang Ranch.After failing to reconcile with his ex-, who's about to give birth to their daughter, doing some simple snooping in a house full of gorgeous girls sounds like a good deal. But it turns out to be a raw deal when one of the Mustang girls turns up murdered and Harry is the prime suspect. The only way to save his neck is to risk it--and that means making a Nevada-sized gamble that he can corner a killer who holds all the aces.In a place where the money is dirtier than ever…

Harry James Denton is no fool, but his search for a rich runaway, drug-addled teen, Stacey Jameson, takes him to the seamy and very wild side of Nashville. "Nobody's chain lays straight," a friend tells Harry. But Stacey's chain is especially twisted, with links that lead back to a family filled with secrets. Harry's been to the rodeo a few times before, but even he's not ready for what awaits him in the hard-core depths of a brutal Nashville night. Only he can save a lost girl before she destroys herself.Or let's a ruthless murderer do it for her…

With his girlfriend held hostage by a group of cult religious fanatics in armed Winnebagos and his cash flow down to a slow drip, Nashville P.I. Harry James Denton is looking for any case he can find. When rising country music singer Rebecca Gibson is found beaten to death, a heap of damning evidence points to her ex-husband-and Harry's pal-Slim Gibson. Harry digs into the case and discovers the dark history of a marriage made somewhere south of Heaven, somewhere deep in the cutthroat heart of the country music business, where deceit, betrayal, passion and vengeance are not only sung about... they're lived and died.The third installment of award-winning author Steven Womack's Nashville P.I. series, Way Past Dead was nominated for the PWA Shamus Award.

Nashville P.I. Harry James Denton is looking for another case--and he gets a hot one when the magnificent mansion across the street from his apartment is torched in a suspicious fire. The blaze has all the scorch marks of the East Nashville Arsonist, a phantom firebug whose burning desire seems to be driving GLBT gentrifiers out of Harry's funky, rundown neighborhood. This time, though, the modus operandi includes murder.It gets personal when the dead body found in the ashes of the incinerated mansion turns out to be a well-known psychiatrist who was about to marry Harry's ex-wife, Lanie. When the cops discover that Lanie's going to inherit a fortune, the heat's on her as the prime suspect. It's up to Harry to untangle this hot mess before his ex goes down in flames.And the torch is turned on him…

Thirty-something, divorced, and working part-time as a car repossessor to stay out of the poorhouse, ex-newspaperman turned private detective Harry James Denton needs any client he can get. It's just his luck that the first person to waltz into his Nashville office is Rachel Fletcher, the woman who stole-then broke-his heart in college.Now the man she married-compulsive gambler/womanizer and surgeon Dr. Conrad Fletcher-is in big trouble. Rachel wants Harry to forget about yesterday and make sure her husband lives to see tomorrow.By the time Harry catches up with Fletcher, though, it's too late.And the list of suspects could fill the Grand Ole Opry…This first installment in author Steven Womack's Nashville P.I. series won the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Each installment afterward won or was nominated for a major mystery award, with the fifth book-Murder Manual-winning the Shamus Award.