Max Boucher Mysteries

Three cases. One grieving detective. A dog who won't leave his side.Max Boucher knows what it means to lose everything.Three years ago, the former Seattle police detective came home to a crime scene. His daughter was murdered at the kitchen table. His police dog, Houston, died in the entryway. His wife, Jenny, was gone. Now Max works as a private investigator, taking the cases no one else will, and every one of them turns personal.This box set collects the first three Max Boucher mysteries.Harvested. Dogs are vanishing from a Seattle park, and the police have no time for missing mutts. Then a severed ear turns up stapled to his old partner's door, and a small case starts pointing back toward the night his family was taken.Teaching Moments. Hired to find a stolen stud horse in Cedar Peak, Idaho, Max and his blue heeler, Russ, find the town handyman bleeding out from a crossbow bolt. Somewhere, a killer is confessing, one careful chapter at a time, and will only talk to Max.Baker Street. A nervous money man hires Max over a string of threats. Days later he's found shot dead in his son's quiet neighborhood bakery, and Max follows the money into a family history someone has killed to keep buried.Grief, loyalty, and cases that never stay small. Start at the first file.On Harvested: "e;Once again Troy Lambert nails it with Harvested. Lambert writes with the authority of a pro. Sharp, nail-biting prose that will keep you savoring each and every page."e; —Vincent Zandri, New York Times Thriller Award-winning authorFor readers of Robert Dugoni, C.J. Box and Robert Crais.