S W Hubbard Books In Order

Take the Bait

The mountains guard their secrets…
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The remote village of Trout Run lies inside New York State’s vast Adirondack Park, a tiny community cloistered within deep forests and rugged mountains. You can drive for miles without seeing another soul so when high school senior Janelle Harvey vanishes while walking home along a lonely forest road, only the trees are mute witnesses to her disappearance.

Police Chief Frank Bennett is new to Trout Run, and he’s determined not to make another mistake in judgment like the one that cost him his previous job. But no one family, friends, or clergy seems willing to tell all they know about Janelle. Yet as the search goes on, Frank determinedly peels back the layers of mystery…
only to find that even in a town where everyone knows your name, there are some secrets no one wants shared.

Swallow the Hook

DECENT PEOPLE. DESPERATE MEASURES.

The folks of remote, mountainous Trout Run, New York, are shocked when Mary Pat Sheehan’s body is found in her crashed car. They’re even more stunned when an autopsy reveals it wasn’t the crash that killed her but complications from childbirth. No one even knew that cheerful, reliable, and unmarried Mary Pat was pregnant. In a town where everyone knows everyone’s business, how did she hide her pregnancy? Where is her baby? And who is the father?

These daunting questions lead Police Chief Frank Bennett into the shadowy world of black market adoption scams, where panicked young women and desperate, childless couples play a high stakes game. to prevent another tragedy, Frank must unravel a tangle of family secrets and unlikely alliances. But stepping closer to the truth puts Frank squarely in a killer’s sights. Because when greed and love both fuel the fire, everyone gets burned.

Blood Knot

North Country Academy is where desperate parents send their troubled teenagers when all else has failed. For remote Trout Run, New York, the school means good jobs, always scarce in the Adirondacks. But to Police Chief Frank Bennett, the Academy with its roster of delinquent students and its unlikable but curiously compelling headmaster, MacArthur Payne means an open invitation to trouble.

When a teacher leading a survivalist wilderness expedition is mauled by a bear, evidence points to sabotage. As Frank’s investigation leads him behind the gated walls of Payne’s institution, he finds a place that is more prison than school. Under political pressure to keep the school open at all costs, Frank risks his career and his life to unravel a knot of old scores and new rivalries…
before they turn deadly.