Colin Harrison Books In Order

Novels

  1. Break and Enter (1990)
  2. Bodies Electric (1993)
  3. Manhattan Nocturne (1996)
  4. Afterburn (2000)
  5. The Havana Room (2003)
  6. The Finder (2008)
  7. Risk (2009)
  8. You Belong to Me (2017)

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Colin Harrison Books Overview

Break and Enter

By appearances Peter Scattergood leads a privileged life: a post as Assistant District Attorney, a loving wife, and a townhouse in Philadelphia’s exclusive Society Hill. Assigned to an explosive homicide case the murder of the mayor’s nephew and the young man’s beautiful mistress the power and prestige he’s always craved seem within his grasp. But soon Peter’s illusion of success shatters. His wife walks out on their seven year marriage and vanishes. The double murder case casts a shadow of doubt on his most trusted peers. And, in a moment of weakness, Peter enters into an affair with a woman whose greatest skill is arousing suspicion. Now, Peter Scattergood is about to discover the desperate lengths he will go to uncover the terrible truth that lies with deadly patience somewhere between the mystery of his wife’s disappearance and the dangerous secret at the heart of a shocking crime.

Bodies Electric

Jack Whitman is a powerful executive with a massive multimedia conglomerate. He is extremely well paid, highly ambitious, and desperately lonely since his wife’s murder. Then one night on a subway car, his eyes meet those of a woman he cannot forget. Dolores Salcines is a ravaged beauty on the knife edge of despair a woman on the run with secrets, and good reason to hide them. What she needs is a savior an impulsive rescue form a dire past. What she has found is a man willing to give it to her. It begins as a reckless liaison. It spirals into a nightmare that threatens Jack’s career, his fortune, and his life. A trap has been set. For Jack, the only chance at escape is to submit to the one final dangerous urge that resides in the dark side of every human heart.

Manhattan Nocturne

At night in the city, anything is possible. Even the truth. For Porter Wren, the city is the story: of millionaires on the make and strippers on the clock. Of a young woman with perfect teeth and a tragic past. Of a brilliant filmmaker’s body found in the rubble of a demolished building. For Wren, a top New York tabloid columnist, the story is always changing but never different, always shocking but never a surprise. Until he steps over the line.A beautiful woman has entered Wren’s life. She’s jeopardizing his family and his marriage. She’s leading him into the netherworld her dead filmmaker husband chronicled on secret videotapes and to a billionaire who wants one of those tapes badly. Suddenly, Porter Wren, the man who has seen it all and written it all, is on the run through the city that once was his beat, through a maze of deception, sexual obsession, and blackmail searching for the one thing that will set him free and the last thing he expects to find: the truth.

Afterburn

Colin Harrison’s compelling new thriller tells the story of Charlie Ravich, a survivor whose brutal experience as a POW in Vietnam has more than prepared him for the cutthroat world of global commerce. Now an Upper East Side executive in his late fifties, Charlie has only one problem: his family is dying out. His wife teeters on the edge of Alzheimer’s, their son has succumbed to leukemia; and their daughter, Julia, is unable to bear a child. Charlie is being trumped by time. Enter Christina, a voluptuous and beguiling Columbia University dropout intelligent, selectively dishonest, filled with desire. Her affair with Rick Bocca, a member of a big time truck theft ring run by mobster Tony V. has landed her in prison. After four years at Bedford Hills, she is suddenly released by the Manhattan D.A.’s office perhaps because she is innocent, perhaps not. Warned by a detective that Christina is being set up by Tony V., Rick begins a desperate, bungled search to warn Christina, who has lied her way into the high flying world of Charlie Ravich. But her past catches up with her, and Rick’s catches up with him, setting off a harrowing chain of betrayals that leaves only one person with any hope of a future. A high voltage thriller at once smart, sexy and graphically violent, Afterburn spans the mean streets of New York’s underworld and Hong Kong’s corridors of high finance, and stands as Harrison’s most unforgettable work yet.

The Havana Room

From the author of Afterburn, a major new thriller about a down and out lawyer who takes on a case that proves deadly. The Havana Room is the tale of a man who falls from the heights of power and wealth in New York, and finds himself in a dangerous and potentially lethal state of affairs. Bill Wyeth is a successful real estate attorney in his late thirties with a wife and son, who, by the merest chance, loses everything: family, job, status. Unmoored and alone, Wyeth drifts toward the city’s darker corners. Restoration seems unlikely, redemption impossible. Wyeth finds himself in an old time Manhattan steakhouse and is intrigued by the manager, Allison Sparks sexy, complicated, and independent in all ways. She also controls access to a private bar. This is The Havana Room, and what goes on in there, he s told, is secret. Wyeth agrees to help Alison s friend, Jay Rainey, in concluding a last minute midnight real estate transaction. As soon as he sees the players and the paperwork, he knows something is wrong. Within hours, Wyeth finds himself tangled in Rainey’s peculiar obsessions, which involve a Chilean businessman who feels he’s been swindled, an old farmer frozen dead to a bulldozer, an outrageous black owner of a downtown hiphop club, and a fourteen year old English girl. Only Rainey knows the connections among these people, which are revealed when Wyeth is finally admitted to The Havana Room where the survival of its inhabitants is most uncertain.

The Finder

There’s no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It’s hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the ‘class act of the urban thriller,’ Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times lauds him as ‘a master of mood and atmosphere,’ and Publishers Weekly crows that Harrison writes ‘like an angel.’ Now the author of The Havana Room, Afterburn, and Manhattan Nocturne raises the stakes with an electrifying new thriller, The Finder. Harrison spins the story of a young, beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin Li, who gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose enormous sums of money, Jin Li goes on the run. Meanwhile, her former lover, Ray Grant, a man who was out of the country for years but has recently returned, is caught up in the search for her. Ray has not been forthcoming to Jin Li about why he left New York or what he was doing overseas, but his training and strengths will be put to the ultimate test against those who are unmerciful in their desire to regain a fortune lost. Ray is going to have to find Jin Li, and he is going to have to find her fast.

Risk

An honest lawyer, a Czech hand model, and a box of mysterious Christmas ornaments each plays a part in Colin Harrison’s compelling new intrigueGeorge Young never thought of himself as a detective, but that’s pretty much his vocation an attorney at a top insurance firm, it s his job to pin down suspicious claims. But Mrs. Corbett, the rich, eccentric wife of the firm s founder, has it in mind to put George s skills to a peculiar assignment. With only a few months left to live, her one desire is to know the true circumstance of her son Roger s violent death. George s investigation leads him to Roger s mistress, a cagey Czech hand model named Eliska, who can cast a seductive spell simply by removing her gloves. Did Eliska’s motives for latching on to Roger get him killed? Or did some of her shadowy and dangerous little friends take care of the job? And why were there boxes and boxes of Christmas ornaments in the dead man s apartment? George will have to take a few chances of his own if he wants to get to the bottom of Roger s death for Mrs. Corbett. Set against a volatile and vividly drawn Manhattan, Risk is prime Colin Harrison.

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