Dick Hardesty Mysteries (1-5, 9, 10, 15) – Dorien Grey Free Audiobook

Written by Dorien Grey
Read by Jeff Frez-Albrecht, Jim Hickey
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

The Butcher’s Son
A Dick Hardesty Mystery, Book 1

In the beginning… Did the rabidly homophobic chief of police with political ambitions murder one of his identical-twin sons for being gay? And what secrets does the surviving twin hold?

Dick Hardesty, working for the public relations firm charged with helping the chief in his run for governor, is assigned the task of being liaison with the chief’s dysfunctional family. Can he pick his way through the skeletons in the chief’s closet in time to derail the man’s political plans?

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The 9th Man
A Dick Hardesty Mystery, Book 2

A serial killer is stalking the gay community and the police are largely ignoring them because all the victims are gay. Dick Hardesty takes on the job of bringing the real killer to justice as part of his first experience as a gay detective.

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The Bar Watcher
A Dick Hardesty Mystery, Book 3

When the manager of an elite local bath is stabbed to death, attorney Glen O’Banyon hires Dick Hardesty to check into it. The motive for the murder isn’t hard to figure – Comstock was a jerk of the first order. In fact, the list of people who might have wanted him dead might be larger than the club’s membership roster.

Then, two obnoxious bar hoppers die in an apparent accident that turns out to be another murder, and when a third unpleasant individual meets an untimely demise, Dick begins to see a sinister pattern. All of the victims, prior to their deaths, had behaved badly in one of the local bars. Is someone on a mission to rid the world of people behaving badly?

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The Hired Man
A Dick Hardesty Mystery, Book 4

In the continuing saga of Dick Hardesty, gay P.I., he is hired to protect the interests of a gay/bisexual escort service when a client is murdered. Lovers of murder mysteries will find the complex twists and turns fascinating. This audiobook breaks new ground by being the first mystery novel to make bisexuality an issue in solving a crime.

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The Good Cop
A Dick Hardesty Mystery, Book 5

One of the residual spots of conflict in gay rights is the police force, and this audiobook confronts that conflict head-on with the murder of a gay policeman and the investigation by the inimitable Dick Hardesty. We meet many of the familiar characters and get to know Jonathan, a young hustler who becomes more than a casual acquaintance. The entire police force is suspect in this community mystery of intrigue and murder.

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The Popsicle Tree
A Dick Hardesty Mystery, Book 9

Following the death of the parents of Jonathan’s four-year-old nephew Joshua, Dick and his partner find themselves in a new role: parents. As if fatherhood didn’t bring enough of a set of challenges, the mother of one of Joshua’s new friends is murdered, sending Dick on a trail to find out who killed her and why. With a list of suspects ranging from a lesbian ex-partner to the boy’s race-car-driver father, Dick is soon embroiled in a case so complicated that child-rearing begins to look easier than solving the case.

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The Paper Mirror
A Dick Hardesty Mystery, Book 10

At the gala opening of a new library filled with homosexual writings collected by the late Charles Burrows, known for both his taste in writing as well as his eccentricity, Dick Hardesty and his partner Jonathan are enjoying a rare night out since four-year-old Joshua joined their household. The evening takes an abrupt turn when cataloger Taylor Cates is found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs in the library. The library foundation enlists Hardesty’s help in determining the truth of what happened – accident, or something more – which leads Dick to opponents of the creation of the library, and into the world of a long-dead, secretly gay writer, whose remaining family is determined to conceal his sexual orientation.

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The Serpent’s Tongue
Dick Hardesty Mystery, Volume 15

When Dick Hardesty is hired to look into threats against former priest Dan Stabile, possibly from someone whose confession Dan heard while still in the priesthood, it’s just another case. Then, on a stormy Sunday, on a rain-slick road, Dan is killed, Dick’s partner Jonathan is severely injured, and suddenly, it’s personal. Was the accident really an accident…or murder? Dick learns Dan’s secret could involve a child murderer, and now it seems the man is stalking Joshua and tormenting Jonathan. The objectivity so vital to Dick’s role as a private investigator goes out the window as he pursues one lead after another, and it begins to look like Dan wasn’t the target after all.