Harry Hunsicker
Harry Hunsicker is a graduate of Baylor University and has lived in Dallas most of his life. When he’s not writing the next Lee Henry Oswald mystery, he’s a real estate appraiser.
STILL RIVER
(St. Martin’s Press, May 2005)
In a stark and haunting debut novel, Harry Hunsicker introduces Dallas P.I. Lee Henry Oswald,a Special Forces veteran of the Gulf War whose work begins where legal options end…He bears a killer’s name…Lee H. “Hank” Oswald inherited more from his bull-headed father than just a name. It’s not that he looks for trouble; he just can’t seem to keep out of its way. Fortunately being named Oswald in Dallas makes a man tough enough to get the job done, no matter what side of the law he’s forced to walk… He seeks a missing brotherThings get even rougher for Hank when he agrees to help an old friend find her troubled brother. She swears Charlie’s quit the drugs for good, now that he’s got a job in real estate. But Hank’s barely taken the case when he discovers that the Dallas real estate wars can be as vicious and dirty as anything he’d encountered on the battlefield. He’s found three suspects-and a hundred ways to die…Before long, three prime suspects emerge: a ruthless Dallas dealmaker; a rising young real estate developer and community activist; and one of the city’s most notorious, and deadly, drug lords. Digging through the muck to find something to tie these three together-and to Charlie-Hank comes to one unmistakable truth: For the right price, a man might do anything.
THE NEXT TIME YOU DIE
(St. Martin’s Press, July 2006)
The anxiously awaited follow-up to Still River, The Next Time You Die is an action-packed mystery certain to establish Harry Hunsicker as the Dennis Lehane of Dallas. The story begins when a bourbon-swilling Baptist preacher hires Oswald to recover a stolen file, who figures the job for a quick and painless infusion of cash. But nothing comes easily in Dallas for anybody named Oswald, especially when a psychopathic hit man shows up, intent on finding the same scrap of missing paper. As the stakes mount, each treacherous step toward the missing file forces Oswald to confront the haunting memory of a split second decision which ultimately cost one-time partner, Billy Barganier, his life.
