Art Hardin, who first appeared in Private Heat, is a retired counter intelligence officer who now earns his living as a private investigator. He spends most of his time on the small perfectly safe jobs a private eye can making a living on. But this new case is something altogether different: shortly after he agrees to locate the old flame of a wealthy industrialist, she turns up dead... and his client is charged with the murder. To add insult to injury, Hardin's PI license is revoked. Now, in order to catch the suspect and clear his name, hardin must play a deadly game of cat and mouse. Character driven and masterfully plotted, Dying Embers really cooks.
Robert Bailey spent five years as a corporate security director in the city of Detroit and twenty years as a licensed private investigator. His first novel, PRIVATE HEAT, an action-packed private-eye thriller, won the Josiah W. Bancroft Award at the Florida First Coast Writer's Festival in 1998 and was nominated for the 2003 Shamus Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America.
A Vietnam-era draftee, he retired from the military as a reservist and a field-grade officer. An award-winning combat pistol shot, he returned to his first love, writing, when he was injured on the job and no longer able to work the street.
Robert has three grown sons and four grandchildren. PRIVATE HEAT, featuring PI Art Hardin, was published by M. Evans & Co. in the winter of 2002. A second Art Hardin mystery novel, DYING EMBERS, was released in March 2003, and a third, DEAD BANG, was published by M. Evans in January 2007. Also in January 2007, MYSTERY SCENE magazine named Hardin one of its top 100 private eyes.
Bob's latest projects include a fourth novel, Deja Noir, and a screenplay, For Love and Money, about an armored car robbery. His Art Hardin series is soon to be released in ebook format. Please visit him on facebook or at his website, robertebaileyauthor.com
