num_pages: 304
description: Private detective and retired colonel Art Hardin is approached about a job protecting a woman from her soon-to-be ex-husband. But when the ex-husband is found murdered, the niece attempts suicide, and Hardin is brought in for the crime, it's no longer a case he's willing to walk away from-even if he could.
language: English
title: Private Heat
titlecomplete: Private Heat (Art Hardin Mystery #1)
ratings_count: 335
series: Art Hardin Mystery 
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel
publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc.