🎉 Triple Honors from the 2025 American Fiction Awards!

Book cover of “Old Dogs, New Tricks: A Victor Harding Adventure” by Douglas Richardson, with gold chains and a green gemstone

Book cover of “Sea Cruise: A Victor Harding Adventure” by Douglas Richardson, featuring an orange lifeboat floating

Douglas Richardson's Victor Harding Adventures continue their award-winning streak with three finalist honors at the prestigious 2025 American Fiction Awards:

Old Dogs, New Tricks – Finalist, Thriller: Crime
Sea Cruise – Finalist, Adventure: General
Sea Cruise – Finalist, Mystery/Suspense: Multicultural & Diverse

The Victor Harding Adventures

Meet Victor Harding: a 70-something retired architect turned criminal who proves that adventure doesn't end at retirement—it just gets more dangerous. Follow his journey through two gripping thrillers where desperate characters make deadly choices and small-town secrets explode into international crime.

A gold standard for character-driven crime fiction." -- Old Dogs, New Tricks

"A refreshingly original thriller." -- Sea Cruise

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The Award-Winning Debut

Down Wind and Out of Sight – Doug's standalone thriller has earned seven prestigious honors, including Literary Titan Gold and Reader Views Bronze.

"An amazing novel full of complexities...a masterpiece." – Reader Views

From the Australian outback to a secret US government lab, this genre-bending thriller delivers heart-pounding action and surprising emotional depth.

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