Books
Order in which the books were published
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Heart of Ice 2013 A case as cold as ice lures Louis to an old island lodge and a forgotten skeleton. A daughter missing for two decades, a powerful family yearning for closure, two damaged cops looking for redemption—and Louis trying desperately to reconnect with the two things he loves most. Read more... |
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The Killing Song 2011 Matt Owens nightmare begins when his beloved sister Mandy disappears from a crowded dance floor in Miami Beach. When her lifeless body is found, one cluea grisly rock song downloaded onto her iPodmay be the calling card of a serial killer. Read more... |
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The Little Death 2010 When a headless corpse is found in an abandoned cattle pen in a remote area of South Florida called The Devil's Garden, police connect the dots and they lead 60 miles due east to the gilded island of Palm Beach. Read more... |
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South of Hell 2008 For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981. Read more... |
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A Thousand Bones 2007 The only female detective on Miami PD's homicide division, Joe Frye has memories that haunt her and a past not even her lover, Louis Kincaid, truly knows. It began when Joe was an ambitious rookie cop in a small Michigan town called Echo Bay. Read more... |
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An Unquiet Grave 2006 In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling walls, lies a notorious sanitarium and its forgotten cemetery. The ruin is empty now, and the bulldozers have come to raze it. But as they do, a secret emerges. Read more... |
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A Killing Rain 2005 A deep freeze is bearing down on the Florida Everglades, the kind of brutal storm the locals call a killing rain. For Detective Louis Kincaid, the coldest night of the year has brought a terrifying new chilla grisly discovery that tightens his every nerve in warning. The body proves this is no routine case. It's the start of a nightmare. Read more... |
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Island of Bones 2004 In the wake of a hurricane, a tiny skull washes up on the beach in front of Louis's cottage. Days later, the bullet-riddled body of a woman surfaces in the mangroves. She has no IDexcept for an odd ring carved of coral. Read more... |
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Thicker than Water 2003 On a hot night in Florida, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Twenty years later, Jack Cade, the man convicted of her death, is released from prisononly days before another horrific crime: someone has murdered Cade's defense attorney. Read more... |
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Paint it Black 2002 The placid town of Sereno Key is being rocked by a serial killer who is targeting black men, leaving his victims marked with black paint. When police zero in on a suspect, his wife hires Louis to help clear him. Read more... |
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Dead of Winter
2001 (eBook: 2012) One by one, the bodies of the police officers are found, brutally executed with mysteriously coded death cards placed by every corpse. And the only sound louder than the doors of Loon Lake Michigan being locked against evil is the sound of hearts beating in terror. Read more... |
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Dark of the Moon 2000 When a hunter finds some old bones in the woods of Blackpool, Mississippi, the town's citizens and police just want to see them reburied and forgotten. But when Louis arrives to the town of his birth t care for his dying mother, he becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the victim. Read more... |














