A Luca Mystery Books in Order

A wounded veteran returns home to discover the woman he loves with his childhood bully. When the bully is murdered, Detective Luca must determine whether the veteran’s memory loss conceals guilt or leaves the real killer free.

Hoping to rebuild after divorce and his partner’s death, Detective Frank Luca leaves New Jersey for Florida. A missing-person case undermines that fresh start when he becomes drawn to the missing man’s wife and the secrets surrounding her.

An unexpected call revives a teenager’s unsolved murder from twenty-five years earlier. Detective Luca promises her family answers, but a botched original investigation, numerous suspects and someone willing to kill again threaten his attempt to deliver them.

Cancer and divorce have shaken Detective Luca’s confidence when a wealthy woman is murdered on her private island. Her husband seems the obvious suspect, but evidence of affairs and rivalries forces Luca to reconsider both the case and his instincts.

Still fighting cancer, Frank Luca hunts a clever serial killer while chemotherapy clouds his thinking. His partner Mary Ann questions the evidence, and a skeptical new sheriff adds pressure as rising deaths threaten both the investigation and Luca’s career.

When a young girl’s long-absent mother returns only to be murdered, she turns to Detective Luca for help. Despite misgivings about involving a minor, Luca investigates and discovers that the killing conceals something even more disturbing.

Accused of killing someone who harassed Mary Ann, Detective Luca finds himself isolated from his own department. While trying to prove his innocence, he must also stop an escaped serial killer who has sworn revenge against him.

A prominent businessman’s murder sends Detective Luca into a widening circle of influential enemies. As he uncovers the victim’s disturbing private life and links to a secret society, the investigation puts Luca himself in increasing danger.

Detective Luca investigates the disappearance of a woman whose appetite for risk has left many people with possible motives. With scant evidence, political interference and family worries complicating his work, he must untangle what happened the night she vanished.

After an informant’s failure leaves his partner critically wounded, Luca faces an Internal Affairs investigation. A gang selling a dangerous drug mixture remains active, and his determination to find whoever ordered the shooting threatens to become a quest for revenge.

Deaths at an expensive assisted-living community raise questions when elderly victims are found with a date-rape drug in their systems. Detective Luca investigates possible abuse while a string of violent burglaries suggests that separate crimes may share a hidden connection.

A missing engineer never boarded his flight, and his wife’s account leaves Detective Luca uneasy. As he explores the couple’s private life, he must decide whether the man disappeared willingly or whether secrets at home conceal a murder.

The discovery of a girl’s remains beside a wealthy family’s lakeside home draws Detective Luca toward an old mystery. Already managing another murder investigation and his wife’s illness, he suspects the assumptions surrounding the girl’s fate may be wrong.

A missing teenager and an unresolved rape case put Detective Luca at odds with his partner over apparently straightforward evidence. Convinced that the first explanation is misleading, Luca presses deeper, fearing the girl may not survive a mistaken judgment.

Detective Luca investigates numbered, carefully posed murder victims whose killer seems determined to taunt the police. Conflicting forensic evidence and a suspect’s unusual medical history force him to question both the murderer’s identity and the apparent reliability of DNA.

While investigating a designer’s murder on a beach, Detective Luca learns a secret involving a hidden fortune. The possibility of solving his family’s financial problems creates a moral dilemma just as an expanding list of suspects complicates his case.

A teenage girl’s murder becomes the second homicide case of Detective Luca’s career. Determined to identify her killer, he pursues an investigation whose consequences will haunt him and shape the way he approaches every case that follows.

A grieving daughter hires retired detective Frank Luca to investigate a robbery that left two people dead twenty years earlier. The surviving conspirators have built powerful lives, and uncovering their secret soon makes him a target for elimination.