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Alex Grecian Books in Order

See all Alex Grecian books in order, with quick summaries, series backgrounds, and reading guides for the Murder Squad novels, graphic novels, and thrillers.

Last updated: December 26, 2025

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19 books

Rose of Jericho

by Alex Grecian

2025

Set in nineteenth century New England, this sequel finds Sadie Grace, Rabbit, and their friend Rose drawn to the town of Ascension, where the dead simply refuse to stay in their graves. Bethany Hall seethes with ghosts, and something hungry waits in the attic.

Red Rabbit

by Alex Grecian

2023

In a demon haunted version of the American West, witch hunter Old Tom and his quiet ward Rabbit join a ragtag posse chasing accused witch Sadie Grace across drought stricken Kansas. Their red stagecoach ride becomes a journey through monsters, curses, and uneasy friendships.

One Eye Open

by Alex Grecian

2021

After her mother's death, Laura returns with her daughter Juniper to the family farm in rural Denmark, hoping for a quiet restart. Instead Juniper senses something uncanny in the endless wheat fields and the villagers, uncovering a buried bargain that demands a terrible harvest.

The Saint of Wolves and Butchers / The Wolf

by Alex Grecian

2018

Nazi hunter Travis Roan and his mastiff Bear arrive in rural Kansas hunting Rudolph Bormann, a concentration camp doctor who has rebuilt his life as a powerful small town preacher. Highway patrol trooper Skottie Foster is pulled into their dangerous clash of justice, lies, and cult loyalty.

Rasputin Volume 2

by Alex Grecian

2016

Continuing the story, Volume 2 revisits the famous assassination night and shows how Rasputin survives to begin a strange new life that leads him far from Russia. The focus stays on choice, consequence, and the price of refusing to stay dead.

Lost and Gone Forever

by Alex Grecian

2016

Former sergeant Nevil Hammersmith has opened a tiny detective agency, but his only real case is finding his missing friend Walter Day. As Jack the Ripper resurfaces and secret societies close in, London becomes a trap neither man may escape.

The Harvest Man

by Alex Grecian

2015

In spring 1890, a killer dubbed the Harvest Man hides in attic spaces, dropping into bedrooms at night to mutilate his victims. Inspector Walter Day, still scarred by his encounter with Jack the Ripper, must face both predators at once.

Rasputin Volume 1

by Alex Grecian

2015

This opening volume cuts between Rasputin's fateful final dinner and his brutal youth in Siberia, where he discovers uncanny healing powers. Blending Russian folklore with history, it traces how a poor farm boy becomes a feared mystic at the Winter Palace.

The Devil's Workshop

by Alex Grecian

2014

When a shadowy vigilante group engineers a mass breakout from a London prison, four notorious murderers slip into the city, possibly including Jack the Ripper. Walter Day and Nevil Hammersmith race to catch them before grief-stricken Londoners take justice into their own hands.

The Blue Girl

by Alex Grecian

2013

Constable Colin Pringle cannot stop thinking about the young woman pulled from an October canal, her skin turned an uncanny shade of blue. Following the trail behind her arranged marriage leads him into a case that challenges everything he believes about the world.

The Black Country

by Alex Grecian

2013

Day and Hammersmith are dispatched to a collapsing coal town in the Midlands after a prominent couple and their child vanish. As illness spreads, sinkholes open, and a human eye turns up in a bird's nest, the Murder Squad uncovers secrets the village would rather bury.

The Yard

by Alex Grecian

2012

In the grim aftermath of Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard forms a new Murder Squad of just twelve detectives. New recruit Walter Day is assigned the murder of a fellow inspector and, with forensic pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley, uncovers a killer targeting the police themselves.

Proof Volume 6 TP

by Alex Grecian

2011

The Endangered arc brings the Proof saga to a turning point as John Proof Prufrock finally confronts his rival Mi Chen Po. Monsters overrun Little Tokyo, Lodge agents fall, and the cost of protecting cryptids becomes painfully clear.

Julia

by Alex Grecian

2010

Set in the Victorian era, this volume flashes back to Proof's past as a circus attraction while the killer Springheel Jack stalks London. When both monster and murderer become fixated on the same woman, the story turns into a tragic gothic romance.

Blue Fairies

by Alex Grecian

2010

A year in the future, the Lodge's protected habitat lies in ruins and the mysterious Dover Demon may be dead. As fairy child Joy crosses the dangerous landscape searching for his father's body, secrets about Proof, Nadine, and the Army's takeover come to light.

Thunderbirds Are Go!

by Alex Grecian

2009

While Ginger Brown and fellow Lodge agent Elvis Chestnut chase urban legends in New York's sewers, Proof heads to rural Illinois to investigate sightings of gigantic thunderbirds. Both cases reveal how many monsters have been living alongside humanity for generations.

The Company Of Men

by Alex Grecian

2008

Proof and Ginger travel to the Congo to rescue a baby dinosaur from ruthless poachers. The mission turns into a deadly game when big game hunter Colonel Dachshund decides that the rarest trophy of all would be Proof himself.

Goatsucker

by Alex Grecian

2008

This first Proof collection introduces Ginger Brown, an FBI agent transferred to the secret Lodge, where cryptids are real and need managing. Her new partner is John Proof Prufrock, a courteous sasquatch hunting a skin stealing chupacabra in rural Minnesota.

Seven Sons

by Alex Grecian

2006

Seven identical Chinese brothers come to California during the Gold Rush, each gifted with an impossible talent. When a rescue attempt on a frozen river goes horribly wrong and the townspeople call for blood, the brothers take turns outwitting the angry mob.

Where should I start?

If you want Victorian crime fiction: The YardThe Black CountryThe Devil's WorkshopThe Harvest ManLost and Gone Forever
If you like dark contemporary thrillers: The Saint of Wolves and ButchersOne Eye Open
If you enjoy monster hunting comics: GoatsuckerThe Company Of MenThunderbirds Are Go!JuliaBlue FairiesProof Volume 6 TP
If you want folk horror in the Old West and beyond: Red RabbitRose of Jericho

Author bio

Alex Grecian was born in 1969 and grew up in Kansas, surrounded by quiet neighborhoods, long drives, and shelves of borrowed library books. That landscape, flat on the surface but full of hidden stories, shows up again and again in his fiction.

As a kid he read what he could find, from the fantasy worlds of C. S. Lewis to the foggy streets of Charles Dickens and the eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe. As he got older he slid toward crime fiction and suspense, discovering writers like Graham Greene, Donald Westlake, Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, John Irving, and Stephen King. Those voices, mixing character drama with twisty plots, shaped his sense of what a good story could do.

Grecian went on to study at the University of Kansas for a time, but the pull of paying work and a growing family nudged him out of the classroom. He spent years in advertising, writing copy for big national campaigns and local clients. The agency world taught him how to grab a reader fast and how to tell a story in a handful of sharp, clear lines.

Eventually he and his wife decided he would step away from the agency and stay home with their young son. Nap times and late nights became writing hours. In those in between spaces he began building the mix of historical mystery, horror, and dark humor that would define his later books.

His first major break came in comics. In 2006 he teamed up with artist Riley Rossmo on Seven Sons, a graphic novel retelling a Chinese folktale about seven gifted brothers in the American West. The pair followed it with Proof, the story of John Proof Prufrock, a well dressed sasquatch who works for a secret government agency tracking down cryptids, and later with the moody historical series Rasputin. That body of work eventually earned him an Inkpot Award recognizing his contribution to comics.

Comics led him back to prose. One storyline in Proof helped spark his debut novel The Yard, set in 1890 as Scotland Yard's newly created Murder Squad tries to repair the police force's reputation after the Jack the Ripper murders. The book introduced Inspector Walter Day, Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith, and forensic pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley, and launched a series that continued with The Black Country, The Devil's Workshop, The Harvest Man, Lost and Gone Forever, and the novella The Blue Girl.

Readers come to these Victorian mysteries for the atmosphere, but stay for the way Grecian writes working detectives, exhausted families, and small acts of courage inside very grim cases. Along the way the books have landed on bestseller lists, been picked for state reading programs, and earned crime fiction award nominations without ever losing their pulpy, late night feel.

After spending so much time in gaslit London, he turned back to his home state. The Saint of Wolves and Butchers (published as The Wolf in some countries) is a contemporary Kansas thriller about a Nazi hunter, a state trooper, and a small town cult built around an aging war criminal. Later works like the novella One Eye Open and the weird western Red Rabbit push further into horror, haunted landscapes, and the uneasy border between folklore and American history, a direction he continues in Rose of Jericho.

Today Grecian lives in Kansas with his wife, their son, a dog, and a tarantula named Rosie. He moves easily between comics and novels, but the through line is constant: ordinary people, confronted with something monstrous, trying to make sense of it. His stories may roam from Victorian alleys to Danish farm fields to demon haunted prairies, yet they always circle back to that human core.

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