Alex McKnight Books in Order

Over drinks at the Glasgow Inn, a local old-timer shares a strange story about the day Jimmy Hoffa vanished. Alex starts chasing the rumor as a lark, only to uncover a small-town secret that might tie his quiet corner of Michigan to a legendary disappearance.

A captured serial killer demands to speak only to Alex McKnight, linking the retired cop to crimes he has never heard of. Drawn into a cross-country hunt for a missing victim, Alex faces a brilliant predator who seems to know his past better than he does.

Called back to Detroit when a prisoner from his one big homicide case is about to be released, Alex starts to doubt the conviction he once celebrated. As he revisits old files and fresh bodies turn up, he wonders if the real killer has been free all along.

After a mysterious plane lands on a deserted Upper Peninsula airstrip and five men end up dead, Alex's best friend Vinnie disappears. Following the trail pulls Alex into a brutal border drug war and a fight to save Vinnie from forces he never saw coming.

Months after a college student is found hanging in a desolate spot called Misery Bay, the boy's father asks Alex to look closer. A pattern of staged suicides and vengeful killings emerges, forcing Alex into an uneasy alliance with his longtime nemesis, Chief Roy Maven.

Set before his exile to Paradise, this short prequel finds Detroit cop Alex McKnight working a hot summer night shift with his partner. A routine patrol turns personal, revealing the city's cracks and the loyalties that will shape who Alex becomes.

On a bitterly cold Fourth of July, Alex and his friends rescue three men from a smashed boat on Waishkey Bay, then watch trouble follow them ashore. A drug scheme, reservation politics, and an undercover operation collide, putting the people Alex loves directly in the crosshairs.

A romantic weekend with Canadian cop Natalie Reynaud is shattered when someone leaves an old hat packed with snow and a note that says, 'I know who you are.' Following the threat leads Alex into a generations-old feud and a deadly family secret on the border.

When his Ojibwa friend Vinnie asks for help finding a missing brother who vanished while guiding a group of Detroit businessmen in remote Ontario, Alex heads into the Canadian bush. The deeper they go, the more they realize someone wants the truth left hidden.

A friendly poker game turns deadly when masked gunmen storm the house, steal a fortune, and leave Alex face down on the floor. Branded a suspect by police and the victim alike, he has to untangle the heist before it destroys everyone at the table.

A chance reunion with his old minor-league pitching partner sends Alex on a quixotic hunt for the woman the man lost thirty years ago. The search from Paradise to Detroit exposes long-held lies, dangerous debts, and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Alex agrees to hide a young Ojibwa woman who is fleeing a violent boyfriend in one of his cabins, but she vanishes overnight. Tracking her across a frozen Upper Peninsula, he uncovers buried secrets and a ruthless enemy who thrives in the winter darkness.

Former Detroit cop Alex McKnight is trying to disappear in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan, renting cabins and nursing old wounds. When murders echo the night his partner was killed, Alex is dragged into a case that feels terrifyingly personal.