BB Griffith Books in Order

If you want Southwest supernatural suspense: Follow the Crow → Beyond the Veil → The Coyote Way
If you prefer psychological thrillers: The Sleepwalkers → Mind Games
If you want near-future action: Blue Fall → Grey Winter → Black Spring → Summer Crush
If you want a standalone with a magical hook: Las Vegas Luck Magic
If you want lighter fantasy: The Voice and the Pendant → Trial by Fire

B.B. Griffith grew up in Denver, Colorado, and Denver still seems to sit at the center of his working life. The public details about him are fairly simple, but they paint a clear picture: he was born and raised there, he returned there after time away, and he still lives there with his family.

He stayed close to stories early.

Griffith studied English and American Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. After college, he spent time traveling before coming back to Denver, and that mix of literary study and real-world wandering feels like a useful map for the fiction he would later write. Even when his plots turn strange, they usually stay tied to place, mood, and people trying to keep their footing.

His catalog moves across thriller and fantasy shelves, but the connecting thread is pretty steady. He writes about hidden systems, modern magic, dangerous secrets, and ordinary lives getting pulled toward something much bigger. Sometimes that bigger thing is supernatural. Sometimes it is human power at its ugliest. Often it is both.

You can see one side of that in Blue Fall, which opens his Tournament books with a secret near-future competition controlled by wealthy patrons and ruled by violence and secrecy. Another side shows up in The Sleepwalkers, where child psychiatrist Gordon Pope gets pulled into a disturbing Baltimore case involving a twelve-year-old accused of attempted murder while asleep. Then there is Follow the Crow, which turns toward the American Southwest and blends mystery, grief, and the spirit world, and Beyond the Veil, which pushes that same story deeper into the territory between the living and the dead.

Then he goes to Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Luck Magic takes a man shattered by loss and drops him into a hidden world where luck itself can be seen, chased, used, and abused. It is a different setup from the series books, but it still feels unmistakably like Griffith. He seems drawn to stories where the rules of normal life bend just enough to reveal something dangerous underneath.

Across the different series, he keeps returning to people who are already carrying damage before the main trouble starts. A missing sister, a child in danger, a bland life that opens into conspiracy, a family tragedy that turns into magic, those are very Griffith entry points. He likes characters who are not chosen ones in the usual fantasy sense. They are simply the people still standing when the hidden door opens.

Place matters a lot in his work. Baltimore feels tense and worn in the Gordon Pope books. The Tournament novels run on the cold energy of conspiracy and survival. The Vanished books lean into the magic and mystery of the Southwest, especially the lands around Navajo communities and the broader Four Corners region, which Griffith has said he cares about deeply. His settings are not just backdrops. They shape the pressure the characters are under.

He has also worked with other writers. The Morningstar books, co-written with Becca Higgins, show an early interest in fantasy, fairies, and enchanted woods. Taken together, his books suggest a writer who likes crossing genre lines without losing pace. Readers who enjoy him often seem to come for the tension and stay for the mix of mystery, human vulnerability, and the sense that the world is stranger than it first appears.

Today he still lives in Denver with his wife and son. The small details attached to his bio are refreshingly ordinary: notebooks, keyboard time, a porch, local wandering, and the sense that the next plot is probably being worked out a few blocks away.