Ben Rehder Books in Order

The week before deer season, John Marlin is already swamped when a man in a deer costume gets shot at the Circle S ranch. Soon he is chasing poachers, crooked power players, and a case spiraling out of control.

Hunters keep reporting a stunning mystery woman in the woods, then one of them turns up dead. John Marlin has to cut through the gossip before deer season gets even uglier.

Blanco County is buzzing about a possible chupacabra, and John Marlin wants no part of the nonsense. Then a body turns up with a fang-like wound, and rumor suddenly looks a lot more dangerous.

When a hard-drinking local official goes missing after a flood and a nearby house explodes, John Marlin and the sheriff's department scramble to connect the clues. A stolen sports car only makes things stranger.

As a giant gun-rights rally approaches, John Marlin gets tangled in the death of a man whose body was moved after he was killed. The case mixes murder, politics, and Blanco County tension.

John Marlin is pulled into one of Blanco County's stranger murder cases, with local grudges and competing motives everywhere he turns. The mystery is messy, funny, and more dangerous than it first looks.

Roy Ballard, a videographer who catches insurance cheats, spots a missing little girl while working another case. When the police doubt him, he starts digging on his own, and the stakes could not be higher.

Ricky Delgado, an undocumented worker in a Texas poultry plant, is pushed into crisis when his brother is shot crossing the border. Rehder turns that setup into a tense, humane story about justice, fear, and survival.

Charlie Dunbar did not plan to become a fugitive, but that is what happens when he hits the road with his ailing grandfather. Their desperate trip to reach a doctor becomes a fast-moving story about family and loyalty.

After a high school football star dies in a crash with a wild pig, the boy's father offers a huge reward for one tagged hog. John Marlin knows the bounty will attract chaos, and the death itself may not be simple.

This shorter Blanco County mystery drops John Marlin and the sheriff into a small-town problem that gets complicated fast. It is a quick case, with Rehder's usual mix of humor and trouble.

Everyone says Boz Gentry died in a fiery traffic accident, but Roy Ballard is not convinced the story is that simple. His search for the truth pulls him toward a much darker crime.

A 102-year-old inventor of a promising new hunting product is murdered, and suspicion falls on a reality-show family. John Marlin digs in before the case turns even deadlier for the people around him.

After a young woman and a bull turn up dead, John Marlin is pulled into a case full of ranch grudges and bad choices. Blanco County supplies the usual chaos, but the stakes are real.

A priceless collection of hobo nickels disappears after its owner is killed, and Roy Ballard and Mia Madison are hired to recover it. The search leads them through family drama, greed, and a long suspect list.

When artifact looter Sean Hudson is found with a pickaxe buried in his skull, John Marlin helps work the case. It is a layered mystery about trespassing, greed, and what people will do for buried treasure.

This shorter Blanco County adventure puts Red O'Brien and Billy Don Craddock back in the middle of trouble. What starts small quickly turns into another crooked, funny mess.

When a Blanco County hog hunter disappears after fighting with his girlfriend, John Marlin joins the search. A blue-collar comedian lands on the suspect list, and Red and Billy Don decide to investigate too.

Jeremy Sawyer vanishes from a party barge on Lake Travis, and Roy Ballard is hired to find out whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. Roy and Mia soon decide the official story does not hold up.

What begins as an insurance case involving a man struck by a speeding vehicle soon turns deadly. Roy Ballard follows the evidence into a knot of lies, motives, and real danger.

A new Blanco County case grows around Deke Gilbert, a onetime legend on the central Texas demolition derby circuit. John Marlin has to sort fact from myth as old grudges and fresh danger collide.

Roy Ballard starts with what looks like a routine fraud check involving Caleb Dimmick's job. Then the case opens into something much riskier, and Roy and Mia have to keep digging.

Trouble at Norman Conlee's lakeside estate pulls Roy and Mia into a case that refuses to stay small. What begins with private suspicions grows into something much more dangerous.

When animals are turned loose from a small exotic zoo and a dead man turns up, John Marlin faces one of Blanco County's strangest cases. The mystery widens fast, with missing people, bad luck, and danger coming from several directions.

When womanizer Lonnie Blair is killed in a deer blind, John Marlin looks hard at a neighboring ranch foreman with a shaky past. Meanwhile, a wellness retreat creates a second round of trouble for Red and Billy Don.

Roy and Mia are hired to document bullying at a burger chain after a young man tries to take his own life. Their work leads them into a more complicated case with darker stakes.

In this early Roy Ballard case, Kendyl Jordan's classic car disappears, possibly with something valuable hidden inside it. Roy takes the job and quickly finds himself up against dangerous suspects.

Phil Colby's attempt to help a mysterious woman on his land pulls him into serious danger. Before long there are hard men, bad schemes, and plenty of Blanco County trouble in the mix.

On opening day of dove season, Jimmy Ray Gladstone is shot by a stranger who seems to know too much about a planned robbery. John Marlin has to make sense of a missing brother, a muddled witness, and a very strange attack.

Bianca Rossington's dream life starts to crack when an anonymous stalker moves from creepy contact to real threats. Roy Ballard and Mia Madison take the case and find that even their client may be hiding things.

A standalone Ben Rehder novel that turns up the pressure from the start. It moves fast, keeps the stakes rising, and lets a bad situation spiral in all the worst ways.