Blackie Ryan Books in Order

Blackie Ryan investigates the bizarre locked-room death of Wolfe Quinlan, a man so hateful that nearly everyone around him had reason to want him dead.

Blackie Ryan returns for another church-soaked mystery, one full of grief, temptation, and bad behavior hiding behind respectable Catholic surfaces.

A wealthy matriarch is shot aboard her yacht on Lake Michigan, and her family looks immediately guilty. Blackie Ryan steps into a tangle of money, resentment, and murder.

A woman convicted of killing her parents may be innocent, and the prosecutor who helped send her away cannot let it go. He asks Blackie Ryan to dig deeper.

Nora MacDonaugh has already had two husbands die under suspicious circumstances. Blackie Ryan may be the only man calm enough to see through charm and chaos.

Someone is trying to kill wealthy broker Bart Cain, and his family fears the long-vanished Mary Anne Haggerty is somehow involved. Blackie investigates the fear and the past.

Ghostly unrest in a suburban parish brings Blackie Ryan to the case. What looks supernatural soon opens onto very human motives.

A century-old murder and a family history of untimely deaths send Blackie Ryan into the past. Solving the old crime may be the only way to stop a new one.

Blackie feels out of place on an aircraft carrier until disappearances and a dead officer demand answers. The open sea only sharpens the mystery.

During a cold Christmas in Cologne, the relic of the Three Kings is stolen from the cathedral. Blackie needs more than logic to get it back.

When the widely disliked auxiliary bishop Gus Quill vanishes, Blackie Ryan is told to find him. The case turns sly, ecclesiastical, and unexpectedly dangerous.

Blackie is sent to find a vanished Dominican priest who is also a media star. The search opens onto secrets the church would rather keep buried.

A White House poltergeist pulls Blackie Ryan to Washington, where ghosts, conspiracy, and danger gather around a newly elected president.

A Russian Orthodox monk is shot inside a locked office at a Chicago divinity school. Blackie Ryan finds theology, espionage, and mob intrigue tangled together.

Three execution-style murders inside St. Lucy's sanctuary pull Blackie into a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood full of threats, ghosts from the past, and competing visions of renewal.

Blackie is asked to watch a rival churchman at a family estate already boiling with inheritance fights. Then attempted murder turns the visit into a locked-room mystery.

Blackie Ryan heads to Seville to prevent a murder inside a wealthy aristocratic family. Spanish pride, inheritance battles, and frustrated desire make the danger feel close and constant.