Blair Howard Books in Order

Howard recreates the Battle of Chickamauga through soldiers and commanders on both sides. It is a battle novel built on close research, heavy casualties, and the brutal confusion of two days in the woods.

Union Colonel Abel Streight leads an unlikely mule-mounted raid deep into Georgia in 1863. Howard turns the strange, risky mission into a close-up view of movement, fear, and Civil War improvisation.

Moving deeper into the Old West, Howard writes about borderland tension, cavalry conflict, and lives caught between expanding settlement and older claims to the land. It is harsh, direct, and built on the pressure of history.

After a young woman leaps from the Walnut Street Bridge in front of him, ex-cop Harry Starke cannot let the death go. His search for answers drags him into a knot of corruption, money, and murder at the top of Chattanooga society.

Human remains under the floorboards of a ruined house send Harry after a case that is more than a decade old. The trail leads from buried city streets to the dark web and into some very ugly corners of town.

As the setting shifts west after the war, pursuit and survival take center stage. This novel trades battle lines for open country while keeping Howard's taste for danger, movement, and historical grit.

Told through Major Chester Rigby, this novel follows Brigadier General Bushrod Johnson through the Chickamauga campaign. It stays close to command decisions and battlefield chaos without losing sight of the men inside it.

A late-night call from Harry's old friend Tom Sattler ends with a body, a gun, and too many questions. The investigation opens onto theft, organized crime, and a trail of deception that keeps widening.

Harry and Amanda's wedding on Calypso Key should be a happy escape. Instead, a death in a wealthy family pulls Harry into a two-murder tangle surrounded by money, secrets, and island charm that hides a rotten core.

When socialite Angela Hartwell turns up dead, Harry finds himself navigating golf-club privilege, family secrets, and crooked finances. It looks elegant on the surface, but the case gets nastier with every step.

Amanda inherits a house on the Maine coast, a fortune, and a century-old mystery. Harry, who trusts facts more than ghosts, must figure out what really happened to her vanished great-great-grandmother.

Police chief Wesley Johnston's missing daughter pulls Harry into a case that quickly becomes murder. County politics, cold cases, and a hostile sheriff turn the search into something far more dangerous than a missing-person inquiry.

Harry's kid brother is murdered and, within a day, there is a bounty on Harry's head too. With old enemies closing in, he answers the only way he knows, by going straight at them.

A sniper nearly kills Harry's wife, and Harry learns the attack was only the beginning. To protect the people he loves, he has to outplay an ex-Mossad assassin working for a powerful enemy.

Harry faces an ingenious serial killer in a case that turns modern symbols and everyday messages into something deeply unsettling. The clues are clever, the timing is brutal, and Harry is always a step behind until he isn't.

When one of Harry's longtime friends is accused of killing his wife, Harry refuses to accept the easy answer. The strange crime scene and his old partner's behavior suggest the truth is being hidden in plain sight.

Kate's first case as lead detective begins with the murder of sixteen-year-old Jasmine Thomas. As grief drives the girl's father toward vigilante justice, Kate has to solve the crime before more lives are destroyed.

Peter Nicholson supposedly died in a hunting accident in 2002. Fifteen years later, his mother asks Harry to reopen the case, and the old story starts falling apart almost immediately.

A tactical nuclear weapon may have been smuggled into the United States, and Harry is pulled into the hunt. With terrorists, FBI pressure, and his old enemy Shady Tree in the mix, the clock is never far from midnight.

A new murder forces Kate to balance careful police work with the growing weight of command. Every witness brings another secret, and every answer seems to open a worse question.

Kate follows a case that looks polished on the surface but quickly turns dark underneath. Hidden motives, tight timelines, and pressure from every side make this a hard-earned solve.

Harry wants out, but a kidnapping drags him back in while his personal life is already in pieces. Private military contractors, aging war veterans, and shifting loyalties turn the rescue into open conflict.

Kate takes on another brutal homicide and finds the usual easy answers are anything but safe. Department pressure, unreliable stories, and stubborn detective work drive this early case.

Before he was a private investigator, Harry Starke was a Chattanooga homicide sergeant with a stubborn streak and a badge. This prequel opens the early years of his partnership with Kate Gazzara, where every case is personal and every answer comes hard.

Another named victim, another maze of lies, and another test of Kate's calm under pressure. This one pushes her deeper into the emotional cost of police work.

A professional killer and a carefully staged trail push Harry and Kate into one of their toughest early homicide cases. Every lead suggests planning, money, and someone powerful enough to hide both.

Sandra McDowell's murder seems to point toward an aging hitman on death row. Harry and Kate follow a trail full of clues and dead ends as they try to learn why she had to die.

Kate is pulled into a complicated murder investigation where status and appearances hide the real danger. She has to keep her squad focused while the case keeps changing shape.

What starts as a carjacking that should be easy to explain soon turns into something much more tangled. Kate has to strip away the obvious story before the killer gets comfortable.

Kate investigates a killing that refuses to stay neat or orderly. Every step forward brings fresh complications, and the people closest to the case are hiding more than grief.

A kidnapping and a phone call throw Westwood and Wu back into the Peacemaker's orbit. To stop a plot that could wreck the western economy, two deadly enemies have to trust each other again.

Kate faces a case where the victim's personal world is full of cracks no outsider noticed in time. Following those cracks leads her toward a more dangerous truth.

A fresh homicide sends Kate into a case ruled by half-truths and misdirection. She will need patience, instinct, and a lot of persistence to sort victim from suspect.

Pressure inside the department and danger outside it collide as Harry and Kate take on a case that tests their patience and their partnership. What looks manageable at first turns into something much uglier.

A disturbing case involving vulnerable young women leads Harry and Kate toward a conspiracy that runs well beyond one crime. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous Chattanooga's respectable surface begins to look.

Ex-SAS sniper Nero Westwood and ex-CIA assassin Cassandra Wu should be trying to kill each other, not working together. But a secret group bent on peace through world war leaves them no safer choice.

A violent death puts Kate back in the middle of a tense, shifting investigation where every relationship matters. Trust is scarce, and one bad assumption could wreck the whole case.

Kidnapping, murder, and a powerful enemy close in on Harry from all sides. As the body count rises, he is forced into an all-or-nothing fight built on revenge and survival.

Kate's squad tackles another murder where appearances collapse under scrutiny. The case rewards methodical police work and punishes every rush to judgment.

What begins as a routine case becomes a nightmare shaped by Harry's past. Old ghosts, closing enemies, and rising stakes make this one feel less like business and more like a reckoning.

A strange clue and a troubling death pull Kate into one of her more unusual cases. What first looks odd soon becomes dangerous, and the smallest detail starts to matter.

A fatal incident looks straightforward until Harry and Kate start asking who was really involved, and who benefited from the official story. Soon they are dealing with a cover-up that reaches well beyond the road.

One terrible night leaves Harry and Kate chasing answers through fear, confusion, and shifting loyalties. By morning, almost nothing about the case looks the way it did at the start.

A rogue scientist's stolen research becomes the center of a terrifying global threat. Nero, Casey Wu, and Jack O'Neal race across two continents to stop a plan built on mass death and selective survival.

The war for human space grows larger and deadlier, and Captain Richard Morian is pulled into a major fleet struggle. Strategy, nerve, and hard choices matter as much as firepower in this next stage of the conflict.

In the year 3278, Captain Richard Morian takes the *Avenger* on a rescue mission that turns into something far worse. What he finds suggests the entire Orso Carrier Group may be heading toward annihilation.

Kate faces a case shaded by hidden motives and old resentments. As the evidence shifts, she has to decide which version of events can still be trusted.

A case full of bluffing, misdirection, and reckless people turns deadly fast for Harry. Everyone seems to be playing a game, but murder is the one move no one gets to take back.

Kate's world gets a new edge as this case brings Samson into the picture. With danger closing in, sharp instincts and canine help may make all the difference.

As the war widens, Richard Morian faces another brutal mission in a galaxy that is getting harder to hold together. New threats, fragile loyalties, and constant pressure push the *Sovereign Stars* saga into even riskier ground.

Harry is drawn into one of his most unstable investigations yet, where motives keep shifting and no one seems fully in control. The deeper he goes, the more dangerous the cracks in the story become.

A new victim sends Kate and her team back into the grind of interviews, contradictions, and buried anger. The truth is there, but it does not come cheaply.

Kate investigates a murder where the story everyone wants accepted feels just a little too clean. Pulling on that thread exposes a messier and more dangerous reality.

Hattie Baker's drowning is ruled accidental, but her boyfriend isn't buying it. Harry soon learns she was not the first body tied to that setting, and the killer may already be looking for the next victim.

Harry and Kate dig into a case built on half-truths, false fronts, and witnesses who never say quite enough. In a city full of secrets, the lie that matters most may be the one everyone agreed to tell.

Police refuse to look for Julie, missing in Cherokee National Forest, so Tucker Randall steps in with Julie's aunt, Mallory Carver. Their search through the woods uncovers a truth someone would rather leave buried.

Kelsey Hart has been missing for three years, but her sister still believes she may be alive. Harry's search uncovers family secrets, layers of lies, and fresh deaths that suggest someone is protecting the truth.

Two young men were found dead on railroad tracks, and the official investigation called it an accident. Harry looks again and discovers a badly handled case that only gets stranger the deeper he digs.

Another carefully constructed case lands on Kate's desk, and nothing about it stays simple for long. She has to sort truth from performance before the investigation slips away.

Finn Doyle asks Harry to find a missing low-level mob soldier named Matteo Rossi. The case sends him back to New York through bad information, family ties, and a growing trail of bodies.

Fourteen months after first contact, Morian and the *Avenger* head to Beta Arietis looking for resources and allies. Instead they find a harsher front in the war, where every decision could cost human space dearly.

Luther McNeer has spent eight years in prison for his wife's murder, but new killings suggest the real predator is still free. Tucker and Mallory race to stop the pattern before another woman disappears.

Power, secrecy, and conflicting loyalties complicate this case from the start. Kate has to keep control while the people around the victim work hard to manage what she sees.

Kate follows a trail that keeps turning back on itself, forcing her to question both witnesses and timing. The deeper she digs, the more personal the stakes begin to feel.

A missing man, two murders, an Irish fixer, and a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme reunite Harry with Kate Gazzara and her K9, Samson. Their search takes them into New York City and toward a twisty answer.

New evidence revives Harry's first major case as a lead detective and suggests an innocent man has spent twenty-one years behind bars. To fix his oldest mistake, Harry has to find the real killer before the past wins again.

A troubling case of damaged memory and long-buried lies forces Kate to question what people remember and what someone wants them to forget. The truth sits somewhere between trauma and manipulation.

When Elizabeth Rawlings is killed just before exposing a controversial project, Harry and Kate uncover a fake family feud hiding a very real criminal empire. Old fires, old money, and old loyalties make this one of their darkest early cases.

Dying mother Eleanor Reynolds asks Harry to find the son who vanished fifteen years earlier. The cold case leads him straight toward powerful Chattanooga men who have spent years making sure the truth stays buried.

When Augustus Aldridge III dies in his library, Kate learns a young woman named Emily Caldwell was murdered in the same room nearly a century earlier. The past and present start to mirror each other in unsettling ways.

A request to solve an eleven-year-old murder sends Tucker and Mallory into small-town Tennessee. What looks like a cold case opens into gunrunning, crooked officials, and a killer who still thinks he's untouchable.

A scientist is found dead inside the Tennessee Aquarium, and the case points toward pollution, money, and people with a lot to hide. Harry and Kate work together again as the river at the center of the story turns dangerous.

Tucker and Mallory's honeymoon at the Harrington Hotel turns into a murder investigation with a century-old shadow. Hidden chambers, tidal caves, and a family fortune rooted in stolen land make the case far from a simple getaway gone wrong.

Elderly tycoon Walter Brennan thinks someone is poisoning him, but no one around him believes it. When his will changes and people start circling the money, Harry walks into a case built on greed and betrayal.

A skeleton found in Forrest's Cave sends Kate's loose-cannon detective Jack North and Dr. Amelia Croft into a decades-old conspiracy. The caves hide far more than one body, and someone is still killing to protect the secret.

Harry's mentor Frank Callahan is murdered, and the crime scene points back to the old Riverside Strangler case. As Harry follows Frank's final lead, he uncovers corruption that never really went away.

A new murder case challenges Kate's instincts as much as her experience. Clear motives are hard to find, and every polished surface hides another fracture.

Former Army CID investigator Roscoe Benteen takes on a Southern murder case shaped by corruption and men who think money buys silence. He is the wrong man to count on for quiet cooperation.

A missing fiancée case drops Tucker and Mallory into dark woods, captivity, fire, and a chase that keeps tightening around them. This one leans hard into danger from the first lie onward.

Kate opens a case that seems sealed shut until each clue unleashes another layer of trouble. What starts controlled and tidy soon turns into one of those investigations no one can put back in the box.

A new client with ties to a dead man's past pulls Tucker and Mallory into another knot of family secrets and fresh danger. As always with this duo, the truth comes with more risk than anyone admits at the start.

Marina Liang's body is staged beneath a bridge during Chattanooga's Riverbend Festival, echoing a death from 1920. Harry and Kate uncover a century of accidents that may never have been accidents at all.

Judge Orson Crane is found dead in a locked study, and everyone is ready to call it suicide. Kate knows better, and the powerful Crane family's buried resentments give her plenty to investigate.