Burke Books in Order

Burke teams up with Flood, a deadly woman who wants the man who murdered a child found so she can kill him herself. Their hunt moves through New York's hidden corridors and straight toward monsters with money and protection.

Burke's new client wants a single obscene photo found, but the search opens into a world of money, flesh, and abused children. It is one of the books that defines just how hellish this series can get.

Burke is hired to find the Ghost Van that is preying on teenage prostitutes in New York. His best ally is Belle, a stripper and gifted wheelwoman who can outrun trouble almost as fast as Burke can find it.

Burke investigates a soft-spoken savior who may be rescuing runaways, or recruiting them. The case puts him against organized crime, contract killers, and a hidden operation even nastier than it first seems.

Summoned to a fading Indiana mill town, Burke looks into a boy charged with a crime he did not commit and a serial sniper haunting lovers' lane. There he meets Blossom, who has her own plan for vengeance.

Burke chases the truth behind a gifted little boy turned into a killer calling himself Satan's Child. His search leads through welfare hotels, street myth, and ritualized violence toward the adults who made him.

Burke investigates a rash of teen suicides in a wealthy Connecticut suburb and finds a link to an elite sadomasochistic underground. The farther he goes, the more carefully manufactured the victims' despair looks.

Burke is hunted by rogue cops while a seductive client wants him to free a man accused of rape-murders. Nothing in the case is clean, and the city feels ready to sell him out.

Burke is hired by a crusader who claims to expose false charges of child sexual abuse, but the case may be horribly real. Working for the wrong side forces Burke into one of his dirtiest moral corners.

Crystal Beth asks Burke to protect an underground refuge for abused women from a sadistic stalker with powerful backing. To keep the house standing, Burke has to fight both the predator and the system shielding him.

After Crystal Beth is murdered at a gay rights rally, Burke goes after a vigilante killer targeting gay bashers. The case grows stranger when the methods start to resemble those of Wesley, his long-dead childhood partner.

A professional hit squad nearly kills Burke and does kill his partner, forcing him into hiding with a new face and a private war. His search for the people behind the attack runs across the country and into his own past.

Exiled in Portland, Burke hunts for a missing teenager who does not fit the usual runaway pattern. Cut off from his old network, he joins forces with a rogue group that relieves unbearable pain by any means.

Back in New York after years away, Burke takes a mob boss's job, find the killer who butchered his illegitimate daughter, Vonni. The trail through local teens and underground film culture is ugly even by Burke's standards.

When Wolfe is arrested for trying to kill a rapist she once prosecuted, Burke builds a shaky alliance to prove the case is rotten. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that powerful people want the truth buried.

After a client is gunned down, Burke opens a dossier on Beryl Preston, a girl he rescued from a pimp twenty years earlier. The search becomes both a missing-person case and a reckoning with his own past.

Burke returns to violence-for-money when a terminally ill ex-gang enforcer offers a path to revenge and cash. Their target is a cold case that leads to wealthy men who have never paid for what they did.

With the Prof lying in a coma, Burke accepts one last impossible job, recovering a kidnapped prince's son in exchange for help he cannot refuse. The case drags him back toward his own beginnings for a ferocious finale.