Burnside Mystery Books in Order

When a mayoral candidate Burnside knows from a homeless outreach center is murdered, the obvious suspect looks almost too obvious. Following his gut, he digs into local politics, affairs, and buried grudges until the case starts closing in on him too.

After shots are fired at a former football standout on an L.A. freeway, private investigator Burnside is hired to find out who wants him dead. The case keeps widening, pulling in family rivalries, old betrayals, and a murder no one seems eager to solve.

Burnside is hired to investigate thefts at a local warehouse, but the job turns into a murder case almost immediately. Greed, family dysfunction, and USC connections pull him deeper, even as his relationship with Gail starts moving toward a crossroads.

A slick sports agent with plenty of enemies asks Burnside to prove he did not try to kill his former partner. The deeper Burnside gets into agents, lovers, and underworld grudges, the more the case turns deadly, and personal.

The governor of California wants Burnside to quietly find his missing teenage daughter in the middle of a reelection campaign. Then the case shifts from disappearance to murder, and every new answer opens up a darker problem.

A routine background check for a major company drops Burnside into a string of connected killings. To stop the killer, he has to dig past entertainment industry gloss and corporate rot, while making sure he is not next in line.

Burnside is asked to look into missing money at an elite Pasadena private school, and the job quickly turns uglier than anyone expects. Old secrets, resentments, and affairs turn embezzlement into murder.

Judy Atkin, the runaway whose case helped wreck Burnside's LAPD career, comes back asking for help. He tries to stay clear, but blackmail, look-alikes, and a Santa Monica homicide drag him straight into her mess.

A young football coach disappears, and his wife asks Burnside to bring him home. What should be a missing persons case becomes a murder investigation packed with false fronts, old connections, and more suspects than answers.

An old high school friend asks Burnside to look into an attack on his celebrity daughter in Beverly Hills. The case spirals into theft, betrayal, kidnapping, and murder, with family damage at the center of it all.

Shots are fired at a restaurant owner and former football player, and Burnside is hired to sort out who is behind it. As the suspect list grows, Gail's run for L.A. City Attorney raises the stakes at home too.

A shady client offers Burnside serious money to help with a scheme tied to one of his former USC players. Gunfire follows, old demons resurface, and the case sends him into parts of Los Angeles he cannot navigate by instinct alone.

The father of a former football star asks Burnside to find his missing son, but the story feels wrong from the start. As he digs deeper, Burnside uncovers hidden rot, slippery motives, and a trail that keeps getting darker.