Clayton Lindemuth Books in Order

On his last day in office, Sheriff Bittersmith hunts a missing farmhand after a rancher is found dead with a pitchfork through his neck. A blizzard, a missing girl, and small-town corruption turn the chase into something much darker.

Baer Creighton can feel when people lie, so he keeps to his woods, his moonshine still, and his dog Fred. When Fred is stolen and brutalized in a dogfighting ring, Baer launches a revenge war he can't easily stop.

After her father dies, Emeline Margulies marries Angus Hardgrave to escape one dangerous man and lands beside another. In 1957 rural Pennsylvania, faith, fear, and raw survival collide in a bleak marriage of convenience.

Nat Cinder, a secessionist with his dead wife's memory hanging over him, stumbles onto explosive photos that could ruin an Arizona governor. What starts as political intrigue turns into a violent hunt tied to a sixteen-year-old secret.

Solomon Bull is training for a brutal desert race when betrayal and a reckless dare drag him into politics, surveillance, and dirty power. It's a fast, darkly funny thriller with a stubborn hero who keeps charging forward.

In 1917, Grace Hardgrave flees New York with her hungry daughters and returns to the Pennsylvania farm she once escaped. She finds an old feud burning hot, a fresh murder on Hardgrave land, and secrets waiting in every direction.

In Arizona, Baer stumbles onto a family business built on trafficking children. He has found the kind of evil he can smell from a distance, and the result is another savage, personal war.

Ultra-runner Nick Fister enters the Badwater 135 carrying grief, rage, and a collapsing home life. When his crew chief turns up dead, the race becomes both a murder tangle and a brutal test of what Nick is running from.

Trying to move on after his first war, Baer gets pulled into the disappearance of a teenage girl and the corruption around it. The case widens his world and shows how messy vengeance becomes once it starts.

Everybody wants Shirley and Ulyana dead, including a drug crew, a compromised FBI agent, and a Russian mob boss. Three murder plots crash together at a house in the woods, and Shirley is done being hunted.

Shirley Lyle keeps her head down until a drug lord's family wrecks her trailer and pushes too far. When her friend Ulyana vanishes, Shirley fights back with anger, nerve, and a stubborn new sense of worth.

With Baer hiding out, Stinky Joe is left to survive a Flagstaff winter on his own. Once people pull the dog back into town, deputies, criminals, and reporters all come hunting, and chaos follows.

On the road west, Baer is stranded by a storm and pulled into another family's secret nightmare. A choice involving two boys forces him to look hard at the killer he's become, and the man he still wants to be.

Baer heads back toward North Carolina while Tat and Corazon are stuck in a motel with danger closing fast. Old debts, fast violence, and bad timing turn a simple trip into another brutal test of loyalty.

Baer Creighton has spent years hunting evil, and the cost is finally catching up with him. This late Baer novel turns inward as violence, conscience, and the people he loves force him into a harsher kind of reckoning.

When Shirley's son Brass is kidnapped, she barrels toward Phoenix and straight into the Demyan crime family. It's a rescue mission powered by guns, dark humor, and Shirley's refusal to leave her boy behind.

Frank Buzzard thinks he's a principled man, but his son Linc knows how cruel that principle can become. After a harsh punishment and a violent snowy-night showdown, father and son are pushed toward a reckoning that also pulls in Baer Creighton.