David Housewright Books in Order

When a grad student's dinosaur dig in Montana is raided and an extremely rare Ankylosaurus skull disappears, the case lands in Mac's lap through a friend. Tracking a fossil worth millions on the black market, he faces ruthless collectors and criminals who will do anything to keep the bones.

Party girl Henrietta Weller wakes up in a Minneapolis dumpster with no memory of how she got there and a burning need for payback. Hiring Holland Taylor and his partner Freddie, she pulls them into a kidnapping ring targeting the daughters of Minnesota's rich and infamous, where silence is bought and lives are expendable.

On the first boating day of the season, Nina Truhler finds the body of Army veteran E. J. Woods floating at a St. Croix River marina. Officials call it suicide or an accident, but when his daughter insists he was murdered, Mac dives into dockside feuds, buried war trauma and secrets the family would rather forget.

Jeanette Carrell stands accused of murdering a developer who allegedly tricked her elderly friend with dementia into signing away pristine land, and every scrap of evidence points her way. Convinced there is more to the story, Mac takes the case and uncovers land deals, grudges and disappearances that make her calm insistence on innocence even stranger.

Trying to honor Nina's request that he retire, Mac still agrees to look into Jenness Crawford's suspicion that someone murdered her grandmother in a family owned castle resort. Trapped with feuding heirs, long serving staff and at least one killer, he must read the room before he becomes the next victim.

Moments after leaving a neighborhood bar, Mac is shot in the back and left in a coma. While he hovers between life and death, friends, cops and former foes retrace his last case involving a wealthy tech family, drug dealers and a mysterious woman who may have brought the bullet with her.

In this entry in a shared series about grifters Sam and Rachel, a competitive business tycoon hires them to help humiliate his rival. A supposedly simple deal called Dracula Wine draws them into the high end art world, where double crosses and stolen paintings are standard tools of the trade.

At a public reading, a psychic medium claims the spirit of robber Leland Hayes is offering to reveal where missing heist money lies if someone kills McKenzie. Pulled into a world of competing mediums and reality television, Mac must decide what to believe while others chase the cash and his head.

Five prominent Minneapolis attorneys discover that their most sensitive case files have been hacked and handed to a whistleblower group threatening to post them online. Hired to stop the leak, Holland Taylor and his partner Freddie must untangle divorce wars, payoffs, class actions and a long buried rape tied to one toxic family.

Once notorious as the young muse in a famous painter's erotic canvases, Louise Wykoff asks Mac to track a cache of Randolph McInnis paintings stolen from her barn. Following the missing art north toward Lake Superior, Mac uncovers family grudges, forgeries and people willing to kill for a masterpiece.

A simple favor for a hockey buddy introduces Mac to Erin Peterson, driven owner of the Salsa Girl food company, whose factory locks are being sabotaged with glue. As the harassment escalates to threats against her business and life, Mac uncovers rivals, debts and lies Erin has not shared.

Holland Taylor is hired to vet Emily Denys, the new fiancée of a wealthy young heir, and quickly learns her name and history are largely fabricated. When Emily is murdered and the boy's controlling mother is charged, Taylor digs into a privileged family whose secrets are as dangerous as any killer.

At his stepdaughter Erica's request, Mac looks into the unsolved stabbing of her friend's father, killed in a suburban park a year earlier. His questions link that cold case to another suspicious death and a tight group of college friends whose alibis no longer look so solid.

Violinist Paul Duclos begs Mac to help ransom his stolen Stradivarius, the Countess Borromeo, even if it means paying thieves under the table. As Mac pursues the missing instrument, he clashes with local police, insurers, the FBI's art crime unit and dangerous players who see the violin as leverage.

During a winter storm, Mac watches a truck dump a bound woman onto a Twin Cities freeway, triggering a massive pileup but sparing her life. With the victim suffering total amnesia, he shelters her and hunts for her identity, the people who hurt her and the reason they want her dead.

Riley Brodin, granddaughter of a wealthy Minneapolis power broker, calls Mac when her new boyfriend vanishes, leaving behind a rented mansion and a life built on lies. Following the trail of Juan Carlos Navarre puts Mac between ruthless criminals and a family that would rather bury its scandals.

Mac agrees to go undercover for the ATF, infiltrating a small crew of rural robbers to find a cache of stolen guns near the Canadian border. Playing the part of a career criminal, he walks a razor thin line between the gang, law enforcement and his own uneasy conscience.

After pop superstar Sheila Lews dies under suspicious circumstances, singer Clarisse Dufresne is pressured to fake a cache of supposedly lost tracks. Rescued and then imprisoned by a masked recluse in a remote mansion, she is caught between attraction, fear and repeated attempts on her life.

Thirteen year old James McNulty is reeling from his parents' divorce, bullying at school and slipping grades when he discovers a suitcase stuffed with cash. Keeping the money seems like an easy fix, until strangers start asking questions and his secret draws real danger to his door.

An insurance company asks Mac to act as go between after a priceless jade artifact is stolen from a Minneapolis museum and offered back for ransom. The so called cursed Lily attracts spies, thieves and federal agents, and before long the recovery effort turns deadly.

At Nina Truhler's request, Mac looks into her ex husband Jason, who claims he woke up beside a murdered woman after a blues festival road trip. The deeper Mac digs into the supposed one night stand, the more he uncovers blackmail, online vice and powerful men with plenty to hide.

Abducted by angry residents of a South Dakota town, Mac learns a con man used his name to steal their savings with a fake development scheme. To clear himself, he agrees to find the impostor, exposing small town grudges, political corruption, and a very personal motive for revenge.

Graduate students bring Mac a legend about gangster Frank “Jelly” Nash and millions in stolen gold hidden somewhere in St. Paul. The treasure hunt quickly turns violent, and Mac must outmaneuver thugs, collectors and a mysterious woman named Heavenly while chasing both the gold and a killer.

When homicide chief Bobby Dunston's young daughter is kidnapped, the abductors demand ransom money from his friend Mac McKenzie. The girl comes home, but a childhood buddy is murdered and a contract is placed on Mac, forcing him to face old sins and relentless killers.

After Mac stops a rookie cop from roughing up Merodie Davies at a grisly crime scene, he lands in jail and then on her defense team. Investigating the death of her lover, he discovers a disturbing pattern of dead boyfriends and a brutally dangerous man still in her life.

Mac's old flame is now Minnesota's first lady, and she fears an anonymous email accusing the governor of murder will destroy his career. Digging into a decades old death in a small hometown, Mac stirs up jealousies, secrets, and a town that would rather forget the past.

A favor for his father's old Marine buddy sends Mac McKenzie to a honey farm where the bees are mysteriously dying. After the beekeeper is executed and a threatening neighbor vanishes, Mac goes underground, dodging federal agents and thugs to uncover a toxic conspiracy.

Ex St. Paul cop Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie agrees to help a friend whose nine year old daughter needs a bone marrow transplant from the sister who ran away years ago. His search for the missing girl drags him through the Twin Cities underworld and into a deadly family reckoning.

A taped message from Alison Emerton warns that if anyone is listening, she is already dead and a convicted rapist is responsible. Months after her disappearance, Holland Taylor is hired to find her, only to learn many people had reasons to want Alison gone.

Florida widow Irene Gustafson has been cleaned out by a charming investment adviser and a doomed housing project near the Twin Cities. Hired through his parents, Holland Taylor tracks the missing money into a crooked real estate scheme where exposing the truth could be deadly.

When a man he once threatened is murdered, St. Paul PI Holland Taylor is pressured into investigating. Following the trail to ambitious gubernatorial candidate C. C. Monroe, he uncovers blackmail, political secrets, and a series of killings that hit painfully close to home.