Discreet Eliminators Books in Order

The Discreet Eliminators books follow an odd little crew of supernatural problem solvers who work off the books. Ford is human, Neuland is technically dead, and together they make a living taking contracts that involve killing the kinds of things that do not show up in normal police reports. Tilda Rosenbloom, younger and far less jaded, acts as their go between and occasional partner.

In The Pale House Devil, the trio are broke and low on options when Tilda brings them a job from her wealthy employer. The Mansfield family’s ancestral home, known as the Pale House, has been abandoned ever since something in its walls turned violent. Officially, Ford and Neuland are being hired to lift a curse. Unofficially, they are walking into a decades long tangle of guilt, secrets, and hauntings that the surviving Mansfields would rather not discuss.

Ford kills the living and Neuland kills the dead, a division of labor that makes sense until they realize the thing in the Pale House does not fit neatly into either category. As they work the case, the book leans into classic haunted house pleasures: locked rooms, family sins, and a presence that might be more victim than villain. At the same time it keeps the pace and wisecracks of crime fiction, with Ford and Neuland treating exorcism and monster hunting as just another gig.

The Flesh King carries the story forward. After barely surviving the events at the Pale House, Ford, Neuland, and Tilda return to New York City hoping to mend fences with the local crime syndicates. Instead they are forced into another unpaid favor. A gruesome killer called the Flesh King is stalking the city, leaving mangled bodies and occult clues behind, and the only way back into the syndicates’ good graces is to track the thing down.

What follows is supernatural noir: night drives through outer boroughs, tense meetings with mob bosses, and bloody run ins with things that do not stay dead. The relationship between the three leads keeps it grounded. Ford and Neuland are hard boiled professionals who still cling to their own moral lines, while Tilda is trying to figure out how much of their world she can live with.

Together, the novellas read like episodes of a very strange detective show, each one self contained but building a larger picture of the networks, debts, and monsters that make up this version of New York. If you like horror with banter and a strong sense of place, start with The Pale House Devil, then follow the team east for The Flesh King.