Don Bruns Books in Order

Music journalist Mick Sever investigates a reggae band's rising fame after a girl is murdered at its Miami after-party. Although a security guard is arrested, Mick suspects the band's history of violence conceals a different explanation.

Congressman Robert Shapply is murdered, and his son becomes the prime suspect. Music journalist Mick Sever believes his childhood friend's innocence and investigates a family whose secrets connect politics, the music business, and threats against himself.

Mick Sever and his ex-wife Ginny search Miami for their missing friend, pop star Gideon Pike. The singer's entanglement with a blackmailer draws them into a dangerous world of crooked police, enormous fortunes, and murder.

Friends James Lessor and Skip Moore launch a hauling business after an inheritance buys them a truck. Their first moving job brings unexpected cargo: a bloody human finger that connects their new venture to a gruesome crime.

In this twisty short story, a famous performer’s most devoted admirer decides that admiration is no longer enough. As the fan’s attention shifts from distant support to intrusive presence, Deaver explores how entitlement and obsession can turn deadly.

Mick Sever travels to St. Barts to interview music producer Danny Murtz, whose success is shadowed by disappearances. Anonymous threats and mounting paranoia make the assignment dangerous, especially when Murtz begins to suspect Mick himself.

James Lessor and Skip Moore turn their truck into a catering business serving Reverend Preston Cashdollar's traveling revival. Hoping to profit from the crowds, they instead encounter an organization where greed and corruption lead to murder.

A fire destroys Nassau's legendary Highland Studio, leaving an unidentified body behind. Covering the studio's reopening, music journalist Mick Sever encounters damaged equipment, erased recordings, and signs that someone intends to silence the musicians permanently.

A security installation at Synco Systems comes with an unusual condition: pretending to be an employee's boyfriend. James Lessor and Skip Moore become entangled in corporate intrigue, and an apparent suicide gives their amateur spying dangerous consequences.

Newly licensed investigators James Lessor and Skip Moore examine a traveling carnival plagued by accidents and a death. Uncooperative workers and threats complicate their assignment, and another murder raises the possibility that they are next.

James Lessor and Skip Moore travel to the Florida Keys to investigate gold supposedly lost in a 1935 hurricane. Their client's family connection to the shipment leads the inexperienced investigators toward smugglers, earlier treasure hunters, and murder.

James Lessor and Skip Moore go undercover at a restaurant after its sous chef is murdered. Skip's girlfriend Emily knew the victim, but her refusal to discuss their shared secret complicates a case with numerous suspects.

An actor falls to his death while filming a television show in Miami, and his girlfriend hires James Lessor and Skip Moore. Their investigation takes them to Hollywood, where Emily goes undercover amid ambitions and deception.

New Orleans detective Quentin Archer investigates a judge's murder as other members of the judiciary become targets. A voodoo practitioner offers help, but crooked police and powerful suspects complicate his search for the person behind the killings.

A white police officer's ambush and the shooting of an unarmed Black burglar intensify racial tensions in New Orleans. Detective Quentin Archer faces pressure to solve the crimes quickly before the city's simmering anger erupts.

Quentin Archer investigates a series of murders whose victims are posed with a distinctive calling card. With few leads available, the New Orleans detective turns to voodoo practitioner Solange Cordray for help before another killing occurs.