Douglas Pratt Books in Order

Max Sawyer avoids his hometown and prefers to move through life with bourbon and blues. A friend’s trouble brings him back, where a murder forces him to confront unresolved personal history and dangers arriving from several directions at once.

A teenage girl’s murder inside a church pulls Max Sawyer into a community concealing secrets. An already difficult relationship with family becomes more complicated as he investigates the killing and discovers how much lies beneath the place’s outward appearance.

Reporter Lisa Day disappears while investigating missing women, sending Max to a small Arkansas town in pursuit of the woman he loves. Finding her requires exposing a dangerous secret concealed by the community before the same forces can destroy his chance to bring her home.

Assigned to cover a museum fundraiser for the society pages, reporter Max Sawyer expects an easy evening among Memphis donors. A curator’s murder transforms the assignment into a serious investigation, leaving him racing to identify the killer before the next morning’s newspaper deadline.

A chance meeting leaves Max believing he could have prevented a murder. Pursuing justice for a neglected victim puts him against a powerful man and a disturbing history, turning regret over an earlier opportunity into determination to expose what happened.

A young woman asks Max to find her brother after he disappears along the Mississippi. The search strands Max in an isolated river bend, where drug dealers hunt him and an apparent missing-person inquiry becomes an immediate struggle to stay alive.

A murdered college friend had been searching for his missing daughter, prompting Max to continue the investigation police cannot solve. Following her trail exposes a trafficking underworld, where dangerous adversaries threaten to end his search before he can locate the young woman.

A Christmas Eve storm washes out a bridge and halts a train’s progress. A nearby juke joint offers the only light in the darkness, but its concealed history turns an enforced interruption into an encounter with secrets beyond an ordinary weather delay.

A former Marine living aboard a sailboat agrees to help an old comrade’s wife find her missing husband. The search carries Chase Gordon into drug trafficking and federal investigations between South Florida and the Bahamas, where loyalty becomes entangled with dangerous secrets.

Chase witnesses a skipper’s kidnapping near an isolated Bahamian cay and finds the man’s teenage daughter hiding aboard. Protecting her draws him into the kidnappers’ pursuit, forcing him to locate her father before the men hunting them can return.

Rescuing a woman from an attempted kidnapping draws Chase into a search for a missing German submarine carrying gold. Neo-Nazis pursue the same treasure, making an investigation into wartime history a dangerous contest both above and beneath the sea.

A gun attack forces Chase to rescue an attorney he despises, linking him to the husband of a woman he still remembers. Keeping the rival alive draws both into corrupt dealings and contract killings, where survival requires cooperation between people who would rather remain enemies.

Chase witnesses an aircraft crash and rescues its only survivor, only to discover that someone is trying to kill her. Protecting the woman becomes a search for the people behind the threat before their next attempt reaches her.

A carjacking leaves a mother and child dead and an infant missing, provoking a father’s violent pursuit of the killers. Chase joins the hunt and discovers the grieving man has a classified past connected to his own, complicating the race to save the baby.

Chase’s sister arrives seeking help after her son runs away. Following the missing boy’s trail uncovers bodies and a powerful criminal pursuing him too, turning a family search into an urgent effort to reach the teenager before his other hunter.

A missing cartel lieutenant places Chase between rival traffickers and federal agents who suspect he is working for one side. Finding the man who once tried to kill him becomes the only way to escape the misunderstanding before South Florida erupts into open conflict.

A treasure hunter’s disappearance sends Chase into the remote Gulf Coast, where officials deny knowing anything about her. Smugglers and violent local powers obstruct the search, suggesting she uncovered a historical secret that someone controlling the region is determined to protect.

Chase wakes in a Havana hotel beside evidence of a murder he cannot remember and narrowly escapes the arriving police. Without allies or identification, he follows the people who framed him into a cross-border conspiracy while trying to protect others caught in it.

A former operative living under a false identity in Mexico tries to remain unnoticed until a young American woman is threatened. Helping her brings cartel killers, federal police and an intelligence officer onto his trail, endangering the quiet life built around his disappearance.

Marine historian Rikki Talens uncovers clues to a legendary pirate hoard along the Gulf Coast. Ruthless rivals, mercenaries and deadly traps turn her research into a race to recover the treasure before a powerful enemy claims it.

Recovering from a gunshot wound aboard his sailboat, Chase hopes to avoid more trouble. An attack at the marina instead reconnects him with old enemies and a local criminal conspiracy, forcing him back into violence before he has fully healed.

Seeking new identities for a rescued woman brings former assassin Corsair to Cartagena on a counterfeiter’s assignment. An encounter with a hostile former French operative revives an old vendetta, complicating his effort to protect both the woman and his own daughter.

An exploding yacht leaves Chase with evidence suggesting deliberate destruction rather than an accident. Continuing toward Mexico draws intelligence operatives, criminals and bereaved relatives into his path, revealing a weapons-related conspiracy whose participants need his discovery erased.

A murdered woman recovered beside Chase’s marina draws him toward a trafficking network operating along Florida’s coast. Another young woman’s danger gives the investigation urgency, forcing him to challenge criminals who rely on fear and silence to keep their activities concealed.

Corsair agrees to defend a remote Amazon village and discovers that a hidden gold deposit explains the violence surrounding it. A guerrilla force closes in while his own enemies pursue him, leaving civilians trapped within a conflict where protection demands difficult compromises.

A lunch with his former commander is shattered when a sniper kills a senator and wounds Chase’s mentor. Pursuing the shooter reveals a carefully organized operation, putting former teammates at risk as powerful people work to bury the truth behind the assassination.

Rikki Talens follows a trail of old documents and submerged wrecks in search of a lost Civil War artifact. What begins as a historical puzzle draws assassins determined to suppress a discovery that could overturn accepted accounts of the past.

A teenager’s death on an Ocean Springs beach first appears to be an overdose until the police chief learns her baby is missing. Following the child’s trail exposes exploitation beneath the town’s quiet surface, testing his efforts to rebuild both department and family life.

Returning home to care for his father, police chief Jay Delp faces a woman’s body beneath a Gulf Coast bridge. Investigating longstanding local violence brings resistance from officials concerned with appearances, while limited resources and his own history complicate the search for a killer.

A hired killer holds Corsair’s daughter and threatens to deliver her to a longstanding enemy within six days. To stop the transfer, he launches a campaign against the adversary’s weapons business, racing the deadline while trying to bring his daughter home.

A rescue attempt aboard a sinking yacht leaves Chase with coordinates leading to a submerged Soviet spy ship. Mercenaries and demolition charges suggest someone wants its secrets destroyed, forcing him to survive an underwater confrontation while an ally watches the surface.

Clues to a massive gold statue lost with a Spanish galleon draw Rikki Talens into the Bahamas. Competing treasure hunters and powerful interests pursue the same prize, forcing her to decipher old evidence while surviving increasingly dangerous encounters.

A body recovered from the bayou draws police chief Jay Delp into a murder investigation that reaches powerful people in Ocean Springs. The case threatens to cross from local politics into his own life, exposing secrets the close-knit coastal community has long kept submerged.

A woman asks Chase to locate her missing diver brother, whose log points toward a submerged aircraft. Attempts to steal the evidence reveal the wreck’s importance to dangerous men, drawing the pair into an underwater search where finding answers may trigger further violence.

Documents from a family lockbox lead Rikki Talens toward a Gold Rush shipwreck and its unrecovered fortune. An insurance agent with hidden knowledge joins the hunt, turning the search into a dangerous contest over old claims and buried deception.

Corsair returns to Washington to confront the covert intelligence office that manipulated and hunted him. With his daughter’s future at stake, he must face the organization’s remaining operatives and end the pursuit before he can hope to rebuild a normal life.