Fen Maguire Mystery Books in Order

Investigating extortion against East Texas loggers, Fen Maguire goes undercover and follows clues to a paintball team. When its leader dies during a match, he must break through the community's silence to uncover a killer.

A drug dealer's body in the Brazos pulls retired sheriff Fen Maguire away from painting and back into investigation. Evidence points toward corruption surrounding his successor, forcing him to confront what has happened to his former county.

Fen Maguire doubts the arrest made after a woman's murder beside the Guadalupe. When a second victim looks remarkably like the first, he must connect their deaths and clear an innocent suspect before public pressure overwhelms the investigation.

While substituting for an art professor, Fen Maguire investigates a broker who vanished after defrauding local residents. A reporter's murder suggests the old scam remains dangerous, but the police resist his efforts to connect the cases.

With retirement approaching and grief clouding his judgment, Sheriff Fen Maguire investigates a hunter shot in his deer stand. Evidence implicates his own ranch manager, putting an innocent man's freedom and Fen's reputation at risk.

A corpse recovered from the Colorado River interrupts Fen Maguire's search for painting locations. Recruited after a questionable arrest, he poses as an art teacher to sort through local feuds and discover who actually committed the murder.

Fen Maguire investigates a rancher's apparently accidental death in a house fire, only for the man's body to appear elsewhere. With a valuable inheritance dividing the family, another attack turns the inquiry into a race to prevent further killing.

Fen Maguire discovers a body while sketching beside the Medina River, then helps uncover a second victim. Doubting the case against an arrested suspect, he investigates concealed connections while a powerful grieving father demands answers.

A technology millionaire's body surfaces in a lake shared by two counties, sparking competing police investigations. Fen Maguire must work through jurisdictional disputes and the victim's many enemies to establish where the crime happened and who committed it.

Posing as an art instructor aboard an Alaskan cruise, Fen Maguire investigates two suspects in a Texas river murder. As their stories unravel, he must identify the killer before the voyage ends and the passengers disperse.