Fred Carver Books in Order

In his first case as a private eye, ex-cop Fred Carver looks into a suspected suicide that does not feel right. The search leads him through Florida real estate schemes, smugglers, and a dangerous attraction to his client.

A killer with a homemade flamethrower starts burning victims alive, and one of them is Carver's young son. Grief drives Carver into a blistering hunt for the man everyone thinks is responsible.

Carver investigates a suspicious death at a Florida retirement home for a police lieutenant and old friend. The trail leads through intimidation, corruption, and a thug who wants the questions to stop.

A strange new client walks out of Carver's office, gets into a car, and explodes. With even the dead man's identity in question, Carver is left chasing a murder built on deception.

Carver is hired to find a missing wife, then learns his client is not the worried husband he pretends to be. When the woman begs Carver for protection, the case turns into a run from a ruthless drug lord.

A retired cop in the Keys thinks his wealthy neighbor is using a yacht for something criminal. After the old man dies, Carver follows the trail into smuggling, violence, and the dangerous waters off Florida.

An anonymous note says an old man in a retirement community was murdered, not felled by a heart attack. Carver starts asking questions and finds too many deaths in one sunny place.

A married woman pays Carver to follow her and the man she is seeing, then steps in front of a truck. When her husband dies too and the lover disappears, Carver knows the setup is darker than it first looked.

Carver's new client insists a stranger has falsely accused him of stalking, and that she may be planning to kill him. The deeper Carver digs, the less certain he is about who is lying and who is hunting whom.

After a bombing at an abortion clinic injures the woman he loves, Fred Carver takes on the most painful case of his career. He has to decide whether the blast grew from ideology, vengeance, or both.