Frederick Ramsay Books in Order

Former CIA operative Ike Schwartz becomes sheriff of quiet Picketsville, Virginia. A plan to steal and ransom Callend College's valuable art collection threatens the town, forcing Ike to draw on skills its residents hardly suspect.

Picketsville's new vicar faces a corpse in his church, a stolen gun, and an angry congregation. Sheriff Ike Schwartz investigates escalating deaths while unexplained FBI activity and his relationship with a college president complicate matters.

Mystery writer Frank Smith attends his fiftieth school reunion while a detective suspects him in his wife's disappearance. At the academy, another unsolved mystery involving missing boys draws him into an investigation shaped by childhood memories.

A body carrying a local man's identification proves to be a former Russian intelligence operative Sheriff Ike Schwartz believed dead. His CIA past resurfaces as local criminals, international intrigue, and competing agencies complicate a winter investigation.

This historical novel imagines Judas's early life as the child of a Jewish woman and Roman soldier. Family suffering draws him toward rebellion, eventually bringing his revolutionary hopes into conflict with the community around Jesus.

A murder in Jonathan Lydell's restored guest room echoes an unsolved killing there nearly a century and a half earlier. Sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick investigate a locked-room puzzle entangled with family history.

A pilot vanishes over Chesapeake Bay after leaving a puzzling message for Charlie Garland. Asked to investigate during his vacation, Sheriff Ike Schwartz finds a missing-person case that may involve threats far beyond the local shoreline.

Energy executive Leo Painter travels to Botswana pursuing a resort project while relatives and associates circle his fortune. His story runs alongside that of an ailing lion, with their intersecting paths drawing police and wildlife authorities.

International visitors converge on southern Africa for the World Cup as competing interests gather in Botswana. When ranger Sanderson discovers a body, her investigation with Inspector Kgabo Modise uncovers connections to bribery, smuggling, and wider intrigue.

A clinic death and a faculty member's ransacked home lead Sheriff Ike Schwartz toward a valuable religious icon. Evidence of old-fashioned espionage brings CIA involvement into an investigation already complicated by conflicting identities and relationships.

After Ruth Harris is left comatose by a car crash, her fiancé Ike Schwartz suspects deliberate sabotage. With an election approaching and no jurisdiction over the case, he turns to unofficial allies to investigate the attack.

Ike Schwartz and Ruth escape to an isolated Maine island seeking peace after a difficult year. Deaths involving former CIA colleagues disturb their retreat, leaving them confronting a threat with little communication or outside assistance.

In Jerusalem in 28 CE, a servant girl is murdered in Herod Antipas's palace. Pontius Pilate forces chief rabbi Gamaliel to investigate, drawing a scholar into a politically sensitive case amid religious unrest and royal secrets.

A burned body appears inside the Jerusalem Temple's sacred inner chamber, prompting claims of divine punishment. Gamaliel and physician Loukas pursue a more earthly explanation as further danger and political tensions obstruct their search for a murderer.

Two bodies unearthed near Picketsville interrupt Sheriff Ike Schwartz's wedding preparations. A missing daughter who may hold vital testimony adds urgency, while former colleagues arrive to investigate the second corpse and complicate his already crowded agenda.

Pontius Pilate is arrested for murdering a political rival and demands help from Gamaliel. Despite their hostility, the rabbi's commitment to justice pulls him into Roman intrigue as Jerusalem approaches the events surrounding Jesus's arrest.

A bomb destroys Sheriff Ike Schwartz's car, leaving Picketsville mourning and his deputies searching for an attacker. CIA colleague Charlie Garland studies the evidence as investigators wonder whether longstanding enemies or a broader terrorist threat are responsible.

A human skull discovered in Chobe National Park adds to a disturbing pattern of deaths. Ranger Sanderson and Kgabo Modise investigate possible links to Russian criminals expanding into Botswana's casino business, where rival ambitions fuel danger.

World War I veteran Jesse Sutherlin returns to Buffalo Mountain seeking a better life. His cousin's murder at a moonshine still threatens to reignite a family feud, giving Jesse little time to find the real killer.

In 1928 Virginia, Jesse Sutherlin learns that his father's body has been discovered in an ice house. Believing his father died of influenza years earlier, Jesse searches for the truth despite warnings to leave it alone.