George Wier Books in Order
Explore George Wier books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy ways to choose between Bill Travis, Elysium, steampunk, and more.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Publication Order
36 books
Capitol Offense
by George Wier
2011
A death row inmate tells Bill Travis a secret that could destroy the governor of Texas. Once the governor's men start closing in, Bill has to decide whether telling the truth is worth the price.
Duckweed
by George Wier
2011
When Carlos McDaniel is shot to pieces, ex-con Charles Lyman goes looking for answers. His search drags him through local politics, hired muscle, and a Texas noir world that gets darker by the mile.
In The Radio
by George Wier
2011
After Bobby Armbruster falls into Hickman's well, his mother fears for his soul. But what Bobby finds there points toward a stranger destiny and a hard choice about the path his life will take.
Longnecks & Twisted Hearts
by George Wier
2011
Bill Travis returns to the town where he grew up after his best friend is murdered. Old ghosts, a seventeenth-century French ship, and dark secrets under East Texas soil make this one painfully personal.
The Devil to Pay
by George Wier
2011
When the curator of the Texas Rangers Museum is killed, suspicion falls on a veteran Ranger with a long past. Bill Travis follows the trail through arson, paranoia, and sinister links stretching across the border.
The Eternal
by George Wier
2011
Weldon Cole is trapped in a nightmare of his own making until his path crosses with Nellie Wertz, the oldest woman in Texas. It is a brief, haunting story about purpose, fate, and redemption.
The Last Call
by George Wier
2011
Bill Travis is nearing forty and expecting another ordinary workday when client Julie Simmons brings him a mess involving stolen millions. The chase across Texas soon uncovers a much older mystery lurking underneath.
Arrowmoon
by George Wier
2012
A halted highway project, sniper fire, and an old safe in a barn pull Bill Travis into a century-old conspiracy. To survive, he has to uncover why the past still matters so much to the present.
Caddo Cold
by George Wier
2012
Bill Travis takes on a job for Holt Gatlin and uncovers a deadly secret tied to a missing military plane. The deeper he digs, the more he has to wonder whether his client is a savior, a fraud, or something worse.
Death Kiss
by George Wier
2012
Erica DeWare has a bad habit of choosing the wrong men, and Lonnie the Loser may be the worst one yet. His gift to her turns this short tale into something nasty, macabre, and very dangerous.
Death on the Pedernales
by George Wier
2012
A millionaire war hero is murdered in a small Texas town where everyone seems to know everyone else's business. Bill Travis has to sort through local loyalties and buried secrets before the killer strikes again.
Slow Falling
by George Wier
2012
An old man staggers into a honky-tonk, mutters about the falling, and dies at Bill Travis's feet. The trail leads into nuclear secrecy, West Texas desolation, and a race to save a man in terrible danger.
After the Fire
by George Wier
2013
A dead prize billygoat sounds almost laughable, until Bill Travis realizes someone will kill to keep the truth hidden. Toxic waste, local rage, and attacks on Bill and Jessica turn the case deadly fast.
Buffalo Bayou Blues
by George Wier
2013
Houston's blues scene turns deadly when an aging musician is pushed toward murder. Bill Travis moves through taverns, piers, and backstreets to untangle a war of rival clubs, hidden motives, and sudden violence.
Desperate Crimes
by George Wier
2013
When Jennifer Travis's piano teacher vanishes before her recital, Bill throws himself into the search. The trail winds through family secrets, missing identities, and plenty of chaos, with Hank and a pet ferret along for the ride.
Ghost of the Karankawa
by George Wier
2013
Bill Travis heads to the Texas Gulf Coast after eerie shrieks and a dried-out corpse shake a historic town. With his wife, dog, and a very odd guide, he digs into a case that feels half legend, half murder.
Last Defense
by George Wier
2013
Michael Thorn seems cursed, with disaster following him wherever he goes. Cast off by his family and feared by everyone else, he may still be Earth's last hope against a ruthless alien threat.
Long Fall from Heaven
by George Wier
2013
Two ex-cops stumble into a serial killer case that reaches back into Galveston's dirtiest history. The deeper Cueball Boland and Micah Lanscomb dig, the more powerful people want the past left alone.
Mexico Fever
by George Wier
2013
A dying former governor sends Bill Travis to Mexico to find missing Ranger Walt Cannon and stop a ruthless killer known as Sunlight. Jungle, ruins, soldiers, and a cult-like movement make this one especially dangerous.
The Lone Star Express
by George Wier
2013
Bill Travis must escort a former governor's body to its burial in West Texas, aboard an old steam train. The journey becomes a race against armed enemies who will do anything to stop the Lone Star Express.
The Woodsman
by George Wier
2013
Wolf Dillard hears a scream in the night and realizes something has come back for him. What he and his cousin did years ago in the national forest is no longer staying buried.
Trinity Trio
by George Wier
2013
A favor for his partner sends Bill Travis to an East Texas town where a woman is jailed for trying to kill a senator. Badges, conspiracy, and a trio of powerful women turn the case into a hard fight for the truth.
1889: Journey to the Moon
by George Wier
2014
An anti-gravity ship heads for the moon with a crew that includes Billy the Kid, Nikola Tesla, Jack the Ripper, and more. The voyage is bold, weird, and much more dangerous than anyone admits.
1899: Journey to Mars
by George Wier
2015
Ten years after the moon voyage, Billy, Ekka, Dakota, and their allies head back into the ether on a rescue mission. Secret powers, deadly machines, and a war on Mars push the adventure even further.
Captains Malicious
by George Wier
2015
Earth abandoned the outer Reaches to alien occupation, and former navy captain Robert Kincaid is told to build a pirate resistance from scraps. Space battles, betrayal, and frontier anger drive this hard-charging space opera.
Cold Rains
by George Wier
2015
Jim Rains knows how to hunt dangerous people, but Melissa Sossville may be more trouble than all the rest. Beautiful, manipulative, and impossible to dismiss, she turns his confidence into a real liability.
Errant Knight
by George Wier
2015
Ex-cop Shelby Knight becomes the prime suspect when his old gun is used in a fresh murder. Branded and hunted, he turns vigilante in armor and has to face the possibility that something is deeply wrong inside him.
Murder In Elysium
by George Wier
2015
A man once imprisoned for murdering Delores Fogel is finally exonerated and returns to Elysium, but Chief Shane Robeling no longer trusts the old answer. As bodies pile up, the town's buried history resurfaces.
Sentinel in Elysium
by George Wier
2015
In 1975, Elysium police chief Michael Lee Harper faces a bizarre double murder tied to a wealthy, secretive family. Solving it means pushing against a town that would rather keep its dark corners hidden.
Jem of Skye
by George Wier
2018
Orphan Jem lives in the floating city of Cirrus until a Horn attack destroys everything familiar. Trapped with friends aboard an enemy ship, Jem has to survive long enough to help save all of Skye.
Reveille in Red
by George Wier
2019
Bill Travis plans a wine-country getaway with Julie, then starts poking at an unsolved murder near a winery. The bus tour soon turns violent, with gangs, shootouts, and far more trouble than a weekend trip should hold.
Amarillo Waltz
by George Wier
2020
A trip to Amarillo for a dance benefit turns into a missing-child case when Bill Travis follows an Amber Alert into the Panhandle. The search leads into Palo Duro Canyon, old legends, and plenty of danger.
Bexar County Line
by George Wier
2020
After the biker gang violence of the previous case, Bill Travis becomes the target again when a sniper nearly kills his daughter. To protect his family, he heads toward San Antonio and hunts the mind behind the plot.
Company C: Rebirth of the Rangers
by George Wier
2020
A thousand years after war shattered human space, John Hark finds the armored suit of the last Union Ranger and is launched into a larger fight. Hidden bases, old technology, and a brutal ruling order set the stage.
Omniscient
by George Wier
2020
A boy vanishes from a campground cabin, then decades later clues begin resurfacing in strange hands across the country. As scattered people are drawn together, the search becomes a supernatural fight against ancient darkness.
The Long Goodnight
by George Wier
2020
Bill Travis is asked to help an elderly blues musician and former Negro League ballplayer accused of murder. What starts as one case quickly widens into a brutal, street-level search through old crimes and buried history.
Where should I start?
If you want Texas mysteries first: The Last Call → Capitol Offense → Longnecks & Twisted Hearts
If you want small-town police mysteries: Sentinel in Elysium → Murder In Elysium
If you want steampunk adventure: 1889: Journey to the Moon → 1899: Journey to Mars
If you want darker standalones: Errant Knight → Long Fall from Heaven → Omniscient
Author bio
George Wier is a Texas writer through and through. He was born in East Texas, spent part of his early life in Madisonville, and later lived for decades around Bryan and College Station before moving to Austin in 2002. That geography matters, because his fiction keeps returning to the roads, small towns, local histories, and odd corners of Texas.
He has said he started writing almost as soon as he started reading. Comic books and movies were early sparks, and one of his first attempts at storytelling was a skit-like piece inspired by Monty Python. Later he was pulled toward science fiction, especially Frank Herbert's Dune books, which helped open up the size of the stories he wanted to tell.
Another big influence came from the old Doc Savage paperbacks he read as a teenager. Wier has talked about how those adventure novels stayed with him, and you can feel that in his own work. He likes motion, big setups, strange trouble, and ordinary people who suddenly find themselves way out of their depth.
He began writing in earnest in 1986. For a long time that urge ran alongside the rest of life, but the move to Austin became a real turning point. In interviews he has described leaving Bryan-College Station as a fresh start, and not long after that he began building the series that would become his best-known work.
That series is The Bill Travis Mysteries, which opens with The Last Call and grows into a long run of Texas-set crime and adventure novels. Wier once drew a useful line between Doc Savage and Bill Travis: Doc had gadgets and globe-trotting polish, while Bill is based in Texas and works with a rougher crowd, more friends-in-low-places than elite team. Readers who click with these books tend to like the fast pace, the regional flavor, the humor, and the way history and local legend keep leaking into the present.
He never stayed in one lane for very long.
Alongside Bill Travis, Wier branched into steampunk with 1889: Journey to the Moon and 1899: Journey to Mars, both written with Billy Kring. He also moved into small-town police mystery with Sentinel in Elysium and Murder In Elysium, and into darker standalones with books like Errant Knight and Omniscient. Even when the genre changes, the engine is usually the same: people under pressure, secrets that refuse to stay buried, and stories that like to move.
Music matters to him too. Wier plays classical violin and country fiddle, and he has also spoken about drawing, painting, photography, and book cover design. That wider creative streak helps explain why his bibliography feels so restless in a good way. He seems happy to follow an idea wherever it leads, whether that is a Texas murder case, a floating city, or a steam-powered trip into space.
Texas keeps showing up.
These days he lives in Austin with his wife, Sallie, along with two cats and two dogs. He has also said that he and Sallie enjoy hunting down offbeat restaurants, coffee bars, music spots, and other less obvious corners of the city. That sounds a lot like the books themselves. Across mysteries, science fiction, steampunk, and short fiction, Wier keeps a plainspoken voice and a taste for momentum, always ready to take the side road instead of the highway.
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