Hector Lassiter Books in Order

Crime writer Hector Lassiter possesses Pancho Villa’s stolen skull and attracts competing groups determined to seize it. Mexican bandits, secretive fraternities, and American agents pursue him across a borderland adventure where the historical relic becomes a dangerous prize.

Hector Lassiter encounters a killer staging murders after works of surrealist art. Beginning amid the 1935 Florida Keys hurricane, the pursuit stretches through war and political upheaval, entangling the crime writer with an increasingly audacious artistic adversary.

Hector Lassiter attends a Hemingway conference in Idaho amid rumors of lost writings and questions surrounding his friend’s death. A scholar and an FBI veteran pursue their own agendas, drawing Hemingway’s widow into a contest over literary history.

Literary magazine editors are being murdered in 1924 Paris, prompting Gertrude Stein to gather crime writers to investigate. Hector Lassiter and Brinke Devlin pursue the killings with Ernest Hemingway as suspicions turn toward a strange writers’ cult.

Hector Lassiter travels to 1925 Key West to reunite with writer Brinke Devlin, only to encounter suspicious fires and violent developers. A grieving mother asks him to investigate her daughter’s murder, neglected by the local sheriff.

During World War II, Hector Lassiter works with an OSS operative and an intelligence officer to rescue a Jewish orphan from occupied France. Their mission unfolds within a prolonged, dangerous struggle against a Nazi filmmaker across continents.

Hector Lassiter and Orson Welles seek the Spear of Destiny, a relic promising power at a terrible cost. German occultists, Nazi interests, a voodoo priestess, and J. Edgar Hoover complicate a pursuit spanning their uneasy friendship.

Stranded in a 1950 Ohio blizzard, Hector Lassiter and Jimmy Hanrahan answer a child’s plea for help. Protecting women fleeing a mob boss becomes a dangerous journey toward congressional testimony, with gangsters and corrupt officials in pursuit.

Hector Lassiter accompanies Ian Fleming to Japan and Istanbul, apparently for literary research and film work. Fleming’s concealed effort to resolve an old intelligence failure draws both former spies into a hunt involving a devastating biological weapon.

In snowbound 1958 Nashville, Hector Lassiter investigates a country singer’s death that implicates the man’s former wife. The case draws him toward white supremacists and danger connected to a hydrogen bomb lost off the South Carolina coast.

Hector Lassiter’s life unfolds across the twentieth century and into the digital age in this concluding collection. Crime, politics, romance, and literary creation intersect through episodes involving familiar companions, including Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and fellow pulp writers.