J Carson Black Books in Order

After her marriage ends, Chelsea McCord moves to historic Bisbee and discovers an old camera that reveals scenes from the past. Its strange images draw her toward her family’s legacy and a threat to those she loves.

Returning to Arizona after her father’s death, Dakota plans to sell his horse ranch. A promising filly, her distrusted former husband and an unseen stalker complicate her decision as danger mounts around an important race.

A woman’s brutal murder brings four strangers together along an isolated stretch of Arizona desert. Each carries a secret, and a frightened plea, marital betrayal and dangerous obsessions leave them exposed to the threat of further killings.

Alone in 1880s Tombstone after her sister’s death, aspiring actress Charlotte Tate pursues a stage career. Widowed rancher Jake Cottrell offers a chance at love, but ambition and painful experiences complicate their relationship in the changing West.

A teenage girl’s posed body brings investigator Laura Cardinal to Bisbee, Arizona. Suspecting a sexual predator, she follows clues that revive memories of a classmate’s abduction, while another missing child makes the search increasingly urgent.

Laura Cardinal investigates newlyweds found murdered at an Arizona campground. Working with a difficult partner, she uncovers troubling secrets about their relationship and a victim’s connection to an underground organization, drawing her into a broader conspiracy.

Eleven years after three Tucson girls disappear, one returns alive. Assigned to unsolved cases with a skeptical new partner, Laura Cardinal examines the survivor’s fragmented memories, hoping to locate the others while a killer remains active.

Set along Interstate 10 in New Mexico, this short story centers on an imagined roadside café. Black draws on the diners, motels, and open grassland of a familiar drive to evoke a place tethered to an earlier time.

After assassinating a pop star, former Navy SEAL Cyril Landry questions the organization that hired him. His search intersects with detective Jolie Burke’s investigation of a police chief’s murder, exposing connections to powerful political figures.

Hollywood star Max Conroy escapes an Arizona rehabilitation center whose treatments have left him disoriented. Targeted by kidnappers and a more dangerous pursuer, he relies on deputy Tess McCrae while fighting to reclaim his life.

In 1901, pregnant Billie Bahill follows her fiancé into Arizona’s Superstition Mountains after he seeks the Lost Dutchman Mine. There she encounters ranger Sam Gray, pursuing escaped killers while carrying wounds from his own lost family.

Laura Cardinal and her partner investigate Sean Perrin’s murder at an Arizona trailhead. The victim’s habitual lying makes his past difficult to reconstruct, and following his stories leads them toward further violence and a Las Vegas prostitution ring.

Tombstone probation officer Maggie O’Neil suspects something is wrong when Freddie Valenzuela disappears without his dog. Deaths linked to Freddie and his girlfriend, followed by a stolen valuable horse, pull Maggie into an increasingly dangerous investigation.

At a grisly Arizona ghost-town crime scene, detective Tess McCrae sees evidence that contradicts an apparent cartel killing. Her investigation leads from mountain squatters to a powerful family, revealing connections beyond a single victim’s death.

A woman asks Laura Cardinal to investigate her future murder, then turns up dead weeks later. The case forces Laura to reconsider an earlier arrest, while a troubling passenger waits to board a flight to Rome.

Presumed dead, Cyril Landry watches his daughter’s life from a distance until a school shooting forces him to intervene. Suspecting the attack was designed to expose him, he joins detective Jolie Burke to protect his family.

After intruders force detective Jolie Burke to flee, she calls Cyril Landry for help. He arrives in New Mexico to find her missing, and his search leads into corruption, a murder accusation and increasingly dangerous adversaries.

Ten horror and suspense stories explore ordinary lives disturbed by threatening strangers, unexplained events, and dangerous choices. A jockey’s apparent racing accident, a mysterious coloring book, and a disappearing truck are among the unsettling situations gathered here.

Maggie O’Neil hosts a women’s cycling team when one rider is targeted by a sniper. Connections involving Maggie’s probationer and the rider’s former boyfriend draw her and deputy Dutch Earnhardt toward murders and a wider conspiracy.