James Harper Books in Order

After a near collision on a remote Central American mountain road, Ralph da Silva flees without checking the other driver. A brutal secret-police chief takes interest, forcing Ralph to decide whether an apparent escape route conceals a trap.

Still searching for his own missing wife, private investigator Evan Buckley takes on a woman’s long-abandoned case involving her vanished son and husband. His promise to find answers places him in the path of a killer protecting old secrets.

A wealthy friend hires Evan Buckley after compromising photographs arrive from a night he cannot remember. In Kentucky’s horse country, a blackmail inquiry turns into a dangerous web of double-crosses as the frightened client intervenes on his own.

A deceptive friend offers Evan Buckley information about his missing wife in exchange for help. Protecting an undercover officer called Dixie draws him into a violent pursuit by gangsters and a newly released prisoner with a personal grudge.

Evan Buckley’s free mountain retreat becomes a hostage crisis when armed robbers seize the hotel and its guests. With his partner Gina in danger, Evan devises a risky rescue while the desperate captors grow increasingly violent.

A husband’s photograph of his wife with another man draws Evan Buckley into a troubling investigation. Discoveries about her family and a vengeful pursuer make the case disturbingly similar to the unsolved disappearance of Evan’s own wife.

Hired to investigate a decades-old secret, Evan Buckley searches for a child who may never have existed. People determined to keep the past buried obstruct him, while an imprisoned enemy sends a new killer after him.

A visit to an old friend in the Florida Keys leads Evan Buckley into crimes rooted in the Vietnam War. As his mentor’s secrets emerge, Detective Kate Guillory’s pursuit of revenge brings their separate investigations toward a dangerous convergence.

Evan Buckley investigates the death of the last man known to have seen his missing wife alive. Following Sarah’s path uncovers a hidden burden of guilt and puts those closest to Evan at risk as his long search nears its end.

Evidence that another woman occupies his wife’s grave sends Evan Buckley searching for answers despite warnings of a trap. With a disgraced former CIA agent, he travels toward Central America and a decades-old crime that tests his conscience.

A murdered woman pulls Evan Buckley into a client’s troubled past on the Maine coast. As old killings reveal a deeper crime, he must decide whether exposing the truth will deliver justice or unleash another destructive reckoning.

A cryptic message sends Evan Buckley on a troubled road trip through the South. Helping a frightened runaway draws him into fresh danger, while competing agendas among people from his past threaten both him and Detective Kate Guillory.

Evan Buckley reopens a forty-year-old bank robbery and follows a killer’s trail from Texas swamps to Delaware. The investigation collides with his own troubled history, turning his attempt to help another woman into a dangerous search for atonement.

After saving a missing heiress from an attacker, Evan Buckley is hired to find her again before her pursuers do. Her thirty-year estrangement from her family hides a feud whose stakes extend well beyond inherited wealth.

A stalker’s knowledge of Kate Guillory’s family sends Evan Buckley investigating her father’s long-unexplained suicide. The search leads to an abandoned cult in West Virginia and crimes whose consequences remain dangerously alive decades later.

A boy’s remains are discovered on land belonging to Evan Buckley’s dying enemy, who will confess only to him. Reopening the thirteen-year-old case puts Evan under suspicion and in danger as another killer moves to protect old secrets.

Searching for a missing American heir, Evan Buckley travels to Cambridge and the East Anglian fens. Questions about a Cold War air base reveal a bitter family feud and a powerful politician determined to keep the past hidden.

A country singer’s investigator becomes her blackmailer, then disappears after threatening to reveal a secret she never knew. Evan Buckley follows his trail into small-town Texas, where a long-running blood feud makes unwelcome outsiders easy targets.

Reviewing an old autopsy for his mentor draws Evan Buckley toward a female serial killer on the Massachusetts coast. Questions about his mentor’s motives and a shared past crime put his conscience at odds with Kate Guillory’s duty.

To repay a crime boss, Evan Buckley must find his missing son in Louisiana. An unsolved plane crash, stolen cash and a vanished prisoner lead him into a struggle among rivals who all want the old case left buried.

A woman hires Evan Buckley after her boyfriend is murdered on the night he witnesses an abduction. Conflicting accounts, a dirty policeman and violent bikers obscure the truth, while the client’s own secrets threaten the investigation.

A murdered lorry driver and evidence of human trafficking send Max Angel and Catalina Kincade searching for an escaped woman. As the traffickers close in, Angel’s grief and an unofficial Romanian investigator complicate the race to protect her.

A woman found bound against a gravestone appears to have willingly met her killer. Max Angel and Catalina Kincade follow connections to a burned children’s home and a veterans’ charity, uncovering grievances rooted in an old miscarriage of justice.

A private investigator’s murder leads Max Angel toward crimes committed at a Nazi camp on Alderney. Wartime collaboration, buried grievances and suspected government protection of an informer complicate the inquiry when MI5 attempts to shut it down.

An apparent suicide at a former drug dealer’s mansion draws Max Angel and new partner Catalina Kincade into a family’s hidden history. Further deaths force the troubled detectives to unravel decades of betrayal and identify a mysterious young woman.

A doctor’s ritualized murder sends Max Angel searching for the missing years in his victim’s life. When a teenage girl’s remains are discovered, the investigation becomes a struggle to connect past crimes with a killer demanding retribution.

A former prisoner is killed in a way that echoes an infamous child murder. Max Angel and Catalina Kincade must discover who exposed his protected identity while navigating a grieving family’s anger and a vigilante’s claim to justice.

A killing in the New Forest bears the marks of a professional assassin. Max Angel and Catalina Kincade discover their victim was investigating a devastating accident, while his vengeful brother and a rogue intelligence agent complicate the hunt.

Bones found in a shallow grave reopen the case of a motorcyclist missing for twelve years. Max Angel and Catalina Kincade confront intimidation and powerful interests while trying to determine whether the young man was buried alive.