James Patrick Hunt Books in Order

Tulsa attorney Paul Kessler's affair with a judge becomes a nightmare when she is murdered and he is set up to take the fall. To survive, he has to outrun corrupt cops and expose the frame.

Chicago antique dealer and bounty hunter Evan Maitland goes after bail jumping lawyer Barry McDermott expecting an easy job. Instead he lands in a gunfight, crosses paths with criminal operators, and realizes someone wants him dead.

Bounty hunter Evan Maitland chases bail jumper Thomas Hicks to a small Kansas town that is hiding crimes of its own. What looks like a routine pickup turns into a fight against brutal local corruption.

Two St. Louis officers are gunned down on a suburban street, shocking the department. Lieutenant George Hastings and detective Bobby Cain uncover a case that reaches well beyond simple revenge.

The daughter of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped after leaving a holiday party, and her date is shot dead. Lieutenant George Hastings works the case alongside the FBI, where ransom politics and family secrets keep muddying the picture.

Evan Maitland breaks his own rule about avoiding organized crime when threats reach his friend and business partner. Soon he is caught between rival Chinese triads fighting over Chicago's heroin trade.

When the bodies of murdered escorts begin to turn up around St. Louis, Lieutenant George Hastings is pulled into a frustrating hunt with almost no solid evidence. The killer stays ahead while pressure inside the task force keeps building.

Professional burglar Dan Bridger refuses a murder for hire offer, only to be framed for a killing anyway. Hunted by mob men and police, he teams with an intended victim and hits back hard.

Lieutenant George Hastings is assigned to protect a rising senator after a former CIA agent escapes prison. As he digs deeper, the official story starts to crack and the hunt becomes far more political than it first appears.

St. Louis detective George Hastings is worn down, sued, and close to burnout when a friend asks him to look into a suspicious death. The trail leads to blackmail, local celebrity Beth Tanner, and a circle of beautiful, damaged people.

A trip to London for an antiques deal turns ugly when Evan Maitland is mistaken for a threat to a stolen bond operation. Framed for murder in a foreign city, he has to fight his way back to the truth.

Professional thief Dan Bridger heads to Seattle after his younger brother Seth is murdered. When the police call it a gang killing and the details do not fit, he starts digging into a case that leads straight toward corruption.

American intelligence agent Charlie Reinhardt heads to Berlin to investigate a journalist's murder. The case opens onto ex-Stasi operators, an old German brotherhood, and a dangerous trade in stolen uranium.

Chicago, 1979. Rookie homicide detective David Beckman joins veteran Tom Regan after five people are shot at a train stop, and one victim is a prominent rabbi. The case pulls him into city politics, media pressure, and buried motives.

Widowed nurse Tracy Coughlin, her young son, and her father-in-law are taken hostage by three escaped convicts. To survive, a family held together by grief has to find trust fast.

In an alternate 1970s America, defense analyst Alan Hirsch disappears with a secret Pentagon report that could wreck the McCormick political dynasty. What follows is a tense chase through power, paranoia, and hired violence.

After serving time for a drug crime he did not commit, former German intelligence analyst Kurt Miller learns he was framed to bury a report. He follows the trail from London to Washington, turning revenge into a dangerous political reckoning.