Jeff Carson Books in Order
See all Jeff Carson books in order, including the David Wolf and Ali Falco series, with book summaries, series background, and clear guidance on where to start reading.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
22 books
Wind Burn
by Jeff Carson
2026
As detective Jeremy Yates returns from injury and addiction, a man tied to his past comes to town and is soon found burned to a charred corpse. With evidence pointing at Yates and an old missing person case threatening his squad, David Wolf hunts the truth before it destroys his team.
Tuscan Blood
by Jeff Carson
2024
Now a rookie detective in Siena and still recovering from a gunshot wound, Ali Falco is sent to a vineyard near Montalcino when a young winemaker is found murdered. Her first major case drags her through old Tuscan bloodlines, local politics, and a killer hidden among the vines.
Silent Country
by Jeff Carson
2024
Two members of a violent biker gang turn up dead at a remote cabin, and trouble from a neighboring county spills into Sluice Byron territory. Sent north as the new sheriff’s fixer, David Wolf steps into a landscape ruled by fear, silence, and a threat that reaches far beyond one double murder.
Echoes Fade
by Jeff Carson
2023
A winter of routine work shatters when David Wolf is called to a mountain lion attack and a brazen art theft from a billionaire’s restaurant. As summer arrives and bones surface in an abandoned mine, he realizes the robbery, local politics, and a far darker crime are all connected.
The Como Falcon
by Jeff Carson
2022
Siena police officer Ali Falco returns to her hometown on Lake Como when her estranged father dies under suspicious circumstances. Surrounded by painful memories and guarded locals, she teams up with a Carabinieri investigator to uncover what really happened and what her family has been hiding.
Dead Canyon
by Jeff Carson
2022
A missing drug runner’s ankle monitor turns up still attached to his severed foot, and soon after a psychologist close to David Wolf disappears. Racing against time with help from FBI agent Kristen Luke, Wolf dives into a canyon of cartel violence and personal betrayal.
High Road
by Jeff Carson
2021
When a sheriff’s son is murdered in a neighboring county, David Wolf is asked to lead the investigation despite a bruising history with the man now wearing the badge. High on a Colorado plateau, he confronts vigilante justice, political pressure, and a truth shattered into dangerous pieces.
In the Ground
by Jeff Carson
2020
At a remote high altitude mine, workers dig up the body of a missing coworker, and the Sluice Byron sheriff’s office is called in. Acting sheriff David Wolf teams with ambitious deputy Piper Cain to uncover a scheme someone is willing to keep buried at any cost.
Divided Sky
by Jeff Carson
2019
Called south to help when a neighboring sheriff’s son is found dead and a second young man disappears, David Wolf walks into a volatile mix of grief and revenge. Surrounded by secret agendas in a rugged Colorado valley, he must stop vigilante justice before it claims more lives.
Drifted
by Jeff Carson
2018
After a local businessman vanishes, leaving his SUV buried in snow, Chief Detective David Wolf struggles to investigate while his own past crashes back into the present. As spring melt reveals new evidence, he must face both a killer and the demons he has tried to ignore.
Rain
by Jeff Carson
2017
A mysterious crash outside Rocky Points leaves a woman in a coma, her body marked by injuries unrelated to the wreck. When she wakes and turns out to be FBI agent Kristen Luke with no memory, David Wolf is drawn to the storm soaked Pacific Northwest to learn who wanted her dead.
Dark Mountain
by Jeff Carson
2017
When a corpse is discovered in the trunk of a car abandoned in the Colorado forest, the trail leads straight to David Wolf’s trusted detective, who has vanished. As Wolf chases answers, a message from his military past forces him to face old ghosts to save his friend.
Signature
by Jeff Carson
2016
A woman is found murdered by the river near Rocky Points, her ear removed in a gruesome signature tied to an old serial case. Working with the FBI and agent Kristen Luke, David Wolf hunts a calculating killer whose trail runs through the Four Corners region.
Dire
by Jeff Carson
2016
After pulling a driver from an icy river, David Wolf becomes a reluctant local hero and a pawn in a bitter election. When bodies begin to fall and the new woman in his life proves to have dangerous secrets, he must untangle romance from lethal deception.
To the Bone
by Jeff Carson
2015
Chief Detective David Wolf takes on a case close to home when his son’s girlfriend finds her fossil dealer father murdered. Following clues to a remote dig site in western Colorado, Wolf uncovers long buried secrets someone is willing to kill to protect.
Smoked Out
by Jeff Carson
2015
Still broken from his last case, former sheriff David Wolf is in no shape for a fight when federal surveillance teams descend on his home. Realizing he is the target of a deadly setup, he and FBI agent Kristen Luke race across Colorado to expose the truth.
Gut Decision
by Jeff Carson
2014
This short prequel finds David Wolf just weeks into his new job with the Rocky Points police after years in special forces. When a routine call looks wrong to him, he must choose between obeying orders and trusting the instincts that once kept him alive.
Deadly Conditions
by Jeff Carson
2014
A brutal snowstorm buries Rocky Points, and a plow uncovers a murdered young woman marked with a chilling message. As Sheriff David Wolf races to stop a killer, the investigation exposes corruption reaching far beyond one small Colorado town.
Cold Lake
by Jeff Carson
2014
When a fisherman pulls a severed head from Cold Lake, David Wolf and his deputies soon find more bodies hidden in the depths. The discoveries reopen one of his late father’s unsolved cases and reveal a serial killer determined to stay hidden.
The Silversmith
by Jeff Carson
2013
On the day he expects to be named sheriff, deputy David Wolf is offered a job he cannot accept, and his refusal turns deadly. Framed for murder and hunted through the Colorado high country, he must solve a buried family mystery to clear his name.
Alive and Killing
by Jeff Carson
2013
Hoping for a quiet camping trip with his son, Sheriff David Wolf instead finds a burned, terrified stranger stumbling through the Colorado woods. Their discovery pulls Wolf into an international plot where one wrong move could cost his child’s life.
Foreign Deceit
by Jeff Carson
2012
Colorado deputy David Wolf leaves his small ski town and a tangle of personal troubles when his brother allegedly commits suicide in the Italian Alps. In Lake Como, he teams with a local officer to uncover the truth behind a death that does not add up.
Where should I start?
If you want David Wolf from the start: Foreign Deceit → The Silversmith → Alive and Killing → Deadly Conditions
If you prefer a gripping Rocky Points case: Cold Lake → Smoked Out → To the Bone
If you like origin stories and short reads: Gut Decision → Foreign Deceit
If you want an Italian setting with a new lead: The Como Falcon → Tuscan Blood
Author bio
Jeff Carson is a mystery and thriller writer from Colorado's Front Range, where he lives with his Italian-born wife and their two sons. He is best known for the David Wolf series, a long-running set of mountain town crime novels, and for the Italy-set Ali Falco books.
Long before he published a novel, Carson spent family road trips crossing the wide open West, listening to audiobooks in the car. Those hours with fast paced crime stories and big name thriller writers gave him a feel for timing, tension, and the kind of hero he wanted to follow.
Years later he found himself far from Colorado, living for nearly a year in Italy with his wife and young son. The distance from home and a nagging sense that he wanted a different kind of work finally pushed him to act. During that stretch he decided to commit to writing fiction and set himself a clear deadline for making it his full time job.
Carson promised his wife he would write and publish ten stories before even thinking about giving up. He taught himself the nuts and bolts of self publishing, drafted every day, and learned to take criticism on the chin. Early books were revised, re-edited, and sometimes relaunched as he sharpened his skills.
The first David Wolf novel, Foreign Deceit, grew directly out of that Italian season. It sends a Colorado deputy to Lake Como after his brother's suspicious death, blending the fish out of water tension of Italy with the grounded grit of a working cop. Back home in the fictional ski town of Rocky Points, books like The Silversmith and Cold Lake drop Wolf into tight local politics, long buried secrets, and weather that can kill as quickly as any villain.
Over the course of the series Wolf rises from deputy sergeant to sheriff and chief detective, carrying the scars of military service, family trouble, and bad decisions. Novels such as Rain, Drifted, Divided Sky, and High Road keep returning to the same core questions, how far will a decent person go to protect the people and place he loves, and what does justice look like in a small mountain county with big city problems.
With the Ali Falco series, beginning with The Como Falcon and Tuscan Blood, Carson flips the lens. Here the lead is a Tuscan police officer who divides her time between Siena, the wine country around Montalcino, and her fraught hometown on Lake Como. The cases are knotted up with family history, old money, and the uneasy line between beautiful landscapes and the darker things people hide there.
Across both series, his stories favor clear stakes, physical danger, and a steady thread of humor and warmth. Readers often point to the sense of place, whether a snowbound Colorado pass or a narrow Italian alley, and to the way everyday worries about parenting, aging parents, and strained friendships sit next to kidnappings, murders, and political pressure.
Carson still writes from Colorado, often drawing on hikes, mountain drives, and trips back to Italy for texture. When he is not drafting or revising, he spends time with his family, plays outside in the high country, and keeps imagining new trouble for David Wolf, Ali Falco, and the people around them.
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