Joe Burgess Books in Order

Portland detective Joe Burgess investigates the murder of physician Steven Pleasant, whose body is found in his parked car. What initially resembles a dispute with a sex worker opens into competing motives involving patients, colleagues and family.

Joe Burgess's holiday plans end when a murdered child is discovered in Knowlton Park. The boy's troubled family offers few answers, and the disappearance of his sister Iris gives the detective another vulnerable child to find.

An apparent drowning interrupts Joe Burgess's picnic and claims Reggie, a fellow Vietnam veteran he has long tried to help. When the medical examiner raises doubts, Burgess investigates family troubles, industrial pollution and corrupt business interests.

Joe Burgess rescues a woman and her baby from a burning building used as a mosque. The mother's silence and the infant's unexplained illness lead him into an investigation that brings threats against his own family.

An ambush leaves a rookie Portland officer dead and two colleagues critically wounded. Joe Burgess must identify the person targeting the police before grief and preparations for the officer's funeral offer the attacker another opportunity.

A girl's mutilated body on a Portland trail leads Joe Burgess and his team toward traffickers exploiting young asylum seekers. As they struggle to identify her and protect other children, his niece becomes caught in the danger.

Nine-year-old Arielle seeks Joe Burgess's help when her geologist father lies unconscious and her mother is missing. His interrupted vacation becomes an investigation into land disputes, a bitter divorce and competing interests driven by the prospect of gold.

After physician Eliot Spence is found dead, Joe Burgess investigates the secrets beneath his compassionate public image. Compromising photographs, family tensions and questions about his wife's death complicate the case as the detectives face pressures at home.

Detective Joe Burgess finds a badly injured young woman in a Portland park, terrified of being taken back by her captors. Protecting her draws him into a dangerous investigation of predators who exploit vulnerable people and will fight to conceal their crimes.