Joe Keough Mystery Books in Order

A serial killer called the Lover leaves roses with the bodies of young women in New York. A copycat begins imitating him, provoking the original killer and complicating a detective's efforts to understand the escalating murders.

Newly arrived in St. Louis, detective Joe Keough encounters a four-year-old boy leaving bloody footprints at the station. The child's missing parents and a series of mother-and-child kidnappings draw him into disturbing cases before he can settle in.

Joe Keough investigates a political aide's murder after the body is displayed near the St. Louis Arch. Taunting messages and further killings suggest a deliberate campaign, forcing him to uncover the meaning behind the killer's public displays.

St. Louis detective Joe Keough investigates murders of pregnant women whose bodies appear along the Mississippi. With an unconventional task force and Internal Affairs officers threatening his career, he must pursue the killer while defending his own work.

Joe Keough and Harriet Conners investigate child abductions and stranglings in Chicago and St. Louis. Different victims but similar methods raise the possibility of linked killers, forcing the partners to move quickly before more children disappear.