John Galligan Books in Order

An American English teacher disappears from a Japanese town just before his farewell party. His replacement investigates despite local officials' efforts to suppress the mystery, confronting tensions over modernization while struggling with his own fractured family life.

Grieving fisherman Ned Dog Oglivie travels America in an old RV, trying to retreat from human company. Finding a murdered angler in Black Earth, Wisconsin, draws him into an investigation that challenges his determination to remain isolated.

Ned Dog Oglivie finds artist Annie Adams dead beneath a bridge, with a defiant child nearby claiming responsibility. His search for answers leads through hostile backwoods families, troubling paintings, and conflicts within an Amish community.

While fishing near Livingston, Montana, Ned Dog Oglivie befriends young lovers Jesse Ringer and D'Ontario Sneed. When Jesse is killed and Sneed becomes the suspect, Dog investigates amid racial hostility to help his hospitalized friend.

Ned Dog Oglivie abandons his wandering fishing life and heads toward a reunion with his past. A murdered man discovered inside his RV derails the journey, drawing him into another investigation and an encounter with a determined librarian.

Interim sheriff Heidi Kick searches for a missing teenage girl as an ice storm isolates rural Wisconsin. The investigation exposes trafficking and hidden connections to her husband's baseball past, while Heidi still questions the official account of her parents' deaths.

Violence interrupts Bad Axe County's Norwegian festival, leading Sheriff Heidi Kick into an illicit cage-fighting operation tied to white nationalism. When her husband disappears, the investigation becomes a personal struggle against enemies determined to control her.

During a punishing Wisconsin heat wave, Sheriff Heidi Kick investigates a homeless man's death and evidence that he was buried alive. More discoveries, a vicious election campaign, and public family troubles threaten to derail her search.

An armed religious sect settles in Bad Axe County, and a member's death inflames local hostility. Sheriff Heidi Kick investigates while an approaching snowstorm and a dangerous former boyfriend threaten her ability to keep the county safe.