John Lee Quarrels Books in Order

Deputy John Lee Quarrels already has enough family drama without three old skeletons turning up at a road site. The case sends him after a killer whose trail may have started long before he was born.

John Lee Quarrels's long-lost father shows up beaten and mutilated, offers almost no explanation, then vanishes. With thugs closing in and the FBI interested, John Lee gets dragged into danger he barely understands.

When Leona Darling disappears, John Lee Quarrels is sent to find the county's most notorious cop groupie. The search leads him into bad relationships, buried secrets, and plenty of people who preferred Leona silent.

John Lee Quarrels is already chasing a sexual predator when his private life blows up around him. Add a stolen patrol car and nonstop local chaos, and he has more trouble than one deputy should handle.

A strange thread links three Depression-era outlaws to a man who has spent decades on the run. John Lee Quarrels digs into a case where old crimes refuse to stay in the past.

Someone is stalking and killing old men in Somerton County in horrifying ways. John Lee Quarrels has to look past gossip and old reputations to uncover what connects the victims.

Sheriff D.W. Swindle is ambushed in his own driveway and left barely alive. John Lee Quarrels joins a desperate hunt for the shooter while every old grievance in the county starts looking dangerous.

Beautiful, ambitious lovers Audrey Rittenhouse and Lonnie McBride seem to die in a terrible train crossing accident. John Lee Quarrels soon learns someone may have pushed their car straight into disaster.

A battered woman dies of an overdose, and John Lee Quarrels sees just how deep hard drugs have reached into his community. The investigation becomes a grim chase through rural Florida's ugliest corners.

Hated game warden Raymond McConnell is found murdered with his own knife. John Lee Quarrels and his fellow deputies face a victim with so many enemies that almost anyone could have wanted him dead.

John Lee Quarrels survives an attempted assassination on a lonely road only because his attackers botch the job. Wounded and on foot, he has to stay alive long enough to find out who wants him dead.

When loudmouth Curtis Darling and his wife Mary Lou are found butchered in their home, the county is not short on suspects. John Lee Quarrels digs into debts, greed, racism, and a rumored lottery windfall.

John Lee Quarrels's estranged mother wants to turn his life into a country song, and her flashy music producer boyfriend pushes him too far. When the producer ends up dead, John Lee becomes the obvious suspect.

John Lee Quarrels returns for another dangerous case in rural Florida, where money trouble, grudges, and pressure collide. It promises the same mix of tense investigation and messy personal fallout that drives the series.