John Morgan Wilson Books in Order

Disgraced reporter Benjamin Justice is drawn back into investigative work when a teenager confesses to a killing outside a gay bar. Helping a young journalist pursue the case forces him to confront both a questionable confession and his own losses.

Benjamin Justice and Alexandra Templeton enter a Hollywood circle where a screenwriting teacher's party ends in murder. The death of a supposed producer leads them through concealed relationships and ambitions in an industry practiced at manufacturing appearances.

Benjamin Justice takes a television documentary assignment after the previous writer disappears. A bloodstained motel room turns the job into an investigation, drawing the disgraced journalist toward dangerous secrets and the possibility of another professional catastrophe.

Benjamin Justice agrees to write a book defending a Hollywood star against damaging allegations. When the actor's daughter dies in an apparent suicide, the disgraced journalist suspects murder and pursues secrets that threaten the family's carefully protected image.

Bandleader Philip Damon remains haunted by his wife’s unsolved murder. When he meets a woman who looks exactly like her, fascination gives way to danger as she becomes a suspect in another killing.

While writing his memoirs, Benjamin Justice tries to locate a priest from his childhood. A hit-and-run involving someone helping him leads toward a long-buried child murder and powerful church figures with reasons to keep the past hidden.

A Los Angeles engagement draws bandleader Philip Damon into another murder investigation. With saxophonist and former policeman Hercules Platt, he follows the mystery surrounding a substitute trumpeter’s death and a young woman whose identity raises further questions.

After a freelance writer is murdered, Benjamin Justice agrees to finish his history of West Hollywood cottages. A preservation battle and a second death expose connections between local history, development interests, and secrets someone wants buried.

A vacation at a desert hotel puts Benjamin Justice and Alexandra Templeton near a film production and a fresh murder. A gossip writer's promised revelations connect the crime to a star's death and an earlier lynching.

Publication of Benjamin Justice's memoir revives the scandal that destroyed his journalism career. As old accusations return and threatening figures emerge, he must confront the consequences of his past before they endanger the people closest to him.