Justin Scott Books in Order

An unlucky young man gets dragged into drug traffic, stolen vehicles, and police pursuit in this scrappy comic crime novel. Scott plays the chaos fast, letting one bad decision after another snowball out of control.

Danny McCloskey keeps having suspicious accidents while driving a fuel oil truck, and he starts to suspect someone wants him dead. With Jennifer and two not-very-useful cops, he turns survival into a comic investigation.

Scott moves Robert Louis Stevenson's classic to Long Island in the 1950s, then sends young Jim Hawkins after Nazi gold in the Caribbean. The old adventure survives the update, with salvage tugs, danger, and betrayal intact.

This early Bracken and Woodward mystery mixes comic crime with mounting trouble. Scott keeps the pace brisk as bad luck, dubious schemes, and rising pressure push the story toward something more dangerous.

Peter Hardin loses his wife when a giant tanker smashes through their sailboat and steams away. Denied justice on land, he prepares to hunt the Leviathan at sea in a fierce story of grief and revenge.

A strange religious movement seeps into a failing upstate New York town and begins drawing its children in. Doctor Alan Springer watches the group tighten its grip and realizes he may have to be the one who resists.

After the burning and capsizing of the Normandie, naval architect Steven Gates uncovers a Nazi sabotage plot that is still in motion. What follows is a tense World War II thriller built around ships, salvage, and espionage.

In wartime Europe, naval officer Kenneth Ash is sent on a secret mission to spirit Czar Nicholas II out of Russia. Court intrigue, revolution, and old emotions make the job as dangerous as the politics around it.

A shadowy power broker known as Pendragon has been kidnapped, and nations and corporations are forced into a bizarre ransom auction. Agent Pete Chamberlain has to find him before markets, governments, and the balance of power start collapsing.

Wealthy builder Chris Taggart sets out to destroy the mobsters he blames for his father's death. His private war climbs higher and higher until revenge starts turning him into something even more dangerous.

Glamorous Natalie Nevsky loses her husband and discovers he was living a far more dangerous life than she knew. The search for answers pulls her into espionage, murder, and high-stakes intrigue tied to Russia.

Natalie Nevsky's glamorous life shatters when her husband is murdered and his hidden past comes to light. To survive, she must follow the trail into espionage, the fur trade, and danger behind the Iron Curtain.

With Hong Kong nearing the 1997 turnover, Victoria Mackintosh comes home to a family empire in trouble. Her father's death and a ruthless rival force her into a fight where commerce, politics, and survival are tightly bound together.

As the 1997 handover approaches, Victoria Mackintosh returns to Hong Kong to help save her family's trading firm. After her father is killed, business rivalry and political intrigue shove her into a dangerous fight for control.

Back in Newbury to rescue the family real estate business, Ben Abbott takes a grubby surveillance job and instantly regrets it. Then a lover is murdered, a cousin dies, and Ben stumbles into his first real case.

In the hard world of working boats, a job at sea turns into a brutal test of seamanship and nerve. Scott builds the tension from weather, machinery, and the knowledge that nowhere on the water is truly safe.

After a select weekend party, a body turns up at an isolated covered bridge in a death that seems impossible. Ben Abbott must sort through old friendships, family ties, and hometown grudges to explain it.

Doctors Sarah and Michael Stone and their daughter live a roaming life aboard their Pacific hospital ship until a distress call changes everything. A kidnapping at sea leads to a desperate chase and a plan for mass destruction.

A Chinese admiral launches a shocking submarine strike on Manhattan during Fleet Week. Tugboat captain Ken Hughes is pulled straight into the attack, turning New York Harbor into the center of a fast-moving war thriller.

Jim Leighton signs on for what seems like an easy yacht delivery and instead gets trapped with a secretive employer and deadly pursuers. The chase stretches across open water, with stolen technology and survival on the line.

Charter captain David Hope teams up with filmmaker Sally Moffitt after they spot a strange, powerful sea creature in the Atlantic. Their pursuit draws the attention of a billionaire who knows the creature is part of something much worse.

Ben Abbott expects a fat commission from an ex-diplomat's estate, but gets a land dispute, a ruined dam, and a deadly explosion instead. As old loyalties fray, he tries to learn who wanted the new arrival hurt.

After the World Trade Center attack, two brothers vanish and everyone assumes they died. Months later a teenager receives a phone call she believes came from her father, then sails into a dangerous search that reaches far beyond grief.

When Newbury's most hated developer is found crushed beneath his own bulldozer, the obvious suspect is a young environmental activist. Ben Abbott starts pulling at the case and finds a town full of people with motives.

A flashy new mausoleum lands in Newbury's old cemetery, and soon its owner is found dead inside it. Ben Abbott digs through town feuds, immigrant scapegoating, and tercentennial politics to find the real killer.

Train wrecks, fires, and explosions are crippling a key railroad line in 1907, and Isaac Bell is sent west to stop the saboteur. The man called the Wrecker strikes fast, kills his helpers, and always stays one step ahead.

When America's naval designers start dying, Isaac Bell is asked to prove one death was murder, not suicide. His investigation leads into an international spy war tied to a secret battleship project called Hull 44.

A prize air race across America becomes a battlefield when aviator Josephine Frost is stalked by her violent husband. Isaac Bell signs on to protect her and finds danger waiting in the sky and on the ground.

Paul Janson has left sanctioned killing behind and now takes missions he can live with. But a rescue operation involving pirates and an abducted doctor opens onto a much larger conspiracy, and survival becomes the first objective.

Aboard the Mauretania, Isaac Bell stops the attempted kidnapping of two European scientists. Their invention could change the balance of power, and Bell finds himself in a race against a ruthless German spy.

Young Isaac Bell goes undercover in the coal mines for his first solo Van Dorn case. What begins as an inquiry into sabotage grows into a bigger conspiracy, and Bell has only days to prove what he knows.

Prohibition is booming, and Isaac Bell's boss Joseph Van Dorn is nearly killed while chasing bootleggers. Bell goes after the shooters and uncovers a harder, colder enemy with methods far deadlier than ordinary rumrunners.

Former covert operator Paul Janson and sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid head into Somalia to rescue an oil executive's kidnapped wife. What looks like a rescue mission quickly turns into a knot of corporate schemes, piracy, and shifting loyalties.

While Isaac Bell investigates the shadow of Standard Oil, a long-range killer starts eliminating the monopoly's enemies. The chase carries Bell across America's oil country and beyond, against a sniper who almost never misses.

In 1906 New York, the Black Hand is terrorizing businesses with kidnapping, extortion, and arson. Isaac Bell forms a special squad to stop them, only to find the violence may be hiding a larger and deadlier plan.

Isaac Bell starts looking for a runaway young actress and finds a murdered woman instead. The trail leads to a killer targeting blond victims across America, and Bell realizes he may be hunting a true monster.

As relentless rain swells the Mississippi toward catastrophe, Army Corps officer Clementine Price races to hold the line. The flood is deadly enough, but she soon learns someone is deliberately turning disaster into a weapon.

In 1600 London, William Shakespeare is forced into a dangerous political plot involving Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Earl of Essex. Scott turns court intrigue into a tight historical thriller.