Kate Flora Books in Order

Portland detective Joe Burgess investigates the murder of physician Steven Pleasant, whose body is found in his parked car. What initially resembles a dispute with a sex worker opens into competing motives involving patients, colleagues and family.

Joe Burgess's holiday plans end when a murdered child is discovered in Knowlton Park. The boy's troubled family offers few answers, and the disappearance of his sister Iris gives the detective another vulnerable child to find.

An apparent drowning interrupts Joe Burgess's picnic and claims Reggie, a fellow Vietnam veteran he has long tried to help. When the medical examiner raises doubts, Burgess investigates family troubles, industrial pollution and corrupt business interests.

Joe Burgess rescues a woman and her baby from a burning building used as a mosque. The mother's silence and the infant's unexplained illness lead him into an investigation that brings threats against his own family.

This true crime account follows the investigation of Maria Tanasichuk's disappearance in New Brunswick. Canadian police work with Maine game wardens and cadaver-dog handlers as her husband's changing story and threats complicate a difficult wilderness search.

When a man accused of date-raping their friend is acquitted, the women in her book group decide to pursue their own justice. Their response turns an ordinary social circle into a revenge plot driven by anger at the failed prosecution.

Roger Guay recounts his career as a Maine game warden and canine handler, from investigating poachers to searching for missing people. Written with Kate Clark Flora, the memoir also follows his work after Hurricane Katrina.

An ambush leaves a rookie Portland officer dead and two colleagues critically wounded. Joe Burgess must identify the person targeting the police before grief and preparations for the officer's funeral offer the attacker another opportunity.

A women’s book group rallies to help Abby when her husband drains their accounts and threatens to evict her and their children. Recovering vital financial documents becomes dangerous as a threatening watcher, a handgun, and suspicious money complicate their plans.

A girl's mutilated body on a Portland trail leads Joe Burgess and his team toward traffickers exploiting young asylum seekers. As they struggle to identify her and protect other children, his niece becomes caught in the danger.

Nine-year-old Arielle seeks Joe Burgess's help when her geologist father lies unconscious and her mother is missing. His interrupted vacation becomes an investigation into land disputes, a bitter divorce and competing interests driven by the prospect of gold.

After physician Eliot Spence is found dead, Joe Burgess investigates the secrets beneath his compassionate public image. Compromising photographs, family tensions and questions about his wife's death complicate the case as the detectives face pressures at home.

English teacher Alexis rejects an obsessed student’s advances, unaware he has prepared a convincing account of an affair that never happened. As his accusations threaten her career, marriage, and freedom, she must confront evidence designed to make innocence look impossible.

Detective Joe Burgess finds a badly injured young woman in a Portland park, terrified of being taken back by her captors. Protecting her draws him into a dangerous investigation of predators who exploit vulnerable people and will fight to conceal their crimes.