L T Vargus Books in Order

After a childhood trauma, fifteen-year-old Jake grows up timid, bullied, and desperate to be tougher than he feels. His dangerous cousin Nick offers a way forward, and it leads somewhere dark.

Jeff wants answers, and a burned corpse in a vacant lot may finally lead him closer to them. As he goes undercover and digs into the murder, the mystery of his seizures only gets darker and stranger.

Jeff Grobnagger's seizures keep dropping him into a deadly alley where a hooded figure strangles him over and over again. When somebody tries to kill him in real life too, he has to find out what the visions mean.

Hurt, hiding, and obsessed with revenge, Jeff Grobnagger finds himself pulled back to the alley every time the seizures hit. When his enemies move again, he has to decide what he is willing to sacrifice for a friend.

Exhausted and barely tethered to reality, Jeff tries to stay awake after the damage of the earlier books. As enemies close in and a rescue mission takes shape, the fight spills deeper into the other world.

Jeff Grobnagger's strange journey turns inward as a failed experiment with Amity sends him deeper into his own mind. The final book pushes him toward a choice between peace, ruin, and something even worse.

An agoraphobic shut-in named Decker records the final days before the collapse as infection spreads and society starts to break apart. It is an intimate, eerie opening to a much larger apocalypse.

The series widens to follow multiple survivors, including Mitch, Erin, and the mysterious Baghead, as the ruined world keeps turning uglier. It is a character-heavy zombie novel with several timelines in play.

This shorter entry deepens the lives of survivors living before and after the fall. It adds backstory, context, and fresh tension to the larger apocalypse story.

Book 2 picks up where the earlier volumes leave off as Baghead, Delfino, Ray, Lorraine, and others keep moving through a world of zombies and violent survivors. The scope grows, but the danger stays personal.

When murderous clowns begin luring people into the woods, fifteen-year-old Phillip Burkholder may be the only one paying attention. He is failing school and has no clue how to fight monsters, but the town's clown problem is getting deadly.

Izzy and Erin's bond deepens as the aftermath of the collapse keeps pushing them toward harder choices. At the same time, Delfino reveals more of his past while the road trip from hell keeps rolling.

A young woman's body is left broken and wrapped in plastic, and FBI profiler Violet Darger is called in to hunt the killer. Her first case in the series is brutal, methodical, and deeply unsettling.

A family is massacred in their home, and every mirror in the house has been shattered. When local police call in the FBI, Violet Darger steps into a crime scene as disturbing as it is bizarre.

Another savage case sends Violet Darger back into the field, where mounting fear and a calculating killer keep the pressure high. To stop the next death, she has to read a mind built for violence.

This novella drops Violet Darger into another sharp, dangerous case while the emotional fallout of earlier investigations is still raw. It is a short, tense entry that stays closely tied to the larger series.

A violent case in Detroit pulls Violet Darger into a world of old loyalties, family ties, and criminal power. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous the city becomes.

A string of brutal home invasion murders terrifies Dade County, and Victor Loshak is called in to profile the killer. Working without Darger beside him, he has to find old grit in a very ugly case.

This bridge installment stays close to the survivors as old wounds, hard choices, and the grind of the post-apocalypse catch up with them. It helps carry the saga toward its final volume.

Shallow graves and burned bodies pull Violet Darger to Las Vegas, where missing girls may still be alive. Rumors point to an old enemy with a grudge, but the desert is hiding worse things than gossip.

Victor Loshak digs through the seedy underworld of New Mexico in a case that mixes grim violence with a strange cast of possible allies and liars. It is a shorter Loshak story with plenty of menace.

When floating corpses wash up on an Oregon riverbank, Violet Darger heads to the Pacific Northwest to hunt another killer. What she finds in the woods may change her life for good.

This novella picks up threads from earlier Darger books and throws Violet back toward Leonard Stump, Prescott, and more bodies. It is short, suspenseful, and full of dread.

Violet Darger returns in a fast, vicious case that strikes with sudden heat and refuses to let up. This sixth novel keeps the pressure high while another killer closes in.

This novella keeps the Loshak story moving with another tense brush with violence and the psychology behind it. It works as a sharp bridge between the larger novels.

Loshak takes on a case built around buried secrets and the dangerous things people hide below the surface. As the investigation opens up, so does the darkness around it.

In the final volume, Izzy and Erin face dwindling supplies, Baghead and Delfino reach their destination, and old paths begin to cross. The war for what is left of the world finally comes into focus.

Private detective Charlie Winters returns to Salem Island when two girls go missing, forcing her to reopen the trauma of her own sister's disappearance. A body on the beach makes the case painfully personal.

Another Salem Island case drags Charlie Winters toward cold water, buried secrets, and a mystery that refuses to stay simple. The second book deepens the series' mix of local tension and personal stakes.

A mass shooter terrorizes Chicago in the days after Christmas, and Victor Loshak is sent in to hunt him down. Then the manhunt turns on its head, and Loshak becomes the hunted.

A mail bomber begins with a gruesome blast in New York, then turns murder into a growing public spectacle. Violet Darger has to decode the killer's message before the next package arrives.

Three starved bodies are found in a landfill outside Philadelphia, and Violet Darger is called in to make sense of the horror. The case is grim from the start, and every answer leads somewhere worse.

Darger heads to the Caribbean to help search for a missing teenage girl on vacation. The island is full of suspicious people, buried secrets, and one old flame who makes the case even messier.

When a missing waitress is found dead on Salem Island, Charlie Winters has to follow a stalking case that has already turned lethal. The clues are intimate, the threat is personal, and the island feels smaller by the minute.

Couples are being stalked, terrorized, and murdered near a small town college campus in rural Michigan. Violet Darger uncovers a long escalation of violence and a killer growing steadily more sadistic.

Loshak heads into the desert for a case tied to earlier books, where old threads, familiar faces, and fresh brutality collide. The setting is harsh, and the stakes rise quickly.

A new case sends Violet Darger into isolated country where every suspect seems to be hiding something. The deeper she travels, the more the investigation turns into a trap.

One of Darger's most dangerous investigations yet pushes her into mounting violence, long shadows, and a case that keeps getting worse. It is a lean, high-stakes thriller built for momentum.

A homemade bomb explodes on the set of a network sitcom, and Violet Darger heads to Hollywood before the next attack hits. The deeper she gets into the studio world, the more personal the bomber starts to feel.

A popular podcaster receives a package containing human flesh, and Victor Loshak heads to Denver to investigate. More packages follow, and the hunt becomes a race to understand a killer's motives before more bodies turn up.

Kaitlyn and Logan's wedding weekend collides with a hurricane, rising floodwater, and a killer using the storm as cover. Trapped guests start disappearing, and every route to safety gets worse.

A tropical getaway turns ugly in the first Shadows of Love thriller, where a beautiful setting quickly fills with suspicion, danger, and people who should not trust each other. Paradise is not much help.