Larry Macklin Mysteries (AE Howe) Books in Order

Still licking his wounds from a disastrous date with Cara, Larry rushes to her house only to find his top murder suspect sitting in her living room, her father Henry, and his struggle to prove Henry's innocence may cost him both his badge and his conscience.

A mutilated stranger and a suspicious arson case lead Larry to a tight knit group of classmates from the 1970s that includes his own father, and as those old friends start dying he must learn which buried secret is suddenly worth killing for.

When Larry's best friend is accused of murdering his daughter's ex boyfriend and the town's police chief becomes the main suspect in a second killing, Larry must dig into a decades long pattern of violence and decide how far he will bend the rules to save them.

After quitting his job as an investigator, Larry drifts as a reserve deputy until a friend begs him to find her missing niece, a search that uncovers the return of the Swamp Hacker serial killer and a case the sheriff failed to solve years ago.

Rumors of corruption inside the sheriff's office turn deadly when a suspected rapist is gunned down during an apparent attack, and Larry's effort to expose a mole and protect his father's reputation drags him into a conspiracy that could end his career.

Larry is still adjusting to a new partner when his volatile ex girlfriend blows back into town and members of a wealthy family start dying one by one, their case tangling with a harebrained hunt for stolen Nazi gold that makes the truth harder to spot.

After Cara discovers a corpse at the veterinary clinic where she works, Larry and his partner find another employee missing and a second body on the ground, drawing them into a drug case that forces Larry to work with an old enemy to protect the woman he loves.

When shady antiques dealer Conrad Higgins is shot in his home, Larry finds a whole town of people who wanted him dead, and the case turns urgent when one suspect is attacked and another vanishes, proving the killer is not finished yet.

An explosion meant for Larry's flamboyant confidential informant kills a colleague instead, bringing in federal agents who sideline Larry and treat him as a witness and a suspect, even as his guilt pushes him to keep chasing the bomber on his own.

While on a rare beach vacation with his family, Larry is dragged into an island murder investigation the local police cannot handle, and as bodies wash ashore he clashes with a hostile sheriff determined to pin the crimes on the wrong man.

A mysterious death on Pelican Island and a looming hurricane would be enough trouble, but when evidence suggests a notorious blackmailer Larry thought dead may still be alive and hunting him, he is forced to confront old fears in the storm's path.

In the chaotic aftermath of a hurricane, Larry discovers the body of millionaire Horace McCune, the man bankrolling a smear campaign against his father, turning both Macklins into prime suspects and putting the upcoming sheriff's election on the line.

Wedding plans for Larry and Cara are derailed when two oddly linked murders, a woman on the run and an overeager would be informant tangle into one case, leaving Larry suspended from the department and racing to solve it before his big day arrives.

As Halloween approaches, Calhoun's most infamous haunted house turns genuinely deadly when bodies start appearing on its porch and behind locked doors, forcing Larry to separate superstition from evidence before a ghost story becomes a full blown massacre.

At a tense family reunion deep in the North Florida woods, a ninetieth birthday party turns deadly, and when one woman dies and her sister is left with blood on her hands, Larry must decide whether the simple story everyone believes really fits the facts.

A barrage of anonymous, vicious emails tears through Adams County, and Larry is relieved the mess is someone else's problem until one message leads to murder and a fellow investigator becomes the prime suspect, forcing him into a dangerous web of office rivalries.

When Sheriff Ted Macklin is ambushed and left for dead on a lonely Florida road, Larry's world shrinks to hospital corridors and a case he is barred from working, pushing him to risk everything to unmask his father's attacker.