Louis Kincaid Books in Order

Called back to Black Pool, Mississippi, as his mother is dying, Louis Kincaid takes a sheriff's job and digs into bones found in the woods. The case forces him to face old racism and his own buried past.

In snowbound Loon Lake, Michigan, police officers start turning up dead with cryptic death cards beside their bodies. New arrival Louis Kincaid must solve the killings while earning the trust of a tight, frightened department.

On Florida's Gulf Coast, Louis is pulled into a serial murder case targeting black men. Working outside the law as a PI and alongside a young FBI profiler, he hunts a killer whose motives hit painfully close to home.

A man once convicted of a young woman's murder is freed after twenty years, then accused of killing his old defense lawyer. Hired to look deeper, Louis uncovers buried family lies and a second chance at justice.

After a hurricane, a child's skull washes up near Louis's Florida cottage and a woman's body turns up in the mangroves. The trail leads to an isolated island, an old family, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

A brutal cold snap hits the Everglades just as Louis stumbles into a grisly case and a missing child. Racing the weather and the clock, he crosses paths with Joe Frye and a killer growing bolder by the hour.

When an empty coffin is uncovered at a ruined Michigan sanitarium, Louis starts digging into a love story that never ended cleanly. His search leads to a possibly living patient, fresh killings, and some very dark history.

In 1975, rookie cop Joe Frye investigates bones found in the woods outside Echo Bay, Michigan. As more young women are linked to the case, Joe finds herself facing a predator who sees her as part of the game.

Louis and Joe reopen the disappearance of a Michigan woman after her daughter recalls violent, dreamlike memories from childhood. When the visions stop matching the evidence, the case widens into a stranger and older mystery.

A headless corpse in rural South Florida points Louis toward Palm Beach money, power, and vice. Trying to clear a gentle escort tied to the victim, he enters a world where privilege can hide almost anything.

Louis wants his badge back, but first he has to prove himself on an odd Florida case involving a missing child and an endangered panther. This short bridge story shows him fighting for a second chance on every front.

Back in Michigan, Louis hopes to reconnect with his daughter and Joe Frye, but a trip to Mackinac Island uncovers old bones. The discovery reopens a vanished girl's cold case and stirs up fresh trouble close to home.

Louis is wearing a badge again with a new Michigan cold case squad, working for the man who once wrecked his career. A minister's murder and the deaths of two boys drag him into buried secrets, including his own.