Mac Faraday Books in Order

On the day his divorce collapses, former homicide detective Mac Faraday learns he has inherited a fortune, an estate, and a new family in Spencer, Maryland. He arrives to find a neighbor's murder unsolved and the whole gated community bristling with secrets.

Mac is settling into his inheritance at Spencer Manor when his ex-wife arrives wanting another chance. Before he can send her away, she and her lover are murdered in his penthouse suite, leaving Mac to clear his own name.

A lost masterpiece resurfaces years after artist Ilysa Ramsay was murdered, and Mac Faraday cannot resist the mystery behind it. At the same time, Joshua Thornton and Cameron Gates pursue a killing that does not fit a convicted serial killer's pattern.

Archie Monday becomes the target of a mob boss who comes to Spencer to finish the job himself. Mac expects a protection detail, but soon bodies are dropping and the whole town is heating up.

Fame-hungry Khloe Everest returns to Spencer after years of chasing publicity, only to be murdered before she can stage her next grand entrance. Mac's investigation leads into celebrity obsession, politics, and an old enemy he thought was gone.

Told to stay away from his own locked-up mountain property, Mac does the opposite and finds Astaire Castle waiting with its long list of suicides, disappearances, and murders. A quick look around becomes a deadly investigation full of eerie rumors and stranger-than-usual suspects.

Mac and Archie finally decide to elope, only to have Gnarly discover a corpse in the church office before the vows. The hunt for a killer among seemingly kind churchgoers puts romance on hold yet again.

When two people are slaughtered at their Deep Creek lake house, washed-up teen idol Lenny Frost takes hostages and demands that Mac Faraday find the real killer. Mac has less than twelve hours to solve the case and get everyone out alive.

A strange phone call from a missing young woman draws Mac Faraday into a five-year-old cold case just as Deep Creek Lake prepares for a glittering charity ball. Someone has gathered the victim's friends and enemies in one place, and murder is on the guest list.

With only three days left until Mac and Archie's New Year's Eve wedding, armed killers crash Spencer Manor. As guests pour into Deep Creek Lake, Mac and his friends race to untangle the secret that could turn the celebration into a funeral.

Days before David O'Callaghan's wedding, he learns he is still legally married to his first wife. What should be a quick trip to fix the paperwork turns into murder, and Mac has only days to save the ceremony.

What begins as a joke campaign to make Gnarly mayor of Spencer becomes deadly when a human candidate is murdered. Mac and the gang must survive dirty politics, old grudges, and a race where even the dog is a suspect.

Mac Faraday reunites with members of his old homicide squad at a wedding, but the gathering revives an unsolved double murder from years ago. When a new investigator is killed, Mac has no choice but to dig into the past of his own friends.

True crime blogger Erica Hart survives a plunge into Deep Creek Lake, then a body turns up at Mac Faraday's son's new house. With David on paternity leave, Deputy Chief Dusty O'Meara must solve a murder while Erica chases the truth on her own.