Mackenzie August Books in Order

Trying to start over in Virginia, former homicide detective Mackenzie August takes a job as an English instructor and brings only his infant son with him. Peace ends quickly when teachers begin turning up dead outside his classroom.

Bored with routine private work, ex-LAPD detective Mackenzie August agrees to go undercover as a teacher in Roanoke. His target is a killer tied to a city school and three murdered teenage girls.

Attorney Veronica Summers hires Mackenzie August to find an informant hidden inside a criminal operation. The job pulls Mack into the mafioso world, and deeper into Veronica's orbit, faster than good judgment would recommend.

A rich killer has confessed, but Mackenzie August still gets dragged into the fallout when Veronica Summers's fiancé joins the prosecution. As Darren Robbins closes in, an ugly courtroom case spills into the streets.

When respected anesthesiologist Everett Owens is framed for a string of elite burglaries, Mackenzie August starts digging into Roanoke's upper crust. The case exposes dirty secrets and pushes Mack closer to Veronica Summers's most dangerous truths.

This collection introduces Mackenzie August, the ex-LAPD detective turned Roanoke private eye. Across the first cases, he goes undercover in a school, tangles with the underworld, and uncovers the secrets of the city's powerful families.

Mackenzie August should be settling into married life, but Darren Robbins has other plans. Dragged into the Camorra underworld in Naples, Mack has to fight his way home before he loses everything waiting for him in Virginia.

Back from Italy and newly married, Mackenzie August expects a quieter stretch. Instead he takes a bizarre case for an amnesiac man who wants his missing dog back, only to learn the animal may lead to a hidden fortune.

Mackenzie August is hired to quietly investigate a famous priest whose public reputation may be hiding something rotten. What begins as a delicate church inquiry turns into a darker stand-alone mystery about truth, power, and trust.

Roland Wallace is rich, elderly, and convinced someone is trying to kill him, and the poison in his medicine suggests he is right. Mack joins other private detectives to protect him, but the motive hides close to home.

Darren Robbins bursts into Mackenzie August's home, takes Ronnie hostage, and demands help finding the wife and son he lost to witness protection. Mack has only days to outmaneuver an old enemy before the threat turns deadly.

Ronnie surprises Mackenzie August with a luxury train trip from Chicago to San Francisco, and Manny comes along for the ride. The vacation ends when crew members vanish and start turning up dead in the snow.

Hired to track an escaped convict, Mackenzie August finds a case that makes less sense the longer he works it. The hunt opens onto buried police secrets and forces him to decide what justice should really look like.

Mackenzie August is used to clients arriving with problems. This time the police are at his door, and he is the one with the problem, because two murders have left him looking guilty.

A plea for help from one of Ronnie's tenants pulls Mackenzie August into the search for a missing girl called Lemonade. The trail leads through gangsters, abandoned lives, and a baby who changes the case.

Mackenzie August does not take trainees, but he bends when a father begs him to look after his reckless son Elijah. Teaching the kid is hard enough, then Mack learns professional killers are already hunting him.

Widow Cecelia Townsend hires Mackenzie August to watch her three grown grandchildren before she decides where her money will go. At the same time, someone keeps trying to kill Sheriff Stackhouse, and both cases feel more connected than they should.

What looks like a double suicide at a neighborhood picnic does not sit right with Mackenzie August, especially because it happened on his own street. His unofficial questions stir up grudges, secrets, and a meddling crime podcaster.