Matt Royal Mystery Books in Order

Retired trial lawyer Matt Royal returns to legal practice when his friend Logan Hamilton is charged with murdering his girlfriend. Determined to defend him, Matt follows a trail stretching beyond his quiet life on Florida's coast.

An attempt on Matt Royal's life disrupts his island retirement. Joined by friends Logan Hamilton and Jock Algren, he searches for the attacker through Mexico and Florida's mines, farms, and labor camps.

Matt Royal agrees to help his ex-wife find her missing stepdaughter. His search leads from Longboat Key toward an island occupied by religious extremists, where a disappearance is tied to a far more dangerous scheme.

The murder of Laurence Wyatt drives his friend Matt Royal to launch a private investigation. Pursuing ruthless criminals from Florida to Germany, Matt becomes a target himself and must decide how far revenge can carry him beyond the law.

Matt Royal returns home to discover a sniper has targeted his friend, and someone now wants Matt dead. A murdered lawyer, a biker gang, and an old document draw him into a mystery threatening powerful Florida financial interests.

A newly married man is murdered on a Longboat Key beach, prompting Matt Royal to help the victim's father, an old army friend. Connections to three cruise-boat killings revive painful memories and strain loyalties among Matt's closest companions.

A serial killer resurfaces on Longboat Key after twelve years, with a victim connected to Jock Algren's intelligence agency. Matt Royal and detective J. D. Duncan investigate while becoming targets of violence that may involve international criminal interests.

An elderly man's murder and another man's disappearance unsettle Longboat Key. When J. D. Duncan receives a recent photograph of a friend she believed dead, she and Matt Royal investigate a mystery that soon puts them under attack.

Matt Royal returns to court to defend Abby Lester, the police chief's wife, against a murder charge. Facing an undefeated prosecutor, he must untangle the victim's connections to influential people before his friend's case reaches its conclusion.

A disastrous intelligence mission leaves Jock Algren in despair, just as new threats converge on Longboat Key. Matt Royal and J. D. Duncan face a cold-case investigation, mounting deaths, and an enemy seeking revenge for Jock's past.

Matt Royal defends J. D. Duncan's aunt after a bestselling author is murdered following a book signing. While Duncan goes undercover in the retirement community of The Villages, their investigation uncovers elusive connections to the past.