Max Dexter Mystery Books in Order
Max Dexter Mystery is a series of 4 books written by Chris Laing.
Here, you can see them all in order! (publication year included)
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Max Dexter Mystery books in publication order
4 books
A Private Man
by Chris Laing
2012
Returning to Hamilton after the Second World War, injured veteran Max Dexter opens a detective agency. A wealthy client's missing-person case draws Max and assistant Isabel O'Brien into art theft, arson, money laundering, and murder.
A Deadly Venture
by Chris Laing
2014
When Max Dexter's artist friend Roger Bruce is arrested for killing a client, Max and Isabel O'Brien investigate in postwar Hamilton. Their search for the real murderer provokes local mobsters determined to discourage them.
A Family Matter
by Chris Laing
2017
Max Dexter's mother returns to Hamilton after abandoning him decades earlier. As he and Isabel O'Brien face a crime boss's revenge, her possible involvement in an escalating mob conflict makes their approaching Christmas in 1947 increasingly dangerous.
A Devious Dame
by Chris Laing
2019
In 1948 Hamilton, Max Dexter and Isabel O'Brien search for Ida Lucas, a hotel hostess who has abandoned her young son. A simultaneous divorce investigation draws them into a businessman's secret life and the orbit of a new mob boss.
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