Max Sawyer Books in Order

Max Sawyer avoids his hometown and prefers to move through life with bourbon and blues. A friend’s trouble brings him back, where a murder forces him to confront unresolved personal history and dangers arriving from several directions at once.

A teenage girl’s murder inside a church pulls Max Sawyer into a community concealing secrets. An already difficult relationship with family becomes more complicated as he investigates the killing and discovers how much lies beneath the place’s outward appearance.

Reporter Lisa Day disappears while investigating missing women, sending Max to a small Arkansas town in pursuit of the woman he loves. Finding her requires exposing a dangerous secret concealed by the community before the same forces can destroy his chance to bring her home.

Assigned to cover a museum fundraiser for the society pages, reporter Max Sawyer expects an easy evening among Memphis donors. A curator’s murder transforms the assignment into a serious investigation, leaving him racing to identify the killer before the next morning’s newspaper deadline.

A chance meeting leaves Max believing he could have prevented a murder. Pursuing justice for a neglected victim puts him against a powerful man and a disturbing history, turning regret over an earlier opportunity into determination to expose what happened.

A young woman asks Max to find her brother after he disappears along the Mississippi. The search strands Max in an isolated river bend, where drug dealers hunt him and an apparent missing-person inquiry becomes an immediate struggle to stay alive.

A murdered college friend had been searching for his missing daughter, prompting Max to continue the investigation police cannot solve. Following her trail exposes a trafficking underworld, where dangerous adversaries threaten to end his search before he can locate the young woman.