Michael Carrier Books in Order

Retired Chicago detective Jack Handler helps his daughter Kate investigate a murder that connects to a plot against the president. When foreign agents abduct Kate, Jack must balance rescuing her with preventing an assassination he is being pressured to carry out.

Detective Kate Handler inherits a resort on Michigan’s Sugar Island and asks her father Jack to accompany her north. Her uncle’s unsolved murder soon turns the visit into an investigation involving more deaths, old secrets and competing law-enforcement agencies.

Preparing to bury a close friend, Jack Handler is asked to help locate a Sugar Island woman who has vanished in Paris. He and Kate must balance the search with unresolved killings and the demands of their own grief.

Retired detective Jack Handler and his daughter, a New York homicide investigator, pursue a murder case despite the local sheriff's objections. Two orphaned boys, Robby and Red, help the pair investigate the deaths of Robby's parents.

A series of murders targets nursing students in Grand Rapids, leaving investigators uncertain whether a serial killer is responsible. Jack Handler, his daughter Kate and their family circle join forces to uncover the motive and identify whoever is behind the deaths.

While collecting samples for a Scout badge, Robby and Red discover a preserved human finger in Strangmoor Bog. Further bodies bring federal investigators into the case, as Jack and Kate Handler confront sophisticated killers determined to protect their buried secrets.

After leaving prison, Jack Handler forms an unexpected alliance with Henry Chuchip Kalyesveh. Their effort to protect a provocative writer draws them toward a deadly attack on Sugar Island and brings renewed danger to Jack and his daughter.

A family vacation turns dangerous when Jack Handler asks the children to research a case at the library. Their discoveries attract a serial killer’s attention, and Jack and Kate face a race against time when someone close to them is abducted.

A series of deaths among federal judges draws detective Kate Handler’s attention to troubling questions about the prosecutions involved. When a Supreme Court justice dies at a Michigan hunting camp, her father Jack investigates a threat reaching into the nation’s judiciary.

Two women visit Whitefish Point to watch migrating birds, but their outing ends in a terrifying discovery. What they witness proves deadly, turning a peaceful stop on Michigan’s shore into a murder mystery.

Murder and sabotage draw Jack Handler into a dangerous operation across the Great Lakes. A nighttime jump onto a moving freighter becomes part of a struggle involving explosives and a threat capable of turning a massive cargo ship into a disaster.

Jack Handler and his daughter are hired to protect the president in Singapore while hostile operatives prepare an assassination. A separate century-old murder investigation complicates their work, drawing Jack between a dangerous international assignment and unfinished questions closer to home.

Jack Handler accepts an assignment to expose powerful enemies targeting the country, but the mission threatens his own family. An attack on the Soo Locks unleashes a destructive wave, drawing him into a conspiracy whose motives reach beyond the apparent terrorism.

Accused of assassinating the president despite witnesses placing him abroad, Jack Handler agrees to a television interview in hopes of establishing his innocence. The conversation becomes another front in his struggle against the forces attempting to make him the scapegoat.

A new pandemic threat sends Jack Handler and Henry to the Far East on a dangerous mission. As they work in the Yellow Sea, a second operation unfolds against the United States, threatening political and economic damage beyond the immediate crisis.