Michael Koryta Books in Order

A suburban death looks like murder-suicide, but the missing wife and child tell a different story. Private investigators Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard chase the truth through organized crime, money, and lies that keep getting deadlier.

Lincoln Perry investigates the death of an old friend accused of murder and tied to a fire nobody has forgotten. The case pulls him into buried family secrets, old arsons, and the kind of history that never stayed buried.

When a hated Cleveland attorney is murdered, Lincoln Perry becomes a prime suspect and is hired to find the man's estranged son. The routine locate job turns vicious fast, with money, revenge, and police pressure closing in from every side.

Frank Temple III heads to a remote Wisconsin lake when the man who ruined his father returns. What starts as a personal reckoning turns into a violent standoff involving assassins, old betrayals, and lessons his father taught him too well.

Bones in the woods reopen the mystery of a vanished woman and her dead husband at a crumbling mansion built for paroled killers. Lincoln Perry takes what looks like a simple search job and walks straight into Cleveland mob secrets.

A filmmaker travels to an Indiana resort town to make a documentary about an aging billionaire with a murky past. Strange visions and the history of the hotel's mineral springs pull him toward something old, hungry, and very hard to escape.

Arlen Wagner can see death coming, and his warning gets him stranded at an isolated Florida boarding house before a hurricane. The storm is only part of the danger, because local power and his own grim gift are closing around him.

A death at a lonely lighthouse in eastern Kentucky draws a deputy sheriff and a big-cat sanctuary owner into a landscape that doesn't want them there. The deeper they look, the more murder mystery gives way to full-on ghost story.

Years after their sister's murder, two very different brothers are thrown together when another teenage girl is killed in their town. Football glory, family grief, and a buried predator collide in one of Koryta's darkest crime novels.

Thor, longtime enforcer for a Cleveland crime boss, has survived by being the most dangerous man in the room. Then an exotic-animal racket tests what is left of his code, in a short return to Lincoln Perry territory.

After witnessing a murder, fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson is hidden in a wilderness survival program in the Montana mountains. Two relentless killers hunt him anyway, and fire, weather, and rough country become part of the chase.

Still reeling from his wife's death, investigator Mark Novak returns to southern Indiana to probe a girl's death in a cave system. The deeper he digs into the town, the more the case starts to feel like an attack on him, too.

The man Markus Novak blames for his wife's murder is out of prison, and a cryptic note pulls him back to the Florida town where she died. From there the trail leads into Montana, a failing power grid, and a villain who knows how to weaponize fear.

An FBI interrogator believes a hated local addict finally told the truth about a double murder in rural Maine. Then the bodies turn up elsewhere, the case collapses, and he has to decide how much of his life he's willing to burn for the real answer.

Teenage Markus Novak, raised among drifters and grifters, lands with a rancher after a con goes bad. A note hidden in a pawnshop book sends him toward Yellowstone and a choice between the family he misses and the life he might want.

A college senior survives a crash but is trapped inside her body by locked-in syndrome, fully aware that someone wants her dead. An insurance investigator starts asking questions, and suddenly both women are running out of time.

After a crash leaves Tara Beckley conscious but unable to move, she realizes someone powerful wants her silenced. Insurance investigator Abby Kaplan digs into the case and finds herself hunted by people who cannot afford the truth.

A short thriller piece by Karin Slaughter, often featured in the *MatchUp* collection. It delivers a quick punch of suspense and character-driven tension typical of her longer novels.

A neglected upstate New York dam, a drowned town, and a century-old curse collide when strange events hint that the reservoir wants new sacrifices. Koryta turns infrastructure failure and ghost story dread into one steadily rising nightmare.

A woman who disappeared years ago has been living under a new name to protect her children. When tragedy brings them back into her life in the Maine woods, past violence catches up fast and forces her into one more fight for them.

A laid-off war correspondent takes an easy assignment writing about a mindfulness app and discovers its sleep songs come with nightmares. As the dead woman's voice follows him into waking life, the job turns into a trap built specifically for him.

A drifting yacht filled with butchered bodies turns island pariah Israel Pike into the obvious suspect. On a Maine island thick with grudges and secrets, his fate soon tangles with a boy hiding from his own violent home.

A teenager's summer internship with a private investigator seems perfect until a local disappearance and a fake cop case bring unwanted attention to his uncanny memory. What begins as small-town crime grows into a coming-of-age horror story.

Pilots across America refuse to fly after receiving midnight warnings from their mothers, some of whom are dead. The answer lies in coastal Maine and in a buried Cold War mystery that has suddenly come back online.

In Depression-era America, Savannah Cody sets out with her son and a retired detective to find the outlaw husband she swears she'll kill. Their road trip through gangland legend and family wreckage becomes its own dangerous reckoning.