Mike Angel Mysteries Books in Order

Bored with insurance work and haunted by his father's death, Mike takes a tailing job that blows up when the woman he's watching kills a man. His bad choice to help her hide the body starts a mob-linked nightmare.

Julia Gateswood hires Mike to find her missing sister, but the case quickly tangles politics, mob ties, and a headless corpse. Mike and Rick chase the truth through 1962 Chicago while Mike tries not to fall for the client.

An anonymous note and a rare banknote push Mike into a kidnapping case with roots in World War I and old stolen gold. Chicago politics, racial tension, and urban renewal fires make the search even uglier.

When Mike rescues a bound woman from a burning building, he stumbles into a brutal ring built on prostitution and murder. The case turns personal when Molly is taken, sending Mike and Rick all the way to New Orleans.

An eccentric veteran asks Mike for help after his wife is murdered and he is being framed. The trail leads through Portland corruption, racketeers, and a vice world where even the cops can't be trusted.

After Mike is drugged and a file is stolen from his office, he follows the theft into a triple murder and an old diamond case. The trail leads to a gem company with global connections and a dangerous blonde client.

After a shooting in Portland, Mike digs into two murders that connect to campus radicals and anti-war unrest. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes that someone is planning something deadly during the Rose Festival.

A model's murder and a vanished porn film send Mike from Portland to Las Vegas in search of answers. With mob ties, Howard Hughes looming in the background, and danger at every turn, the case gets darker fast.

A missing-person case drops Mike into Albina, where corrupt bar owners, boycotts, and racial tension are already simmering. As violence climbs, Mike has to find the power behind the threats before he is framed for murder.

On the day Mike and Molly marry, a stray bullet leaves Molly in a coma and Mike half broken. A routine fraud case then pulls him into drug cartels, missing women, and a hard test of loyalty.

After witnessing a bank robbery, Mike is hired by a union boss to find the killer of his granddaughter. Every clue points deeper into labor war politics, seduction, and a trap that could ship Mike out of the country.

Mike walks into his dark office and finds a dead woman posed like a movie star, with his business card hidden on her body. The murder leads to smut films, look-alikes, and a nasty trail running from Portland to Tijuana.

Trying to quit detective work, Mike buys a house to renovate and finds a corpse sealed inside the wall. Soon he is chasing a murder case tangled up with a parachute, an FBI cover-up, and the long shadow of D.B. Cooper.

A search for a stolen inheritance turns ugly when Mike's client is killed the next day. Chasing her clues sends him after a carnival con man, counterfeit money, and a finale staged over an alligator tank.

A missing man with links to the Patty Hearst case drags Mike into radical politics and dangerous appetites. Following the trail from Portland to Berkeley means murder, FBI pressure, and trouble on every side.

When a deadly fire hits Mike's neighborhood, a psychiatrist hires him to find the arsonist. The trail runs from Portland fires to an old bank robber, hidden loot, and a man rumored to have escaped Alcatraz.

Mike follows a beautiful stranger and stumbles into a hunt for a Hawaiian royal relic said to grant long life. After a friend is murdered, the case pulls him from Portland to Hawaii and into gang traps.

A bounced check sends Mike to a client's house, where he finds a triple murder and too many loose ends. The trail leads to Southern Oregon, missing Romanov jewels, and a case that keeps turning stranger.

A woman tied to Mike's first big case returns looking like a ghost from the past. Fresh murders, missing diamonds, and a brutal chase into British Columbia pull Mike, Rick, and Molly into one last dangerous tangle.

While looking into two missing women near Crescent City, Mike uncovers a remote lodge, coded shoreline signals, and a larger criminal scheme. The case mixes drug smuggling, strange locals, and a raid Mike is told not to join.