Milt Kovak Books in Order

Recently divorced Oklahoma deputy Milt Kovak investigates the rape and murders of elderly women living alone. His strongest lead is a witness who saw a blond man in a battered green Chevy leaving a crime scene.

Milt Kovak rushes to Houston when his estranged sister is found in a coma beside her murdered husband. Caring for her children, Milt investigates the shooting and tries to prove that Jewel is not the killer.

When a bank teller and her family die from carbon monoxide poisoning, Milt Kovak suspects more than a tragic accident. Their filthy home and strangely blank past pull him into a case where nothing about the victims quite adds up.

After Milt Kovak's longtime love is brutally murdered, he investigates despite being too emotionally involved for the case. Her daughter's arrival and a child's disappearance lead him toward dangerous local prejudice, dirty money, and a deadly secret.

Acting sheriff Milt Kovak faces an election challenge when his rival Wade Moon turns up dead in a nearby lake. Attacks on Milt, a sabotaged car, and a string of bizarre local crimes suggest the county has bigger troubles brewing.

While running for sheriff and awaiting the risky birth of his first child, Milt Kovak investigates a murdered television reporter and a troubling cluster of suicides. Personal pressure and public scrutiny make every lead harder to follow.

A former girlfriend asks Sheriff Milt Kovak to find her missing teenage son after a religious retreat. At the isolated compound, Milt finds the boy's girlfriend dead and must penetrate a secretive group that refuses to talk.

Milt Kovak expects a Las Vegas break while his psychiatrist wife attends a conference. Instead, he helps a cousin whose husband vanishes after a family assault, then becomes the prime suspect when the abusive son-in-law is murdered.

Deputy Dalton Pettigrew vanishes, then his sister disappears while looking for him. When a child in Sheriff Milt Kovak's care is taken too, Milt must uncover why a threatening figure from Jean's past has targeted his family.

A deputy's wedding should be a happy day in Longbranch, Oklahoma, until a bank robbery leaves a sheriff's deputy dead. Milt Kovak tackles the local fallout while the newlyweds' honeymoon is derailed by a hurricane and criminals.

A frightened teenager calls Milt Kovak to a gated community, where he finds her mother murdered. The victim belonged to an unusual plural family, and Milt and his wife Jean uncover secrets that make the household far less idyllic than it seems.

Milt Kovak wins a Caribbean cruise and takes Jean, their son, and his son's friend along for spring break. When a troubled boy is found dead aboard ship, Milt joins ship security to find a killer at sea.

After Milt Kovak arrests a man for killing his wife, the suspect's relatives seize a hotel suite and take hostages. With a tornado approaching and the prisoner suddenly dead, Milt and Jean have little time to sort out the truth.

Someone begins terrorizing the Prophesy County sheriff's department with threats, sabotage, and attacks on deputies' families. As pranks turn lethal, Sheriff Milt Kovak must identify the person seeking revenge before his own loved ones become targets.