Nick Russell Books in Order

Part memoir and part road book, this follows Nick and Terry Russell through a year with full-time RVers. It is a personal look at choosing a different lifestyle and learning the road as you go.

For readers who dream of full-time RV travel but still need an income, Russell offers workable ideas. The book focuses on ways to earn money while staying mobile and living on the road.

A practical guide to enjoying RV travel without draining your budget. Russell shares money-saving ideas on life on the road, built from the same seminars he presented to RV audiences around the country.

An armored car hijacking leaves two men dead, including Sheriff Jim Weber's brother-in-law. His hunt for the killers drags him into sex, deceit, and a suspect list full of people with reasons to lie.

Drawing on his own experience as a gun shop owner, Russell lays out the basics of opening and running the business. It covers planning, licensing, stock, and the day-to-day realities newcomers need to understand.

A young Apache man is found hanging from a tree on Cat Mountain, and the case rips open old hatred in Big Lake. Jim Weber and FBI agent Larry Parks hunt for justice in a town full of prejudice and denial.

Eco-protesters, feuding neighbors, fighting deputies, and general lunacy have Big Lake on edge. Jim Weber tries to hold the town together while the chaos starts pointing toward real danger.

A travel companion for readers who like odd history, overlooked landmarks, and small discoveries. Russell makes the case for leaving the interstate behind and seeing what the back roads are hiding.

From desert country to the Mogollon Rim, this guide highlights Arizona attractions many visitors miss. Russell focuses on ghost towns, missions, museums, and scenic roads that reward getting off the highway.

Russell points readers beyond the obvious Florida vacation stops to forts, fishing towns, museums, and quieter corners of the state. It is a practical guide for travelers who like history and side roads.

Deer season in the mountains turns deadly when activist Emma Moyer disrupts a guided hunt. Sheriff Jim Weber faces angry hunters, local tensions, and a killer hiding in plain sight.

Postwar Elmhurst, Ohio looks prosperous until a young woman from the wrong side of town is found dead in Dog's Run. Her murder exposes class divisions, hidden sins, and a violence simmering beneath respectability.

This follow-up gathers more little-known stories, forgotten places, and offbeat history from America's back roads. It is a companion for travelers who want the interesting detours, not just the fastest route.

The richest man in Big Lake is murdered the night he announces a run for state senate. Jim Weber follows a trail of politics, sex, and shattered lives that reaches far beyond town limits.

A string of suspicious fires puts Big Lake on edge and points to a serial arsonist. Jim Weber teams up with Deputy Fire Marshal C.C. Callahan before the next blaze turns catastrophic.

A terrified, nearly naked woman runs into a convenience store in the middle of the night begging for help. Jim Weber's investigation tears into the calm end-of-summer mood and uncovers a nasty case.

After a young woman is assaulted at Cat Mountain Ski Resort, Jim Weber arrests three men with money, history, and secrets behind them. The case pulls him into power, privilege, and a past nobody wants examined.

Raymond Winters is an ordinary grocery store manager stuck in a loveless marriage and a dead-end life. One reckless Black Friday fling sends him into a spiral of fear, betrayal, and consequences he never imagined.

A small boy disappears from a troubled home, leaving behind confusing clues and frightened witnesses. Jim Weber has very little to go on, and every hour makes the case more desperate.

The Black Stocking Brewpub is already scandalizing Big Lake before its arrogant owner turns up dead. Jim Weber gets a crowded suspect list full of offended churchgoers, angry locals, and people with something to hide.

Nobody is shocked when hateful Bureau of Indian Affairs agent Gordon Hahn is shot, only by how many people had reason to do it. Jim Weber has to untangle resentment, racism, and revenge to find the killer.

Elmhurst is still reeling from the violence that shook Dog's Run, and the wounds have not healed. Russell returns to the same divided Ohio town to show how old crimes keep shaping the living.

Deputy John Lee Quarrels already has enough family drama without three old skeletons turning up at a road site. The case sends him after a killer whose trail may have started long before he was born.

Big Lake's first Snowdaze festival should bring winter fun and tourist dollars. Instead, the celebration gives Jim Weber another knotty case in a town where even holiday cheer can go bad fast.

What looks like a tragic accident at respected hog farmer George Duncan's place grows darker the longer Jim Weber looks at it. In Big Lake, even a good man's death can open a door to ugly truths.

John Lee Quarrels's long-lost father shows up beaten and mutilated, offers almost no explanation, then vanishes. With thugs closing in and the FBI interested, John Lee gets dragged into danger he barely understands.

When Leona Darling disappears, John Lee Quarrels is sent to find the county's most notorious cop groupie. The search leads him into bad relationships, buried secrets, and plenty of people who preferred Leona silent.

A battered young stranger claims to be Sheriff Weber's son, and that is only the start of the trouble. When another man arrives asking questions, the case becomes painfully personal for Jim.

John Lee Quarrels is already chasing a sexual predator when his private life blows up around him. Add a stolen patrol car and nonstop local chaos, and he has more trouble than one deputy should handle.

A strange thread links three Depression-era outlaws to a man who has spent decades on the run. John Lee Quarrels digs into a case where old crimes refuse to stay in the past.

A figure in a ninja costume starts as a local joke, then turns into something much more unsettling. As the sightings grow stranger, Jim Weber has to figure out who is lurking around Big Lake and why.

Jim Weber and Robyn Fuchette should be focused on their wedding, not damage control. When compromising photos of the bride appear, a personal scandal quickly becomes another dangerous case for the sheriff.

Someone is stalking and killing old men in Somerton County in horrifying ways. John Lee Quarrels has to look past gossip and old reputations to uncover what connects the victims.

Sheriff D.W. Swindle is ambushed in his own driveway and left barely alive. John Lee Quarrels joins a desperate hunt for the shooter while every old grievance in the county starts looking dangerous.

An elderly woman seems to have died quietly in her recliner, but the autopsy says otherwise. Jim Weber's investigation turns a routine death into a murder case buried under clutter, secrets, and long-hidden family trouble.

Big Lake's new medical marijuana dispensary has already stirred protests and bad blood before the violence begins. Jim Weber has to sort through zealotry, greed, and old grudges when the conflict turns deadly.

When Big Lake High's star quarterback vanishes just before homecoming, some people assume he simply ran off. Sheriff Jim Weber is not so sure, and the search exposes pressure, ambition, and danger behind the town's football pride.

The Roaring Twenties promise prosperity and freedom, but not everybody on Tinder Street gets an easy ride. As the decade changes the rules, the family has to figure out what progress really costs.

Beautiful, ambitious lovers Audrey Rittenhouse and Lonnie McBride seem to die in a terrible train crossing accident. John Lee Quarrels soon learns someone may have pushed their car straight into disaster.

Lucas Wirtz flees an abusive farm life after meeting Rachel McNally and follows her toward a very different future. The story opens into a working-class family saga shaped by World War I, hardship, and hope.

Three teenagers stumble onto the body of a murdered forest ranger during Big Lake's quiet fall season. Jim Weber and the FBI dig into a case that turns from respected victim to tangled secrets fast.

A blistering summer brings wildfire fears and frayed nerves to Big Lake. When violence erupts, Sheriff Jim Weber has to cut through panic, rumor, and deadly motives before the town goes up in a different kind of flame.

The late 1920s look bright on the surface, but the people of Tinder Street can feel trouble building. As fortunes rise and wobble, the family's hard-won stability starts to look fragile.

A battered woman dies of an overdose, and John Lee Quarrels sees just how deep hard drugs have reached into his community. The investigation becomes a grim chase through rural Florida's ugliest corners.

Hated game warden Raymond McConnell is found murdered with his own knife. John Lee Quarrels and his fellow deputies face a victim with so many enemies that almost anyone could have wanted him dead.

Levi Bischoff seems to have done the impossible by getting sober, leaving town, and starting over. But in a Nick Russell mystery, the past never stays quiet for long, and Jim Weber gets pulled into the fallout.

John Lee Quarrels survives an attempted assassination on a lonely road only because his attackers botch the job. Wounded and on foot, he has to stay alive long enough to find out who wants him dead.

The Great Depression hits the people of Tinder Street hard as jobs vanish and desperation spreads. Families fight to survive while strikes, poverty, and plain bad luck test what they can endure.

In the late 1930s, the people of Tinder Street are still fighting to get through hard times with dignity intact. The McNally family keeps pushing forward as the world shifts around them.

When Chet Wingate is brutally attacked on Main Street in front of plenty of witnesses, the case looks simple at first. Jim Weber soon learns there is much more behind the violence than a burst of road rage.

When loudmouth Curtis Darling and his wife Mary Lou are found butchered in their home, the county is not short on suspects. John Lee Quarrels digs into debts, greed, racism, and a rumored lottery windfall.

A miserable rainy fishing trip with Willie Chandler's crude brother-in-law turns deadly. Jim Weber has to decide whether he is looking at terrible luck, a cover story, or something far more deliberate.

A skeleton in an unmarked grave looks old until a bullet hole in the skull says murder. Jim Weber follows the clues into buried history, uneasy faith, and sins someone thought would stay forgotten.

As depression-era America changes, war in Europe and the attack on Pearl Harbor reach deep into the lives of the Tinder Street families. Home front worries and wartime duty reshape everything they thought was settled.

Winter makes Big Lake look almost gentle, but the peace does not last. An unsettling outsider and a fresh crime push Jim Weber back into the town's usual mix of suspicion, secrets, and danger.

A parolee's arrival has Big Lake braced for trouble, and fear spreads faster than facts. Jim Weber soon finds that old grudges and local suspicion can be every bit as dangerous as a new crime.

John Lee Quarrels's estranged mother wants to turn his life into a country song, and her flashy music producer boyfriend pushes him too far. When the producer ends up dead, John Lee becomes the obvious suspect.

John Lee Quarrels returns for another dangerous case in rural Florida, where money trouble, grudges, and pressure collide. It promises the same mix of tense investigation and messy personal fallout that drives the series.