Owen Parr Books in Order
Explore Owen Parr books in order, from Alpha Team to Joey Mancuso and Jack Ryder, with quick summaries, series notes, and easy where-to-start help.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
Operation Due Diligence
by Owen Parr
2015
A Miami and Wall Street trail leads former operatives into a plot to launder billions for the Cuban government. What starts as financial intrigue quickly turns into a coup, a chase, and an international survival game.
The Dead Have Secrets
by Owen Parr
2016
When a terrified call from a widow and a child with an impossible memory reopen an old covert killing, John Powers is forced back into a conspiracy he thought was buried. Past-life claims and black-ops secrets collide fast.
A Murder on Long Island
by Owen Parr
2017
With only days left in a high-profile murder trial, Joey Mancuso is asked to save a Long Island developer who looks obviously guilty. The evidence points one way, but the victim's life is crowded with secrets, money, and motives.
A Murder On Wall Street
by Owen Parr
2017
The apparent suicide of a hedge fund executive and the death of his assistant pull Joey Mancuso and Father O'Brian into Wall Street's dirtiest corners. Money laundering, fraud, and power games make this first case anything but simple.
The Manhattan Red Ribbon Killer
by Owen Parr
2017
A string of brutal killings targeting young professional women has Manhattan on edge. Joey Mancuso and Father O'Brian are pulled into a serial case where the symbolism is disturbing and the truth sits dangerously close to home.
Murder Aboard the Cruise to Nowhere
by Owen Parr
2018
A billionaire is stabbed aboard a private family yacht cruise, and Jack Ryder is trapped on board with the suspects. With a hurricane and Cuban authorities looming, he and Logan have little room to get it wrong.
The Case of the Antiquities Collector
by Owen Parr
2018
When a prominent accountant's daughter vanishes from her Miami university, Joey Mancuso and his team go looking for her. Their search leads toward international antiquities trafficking and enemies willing to kill to stay hidden.
The Case of the Dead Russian Spy
by Owen Parr
2018
A tortured man with suspected Russian ties turns up dead in South Beach, and crime writer Jack Ryder becomes part of the investigation. To clear himself and help Detective Logan Robert, he has to work the case from his boat.
The Murder of Paolo Mancuso
by Owen Parr
2018
An old mob murder becomes personal when Joey Mancuso gets what looks like a final clue to the man who killed his father. The search reaches back into Little Italy and outward toward a long-buried reckoning.
Operation Black Swan
by Owen Parr
2019
John Powers and the Alpha Team face a linked threat involving jihadists, Cuban militants, and a Chinese cyber operator. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that the real target is the American economy.
Murder at the Beach Cove Hotel
by Owen Parr
2020
A virus quarantine and an approaching hurricane turn a Miami Beach hotel into a locked-room trap. When guests start turning up dead, Jack Ryder and Detective Logan must find the killer before the storm closes in.
Operation Raven
by Owen Parr
2020
A strange lead tied to past-life regression pulls a hardened operative toward an old conspiracy that was supposed to stay buried. Parr mixes spy fiction with murder, secrets, and a mystery that refuses to behave.
The Abduction of Patient Zero
by Owen Parr
2020
What looks like another knotty murder pulls Joey Mancuso into a case tangled with military secrets and international espionage. At the center is the woman he loves, which makes every wrong move hit harder.
The Unsub
by Owen Parr
2020
Back in Wall Street territory, Joey Mancuso faces a case where suspects keep turning into victims. An international crime syndicate lurks behind the scenes, and the evidence never stays simple for long.
The Labyrinth
by Owen Parr
2021
A baffling case pushes Joey Mancuso toward the FBI, even as he keeps chasing his own off-the-books leads. The more pieces he fits together, the more he realizes the whole picture is larger and stranger than it first looked.
A Deadly Scam
by Owen Parr
2022
A killer starts texting Joey Mancuso after each murder, drawing him into what first looks like random attacks on homeless people. Soon he is sidelined, scrutinized, and more determined than ever to solve the case anyway.
The Islamorada Murders
by Owen Parr
2022
A quiet trip to the Florida Keys collapses when a stranger asks Joey Mancuso to solve his murder, then vanishes. Smuggling, shifting loyalties, and a string of deaths turn a vacation into a dangerous hunt.
A Seed for Murder
by Owen Parr
2023
A suspicious death in the seed industry opens a case tied to intellectual property theft, corporate greed, and genetically modified crops. Joey Mancuso has to sort science, money, and murder before the trail closes.
In the Shadows of the Game
by Owen Parr
2024
A Miami student athlete is accused of murder, and Joey Mancuso's team discovers a darker criminal network hiding behind campus life. The case links sports, exploitation, and a series of killings meant to keep victims silent.
Shredded Veil
by Owen Parr
2024
Joey Mancuso is jolted by a young man who claims to be his son, and the plea for help quickly becomes a murder case. As family secrets surface, Joey also stumbles onto a looming terrorist threat to New York City.
Beneath the White Coats
by Owen Parr
2025
A star surgeon is accused of murdering a colleague during a routine operation, and Jack Ryder cannot shake the feeling that the obvious answer is wrong. Hospital politics, buried grudges, and courtroom pressure turn the case into a maze.
The Shadow Ledger
by Owen Parr
2025
An anonymous tip pulls Jack Ryder back into the money world when a secret ledger points to corporate fraud and political protection. Chasing the code behind it means taking on killers, corrupted systems, and a conspiracy with global reach.
Where should I start?
If you want the core New York mysteries: A Murder on Wall Street → A Murder on Long Island → The Manhattan Red Ribbon Killer
If you want espionage and political intrigue: Operation Due Diligence → Operation Black Swan → Operation Raven
If you prefer Miami-set investigations: The Case of the Dead Russian Spy → Murder Aboard the Cruise to Nowhere → Murder at the Beach Cove Hotel
If you want later, bigger-conspiracy Mancuso cases: The Abduction of Patient Zero → The Unsub → The Labyrinth
Author bio
Owen Parr was born in Havana, Cuba. After his parents left Cuba in 1959, the family settled in Miami Beach, and that is where he grew up, going to St. Joseph's for elementary school and St. Patrick's for high school. The Miami, Cuba, and Catholic-school threads that show up in his fiction are not borrowed scenery. They come from home.
He did not begin as a novelist.
Parr married at nineteen and first followed a path his father understood well. His father was a civil engineer, and Parr started college aiming for electrical engineering. He spent six years in the engineering department at Florida Power and Light, then branched out during South Florida's building boom with a side business selling to developers.
Business pulled him in fast. He left engineering, moved into real estate full time, and eventually built a company with multiple offices and a real estate school. Then the market turned, interest rates soared, and the business that had looked like a sure thing suddenly was not.
In 1986, just before the 1987 stock market crash, he moved into the financial advice world. He stayed there for decades, working with Wall Street firms and learning the habits, pressure points, and blind spots of money culture from the inside. That experience later became one of the things that makes his fiction feel lived in, especially when he writes about fraud, laundering, insider deals, or power hidden behind respectable titles.
He was writing the whole time.
Parr wrote newsletters, ad copy, articles for trade magazines, and, later, screenplays. In the 1990s he studied screenwriting more seriously and even pitched a screenplay called Due Diligence, the idea that later became Operation Due Diligence. By 2015 he had started publishing fiction in earnest, and he did not stay in one lane for long.
His Alpha Team books, including Operation Due Diligence, Operation Black Swan, and Operation Raven, lean into espionage, covert action, and financial conspiracy. The Joey Mancuso and Father O'Brian novels, beginning with A Murder on Wall Street, brought him into crime fiction with a New York setting, a strong family dynamic, and cases that move from Wall Street to serial killers to old mob wounds. The Jack Ryder books, from The Case of the Dead Russian Spy to Beneath the White Coats, shift to Miami and follow a reluctant investigator with a Wall Street past of his own.
Readers tend to come to Parr for twists, but the recurring draw is the mix of worlds. He likes crime stories where money matters, where institutions can be as dangerous as the obvious villain, and where the people doing the investigating already have some bruises on them. New York, Miami, Cuba, and the worlds around finance and law enforcement turn up again and again.
Parr has remained active in the financial advice field while writing novels, which helps explain why his white-collar details feel grounded. Outside of work, he has described himself as a hobby painter in acrylics and a middle-of-the-road golfer. It is an unusual path into crime fiction, and maybe that is part of the appeal.
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