Pete Hautman Books in Order

Ex-cop Joe Crow agrees to track a broker's wife's lover after a poker debt forces his hand. The assignment draws him into a Minneapolis scheme involving con artists, cocaine and a rare-comic investment scam, with dangerous players pursuing their money.

Short of money and dependent on prescription drugs, ex-cop Joe Crow becomes bodyguard to debt-ridden surgeon Nelson Bellwether. What begins as security work draws him into kidnappings, trouble surrounding a trophy elk and encounters with a dangerous tiger.

Jack Lund escapes his parents' violent relationship through a hidden door in the house his grandfather left them. Transported to a time before his parents were born, he hopes to change his family's future but must confront his own past.

Retired poker player Axel Speeter runs a taco concession and keeps his savings in coffee cans at his motel. When his lover's daughter Carmen and her ex-convict boyfriend plan to steal the money, Axel faces a challenge to his retirement.

Axel Speeter asks Joe Crow to investigate Carmen's prospective husband, Hyatt Hilton, whose apparent business in counterfeit bottled water conceals deeper trouble. Crow discovers connections to a murderous cult promising immortality and must disentangle Carmen from the dangerous engagement.

Fifteen-year-old Denn Doyle has a successful landscaping business, a girlfriend and plans for a car when friends introduce him to poker. Early winnings become an obsession, drawing him toward higher stakes as cards begin to displace his relationships.

After surviving a collision with a bus, Denn feels fortunate and carries that confidence into gambling. His attraction to cards becomes increasingly consuming, testing friendships and revealing how the pursuit of winnings can reshape the life he once enjoyed.

Lottery winner Barbaraannette offers a million dollars to anyone who brings her runaway husband home. Bobby decides to collect the reward himself, but bounty hunters and other interested pursuers turn his attempted return into a dangerous contest for the money.

In a world devastated by flu, Ceej Kane searches for his missing uncle and sister with his friend Tim. Pursued by survivors deliberately spreading infection, they descend into the Grand Canyon and encounter a Hopi girl seeking another world's entrance.

After his business partner disappears with their clothing company's assets, Mack MacWray finds him in Mexico. Their encounter changes Mack's moral boundaries, and his renewed pursuit of success places his marriage and former principles under increasingly troubling pressure.

Nick Fashon's clothing shop burns down as his grandfather dies mysteriously, leaving him homeless and under suspicion. An inheritance offers a new business and a promising kitchen gadget, but rivals and threats complicate his attempt to rebuild his life.

Diabetic teenager Lucy Szabo develops a theory linking historical vampires to untreated diabetes and joins an online vampire community. As her health, grades and family relationships deteriorate, an encounter with a man claiming to be a vampire forces difficult choices.

Jason Bock jokingly proposes worshipping his town's water tower, then forms a religion with his friends. As some followers take it more seriously than he intended, dangerous rituals force Jason to reconsider belief, responsibility and his influence over others.

Bullied teenager Doug Hanson finds refuge in his model railroad and friendship with popular football player Andy Morrow. As he withdraws into his private reality, memories of an unspoken incident threaten the fragile world he has built around that friendship.

In a future America obsessed with safety, teenager Bo Marsten is sentenced to manual labor after losing his temper. Sent to a factory in the Canadian tundra, he encounters a reckless warden whose prison contradicts the society's promises of protection.

Professional poker player Peeky Kane works at an Arizona tribal casino until a rigged game and deadly robbery expose hidden corruption. With her daughter caught in drug-related trouble, Peeky must use her gambling instincts to protect family and casino.

Seventeen-year-old poker player Denn Doyle has made his fortune in Las Vegas, attracting the hostility of Artie Kingston. A losing streak leaves him unable to enter Kingston's winner-takes-all tournament, making a crucial poker game his chance to recover.

Fifteen-year-old Kelleigh Monahan steals a car with a friend and discovers she enjoys it. As disappointments with friends and family accumulate, repeated thefts become a way of testing her identity, bringing consequences she cannot keep separate from ordinary life.

Newcomer Shayne Blank unsettles his classmates with his fearlessness, intelligence and inconsistent background. When he enters a police station and confesses to murder, the account he gives raises further questions about his identity, motives and what actually happened.

Wes and a new girl gradually develop feelings without expecting an ideal romance. Their uncertain attraction becomes entangled with friendship, other dates and regretted decisions, tracing how an ordinary teenage relationship grows through misunderstandings rather than instant recognition.

Raised to be sacrificed through a mysterious disk above the Cydonian Pyramid, Lah Lia escapes when Tucker Feye unexpectedly appears. Their journeys through time become intertwined, with alternating perspectives revealing the moments that connect their dangerous paths.

Thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's father disappears briefly and returns changed, accompanied by a strange girl. When both parents later vanish, Tucker enters a shimmering disk that carries him through different eras, seeking answers that might restore his fractured family.

Writer Lita and entrepreneur Adam are close friends with conflicting ideas about romance. His planned self-help book, her anonymous blog and their interference in each other's relationships create disputes over borrowed words, jealousy and what boys and girls want.

Tucker, Lia and Kosh move through different eras while searching for one another and the origins of the diskos. Pursued by Timesweeps and confronted by a dangerous cult, they must navigate connections between present violence and the distant future.

Seventeen-year-old Jacob has grown up inside a fenced religious compound awaiting the apocalypse. A skeptical newcomer and his attraction to Lynna, a girl from the neighboring ranch, challenge his faith and expose tensions within the community he considers paradise.

When computers in Flinkwater leave residents mentally incapacitated, Ginger Crump's father becomes a victim. She recruits fellow prodigy Billy to investigate, encountering unusual creatures and a Homeland Security intervention as she seeks the source of the town's technological crisis.

Flinkwater's residents are becoming increasingly forgetful, but Ginger Crump is preoccupied with schoolwork, censored digital books and a peculiar cat. When Billy completely forgets her, she begins investigating the spreading memory loss and the forces disrupting her town.

After accidentally charging two thousand dollars to his mother's credit card, David enters a pizza-eating competition to repay it. Training to win the prize collides with his responsibility for his younger brother Mal, complicating his plans for competitive success.

An extraordinary incident in the woods splits the realities of friends Stuey and Elly Rose. As they struggle to understand their altered lives, family secrets and Stuey's grandfather's warnings about hatred, lies and ghosts gain a new and disturbing significance.

After his father's suicide and his girlfriend's disappearance, Stiggy leaves Minnesota in his father's car with his mother's credit card. Traveling the Great River Road, he confronts grief and loneliness while deciding whether distance can resolve what he left behind.

Ten-year-old Annie belongs to a family that secretly feeds written accounts of wrongdoing into a bottomless pit. When guilt seems to vanish and rats plague their town, she begins questioning the tradition and what happens to the sins it consumes.

Withdrawn schoolboy Evan forms an unexpected bond with a border collie whose own life is troubled. Their friendship develops amid bullying and an abusive dog breeder, giving both boy and dog reasons to resist the people hurting them.