Peter Colt Books in Order

In 1982 Boston, Vietnam veteran and private investigator Andy Roark accepts a wealthy woman's search for her missing father. The trail leads to Nantucket, where an apparently peaceful island conceals dangers that threaten his fragile sense of stability.

A Vietnamese woman hires Boston investigator Andy Roark to solve her uncle's murder. The case exposes extortion by anti-communist refugees and connects with a friend's escape from Saigon, drawing Roark into loyalties and betrayals rooted in the war.

An old army friend asks Boston investigator Andy Roark to find his endangered teenage daughter. Following her into the city's Combat Zone, Roark encounters a drug-dealing boyfriend and dangers that revive obligations forged during their service in Vietnam.

Andy Roark reluctantly investigates threats against a retired ambassador he blames for wartime deaths. Learning that an old Green Beret comrade may be responsible, he accepts the assignment to prevent another tragedy, only to become a target himself.

A Boston judge hires Andy Roark after blackmailers exploit his affair to influence rulings in pollution lawsuits. Roark investigates the connections between corporate waste disposal, organized crime, and the courts while trying to free his client from the scheme.

Construction on Nantucket exposes a boy's remains, buried for thirty-five years despite no corresponding missing-child report. State detective Tommy Kelly and local investigator Jo Harris confront a community's silence and possible connections to an old serial-killer case.

Exiled to Nantucket after professional misconduct, homicide detective Tommy Kelly spends his days handling traffic violations as the island's lone state trooper. The discovery of a young woman's body in Pocomo harbor interrupts his bitter isolation with a murder investigation.