Phillip DePoy Books in Order

One of DePoy's early published plays, Angels comes out of his long life in the theater. It blends music, ensemble drama, and the sharp ear for performance that runs through so much of his later work.

DePoy and William Fred Scott rework John Gay's classic into a lively performing version full of highwaymen, prison escapes, crooked dealmaking, and sharp social satire. Romance and betrayal keep the whole crooked machine moving.

In Flap Tucker's first outing, a missing woman and a killer on the loose pull the Atlanta investigator into a dangerous search. Flap solves problems by patience, intuition, and seeing patterns other people miss.

A murdered banker on the Georgia coast sends Flap Tucker after a mysterious woman and a pair of missing twin brothers. The deeper he goes, the more the case turns into a story about money, legend, and his own past.

A murdered young woman hanging from a lamppost draws Flap Tucker into a bizarre Atlanta case. As more deaths follow, he finds links to a friend's murder, stolen disease samples, and a killer with a taste for spectacle.

Flap Tucker heads into the Georgia mountains to search for a missing little girl in a town haunted by an older disappearance. Ghost stories, snake handlers, and long-buried secrets make the case darker by the mile.

Threatening notes and grisly warnings tell Flap Tucker that someone is stalking Dalliance Oglethorpe. As bodies fall and old secrets rise, Flap has to uncover the truth about Dally before the past kills them both.

When Fever Devilin returns to his family cabin in the Georgia mountains, he finds a corpse on the porch that looks disturbingly like him. The homecoming quickly turns into murder, gunfire, and buried family history.

A missing woman rumored to be a witch, a dead mortician, and an angry fiancé on the run pull Fever Devilin into a tangled mountain mystery. The answer lies somewhere between local legend and very human violence.

After seeing an apparition at a railroad crossing, Fever Devilin learns that two young women have died in a suspicious accident. His search for the truth leads through drifters, ghost stories, and mountain grief.

What starts as a question about a mysterious medallion becomes far messier when its owner turns up dead in Fever Devilin's house. To clear himself, Fever has to dig into family history he would rather leave buried.

A nervous stranger arrives at Fever Devilin's door claiming to be more than a hundred years old, then vanishes into a baffling murder case. Fever follows the clues into shifting identities, old stories, and fresh danger.

In 1605 Cambridge, scholars working on a new English Bible are being murdered one by one. Brother Timon is sent to investigate, but he arrives with secrets of his own and loyalties that may doom the work.

Back from a long coma after being shot, Fever Devilin wants one thing: to learn who tried to kill him. His recovery is shaky, his mind is not fully reliable, and Blue Mountain is keeping its usual dangerous secrets.

Still recovering from a near-fatal shooting, Fever Devilin is stunned when a woman appears claiming to be his wife and telling him he has a son. Then someone starts firing very real bullets in his direction.

In this nonfiction work, DePoy places Shakespeare beside the Tao Te Ching and lets the two traditions speak to each other. It is part literary experiment, part meditation on language, wisdom, and meaning.

In 1583, a young Christopher Marlowe is recruited by Queen Elizabeth's spymaster for a perilous mission tied to a secret prisoner in Malta. The job quickly opens into a wider conspiracy involving religion, power, and invasion.

Former Brooklyn car thief Foggy Moskowitz is now working child protection in 1970s Florida when a missing newborn sends him into Seminole swampland and a dangerous land-grab scheme. It is funny, strange, and sharper than it first looks.

Young Christopher Marlowe is sent into the thick of European intrigue to stop an assassination plot tied to England's future. What begins in Holland soon grows into a wider threat against Queen Elizabeth herself.

A girl shoots a man three times in a bar, and Foggy Moskowitz becomes the one person willing to protect her. Soon he is facing Seminole power brokers, cartel violence, and a case that keeps changing shape.

When a body in the bay seems tied to Foggy's Brooklyn past, he is drawn into a darker case involving missing women and two children searching for their mother. Old criminals and new enemies close in as the trail widens.

Foggy wakes to an escaped convict with a gun and a demand: find his missing daughter, Etta. The search leads through mobsters, federal agents, and a child who remembers more than dangerous people can afford.

A quick trip back to New York pulls Foggy Moskowitz into murder when an old friend begs him to help a woman accused of killing a difficult actress. Old loyalties, mob connections, and buried grudges turn the case personal fast.