Rick Mofina Books in Order

San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed and homicide inspector Walt Sydowski chase a string of child abductions while both men are carrying private damage. It is a tense opener that blends newsroom urgency with police work.

A ten-year-old girl vanishes during a family camping trip in Glacier National Park, and suspicion quickly falls on the people closest to her. Tom Reed and Walt Sydowski follow a case where the wilderness is only part of the danger.

When a shy San Francisco insurance clerk disappears, Tom Reed and Walt Sydowski end up on separate tracks after a brilliant cyberstalker. The case turns into a chilling look at loneliness, manipulation, and obsession.

On the day Tom Reed plans to quit crime reporting, a jewelry-store heist leaves a cop dead and his wife taken hostage. Tom and Walt Sydowski are suddenly racing a case that is painfully, dangerously personal.

A gruesome message written in blood lands on a reporter's desk, and the murder of a detective turns the case even darker. Tom Reed and Walt Sydowski face a killer who is making everything feel terrifyingly personal.

Rookie Seattle crime reporter Jason Wade is fighting for a permanent job when he gets pulled into the hunt for a missing college student. It is a lean, fast thriller about ambition, luck, and a killer running short on patience.

A baby is snatched in broad daylight, and Jason Wade lands on a case that refuses to make sense. The missing child, the seemingly decent parents, and an old murder pull him into one of his most unnerving stories.

Jason Wade investigates the murder of a Seattle nun and finds himself drawn toward a hermit nun, a mysterious religious order, and a secret tied to his ex-cop father. The case mixes faith, guilt, and old wounds.

A California mother searches for her abducted son while a detective investigates a reporter's death in the Canadian Rockies. Their stories collide in a high-stakes plot to assassinate a world leader.

Buffalo reporter Jack Gannon, just fired from a failing paper, becomes obsessed with the murder of a broken-hearted woman and the disappearance of her friend. The deeper he digs, the uglier the connections get.

A deadly crash, a bombing in Rio, and a nightmare at sea all point Jack Gannon toward a killer with a larger plan. The case widens fast, and the sense of looming catastrophe gives this one real momentum.

Liz Dalton's world is falling apart, but she refuses to surrender. Told in the form of a court transcript, this short story turns marital collapse and revenge into something cold and deeply unsettling.

After twenty-four years on the job, Officer Frank Harper sees everything narrow to one defining moment. It is a brief, hard-hitting story about a veteran cop under sudden, brutal pressure.

This short-story collection gathers four crime tales about people pushed to the edge. Debts, fear, bad choices, and revenge drive each story, with characters who are more trapped than they first appear.

Jack Gannon's estranged sister reappears when her daughter is kidnapped and a ransom demand sets a brutal deadline. As Jack digs into her past, he learns that the truth may be the only thing keeping the girl alive.

Twenty-six-year-old Jessie Scout comes to Las Vegas not to gamble, but to collect. This award-winning short story is sharp, tense, and built around one dangerous choice in a city that feeds on risk.

Single mother Lisa Palmer witnesses a deadly armored car heist and becomes the key witness the FBI must protect. Jack Gannon follows a thin lead while the killers prepare for whatever comes next.

Loss-recovery agent Ike Decker is desperate to recover $1.2 million in stolen armored-car cash from Paco Sanchez. The result is a tight short story about money, obsession, and the cost of chasing both.

John Devlin is a mild-mannered actuary and lifelong weakling until his family is threatened. This short piece turns a quiet man into the center of a tense question about fear, courage, and what action finally costs.

An eleven-year-old boy finds his father's gun and runs toward a deadly standoff at the mall. It is a gut-punch of a short story about panic, innocence, and split-second consequences.

John Garrett is a cop aching to redeem himself for a mistake that destroyed lives. After a prison-transport plane crashes in the Rockies, he hunts the murderer he was escorting through brutal terrain and worse guilt.

Jeff Griffin takes his family to Manhattan for a dream trip, then loses his wife and son in the crowd near Times Square. Fighting panic and police suspicion, he uncovers something far larger than a simple disappearance.

This collection brings together three short crime stories about people facing enormous odds. A child with a gun, a timid father forced to act, and a cop chasing a killer give the book its hard emotional edge.

Mofina's largest short-story collection gathers eleven crime tales, including four stories collected in one volume for the first time. Greed, guilt, desperation, and survival run through every piece.

Psychologist Claire Bowen helps damaged women rebuild their lives, then one of her patients vanishes as dark secrets about Claire's husband begin to surface. A grieving detective hunts a killer moving through old cases and fresh pain.

Thirteen-year-old Tyler Price is handed a satchel by an old man on a Manhattan bus, then watches him die fleeing police. What follows is a strange, fast-moving mystery tied to gargoyles, stonecutters, and an apocalyptic curse.

A tornado tears through a Dallas flea market, and in the chaos a baby disappears from his mother's arms. Reporter and single mom Kate Page follows the trail of the woman last seen holding him.

Four armed men strap remote-detonation bombs to a bank manager, his wife, and their young son, then force him to rob his own branch. Kate Page digs into the family's past as the clock keeps tightening.

A badly burned woman stumbles from a barn, and her dying words lead police to hidden confinement rooms and a deeply unsettling case. For Kate Page, the investigation becomes personal when evidence may link to her long-lost sister.

RCMP officer Will Fortin lives with crushing guilt after a deadly farm shooting in southern Alberta. Years later, a prison-transport crash in the Rocky Mountains offers him one last chance at redemption.

A commuter plane nearly falls from the sky over the Adirondacks, and a jet crashes in London soon after. Reporter Kate Page starts to suspect sabotage when a taunting message arrives and the next disaster seems to be coming.

Chicago reporter Cal Hudson and his wife, Faith, lose their son in the blur of a local carnival. The frantic search starts exposing the secrets hidden inside their carefully managed suburban life.

Twelve-year-old Maddie Lane vanishes from her bed overnight, and suspicion spreads through the neighborhood and back across her own family. The case stretches over years, with buried secrets making the wound even deeper.

Lisa Taylor gives up her old life for her husband's dream job in Miami, only to face a terrifying home invasion and a marriage that starts to feel unfamiliar. The move that promised a fresh start begins to look like an escape.

A teenage blood pact in a prairie town leads to a horrifying crime that never really stays buried. Years later, school counselor Emma Grant sees the life she built start to crack as the past comes back hunting.

Fourteen-year-old Riley Jarrett disappears from her family's RV at a huge truck stop near Las Vegas. As detectives push deeper, every member of the newly blended family starts looking like they have something to hide.

Greg Griffin wakes to find his wife, Jenn, missing after a suburban book club night that should have ended hours earlier. His thin alibi and their unraveling marriage make him look guilty fast.

Hikers find a traumatized boy wandering in the Adirondacks and trace his path to a horrifying discovery. Veteran reporter Ray Wyatt and FBI agent Jill McDade race to find the missing girl before the truth gets even worse.

After seeing troubling material on a passenger's laptop during a flight from Mexico City, Wanda Stroud vanishes. Ray Wyatt and Jill McDade follow the trail into an international case with very personal stakes for Ray.

College student Samantha Moore disappears from a lonely Vermont motel while driving to Canada with her boyfriend. Ray Wyatt digs into the mystery as it begins to suggest older crimes and a wider, darker pattern.

A teen falls to her death from a cliff after seeing nine-year-old Katie Harmon beside her. Katie's mother, Sara, fears what investigators might uncover about the child and a secret that has shadowed their family for years.

When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is thrown into every parent's nightmare. Detectives soon suspect the case is tied to hate mail and secrets inside the family itself.

Driving alone in a Texas rainstorm, Luke Conway hits something, or someone, then finds no body. His decision not to report it drags him and his wife back toward an old, unsolved attack and murder that never stopped haunting Clear River.

Jessie sends her nine-year-old son Dylan alone on a cross-country flight, only to learn he vanished before reaching family in New York. At the same time, a deadly Toronto subway crash hints that his disappearance may be part of something bigger.