Scott William Carter Books in Order

A compact fantasy story from Carter’s early short fiction. It blends emotional stakes with the uncanny, using a seemingly simple title to explore the complicated things people carry inside.

In this science fiction short story, a soldier fights in a nighttime war on an alien world. As the mission unfolds, he begins to question what liberation means and whether the official story can be trusted.

A short Garrison Gage prequel that offers an earlier visit to the Oregon Coast mystery world. It introduces the sort of trouble that finds Gage even when he would rather be left alone.

A descendant of a Confederate general tries to assassinate Abraham Lincoln through time travel, but strands him in a fantasy world instead. Lincoln must choose between fighting a dragon for a princess and returning to a nation that needs him.

An ambitious, awkward student and a popular athlete make an unlikely ticket in their high school election. Told through both perspectives, the story follows what happens when a plan for college applications turns into real friendship and change.

A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories that travels through time, strange worlds, and unusual lives. The pieces range from dinosaurs and future technology to intimate questions about memory, loss, and human connection.

After his wife’s murder, injured private investigator Garrison Gage retreats to Barnacle Bluffs, Oregon, determined to disappear. Finding a young woman’s body on the beach changes that, forcing him to confront both a murder and his own guilt.

When bullied straight-A student Charlie jumps into a stolen Mustang with his former best friend Jake, the two teens race into an unexpected road trip. Their journey forces Charlie to face friendship, family, and the consequences of taking a chance.

A short work from Carter’s early fiction, originally written for younger readers. It is a compact, atmospheric story that uses a small, vivid object to open onto a larger emotional mystery.

Twenty years after his baby daughter is abducted, lonely Kevin meets Tommy, a mysterious street performer who never eats or sleeps. Tommy’s strange gift offers happiness and escape, but it may also give Kevin a chance to confront his past.

A collection of stories about love, loss, and the strange turns life can take. Carter moves through science fiction, fantasy, and darker speculative territory, linking intimate human problems with unsettling ideas.

A fantasy adventure for younger readers set in the Lost Lands of Rymadoon. Giants, dangerous landscapes, and a world full of old stories push its young characters into a journey much larger than they expected.

A young-reader fantasy set in the Lost Lands of Rymadoon, where the world is full of dangerous places and old secrets. In the land of Nogero, a difficult journey demands courage, cleverness, and trust.

Set outside Houston in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, this historical crime story follows an old man confronting the consequences of what he has done. It is a tense, chilling reckoning with the past.

A collection of ghost stories that looks beyond simple scares. Carter’s spirits carry memories, grudges, regrets, and unfinished business, giving the supernatural encounters an emotional as well as unsettling edge.

A collection of speculative stories that plays with time, alternate possibilities, and the odd consequences of one changed decision. These tales favor sharp ideas, surprising turns, and characters caught in unusual circumstances.

Galaxy-spanning private investigator Dexter Duff is hired by an old flame to find her missing husband. The case gets stranger when he learns the man became human for love, became an android again, and then vanished.

A short fantasy story that brings a dragon into the dramatic mountain landscape of the Dolomites. Carter pairs a real-world setting with mythic danger and a sense that old legends may still be alive.

A science fiction collection centered on conflict across the Unity Worlds. Its stories explore war, alien worlds, difficult loyalties, and the human cost hidden beneath big military and political struggles.

Garrison Gage’s quiet coastal routine shatters when the man tied to his wife’s murder appears in town. An old flame’s plea then pulls him into a dangerous case involving a public lecturer, a violent cult, and a personal loss.

A collection of unusual love stories with speculative twists. The stories explore attraction, loneliness, devotion, and the strange complications that arise when romance meets fantasy, science fiction, or the uncanny.

A teenage novel with an offbeat title and a messy coming-of-age spirit. Carter follows young people dealing with friendship, family, embarrassment, and the kind of choices that feel funny until they suddenly become serious.

A man with a remarkable ability connected to time travel faces an impossible moral decision. This science fiction story confronts race, murder, guilt, and the difficult difference between making a mistake and committing a sin.

After becoming a real boy, Pino discovers he can bring wooden puppets to life. When his new gift terrifies the villagers, he and Geppetto must flee into a darker version of the familiar Pinocchio world.

After surviving a shooting, Portland detective Myron Vale can see ghosts but cannot tell them from living people. When a murdered woman hires him to find her husband, the case leads back to the man who changed Myron’s life.

A short paranormal mystery set in Myron Vale’s world, where the former detective sees ghosts wherever he goes. A seemingly ordinary breadbox becomes the doorway to a problem that is anything but ordinary.

Garrison Gage tries to help a troubled young man found firing bullets into the sand. When a college student is murdered, Gage is drawn into a case of secrets, fear, and manipulation that reaches far beyond the Oregon rain.

A beached sailboat, a missing man, and a distraught woman with no memory bring Garrison Gage into a coastal mystery. When a body washes ashore, he must decide whether the woman is a victim, a liar, or both.

A new victim suggests that Portland’s long-vanished Goodbye Killer has returned. For Myron Vale, the case also reopens wounds from his father’s past and reveals that even the dead may have something to fear.

Ghost detective Myron Vale is hired to find a missing girl whose unusual abilities make her a target. His search leads toward a dangerous figure and a case where helping one child could put both the living and dead at risk.

A musician hires Garrison Gage after a dead man’s letter claims he was her biological father. What looks like a sad question of family history soon leads Gage toward a dangerous truth surrounding a lighthouse death.

A beloved teacher fails to appear for her appointment with Garrison Gage, then turns up dead beneath driftwood on the beach. Though she never officially hired him, Gage cannot let the murder go, even as his questions put others in danger.

Sam prefers escaping into the forest at the end of her street, until a strange new neighbor claims his parents are trapped in a castle in another world. Their search blurs the line between imagination, grief, hope, and real danger.

Ghost ships, sunken treasure, and betrayal pull Garrison Gage into one of his most consequential Oregon Coast cases. As old hopes and dangerous secrets surface, the stubborn investigator finds both his future and his relationships under pressure.

A themed mystery-fiction issue built around private investigators. These stories revisit the classic PI from different angles, settings, and eras, with cases that range from familiar city streets to far less expected territory.

A mystery anthology about family baggage, inherited trouble, and crimes that do not end with one generation. Each story approaches the theme from a different angle, where the past is never as settled as it looks.

A themed collection of crime stories built around pursuit. Characters run toward danger, flee bad choices, chase suspects, and race to understand what is really happening before time runs out.

A mystery and crime anthology focused on theft, heists, and the people who chase or commit them. The stories explore greed, revenge, clever plans, and the bad luck that turns a simple score into mayhem.

Former FBI agent Karen Pantelli tries not to care about anyone until a terrified girl escapes from a speeding van. On the run across the country, Karen uncovers secrets that could save them both or destroy them.

A collection of mystery stories that takes crime away from the city and into rural roads, small towns, farms, and isolated homes. Quiet country settings prove to have their own secrets and dangerous grudges.

Karen Pantelli is working a dead-end job in Montana when three armed men walk into the pizza restaurant. The aftermath sends her searching for a manipulative former classmate caught near a powerful man with dangerous ambitions.

A mystery anthology that looks back at crimes across earlier eras. These stories explore old secrets, historical settings, and the enduring need to bring order to the chaos left behind by wrongdoing.

A themed crime-fiction anthology about desire, jealousy, obsession, and the trouble people cause in the name of love. The stories range from sly to dark, but all put strong emotions close to danger.

A crime-story collection centered on agreements, bargains, promises, and the consequences of breaking them. Every deal has fine print, especially when money, trust, and criminal intent are involved.

When a strange account of something seen on the beach unsettles Barnacle Bluffs, private investigator Garrison Gage is pulled into a baffling new case. The Oregon Coast mystery tests his skepticism, his patience, and his ability to tell what is real.

A themed mystery anthology about the people and memories that never fully leave us. Its crime stories find danger in grief, loyalty, old relationships, and the persistent pull of unfinished business.

A collection of mystery and crime tales inspired by black widows, dangerous entanglements, and carefully spun traps. The stories bring together deception, vengeance, and characters who learn too late what they are caught in.

A themed collection of mystery stories about cases that have gone quiet but refuse to disappear. Old evidence, long memories, and new discoveries give investigators another chance to uncover the truth.

A lighter mystery anthology celebrating the helpers who stand beside amateur sleuths and detectives. Animal companions, friends, and unlikely partners all get their chance to help solve crimes and stir up trouble.

A short, modern fairy-tale mystery that takes the familiar image of Little Red in an unexpected direction. Carter mixes suspense, dark humor, and the sense that old stories can still hide sharp teeth.

A mystery anthology that puts crime near rail lines, stations, journeys, and the places people pass through. Its stories use travel and motion to build suspense, with danger never far from the tracks.

Former FBI agent Karen Pantelli keeps moving, trying to stay detached from every place and person she encounters. But danger has a way of finding her, and another drifter’s path forces Karen to choose whether she can walk away.

A themed mystery collection set around libraries, books, readers, and the secrets tucked between the shelves. These stories show that even quiet places of learning can become scenes of theft, deception, and murder.

A crime-fiction anthology where someone is searching, someone is hiding, and the stakes keep rising. The stories explore pursuit in many forms, from investigations and manhunts to private quests for answers.

A collection of crime stories set against winter weather, long nights, and isolated places. Snow, ice, holiday gatherings, and cold streets raise the pressure on detectives and suspects alike.

During a punishing Oregon heatwave, Garrison Gage is asked to find a missing husband before tragedy strikes. The case becomes even more dangerous when the police chief’s secrets bring Gage face-to-face with a brutal enemy.

A mystery anthology focused on broken trust. Friends, partners, relatives, and allies discover that the person closest to them may be hiding the key to a crime, or the reason it happened.

A themed mystery anthology that brings crime into kitchens, restaurants, recipes, and food-centered gatherings. Beneath the comfort of a good meal, the stories find jealousy, secrets, and motives worth investigating.

A collection of mystery and crime stories shaped by storms, heat, floods, and other severe conditions. Extreme weather raises the stakes, cuts off escape, and forces characters to make difficult choices.

A collection of crime stories where stolen vehicles set larger mysteries in motion. Cars become escape routes, evidence, prizes, and traps as characters chase answers through increasingly risky situations.

A collection of cozy-leaning mystery stories set around coffee shops and the people who gather there. Friendly corners, regular customers, and caffeinated routines become the backdrop for suspicious behavior and crime.

A themed crime-fiction collection about ordinary people caught too close to wrongdoing. Witnesses, neighbors, and passersby discover that seeing one small thing can place them at the center of a dangerous mystery.

A themed anthology of mystery and espionage stories involving secrets, surveillance, double lives, and dangerous assignments. The characters must decide who to trust when every answer may be part of a larger game.

A mystery anthology about fraud, corruption, scams, and crimes hidden behind respectable appearances. Its stories explore the damage done when power, money, and trust become tools for deception.

A mystery and crime collection set against the many faces of Los Angeles. In a city of dreams, image, and ambition, the stories uncover the darker deals and hidden motives beneath the bright surface.

After leaving Los Angeles for his Oregon hometown, financial adviser Ashton Byrd finds his father’s former partner murdered and a dangerous secret missing. With tough Uber driver Stephanie Hart beside him, Ash must outrun bullets, grief, and powerful enemies.