Sharyn Howard Books in Order

With an execution approaching, Sheriff Sharyn Howard reopens the murder of a prom queen killed ten years earlier. Questioning the conviction forces her to examine her late father's investigation and risk his reputation.

A writer investigating a wartime pilot's disappearance goes missing near a lake. When dredging reveals his truck and the long-lost aircraft, Sheriff Sharyn Howard must connect recent violence with a decades-old mystery.

A businessman confesses to an old murder and is subsequently found hanged. Sheriff Sharyn Howard investigates a childhood secret linking prominent townsmen and her own deputy, while someone targets those who remember it.

A woman's apparent death by bear attack becomes suspicious when evidence suggests deliberate poisoning. Sheriff Sharyn Howard investigates a bitter family inheritance dispute as another death complicates the question of who stands to benefit.

Sheriff Sharyn Howard faces an election challenge as violence unsettles Diamond Springs. A senator's shooting during a historical reenactment and a woman's motel death bring troubling questions close to Sharyn's mother and her secrets.

A summer camp's reopening exposes a bloodstained dress hidden in a suitcase. Sheriff Sharyn Howard revisits an unsolved case inherited from her grandfather, discovering that fresh evidence can provoke a killer determined to conceal the past.

A robbery gang and the stabbing of a college student give Sheriff Sharyn Howard competing investigations. When suspicion falls close to her aunt, she must untangle connections between the violence and those accused of it.

A burned car and a man caught in an animal trap appear to be accidents amid local wildfires. With an election approaching, Sheriff Sharyn Howard investigates murders whose convenient explanations may endanger someone she loves.

Sheriff Sharyn Howard reluctantly joins a law enforcement training weekend in an isolated former mining town. Cut off from easy escape, the participants find themselves hunted by someone who has turned their gathering deadly.

A cemetery discovery exposes a killing involving two guns and a victim buried alive. Sheriff Sharyn Howard investigates a man missing for years, navigating his complicated relationships and tensions between competing local law enforcement agencies.

A speedboat crashes into a pier, leaving a missing assistant's bloodied bag but no body. Sheriff Sharyn Howard follows evidence toward the racetrack, where a driver's connections to the woman raise new questions about her disappearance.

Sheriff Sharyn Howard pursues the murders of her father and a deputy, suspecting powerful senator Jack Winter. Her risky plan to get close to him threatens the trust of her colleagues and the people she loves.