Sheriff Dan Rhodes Books in Order

The murder of talkative Jeanne Clinton exposes affairs, politics, and election-year pressure in Blacklin County. Dan Rhodes's first case shows how dangerous small-town secrets can be.

A murdered man with gang tattoos brings Los Muertos, a violent motorcycle gang, into Blacklin County. Dan Rhodes has to untangle city trouble that has rolled straight into his quiet patch of Texas.

A dentist's complaint about witchcraft sounds ridiculous until he disappears and his wife is found bludgeoned. Dan Rhodes has to investigate murder under a cloud of hexes and feuds.

Missing valuables at a funeral home are bad enough, then another corpse appears stuffed in a closet. Dan Rhodes has to decide whether the two ugly problems are connected.

What starts with a complaint about stolen dentures at a nursing home turns grim when their owner is found murdered. Dan Rhodes has to sort out old grudges, a missing suspect, and chaos at the local jail.

A search for a stolen rare Poe book opens into murder in Blacklin County. Dan Rhodes follows the case through booksellers, gossip, and the usual small-town complications.

Dan Rhodes has emu thefts, cockfights, anti-big-box protests, and then a dead man floating in a portable toilet. Crider turns rural absurdity into a genuinely satisfying mystery.

Blacklin County is celebrating a rare winning football season when the team's offensive coach is murdered. Dan Rhodes has to solve it fast before the town's big dream turns sour.

A man walking with a gas can is hit, explodes, and starts a run of deaths Dan Rhodes cannot dismiss as bad luck. The sheriff has to find the link before more people die.

Rumors of a haunted jail are funny until Dan Rhodes runs into a corpse in an open grave. This case blends ghost talk, small-town comedy, and solid police work.

A romance writers' conference comes to Clearview, bringing cover models, aspiring novelists, and more ego than Sheriff Dan Rhodes wants to handle. Then one attendee turns up dead.

A heat wave, corruption charges from a reporter, and a dead county commissioner make for a rough stretch in Blacklin County. Dan Rhodes has to keep his cool while local politics flare up.

One of Dan Rhodes's strangest cases starts with an odd discovery and grows into murder. Crider mixes rural Texas humor with a puzzle rooted in local greed and curiosity.

When a neighbor's cat leads Dan Rhodes to a dead woman, a supposed household accident starts looking like murder. Clubs, old romances, and small-town gossip widen the suspect list.

Newcomers bring trouble to Blacklin County, and Dan Rhodes soon finds that fresh faces can carry old secrets. The case stays low-key on the surface and thorny underneath.

A local barbershop quartet and a community music event turn deadly in this Dan Rhodes case. Small-town performance and backstage resentments make a neat harmony for murder.

The owner of a foul-smelling chicken farm turns up murdered, and nobody in Blacklin County is exactly grieving. Dan Rhodes has to sort through protests, grudges, and a mysterious arrow-shooting troublemaker.

Feral hogs are already making life miserable in Blacklin County when Dan Rhodes has to track a human killer too. The mix of rural nuisance and real danger is classic Rhodes territory.

Sheriff Dan Rhodes steps into a small-town case full of gossip, vanity, and hurt feelings when a beauty shop queen is murdered. Everyone seems to know something, and nobody tells the whole truth.

When an English instructor is found dead outside the community college, Dan Rhodes arrests a fleeing student, then realizes the case is far from simple. Campus grudges and a survivalist father complicate everything.

A visiting artists' workshop brings tension to town, then a loud local critic winds up dead. Dan Rhodes has vandalism, runaway donkeys, meth cooks, and murder on his hands.

Gunshots at a haunted house leave a meth dealer dead and Sheriff Dan Rhodes juggling suspects, ghost hunters, and a second body. The paranormal talk is funny until the violence turns very real.

A dead man in Billy Bacon's barn points Sheriff Dan Rhodes toward thefts, trespassing, and a sign that may be more truth than joke. An alligator on the loose makes the case even messier.

In Clearview, a wealthy man dies inside the old opera house he is restoring, and Sheriff Dan Rhodes has to decide whether it was accident or murder. Small-town distractions keep piling up while he works the case.

A roadside attack puts Dan Rhodes in the path of a thug with a snake tattoo and a much bigger case. What begins with a good deed turns into the sheriff's final investigation.