Silas Seaweed Mystery Books in Order

Stanley Evans's Silas Seaweed Mystery series follows a Coast Salish detective working in Victoria, British Columbia. Silas Seaweed is a police investigator with a street-level view of the city, which means he encounters wealthy clients, vulnerable witnesses, career criminals, fellow officers, and people who have learned to survive outside the usual systems. He knows the official route through a case, but he is willing to follow less comfortable leads when the facts demand it.

Seaweed on the Street is the natural starting point. A missing-woman case introduces Silas and the series' mix of personal danger, family secrets, and local crime. In Seaweed on Ice, an elderly immigrant's disappearance, a murder, stolen wartime art, and a threatened archaeological site become connected. The early books establish the pattern well: one investigation can open onto several older wounds.

The mysteries are rooted in Victoria and the wider coastal landscape. Evans uses the contrast between scenic public spaces and the city's underbelly, then sends Silas beyond town when a case calls for it. Waterfronts, nightclubs, isolated houses, reserves, parks, and remote islands all become useful places for secrets to surface.

The past keeps turning up in the present.

Silas's connection to Coast Salish culture gives the series another layer. The books include a fictional Indigenous community and use mythology, ritual, spiritual encounters, and visions as parts of Silas's world. These threads do not replace the detective work. Instead, they run alongside interviews, evidence, motives, threats, and the practical need to identify who benefits from a crime.

Later entries widen the scope. Seaweed Under Water sends Silas after the killer of a drowned woman, while Seaweed on the Rocks combines a woman's overdose with blackmail and murder. In Seaweed in the Soup, Silas has to clear his own name while following killings from Victoria toward Desolation Sound. Seaweed in the Mythworld brings a dead man, threatening Thunderbirds, and dangerous adversaries into the investigation. Seaweed Under Fire puts Silas on the trail of what appears to be hired murder.

These are hard-boiled mysteries with a strong sense of place, but Silas is not only a wisecracking loner. He notices who is being exploited, and he takes cases personally when someone has been left in danger. Start at the beginning for the fullest introduction, then continue in order to see the setting, recurring concerns, and stranger edges of the series develop.