Special X Books in Order

An updated retelling of Slade's first Special X case, this novel follows the Mounties' psycho-hunters as they stalk a Vancouver serial killer who beheads women, taunts police with photographs, and leaves a trail that reaches from Ecuador to New Orleans and the Rocky Mountains.

On Whistler Mountain during a brutal winter storm, Special X faces Mephisto, a sadistic mastermind who targets Olympic hopefuls and anyone who can identify him, turning the isolated ski resort into a deadly arena of siege, puzzles, and revenge.

When a lost World War II bomber is uncovered decades later, New York lawyer and historian Wyatt Rook is hired to find out what really happened, pulling him into centuries of religious secrets and dangerous zealots determined to protect a shattering biblical mystery.

Genjo Tokuda, a former war criminal turned yakuza boss, comes to Vancouver vowing vengeance on a veteran of the Enola Gay by destroying his family, forcing Special X and Corporal Jackie Hett into a fast, personal battle with a disciplined and relentless enemy.

Decades after Hitler's bunker and the V-2 rocket program, Special X investigates swastika-marked murders in Vancouver that point toward surviving Nazis, covert military secrets, and the long shadow of something that crashed in the New Mexico desert.

A Hollywood producer is found hanging upside down in a Vancouver hotel with a crown of nails driven into his head, and Inspector Zinc Chandler soon suspects an old enemy, as tarot symbols, Ripper lore, and Lovecraftian nightmares spiral into a globe-spanning pursuit.

Surgeon-like mutilations across the Gulf and San Juan Islands lead Special X and deputy Jenna Bond to human "monsters," a stolen Egyptian mummy, and a porn-fueled underworld, all tied to Mephisto's plan to shove the world to the edge of catastrophe.

Jurors from a long-ago capital murder trial are being executed one by one, each scene framed by a bloody game of Hangman, and Zinc Chandler with Seattle detective Maddy Thorne must solve the puzzle before the vengeful killer stages a final public reckoning.

As the millennium approaches, Mephisto taunts C/Supt. Robert DeClercq from cyberspace, turning a hunt for the secret of Stonehenge and a legendary Highland hoard into a race against ritual murders, modern Druids, and a scheme to usher in a new dark age.

This volume collects the case where gunfire at a seized lakeside reserve reveals a frozen, headless body and a vengeful archer, drawing DeClercq and Special X into a northern manhunt that exposes old abuses and dredges up echoes of the original Headhunter nightmare.

Across Africa and Canada, a cop-hating killer, a cursed relic from Rorke's Drift, a framed Mountie, and a suicide bomber at the Red Serge Ball converge, forcing Zinc Chandler to untangle a sprawling web of vengeance aimed squarely at the RCMP.

A modern Jack the Ripper seems to be at work when a prominent feminist is mutilated, twin sex workers vanish, and a secluded island party turns lethal, leaving DeClercq and Chandler to navigate booby-trapped rooms and clashing motives in a vicious whodunnit.

An astonishing discovery at the Battle of the Little Bighorn echoes into the 1980s when judges in San Francisco and Vancouver are assassinated, and Special X tracks the "Cutthroat" through high-tech labs, dynastic obsessions, and the Rocky Mountains toward a brutal showdown.

A theatrical killer in cape and top hat stalks London's sewers while the shock-rock band Ghoul stirs chaos in Vancouver, and Inspector Zinc Chandler must uncover how these horrors connect to a wealthy family obsessed with forbidden Cthulhu Mythos fantasies.

Slade's original Special X debut pits retired Mountie Robert DeClercq and his team against a sadist who decapitates women around Vancouver, leaving taunting clues that reach back to a deranged Victorian officer, jungle atrocities, and a voodoo-soaked past.