Stephen J Cannell Books in Order

When activist and LAPD critic Lita Mendez is found murdered, Shane Scully and his partner Hitch fear a killer inside the department. Their investigation collides with a swaggering reality show host who turns justice into entertainment, forcing Shane to choose between his badge and survival.

Called to a Hollywood Hills mansion, Shane Scully finds a famous producer and two young women shot dead beside an abandoned pool party. A simple jealous-husband case unravels into a buried scandal and a massive financial fraud that someone is still willing to kill over.

Shane Scully is shocked when Pop Dix, the orphanage director who once taught him to surf and stay out of trouble, dies in an apparent suicide. Reunited with fellow former foster kids named in Pop's will, Shane hunts for the powerful enemy who wanted their mentor gone.

After a scandal forces him to resign from the LAPD, Shane Scully drifts into Haven Park, a small city with a notoriously corrupt police force. Posing as a disgraced cop, he has to play along with brutal corruption long enough to uncover who set him up.

A low-level crook serving life for murdering his mother swears his confession was forced, and Internal Affairs asks Shane Scully to quietly review the case. Following the trail, Shane collides with gang enforcers, political kingmakers, and a mayoral race, even as his marriage to Alexa starts to crack.

Chick Best, a wealthy but miserable dot-com millionaire, becomes obsessed with a woman he sees on vacation in Hawaii and refuses to let her go. His fixation drives him into murder, lies, and an elaborate plan to reinvent himself in her life, whatever it costs others.

When Shane Scully's wife, Alexa, vanishes and a gang member is found executed in her car with her gun, the evidence points straight at her. Chasing clues through rival rap labels and gang alliances, Shane confronts a ruthless queen of hip hop who may control both the streets and his fate.

A serial killer is hunting homeless Vietnam veterans in Los Angeles, leaving bodies in the river with their fingertips removed. A stray bullet link pulls Shane Scully into an old cop's unsolved murder and a Homeland Security official who seems determined to bury the truth along with the victims.

Serving a routine search warrant erupts into a deadly shootout that leaves a sheriff's deputy, Shane Scully's friend, dead. As rival SWAT teams from the sheriff's office and ATF blame each other, Shane is ordered to cool the war before more cops die, and instead uncovers a conspiracy playing both sides.

Crusading attorney Herman Strockmire steps in after one of his employees is torn apart by a strange creature tied to a secret desert lab. Teaming up with his daughter Susan and ex-cop Jack Wirta, he uncovers a government project breeding engineered animal soldiers and races to shut it down.

At a glitzy party, Shane Scully hears a powerful director joke about his dead ex-wives and senses something is wrong. Investigating the man's shady studio and mob ties, Shane dives into the dark side of moviemaking, where phony auditions, union rackets, and gang wars bleed together.

Driving on the freeway, Shane Scully spots his best friend Jody Dean behind the wheel, even though Jody supposedly killed himself two years earlier. Following the ghost leads Shane into a rogue squad of "dead" cops, a violent undercover operation, and a choice that could destroy his career and the woman he loves.

After answering a desperate call from his ex-partner's wife, Shane Scully shoots the abusive cop to save her life and instantly becomes a pariah inside the LAPD. Hunted by Internal Affairs tin collectors and their relentless prosecutor Alexa Hamilton, he uncovers a deep-running corruption scheme that makes him the next target.

Microbiology student Stacy Richardson is taking her final exams when she learns that her husband has supposedly killed himself at a top secret bioweapons facility called the Devil's Workshop. Refusing to believe it, she follows a trail of leaks and coverups that could unleash a deadly engineered plague.

Wheeler Cassidy, a hard-partying rich kid living in his brother's shadow, is jolted awake when that brother is murdered. Partnering with LAPD detective Tanisha Williams, he follows clues from Los Angeles to Hong Kong and into Chinese smuggling networks that traffic people, heroin, and weapons.

Beano X. Bates comes from a family of grifters and has conned his way onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. After a brutal beating from a New Jersey mob boss, he teams up with prosecutor Victoria Hart to stage an audacious long con that will bring the crime family down.

U.S. Customs agent John Lockwood is chasing a sadistic serial killer who stalks women through fringe music scenes and the darker corners of cyberspace. With a forensic psychologist and a brilliant hacker at his side, he races to stop the murderer from claiming another carefully chosen victim.

TV news producer Ryan Bolt thinks a documentary about a bland presidential hopeful might rescue his damaged career. Instead he uncovers a long-running Mafia scheme to buy a television network, manufacture a candidate, and quietly seize the White House.