Steve Gannon Books in Order

If you want the full Kane family story: A Song for the Asking → Kane → Allison → L.A. Sniper
If you want the most police-procedural suspense: Kane → L.A. Sniper → Infidel → Blood Moon
If you want a standalone with stranger suspense: Glow
If you want shorter fiction first: Stepping Stones → Blue Skies

Steve Gannon grew up as a Navy brat, the oldest of four children. Because his father was a captain in the U.S. Navy, the family moved often, living in North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia before settling in Falls Church when his father took a Pentagon post.

That restless, try-it-and-see kind of start seems to have set the pattern for the rest of his life.

Gannon studied at Duke University and the University of Southern California, earning a degree in physics. He then worked as a systems engineer in Southern California's aerospace industry before heading back to school at UCLA, where he earned a DDS and qualified as a dentist. By his own telling, he liked school, challenge, and momentum, and the question of what came next did not always have an obvious answer.

That uncertainty led to a string of jobs that now reads a bit like material from one of his own characters. He worked in bookstore retail, on a loading dock, and behind a bar during his college years. Later, while running a dental practice on Los Angeles's Westside, he also acted in television commercials, modeled in print ads, and kept writing fiction in the gaps between everything else.

Writing kept following him.

In his mid-thirties he left dentistry and spent about a decade as a real estate developer, focusing on beachfront construction in Malibu. Later he moved into Idaho arts administration, serving as executive director of the Sun Valley Artist Series, a nonprofit built around classical music and educational programs. He also expanded into film, writing and directing the short The Crux, with his wife, Susan Spelius Gannon, working on the editing and sound.

His first full novel, A Song for the Asking, arrived in 1997 and introduced Daniel Kane, an LAPD homicide detective whose harsh sense of duty shapes his work and poisons life at home. It is as much a family novel as a crime story, and that mix became one of Gannon's trademarks. He followed it with Kane, which pushes the detective into a murder investigation while his private life threatens to break apart.

The series widened in interesting ways after that. Allison gives a major role to Kane's daughter, a journalism student whose ambition puts her in direct conflict with her father. L.A. Sniper, Infidel, and Blood Moon keep the procedural tension high, but they never forget the family damage carried forward from book to book. Readers who like Gannon tend to respond to that balance of momentum and feeling, plus his eye for Los Angeles, from beachfront homes to newsroom pressure to citywide panic.

He has not stayed in one lane. The standalone Glow moves into stranger, more speculative suspense, while Stepping Stones gathers shorter fiction and shows how comfortable he is in a tighter form. Even across different genres, his stories often return to people under pressure, moral choices that do not get easier, and the long echo of past decisions.

These days Gannon divides his time between Sun Valley, Idaho, and Perugia, Italy. He is married to concert pianist Susan Spelius Gannon, and their work seems to overlap in all sorts of ways, books, music, film, and the arts. He has also spoken about loving skiing, whitewater kayaking, and learning Italian, which feels exactly right for a writer whose path has rarely been still for long.