The Last Picks Books in Order

An unexpected request from Vivienne Carver draws Dash into investigating her brother's disappearance nearly thirty years earlier. As he searches for answers with Bobby, buried family secrets suggest someone is willing to kill to keep the past hidden.

Dash finds a body at an amusement park, but it vanishes before anyone can confirm his discovery. With no official investigation and doubts spreading around town, he must uncover what happened while navigating his growing feelings for Bobby.

A celebrity author dies during a public reading in Hastings Rock, leaving Dash suspicious but reluctant to investigate. Then the prime suspect, a mystery writer who previously accused him of murder, arrives asking for his help.

A Halloween outing to a surfing competition ends with Dash discovering a developer’s body. Convinced the death was murder despite local doubts, he investigates without his usual police ally and draws the real killer’s attention.

To pay the bills, Dash rents Hemlock House for a wedding, only for his ex-boyfriend Hugo to arrive unexpectedly. When Hugo is arrested for the groom's murder, Dash investigates despite the danger of attracting the real killer.

Aspiring writer Dash moves to a seaside town hoping to escape his ex and learn from a famous novelist. When his new employer is murdered and a secret passage implicates him, he must solve the crime to clear his name.

Dash's hopes for a peaceful Christmas disappear when Millie asks him to clear her brother of stealing delivery packages. The search leads through porch pirates and a holiday pageant before the missing brother raises a more frightening possibility.

Dash hosts a charity auction to save the defunded public library, but a valuable book disappears and the mayor turns up dead. A librarian's silence and an unexpected visit from his parents complicate his search for the killer.

Dash plans a quiet Halloween with friends and his boyfriend, until Keme is arrested for murder. With public suspicion hardening and bloodstained clothes seemingly confirming the accusation, Dash must find the truth before the real killer stops him.

This collection follows Dash, Bobby, and the Last Picks through the moments between their mysteries. Holiday gatherings, family visits, artistic frustrations, and celebrations expand their relationships, bringing previously distributed stories together with an exclusive final story.

With his writing finally succeeding and life with Bobby going well, Dash attends a mystery writers' conference. The arrival and murder of his former nemesis leave him the prime suspect again, threatening everything he has begun to build.

A community play loosely based on Dash's life takes a strange turn when an actor reads altered lines, the lights fail, and the box office is robbed. A subsequent murder convinces Dash that the missing script hides something darker.

When a restaurateur is killed in Hastings Rock, amateur detective Dashiell Dawson Dane finds a friend under suspicion. He sets out to establish her innocence, turning another gathering in the coastal town into a search for a murderer.