Thomas Mullen Books in Order

A Pacific Northwest mill town seals itself off during the 1918 influenza epidemic. When a sick soldier arrives seeking refuge, a young guard’s encounter with him threatens the community’s ideals, loyalties and fragile sense of security.

During the Great Depression, bank-robbing brothers Jason and Whit Fireson apparently die in a police shootout, yet their story continues. As rumors of survival spread, they search for their lovers and grapple with their seemingly impossible predicament.

Zed travels from a supposedly perfect future to preserve the historical catastrophes that made it possible. His mission intersects with troubled lives in contemporary Washington, forcing questions about the cost of protecting an ideal society.

In 1948 Atlanta, Black police officers Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith investigate a Black woman’s murder despite severe restrictions on their authority. Their search pits them against racist colleagues, corruption and the barriers of Jim Crow.

In 1950 Atlanta, Boggs and Smith pursue illicit liquor and drug suppliers as Black families move into white neighborhoods. Meanwhile, officer Denny Rakestraw’s family ties draw him into a Ku Klux Klan scheme with dangerous consequences.

When a Black newspaper editor is murdered in 1956 Atlanta, former policeman Tommy Smith becomes a suspect. He investigates his boss’s unfinished story while Lucius Boggs faces racist detectives, federal interference and mounting political tensions.

After universal blindness, technology restores simulated sight until someone discovers how to manipulate it. Investigating murders whose killer vanishes from visual records, detective Mark Owens must seek the truth in a world where his own perception can be hacked.

In wartime Boston, reporter Anne Lemire investigates Nazi propaganda while FBI agent Devon Mulvey examines a factory worker’s death. Their cases intersect along a trail of espionage and domestic fascism that threatens the city and exposes their own pasts.