Tres Navarre Books in Order

After a decade in California, Tres Navarre returns to San Antonio determined to learn who killed his sheriff father. His unofficial investigation pulls him into a tangle of mob money, crooked developers, and old grudges that make his homecoming anything but peaceful.

To finish the hours he needs for his PI license, Tres agrees to stake out a fiddle player suspected of stealing a demo tape. When she’s shot in front of him, he dives into the cutthroat Texas music scene, chasing a missing recording and a killer.

When a controversial English professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio is murdered, Tres is hired to take over his classes and quietly look into the killing. The job drags him into carnival family feuds, drug deals, and secrets that connect back to his own past.

Tres heads to Austin for a summer teaching job and a chance to reconnect with his eccentric brother Garrett, who has staked everything on a tech start-up. When Garrett’s business partner is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect, Tres must untangle high-tech fraud and family loyalties.

An infamous killer known as Will “the Ghost” Stirman escapes from prison, and Tres’s mentor Erainya is sure she’s next on his revenge list. As Stirman’s gang cuts a violent path toward San Antonio, Tres uncovers buried secrets about vigilantism, betrayal, and a botched old case.

Old friend and ex-gangster Ralph Arguello arrives at Tres’s door covered in blood, accused of shooting his police-detective wife, Ana DeLeon. Convinced Ralph is innocent, Tres reopens an infamous cold case on Mission Road and discovers why someone is willing to kill to keep it buried.

Retired from private investigating, Tres takes his new wife Maia and his brother Garrett to a remote Gulf Coast hotel for a honeymoon. A corpse in their room and a looming hurricane soon trap them on Rebel Island with a murderer whose motives reach back to Tres’s childhood.