Troy Soos Books in Order

In Boston in 1912, rookie Mickey Rawlings reaches the major leagues just as Fenway Park opens. Discovering a teammate's body makes him a murder suspect, forcing the young Red Sox player to investigate and defend his future.

Playing for the New York Giants in 1914, Mickey Rawlings becomes involved in a baseball film. When its leading actress is found dead after a Coney Island party, his investigation uncovers further danger around the ballpark.

This nonfiction history traces baseball's development in New England, from early regional games to professional competition and Boston's championship years. Soos also examines the sport's place in schools, workplaces, and communities before the Red Sox's long championship drought.

In wartime Chicago, Mickey Rawlings enjoys a promising season with the Cubs until his friend Willie Kaiser is killed. Suspecting more than an accident, he investigates amid anti-German hostility and competing interests inside and beyond baseball.

Playing for Detroit in 1920, Mickey Rawlings attends a players' union rally where an organizer is killed. Accused of involvement, he must navigate hostility from teammates and management while searching for the murderer threatening his career and life.

A memorabilia exhibition honoring Cincinnati's early baseball history ends with its organizer's murder. Now playing for the Reds in 1921, Mickey Rawlings investigates a case that connects the team's troubled reputation with a much older crime.

Mickey Rawlings plays unofficial games against Black teams while joining the St. Louis Browns in 1922. When an opposing pitcher is murdered, his investigation confronts racial hatred and the threat of renewed violence in the community.

In 1892, writer Marshall Webb visits Ellis Island seeking material for a novel and meets a young Dutch immigrant. Her disappearance leads him to reformer Rebecca Davies and a search through New York's dangerous, exploitative underworld.

When funding for her women's shelter ends, Rebecca Davies entrusts money to a successful banker. His apparent suicide leaves the funds missing, prompting her and writer Marshall Webb to investigate corruption amid a New York cholera crisis.

The murder of a prominent businessman and the disappearance of a young girl draw Marshall Webb and Rebecca Davies into another investigation. Their search exposes connections between wealthy New Yorkers and a concealed world of exploitation and corruption.

During a bitter Brooklyn winter in 1895, a trolley workers' strike is followed by a police officer's murder. Reporter Marshall Webb works with a detective and a reformer to investigate the corruption surrounding the city's escalating conflict.

Set in 1913, this short Mickey Rawlings mystery turns to the world of Texas minor-league baseball. The story combines the series' historical sporting setting with an examination of corruption beneath the everyday competition on the field.

Mickey Rawlings joins the Yankees as their new stadium opens in 1923. The discovery of a murdered bootlegger buried at the ballpark draws him into an investigation involving rival gangsters and the city's illegal liquor trade.