Walter Satterthwait Books in Order

A drug dealer tries to stay alive while fleeing a pair of killers. Walter Satterthwait’s first novel is a lean adventure thriller built around a man whose criminal past keeps closing in.

Colter accepts an assignment that reunites him with a former Vietnam comrade and carries him to a Greek island. A major crime lord’s heroin operation turns the job into a high-risk struggle for survival.

Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft turns down a shady deal involving a stolen diamond necklace. When the cowboy who offered it is murdered, Croft follows the trail into wealth, drugs, deception, and another killing.

In 1921, thirteen-year-old Amanda Burton befriends her notorious neighbor, Lizzie Borden. After Amanda’s stepmother is killed with an axe, Lizzie becomes both an obvious suspect and Amanda’s strongest ally in finding the real murderer.

Joshua Croft is hired to recover the remains of a Navajo ancestor taken by an archaeologist decades earlier. His search through the Southwest stirs up old crimes, cultural conflicts, and a growing danger to everyone who helps him.

Oscar Wilde’s 1882 lecture tour of the American West takes a dangerous turn when prostitutes are murdered in Colorado. With Doc Holliday and a wary marshal nearby, Wilde must use wit and nerve to uncover the killer.

Joshua Croft searches for a missing mother and young daughter after a bitter custody fight. What begins as a family case leads him toward child-abuse allegations, a political refuge network, and murder.

In this nonfiction conversation book, Walter Satterthwait and Ernie Bulow talk about childhood, travel, writing, mysteries, and the odd turns of a writer’s life. It offers an informal look at the man behind the novels.

A murder among Santa Fe psychics, healers, and tarot readers brings Joshua Croft into a world of High Magic. A missing antique tarot card and a client framed by the evidence make the case anything but mystical nonsense.

In 1921, Pinkerton agent Phil Beaumont guards Harry Houdini at an English country-house séance. When an earl dies in a locked room, Phil, Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the enigmatic Jane Turner are pulled into a deadly puzzle.

Published under this alternate title, Joshua Croft investigates the murder of a practitioner of High Magic. A stolen antique tarot card, a strangled victim, and a suspect with troubling evidence against him lead Croft into dangerous spiritual circles.

This collection gathers Satterthwait’s African mystery stories, including cases involving Kenyan police officer Andrew Mbutu. The tales combine crime, humor, and settings shaped by the people, landscapes, and pressures of modern Africa.

When Rita Mondragon is shot by the man who once destroyed her life, Joshua Croft takes the hunt personally. His pursuit crosses the country and forces him to confront the past he and Rita have tried to live with.

Pinkerton agents Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner investigate a wealthy publisher and his mistress, found dead in a locked Paris hotel room. Their search through 1923 Paris uncovers dangerous secrets beneath the city’s artistic, glamorous surface.

Florida detectives Jim Fallon and Sophia Tregaskis hunt a serial killer obsessed with remaking his victims to meet his own idea of perfection. As a hurricane closes in, the investigation becomes frighteningly personal.

Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner are sent to Germany after a gunman nearly kills Adolf Hitler. As they trace the would-be assassin, the Pinkerton agents face Nazi infighting, murder, and an increasingly threatening political world.

In 1935, Emily Davies Vanderbilt, wife of pulp writer Raoul Whitfield, is found dead at her New Mexico ranch in an apparent suicide. Sheriff Tom Delgado suspects murder and must prove it against the official verdict.

A wide-ranging collection of mystery stories featuring investigators from different eras and places, including Joshua Croft and Sergeant Andrew Mbutu. It also includes historical figures, unusual sleuths, and the author’s notes on the stories.

Sixteen-year-old Amanda Burton finds her uncle murdered in his Manhattan apartment and becomes the chief suspect. Lizzie Borden and Dorothy Parker join her search through Prohibition-era New York for a killer hiding among the city’s bright lights.