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    91 Books (17 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2011
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Adventures of Holloway Holmes

1 - The Strangest Forms (Mar-2023)
2 - The Old Wheel (Apr-2023)
3 - Where All Paths Meet (Jun-2023)
4 - The Case-Book of Holloway Holmes (Jun-2023)

Borealis Investigations

1 - Orientation (May-2019)
2 - Triangulation (Aug-2019)
3 - Declination (Oct-2019)

Borealis: Without a Compass

1 - Indirection (Mar-2021)
2 - Misdirection (May-2021)
3 - Redirection (Jun-2021)
4 - Codirection (Aug-2021)

A DuPage Parish Mystery

1 - Stray Fears (Oct-2020)
2 - Cascade Hunger (Oct-2021)
3 - Lethal Control (Oct-2022)
4 - Second Line (Nov-2022)

The First Quarto

1 - They Told Me I Was Everything (Oct-2020)
2 - Yet a Stranger (Dec-2020)
3 - The Fairest Show (Sep-2022)
4 - A Fault against the Dead (Oct-2022)
5 - Thuggiana (Nov-2022)

Flesh and Fell

1 - The Dew of Flesh (Sep-2011)
3 - The Harvest God (Jun-2012)
4 - Under Ahys (Oct-2013)

Flint and Tinder

1 - Ember Boys (Aug-2020)
2 - Queer Fires (Feb-2023)
3 - The Whole World Tinder (Mar-2023)
4 - Boys with Matches (Mar-2023)

Hazard and Somerset

1 - Pretty Pretty Boys (Nov-2017)
2 - Transposition (Feb-2018)
3 - Paternity Case (Sep-2018)
4 - Guilt by Association (Jun-2018)
5 - Reasonable Doubt (Aug-2018)
6 - Criminal Past (Nov-2018)

Hazard and Somerset: A Union of Swords

1 - The Rational Faculty (Nov-2019)
2 - Police Brutality (Jan-2020)
3 - Transactional Dynamics (Apr-2020)
4 - Wayward (Jun-2020)
5 - The Keeper of Bees (Aug-2020)

Hazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand

1 - Relative Justice (Oct-2021)
2 - Custody Battles (Dec-2021)
3 - Domestic Animals (Feb-2022)
4 - Father Complex (Apr-2022)
5 - Final Orders (Jun-2022)

Hollow Folk

1 - Mr. Big Empty (Jan-2017)
2 - All the Inside Howling (Feb-2017)
3 - The Dust Feast (Mar-2017)
4 - The Mortal Sleep (Apr-2019)

Iron on Iron

1 - The Face in the Water (Aug-2023)
2 - The Girl in the Wind (Oct-2023)
3 - The Spoil of Beasts (Dec-2023)
4 - The Evening Wolves (Feb-2024)
5 - Good Vibes Only (Feb-2024)

The Lamb and the Lion

1 - The Same Breath (Oct-2020)
2 - The Same Place (Nov-2020)
3 - The Same End (Jan-2021)

The Last Picks

1 - Mystery Magnet (Apr-2024)
2 - Dude Magnet (Jun-2024)
3 - Doom Magnet (Jul-2024)
4 - Broken Bird (Sep-2024)
5 - Between You and Me (Oct-2024)

The Rim and the Shore

1 - Fold Thunder (Apr-2011)
3 - White City, Burning Sea (Feb-2012)
4 - Ebb (Mar-2013)

The Sophistries of June

1 - The Indifferent Children of the Earth (Sep-2014)
2 - The Wounds We Give and Take (Sep-2012)
3 - The Grieved (Sep-2012)
4 - Fool Star (Jan-2014)
5 - In Broken Mathematics (Jan-2014)
6 - The Hawthorn Gate (Apr-2014)
7 - The Sacraments of Summer (Apr-2014)

Witte & Co. Investigations

1 - The Weeping Lore (Apr-2015)
2 - The Drowning Mask (Jan-2017)
3 - The Brittened Crown (Jan-2017)
4 - The River Throne (Jan-2017)

Book List in Order: 91 titles



  • As the Jaegal Empire moves to war against the city-state of Apsia, an unknown player begins to manipulate events, and long-hidden secrets come to light that threaten not only the outcome of the war, but also the fabric of reality itself. Erlandr, the...



  • In The Thirteen Paths of Nakhacevir, in the city of Khi’ilan, the last of the gods-made-flesh still rules. But rebellion creeps ever closer, and the High Harvest draws nigh, when the streets will run red with the blood of human sacrifice.A small gr...



  • War and worse than war have been averted in Apsia. But now, months after the Rent was sealed within the garden, the ripples of that victory are beginning to show. In Mane, tension with Jaegal is high, and war looms on the horizon--a war that will dev...



  • Cania. A distant, cold, barbaric land. When Mus'un is posted there as the new spymaster for the Fourth Corner, he assumes the most interesting part of his life is over.He is wrong.En route to Cania, Mus'un must pass through Greve Sindal--a land seeth...



  • The last of the gods-made-flesh is dead. In the sudden vacuum of power, many will struggle to control Nakhacevir of the Thirteen Paths. Abass, one-time thief and pander, finds his return home cut short when the weight of having killed a god descends ...



  • A novella set in the world of Flesh and Fell.Tachmaz has fallen, but at a terrible cost. Driven mad by the tair’s magic, the people of Tachmaz fought to the death, threatening to destroy Khaskander’s new empire before it is even fully established...



  • Mr. Green is dead.Still recovering from his battle with the grower, Alex tries to move forward with his life. But a new danger stalks West Marshall. A monster that Mr. Green mentioned only once before Alex killed him.The eater.As Alex struggles to ba...



  • It was the last good summer.The last summer Isaac was alive.The last summer with Christopher.A night at the park turns ugly when sinks attack. Fast, coordinated, and deadly, the sinks try to capture a child. For Alex, Isaac, and Christopher, there is...



  • Joaquim has returned to Apsia -- healed, in love, and at peace. When he arrives home, however, he discovers that things have changed in his absence. Jaecan forces besiege the city, his parents have entered the dangerous waters of Apsia’s turbulent ...






  • The alchemist Temurei has been driven from his home and fled south. With a few friends, he searches for a new source of magic to power his alchemy. Word has come of a dead god under Ahys. But as Temurei and his companions enter the Iris of Cenarbasi...



  • The eater is dead. More importantly, Alex is back to being single after his break-up with Olivia. When a friend asks, Alex to babysit, though, he sees something that makes him think all is not right in West Marshall. And as his investigation progress...



  • Months have passed since Alex stopped the monster known as the eater from ravaging the small town of West Marshall. Just when life seems to be settling into something normal, an FBI agent shows up on Alex's doorstep, wanting to know where he was the ...



  • After months spent fighting growers, eaters, and quickeners, Alex León has won. The eater is dead. Alex's friends and family are safe.But Terry Bolter, the woman who killed his father, is still alive, and Alex is determined to make her pay.He only h...



  • The school year is over. It's finally summer. Time for sleeping in, spending time with friends, and forgetting everything from school.Except not for Alex León. At the first party celebrating the end of school, another student is victim of a brutal b...



  • The end of Nakhacevir’s first winter has almost come, and spring draws near. But with the promise of spring come new troubles. The First Father, awakened under the mountains of Ahys, has put forth his hand to kill a child of prophecy. As Abass stru...



  • Chicago. Hot, humid, summer Chicago. After the death of his daughter, Kike Villalobos is falling. Falling hard. His wife, gone. His job, slipping away. Life is a broken air conditioner, a bottle of Sol, and a hangover. Desperate, Kike seeks out the h...



  • When Asa Alejándro León moves with his family to West Marshall, a small Midwestern town, he’s looking for one thing: oblivion. Haunted by memories of his past, broken by what he has lost, Alex struggles to find a reason to live. And then he disco...



  • December 1925. St. Louis, Missouri.Out of cash, out of luck, and soon to be out of a home, Cian Shea scours the Irish neighborhood of Kerry Patch for work. When a job falls into his hands, it seems easy enough: deliver a small, unmarked box to a rich...



  • On the battlefields of France at the height of the Second World War, sÅ"ur Salomé struggles to save the American soldiers who have come to fight for her homeland. The German forces press ever closer, though, and Salomé can help only a very few of t...






  • When lonely adjunct professor Nick moves from New York to a small, Midwestern town, he's trying to escape: bad relationships, bad dreams, and the city's monsters. He finds, though, that small towns have their own monsters. Real monsters.And when Nick...



  • When Harry Witte returns to warn his friends of an ancient threat, Irene Lovell and Cian Shea are skeptical. Harry Witte, after all, has already betrayed them once. But Irene and Cian quickly learn that a new force--a dangerous force--is working in S...



  • When socialite-turned-detective Irene Lovell finds herself kidnapped by a man she once trusted, she must struggle to free herself. Escape, though, only leads her deeper into the cultic madness and sorcery of the St. Louis underworld. As she works wit...



  • Vie Eliot arrives in the small town of Vehpese, Wyoming with little more than the clothes--and scars--on his back. Determined to make a new life for himself after escaping his abusive mother, he finds that living with his estranged father brings its ...



  • Cian Shea and Irene Lovell have battled sorcerers, snakes, lizard-men, and lost gods. Until now, they have managed to avert disaster for St. Louis and for the rest of the world. When they come face to face with prophecy, though, they face a threat be...



  • Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected complication: how to be a good boyfriend.When a mysterious drifter named ...



  • Only days have passed since Vie Eliot’s murderous half-brother -- a dangerous, out-of-control psychic -- was stopped from killing the people Vie loves most, but Vie is ready for his life to return to normal. He has plans. Big plans. Make the cross ...



  • After Emery Hazard loses his job as a detective in Saint Louis, he heads back to his hometown-and to the local police force there. Home, though, brings no happy memories, and the ghosts of old pain are very much alive in Wahredua. Hazard's new pa...



  • Emery Hazard and his partner, John-Henry Somerset, have solved their first case together. The brutal murders that rocked the quiet town of Wahredua have been put to rest. Hazard, however, finds his life has only grown more complicated as he adjust...



  • Everything in Emery Hazard’s life is finally going well: his boyfriend, Nico, is crazy about him; he has a loyal partner at work; and he has successfully closed a series of difficult murders. By all accounts, he should be happy. What he can’t fig...






  • After almost twenty years, Emery Hazard finally has the man he loves. But things with his boyfriend and fellow detective, John-Henry Somerset, are never easy, and they’ve been more complicated lately for two reasons: Somers’s ex-wife and daughter...



  • It’s almost Christmas, and Emery Hazard finds himself face to face with his own personal nightmare: going on a double date with his partner -- and boyhood crush -- John-Henry Somerset. Hazard brings his boyfriend; Somers brings his estranged wife. ...



  • It all starts to go wrong at the shooting gallery. Emery Hazard and his boyfriend, John-Henry Somerset, just want to enjoy the day at the Dore County Independence Fair. At the shooting gallery, though, Hazard comes face to face with one of his old bu...



  • Months have passed since the events at Belshazzar’s Feast. Vie Eliot, reluctant psychic and self-appointed defender of the small Wyoming town called Vehpese, knows that trouble is coming, but for the time being, he wants to spend as many happy days...



  • Shaw and North are best friends, private detectives, and in danger of losing their agency. A single bad case, followed by crippling lawsuits, has put them on the brink of closing shop. Until, that is, a client walks into their Benton Park office.Matt...



  • After a recent case with a treacherous client, North and Shaw are ready to go back to work building Borealis Investigations. They’re also ready to go back to dodging their feelings for each other, with neither man ready to deal with the powerful em...



  • Shaw and North are together. Finally. After eight years of knowing each other and loving each other and slipping past each other, they’ve finally told each other how they feel. Borealis Investigations is growing, and they have a major prospective c...



  • Three months have passed since Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset faced a madman and lived to tell about it.Three months have passed since Emery Hazard resigned from his job as a detective.Three months can be too long and too short, all at the same...



  • For the first time in a long while, Emery Hazard’s life is good. His new business as a private detective is taking off. Things are good at home. He loves his boyfriend, John-Henry Somerset; he loves their daughter. He might even love the new friend...



  • Emery Hazard is ready for Valentine's Day. He's made reservations months in advance, he's ordered flowers, and he's got a boyfriend he wants to treat right—even if John-Henry Somerset occasionally lets the dishes sit in the sink a little too l...







  • Emery Hazard is trying to plan his wedding, even though his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, isn't exactly making things easy for him. To be fair, Somers has been distracted lately; his father is running for mayor in a hotly contested election, an...



  • Emmett Bradley thinks his adventures are over. Together with his friends, he stopped an ancient evil and lived to tell about it. But life as a survivor, even as a survivor of a victory, isn't easy, and when Emmett runs away from Vehpese, Wyoming, he ...



  • Emery Hazard has pretty much everything under control. He and his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, are more in love than ever, despite the stress of wedding preparations hanging over them. His business as a private investigator is growing. He's ev...



  • Teancum Leon, who goes by Tean, is a wildlife veterinarian. His life has settled into a holding pattern: he loves his job, he hates first dates, and he only occasionally has to deal with his neighbor Mrs. Wish's cat-related disasters.All of that chan...



  • Elien Martel is a survivor, but surviving, he's beginning to discover, isn't the same thing as living. In the house he shares with his much older boyfriend, Elien spends his days trying to stay as far away from living as possible. Living, he has lear...



  • Auggie is starting his first year at Wroxall College. It's a punishment, and he's determined to make his way through the year, prove himself, and earn the right to go back home.Theo is a grad student recovering from a terrible car accident. He's lost...



  • For what seems like the first time in Teancum Leon's life, things are looking good: he's put an end to the toxic relationship with his former sex buddy, work is going well, and Jem Berger has officially decided they are best friends-in spite of Tean'...



  • When Auggie Lopez returns to Wroxall College, he's determined that his second year will be different from the chaos he faced as a freshman. He's living in the Sigma Sigma house, he's got a good group of friends, and his social media presence is growi...







  • A few things are different for our 2021 Coastal Magic Convention. Our ninth annual author/reader weekend went virtual, and our charity project for Habitat for Humanity has become a short story and snack collection!I hope you enjoy the 'bookish bits,'...



  • Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild is a collection of short stories. It includes the following: First DatesA prequel to The Lamb and the Lion books, this short story shows Jem and Tean as they are set up on blind dates-with disastrous results.Cheap SeatsJe...



  • Rabid readers. Backbiting authors. A romance convention from hell.Shaw Aldrich and his best friend, boyfriend, and partner, North McKinney, are doing great, thanks. The aftermath of their search for the Slasher has finally settled down. Their private...



  • Finding a missing boy will be hard. Dinner with Shaw's parents might be murder.When a rising star in the state senate asks Shaw Aldrich and North McKinney to transport her son, Flip, to and from his drug testing appointments, they're not happy-they d...



  • When it comes to your ex, nothing is ever easy.The Borealis boys are settling into their new normal, or at least into their new digs. But when North's soon-to-be (please-let-it-be-soon) ex-husband, Tucker, is arrested and charged with murder, everyth...



  • Short stories from Borealis: Without a CompassNorth and Shaw: Out of Office Volume 2 is a collection of short stories. It includes the following: Couple FriendsAs a (relatively) new couple, North and Shaw learn what it means to have friends as a coup...



  • They killed a girl to keep their secrets. They won't stop there.A new home, a fresh start, a chance to do things right this time-and Shaw and North are determined to make it work. But the night of their housewarming party, things don't go as planned....



  • Eli and Dag survived a monster.Two monsters, in fact.A year later, though, they're still trying to settle into a 'regular' life. Dag is working hard in school. It's not going great. Eli is working hard at...being a better Eli. He's eating right. Most...



  • An impossible son. An impossible murder.The honeymoon is definitely over.When Emery Hazard and his husband, John-Henry Somerset, arrive home from their honeymoon, they're shocked (understatement of the year) to find a boy waiting for them on their do...



  • Some parents would die for their children. Others will do a whole lot worse.Emery Hazard and his husband, John-Henry Somerset, are settling into their new normal-at home, with the latest addition to their family, and at work, as Somers adapts to his ...





  • Having a father can be hard. Being a good one might be even harder.The call-out for the double homicide, when it comes, is a strange one: two men gunned down in a motel room, no witnesses, no real clues. Even stranger, the men were enemies, and no on...



  • Life happens when you're not looking. Unfortunately, so do a lot of other things.Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty Volume 3 is a collection of short stories. It includes the following: If Your Friends Jumped Off a BridgeHazard is going to get Evie the pe...





  • Drugs. Sex. Murder. And, if they can squeeze it in, graduation.When Auggie Lopez returns to Wahredua for his senior year of college, he's excited about the future: he's growing his brand as an influencer, he's almost done with school, and he's buildi...



  • Werewolves. Witchcraft. Wildlife. It’s all different in the bayou. A year after Eli and Dag survived their second encounter with a monster, things are finally going well. Really well -- as far as Eli is concerned, anyway. He’s lost weight. His...



  • You don't have to die to get a second line, but it's easier than getting married.Second Line is a collection of short stories connected to The DuPage Parish Mysteries. It includes the following: HousewarmingDag and Eli host a housewarming party at th...



  • Pics, or it didn't happen.Thuggiana is a collection of short stories connected to The First Quarto. It includes the following: The Slightest FollyThis prequel provides a glimpse into Auggie's and Theo's lives in high school. It takes place before The...



  • Emmett might not have a job. He might not be going to school. He might not have any friends. Heck, he might not even be all that happy. But he's clean; that's the important thing. And all that spare time? It means he can really focus on screwing up h...



  • Love, like fire, is a chain reaction.Boys with Matches is a collection of short stories from Flint and Tinder. It includes the following: HeatJim visits Emmett at the psychiatric hospital. This story is a prequel and takes place before Ember Boys.Fue...



  • Watson is dead. Holmes is alone. And Jack is desperate. Sixteen-year-old Jack Moreno is managing to hold his life together. Barely. After a terrible car accident leaves his father unable to work, Jack makes ends meet by dropping out of school and cov...



  • Jim's birthday is coming up, and Emmett is determined to make it a good one. Scratch that. A perfect one. Sure, that means spending money he doesn't have. Sure, that means trying to keep secrets, which Jim is irritatingly good at ferreting out. It ev...



  • Blackmail. Breakups. Boys. Trouble always comes in threes.Life is different for Jack Moreno. Good. Definitely good. Well, better, anyway.He's back in school (although classes are harder than he expected). And his dad is healthy (which means he's worr...



  • Even great detectives have their off days.The Case-Book of Holloway Holmes is a collection of short stories from The Adventures of Holloway Holmes. It includes the following: The Adventure of the First DayJack and Holmes settle in at their new school...



  • Holmeses. Moriartys. Adlers. What's a Watson to do?When Jack Moreno receives an anonymous invitation to the Zodiac anniversary gala, he's inclined to ignore it. His best friend (and more), Holloway Holmes, vanished from his life five months ago, and ...



  • Come to Missouri! See the sights! Solve a murder! When Teancum Leon, a wildlife veterinarian, and his husband, semi-reformed conman Jeremiah Berger, go to a conference in central Missouri, they're expecting a short and uneventful trip. Tean will pres...



  • The price for the truth might be their family.When Theo and Auggie return home-safe and sound and miraculously alive after being dragged into a murder investigation-all Theo wants is for life to get back to normal. No more murders. No more investigat...





  • With friends like these, who needs enemies?Private detective Luka Meer doesn't get the most glamorous cases, but he knows the underbelly of St. Louis better than just about anyone, and he's got a bad case of white knight syndrome.In these four storie...



  • A jailhouse slaughter. A relentless killer. And way too much jackassing around.When word comes that two key witnesses in an investigation are dead, North and Shaw are surprised-and pleased-to learn that their friend, John-Henry Somerset, is intereste...



  • Every victory comes at a cost. The trail has gone cold. For months now, Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset have been trying to find something-anything-that might help them uncover the truth about the criminal organization operating out of the Cotto...



  • Just vibing.Good Vibes Only is a collection of short stories from Iron on Iron. It includes the following: All the FeelsJem and Tean get settled in their temporary new home. This story is set after The Face in the Water.Add Me BackTheo and Auggie (es...



  • He was born to write mysteries. Now, he has to solve them. When Dashiell Dawson Dane moves across the country to a small seaside town called Hastings Rock, he has one get away from his ex. Okay, two goals - because he wouldn't mind a little he...







  • All’s fair in love and…publishing? It’s nearly Christmas, and Dashiell Dawson Dane already has enough on his plate finding a present for his parents, coming up with excuses not to hang the Christmas lights, and finishing this stupid story he...



  • Hunting a killer is scary. Talking about your feelings is scarier. Dashiell Dawson Dane is certain the universe is conspiring against him. After all, things have been good -- almost too good -- for way too long. He’s got a great group of friends...



  • Keep it simple, stupid.After spending his whole life taking care of his family, Fernando Lopez is ready for simple. His younger brothers have grown up and moved out of the house. His mom is stable—or as close to stable as she's ever going to g...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gregory Ashe has published 91 books.

Gregory Ashe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Kiss Principle, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Gregory Ashe, Fold Thunder, was published in April 2011.

Yes. Gregory Ashe has 17 series.