Jerry Peterson

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2009
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Full Series List in Order

An A.J. Garrison Crime Novel

1 - The Watch (Oct-2012)
2 - Rage (Sep-2013)

A James Early Mystery

1 - Early's Fall (Feb-2009)
2 - Early's Winter (Dec-2012)

A John Wads Crime Novella

1 - Iced (Feb-2014)
2 - Rubbed Out (Nov-2014)

Wings Over the Mountains

1 - The Last Good Man (Mar-2014)
2 - Capitol Crime (May-2014)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Early's Fall

    A James Early Mystery - 1

    Kansas sheriff James Early works to solve the murder of a teacher and pursues a bank robber, as his personal life unravels with his wife sinking into depression and risking the life of his unborn child....

  • A James Early Christmas and Other Stories of the Season

  • The Watch

    An A.J. Garrison Crime Novel - 1

    A note on the windshield of defense lawyer AJ Garrison’s car asks who killed Dr. Taylor? It’s a cold case, and Garrison takes it on because Taylor was her family’s doctor and the community’s go-to man. She finds herself walking into the inner...

  • Early's Winter

    A James Early Mystery - 2

    A family murdered for no apparent reason. The worst of the deaths in that isolated ranch house for James Early are those of the children, two of them twin boys less than a year old. No, not the worst. Before his investigation is over, a friend will b...

  • Rage

    An A.J. Garrison Crime Novel - 2

    Before there was Newtown and Shady Hook Elementary. . . Before there was Columbine. . . There was Morgantown. Morgantown Consolidated High School. 1969. A student takes a gun to school and murders one of his teachers in front of a classroom filled wi...

  • The Santa Train & Other Stories of the Season

    John Hepsebah Lawless, in “The Santa Train”, wants to build a free hospital in the Smoky Mountains for people suffering from tuberculosis. It’s 1936, the depth of the Depression, and he needs money to do it. The people who can supply the money ...

  • Iced

    A John Wads Crime Novella - 1

    The killing of a former Iraqi interpreter sets his American sponsor on a search for the assassin, a search that threads its way through a torch job of the Iraqi’s house and the murder of the interpreter’s wife, culminating in a race across open w...

  • The Last Good Man

    Wings Over the Mountains - 1

    Pappy Brown, at age 65, finds himself going to college, a freshman no less. His is a story of life changes, wild times on Greek Row, and late romance, with a dash of Christmas adventure thrown in. For a Christmas gift, Pappy"the last good man"mus...

  • Capitol Crime

    Wings Over the Mountains - 2

    Is it possible that an illegal whiskey business so large that it can supply half the state of Tennessee have anything to do with the brutal murder of a farm family that Sheriff Quill Rose is investigating? Rose doesn’t think so until he hijacks a s...



  • A James Early Christmas - Book 2

    All James Early wanted to do on Christmas Eve was to get home to a warm fire, a hot supper, and an evening with his baby daughter. But there it was, a car in the ditch and a young family stranded. He had to help. How “A Night for Miracles,” the f...

  • Rubbed Out

    A John Wads Crime Novella - 2

    A pair of 80-year-old murders surface when a new friend of John Wads " Monte Chrisco " wants to launch a modern-day speakeasy in a cave on his land, a speakeasy similar to but far better than the one that existed there at the time of the murders,...

  • The Cody & Me Chronicles

    From a thrill ride down Mount Crashmore on a snow saucer to a disastrous experience mowing lawns for money, you are going to love Cody & Me, two middle-school aged guys for whom nothing seems to go right . . . but they keep on truckin’ just as you ...

  • Flint Hills Stories

    The Flint Hills of Kansas is cattle country. It’s the West without being the Far West . . . and it’s a great place for stories. James Early, author Jerry Peterson’s Kansas sheriff, appeared for the first time in the first two stories in this co...

  • Fireside Stories

    Come with me into the shot room in this new collection of short stories. Yes, the nurse is waiting with a rusty needle [“This Won’t Hurt” and “The Flu Shot”]. Next, step outside and witness the great snowblower race [“Snow in Your Eye”]...

  • A Year of Wonder

    Come with the grandfather/grandson writing team of Jerry Peterson and John Smith as they take you from such distant places as a DMV office in Minnesota to a backyard in Wisconsin. In the first"“The Purple Paper Eater”"everything goes awry whe...

  • Hyper Fiction

    You don’t have time to read a big novel like "Moby Dick"? This book is for you, 50 super short stories and poems that I call hyper fiction . . . stories and poems often of fewer than 500 words. You’ll meet a new detective here " The Fish. Cody ...

  • Smoky Mountain Stories

    Moonshiners, revenue agents, murder, revenge, and securing justice. They are all here in this collection of stories set in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains. So are romance, a love for old movies, winning the lottery, and an old-timey fundraiser fo...

  • Tis the Season

    The first Christmas story I wrote was a part of a novel, that novel never published. So I pulled the Christmas story out, shaped it up and polished it, then I shared it with family and friends as my Christmas gift to them. I wrote a new story the nex...

  • 80 Candles

    What did you do for your 80th birthday? You haven't got there yet? Writer Jerry Peterson has. He had a party. James Early came at the age of 102, the second oldest man in Kansas. He also put in an appearance when he was much younger. The Fish came, a...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jerry Peterson has published 19 books.

Jerry Peterson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, 80 Candles, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Jerry Peterson, Early's Fall, was published in February 2009.

Yes. Jerry Peterson has 4 series.
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