Joel B. Reed

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1995
  • Latest Book:
    October 2017
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Full Series List in Order

A Clan McKee Intrigue

Angels Fight Dirty (Jul-2007)
The Red Lion (Jan-2009)
A Devil on DOS (Mar-2010)
Even Angels Cry (Jun-2010)

A Jazz Philllips Mystery

Murder in the Kirk (Aug-2006)
Murder by the Board (Aug-2007)
Murder in the Choir (Aug-2007)
Murder Was a Blast (Jan-2008)
Murder by the Queen (Mar-2008)
Murder on the Run (Feb-2010)
Jazz in the Golden Light (Sep-2011)
Jazz in the Crosshair (Oct-2012)

A Paul Radford Adventure

Paul Radford's Private War (Jul-2003)
Paul Radford's Alaskan Exile (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • The Journal of Martin Quinn: A Mythopoetic Quest

  • Paul Radford's Private War

    A Paul Radford Adventure

    The year is 1941 and America is on the brink of war. Yet, Paul Radford has found a perfect life. He's a geologist paid to do what he loves best, searching the wilds of Peru for rare minerals. He has also fallen in love with a native woman and is expe...

  • Black Seraph

  • Murder in the Kirk

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    Jazz Phillips is one of the top serial murder investigators in the nation. Yet, when he agrees to teach a seminar for the Ft. Worth police, he has no idea he will be thrown onto a trail of death leading from California to New Hampshire. At first, the...

  • Raven Wolf

    Burned out with law, Martin Lundgren sets out to find a simpler life. He buys an abandoned homestead in northern New Mexico, planning to stretch his savings until he can support himself as a writer. What he doesn't plan on is falling in love, not onl...

  • Children Of Dust

    Have spear, will travel. Welcome to Wind River Training Camp where secret agents are taught to be warriors. Set up as an experiment by Sam McKee, former Green Beret, this is no normal facility. There are neither grades nor set courses. Yet each man a...

  • Lakota Spring

    Based on a true story, two young men come of age in South Dakota during the era of Wounded Knee II. One is Lakota, the other is not. Yet nothing can separate them until one of them comes home from Desert Storm, a hero whose memories haunt him and who...

  • Angels Fight Dirty

    A Clan McKee Intrigue

    FOXFIRE. The name of the operation alone is enough to set off a series of killings thirty years later. No one is safe, not even those who were not involved. Someone is making sure nothing gets out about the operation, even if it means gunning down in...

  • Murder by the Board

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    When an old friend calls in a favor, Jazz Phillips, former head of the Arkansas CID, agrees to help catch a cat thief. Known for breaking tough cases as a consultant to the FBI, Jazz doesn't take the case too seriously. Then a personal journal recove...



  • Murder in the Choir

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    When a famous black musician is shot down at his eightieth birthday celebration in a small settlement in rural Arkansas, no one can imagine why. Smiley Jones is a living legend, a sweet grandfatherly soul loved by all, and there is intense political ...

  • Murder Was a Blast

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    When a bomb goes off in Portland, Oregon, it looks like a mob hit. The victim is a well known underworld go-between. He sets up deals for death and it looks like he arranged the wrong fatal accident. So when Jazz Phillips, former head of the Arkansas...

  • Murder by the Queen

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    A Jazz Phillips Mystery. Who is the Queen of Spades? Is it a woman or a man? And why does this stalker kill? The evidence makes no sense. The victims are slain first and then mutilated, and the way it is done varies. The only tie is a calling card, t...

  • Grandpa's New Kitty

    The first in a series of children's stories featuring the adventures of a boy and his grandfather, Grandpa's New Kitty begins with the search for a long missing cat. The cat's name is Bruce and as Grandpa says, "He's a sweet old kitty, polite and qui...

  • The Red Lion

    A Clan McKee Intrigue

    Willie Dill is a living legend. There is not much about dirty tricks or black operations he does not know, or about staying alive under the worst conditions. Among the many people he trained for Special Forces is an old friend from Vietnam, Sam McKee...

  • Murder on the Run

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    Jazz Phillips is in deep trouble. He has no partner to back him up, three million dollars is missing, the reporter breaking the story is dead in a suspicious car crash, and his boss at CID is out to deep-six the inquiry -- and Jazz with it. So Jazz i...

  • A Devil on DOS

    A Clan McKee Intrigue

    ESPIONAGE/INTRIGUE. Sam McKee does not trust computers. He's seen technology fail too often when lives are on the line. When it comes to cybernetics, he believes Murphy's law rules. What can go wrong will go wrong. Training and experience are what ge...

  • Even Angels Cry

    A Clan McKee Intrigue

  • Jazz in the Golden Light

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    When Jazz Phillips heads for North Padre Island, the last thing on his mind is murder. All he wants is a sunny day, a cloudless sky, and a chance to skinny-dip in the Gulf with the love of his life. Yet on the beach he finds a young woman washed up o...

  • Paul Radford's Alaskan Exile

    A Paul Radford Adventure

    Paul Radford does not belong in Alaska. He is fluent in Spanish, Portugese, and Quecha, the native language of Peru, and he knows the Andes. He has friends there and a wife and child, and he knows the native people well. Then war breaks out and the U...



  • Jazz in the Crosshair

    A Jazz Philllips Mystery

    Chasing light. That's what Jazz loves, catching the perfect shot of a freight train crossing a bridge against the brilliant red and yellow leaves of a perfect October day. Yet when he shows a friend his results weeks later, they discover something el...

  • Jazz Plays the Big Easy Blues

    New Orleans. They call it the City Care Forgot and Jazz Phillips is there to enjoy it. He's in town to teach a police seminar, but the nights are his. He intends to make the most of them, sampling good food, enjoying the sights, and listening to smoo...

  • Jazz Draws a Wild Card

    Jazz Phillips is a lightning rod for strange cases. After the loss of his beloved Nellie, he's poured himself into his work chasing serial killers and busting dirty corporations. When he's not doing that, he's chasing light with a camera. Then a frie...

  • Ashes in the Outhouse

    Life is quiet in Live Oak, Texas. Folks like it that way. The year is 1957 and the American Dream is in full bloom. Yet there is a dark side no one talks about. It's called The Roadhouse. Good old boys go there to get drunk and gamble. They can get s...

  • Jazz and the Black Widow

    Retired now and still recovering from his last major case, Jazz spends most of his time chasing light and exploring his beloved Arkansas. Then he gets a call from one of his closest friends at the CID. A widow is trying to find her estranged runaway ...

  • Paul Radford's Return to Peru

    Paul Radford is a war hero. Yet the war has cost him all he holds dear. Not caring if he lives or dies, he volunteers for the Alaska Scouts. There he racks up an incredible record defending Dutch Harbor and scouting the invasion of Attu. To his surpr...

  • Ashes of the Dead

    "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us...." Charles Dickens could have been writing about life in the sleepy town of Live O...

  • Jazz and the Last One Left

    It's only a game the company says. Players get a free vacation, all expenses paid. They also get the celebrity of being cast members of a popular survival show. At the end of the rainbow there's even a pot of gold, a cool million dollars for surv...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joel B. Reed has published 27 books.

Joel B. Reed does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Jazz and the Last One Left, was published in October 2017.

The first book by Joel B. Reed, The Journal of Martin Quinn: A Mythopoetic Quest, was published in December 1995.

Yes. Joel B. Reed has 3 series.
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