Mark Travis

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    January 2015
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Full Series List in Order

A Dan Ballantine Mystery

2 - Express Malice (Nov-2008)
3 - Crash And Burn (Jan-2009)
4 - Cold Leg (Apr-2009)
5 - Payback (Apr-2009)
6 - Split-Dollar Murder (Apr-2009)
7 - Devil's Drop (Jun-2010)
8 - Dead Peasants (Dec-2010)
9 - The Best Of Pals (Jun-2011)
10 - A Hurt for a Hurt (May-2012)
11 - Sucked Up (May-2012)

Ethan Cooper

1 - Destroy Phoenix (Feb-2009)
2 - Murder For A Buck (Mar-2009)

Michael Hunt

2 - The Bad Boy Murders (Apr-2009)
3 - Rebellion (Feb-2009)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Stumped

    Victoria Voeght, a naïve seventeen year-old raised by a wealthy widower, moves into a freshman dorm and pledges a sorority. At her first mixer, a friendly senior hands her a can of cola laced with Rohypnol, and chats with her until she fades from co...

  • Intent to Defraud

    Jennifer Posey's body is forced against a screen at the bottom of the Monticello Dam overflow drain. A deputy sheriff found the suicide note she left in her Mercedes. Jennifer's husband has a solid alibi and the life insurance will soon pay Brian fiv...

  • Express Malice

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 2

    Dan Ballantine, medically retired ex-cop, non-practicing, thirty-something lawyer, and his dog, Penny, plan to open trout season at Lake Crowley. While driving before dawn, Dan spots a body draped over the roadside berm. He finds a naked, badly beate...

  • Crash And Burn

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 3

    Private investigator Dan Ballantine visits a Piper Cherokee crashed into a dry desert lake. Sacramento physician Steven Reynolds left a widow who wants her million dollars in life insurance money, but the FAA crew could not find the pilot's head atta...

  • Destroy Phoenix

    Ethan Cooper - 1

    Domestic terrorists destroyed the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. 168 men, women, and children died. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted. A map found in McVeigh's car marked seven federal buildings in Phoenix. The FBI...

  • Raid Across the Rio Bravo

    Dawn, Christmas Day, 1916, the Taylor Ranch, Big Bend country, Texas. The Big House is filled with family and guests from nearby Terlingua for a happy holiday celebration. Texas Ranger Captain Jesse Taylor, and his nephew, U.S. Army 8th Cavalry Lt. S...

  • Rebellion

    Michael Hunt - 3

    How bad can the US economy get? A few years from now, when diesel fuel hits $10 per gallon, the Teamsters Union declares a nationwide strike. The independents eagerly join, and within 48 hours market shelves are empty and fuel station tanks are dry. ...

  • Draftee, Us Army, 2 Each

    Did you and your buddies wear olive drab on your senior trip? Did you go to a foreign country, meet many strange new people, and try to kill them all? In the middle 60s the Selective Service drafts 3000 men per month into the military. Most are train...

  • Murder For A Buck

    Ethan Cooper - 2

    On the opening day of deer season in a rural Northern California county, a hunter stalks and kills the buck of a lifetime. While admiring his trophy, another hunter murders him and steals his prize. New to the area Fish and Game Warden Ethan Cooper f...



  • The Bad Boy Murders

    Michael Hunt - 2

  • Cold Leg

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 4

    Albert Romano was an avid hiker, bicyclist, and snow skier, but he ran into trouble on a solo hike in the Desolation Wilderness above Lake Tahoe. A misstep caused a rock slide which trapped his left leg to the knee. He could not dig himself free. The...

  • Commitments

    Southern California, fall, 1971. Five young men meet as they register for law school. Derek McCall met Thomas Caine while they soldiered in Vietnam. Caine works at a hospital where he meets wealthy Kathryn Bradshaw who loves him and wants to introduc...

  • Dead Drunk

    Sacramento Homicide Detective 'Harker' Smith is called to a horribly smashed corpse stretched on clean concrete behind a shopping center. He concludes a murderer stretched the unconscious victim around the front wheel and tire of a heavy vehicle, tru...

  • Payback

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 5

    Steven Reynolds and Linda Coleman work a scam for $1.6 million in cash. The day before private investigator Dan Ballantine causes Reynolds' arrest, Coleman drugs her partner and absconds with the money. She stops in Las Vegas, buys a new identity, st...

  • Split-Dollar Murder

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 6

    Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren, and Ted Turner enjoy life insurance policies in excess of $25 million paid for by their corporations as an executive perk. When three other famous and wealthy men with similar policies are murdered by a killer who gets u...

  • Devil's Drop

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 7

    Heather Wright smashes her brain on a pointed basaltic rock after she falls off the Devil's Postpile National Monument. Witnesses in the area tell the investigating ranger that Heather's husband, Tom, was nowhere near her before her fall. Tom, an out...

  • Dead Peasants

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 8

    At noon, the rainy Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, twenty-eight employees of Littmann's Janitorial Service climb onto a luxury tour bus reserved by their boss. As they mix cocktails and open beers, they think about the annual weekend party they will...

  • The Best Of Pals

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 9

    Nick, Bob, and John were born within days of each other and grew up on the same street. They went to the same schools, played on the same teams, were Cub and Boy Scouts together, enjoyed a lawn mowing business, rode bicycles and motorcycles together,...

  • Pliney Fiske

    Pliney Fiske is a timid young pension agent for the federal government who finds himself sprawled and bleeding in a barnyard in Concord, New Hampshire, the muzzle of a gun in his face and the Civil War veteran behind it quivering with rage. Fiske is ...



  • A Hurt for a Hurt

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 10

    On Jeff Sanford's 21st birthday, his Sigma Pi fraternity brother, Tyler Thompson, offers to buy the first round at Sacramento's Overtime Sports Bar. Four brothers join them in the celebration. Several beers later the Lakers are beating the Kings, and...

  • Sucked Up

    A Dan Ballantine Mystery - 11

    On Sunday afternoon, May 22, 2011, a Category Five tornado touches earth west of Joplin, Missouri, and rips twenty-two miles easterly through the town. It kills 162 people and does $2.2 billion dollars damage. Brad Carson rides his motorcycle on the ...

  • Robbers

    They should not have robbed Horatio. They should not have come to his camp site after dark wearing black jeans, black hoodies, black ski masks, and tan combat boots. They should not have threatened Horatio and his son with sawed-off shotguns. They sh...

  • Murder Mud

    On March 22, 2014, a mud slide engulfed 49 homes and other structures in a neighborhood a few miles east of Oso, Washington. 43 people were killed. Twenty-two-year-old Jordan McFadden’s husband, Kyle, died in his sleep that morning when the slide c...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Travis has published 23 books.

Mark Travis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder Mud, was published in January 2015.

The first book by Mark Travis, Stumped, was published in January 1998.

Yes. Mark Travis has 3 series.
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