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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2013
  • Latest Book:
    January 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Jack Handler

1 - Jack and the New York Death Mask (Jan-2013)
1 - Ghosts of Cherry Street And the Cumberbatch Oubliette (Jan-2016)
2 - Murder on Sugar Island (Jan-2013)
3 - Superior Peril (Jan-2013)
4 - Superior Intrigue (Jan-2014)
5 - Sugar Island Girl Missing in Paris (Jan-2014)
6 - Wealthy Street Murders (Jan-2014)
7 - Murders in Strangmoor Bog (Jan-2015)

Jack's Justice

1 - Ghosts of Cherry Street And the Cumberbatch Oubliette (Jan-2016)
2 - Assault on Sugar Island (2016)
3 - Dogfight (Jan-2017)
4 - Murder at Whitefish Point (Jan-2017)
5 - Superior Shoal (Jan-2018)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • This book is the source for Jack Handler's notorious "Inscrutable Puzzle." It is introduced in the latter chapters and has never been solved, even after publication of the sixth book in the series. It is a puzzle that would make Alan Turing proud. RB...



  • They thought their task was an easy one -- take a week off, drive north through Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas, perhaps enjoy some Mackinaw fudge on the way, claim a fabulous Sugar Island inheritance, and then go back home. However, nothin...



  • Move over James Patterson and David Baldacci ... Michael Carrier is the newest great suspense author!!! Murder on Sugar Island is an intense thrill ride!! Michael Carrier's character Jack Handler is a retired Chicago detective who keeps finding himse...



  • Retired Homicide Detective Jack Handler is asked by his nephew's teacher if he would investigate her sister's disappearance. Sugar Island girl Jill Talbot, who was vacationing in Paris with her boyfriend, seems to have disappeared, and neither her bo...



  • Chapter 1--The Catfight: Do you remember how to get off this island? Festerman asked his associate, David Nacow. Not exactly, Nacow replied as their rented Suburban wound its way along a gravel road. This doesn t look familiar ... probably should hav...



  • Nursing students are being murdered in Grand Rapids, MI. Is it the work of a serial killer? Or are the police simply not able to determine the motive behind the crimes. Jack, Kate, Red, Robby and Buddy all join forces to solve these crimes....



  • Neither Jack nor Kate had actually seen anyone in the parking lot. But it did appear to Jack that what Kate had spotted was a light shining out from beneath his Tahoe, and that they needed to investigate. Jack slid out the front door. It faced the ri...



  • A chamber of incarceration and torture…

    In Ghosts of Cherry Street: And the Cumberbatch Oubliette, Jack and Kate Handler are challenged as never before.

    As the story begins, retired Chicago detective Jack Handler and family are getti...







  • Federal Judges are being murdered. One of the cases was broken by Kate Handler, New York City homicide detective. She is concerned about the nature of the case because the killer's legal team seem all to eager to settle the case quietly. But when a j...



  • Top Shelf Murder Mystery -- Riveting. Being a Murder-Mystery “JUNKIE” this book is definitely a keeper … can’t put it down … read it again type of book … and it is very precise to the lifestyles in Upper Michigan. Very well researched. I ...



  • Skydiving onto the deck of a moving freighter…at night…and then add bombs and explosions…

    In Superior Shoal, murder and mayhem stalk Jack Handler throughout the Great Lakes, culminating in the fiery sinking of a thousand-foot freighter...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Carrier has published 12 books.

Michael Carrier does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Superior Shoal, was published in January 2018.

The first book by Michael Carrier, Murder on Sugar Island, was published in January 2013.

Yes. Michael Carrier has 2 series.