Michael Kilian

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1981
  • Latest Book:
    April 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Erik Westman

1 - Deepkill (Jun-2005)

A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery

1 - Murder at Manassas (Jan-2000)
2 - A Killing at Balls Bluff (Jan-2001)
3 - The Ironclad Alibi (Jan-2002)
3 - A Grave at Glorieta (Jan-2003)
4 - The Shiloh Sisters (Jan-2004)
5 - The Antietam Assassins (Aug-2006)

A Jazz Age Mystery

1 - The Weeping Woman (Jun-2001)
2 - The Uninvited Countess (Aug-2002)
3 - Sinful Safari (Jul-2003)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Valkyrie Project

    A doomed journalist travels to Iceland to destroy a Soviet superweapon Halfway between the United States and the Soviet Union, Iceland is one of the most strategic points in the Cold War. And home to a NATO squadron that could wipe Moscow off the map...

  • Northern Exposure

    A diplomat hounded by the KGB and the CIA fights to prevent a Canadian civil war Pulling over on the California highway, 2 men argue with each other in French. They open their car’s trunk and haul out 2 victims: a drunk man and a screaming woman. W...

  • Blood of the Czars

    An actress infiltrates the Soviet Union to avenge the death of an ancestor When the Russian Revolution came to Saint Petersburg, Princess Irina went into hiding. A stunningly beautiful ballerina, she knew she had to escape the Bolsheviks -- or else d...

  • By Order of the President

    When an assassin targets the president, an outsider finds evidence of an even deeper conspiracy in this thriller from the author of The Valkyrie Project. The gunman crouches in his crawl space, dreaming of revenge. The United States has turned his ho...

  • Dance on a Sinking Ship

    A dogged reporter follows Prince Edward and Charles Lindbergh onto a doomed ocean liner in this historical novel with “a full cargo of intrigue” (Kirkus Reviews). C. Jamieson Spencer is sipping cognac when Paris starts to burn. As Communists and ...

  • Looker

    After a murder at the Plaza, a society columnist races to save a model’s life A daytime fashion show at the Plaza Hotel attracts the most beautiful, cynical, and useless people that New York society has to offer. Swimming among them is A. C. J...

  • The Last Virginia Gentleman

    A counterfeit stallion lures a Virginia horseman into a billion-dollar conspiracy Vicky Clay awakes with chills. She’s still glowing from her victory in last night’s steeplechase -- the genteel form of horseracing for which the Virginia gentry li...

  • The Big Score

    A billionaire’s commission draws an architect into a conspiracy of sex, lies, and murder The ship is dead in the water. Its lines are tangled and its sails are slack as it drifts toward the rocky coast. A fisherman spies the vessel and steps aboard...

  • Major Washington

    A historical novel about the Seven Years’ War, a conflict that shaped a young George Washington decades before the American Revolution. On May 28, 1754, the colonial militia surrounded a party of French-Canadian soldiers. With 15 minutes of rifle f...



  • Murder at Manassas

    A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery - 1

    A Southern gambler is on the trail of a coldblooded killer as war breaks out between the States in this “enjoyable and entertaining” debut mystery (Historical Novel Society). It’s July 1861, and both the Union and Confederate armies expect to ...

  • A Killing at Balls Bluff

    A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery - 2

    “A tightly constructed, well-written, and suspenseful whodunit” starring “a relentless but all-too-human hero” (Booklist).   The messenger finds Harrison Raines in one of the finest gambling halls in Washington. As usual, Raines is losin...

  • The Weeping Woman

    A Jazz Age Mystery - 1

    Set in the roaring twenties, this clever series takes readers to the height of the Jazz Age...a time when the music was bolder and the personalities brighter. From speakeasies to the bohemian scene, New York to Paris, follow Bedford Green, a man-abou...

  • The Ironclad Alibi

    A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery - 3

    Based on actual events, this innovative series follows the Civil War chronologically, battle-by-battle, using a specific historic battlefield as a setting for each novel. On March 9, 1862, the navy warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly the ...

  • The Uninvited Countess

    A Jazz Age Mystery - 2

    Set in the roaring twenties, this acclaimed series takes readers to the height of the jazz Age ...A time when the music was bolder and the personalities, brighter. From speakeasies to the bohemian scene, follow Bedford Green, a man-about-town who rub...

  • A Grave at Glorieta

    A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery - 3

    This newest novel finds U.S. Federal Agent Harrison Raines far from his Virginia home as the latest battle of the Civil War erupts in the west. . . Dispatched to the territory of New Mexico, Harry Raines and his partner Joseph "Boston" Leahy ...

  • Sinful Safari

    A Jazz Age Mystery - 3

    Bedford reluctantly joins his assistant Sloane on an African safari. She wants to keep an eye on her uncle's new wife Georgia, a suspected gold digger, who pushed this trip so she can rub elbows with the British aristocracy. But rubbing elbows isn't ...

  • The Shiloh Sisters

    A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery - 4

    A Union agent hunts a savage double murderer in the midst of a bloody battle in this “exciting” historical mystery (Publishers Weekly).   General Grant’s army is camped along the Tennessee River, ready to deal a crushing blow to the South....

  • Deepkill

    Erik Westman - 1

    In an underwater valley known as Deepkill, off the coast of Delaware, a live nuclear bomb lies in thirty feet of water... Is it a figment of a dying man's imagination -- or a weapon of mass destruction? With perhaps just a year to live, retired Air...

  • The Antietam Assassins

    A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery - 5

    The new Harrison Raines American Civil War mystery - Soon after starting to investigate the murder of a Presbyterian minister, Raines finds himself drawn into the battle of Antietam. Then follows a succession of murders of young Shepherdstown women w...



  • Bad Girl Blues

    A former fashion photographer encounters murder and corruption in New Orleans It’s too hot to sleep. It’s too hot to be up. This is New Orleans in the summer. And as dawn breaks on a sweltering July morning, André Derain awakens to a scream from...

  • Postcard from Hell

    A back-alley murder carries André Derain from the streets of New Orleans to the sun-drenched hell of the Cayman Islands It’s quiet in the Garden District, and André Derain can’t sleep. After a lifetime as a fashion photographer in New York and ...

  • Deep Kill

    After a botched terrorist plot, a Coast Guard agent uncovers a terrifying threat against America. The plan is simple. The moment the Homeland Security adviser reaches the middle of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a team of suicide bombers will rush his...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Kilian has published 22 books.

Michael Kilian does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Deep Kill, was published in April 2016.

The first book by Michael Kilian, The Valkyrie Project, was published in October 1981.

Yes. Michael Kilian has 3 series.
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