Ron Base

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Milton Mystery

1 - The Mill Pond (May-2018)
2 - Main Street, Milton (Apr-2019)
3 - The Hidden Quarry (May-2020)

The Sanibel Sunset Detective

1 - The Sanibel Sunset Detective (Dec-2010)
2 - The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns (Nov-2011)
3 - Another Sanibel Sunset Detective (Dec-2012)
4 - The Two Sanibel Sunset Detectives (Nov-2013)
5 - The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (Nov-2014)
6 - The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (Nov-2015)
7 - The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to London (May-2016)
8 - Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (Oct-2016)
9 - The Dame with the Sanibel Sunset Detective (Oct-2017)
10 - I, The Sanibel Sunset Detective (Sep-2018)
11 - Bring Me the Head of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (Sep-2019)
12 - The Devil and the Sanibel Sunset Detective (Aug-2020)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Matinee Idol

  • Foreign Object

  • Magic Man

    A charming novel of old Hollywood, first loves, and man with a touch of magicA mysterious young man named Brae Orrack arrives in Venice, California, in 1928, claiming to be a magic man who can turn stones to bees. Brae also comes carrying a curse. He...

  • The Strange

    A troubled 14-year-old boy. A duplicitous witch. A fabled tower. A magical Paris. Welcome to the world of "The Strange," Ron Base's exciting new fantasy-adventure called "hypnotic" by critic George Anthony. Hollywood Reporter critic Ray Bennett says ...

  • The Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 1

    Tree Callister is not much of a private detective.His first client just turned up at the door and he’s twelve years old. What’s more, the kid has the grand total of seven dollars with which to hire Tree to find his mother.Everyone on Sanibel Isla...

  • The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 2

    Private detective Tree Callister is in big trouble.

    For starters, a towering, baseball bat-wielding woman appears to be intent on killing him.

    Then the beautiful wife of a disgraced media mogul hires Tree because she believes her husba...

  • Another Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 3

    Welcome to Tree Callister's Sanibel Island...

    Meet some of his friends.

    THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN. She tries to seduce Tree in Paris and Key West-and she may be trying to kill him on Sanibel Island.

    TWO SHADY CHARACTERS. A former ...

  • The Two Sanibel Sunset Detectives

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 4

    Joshua and Madison are pretty smart kids. Except they have no idea what their father does for a living. They suspect the worst. That's where Private Detective Tree Callister comes in. Josh and Madi want him to find out what their father does, and why...

  • The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 5

    WANTED! A big, floppy-eared hound dog. Answers to the name of Clinton. The FBI wants him. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is hunting for him. All sorts of bad guys are willing to kill each other for him. What Private Detective Tree Callister can't ...



  • The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 6

    How does one detective end up married four times? A good question. Private detective Tree Callister wishes he had the answer. All he knows is that his three former wives have arrived on Sanibel Island off the west coast of Florida, much to the chagri...

  • The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to London

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 7

    What’s the Sanibel Sunset Detective doing in London?

    Tree Callister and his wife Freddie are in town to attend the wedding of Freddie’s nephew. It promises to be a relaxing time, visiting family, seeing London’s historic sites.

    S...

  • The Escarpment

    A young woman's body is discovered at the bottom of the escarpment. Did she jump? Or was she pushed? Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police corporal Jean Whitlock has returned in disgrace to Milton, Ontario, the town west of Toronto where she grew up. ...

  • Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 8

    Private Detective Tree Callister thinks he’s dying. He could be right. Humphrey Bogart doesn’t give him much hope. A floppy-eared hound dog named Clinton insists on talking to him. Meanwhile, a mysterious list sends Tree and his wife Freddie f...

  • The White Island: A Dark Edge Novella

    An exotic island off the coast of Spain. A beautiful young woman blackmailed into betraying the father she hates. A multi-millionaire and his glamorous wife on the run. A couple of quarreling CIA agents. A cunning Mossad spy. A duplicitous Russian ol...

  • The Dame with the Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 9

    There is nothing like a dame.

    Particularly when she’s an improbable heroine like Freddie Stayner. Ordinarily, it’s her husband, Tree Callister, a private detective on Sanibel Island, off the west coast of Florida, who gets into all the t...

  • The Mill Pond

    A Milton Mystery - 1

    The world is full of dead bodies. Disgraced former Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Jean Whitlock has returned to her hometown of Milton, Ontario, to try to put her life back together. It’s not working out very well. There is a body in the Mi...

  • I, The Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 10

    TOP FIVE WAYS A DETECTIVE GETS HIMSELF KILLED ON SANIBEL ISLAND... 1. Drive a Mercedes off a bridge. 2. Incur the wrath of a couple of shady Hollywood producers who think you once wrote the worst script ever written. 3. Find a dead body on a golf c...

  • Main Street, Milton

    A Milton Mystery - 2

  • Bring Me the Head of the Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 11

    His Head Will Roll.Somebody on Sanibel Island wants Tree Callister's head.It could be one of the two hoodlums threatening his life.Maybe it's his ex-wife, America's first female Russian oligarch.One thing is certain. Tree had better find the missing ...



  • The Hidden Quarry

    A Milton Mystery - 3

    Two nude bodies are found floating in an abandoned quarry outside the town of Georgetown and a quiet provincial region will never be the same.Former RCMP corporal Jean Whitlock, uneasily trying to put her life back together in her hometown of Milton,...

  • The Devil and the Sanibel Sunset Detective

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective - 12

    Beat the Devil!Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys nothing will ever be the same.One of the youths is Tree Callister who grows up to be an unlikely private ...

  • The Sanibel Sunset Detective Saves the World

    American astronaut Becky McPhee is experiencing the euphoria of her first spacewalk as she makes repairs to the International Space Station when she hears...A Voice...Returning to earth, Becky announces that the Voice has told her the planet will cea...

  • Death at the Savoy

    An atmospheric, entertaining new mystery series introducing a plucky Canadian heroine and set in the world’s most famous hotel.It’s 1968. London is in full swing and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming t...

  • The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to the Movies

    The Sanibel Sunset Detective is back-and he's in bigger trouble than ever!The last thing Tree Callister wants is to get involved in the movie that is being shot on Sanibel Island. But the film deals with the Hollywood life of his best pal, Rex Baxter...

  • Scandal at the Savoy

    The rich and famous are converging on the iconic Savoy Hotel in swinging ’60s London—including a famous Broadway producer with anger issues, a demanding Indian raja, and a gorgeous film star with certain kinky predilections. All is as it ...

  • Princess of the Savoy

    Check back into London’s posh Savoy Hotel in the swinging sixties where dark forces and murder are uninvited guests—volume 3 in the cheeky series that is now a French bestseller. Everything at London’s Savoy Hotel appears to be the ...

  • The Sanibel Sunset Detective's Last Case

    Tree Callister is leaving Sanibel Island!Sanibel's most unlikely private detective has decided to call it a day. Battered by hurricanes, their Captiva home in ruins, Tree and his wife Freddie are moving to Chicago. Just before he leaves, Tree gets a ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ron Base has published 27 books.

Ron Base does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Sanibel Sunset Detective's Last Case, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Ron Base, Matinee Idol, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Ron Base has 2 series.
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