T. Jefferson Parker

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1985
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood

1 - L.A. Outlaws (Feb-2008)
2 - The Renegades (Feb-2009)
3 - Iron River (Jan-2010)
4 - The Border Lords (Jan-2011)
5 - The Jaguar (Jan-2012)
6 - The Famous and the Dead (Apr-2013)

Merci Rayborn

1 - The Blue Hour (May-1999)
2 - Red Light (Apr-2000)
3 - Black Water (Apr-2002)

Roland Ford

1 - The Room of White Fire (Aug-2017)
2 - Swift Vengeance (Aug-2018)
3 - The Last Good Guy (Aug-2019)
4 - Then She Vanished (Aug-2020)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Laguna Heat

    LAGUNA... Where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas... LAGUNA... Where trouble has swept in like a ...

  • Little Saigon

    Amateur surfer Chuck Frye feels like a wipeout. He's the prodigal son of Orange County's most powerful land baron -- and suddenly, his life is about to receive a terrifying, life-altering jolt. His brother's Vietnamese wife is kidnapped, without a ra...

  • Pacific Beat

    Two things you never do: Kill a cop's wife or killa cop's sister. Someone's done both...and Newport Beach is about to explode!...

  • Summer of Fear

    It's a scorching California summer, and cop-turned-crime-writer Russ Monroe has stumbled onto the hottest story of his career. A vicious serial killer is massacring entire families, leaving once-peaceful communities paralyzed with fear. The polic...

  • The Triggerman's Dance

    From the author of "Laguna Heat" and "Summer of Fear" comes an intense, masterful novel of murder and revenge on California's Gold Coast--a page-turning thriller with a deep emotional undercurrent about love, loss, and the need to make things right....

  • Where Serpents Lie

    One man's obsessive quest to protect the innocent -- while facing the guilt in his own past. Terry Naughton has come up against his share of heinous criminals in his years on the force -- but nothing has prepared him for the Horridus, the brillian...

  • The Blue Hour

    Merci Rayborn - 1

    Do you always check the backseat of your car before you get in? You should. Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence - his own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash, impatient, and not someon...

  • Red Light

    Merci Rayborn - 2

    Merci Rayborn is back. It's two years after the death of Tim Hess, her partner and the father of her child, and Merci is working hard to hold it all together. She and her son are living with her father. She's also dating Mike McNally, a respecte...

  • Silent Joe

    With the horrible remnants of a childhood tragedy forever visible across his otherwise handsome face, Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a charismatic politician who sensed his dark potential, Joe is ...



  • Black Water

    Merci Rayborn - 3

    A beautiful young woman is dead in the bathroom of her home. Her husband--a promising young cop named Archie Wildcraft is shot in the head, but still alive. It looks like an attempted murder/suicide, but something tells Detective Merci Rayborn that t...

  • Cold Pursuit

    California Homicide Detective Tom McMichael has every good reason to pass on the investigation of slain city patriarch Pete Braga. After all, it was former mayor and self-made millionaire Braga who killed Tom's grandfather in a dispute over money --...

  • California Girl

    A different world then, a different world now ... California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and dr...

  • The Fallen

    A good cop, Robbie Brownlaw was thrown from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel and miraculously survived. The traumatic incident left Robbie with a fast-track career in the San Diego P.D.'s Homicide division . . . and a rare neurological condit...

  • Storm Runners

    Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son ... Once Matt Stromsoe was best friends with brilliant, unpredictable Mike Tavarez. That was before Stromsoe joined the San Diego P.D. and Mike left Harvard ...

  • L.A. Outlaws

    Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood - 1

    Here's the deal....I'm about to stick up a west-side dude for twenty thousand dollars in cash. He won't be happy, but he'll turn it over. And I'll be richer and more famous than I already am. My name is Allison Murrieta. She's an L.A. celebrity, a...

  • Skinhead Central

    in The Blue Religion

    WHAT IS IT LIKE TO CORNER A MURDERER? TO UNMASK A HIDDEN KILLER? In The Blue Religion, bestselling author Michael Connelly brings together nineteen original stories from some of today's greatest crime writers to reveal the thrills and dangers of b...

  • The Renegades

    Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood - 2

    Some say that outlaws no longer exist, that the true spirit of the American West died with the legendary bandits of pulp novels and bedtime stories. Charlie Hood knows that nothing could be further from the truth. These days he patrols vast stretches...

  • Iron River

    Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood - 3

    T. Jefferson Parker ranks among the very top tier of contemporary crime writers, and his new series has received some of the most effusive reviews of his already stellar career. In L.A. Outlaws, Parker introduced Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy C...

  • Hook, Line & Sinister

    Original short stories by best-selling mystery writers about their favorite pastime -- fishing. Sixteen of America's favorite author-anglers spin tales of mystery and fishing in this collection. From the tragic to the comic with many stops in betwe...



  • The Border Lords

    Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood - 4

    Year after year, T. Jefferson Parker delivers powerful novels of depth and intelligence that make it clear that Dutton is not just publishing one of the best crime writers of his generation, but perhaps one of the greatest crime writers ever. The no...

  • The Jaguar

    Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood - 5

    Erin McKenna, a beautiful songwriter married to a crooked Los Angeles County sheriff 's deputy, is kidnapped by Benjamin Armenta, the ruthless leader of the powerful Gulf Cartel. But his demands turn out to be as unusual as the crumbling castle in wh...

  • The Famous and the Dead

    Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood - 6

    Los Angeles County sheriff ’s deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the iron river that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border. The diamond fillings he wears in his left canine glimmer, distracting the men who sell the ill...

  • Full Measure

    Patrick Norris has seen the worst that Afghanistan has to offer -- excruciating heat, bitter cold, and death waiting behind every rock as comrades are blown to pieces by bombs and snipers. He returns home exhilarated by his new freedom and eager to r...

  • Crazy Blood

    The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illeg...

  • Amazonia

    A beguiling story of an adventurous traveler, from the Edgar Award-winning author of the bestselling Deputy Charlie Hood series.Fresh out of college, a young man is hired by a high-end travel agency. His fears that he might be in over his head prove ...

  • The Room of White Fire

    Roland Ford - 1

    A young soldier shattered by war, on the run from a mental institute. A P.I. carrying his own vicious wounds hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. Rola...

  • Swift Vengeance

    Roland Ford - 2

    In this incendiary new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker, Roland Ford is hunting down a mysterious killer, jockeying for position with the FBI, and risking everything to save a frien...

  • The Last Good Guy

    Roland Ford - 3

    In this electrifying new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet. Whe...

  • Then She Vanished

    Roland Ford - 4

    What if the client who's hired you can't be trusted...and the woman you're looking for doesn't want to be found? With Then She Vanished, three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times-bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker delivers ...



  • A Thousand Steps

    A Thousand Steps is a gripping thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. ...

  • The Rescue

    The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker.While reporting on a Tijua...

  • Desperation Reef

    In this high-stakes thriller by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker, ("A marvel...hits the high-water mark for crime fiction every time out." -- Gregg Hurwitz), a big wave surfer and her sons compe...

Award-Winning Books by T. Jefferson Parker

California Girl
2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
The Room of White Fire
2018 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
Silent Joe
2001 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Mystery/Thriller
2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
Skinhead Central
2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Short Story


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

T. Jefferson Parker has published 32 books.

T. Jefferson Parker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Desperation Reef, was published in July 2024.

The first book by T. Jefferson Parker, Laguna Heat, was published in September 1985.

Yes. T. Jefferson Parker has 3 series.
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