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“No badge, no problem. Michael Lister’s first swing at the modern private eye novel is a home run. The Night Of is an instant classic with rich characters and storytelling that grips your heart from first page to last.” - #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly Lucas Burke and Alix "Blade" Baker are Panama City Beach PIs specializing in missing persons cases--work they were led to by their own sister's disappearance. Growing up in foster care and children's homes has made them tough, savvy, and streetwise, but nothing has prepared them for this. Nora Henri and her infant...

Atlanta Monster is a box set of two thrilling murder mysteries set in Atlanta during and after the Atlanta Child Murders. INNOCENT BLOOD John Jordan’s very first case is his most shocking and devastating. Discover the secret that haunts this legendary detective to this day. When John Jordan was twelve years old, he came face-to-face with the Atlanta Monster, Wayne Williams, the man who went to prison for the Atlanta Child Murders. Unconvinced Williams was responsible for all the murders, John returns to Atlanta six years later to discover the truth. As John battles his demons and embarks ...

Detective John Jordan is drinking again. And it's little wonder. As if trying to catch a killer and find out who's stalking his ex-lover wasn't enough, his ex-wife shows up. The murder is as unimaginable as it is inconceivable—that of Nicole Caldwell, the adopted daughter of televangelist Bobby Earl Caldwell, committed inside John’s own locked office. The case of his ex-lover's stalker is nearly as baffling. Is it possible that John and his team of guardian angels are the only ones following Laura Matthers? The resurfacing of his ex-wife is far more complicated than John could ...

It's the case John Jordan doesn't talk about. The Stone Cold Killer still haunts John's nightmares. It was his first official case as a law enforcement officer -- and almost his last. On the one-hundredth anniversary of the Jack the Ripper case John Jordan gets his first job in law enforcement—and a case that will change his life forever. When young women start disappearing, John begins putting clues together that point to a chilling reality: a sadistic, ritualistic serial killer is on a mission. The small town of Stone Mountain and its police department are no match for the cunning and ...

On trial for his life. On the trail of a serial killer.  While on trial for wrongful death, John Jordan must catch a cunning killer who is using the chaos of the decimated post-Hurricane Michael landscape to hide his heinous acts of cold-blooded murder.  John is not only fighting for his very soul but that of his beloved community—and he’s never seen a predator quite like this one. It takes a particularly cruel killer to prey on those who have just been devastated by the most powerful hurricane to ever hit North Florida.   Can John be triumphant again or has he finally met his match...

Just as death is inevitable, talking about death is an inevitable part of parenting. Dr. Elena Lister and Dr. Michael Schwartzman offer us the way to have conversations with children that are as much about life as they are about death—conversations that anyone who parents, teaches, or counsels children can have.

Ex-cop John Jordan, now a prison chaplain in the Florida Panhandle, witnesses the bloody death of Potter Correctional Institution inmate Ike Johnson. But what exactly did he witness? Murder, accident, or suicide? Jordan discovers that in the closed society of captives and captors no act goes unseen, and no one takes kindly to a cop in a collar. He soon finds his reputation, his career, and even his life are at stake.

It's not too late to discover the lost gospel of Jesus and begin to live by it, to change our direction, to once again become people of the way. We could, with humility, embody compassion and justice. We could so completely trust God that we dare to share what we have with those in need, love those who hate us, bless those who curse us.

Detective John Jordan thought he had put murder investigation behind him for good — his own good. Leaving Atlanta, he returns to Florida in search of the serenity that has so long eluded him. Until he witnesses the shocking and bizarre death of an inmate in state prison custody and is asked to find a missing mom by her young children. John realizes he can't run from his true calling any longer.

Someone close to legendary detective John Jordan is murdered and now he is . . . OUT FOR BLOOD!  Lister’s sterling new novel, featuring empathic chaplain-turned–sheriff’s investigator John Jordan, finds Jordan nearing a turning point in his storied career.  His longtime boss and close friend, Sheriff Reggie Summers, has lost a reelection bid and has just weeks to go in her tenure—and Jordan’s not a fan of her successor. Meanwhile, he’s thrust into a high-profile case. While investigating the brutal attack of two teenage girls, Ava Branch and Olivia Colvin, Jordan uncovers the ...

In the early morning hours of October 10, 2000 a young girl left her home in the middle of a stormy night with only a backpack and was never seen again. What happened to ten-year-old Leah Harrison? At sometime between midnight and two a.m., Leah Harrison snuck out of her family’s condo on Panama City Beach and ventured out into a severe tropical storm and vanished forever. Why did this young girl who was frightened of storms get up in the middle of the night and go out into such a deadly one? What was so important that it couldn’t wait until morning? And what happened to her once she ...

Someone is following Lauren Lewis. She ducks into the office of PI Jimmy "Soldier" Riley, not to hire him, but to find out if he's the one following her. Back when they were lovers he told her if he ever decided to, she'd never know he was there. It's 1940s Panama City, Florida. The world is at war, and the growing panhandle paradise is doing its part. Tyndall Field is training pilots. Wainwright Shipyard is building battleships. The Naval Section Base is protecting vessels in the Gulf.

Following his dad's death, Remington James returns to the small North Florida town where he grew up to assume his father's life - taking care of his dying mother and running the local gun and pawn shop. Picking up a camera again after a long hiatus, Remington returns to his first love, pursuing in earnest his lifelong dream of becoming a wildlife photographer. One fateful evening, while checking his camera traps, scanning the eerie images of overexposed deer and bats and foxes, Remington comes across the most haunting images of his life - the frame-by-frame capture of a shocking crime.

Someone's trying to kill PI Jimmy “Soldier” Riley. And he's inclined to let them. But before sleeping the big sleep and journeying to the undiscovered country to discover what dreams may come, there’s blood work to be done. Picking up right at the thrilling conclusion of The Big Goodbye, The Big Beyond finds Soldier near death with one hell of a big score to settle and more than a few injustices to square along the way - all while searching wartime Panama City for a dangerous serial killer who combines art and murder.

In the swamps of North Florida, Remington James' camera captured the best of nature and the worst of humanity, and it cost him his life. Three years later, his widow turns to the one man who can answer her questions and solve the mystery of his murder—John Jordan.

Who took Magdalene Dacosta? Why? Where is she now? On the night of her parents' Winter Solstice party, three-year-old Magdalene Dacosta vanishes in the night, never to be seen again.  But how did this happen? The home was locked up securely, and security cameras show no one entering or leaving the residence. Detective John Jordan must figure out how this seemingly impossible crime was committed and who is capable of such wickedness before it's too late for another innocent. John Jordan has never had a more baffling case, and the stakes for him have never been higher!  Inspired by the real...

John has been like a father to her since she was 16. Now she is missing. He’s still grieving the loss of a close friend and co-worker and he’s not prepared for this. Carla Pearson vanishes from a river camp cabin after her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Mason Hayes, leaves her there following an argument. The cabin is only accessible by boat and beyond it are thousands of acres of jungle-like swamps and dense, nearly impenetrable woods. What happened to Carla and who is responsible for her disappearance? Is it Mason Hayes? Is it her ex, Easton Stevens? His jealous wife? Or someone John ...

Panama City PIs Burke and Blade are back! When Brooklyn Hill goes missing while on a pub crawl during her bachelorette weekend on Panama City Beach, Burke and Blade are called in to do what no one else has been able to—find her. Or at least figure out what happened to her. The seeming impossible vanishing has everyone baffled—Brook walked into Jungle Jim’s and never walked out again. Every entrance and exit is covered by surveillance cameras and the hundreds of people in the club saw her enter but never exit. And extensive searches, including both scent and cadaver dogs, prove she’s...

A missing girl. A shell-shocked soldier. A wife stepping out on her husband. Two women beaten to death. A sinister sabotage plot. A wounded, relentless private eye who will stop at nothing to protect those he loves. Picking up right at the thrilling conclusion of "The Big Bout," "The Big Blast" finds Soldier working three new complex cases and taking care of his friends in wartime Panama City. History. Mystery. Romance. Action. Thrills. Suspense. Noir. “Michael Lister writes some of the best hard-boiled prose going. Nothing short of amazing!” Booklist Starred Review. “Lister’s hard-...

The murder of retired priest Andrew Irwin begins like any other homicide investigation for sheriff’s Investigator John Jordan. But it is soon interrupted by an existential superstorm of apocalyptic proportions that threatens to destroy both John and his family. Can John catch a killer under such extreme and extraordinary circumstances? Will he live long enough to even be able to try?