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WELCOME TO THE DEADLY WATERS Where the wild is unforgiving… and the truth can get you killed. From award-winning author Michael Lister comes the Deadly Waters Thrillers—a gripping series set in the rivers, swamps, backroads, and barrier islands of North Florida, where beauty hides brutality and survival is never guaranteed. In these waters, everything hunts The rivers run black. The storms roll in fast. The woods close in tight. And out here, far from help, the most dangerous predator isn’t the wild. It’s human. High-stakes suspense. Relentless pursuit. No way out. Across this ...

Six novels in the critically acclaimed John Jordan series from award winning author and New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Lister. BLOOD MONEY The body of a young woman propped against a fence, a series of suicides with unique calling cards, and a stolen corpse. Can John Jordan figure out what it all means in time to save the life of his favorite coworker? Detective John Jordan investigates a series of baffling cases that include the body of a young woman propped against a prison fence, a series of suicides with a unique calling card, a stolen corpse, a young man fighting for ...

True Crime Fact Meets Truly Thrilling Mystery Fiction True Crime Fiction is a collection of mystery thrillers inspired by and including factual information about actual true crime cases. Books Included (and the cases that inspired them): INNOCENT BLOOD (The Atlanta Monster / The Atlanta Child Murders) BLOOD WORK (Ted Bundy) COLD BLOOD (Maura Murray) BLOOD BETRAYAL (Hae Min Lee / Adnan Syed) BLOOD TIES (JonBenét Ramsey) BLOODSHED (Columbine) "Michael Lister is a master storyteller." Michael Connelly

“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: A Pair of Determined Detectives In the sun-soaked expanse of Panama City Beach, Florida, Lucas Burke and Alix “Blade” Baker are the area's most tenacious private investigators. Specializing in missing persons cases, their work is more than just a job—it’s a personal ...

In this unique look at Internal Family Systems Therapy, New York Times bestselling novelist Michael Lister recounts his first year of IFS therapy with his gifted and compassionate counselor Bob Kuchta. Employing novelistic techniques that vividly bring to life IFS parts work, each session is depicted with arresting detail, providing readers with a truly immersive and moving experience. This intimate and entertaining look at this revolutionary therapy offers readers unparalleled access to the inner workings of a client’s first experiences with IFS and the wisdom and insight provided by his...

It’s the case John Jordan doesn’t talk about. The Stone Cold Killer still haunts his nightmares. The year is 1988—the hundredth anniversary of the Jack the Ripper murders—and a young John Jordan has just landed his first job in law enforcement. Then young women begin disappearing around Stone Mountain. As John puts the clues together, a terrifying pattern emerges. Someone is hunting women. Someone methodical, sadistic, and ritualistic. And he is far from finished. The small town of Stone Mountain has never faced a killer like this. Neither has its police department. Neither has John...

A pregnant woman vanishes on Christmas Eve. Everyone suspects her husband. John Jordan is not convinced. Emma Oliver is young, sweet, and seemingly adored by everyone in Pottersville. Then she disappears. At the center of the investigation is her husband, Brady. He refuses to make a public plea for Emma’s safe return. His carefully controlled composure begins to crack. He changes his alibi. And his boat was seen near the desolate shore of St. Amaro Bay on the day his pregnant wife vanished. The evidence is mounting. The public has already decided Brady is guilty. John Jordan hasn't. Then ...

Someone close to John Jordan is murdered. Now it’s personal. Sheriff Reggie Summers—John’s longtime boss and close friend—has lost her reelection bid and has only weeks left in office. John Jordan is already facing an uncertain future. Then two teenage girls are found bloodied and unconscious in a nearby swamp. Ava Branch and Olivia Colvin skipped school together. What happened afterward leaves them brutally attacked—and John searching for answers. As the empathic chaplain turned sheriff’s investigator digs into the case, he begins uncovering secrets someone is willing to kill ...

A group of forty-something AAU moms have an adult slumber party to celebrate one of their birthdays in a mansion on Panama City Beach. The next morning, one of them is found dead face down in the backyard. Was it a drunken accident? Suicide? Or murder? Burke and Blade--are called in to do what the authorities couldn't--find the truth and bring a killer to justice, but to do so, they're going to have to use all their experience and wits and survive attacks from an unhinged Russian mobster, a corrupt Panhandle sheriff, and the influential people who want the truth to remain hidden. Can they ...

Someone is killing the Tupelo Queens—and doing it in public. They are lifelong friends. They grew up together. They perform together. And each was once crowned queen of the annual Tupelo Festival. One of them is John Jordan’s aunt. Now someone wants the Tupelo Queens dead. The murders are dramatic, wicked, and ingenious—committed in public by a killer seemingly unafraid of being seen. But why? Is it connected to the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country? An old grudge finally turning into revenge? A random act of violence? Or is someone killing for money? As John searches for the ...

A midnight call. A violent storm. A race to save a life before it’s too late. From award-winning author Michael Lister comes THUNDER BEACH—a high-voltage thriller set on the neon-lit, storm-lashed strip of Panama City Beach. The call comes in the dark A girl is in trouble. Terrified. Running out of time. Merrick McKnight picks up the phone—and can’t walk away. A former reporter with a past he can’t outrun, Merrick knows this feeling: the story that changes everything. This time, it’s not just a story. It’s life or death. The beach is packed. The storm is coming. The danger is ...

Was Harper Ellis murdered or was it suicide? Harper Ellis had everything to live for—a promising career as a beloved elementary school teacher, a tight-knit group of friends, and a dream wedding on the horizon with her fiancé, Daniel Kessler. Life in her beachfront condo in Panama City Beach, Florida, should have been the start of her happily ever after. But on the evening of January 26, 2021, Harper was found dead—brutally stabbed twenty times in her own home. Daniel swears he left her alive just thirty minutes earlier. When he returned, the condo was locked from the inside, the ...

John Jordan has been like a father to her since she was sixteen. Now she is missing. John is still grieving the loss of a close friend and coworker when another person he loves disappears. Carla Pearson vanishes from a remote river-camp cabin after her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Mason Hayes, leaves her there following an argument. The cabin is accessible only by boat. Beyond it stretch thousands of acres of swamp and dense, nearly impenetrable woods. Carla could be anywhere. And someone knows where. Was it Mason, the last person known to have seen her? Her ex, Easton Stevens? Easton’s...

The stalker is dead. The prime suspect is John Jordan. Anna’s ex-husband—the man who has been stalking her—is found brutally beaten to death at the Dead Lakes Campground. Everyone close to Anna had a reason to want him gone. No one more than John. The body tells one story: rage. Hatred. A deeply personal vendetta. But the crime scene tells another. Someone has carefully staged it. Someone who understands homicide investigations, knows what detectives look for, and knows how to use that knowledge to hide the truth. Now John must investigate a murder in which he—and the people he ...

John Jordan is on trial for wrongful death. A serial killer is using the devastation of a hurricane to hide his murders. North Florida has been shattered. In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, homes are gone. Communities are broken. Survivors are struggling to put their lives back together. And someone is using the chaos to kill. While John Jordan stands trial for wrongful death, a cunning predator begins preying on people already devastated by the storm—hiding cold-blooded murders amid the destruction and death left behind. John has faced killers before. Never one quite like this. With ...

Still reeling from their previous case, Lucas Burke and Alix “Blade” Baker, PIs specializing in missing person cases, are about to be tested in ways they have never been before. Growing up in foster care and children’s homes, they are smart and savvy and tough, but are they smart and savvy and tough enough to solve the baffling disappearance of Aiden Shaw? Two years ago, on Halloween night, surrounded by witnesses, Aiden Shaw vanished off the face of the earth. Now his heartbroken mother and the weary cold case cop in charge of the investigation turn to Burke and Blade for help. Did ...

Someone is killing cops—with their own guns. From award-winning author Michael Lister comes A CERTAIN RETRIBUTION, the electrifying sequel to THUNDER BEACH—a gripping small-town thriller where justice bends, secrets run deep, and nothing is what it seems. Welcome to Wewa A place where everybody knows your name. Your past. Your business. And what you’ve done. Or think they do. A killer with a message Police officers are turning up dead— murdered with their own weapons. No witnesses. No clear motive. No pattern anyone can crack. Until Merrick McKnight starts asking questions. A past ...

One night. One killer. One woman John Jordan cannot lose. A daring escape is already in motion. John Jordan is locked in with a vicious, relentless killer—and the life he is trying to save belongs to the woman he loves. There is no time for backup. No time for mistakes. And no second chance. As darkness falls, John finds himself caught in a deadly game of pursuit and survival, racing against a killer who will stop at nothing to finish what he started. The stakes have never been more personal. Every minute brings the killer closer. Every choice could be John's last. And before the night is...

In the heart-pounding thriller Gone in the Night, seasoned investigators Burke and Blade confront their most personal case yet: the decade-old disappearance of their sister, Kaylee Walsh. On April 9, 2014, Kaylee, a promising 21-year-old psychology student at the University of Florida, vanished without a trace. After fabricating a family emergency, she left campus, only to disappear from a rural Georgia road that night. Witnesses saw her car crash into a ditch, but within minutes, she was gone—never to be seen again. For ten years, Kaylee's disappearance has remained one of the most ...

A three-year-old girl vanishes from a locked house. The cameras show no one coming or going. On the night of her parents’ Winter Solstice party, three-year-old Magdalene Dacosta disappears. She is never seen again. The house was securely locked. Security cameras show no one entering or leaving. So how did a three-year-old child simply vanish? Detective John Jordan is asked to take another look at a disappearance that seems impossible. Somewhere inside the events of that night is an explanation for what happened to Magdalene—and someone who may know far more than they have ever admitted....