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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Am Caulfield

1 - The Hotel Detective (May-1994)
2 - The Fat Innkeeper (Apr-1995)

A Gideon and Sirius Novel

1 - Burning Man (Dec-2012)
2 - Guardians of the Night (Jan-2015)
3 - Lost Dog (Jun-2016)
4 - The Homecoming (Jun-2017)
5 - L.A. Woman (Dec-2019)
6 - The Last Good Dog (Jul-2021)

Stuart Winter

1 - No Sign of Murder (Sep-1990)
2 - The Forest Prime Evil (Mar-1992)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • Beautiful, deaf heiress, Anita Walters, spent her days involved in cutting-edge primate research--teaching a gorilla named Joseph to communicate through sign language. By night she ran wild with a dangerous crowd. And six months ago she vanished. ...



  • JUST DYING TO SAVE THE TREES... Part hero, part activist, the Green Man is a modem-day Johnny Appleseed whose grass roots campaign to preserve the redwoods gets the ax when he is felled by a plummeting branch. But echoes of foul play reverberate t...



  • Acclaimed for his previous tough, hard-boiled whodunits, Alan Russell now introduces a new series in a more lighthearted vein featuring a wry and sly hotel detective with a decidedly offbeat approach to his job. Boyish, blond-haired ex-surfer Am Caul...



  • THE FAT INNEEPER IS HIROSHI YAMADA. THE INN IS THE POSH, VERY EXPENSIVE HOTEL CALIFORNIA, and the problem is...well...everything. For Am Caufield, head of hotel security, working for his new Japanese boss, Hiroshi, is hard enough. Then a debunker of ...



  • Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Phyllis A. Whitney, author of more than seventy bestsellers, presides over a salon of today's wittiest writers of mystery in this sparkling new addition to the series. MALICE DOMESTIC 5 once again delivers the ...



  • Holly Troy is a beautiful and talented sculptor whose only sanctuary is her art. She also lives with split personality disorder. She has several different and completely separate selves, including a frightened five year old girl, a party animal and e...



  • Gray Parker’s execution was front-page news and his case even inspired a bestselling book. Everyone wanted to hear about the man who strangled all those women. Everyone except his young son. As soon as he was old enough, Caleb moved away, started a...



  • Gray Parker’s execution was front-page news and his case even inspired a bestselling book. Everyone wanted to hear about the man who strangled all those women. Everyone except his young son. As soon as he was old enough, Caleb moved away, started a...



  • In Exposure, award-winning writer Alan Russell delivers an intricate, ambitious thriller that unfolds at break-neck speed against a glamorous and absorbing background. England's most beloved philanthropist and her football-star lover die in a crash c...






  • Will Travis, an investigator who specializes in small-time jobs like looking into employee theft at hotels and bars, falls into a much bigger case when he unwittingly foils a murder attempt on a politician's daughter. Sitting in a hotel bar he sees a...



  • LAPD cop Michael Gideon and his police dog partner Sirius became reluctant celebrities after capturing a notorious serial killer in the midst of an inferno. For their heroism, they were chosen to head up the newly formed Special Cases Unit. Now the d...



  • When Santa Claus is a cop, you better watch out. It’s not looking like a very merry Christmas for San Diego cop Nick Pappas. Suspended from his job, alienated from his family, and persecuted by the press, he’s sorely tempted to turn his gun on...



  • As the sole members of LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles’s standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange -- it might be ou...



  • Nina Granville believes her business trip to Alaska will give her a short respite from the merry-go-round that came with her engagement to Congressman Terrence Donnelly. But instead of allowing her the peace she craves, Nina’s getaway from the publ...



  • Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.’s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon’s K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home -- only to discover her owner...



  • Seven years ago, young Stella Pierce vanished from the face of the earth. Now her grieving, broken family -- along with Detective Orson Cheever, who never stopped working her case -- is stunned by her mysterious return. The now-teenage girl claims...



  • LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his K-9 partners try to outmaneuver not one but two serial killers, while investigating the suspicious death of a woman who belonged to a cult. When a woman in Bel Air dies of a rattlesnake bite, the case doesn’...



  • Years ago, LAPD Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, walked through fire to save Los Angeles from serial killer Ellis Haines, known as the Weatherman. Now, they prepare for a final showdown with their mortal foe.It's ...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alan Russell has published 19 books.

Alan Russell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Last Good Dog, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Alan Russell, No Sign of Murder, was published in September 1990.

Yes. Alan Russell has 3 series.