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  • Bibliography:
    83 Books (13 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2001
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An A.J. Harker Mystery

1 - The Drop Dead Blonde (Dec-2017)

A Circle City Mystery

1 - Chandler: Circle City Shakedown (Oct-2014)
2 - Chandler: Circle City Slam (Jul-2015)
3 - Chandler: Circle City Frame (Jul-2017)

The Fantastic Adventures of Hardluck Hannigan

3 - River of the Sun (Mar-2009)
Emerald Death (Jan-2008)
Curse of the Kill Devil (Mar-2010)
The Sky Masters (Jan-2011)
Ghosts of the Sargasso (Feb-2011)
The Spear of Goliath (Feb-2011)
The Golden Scorpion (Apr-2011)
Peril in the North (May-2012)
The Hand of Evil (Nov-2014)

Freetrader Orion

1 - Asteroid Raiders (Mar-2014)
2 - Wolfpacks on the Rim (Jun-2015)
3 - The Voyages of the Freetrader Orion (Feb-2016)

A Jack Riley Adventure

5 - The Child Stealers (Nov-2005)
Valley of Death (Jun-2001)
Mayan Gold (Mar-2002)
The Mummy's Tomb (May-2008)

A Joe Collins Mystery

1 - The Butterfly Tattoo (Jan-2011)
2 - Paradise Lost (May-2012)

A Key West Mystery

1 - Marlow: Indigo Tide (Sep-2013)
2 - Marlow: Banana Wind (Sep-2013)
3 - Marlow: The Neon Goodbye (Dec-2013)
4 - Marlow: Mango Run (Mar-2014)
5 - Marlow: Midnight Blues (Aug-2014)
6 - Marlow: Something Wicked (Mar-2015)
7 - Marlow: Dark Waters (Dec-2015)
8 - Marlow: Papa's Legacy (Jun-2016)
9 - Marlow: Hurricane Bay (Feb-2017)
10 - Marlow: Lost Girl (May-2018)
11 - Marlow: Red Tide (Jul-2020)

A Mitch Cooper Mystery

1 - One More Way to Die (Mar-2016)
2 - The Past Never Dies (Nov-2016)
3 - To Die for (Apr-2017)

A Moseby and French Mystery

1 - Speaking for the Dead (Dec-2016)

A Rebekah McCabe Mystery

1 - Night Shadows (Sep-2016)
2 - Night Sorrows (Nov-2017)
3 - Night Stalker (Oct-2018)

Sabre

1 - Sabre and the Temple of the Sun (Jul-2013)
2 - Sabre and the River of Doom (Apr-2014)

A Sam Decker Mysery

11 - Those Left Behind (Apr-2016)
12 - Blood Vow (May-2017)
Kill Shot (Feb-2009)
Death Song (Jun-2010)
Scorpion Cay (Feb-2011)
Smugglers' Blues (Sep-2011)
A Cold and Lonely Death (Apr-2012)
Running the Voodoo Down (Nov-2012)
Best Served Cold (Oct-2013)
Lives in the Balance (May-2014)
Pieces of Eight (Oct-2014)
Arizona Deadline (Sep-2015)

Storm Over Caldmyr

1 - The Gathering Storm (Feb-2020)
2 - Storm Over Caldmyr (Oct-2020)

Book List in Order: 83 titles



  • He is a Chicago police detective. She is an investigative reporter for the Chicago Sun. Together, Jack Riley and Moria Clark race against the clock to locate and rescue Moria's brother who is missing in the Arctic Circle. Dodging assassin's bullet...



  • When Professor Santo Cortez is murdered while preparing a new Mayan exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, Det. Jack Riley and his Partner Det. Ken Alston begin to search for the killers. Teaming up with Riley's reporter girlfriend ...



  • What happens when an agency designed to help and protect children goes horribly wrong? Here is a cautionary tale! One man. One woman. They are all that stand between Child Protective Services and their victims! While at lunch, Detective Sergeant Jack...



  • For Mike Hannigan, fleeing New York City ahead of a bullet seemed like a good deal. But when he reached Africa, he finds a whole new world of adventure waiting. Shortly after he arrives his interest is piqued when he hears about a treasure hidden dee...



  • Jack RIley and friends battle an ancient evil from Chicago to Egypt to London to the windswept Arctic waste and a crystal pyramid buried deep in the Arctic Ice. In the pyramid of the ancients, Jack Riley faces the most devastating challenge of his ca...



  • A hot time in the Florida Keys. When a boat explodes in the Scorpion Cay Marina with one of Sam Decker's oldest friends on board, Police Chief Monica Sinclair knows that there is no way she will be able to keep the former DEA agent turned Private Inv...



  • Sent deep into the Matto Grasso Region of the Amazon jungle, Michael "Hardluck" Hannigan and his friends are searching for the remains of Colonel Percy Fawcett. They are to prove or disprove the existence of the lost city of Z, a fabled Atlantean out...



  • With the War effort in full swing, a string of sabotage at the local shipbuilding plants in the outer banks has President Roosevelt worried. As the FBI gets nowhere, Hardluck Hannigan and company arrive back in the U.S.A. Investigating a rumor of bur...



  • While in the Everglades promoting both a fishing tournament and a concert to Save the Everglades, Country Music Icon Wally Norwood finds a dead body and a metric ton of pot and is immediately arrested for possession. Wally hires ex-DEA agent turned P...






  • As a cop, Joe Collins knew there were bad people out there -- serial killers -- monsters that needed to be caught … and eliminated. His vigilante brand of justice makes for exciting reading in this new mystery series that will etch itself into your...



  • Terror From Above! After barely escaping the collapsing temple of Prester John alive, Hardluck Hannigan and Gregor find themselves prisoners of the Nazis once more! Trapped aboard the prototype Zeppelin The Valkryie, Hannigan and Gregor must make a ...



  • Florida Keys Private Eye Sam Decker runs a gauntlet of mayhem and violence as he tries to uncover the reason why local prominent attorney Russell Cosgrove was murdered. First in a series....



  • When their steamship back to England is sent off course and marooned, Hardluck Hannigan and his friends find themselves trapped in the mysterious ‘graveyard of ships’ known as the Sargasso Sea. Soon they discover that they must battle not only th...




  • The Golden Scorpion After recovering the Spear of Goliath, Hardluck Hannigan and his friends get ready to head back to England. But during a stop in Egypt, Gregor is told of a fabulous statue made of gold that was lost beneath the burning sands of th...



  • Theses are some of the collected works of New Pulp Author Bill Craig, featuring tales of fantasy, hard-boiled mystery, masked heroes, cowboys, and things that go bump in the night. So pour a shot of whiskey, turn down the lights and crank up some Jaz...



  • When her baby sister shows up on Scorpion Cay, Police Chief Monica Sinclair is initially pleased. Until she finds out that her sister is on the run from a drug deal gone bad in Columbia. Monica knows she needs unofficial help if she wants to keep her...



  • Decker P.I. : A Cold and Lonely Death It started with a chance meeting on the beach and an offer to help. Two days later, the girl Sam Decker had met was dead, murdered and left on the beach. Decker wants to know why. As he begins to investigate the ...



  • Paradise Lost South Florida has always been considered Paradise to spring breakers, College kids and snowbirds. Then women and young girls began to vanish without a trace. One minute there, the next gone. Now a dark curtain of fear is dimming the lig...






  • Peril in the North Ships begin to mysteriously vanish from the North Sea, especially Allied ships. Even with Subs in the area for a fast response, ships continue to sink, destroyed from above. Hardluck Hannigan and his merry band are sent to investig...



  • TALES OF THE SOUTH SEAS In the middle of the South Seas is the island of Motugra, so named by the natives. It has the only deep water port in this island chain. On Motugra you’ll find THE HANGING MONKEY, an inn and bar owned and operated by Irish e...



  • Comanche Station follows young Sierra Lane as she takes over the running of an Arizona stagecoach station with the help of her younger brother Caleb. She also encounters a young Texas Ranger Colt Newby who is on the trail of an outlaw band. Gun Troub...



  • Jazz Singer and musician Carly Kinnebrew was winding up a tour that was supposed to finish in Miami Beach. Then she disappeared. Vanished without a trace. Sources close to the singer said she was getting burnt out and wanted to quit. Be her manager a...



  • Paul Sabre and his lover Shelly Newmar while on an expedition into the Andes Mountains to search for a lost city suddenly find themselves attacked by the mysterious Hawkmen of Hiratu and then find themselves captive atop the highest peak in the Andes...



  • Wolf Creek Pass When Hannibal Tucker Rides into Wolf Creek he is not looking for trouble but it seeks him out anyway. Soon he finds himself caught up in a range war not of his choosing until he ties in by becoming half owner of the ranch caught in th...



  • In bestselling author Bill Craig’s second entry in his Marlow series, a woman is washed up on the beach, battered and beaten, clutching a small leather sack and no memory of who she was. But Jorge Leone recognized what was in the sack and knew it m...



  • Set in Key West, this new mystery series promises a can’t-put-down story of murder, mayhem, and duplicity. Rick Marlow is a broken former NYPD cop who had been shot by his partner during the discovery of a dead body in an alley. Half-dead and barel...



  • After returning home from a day spent fishing on his boat and finding his ex-wife dead in his bed, Ex-DEA Agent turned Private Investigator Sam Decker knows he’s in trouble. After the autopsy reveals that the bullet that killed her was fired from S...



  • Marlow should have known that leaving the past behind is never easy. Because trouble seems to follow in his footsteps. Faces from the past turn up on Key West, and when one of them turns up dead, Marlow is faced with the most difficult case of his ne...






  • Under cover of darkness, Evil grows, festering like an infected wound on the underbelly of the city. From the shadows comes an instrument of Justice, a weapon forged in the crucible of his own execution at the hands of the mob, he returns to stalk th...



  • Asteroid Raiders The Freetrader Orion has made a stop to deliver supplies at an Asteroid mining facility when the asteroid suddenly comes under attack by strange spider-like creatures intent on destroying the ore refinery. With his crew and ship at r...



  • Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West. Getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from wh...



  • Sabre and the River of Doom Having barely escaped from pursuit by the deadly Hawkmen of Hiratu, Paul Sabre, Shelly Newmar, and Reggie Morris find themselves adrift on the Amazon River with little to nothing in the way of supplies. Sabre draws on know...



  • Best selling mystery author Bill Craig is back with a story ripped from the headlines! Freelance Journalist Karen Pearl calls Sam Decker from Columbia asking for help. She has made a discovery while researching a story that could cause yet another po...



  • Maverick: Solitary Travelers He awakened in a burnt out wagon train below the Rockies with no memory of who he was. There was nothing to tell him either. So he took the name that Texans called unbranded cattle and made his way into the mountains to t...



  • Willie Walker was a famous saxophonist in the Jazz world. He had played all around the world. But now he was retiring to Key West to open up a Jazz Club at the End of the Road. But people around him start dying, and pretty soon Willie gets the idea t...



  • Jericho Walls threw himself out of the saddle, the arrow passing close enough for the feather fletching to touch his cheek. He hit the ground with Winchester in hand, rolling through the dirt. He came up, firing, putting a bullet into the chest of a ...



  • Red River Rampage Hot on the trail of the Outlaw Bad Bart Sterkin, Jericho Walls has chased the villain over half of Texas, now Sterkin has killed Dick York and kidnapped his daughter Laura Belle. With the aid of Leroy Cord, York’s Foreman, Walls c...



  • Phillip Chandler used to be Chicago cop, but after a run in with corrupt officials left him jobless and disgusted, he moved south to Indianapolis, Indiana, and opened up shop as a private eye. While he has an office in a seedy part of...






  • Phillip Chandler used to be Chicago cop, but after a run in with corrupt officials left him jobless and disgusted, he moved south to Indianapolis, Indiana, and opened up shop as a private eye. While he has an office in a seedy part of Downtown Indy, ...



  • Decker P.I. Pieces of EightTom Collins and his wife Vicki were remodeling their house on Scorpion Cay when they found what looked like a map. Curious, Tom contacted his old friend Sam Decker and asked him to take them out on the boat. But other ea...



  • After catching a brutal serial killer known as The Butterfly Killer in The Butterfly Tattoo, Joe Collins walked away from being a cop. In Paradise Lost, his former partner lures Joe back into police work to solve a string of serial kidnappings. But...



  • Hardluck Hannigan: The Hand of EvilIt begins with a murder of an MI6 agent near Charring Cross Hospital. Abigail Grayson and Hardluck Hannigan find themselves reunited to do battle with a dark Asian Mastermind that had bedeviled him in the past. As...



  • Do parents still read to their children at bedtime? Or do they take time during the day to snuggle together for a special story? Storytime can be a special bonding time for parent and child. The Adventures of Little Mouse is a collection of stories p...



  • When a young girl is murdered in Harmony Hill, newly hired Police Chief Drew McCarthy must find the killer while dealing with small town politics and small town secrets. But when her father is murdered and her laptop vanishes, McCarthy finds out how ...



  • ATLANTIS RISING: The Mission After 500 years under the waves, man is returning to the surface. The world didn’t end in a blaze of nuclear weapons or terrorists weapons of mass destruction. Instead it had been destroyed by mother nature herself thro...



  • A storm is approaching Key West and something wicked is blowing into town with it. Tina Cord had been on the run from a psychopathic stalker when she arrived on the island. Then she met Marlow. Now he may be the only one that can keep her out of the ...



  • Caribe From Havana With Love Russian warships are arriving in Cuba and The President wants to know why. Nick Storm and the Caribe Team are instructed to find out! While Maya and Julio head for Cuba, Nick Storm and Liza Breton are dispatched to Venezu...



  • Freetrader Orion 2: Wolfpacks one the Rim Fleeing to the outer rim to avoid agents of the Corporate Sector that are after them for their destruction of a dilithium-mining refinery in the asteroid belt, the Crew of the Orion are heading out to explore...








  • Phillip Chandler is a hardboiled private eye working Indianapolis -- called Circle City for the towering war memorial in the circular drive at its center. Here he sets out to prove a pro basketball player didn’t kill his girlfriend. As it turns out...



  • Decker P.I. Arizona Deadline A call from the wife of an old friend summons ex-DEA agent turned Private Investigator Sam Decker from the islands of the Florida Keys to the desert sands of Arizona. Former colleague Frank Delvecchio has gone missing whi...



  • From the deserts of Sargoth to the highlands of Caldmyr, the Paladin known as Paracelsus rides first to rescue the kidnapped Princess of Caldmyr and then is tasked with checking rumors of strange monsters and wizardry in the highland village of Innsg...



  • When Vern Brisbane is murdered after docking his shrimp boat, the Key West Police think it was a random killing. But Brisbane’s daughter Lilly disagrees. She hires Rick Marlow to look into the shrimper’s death and what he finds is a smuggling ope...



  • These are the exploits of legendary adventurer and explorer Paul Sabre. A veteran of the Great War, Sabre traveled the world search for wealth and excitement Join him as he searches for the legendary Egg of the Phoenix and then races to find the Jew...



  • Join the voyages of the Freetrader Orion as she travels to strange new worlds to establish trade between the Terran Federation and the worlds on the galactic rim, fighting off space pirates and the competing company ships of the feared Corporate sect...



  • You Only Die Twice When a dead U.S. Intelligence agents washes up on Nassau, it gets the authorities attention. Especially since he was reported killed ten years before in Europe. The Caribe team is tasked to look into this mystery, which is personal...



  • A new series from the creator of the bestselling Marlow mysteries: Retired Navel Intelligence officer Mitch Cooper had decided to stay in San Diego after leaving the Navy. Cooper was making his living as a security consultant and private eye, and in ...



  • Those Left Behind Sam Decker was still in Arizona when he got the phone call. Kyle Mundy was dead, murdered. Decker had worked with Mundy in his DEA days. But Kyle hadn’t been alone when he was killed. His ten year old son Mark had been with him. M...



  • A break in at the Hemingway museum leads to a lot of speculation on the coconut telegraph. Nothing appears to have been taken and the only damage is to an old desk that Ernest Hemingway had used. The Key West Police Department writes it off as routin...



  • Night Shadows A Rebekah McCabe Mystery When Caroline England first walked into her office with a wild tale of being followed and feeling that someone had targeted her for murder, Rebekah McCabe really didn’t believe her. But the money was real enou...



  • Lindsay Call is a reporter for the San Diego Reader and is working on a story about Tech firms working with China. After somebody takes a shot at her, the newspaper hires Mitch Cooper to protect her. However someone doesn’t like that idea and when ...



  • SPEAKING FOR THE DEAD Homicide is always an ugly business. And when pretty young women are the ones dying it gets even uglier. So when a serial killer starts leaving dead bodies posed around Tampa, Homicide Detective Garrett Moseby takes it personall...



  • A real estate broker walks into a house she’s showing but doesn’t come out. This is a missing person case just far enough from Key West to make P.I. Rick Marlow hesitate. But once he signs on, there’s no letting go. This time he’s joined by L...



  • Paloma Verdes was a woman of exotic beauty and Mitch Cooper had to admit that she had him nearly mesmerized when she first set foot in his San Diego office. But Paloma came with a sad story to go with her good looks. Her brother Enrico was a truck dr...



  • Decker P.I: Blood Vow Lacy Ryan is dead. Sam Decker wants her killer brought to justice. He will find the man responsible as well as the man who ordered it. On the trail of the hitman, Decker lures him into the everglades where Sam Decker swears that...



  • Arnie Grossman was a wealthy man who had been investing heavily in Indianapolis, the city he had grown up in. But wealthy men make enemies. And when Arnie walks in and finds a dead woman in his living room, he knows that he is being set up. Somebody ...



  • Night Sorrows Jeannette Larsen was a wreck when she called on Rebekah McCabe. Her daughter had run off in the middle of the night after a fight over a jerk of a boyfriend. It seemed like a simple missing person’s case at first. But after Rebekah st...



  • The Drop Dead Blonde When a gorgeous blonde turns up dead on his doorstep, private eye A.J. Harker has to wonder why. Was she going to hire him? Obviously she had been in trouble. But Harker was left with nothing but a corpse to work with. Now, he wa...



  • Marlow: Lost Girl Quinn Kerns disappeared from her home on Marathon Key. Her mother was a friend of Walter Loomis and hired Marlow to find her daughter. But once Marlow starts looking, it becomes obvious that someone doesn’t want her found. The que...




  • Night Stalker Summer time in Tampa. A heat wave has settled over the Florida city and the residents are doing whatever they can to beat the heat. But something else has landed in Tampa as well. A serial rapist has arrived in Tampa. He doesn’t discr...



  • If you’re a Bill Craig fan, you’ll know that Caribe is a multinational task force created to handle a burgeoning level of espionage and counter espionage happening in Central and South America and the Caribbean. The team â€" Nick Storm, Kate Bret...



  • A long time ago in a land far far away...Caldmyr, emerald isle of civilization. An enchanted land filled with creatures of faerie and man living together. In the years following a grave holocaust that left a portion of the island as a desert wastel...



  • When a dead fisherman is found floating in the waters off of Smather's Beach, the U.S. Coastguard writes it off as an accident. But when his wife is found dead under suspicious circumstances two days later, his sister hires Rick Marlow to look into i...



  • A long time ago in a land far far away...The Witch King has begun sending out his armies to over-run the island of Caldmyr, but the heroes gathered at Homestead have plans of their own. A secret group has been sent undercover to infiltrate the Fire M...



  • Popular mystery writer Bill Craig shifts gears, delivering the first of a new horror trilogy. Here, we meet writer Dan Croft and his wife Julie, who decide to leave New York City after Julie gets attacked by a mugger. They settle in Ravens Hollow, a ...




  • Tropical HeatGreg Marlow is hot on the trail of the guys that gunned down his cousin in a sneak attack. The local kingpin has been hiding, but former Key West Citizen reporter Thom Hark had uncovered a crime ring that was consolidated by a local king...



  • The Caribe series by Bill Craig drops you right in the middle of an Ian Fleming novel... -Dick Wall, Editor. Following the mission which effectively wiped out the Caribe team, Nick Storm is enjoying his retirement on Key West. Until an old friend fro...





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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bill Craig has published 83 books.

Bill Craig does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Storm-The Valhalla Strike, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Bill Craig, Valley of Death, was published in June 2001.

Yes. Bill Craig has 13 series.