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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2010
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Cain/Harper Thriller

1 - Skin in the Game (Oct-2019)
2 - Prior Bad Acts (Oct-2020)
3 - Tallyman (Aug-2022)

Dub Walker

1 - Stress Fracture (Apr-2010)
2 - Hot Lights, Cold Steel (Jun-2011)

Jake Longly

1 - Deep Six (Jul-2016)
2 - A-List (Dec-2017)
3 - Sunshine State (May-2019)
4 - Rigged (May-2020)
5 - The OC (Oct-2021)
6 - Cultured (May-2023)
7 - Unbalanced (Aug-2024)

Royal Pains

First, Do No Harm (Jun-2011)
Sick Rich (Jan-2012)

A Samantha Cody Mystery

1 - Devil's Playground (Aug-2014)
2 - Double Blind (Aug-2014)
3 - Original Sin (Aug-2014)

Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • When Dub Walker's close friend Sheriff Mike Savage becomes the victim of a gruesome murder, the forensic expert is called upon to track down the serial killer who's been terrorizing the county. Having been involved in more than 100 cases of foul play...



  • When Dr. Hank Lawson's conscience cost him his distinguished position in a New York City emergency room, he ended losing everything he thought he wanted. Now, as a concierge doctor to the rich and fabulous of the Hamptons, he's going to get everythi...



  • Forensic criminalist Dub Walker is once again called upon when an old friend enlists his help in finding her 19-year-old daughter. When the bodies of two young women show up in a shallow grave, one of whom is the daughter, Dub is back to work and har...



  • The Fourth of July weekend is fast approaching, and Dr. Hank Lawson and his friends have been invited to the only party that matters. But when local kids start exhibit strange symptoms, Hank fears that the fireworks aren't the only things that are ab...



  • What would you do if someone brutally murdered your only child, served only months in jail because of a technicality, and continually taunted, even threatened, you from behind bars? Could you hide your growing rage from family and friends? Could you ...



  • In this Thriller Short, bestselling writer D.P. Lyle crafts a diabolical tale that makes a reader wonder just how far the parents of a murdered child might go. Tim and Martha Foster had a perfect marriage and a perfect son in Steven. All that was los...



  • Deputy Samantha Cody finally bagged her man. The jury's verdict: three counts of murder in the first with special circumstances and a recommendation of death by lethal injection. Only Judge Westbrooke's final decree stands between Richard Earl Garret...



  • Deputy Samantha Cody just won her third professional boxing match and is ready for a stress-free vacation at her friend Alyss Cameron's new B&B in the tiny mountain community of Gold Creek, Colorado. But any hope of relaxation is shattered when S...



  • Samantha Cody thought she was done with trouble when she quit her job as Deputy and watched a dirt ball Sheriff take over Mercer's Corner, but she can't seem to stay away. When Sam's longtime friend and former boxing buddy, Dr. Lucy Wagner, finds her...






  • Murder is no laughing matterEx-professional baseball player Jake Longly adamantly refuses to work for his father, wanting no part of Ray’s PI world. He prefers to hang out at his beachfront bar and chase bikinis along the sugary beaches of Gulf Sho...



  • The Southern California Writers Association presents It s All in the Story, a collection of exceptional short stories with a focus on California, edited by bestselling author D. P. Lyle.

    In these two dozen tales which span from San Juan Capist...



  • Nothing is easy in The Big EasyPI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, ...



  • Serial killer's message to PI Jake Longly: Two of those seven murders I confessed to are not mine -- but I won't tell you which two Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison are confronted with the most bizarre case yet. Serial killer Billy Wayne Baker now deni...



  • Raised as siblings by an itinerant "gypsy" family, knife expert Bobby Cain, trained by the US military in the lethal art of covert eliminations, and Harper McCoy, nurtured by the US Navy and the CIA to run black ops and wage psychological warfare,...



  • Love triangle -- motive for double murder? First loves are never forgotten. Ever. Certainly not for Tommy "Pancake" Jeffers. His first-kiss, sixth-grade love, Emily, who he has not seen since grammar school, is sliding toward divorce in the artsy Gul...



  • Prior bad acts predict future bad acts. -Harper McCoy Fear grips an isolated mountain town after drug dealer Dalton Southwell kills a rogue dealer and his entire family. Score settled; message delivered. But Dalton's best-laid plans go awry when his ...



  • Thrill-a-minute crime fiction -- infused with wry humor Restaurant owner and former professional baseball player Jake Longly is hoping for a few weeks of fun with Nicole Jamison in the warm Orange County, CA sun -- The OC, baby. After that, they'll b...



  • When Sonny Coleman is gunned down while on a late-night run near the community college where he teaches, his mother Erin Coleman, the US Ambassador to NATO, wishes to avoid his death becoming an international media circus. To this end, she hires Bobb...



  • Money, sex, power. Jonathon Lindemann offers it all -- just don't mind the missing girls. Jake Longly, ex-pro baseball player turned restauranteur, is back where he belongs: relaxing on the beach in front of his restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Hi...






  • Jake Longly is never saying yes to his father againIt was a simple task. Five minutes tops.Ex-pro baseball player Jake Longly and his girlfriend, Nicole, are asked by Jake' s father, Ray, a private investigator, to pick up some papers fro...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

D.P. Lyle has published 20 books.

The next book by D.P. Lyle, Unbalanced, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by D.P. Lyle, Stress Fracture, was published in April 2010.

Yes. D.P. Lyle has 5 series.