Garry Ryan

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2004
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Detective Lane Mystery

Queen's Park (Sep-2004)
The Lucky Elephant Restaurant (Feb-2006)
A Hummingbird Dance (Sep-2008)
Smoked (May-2010)
Malabarista (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Queen's Park

    A Detective Lane Mystery

    Detective Lane has a knack for discovering the whereabouts of missing persons. But the city's latest case has disappeared without a trace. After a brutal attack on his young nephew, ex-mayor Bob Swatsky has gone missing with 13 million dollars of...

  • The Lucky Elephant Restaurant

    A Detective Lane Mystery

    When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once again takes to the stre...

  • A Hummingbird Dance

    A Detective Lane Mystery

    Detectives Lane and Harper are back for the third Detective Lane Mystery in this gripping twister of a novel that baffles with its ever-increasing body count and suspect list.When Ryan Dudley ventures out on horseback and his horse returns without hi...

  • Smoked

    A Detective Lane Mystery

    Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan's darkest mystery to date. When Jennifer Towers is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the art to find its artist - and possibly the victim'...

  • Malabarista

    A Detective Lane Mystery

    Garry Ryan follows up Smoked with his most revelatory Detective Lane adventure yet. Under investigation by the Calgary Police Department, Lane finds himself fighting for his career. Then, when an Eastern European war criminal winds up dead in the cit...

  • Blackbirds

    When young Sharon Lacey travels from Canada to England in the spring of 1940 in search of the father she never knew, she finds herself called upon to participate in a much larger and more dangerous mission. For at eighteen, she is a gifted flier in a...

  • The Detective Lane Casebook #1

    Get caught up on the Calgary Herald-bestselling Detective Lane series of novels by mystery maestro Garry Ryan with this collection of his first three books, Queen's Park, The Lucky Elephant Restaurant and A Hummingbird Dance!“Garry Ryan is one of o...

  • Foxed

    Finalist for the 2014 LAMBDA Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery!After a long series of professional and personal upheavals, Detective Lane begins his latest adventure happy, at peace, and enjoying life with his partner Arthur, their children Christi...

  • Two Blackbirds

    The fires of the Second World War are beginning to burn down, but legendary Canadian aviatrix Sharon Lacey is not out of danger just yet. Complications enter the young ace's life as deep-seated racial and class prejudice, potential fifth columnists a...



  • Glycerine

    With the traumatic events of Foxed behind him, Detective Lane has been promoted to the head of the Calgary Major Crimes Unit, a position that brings new responsibilities, as well as a new partner in the form of headstrong rookie Nigel Li.Lane and Li...

  • Indiana Pulcinella

    After saving the Calgary Stampede from a potential terror attack in Glycerine, Detectives Lane and Li find themselves on the hunt yet again, this time following a pair of gruesome killers whose perfectly composed crime scenes match those of an i...

  • The Detective Lane Casebook #2

    Here's another triple-header from the bestselling Detective Lane Series author Garry Ryan. The Detective Lane Casebook #2 brings together the fourth, fifth, and sixth books of the series, Smoked, Malabarista, and Foxed."Detectives Lane and Harper ar...

  • Matanzas

    His psyche still reeling from having to kill a criminal in the line of duty, Calgary’s Detective Lane flies to Cuba to celebrate the wedding of his beloved niece. While there, though, he finds himself drafted by the local police into investigating ...

  • Sea of Cortez

    After a series of assassinations rocks Calgary’s underworld, Detective Lane is conscripted along with his husband Arthur into working undercover to seek out links in the Mexico - Canada drug connection and stop the violence.As tensions mount back i...

  • Corporation's First Annual Sausage Festival

    After a video of him being hit over the head with a bottle of maple syrup goes viral, Garrett “The Carrot” Macgregor finds his life back on track.

    Then a massacre devastates the small town of  Corporation, Alberta, bringing with it the ...

  • Catrinas

    Detective Lauren Jackson takes the lead in this novel. She uncovers a hired killer's link to North American Untouchables. Jackson and Lane join forces with a group of compatriots in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur. All are targeted by a shadowy ter...

  • Three Blackbirds

Award-Winning Books by Garry Ryan

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant
2006 Lambda Literary Award -- Men's Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Garry Ryan has published 17 books.

Garry Ryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Three Blackbirds, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Garry Ryan, Queen's Park, was published in September 2004.

Yes. Garry Ryan has 1 series.
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