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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2005
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Fly Fishing Mystery / Ned "Dog" Oglivie

1 - The Nail Knot (May-2005)
2 - The Blood Knot (Oct-2005)
3 - The Clinch Knot (Sep-2008)
4 - The Wind Knot (Apr-2011)
5 - Red Sky, Red Dragonfly (Aug-2011)

A Bad Axe County Mystery

1 - Bad Axe County (Jul-2019)
2 - Dead Man Dancing (Aug-2020)
3 - Bad Moon Rising (Jan-2021)
4 - Bad Day Breaking (Sep-2022)

Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Nowhere, U.S.A., is Ned "Dog" Oglivie's destination--as long as it leads him to good fishing and a place to park his beaten RV and enjoy the vodka-Tang oblivion his lost soul craves. The road takes him to Black Earth, Wisconsin, where he discovers fe...



  • The last thing The Dog wanted was to find another body. But there was Annie Adams - the barn lady - floating dead at his feet, her easel and paints set up on the bridge above his head. And so The Dog wades his way through Kussmaul country encounterin...



  • The Dog is in Livingston, Montana, daydreaming about fishing the Stone and, as usual, subsisting on Swisher Sweets, vodka-Tang, and the hope that pretending to forget will be enough.He's forged a few tenuous friendships, and now finds himself watchin...



  • After five years of self-imposed exile on the rivers of America, trout bum Ned “Dog” Oglivie has burned his waders and hat, given away his rod, and turned his Cruise Master RV away from the famous Hemingway water in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, ...



  • In the hours before his sayonara party, a handsome young American vanishes from the Japanese village where he has been the first-ever foreign English teacher. The first result is a throng of disappointed women. But when Stuart Norton fails to show up...



  • Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this tense, atmospheric thriller about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parent...



  • In this sequel to the thriller Bad Axe County, Sheriff Heidi Kick is investigating an illicit cage fighting ring with ties to white nationalism when her husband suddenly goes missing. It’s a time for celebration in Bad Axe County as the town gat...



  • “As unique a place in the mystery universe as you will ever find...smooth, unexpected, and memorable. This book is a diamond in the rough.” -- Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author A record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisc...



  • Wild Wild Country and Longmire meet in the latest in the “gritty, brash, and totally gripping” (The Real Book Spy) Bad Axe County series, as Sheriff Heidi Kick struggles to prevent a radical religious sect from turning her county into the next Jo...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Galligan has published 9 books.

John Galligan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bad Day Breaking, was published in September 2022.

The first book by John Galligan, The Nail Knot, was published in May 2005.

Yes. John Galligan has 2 series.