Kris Nelscott

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2000
  • Latest Book:
    January 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Smokey Dalton

1 - A Dangerous Road (Jul-2000)
2 - Smoke-Filled Rooms (Aug-2001)
3 - Thin Walls (Sep-2002)
4 - Stone Cribs (Sep-2003)
5 - War at Home (Feb-2005)
6 - Days of Rage (Feb-2006)
Family Affair (Jul-2012)
Guarding Lacey (Jul-2012)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • A Dangerous Road

    Smokey Dalton - 1

    It's February 1968, and tense race relations in Memphis are beginning to build into real conflict. The sanitation workers' strike has been going on for almost three weeks, and marches are beginning to turn into riots.

    African-American P.I. S...

  • Smoke-Filled Rooms

    Smokey Dalton - 2

    It's a long, hot summer in 1968. After escaping Memphis with Jimmy, a ten-year-old boy who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., P.I. Smokey Dalton hopes to start a new life in Chicago. Their new beginning is shattered by the events...

  • Thin Walls

    Smokey Dalton - 3

    "I hear you help people find things."

    So begins the latest case for Smokey Dalton, Kris Nelscott's enigmatic African-American p.i. But when Mrs. Alice Foster comes to the door of his small apartment, she's not missing a pet, or even a loved on...

  • Stone Cribs

    Smokey Dalton - 4

    It's Christmas time, 1969, in Chicago. After a night out, Smokey Dalton, Kris Nelscott's enigmatic African-American P.I., and his girlfriend find a young woman bleeding to death in his neighbor's apartment. Upon arriving with her at the hospital, the...

  • War at Home

    Smokey Dalton - 5

    It's summertime in 1969 when African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton and his adopted son Jimmy leave behind the hot violence of the streets of Chicago and head east to look for a missing college student. Daniel Kirkland never showed up for his spring sem...

  • Days of Rage

    Smokey Dalton - 6

    It's 1969 and the city of Chicago is in turmoil. The celebrity trial of the Chicago Eight---charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention---has begun. Protests abound over the trial and the conflict has caught the attention ...

  • Clinic

    The party on Haight-Ashbury Street in San Francisco ended two years before and now only a handful of people remain to clean up the mess. One of them, the receptionist at the Free Clinic, studies medicine with the hope of becoming a doctor, but everyo...

  • Family Affair

    Smokey Dalton

    Smokey Dalton gets a call from an old friend to help transport a battered woman and her young daughter from Madison, Wisconsin, to a shelter in Chicago. When Smokey and Marvella Walker show up at the drop site, they learn that the woman is both white...

  • Guarding Lacey

    Smokey Dalton

    Private detective Smokey Dalton does his best to protect his adopted family, from his 11-year-old son Jimmy to his friends, the Grimshaws. But Smokey can’t see everything. Jimmy notices that Lacey Grimshaw -- “thirteen going on trouble,” Smok...



  • Street Justice

    “Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.” Salon

    In the first week of the new decade, an emergency phone call shatters Chicago Private Detective Smokey Dalton’s ho...

  • Sob Sisters

    Madison, Wisconsin, 1972 -- When Detective Hank Kaplan calls Valentina Wilson to a crime scene, she wonders why. She soon finds more questions than answers in a secret room belonging to a wealthy female philanthropist, whose brutal murder the police ...

  • The Monster in Our Midst

    When a disturbing postcard arrives at his Atlanta office, Emerson knows he must report it to the NAACP. The postcard, sent by the mysterious Lureen from Abbotts Creek, Arkansas, depicts yet another lynching. Emerson agrees to travel to Abbotts Creek ...

  • Readers' Choice

    Fiction River readers make the call in this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. From a reluctant warrior fighting a battle in her own backyard, to a man coming to terms with the racial inequality of his youth, to a romance blooming out of advers...

  • Blaming the Arsonist

    UC Berkeley, January, 1969 -- In the midst of turbulent student protests on campus, a cherished building suddenly bursts into flames. Pammy Griffin, an alum who owns a women’s gym nearby, heads over to check out the fire and walks straight into a t...

  • Combat Medic

    Berkeley, May, 1969 -- When former Army nurse Captain June “Eagle” Eagleton returned from Vietnam, she thought she left the war zone behind. But when the familiar sound of a helicopter wakes Eagle from sleep, she realizes she has awoken in a very...

  • Protectors

    “Nelscott expertly mixes history and mystery, and readers will be happy that she intends to write more books about these distinctive people and eventful times.” -- Publisher’s WeeklyA former combat nurse, a former legal secretary, and the owner...

  • Smokey Dalton Series Reading Order Guide

  • Still Life 1931

    Years ago, Lurleen helped the NAACP investigate lynchings. She stopped when she met her husband, but never forgot the work…or the caution it required. After his death, Lurleen finds herself struggling to find purpose.

    She travels to New Yo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kris Nelscott has published 18 books.

Kris Nelscott does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Still Life 1931, was published in January 2019.

The first book by Kris Nelscott, A Dangerous Road, was published in July 2000.

Yes. Kris Nelscott has 1 series.
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