Lee Martin

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  • Bibliography:
    79 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Deb Ralston Mystery

1 - Too Sane a Murder (Dec-1984)
2 - A Conspiracy of Strangers (Nov-1986)
3 - Death Warmed Over (Nov-1988)
4 - Murder at the Blue Owl (Jul-1988)
5 - Hal's Own Murder Case (Aug-1989)
6 - Deficit Ending (Feb-1990)
7 - The Mensa Murders (Dec-1990)
8 - Hacker (Apr-1992)
9 - The Day That Dusty Died (Feb-1994)
10 - Inherited Murder (Dec-1994)
11 - Bird in a Cage (Aug-1995)
12 - Genealogy of Murder (Apr-1996)
12 - The Thursday Club (1997)

Book List in Order: 79 titles

  • Too Sane a Murder

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 1

    Olead Baker had opportunity, means, motive, and a record of schizophrenic violence. But Detective Deb Ralston, who was a mother before she was a cop, just can't believe that he is guilty of shotgunning five family members including his beloved four-y...

  • A Conspiracy of Strangers

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 2

    Detective Deb Ralston's chance discovery of a dead woman, nine months pregnant, in a ditch leads her into a morass of kidnapping and murder in which she has to fight for her own life and for her son's life as well....

  • Murder at the Blue Owl

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 4
    Worldwide Mysteries - 54

    At the urging of a friend, Fort Worth police detective Deb Ralston attends a house party given by aging Margali Bowman, a much married former film star. The friend, Fara Johnson, is Margali's daughter, and she worries that her mother is either drinki...

  • Death Warmed Over

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 3
    Worldwide Mysteries - 65

    NEITHER RAIN, NOR SNOW, NOR SLEET, NOT HAIL... A postman is murdered in his van. Nearby sits a charred 1957 Chevy. The first cop on the scene, Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston is also the first to find the abandoned house and the grisly bodies of ...

  • Hal's Own Murder Case

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 5
    Worldwide Mysteries - 87

    On medical leave during the last month of her pregnancy, Deb, the mother of three adopted children, discovers that her teenage son, Hal, and his girfriend, Lorie, have hitchhiked to New Mexico for their spring break. Before Deb can locate the adventu...

  • Deficit Ending

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 6
    Worldwide Mysteries - 101

    Nursing a nine-week-old baby during a bank robbery isn't Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston's idea of fun...but the robbers have a gun, she doesn't, and her son Cameron is demanding lunch - blissfully unaware of the terror gripping the crowd. Ready o...

  • Dead Man's Walk

    Eli Cole has been on a trail of vengeance for ten years, ever since his parents and bride were murdered by the Cassidy Gang. One by one he has tracked down his enemies, and he has come to be known as The Hunter, the fastest, most fearless gun in the ...

  • The Mensa Murders

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 7
    Worldwide Mysteries - 115

    DEAD BODIES LEAVE NO TRAILS... . Three women are murdered--in identical and very unusual ways. The killer is solicitous--first breaking their necks, then tucking them neatly into bed before cleaning the house and tending to the pets. With no tr...

  • Hacker

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 8
    Worldwide Mysteries - 135

    Hovering perilously near burnout with the demands of police duty and family life - specifically toddler, husband, teenager and a friend comatose from a hit-and-run - Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston now adds a grisly ax murder to her twenty-five-hour...



  • Fury at Sweetwater Pass

    Tyler Sinclair has lived too hard and long to be sentimental. But when he hears about the brave exploits of one Ethan Mandell, he just has to ride up to Sweetwater Pass and see for himself. Ethan Mandell could be Tyler's father, who left long before ...

  • Valley of the Lawless

    After a short stint in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as a delegate for statehood, Matt Landry soon discovers he'd rather be riding a horse on the open plains than sitting behind a desk. As he prepares to marry lovely Adrian Driscroll, daughter of the man who ru...

  • Track the Men Down

    It's the spring of 1876, and for the last eight years, Will Tanner has been tracking down the Grissom Gang in order to avenge the murder of his wife and son. Will has left six dead men in his wake and another in prison, but still, he cannot rest... b...

  • The Day That Dusty Died

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 9

    Detective Deb Ralston's personal and professional lives interact badly, as she copes with foot surgery and the return of her sister, a drug addict and prostitute now ridden with AIDS, and with the suicide of a teenage girl, the rape of a six-year-old...

  • Inherited Murder

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 10

    Detective Deb Ralston has promised her husband, Harry, that she'll happily forget work for three weeks and concentrate on relaxing, sightseeing, picknicking - they'll have a real family vacation (although taking a teenager, his girlfriend, a toddler,...

  • Bird in a Cage

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 11
    Worldwide Mysteries - 225

    To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Harry and Deb Ralston go out to dinner at the Bird Cage, a restaurant in downtown Fort Worth. Its fancy dinners are complemented by a floor show featuring a young woman on a flying trapeze, remindi...

  • The Least You Need to Know: Stories

  • Genealogy of Murder

    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 12
    Worldwide Mysteries - 239

    TWISTED ROOTS For detective Deb Ralston of Fort Worth, the case begins with a call from her son-in-law, a medical intern, who discovers an extra corpse among the cadavers. The body is unidentifiable--no teeth, no usable fingerprints. A local ge...

  • The Thursday Club

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    A Deb Ralston Mystery - 12

    In the thirteenth novel of this series, Deb Ralston, a seasoned police officer, finds herself in the midst of an intriguing murder mystery that will keep her guessing until the final climactic ending....

  • Trail of the Circle Star

    Finding his cousin, friend, and mentor Marshal Bob Harrington hanging dead from a cottonwood tree is a cruel blow for Deputy U.S. Marshal Hank Darringer. He'd like nothing better than to exact a bitter and swift revenge, but as a lawman, he knows his...



  • Trail of the Fast Gun

    On the day that the delicately beautiful Elena Barker arrives to secure his release from prison, Ben Darringer unwillingly concedes that the very skills that put him in jail are the only ones that can save his life. Elena offers Ben a bargain: a ...

  • Trail of the Long Riders

    Jess Darringer's younger brother, Sam, rides in with grim news: the woman Jess had loved and left behind was murdered by five ruthless thugs. Jess is driven to avenge her death - but before he can, he has to find the killers and enough evidence to p...

  • Trail of the Restless Gun

    Sam Darringer isn't about to settle down just yet, so he's happy to ride herd for Rad Pierson, who is moving his cattle and his home base north to keep his daughter, Angela, out of the clutches of outlaw Russ Wilder. But Mr. Pierson has two daughter...

  • Quakertown

    In Quakertown, Lee Martin travels back in time to 1920s Texas to tell the story of a flourishing black community that was segregated from its white brethren -- and of the remarkable gardener who was asked to do the unimaginable.

    Based on ...

  • The Third Moon Is Blue

    The Third Moon is Blue is a marvelous mix of psychodrama and terror, romance and loss, self-absorption and contrition, culminating in one man's ultimate understanding that after his passionate journey through life, what mattered most were the things ...

  • The Bright Forever

    On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a s...

  • The Six Mile Inn

    The Six Mile Inn is a fictious account of a true series of events. This is a compelling novel about one of Charleston's famous characters, Lavinia Fisher, who stood accused as the first female mass murderer in America. The novel explodes with the ing...

  • Starlight, Starbright

    Starlight, Starbright is a story of innocent youth caught up in an adult world of danger, deception and tragedy. A marvelous whodunit with a suspenseful mix of murder and psychodrama, the reader cannot help but fall in love with the high-spirited chi...

  • Gangsters Wives

    Sadie, Niki, Poppy, and Kate -- sexy, confident, and wealthy women on the surface -- are all trapped in loveless and sometimes violent marriages to four of the most feared gangsters in London. For years their lives of idle luxury, shopping, and lunc...

  • River of Heaven

    "You have to know the rest of my story, the part I can't yet bring myself to say. A story of a boy I knew a long time ago and a brother I loved and then lost." Past and present collide in Lee Martin's highly anticipated novel of a man, his ...



  • Just Another Case

    After 17 years of investigating murders, industrial deaths, natural deaths, suicides, and undetermined deaths, I thought I had seen and dealt with just about every situation imaginable. One such death scene has been implanted within me forever. While...

  • Wolf Laurel

    Retired FBI Special Agent Bruce McGowan, now a counter-terrorist operative for the U.S. Department of State, returns to his childhood domicile in rural West Virginia to investigate a young, unidentified Middle Eastern male who was killed in a pedestr...

  • The Lipstick Killers

    Queenie Doyle ruled over south London gangland and her four daughters - Frankie, Mags, Sharon and Roxie - with an iron fist.When Queenie´s death brings the Doyle empire crashing down, the sisters grow apart, - each taking a different path in life. E...

  • Ten Minutes Till Midnight

    It was called Denvers Crime of the Century. In 1988, Frank Magnuson, a young man struggling with lifes curve balls, was set to testify against a Crip kingpin who along with three other men perpetrated a robbery of a Denver restaurant. The night befor...

  • The Valiant

    Who is Jake Dumas? Intelligent, well-read and articulate, New Hope High Schools custodian is an enigmatic man of mystery. Often scorned or ignored by students and faculty alike, he is, however, befriended by two people: the lovely and feisty school l...

  • Starbright

    In 1982 Pine River, Georgia, the summer plans of twelve year old Starr Ravenel and her running buddy, Tommy Lee Bledsoe, are soon dashed when a terrible pall is cast over their town. An apparent psychopathic killer of young red-headed women has now d...

  • Provocation

    Department of State Counter-terrorist operative Bruce McGowan returns in this sequel to COL Lee Martin's acclaimed fourth novel, Wolf Laurel. It is the Christmas season following the 9-11 terrorist attack and McGowan's newly-appointed FBI Special Age...

  • A Hateful Wind

    Although he has now chosen to only work part-time for the Department of State, counter-terrorist operative Bruce McGowan continues to debate himself whether it is time to abandon the action life he has lived for over thirty years and finally settl...

  • The Heart of Worship

    The Psalms are examples of prayer, praise, and covenant living. This book will take you to the heart of the Psalms and to the heart of worship by means of an in depth study of ten important Psalms. In this insightful and practical book, leaders, past...

  • Break the Skin

    Laney -- a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world -- thinks she's found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; ...



  • The Justice Club

    Former Marine sniper and CIA target man Atticus Steed, turned professional hit man, now only takes down special targetspeople who for one reason or another have literally gotten away with murder. Directed by an unknown, unseen employer who identifies...

  • Southern Psalms

    Our lives are filled with twists and turns, each one determined by choices that we make and colored by the consequences of what we find beyond our control. Somewhere along the road on our journey, between the sweetness of God's grace and the aftermat...

  • Killing the Viper

    International terrorist Asahif al-Massoud, AKA The Viper, will soon arrive on U.S. soil to carry out the most heinous and murderous terrorist plot since 9-11. By engaging an American-based Jamaat ul-Fuqra element, his plan is to simultaneously detona...

  • Shadow on the Mesa

    When Wes Montana's Arapaho mother is murdered‚ the hired gun discovers his white father Ray Eastman‚ who had abandoned them before Wes was born‚ is still alive‚ wealthy with family‚ and may have ordered her death. Swearing vengeance on his ...

  • The Grant Conspiracy

    Set among the splendor of the Rocky Mountains in 1880, The Grant Conspiracy takes you to a Colorado mining town being torn apart by an evil law firm out for revenge for Black Friday.

    Frost and Hancock are ex-Confederates who, with the help ...

  • Palisades

    It's been a strange and unusual week in the normally peaceful mountain town of Palisades, West Virginia. One lucky coal miner wins a million dollar lotto. However, on the same night, one unlucky miner is found dying in the town's dump, a bullet in hi...

  • Late One Night

    On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle between their well-intentioned neighbor and their f...

  • Saving Eagle One

    Just when former counterterrorist operative Bruce McGowan has finally become comfortable in his retirement, the leader of the free world and his wife decide to spend a pre-Christmas weekend with the McGowans at their charming bed and breakfast retrea...

  • The Last Wild Ride

    Sam Jeffries' wife left him and then promptly up and died. Everyone believes he was to blame. Now, despite Ike Ramsey, who rules this part of western Colorado, Sam must save Ike's daughter-in-law from a hanging.

    Sam, a grumpy ex-lawman, fi...

  • Panther's Breath

    Following the death of their mother, sixteen year old Sam Haygood and his eight year old sister, P.J., now orphans, are ultimately thrown into an enigmatic family system where they simultaneously experience the cold apathy of their grandfather, Homer...



  • Fury at Cross Creek

    Raised by a kindhearted army scout named Gaffrey, orphaned Laredo never knew much about his parents’ deaths. But when Gaffrey is shot while he and the now grown Laredo are on a scouting mission, he decides he can’t take his secret to the grave...

  • Blood Protocol

    If Zufar al-Massoud, the celebrated leader of the Salafist jihadists, accomplishes his planned terrorist act, Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. will forever be known as America's Day of Blood. He and his fellow conspirators will not only place multiple IE...

  • The Mutual UFO Network

    In The Mutual UFO Network, Pulitzer Prize finalist and master of the craft Lee Martin presents his first short story collection since his acclaimed debut The Least You Need to Know. With Martin's signature insight, each story peers into the nooks an...

  • Red Kings Rising

    It is November, 1991. About the time the final nail was being driven in the coffin of the Soviet Union, from the remnants of its former Red Army leadership and defunct KGB came cold-blooded mobsters such as Andrei Guryev, a sadistic crime lord who se...

  • In Mysterious Ways

    During a stormy festival at a mountain lake, a retired sergeant on a painful quest to find a daughter he never knew he had joins forces with two cattle ranchers (a retired Fed on assignment and a lovelorn musician/part-time deputy) as they find th...

  • Fast Ride to Boot Hill

    In 1876, Ben Hawks quits the Texas Rangers and becomes a living legend. As songs tell of his riding the sky at night and dime novels follow his wild ride, he tracks the notorious Avery gang, who he believes killed his fiancée Lora in a stage rob...

  • Sting of the Scorpion

    My name is Bruce McGowan, and contrary to everyone's belief, I have not yet gone away. Remember when Saddam Hussein was suspected of having weapons of mass destruction, but then the U.N.'s inspectors found no evidence of them? Even though the America...

  • Yours, Jean

    “When she refused me,” Charlie says at his trial. “Well, I had that gun. What else was I to do?” Lawrenceville, Illinois, 1952: Jean De Belle, the new high school librarian, is eager to begin the next phase of her young life after breaking o...

  • The Maverick Gun

    When an old flame sends for Wes Caron, he can't help but wonder why. He soon finds out: It's the lady's dad, Mr. Hollis, who needs him. The ruthless, land-grubbing Gruber clan own a ranch nearby and they're eager to augment their holdings-even if it ...

  • The Lone Rider

    Zach Lassiter, lawman in the Montana Territory town of Lock's Ferry, hands in his badge after reading about his brother Ricky's hanging as a rustler in the New Mexico Territory. The quest to discover the circumstances surrounding his brother's death ...

  • Black River

    During Nathan Reed's search for the murderer of his family, he stumbles into treacherous territory and ends up saving the life of Leslie Cromwell, a young widow with questionable in-laws. An army investigation exposes the corruption in the town of Bl...

  • Dead Man's Trail

    Mike Raddigan rides north to Montana Territory to claim the land left to him by his estranged father, who had been murdered because of a connection with the deadly Commager gang. This region is a Northern stronghold, and anyone who has fought for the...

  • The Danger Trail

    Bronco Wade and his older friend Curly hightail it out of Texas when the Sladek family of the Trigger Bar Ranch go on a rampage. Three of the Sladek brothers have been murdered, and if Bronco and Curly are caught, they'll hang. Fifteen years later, t...

  • Hang Town

    When young deputy Ben Cross learns that Harry Lassiter-the hired gun who beat him into to running away at the age of twelve-is not his father, and that his real father is Tom Landry-a possibly innocent man just out of prison and headed for revenge at...

  • Do We Have to Move?

    Join Bella and Anna as they navigate through all their fun and fears as they travel the globe. In this first book of the series, the girls sort through all the emotions that come with having to pack up and move. With Bella as the narrator, the girls ...

  • Seeds of the Guardian Terry

    Seeds of the Guardian is Book 1 of the epic fantasy series, Heirs to the Taxiarch. War comes to Dumhoni, but with the collapse of empire the Three Peoples of the Mold are vulnerable. Celestial Meical, Taxiarch and Guardian, moves to save His favori...

  • At the Devil's Tea Table

    A captivating psychological thriller set in the 1950s Appalachians chocked full of colorful characters and rich dialogue. In this heart-warming story, Lee Martin, author of eighteen murder and terrorist novels, provides his readers with everything th...

  • Dead Man's Creek

    Colby Dancer, notorious hired gun, is a loner who strikes terror in the hearts of rustlers down in Slye, New Mexico Territory. When his sister is killed in a bank robbery, Colby hunts the Keo gang with deadly purpose, but the leaders manage to escape...

  • King of the Playground

  • The Siege at Rhyker's Station

    The Callahans are a powerful clan with a vast cattle empire and they run rough-shod over New Mexico Territory, but when the youngest son's terrified, runaway bride is rescued and taken to a relay station by an old trader and a mysterious young saddle...

  • A Lure to a Kill

  • The Desperate Riders

    In 1878, Kansas Red-a mysterious gunman, bounty hunter, and sometimes lawman-learns a young hot-head named Billy is looking for him. Kansas soon finds himself saving the boy from angry gamblers. The gunfight leaves both Kansas and Billy wounded.Billy...

  • King of the Classroom

    Author- Lee Martin Title -King of the Classroom A creative way to get young minds excited about attending school. The king goes on a journey throughout his day learning rules and discussing different subjects. in the end he realize he is very capable...

  • Retrogame

    Tom Huxley, owner and CEO of a large accounting firm in the town of Jasmine, South Carolina, is on his way to the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when he is assaulted at a rest area near the Georgia border. His wife, Amanda, is notified...

  • Pearl Hart & the Violent Men

    Pearl Hart is a feisty suffragette with an abusive husband. Chance Donovan, a U.S. Deputy Marshal and former Texas Ranger, is dealing with his own troubled past as well as the vengeful and deadly Boxer gang.When Pearl becomes desperate and allows her...

  • The Glassmaker's Wife

    In August of 1844, a man named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois, and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning. The suspect? His wife, Betsey.The chief witnesses against her? A hired girl, Evel...

  • Revenge at Rawhide

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    In every waking moment, U.S. Deputy Marshal Dan Casey is haunted by the flames... and the laughter. It has been twelve years since outlaws killed his parents and sister and left him for dead in that cellar. Only one man in Rawhide knew that young Dan...

  • Trail of the Dangerous Gun

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Gunfighter Cass Darringer returns from a hunting trip to find his partner murdered, three innocent men hanged, his mustangs stolen, and he himself the target of the vigilantes' bullets. He is saved from certain death by Texas Rafferty and her uncle, ...

  • Trail of the Fearless Gun

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Chance Darringer has given it a lot of thought, and he's finally returning to Tombstone to marry the woman of his dreams. But when he arrives to pop the question, he finds Polly lying dead on her sewing-room floor, brutally beaten by an unknown a...

  • Trail of the Hunter

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Clay Darringer should have known from the start that Katherine Turner would be trouble. Any fool could have told him he'd be better off walking away when he found the beautiful, dazed young woman wandering in the desert unescorted. Katherine is the s...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lee Martin has published 79 books.

Lee Martin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Glassmaker's Wife, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Lee Martin, Too Sane a Murder, was published in December 1984.

Yes. Lee Martin has 1 series.
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