Michael A. Black

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2003
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Doc Atlas Adventure

Melody of Vengeance (Jan-2007)

A Leal and Hart Novel

Sacrificial Offerings (Oct-2012)

A Ron Shade Novel

A Killing Frost (Sep-2003)
Windy City Knights (Apr-2004)
A Final Judgment (Sep-2006)
Dead Ringer (Nov-2008)

Trackdown

1 - Devil's Dance (Nov-2020)
2 - Devil's Fancy (Dec-2020)
3 - Devil's Brigade (Jan-2021)
4 - Devil's Advocate (Feb-2021)
5 - Devil's Vendetta (Oct-2022)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • A Killing Frost

    A Ron Shade Novel

    It hasn't exactly been a banner year for Chicago-based private detective Ron Shade. First, his main ladylove left for a new life in California. Then his faithful old Chevy turned over its second hundred thousand miles and died. Finally, Shade realize...

  • Windy City Knights

    A Ron Shade Novel

    How much do you owe a past love? Ever wonder about it? Private Detective Ron Shade does when he bumps into his former lover, Paula Kittermann, late one lonely December night in a hotel bar. Paula had once been a major factor in Shade's life, but tha...

  • The Heist

    Linc Jackson and his buddy Rick Weaver thought they'd seen it all on the brutal battlefields of Desert Storm, but found themselves displaced and forgotten men when they came back to the States. Now, a year later, the opportunity of a lifetime suddenl...

  • Freeze Me, Tender

    Ten years ago the hillbilly king of rock-and-roll, Colton Purcell, was cryogenically frozen after his premature death. Or was he? Chicago-based magazine reporter Harry Bauer intends to find out as he becomes involved in a convoluted murder plot stret...

  • A Final Judgment

    A Ron Shade Novel

    Lawyers … Chicago-based Private Detective Ron Shade has a cop's inherent distrust of them, even though it's been years since he was relieved of his badge. Still, when his old friend, Rick Walters, who happens to be a member of the bar, needs h...

  • Melody of Vengeance

    A Doc Atlas Adventure

    Mighty Doc Atlas and his crew are about to embark on a quest to eradicate a mysterious masked vigilante known as The Wraith. But the kidnapping of a prominent newspaper magnate's daughter brings the governor knocking on Doc's door with a personal req...

  • Random Victim

    The case wasn't just cold--it was ice-cold. But the murder of Miriam Walker had a pretty high profile in the middle of a tough re-election campaign, so the Cook County sheriff assembled a task force to get results...and put Sergeant Frank Leal on it....

  • Dead Ringer

    A Ron Shade Novel

    Private eye Ron Shade and news reporter Alex St. James nearly ran into each other in the final chapters of their respective adventures, A Final Judgment and Deadly Interest. Little did they know that their chance encounter would place them on a futur...

  • Hostile Takeovers

    Something's happening in the underworld of Cook County. Tensions are rising between two rival drug lords, and the streets are their battleground. Sergeant Frank Leal and his former partner, Olivia "Ollie" Hart, get involved when one of their informan...



  • Sacrificial Offerings

    A Leal and Hart Novel

    Things couldn’t be worse for Sergeant Frank Leal. He’s assigned a homicide at a seedy motel that suddenly develops into a “heater.” Leal’s regular partner‚ Olivia Hart‚ is reassigned to the SWAT team. He’s also saddled with a colle...

  • Pope's Last Case and Other Stories

    Set in the latter half of the fabulous 1940s, Pope’s Last Case and Other Stories details the adventures of tough, hardboiled, ex-Private Eye Vince Pope and his lovely, rich, socialite wife, Laura. Vince, a veteran of WW II, has hung up his PI shing...

  • The Thrillers

    Fourteen tales guaranteed to keep you riveted to your seat.A World War II rescue-extraction ventures into madness and the heart of darkness...A CIA operative desperately tries to escape from Cuba after Castro's takeover...An American hitman in Japan ...

  • Blood Trails

    Detective Roger Colby thought he ended serial killer Morgan Laird's murderous spree 28 years ago when Laird was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. But Colby soon finds out that nothing is certain in today's ever-changing socie...

  • Camelot 13

    Fighting for the right, every day and knight.

    Camelot may be gone but the dream lives on. From King Arthur's England to the modern world and beyond come 13 tales of the spirit of the Round Table. From noir cases to outer space, from a bi...

  • Legends of the West

    The Indian Territory, 1879--Two men are on a collision course. Bass Reeves, who wears a deputy marshal's star, has sworn to uphold the law. The other is Marion Michael Donovan, a ruthless killer who murdered his first man at age fourteen. In the I...

  • Devil's Dance

    Trackdown - 1

    SURVIVAL OR DEATH ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS.When Military Intelligence team Army Ranger Sergeant Steve Wolf with a Private Military Company known as the Vipers, he subsequently finds himself blamed for the deaths of some Iraqi civilians after a botched ra...

  • Devil's Fancy

    Trackdown - 2

    A BATTLE TO SURVIVE A DEADLY ENDGAME.Working as a bounty hunter for Trackdown, Inc. ex-con and former Army Ranger Steve Wolf has been trying to get his life back on track. Convicted of a war crime that he didn't commit, he hopes to one day clear his ...

  • Devil's Brigade

    Trackdown - 3

    A LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE, AND THE STAKES ARE DEADLY.After having been court-martialed and sent to prison for a war crime he didn't commit, former Army Ranger Steve Wolf has taken up bounty hunting with his friend, mentor, ex-Green Beret Big Jim Mc...

  • Devil's Advocate

    Trackdown - 4

    WILL REDEMPTION EVER COME?That's the question former Army Ranger Steve Wolf keeps asking since he served time for a war crime he didn't commit.Wolf has been struggling to rebuild his life and ultimately clear his name, and when a path to doing just t...



  • Devil's Breed

    Nothing ever goes as planned...That's what Steve Wolf is starting to believe after a carefully planned appeal to clear his name-an appeal his high-priced lawyer assured him was a slam-dunk-mysteriously disappears from the Military Court of Appeals do...

  • Devil's Vendetta

    Trackdown - 5

    You can't go home again...Ex-Army Ranger Steve Wolf is wondering just that after receiving a desperate call home from his mother. His younger brother, Jimmy, is in trouble.As Wolf heads back to North Carolina to set things straight, he realizes that ...

  • Devil's Reckoning

    It's just like they say... the real trouble is only just beginning.Ex-army ranger Steve Wolf is hoping to clear his name for a war crime he didn't commit. But when a mysterious fixture in his life resurfaces with a dire warning for him and his mentor...

  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Volume 18

    Villains & Mysteries In this volume from Airship 27 Productions, the Great Detective and his loyal companion take on three exciting new mysteries which will pit them against several cunning and deadly villains. From the strange case of coffins that ...

  • Devil's Lair

    Survival hangs by a thread...After losing his hard-earned championship and a hefty purse, Steve Wolf, the battle-scarred ex-army ranger, is forced to take a risky fight against a relentless young contender on short notice. But as Wolf trains for the ...

  • Where Legends Lie

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael A. Black has published 25 books.

The next book by Michael A. Black, Where Legends Lie, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Michael A. Black, A Killing Frost, was published in September 2003.

Yes. Michael A. Black has 4 series.
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