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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2005
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Joe DeMarco Thriller

1 - The Inside Ring (May-2005)
2 - The Second Perimeter (Aug-2006)
3 - House Rules (Jun-2008)
4 - House Secrets (Jul-2009)
5 - House Justice (Jun-2010)
6 - House Divided (Jul-2011)
7 - House Blood (Jun-2012)
8 - House Odds (Jul-2013)
9 - House Reckoning (Jul-2014)
10 - House Rivals (Jul-2015)
11 - House Revenge (Jul-2016)
12 - House Witness (Feb-2018)
13 - House Arrest (Feb-2019)
14 - House Privilege (Jul-2020)
15 - House Standoff (Apr-2021)

Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • Someone has tried to assassinate the President. Someone in the inside ring of secret service agents. Joe DeMarco, a lawyer and fixer for the Speaker of the House, is asked to investigate. DeMarco immediately realizes he is in way over his head. As w...



  • Joe DeMarco, a political gunslinger and trouble-shooter for John Mahoney, the conniving Speaker of the House, is asked to investigate what appears to be a minor case of fraud at a U.S. naval base. DeMarco discovers instead that an Asian espionage rin...



  • Panic grips Washington, DC, in this thriller featuring “a lightning-paced plot [and] a charmingly likeable character” (Tess Gerritsen).  Author of House Witness, 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel   Two foiled terrorist attacks an...




  • When a mediocre newspaper reporter and son of a former congressman dies in an accident, Joe Demarco, fixer for the Speaker of the House, is quietly sent to investigate. In the days before his death, the reporter claimed that he had a lead on the bigg...



  • In his thrillers starring Joe DeMarco, Mike Lawson has made a name for himself as one of the most entertaining and insightful writers focusing on the dirty games played in our nation’s capital. In House Justice, an American defense contractor goes ...




  • With his series featuring Joe DeMarco, fixer for Speaker of the House, Mike Lawson has won a reputation as one of America's best political thriller writers. In House Divided, with his boss out of commission, DeMarco is on his own, a sacrificial pawn ...



  • DeMarco is asked to look into the murder conviction of a lobbyist. But he has other worries on his mind: his boss is no longer Speaker,his girlfriend has left him, andhis friend Emma may be dying. DeMarco doesn’t expect to free the lobbyist - much ...






  • Washington, D.C. fixer Joe DeMarco has been asked to handle a lot of difficult situations over the years for his boss, congressman John Mahoney. But nothing has ever been quite so politically sensitive, or has hit so close to home, as the task Mahone...



  • When Joe DeMarco was a boy, he always knew his father, Gino, had a shadowy job, working for a violent Mafioso in New York. But he didn’t know that his father had been a hit man until he was murdered. The crime was never solved, but twenty years lat...



  • As a fixer for influential congressman John Mahoney in Washington, D.C., Joe DeMarco has found himself in plenty of unexpected and dangerous situations. In "House Rivals," the tenth book in Mike Lawson’s award-winning series, DeMarco is taken furth...



  • Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to his boss Congressman John Mahoney’s hometown of Boston. Mahoney wants him to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment buildin...



  • In HOUSE WITNESS, the twelfth novel in the Joe DeMarco series, Mike Lawson puts his likable protagonist on the trail of a different kind of fixer―one whose job is to influence, and sometimes disappear, witnesses in seemingly airtight criminal cases...



  • In the thirteenth book in Mike Lawson’s celebrated series, Joe DeMarco finds himself on the wrong side of an investigation―in the wake of a political assassination, he’s been framed as the killer. As the fixer for Congressman John Mahoney in...



  • Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She’s also the goddaughter of the newly elected Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, and Mahoney becomes ...



  • A D.C. fixer heads to Wyoming on a personal mission in the new novel from the Edgar Award"finalist and “reliably excellent writer” (Seattle Times).   When someone close to him is shot dead in a roadside motel in a small Wyoming town, Joe D...





  • A man discovers that quitting his job comes with a price -- his life -- in this breakneck financial thriller from the acclaimed author of the Joe DeMarco series. With his reputation permanently marred by an insider trading conviction, Jamison Maddox,...






  • Joe DeMarco likes to call himself a troubleshooter. It sounds better than “bagman” or “fixer.” With more than a decade of troubleshooting under his belt on behalf of John Mahoney, the Speaker of the House, DeMarco has seen his fair share of d...



  • The latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his beloved Washington DC “troubleshooter” Joe DeMarco.Carson Newman doesn’t think of himself as a gangster. He doesn’t have a consigl...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mike Lawson has published 21 books.

Mike Lawson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kingpin, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Mike Lawson, The Inside Ring, was published in May 2005.

Yes. Mike Lawson has 1 series.