P.X. Duke

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2011
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Dead Reckoning

1 - Dead Reckoning (Jun-2012)
2 - Long Way Home (Nov-2012)
3 - Payback (Jul-2013)

A Jim Nash Adventure

1 - Pirate Cay (Feb-2014)
2 - Thrill Kill Jill (Jul-2014)
3 - Greetings from Key West (Sep-2014)
4 - Lost Paradise (Oct-2014)
5 - No Angels (Oct-2014)

Twisted Sisters

1 - Twisted Sisters (Jul-2013)
2 - Sleeping with a .45 (Aug-2013)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Midnight at the Oasis

  • One More Time

  • Dead Reckoning

    Dead Reckoning - 1

    Harry has a problem. In a cantina on mainland Mexico, he picks up a bag that doesn't belong to him. To escape the rightful owners, he steals an airplane and heads across the Sea of Cortez to the Baja. While hiding out under a palapa on an isolated st...

  • Long Way Home

    Dead Reckoning - 2

    When Harry's ex-wife, Sasha, and their daughter accompany her oil-company boyfriend on a working vacation to Africa, the trio goes missing. They get out a call for help that will lead Harry on an air and ground chase across the Horn of Africa to resc...

  • Dreams Die Hard

    Frank Ross is heading towards the anonymity of the bright lights and big city in an attempt to make good his escape from a cartel hit squad. He's got a reformed junkie riding bitch on the back of his motorcycle that someone is trying to kill with a M...

  • Fast Food Slow Waitress

    Five short stories that range over subjects as diverse as road rules for riding, going home again, the horror of realizing that you know a grave robber, and murder in the desert. Some content has been previously published....

  • Payback

    Dead Reckoning - 3

    Harry's comfortable family life is turned upside down when he gets a phone call from a former comrade he thought long dead. When the second call comes in an hour later, the caller asks for his help. He knows his life will never be the same until he c...

  • Twisted Sisters

    Twisted Sisters - 1

    Detective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a murder victim in an alley and a dead woman in his bed. His own homicide division wants to charge him with murder. To say he's got serious commitment problems would be an understatement. He's on the lookout f...

  • Bank Robber Dames

    Updated and re-issued, this collection of short stories hits all the high spots-or the low spots, depending on one's point of view. There's a visit to a strip club off the 15 in Montana; an encounter with a hitch-hiker on the 10 in New Mexico; romanc...



  • Sleeping with a .45

    Twisted Sisters - 2

  • Helping Santa

  • Dreams Die Fast

  • Pirate Cay

    A Jim Nash Adventure - 1

    Jim Nash is headed for a long-awaited vacation in the Florida Keys with his faithful dog Zelda when he checks his messages and discovers that an old flame needs his help. After a brief consult with the new woman in his life, Jim heads west to Pana...

  • Bad Girls

    Frank's phone rarely rings when he's on the road. When it does, he usually lets whoever is on the other end go to voice mail. This time it's different, and after hanging up, he forces himself to ride three hundred miles out of his way in the dark of ...

  • Pox

    POX - It can happen here. When Russell finally accepts that he has escaped the purging of humanity from the city, he hunkers down in an abandoned house in a suburb far from the city's center. In the mess left behind, managing for his day-to-day needs...

  • Thrill Kill Jill

    A Jim Nash Adventure - 2

    Retired detective Jim Nash is headed for a much-needed vacation with the two favorite women in his life. When he pulls off the highway into a rest stop, his girlfriend disappears without leaving a trace. Left to his own devices when the local PD r...

  • Greetings from Key West

    A Jim Nash Adventure - 3

    Allie manages to talk Jim into a vacation in the Keys, where trouble finds them once again when they cross paths with a woman and her little girl being harassed by the locals. It's not long before Zelda's tracking abilities are called upon to rest...

  • Gun Crazy

    This first Jim Nash collection includes six short stories: Twisted Sisters 1, 2, & 3, Pirate Cay, Thrill Kill Jill, and Greetings from Key West. Twisted Sisters - Detective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a murd...

  • Trick or Treat

    The bestselling book with 100,000 copies in print from one of the most sought-after experts in the field of functional medicine, Dr. Susan Blum, author of Healing Arthritis, shares the four-step program she used to treat her own serious autoimmune co...



  • Lost Paradise

    A Jim Nash Adventure - 4

    Jim and Allie end up investigating a double homicide while vacationing on an island resort paradise owned by a venture capitalist Jim once cleared of a murder charge. Fourth in the Jim Nash adventure series....

  • No Angels

    A Jim Nash Adventure - 5

    Jim is tasked by an old friend for assistance in cleaning up part of a gunrunning operation created by government mismanagement. He dives full throttle into Mexican waters, only to encounter the mysterious yacht Captain and crew that will transpor...

  • Mexico Gamble

  • No Picnic

    Jim is back in Mexico to come to the aid of a former flame that just happens to be handy with a knife. This time, he's starting out with a boatload of trouble already on board. Two women who won't allow him to say no to their demands insist on com...

  • Fallen Angels

  • Dreams Never Die

  • Vendetta

  • No Way Out

    Frank would collect his final paycheck from the last bike rally of the riding season, pack up, and ride south in late fall. He liked to spend the winter months down on the Baja, a refugee from the freezing cold of a northern winter. Come spring, h...

  • A Girl's Best Friend

    Jim has a brand new Private Investigator's license, but he can't use it in Nassau. After a briefing in the Big Apple on the diamond market, he heads off to the sunny paradise to try and dissuade a friend from flashing a blue diamond at one of his...

  • Dead End

    A missing teenager draws Jim back to the scene of the crime in Mexico where Kara, his pregnant wife, was killed in an explosion aboard their sloop. He's needed the intervening two years to get over the life-changing event, but now he's ready to take ...



  • Gun Crazy 2

    Following in the footsteps of Gun Crazy, this edition is a collection of Jim Nash Adventure stories. Lost Paradise #4 - Jim and Allie end up investigating a double homicide while vacationing on an island resort paradise owned by a...

  • No Harbor

    Jim Nash is well on his way to recovery from the mistakes in his past. He's in his second marriage and very happy. His job at the resort is secure. Then a blast from the past re-emerges and threatens to throw a wrench into his plans for the future...

  • Dog Days

    Jim Nash is as content as he's ever been-that is, until he manages to get himself arrested thanks to the new girl that has come into his life. His life has literally gone to the dogs as he's held on trumped-up charges of murder. Given the local PD...

  • Startup Blues

    Being elected to the position of chief of police isn't everything it's cracked up to be when Jim has competent help to assist him. Bored with desk duty, Jim takes a short leave to use his P.I. license to help two sisters in their time of need. Person...

  • Gun Crazy 3

  • Last Stop to Nowhere

    Jim is back, and this time he’s bent on revenge for his murdered wife. With a drowned hitch-hiker in tow who manages to convince him that he should drop everything and help her find her missing brother, Jim is drawn into the woman’s world...

  • Twisted Sisters Collection

    This is a collection of three previously published stand-alone short stories. Marina Mystery - A dead body introduces Detective Jim Nash to Coroner Allie Sands. Despite warnings from just about every woman...

  • 2017: The Last President

    When Russell finally accepts that he has escaped the purging of humanity from the city, he hunkers down in an abandoned house in a suburb far from the city's center. In the mess left behind, managing for his day-to-day needs occupies every waking...

  • Rescue Me

  • Revenge Is Justice

    Jim Nash has been chasing the ghosts in his life for too long. His business partner has deserted him and he doesn’t know if she’s coming back. His most recent receptionist and her dog, Friday, keeps handing him verbal abuse. The requested...



  • The Snap-Brim Fedora Caper

    Private Investigator Jim Nash is the lucky recipient of an anniversary gift courtesy of his business partner Maddie Stone. All is not as it seems when he dons the gift and falls asleep while wearing it. A mysterious woman searching for her husband. A...

  • Escape

    Jim Nash takes his crew on a well-deserved vacation and ends up knee-deep in trouble when, trapped in a blizzard, he is forced to delay their trip to a ski lodge in the Colorado mountains. When the Interstate is closed, another couple is waylaid in t...

  • Wedding Bell Blues

    Jim Nash has no plans to attend the wedding of former best friend Warren to Allie Sands, a girlfriend from his past. All that goes out the window when his current partner, Maddie Stone, sees the emails and convinces him otherwise. With the decision m...

  • Breakdown

    Jim Nash and his partner's faithful dog Friday are left to fend for themselves when Maddie Spence is called home. A concerned client lands on their second-floor doorstep, convinced his wife has gone missing. The police won't get involved. It's too so...

  • Little Girl Lost

    The sitter has never been late before, and Angela Franklin is expecting her baby sitter to arrive at any minute to keep an eye on her daughter. Anxious to get to work, Angela leaves six-year-old Holly alone to wait for the sitter. In her haste, she f...

  • Forget Me Not

    Jim Nash and his partner, Maddie Spence are called on to help an old friend locate his missing daughter. But is she really missing? Jim thinks she’s gone on a romantic getaway for a long weekend and an opportunity to study for her final exams s...

  • Mexico Time

    Jim Nash wants to put his past behind him, but in order to do that, he has to remove himself from the present. His quick trip down the Baja is beginning to look like he overstayed his welcome on a vacay from hell. He’s riding around in an armor...

  • Shop Till You Drop

    Jim Nash and Maddie Spence find their lives disrupted when a woman from Jim's past lands on their doorstep. Faithful dog Friday doesn't seem to mind. He has a new bestie, even when she slips from their shared sofa-bed and disappears. It doesn't faze ...

  • Partners in Crime

    Good boy Friday is taking his masters, Maddie and Jim, out for a walk on his long leash. He veers off course into a dark alley, testing the patience of both. Refusing to come or heel when called, the usually well-behaved dog is forced to disobey. He ...

  • Twisted Sisters 3



  • The Last President

    Panicked city officials put a quarantine in place when an out of control virus lands. The quarantine goes sideways, and the National Guard is called in to quell the ensuing panic. State and Federal officials brook no demonstrations, and the city is s...

  • Lie Cheat Steal

    Sasha and Barbara decide a vacay from their families is just the ticket to revitalize their marriages. A pleasant getaway for the pair turns into an unscheduled visit to Mexico and the scene of past crimes. Their rental is destroyed and they end up i...

  • The Lady in White

    Jim Nash is back in the 40s again in this latest addition to the Jim Nash Investigates series. A powder-blue roadster. A dead body in a bar. A lady in white. Missing pearls. All contribute to Jim's latest adventure....

  • Lobo

    Jim Nash is back down Mexico way, and he's not happy about it. That could be because he's helping a friend track down a cold-blooded killer who also happens to be the woman's daughter. It might be because he's Kill On Sight, thanks to a narrow escape...

  • Gone

    Maddie Spence is supposed to be at home, helping to write a report on their latest caper. She gets a call from a friend to ask for help with their missing daughter. Upon arrival, she learns it was a false alarm, and she and Friday head off into the n...

  • No Free Ride

    Jim Nash is a private detective who has occasionally made his living on the shady side of the street. In his past, he has done off-the-book work for the Feds. One of those old jobs has returned to haunt him.A women he long thought dead comes back int...

  • Uncharted

    Harry Delaney is back on the Horn of Africa, smuggling guns and falling in love while partying it up on a Nairobi R&R. When Kari, his latest love interest ends up in his desert camp, she saves a squad of his men during a shootout. The episode only se...

  • All The Glitter

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    Maddie Spence is left to her own devices after her partner in business and romance has left her in the lurch with nary so much as an explanation or a phone call to alleviate her worries. With Jim Nash MIA, she takes on a case involving a strip club a...

  • Jim Nash The Beginning

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Marina MysteryA dead body introduces Detective Jim Nash to Coroner Allie Sands. Despite warnings from just about every woman working in the same building, Allie throws caution to the winds while helping Jim solve a murder. As their relationship deepe...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

P.X. Duke has published 58 books.

P.X. Duke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Uncharted, was published in January 2024.

The first book by P.X. Duke, Midnight at the Oasis, was published in February 2011.

Yes. P.X. Duke has 3 series.
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