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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2006
  • Latest Book:
    April 2020
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Full Series List in Order

A Detective John Bowers Mystery

Blue Butterfly (Jun-2006)
Babylon Blues (Oct-2007)
The Camelot Club - With Detective John Bowers (Sep-2016)
Pontiac Pirates - With Detective John Bowers (Nov-2016)
SWEET SORROW (Jul-2018)

Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Detective John Bowers is a wily veteran with the Portland Police Bureau.  The only mystery Bowers hasn't solved in 23 years behind the badge is blonde and comes in all flavors.  The last split cost him his house, his furniture, his drift bo...



  • It’s 1994, and veteran homicide detective John Bowers teams up with his partner Minola Raye to solve another grisly murder in Babylon -- Portland, Oregon’s fringe district of losers and forgotten victims. Like hungry sharks, Babylon’s riffraff ...



  • The Camelot Club, third book in the Detective John Bowers series, catches John off guard. He's trying to escape the city noise and mayhem but kidnap and murder, plus an ex-wife who plays the grieving victim of a cruel crime, pull him back. His par...



  • A young girl alone on a dark city street, moments from the safety and security of her home, is caught in a terrifying trap. Roving predators change the course of her life, and everyone who cares for her, in a split second of evil. Now she's anothe...



  • The fifth book in the Senior Detective John Bowers series lands us at the scene of a tragic carjacking to find a young mother shot dead in her parked car. Homicide cops in Central Precinct catch a case which looks like a carjacking. There's a young m...



  • Detectives John Bowers and his partner Minola Raye catch a case that has them on the hunt for a serial rapist who has left two victims in the heart of the city, in the shade of the white-collar towers. Portland, the City of Roses, prides itself on...



  • It’s a good day to die for lawyers. A deposition is about to begin in a large, metro law firm where the senior partner is breathing his last before a shooter barges into the conference room and redecorates with blood and brains compliments of h...



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    As soon as he came through the door at Central, Detective Sergeant John Bowers noticed the white board and the younger detective scrawling another name in black marker.Who's Wendy Williams?Mac Bando, junior detective on the robbery-homicide unit, loo...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ray Bates has published 8 books.

Ray Bates does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Cold Kill, was published in April 2020.

The first book by Ray Bates, Blue Butterfly, was published in June 2006.

Yes. Ray Bates has 1 series.