Michael Lister

Ex-cop John Jordan, now a prison chaplain in the Florida Panhandle, witnesses the bloody death of Potter Correctional Institution inmate Ike Johnson....

A wildlife photographer’s camera traps capture a killer committing a murder frame by frame. Now’s he’s running for his life deep in the river swamp. Lyrical, literary, told in poetic, photographic impressions, Double Exposure is a pause-resister with a soul. Includes a special introduction...

What would you do to the man who killed your best friend? A murder without a body. A murderer without a memory. John Jordan must determine whether Angel Diaz was murdered by her boyfriend after a magical night together or if he was wrongly convicted and who the real killer is. January 16, 1999...

The murder of retired priest Andrew Irwin begins like any other homicide investigation for sheriff’s Investigator John Jordan. But it is soon interrupted by an existential superstorm of apocalyptic proportions that threatens to destroy both John and his family....

What would you risk to prevent a murder? Private Investigator Merrill Monroe enlists the services of Detective John Jordan to protect Malia Goodman, a civil rights and police shooting activist with a target on her back. But Merrill doesn’t just want John to help protect Malia, he wants him to...

While attempting to prevent a school shooting, sheriff’s investigator John Jordan becomes an unwitting witness to the evolution of a particular type of evil....

Was America’s most notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy, responsible for the Broken Heart Murder? If not, who was, and can John Jordan figure it out and redeem his childhood hero? John’s dad is still haunted by a murder he couldn’t solve four decades ago. On the same weekend Janet Leigh...

John Jordan's first case is also his most heartbreaking. And one that will haunt him for the rest of his life....

John Jordan can't fathom that a father could kill his own daughter but he's going to have to in order to solve the murder of Mariah Evers and its echoes of the JonBenét Ramsey case. John Jordan returns from his honeymoon to discover that in the early morning hours of July 4th, the unimaginable...

Can John Jordan find and identify the remains of a vulnerable young woman murdered and buried in the unforgiving North Florida swamps while being targeted by a South Florida hitman? In the swamps of North Florida, Remington James' camera captured the best of nature and the worst of humanity...

An inexperienced young John Jordan must uncover the Atlanta Monster or become his next victim. As John continues his investigation into the Atlanta child murders, he interviews Wayne Williams, investigates the disappearance of Cedric Porter, and uncovers a series of murders with devastating...

Detective John Jordan investigates a series of baffling cases that include the body of a young woman propped against a prison fence, a series of suicides with a unique calling card, a stolen corpse, a young man fighting for his life, and a single mother who has lost her only child....

Terror reigns over the North Florida National Forest, the coastal town of Bayshore, and the barrier island of Pine Key - a fiery terror whose flame threatens to consume the whole world. An exacting and methodical killer whose weapon is fire is working on his masterpiece, and only a wounded and...

Do you believe demon possession could lead to murder? Was the troubled young Tammy Taylor a victim of an exorcism gone horribly wrong or cold-blooded murder? John Jordan must exorcise his own demons to find out. Following a particularly brutal and costly case, John Jordan goes to a secluded...

Would you risk your life to save a family member even if you knew they had committed a serious crime? What do a daring prison escape and a shocking lynching have in common? Only the inimitable John Jordan can figure it out! Listen to find out more....

Three novels in the critically-acclaimed John Jordan series from award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Michael Lister. Includes a special introduction by Michael Connelly Power in the Blood A missing mom and a suspicious death force a reluctant detective out of self-imposed exile...

A young woman hundreds of miles from where she's supposed to be, surrounded by several witnesses, vanishes from the face of the earth in just seven minutes. Can John Jordan find her or the person responsible for her disappearance? Or has he finally met his match? The answers will shock you! On...

A missing young man. A sadistic serial killer. John Jordan is once again carrying a gun and a badge - and he’s going to need them. Balancing family life with being a cop and a prison chaplain takes grit and grace - and John has plenty of both. Working two cases that may or may not be connected...

John Jordan's first two cases in one box set....

Find out Soldier and Lauren's fate in the thrilling conclusion to Michael Lister's landmark Big noir series. Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy "Soldier" Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Lister's resonant new noir series Publisher's Weekly calls "a...