Andrew Mayne Books in Order

A train derailment near a nuclear facility, a battery plant inferno, and a failing dam look like unrelated accidents until Theo Cray sees a pattern. Joined by Jessica Blackwood, Brad Trasker, and Sloan McPherson, he hunts an engineer orchestrating a countdown of engineered disasters across the country.

When Sloan McPherson finds an amnesiac drifter in a Florida swamp, records show he vanished from an Oregon town decades ago. Jessica Blackwood, Theo Cray, and Brad Trasker uncover matching disappearances and journals about a figure called Mr. Whisper, pointing to a manipulator who has been pulling strings for years.

A social media influencer is found encased in a pillar of salt in the desert, and Jessica Blackwood is asked to consult on the bizarre crime. When another influencer tied to water is attacked, she pulls in Sloan McPherson, and together they chase a killer staging murders as macabre performance pieces.

As head of security for Wind Aerospace, Brad Trasker is alerted to a serious Pentagon cyber breach traced to a nervous fast food worker. When the young man dies under dubious circumstances, Brad follows the trail into a covert criminal network that spans governments, shell companies, and continents.

Public pressure resurrects the disbanded Underwater Investigation Unit, and Sloan’s first new case is the disappearance of family friend Fred Stafford. His abandoned truck, gambling debts, and ties to reckless cavern divers drag her into a sinkhole of old crimes, superstition, and a buried conspiracy.

With the Underwater Investigation Unit on ice, Sloan McPherson is reassigned when a young woman’s bare body washes up on a Fort Lauderdale beach. Convinced it is murder, not suicide, she partners with prickly detective Gwen Wylder and uncovers a string of suspicious deaths along Florida’s coast.

Retired FBI counterintelligence agent Brad Trasker attends the launch of Sparrow, a revolutionary hydrogen powered aircraft, only to watch it explode and its billionaire creator walk out of the flames. Investigating the sabotage pulls him into corporate espionage, Russian intrigue, and a lethal global conspiracy.

Theo Cray observes the autopsy of a robot that attacked its creator, then follows the thread to a secretive New Mexico research station that claims to be talking to something near Neptune. After a scientist’s suspicious death, he calls in Jessica Blackwood to help untangle fraud, murder, and maybe first contact.

A cruise ship off Fort Lauderdale is sinking after a mysterious explosion, and Sloan McPherson’s Underwater Investigation Unit rushes in to save passengers. Suspicions of ecoterrorism bring in the FBI, but as evidence vanishes in an approaching tropical storm, Sloan uncovers a much deeper plot.

A freak electrical storm plunges Manhattan into a black void, providing cover for the escape of Jessica Blackwood’s nemesis, the Warlock. To stop his escalating attacks on cities worldwide, Jessica breaks scientist Theo Cray out of a foreign prison and teams up for their most dangerous hunt yet.

Called to retrieve a crash victim from an alligator filled pond, Sloan instead finds a submerged van holding four teens who vanished thirty years earlier. Her instincts say murder, not accident, and the search for answers awakens a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight.

Diver and auxiliary cop Sloan McPherson comes from a family of Florida treasure hunters and smugglers, but she is trying to go straight. When a body is dumped into the canal where she is diving, she becomes suspect and target in a case tied to cartel money and sunken secrets.

Theo Cray is asked to quietly examine a forensic tech who inexplicably murdered coworkers at a dig site and remembers nothing. Anomalies in the man’s brain and a stranger stealing crime scene data suggest a chilling possibility: someone is trying to engineer killers instead of catch them.

Reeling from exposure to a mind altering pathogen, Theo Cray questions his own sanity even as he pursues a nomadic health care worker whose patients keep dying. Following hospital records and anomalies across the globe, he hunts a killer nurse who may have quietly claimed hundreds of lives.

Still infamous from his last investigation, Theo Cray is approached by a father whose daughter has vanished and whose pleas have been ignored. The only clues are disturbing children’s drawings and an urban legend about the Toy Man, leading Theo into a nightmare where myth and data collide.

When one of his former students is found mutilated in the Montana woods, computational biologist Theo Cray is drawn into the case. Police blame a rogue bear. Theo’s models say something far more calculating is hunting in the forest, and he sets out to prove it before he becomes prey.

After barely surviving his last trip to space, David Dixon is offered a covert mission that sends him undercover on an orbiting research platform. There he must expose the spymaster called Silverback and prevent a stolen nuclear weapon from sparking disaster, all while trapped in hostile orbit.

Jessica Blackwood survives an attack by a disturbed young woman holding a baby during a surveillance job, then watches a video of a long dead physicist predicting a real time earthquake. As more ominous “prophecies” surface, she follows a twisting trail that may lead back to the Warlock himself.

A practical handbook that breaks writer’s block into three types and offers targeted fixes. Mayne walks through diagnosing your problem, using simple exercises and fifty quick creativity boosters to help you restart stalled stories or ideas without waiting for inspiration to strike.

Astronaut David Dixon’s first mission to space erupts into chaos when a gunfight breaks out on a Russian station. Forced into an emergency landing, he becomes the most wanted man on Earth and must outfly, outthink, and sometimes outright steal to survive and uncover the conspiracy behind it all.

In this nonfiction exploration, Mayne lays out an economic case for Mars, arguing that a smartly funded mission and early colony could spark new industries rather than rely on a single magic resource. He imagines Martian start ups, currencies, and business models built around space exploration.

After a church in Appalachia explodes and its congregation ends up naked and posed in nearby trees, whispers blame the Devil. Jessica Blackwood is brought in to show that a human hand is at work, following a trail from West Virginia to Mexico and the Vatican in pursuit of a vengeful mastermind.

Part writing guide, part pep talk, this short book collects Andrew Mayne’s lessons on speed, focus, and creativity, including how he outlines quickly, manages energy, and finishes stories fast enough to draft a novella in a single day.

The first time they come for Kevin, he wakes in a forest with a sword and only seconds to react before a man with a battle axe tries to kill him. Night after night he is forced to fight in abandoned malls, alleys, and swamps, playing a deadly game he can never quit.

In this Jessica Blackwood short novel, Jessica is sent to rural Louisiana with eager rookie agent Nadine to investigate an old man’s claim about a mysterious event in the sky decades earlier. What feels like a pointless assignment forces Jessica to confront memory, belief, and her own instincts.

At Ellison High, the student body’s favorite sport is a secret medieval war game fought in the woods between rival schools over a hidden fortune. New kid Marv Whitlock, already dealing with his own troubles, is pulled into a conflict ruled by brilliant, ruthless Venn Maddox.

Mike Ray, ex cop and body double for a major action star, is ready to walk away from Hollywood when a rising actress begs him to track down a lost necklace from an old film. The job drags him through Malibu parties, desert secrets, the Nevada mob, and a very dangerous billionaire.

FBI agent and former stage magician Jessica Blackwood is pulled into a case when a hacker called Warlock stages murders that look like miracles, including a dead girl seemingly clawing out of her grave. To stop him, Jessica must expose the tricks behind his “supernatural” killings.

In 1890 Boston, citizens start vanishing into the fog and hysteria spreads. Inventor and adventurer Smith, with his sharp minded assistant April Malone, investigates a trail of secret societies, corrupt officers, and a deranged psychologist whose experiments hide something far worse.

A giant airship appears over New York in 1892, threatening destruction unless the world submits to the Martian flag. Smith and April race from Chinatown gambling dens to the Statue of Liberty’s torch, enlisting young Theodore Roosevelt to help unmask the human power behind the ultimatum.

On a remote colony world run on coal and steam, something unknown is killing settlers. T. R. Westwood, famed biologist and the galaxy’s most relentless hunter, arrives to track the creature, using every weapon from handmade spears to shotguns in a post singularity frontier.

Mitchell Roberts discovers that anyone who comes near him is suddenly driven to kill him, from strangers in a mall to people he once trusted. Hunted by both enraged civilians and the authorities, he races to uncover the cause before the world tears itself apart around him.

A compact nonfiction guide from Andrew Mayne that looks at how language, patterns, and word choice shape ideas and communication, offering short, practical reflections meant to spark new ways of thinking about what we say and write.