Dead Cold Mystery Books in Order

Old-school NYPD detective John Stone and abrasive Carmen Dehan are shoved into cold cases and reopen a grotesque Bronx massacre from ten years earlier. What starts as a dead file turns into gang, mob, and crooked-cop territory.

A supposed tramp found in a Bronx dumpster turns out to be something else entirely. Stone and Dehan follow the cold trail into the church, the city’s powerful men, and shadows from Dehan’s past.

A request to reopen a forgotten file pulls Stone and Dehan into a case that is far darker than it first appears. The investigation leads them toward a clever, dangerous killer who keeps staying one move ahead.

Eighteen years after a husband is murdered outside a Bronx church, the one witness still remembers nothing. Stone and Dehan must rebuild the case from scraps of faith, sex, and buried family secrets.

Stone and Dehan tackle a chilling old case built around a pair of severed arms and no body. The deeper they dig, the more it looks like a taunting serial killer wanted to be noticed.

Stone and Dehan reopen a cold case that quickly widens into something larger and more volatile. Old evidence, fresh danger, and a killer who still has room to move keep the pressure high.

A young woman disappears on a short walk to her boyfriend’s house and turns up dead days later in the Bronx River. New evidence gives Stone and Dehan a way back into a case that once seemed impossible.

Stone and Dehan’s honeymoon on a remote Scottish island becomes a murder investigation when an old locked-room mystery echoes into the present. Even off duty, they can’t resist a cold case.

The body of a Bronx girl turns up in the Colorado Rockies, far from where the crime should have happened. Stone and Dehan head west and find a brutal case with very few answers and far too many suspects.

A trip to London turns personal when Stone is dragged back toward the killer who once got away from him. Past failures, new murders, and Dehan’s safety all land on the line at once.

When a murdered investigative reporter resurfaces in the cold-case files, Stone and Dehan uncover links to money, politics, and a rising public figure. The deeper they go, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

A man in Rikers claims he knows who committed the Westchester Angel murder, but he wants his freedom in return. Stone and Dehan must decide how far to trust a prisoner when a serial killer may still be hunting.

A fresh double shooting in the Bronx appears tied to a fifteen-year-old rape and murder that never stopped haunting Dehan’s family. Stone and Dehan find themselves working a case that is both personal and deadly.

Stone only takes cases that have some chance of being solved, but this one has almost no evidence at all. A murdered schizophrenic, missing proof, and a simple story that won’t quite fit make it hard to walk away.

What looks polished on the surface turns ugly fast when Stone and Dehan reopen a case steeped in old grudges and quiet betrayals. The deeper they go, the more blood they find beneath the good taste.

A teenager is raped, beaten, and murdered in a town that almost never sees violent crime. The evidence points one way, the timeline points another, and Stone and Dehan are called in to untangle the contradiction.

A novelist receives a package containing her husband’s severed head, and Stone and Dehan inherit a case with no witnesses and almost no evidence. The hunt takes them far beyond the Bronx and into darker personal territory.

A woman is found stabbed in bed, with her hands and feet removed and almost no trace of the killer left behind. Stone and Dehan reopen the case and find religion, secrecy, and a mystery that may truly be unsolvable.

An old murder starts to glow again under autumn skies as Stone and Dehan revisit a case everyone else gave up on. What seemed buried soon proves very much alive.

A Halloween party murder should have been easy to solve, the DNA and prints were right there, but the killer vanished anyway. Twelve years later, Stone and Dehan try to crack the trick that fooled everyone.

A young woman is murdered on Christmas Day, and the obvious suspect vanishes as if she fell off the map. Stone and Dehan dig into a holiday killing that only gets stranger the closer they look.

Stone becomes fixated on a rape case that technically was never a homicide, until a related murder suggests otherwise. He and Dehan uncover a link between two cases that looked like coincidence and nothing more.

A woman is shot in a brightly lit cellar beside a mummified corpse buried decades earlier. Stone and Dehan must solve two killings at once, both tied to the same gun.

A reopened murder drags Stone and Dehan into a case driven by obsession, betrayal, and violence that never really cooled. The answers are close, but so is the danger.

A serial killer who stopped for years starts murdering again, and this time the 43rd wants him finished. Stone and Dehan race through old suspects and new horrors before another girl dies.

A man is found stabbed with his wife’s DNA all over the scene, but she was seen giving a speech two hundred miles away at the time. Stone and Dehan have to solve the impossible before the wrong person walks.

A six-year-old serial case lands with Stone and Dehan when it becomes clear the killer chooses victims for reasons no one can read. Sacred music, slow deaths, and a mind games killer make this one especially nasty.

Two family massacres, years apart, share details that should not line up at all. Stone and Dehan chase the link through trauma, impossible timing, and a witness who cannot speak.

The Castle Hill Ripper appears to be killing again, even though the convicted man is already behind bars. Stone and Dehan must decide whether they’re facing a copycat, a leak, or a terrible miscarriage of justice.

With retirement and a baby on the way, Stone and Dehan want out, until an actress asks them to reopen a murder Stone once refused to touch. Their final case cuts dangerously close to home.

A supposedly settled old murder starts to come apart, and Stone and Dehan are forced back into the file. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that the dead have been pointing at the truth all along.