Michael Lister, Author . Pottersville $24.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-888146-13-4
In this story collection from former prison chaplain Lister (Blood of the Lamb
), his fictional alter ego, John Jordan, a chaplain at a north Florida jail, investigates seven "cases" that range from standard fair play tales to explorations...
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Michael Lister, Author . Bleak House $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60648-041-0
This stand-alone thriller from Lister, author of the John Jordan series (Blood of the Lamb
, etc.), opens on a suspenseful note, but deteriorates toward the end. A camera set up by Remington James to photograph wildlife in the North Florida...
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Michael Lister, Author . Tyrus $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-93556-204-7
In this less than impressive stand-alone crime novel from Lister (Double Exposure
), Merrick McKnight, an unemployed newspaper journalist, struggles to maintain his bearings after the deaths of his wife and their young son, Ty, in a car accident. In
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Michael Lister, Five Star, $25.95 (330p) ISBN 978-1-59414-893-4
In Lister's superior fourth book featuring cop-turned-prison chaplain John Jordan (after 2006's story collection Flesh and Blood), recovering alcoholic Jordan, who's begun to reconcile with his estranged wife, Susan, meets Susan's father, Tom...
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Michael Lister, Author Pineapple Press $18.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56164-137-6
John Jordan, an ex-cop, onetime minister of a prosperous church and recovering alcoholic, is now chaplain at a Florida state prison. Investigating the murder of an inmate during a faked escape attempt, Jordan encounters prison intrigues and personal
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (254p) ISBN 978-1-888146-78-3; $16.99 trade paper ISBN 978-1-888146-79-0
Lister (The Body and the Blood) kicks off a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida with a tantalizing opening line—"I had not yet recovered from shooting Stanley Somerset when I saw her"—and rapidly establishes the intriguing...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (206p) ISBN 978-1-888146-41-7
Set in and around Panama City, Fla., in the 1940s, this solid hard-boiled thrill ride brings Lister’s trilogy that began with The Big Goodbye and The Big Beyond to an end with several bangs and numerous homicides. One-armed and gut-shot, PI Jimmy...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $16.99 trade paper (234p) ISBN 978-1-888146-45-5
In this lame sequel to 2010’s Thunder Beach, North Florida investigative reporter Merrick McKnight returns to the small town where he grew up, Wewathitchka, to replace the corrupt local police chief. McKnight, who has somehow ended up “pretty damned
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (pulpwoodpress.com), $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-888146-49-3
Lister provides a plausible backstory for his unusual clergyman sleuth in the seventh John Jordan mystery (after 2014’s Rivers to Blood), a prequel. When Jordan was 12, in 1980, he encountered Wayne Williams, the man who would be publicly identified
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-888146-51-6
A bit too much is going on in Lister’s loosely plotted fourth crime novel featuring Panama City, Fla., PI Jimmy Riley (after 2014’s The Big Hello). In late 1943, Miki Matsumoto, a “beautiful Japanese teen” who has been in hiding since escaping from...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $26.99 (186p) ISBN 978-1-888146-64-6
Set in 1944, Lister’s fifth noir featuring PI Jimmy “Soldier” Riley (after 2015’s The Big Bout) effectively combines an atmospheric evocation of WWII-era Florida with a puzzling whodunit. Jimmy reunites with boyhood friend Orson Ferrell, a combat...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $25 (346p) ISBN 978-1-947606-04-3
Lister’s uneven 15th John Jordan mystery (after 2017’s Cold Blood) alternates between new chapters chronicling the efforts of Florida investigator Jordan to solve the murder of photographer Remington James in the 2009 standalone, Double Exposure,...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $27 (310p) ISBN 978-1-947606-37-1
The tension ratchets up early in Lister’s superb 19th John Jordan mystery (after 2018’s Blood Trail) when Chip Jeffers, a Potter County, Fla., deputy, asks John, an investigator for the Gulf County Sheriff’s Department, for help in averting a...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (364p) ISBN 978-1-888146-90-5
A psychopath, who burns people alive as part of a twisted sacrificial rite, terrorizes north Florida in Lister’s suspenseful serial killer thriller. Daniel Davis, a retired academic who used to profile monsters in human form, stumbles on the first...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $16.99 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-888146-95-0
Lister’s strong fifth book featuring cop–turned–prison-chaplain John Jordan (after 2010’s The Body and the Blood) takes Jordan, whose marriage has failed for a second time, to the small Florida Panhandle town of Bridgeport, to undergo counseling at
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (228p) ISBN 978-1-888146-33-2
In an author’s note, Lister advises you to read 2011’s The Big Goodbye, his first PI Jimmy Riley mystery set in 1940s Panama City, Fla., before this strong sequel, which starts in the middle of things (“When they came to kill me, I was in no...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-888146-35-6
Lister’s inconsistency is on display in this weak mystery set in North Florida, a self-described “spiritual sequel” to 2009’s Double Exposure. But even fans of that contrived cat-and-mouse thriller will find this outing tough going. From their first
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (www.pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-888146-39-4
Lister deftly juggles multiple plot lines in his fifth John Jordan novel (after 2012’s Blood Sacrifice). In the first chapter, the Florida-based prison chaplain, who can’t resist playing detective, sees a prisoner transport van swerve off the road....
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood (pulpwoodpress.com), $26.99 (276p) ISBN 978-1-888146-53-0
At the start of Lister’s engrossing eighth John Jordan mystery (after Innocent Blood), the prison chaplain attends a political dinner preceding an election in Potter County, Fla., to support his father, the incumbent sheriff. Chris Taunton, the...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $26.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-888146-61-5
Lister’s excellent sequel to 2015’s Innocent Blood, the 10th entry in his John Jordan series, couples a crafty whodunit with a thoughtful look at his lead’s inner life. In 1986, 18-year-old John is a student at a ministerial college in Atlanta,...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $17.99 trade paper (274p) ISBN 978-1-888146-65-3
In Lister’s derivative, self-indulgent series launch, the author’s alter ego struggles to survive in an America that has suffered an unspecified disaster. A man named Michael, who, like Lister, has written mysteries featuring prison chaplain John...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $27.99 (278p) ISBN 978-1-888146-70-7
While Lister made John Jordan’s probe into the Atlanta child murders plausible in 2015’s Innocent Blood, he pushes his luck by having the clergyman sleuth’s father, Jack, connected to the case of serial killer Ted Bundy in this subpar 12th series...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-888146-71-4
An unusual concept lifts Lister’s solid 13th novel starring Florida prison chaplain and sheriff’s investigator John Jordan (after Blood Work). On the day of George W. Bush’s second inauguration in 2005, 21-year-old liberal political activist Randa...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $27.99 (354p) ISBN 978-1-947606-36-4
A natural disaster, Hurricane Michael, hovers over Lister’s underwhelming 21st novel featuring John Jordan, a sheriff’s investigator in Gulf County, Fla. (after 2018’s Blue Blood). After a teasing opening in which an unidentified person muses on...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $27.99 (328p) ISBN 978-1-947606-55-5
Lister’s strong 24th John Jordan mystery (after 2019’s Blood and Sand) puts Jordan, a Florida Gulf County sheriff’s investigator, in the fraught position of second-guessing his sheriff father. In 2014, Sheriff Jack Jordan led the probe into the fate
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $17.99 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-1-947606-66-1
The unsolved, real-life case of Lauren Agee is the inspiration for Lister’s excellent 26th John Jordan mystery thriller (after 2020’s Blood Pathogen). One evening in 2015, the same year Agee died, 21-year-old Blake Scott, after drinking with three...
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Michael Lister. Pulpwood, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-947606-75-3
Lister’s sterling 27th novel featuring empathic chaplain-turned–sheriff’s investigator John Jordan (after 2021’s Beneath a Blood-Red Sky) finds Jordan nearing a turning point in his career. His longtime boss, Gulf County, Fla., sheriff Reggie...
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