Grifter’s Song Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Come the Apocalypse | 2019 | Buy |
| Losing Streak | 2019 | Buy |
| Lost in Middle America | 2019 | Buy |
| People Like Us | 2019 | Buy |
| The Concrete Smile | 2019 | Buy |
| The Movie Makers | 2019 | Buy |
| The Whale | 2019 | Buy |
| Down Comes the Night | 2020 | Buy |
| Gone Dead on You | 2020 | Buy |
| Still Life with Suitcase | 2020 | Buy |
| The Money Block | 2020 | Buy |
| The Sound of Breaking Bones | 2020 | Buy |
| Upgrade | 2020 | Buy |
| Dracula Wine | 2021 | Buy |
| Open Up Your Heart | 2021 | Buy |
| Ride Like Hell | 2021 | Buy |
| Rocky Mountain Lie | 2021 | Buy |
| The Alpha Whisperer | 2021 | Buy |
| The Down and Out | 2021 | Buy |
| The Reckoner | 2021 | Buy |
| The Rule of Thirds | 2021 | Buy |
| Travel Money | 2021 | Buy |
| Concrete and Cocaine | 2022 | Buy |
| Dangerous to Know | 2022 | Buy |
| Diamond Dogs | 2022 | Buy |
| Dusty and Bent | 2022 | Buy |
| The Low White Plain | 2022 | Buy |
| Madam Tomahawk | 2023 | Buy |
| Outfoxed | 2023 | Buy |
| Somewhere Outside Salvation | 2023 | Buy |
Holland Taylor Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Penance | 1995 | Buy |
| Practice to Deceive | 1997 | Buy |
| Dearly Departed | 1999 | Buy |
| Darkness, Sing Me a Song | 2018 | Buy |
| First, Kill the Lawyers | 2019 | Buy |
Mac McKenzie Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Hard Ticket Home | 2004 | Buy |
| Tin City | 2005 | Buy |
| Pretty Girl Gone | 2006 | Buy |
| Dead Boyfriends | 2007 | Buy |
| Madman on a Drum | 2008 | Buy |
| Jelly’s Gold | 2009 | Buy |
| The Taking of Libbie, SD | 2010 | Buy |
| Highway 61 | 2011 | Buy |
| Curse of the Jade Lily | 2012 | Buy |
| The Last Kind Word | 2013 | Buy |
| The Devil May Care | 2014 | Buy |
| Unidentified Woman #15 | 2015 | Buy |
| Stealing the Countess | 2016 | Buy |
| What the Dead Leave Behind | 2017 | Buy |
| Like to Die | 2018 | Buy |
| Dead Man’s Mistress | 2019 | Buy |
| From the Grave | 2020 | Buy |
| What Doesn’t Kill Us | 2021 | Buy |
| Something Wicked | 2022 | Buy |
| In a Hard Wind | 2023 | Buy |
David Housewright is an Edgar Award-winning author of crime fiction set in Minnesota. Born February 7, 1955, he was raised in Saint Paul and sets most of his novels in the Twin Cities area. He is a past President of the Private Eye Writers of America, and his work has been compared to Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, and Robert B. Parker.
Housewright writes two main series. The Holland Taylor series began with Penance (1995), which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The longer Mac McKenzie series, starting with A Hard Ticket Home (2004), follows a retired cop turned millionaire who works as an unlicensed PI doing favors for friends. The Mac McKenzie books have won multiple Minnesota Book Awards.
He also contributes to the multi-author Grifter’s Song series, which features various con artists and hustlers.