Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark Web | 2015 | T.J. Brearton | Buy |
| 2 | Dark Kills | 2015 | T.J. Brearton | Buy |
| 3 | Gone | 2016 | T.J. Brearton | Buy |
| 4 | The Bones In The Backyard / Buried Secrets | 2017 | T.J. Brearton | Buy |
| 5 | No Way Out / Gone Missing | 2017 | T.J. Brearton | Buy |
| 6 | Lake Haven / Next to Die | 2018 | T.J. Brearton | Buy |
Dark Web (2015) and Dark Kills (2015), published the same year, launched the North County series in quick succession. The books are set in the Adirondack Mountains and their surrounding communities, where different crimes pull different officers into investigations that push against the isolation and specific social textures of rural upstate New York.
Brearton’s decision to use a rotating cast rather than a single protagonist gives the series flexibility: each book brings new characters while maintaining the region’s continuity. Gone (2016) and three further books extended the sequence through 2018. The North County series runs parallel to his Titan books from the same period, demonstrating his productivity across multiple Adirondack-set franchises.