Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switchback | 2019 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 2 | Spark | 2020 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | N/A |
| 3 | Snake Oil | 2020 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 4 | Sawbones | 2020 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 5 | Scapegoat | 2020 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 6 | Snaggle Tooth | 2021 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 7 | Stag Party | 2021 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 8 | Sitting Duck | 2022 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 9 | Skin and Bones | 2024 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 10 | Snow Ghost | 2026 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
The Patrick Flint series began with Switchback (2019) and draws on a deeply personal source: Pamela Fagan Hutchins’s late father was a doctor who practiced in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains in the 1970s, and these books are shaped by family stories from that era. The result is historical mystery with an autobiographical underpinning — a portrait of a time and place that the author knows through family memory.
Dr. Patrick Flint is an adventurous physician who brings his family into a landscape that is beautiful and genuinely dangerous. The mysteries are often tied to the outdoors — the wilderness, the weather, the isolation of remote Wyoming — alongside the more human threats of crime and violence. The series has a warmth to it that reflects the tribute dimension: these are books that celebrate a particular kind of American life as much as they are crime novels.
Ten books have been published between 2019 and 2026, with Snow Ghost (2026) the most recent. The series has found a dedicated readership among fans of Wyoming fiction and readers who enjoy the work of C.J. Box.