Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yesterday’s Echo | 2013 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 2 | Night Tremors | 2015 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 3 | Dark Fissures | 2016 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 4 | Blood Truth | 2017 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 5 | Wrong Light | 2018 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 6 | Lost Tomorrows | 2019 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 7 | Blind Vigil | 2020 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 8 | Last Redemption | 2021 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 9 | Doomed Legacy | 2022 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
| 10 | Odyssey’s End | 2023 | Matt Coyle | Buy |
The Rick Cahill series opens with Yesterday’s Echo, which introduces a man whose life fell apart when his wife was murdered and he became the lead suspect. Though eventually cleared, Cahill left the police force and now scrapes by as a PI in San Diego. The cases he takes on tend to pull him into situations where his own history and the city’s darker elements collide.
Matt Coyle builds the series over ten books, letting Cahill age and change in real time. San Diego is more than a backdrop here — the neighborhoods, restaurants, and coastal geography shape the stories as much as the crimes do. The series reached its conclusion with Odyssey’s End in 2023, giving the character a proper ending rather than leaving things open-ended. Readers who start with Yesterday’s Echo will find a mystery series that rewards reading in order, as personal storylines carry across the full run.