Tres Navarre Books In Order

Big Red Tequila

From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Everything in Texas is bigger…
even murder. Meet Tres Navarre…
tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas size trouble. Jackson ‘Tres’ Navarre and his enchilada eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father’s murder behind him. Now he’s back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians’ games all conspire to ruin his homecoming. It’s obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet’s nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, turns up missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father’s murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo…
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The Widower’s Two-Step

Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P.I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape should be a piece of ‘pan dulce’. But his attention wanders just long enough for fiddle player Julie Kearnes to be gunned down before his eyes. He should just back away and let the cops investigate, but backing away has never been Tres’s strong point.

The Last King of Texas

Tres Navarre has a passion for tequila, a Ph.D. in English literature, and a penchant for trouble. He’s the smart mouthed Texas private eye who raked in the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards. Now acclaimed author Rick Riordan fires up the accelerator in Tres Navarre’s hardcover debut a ninety mile an hour thriller for fans with a taste for Spenser and Elvis Cole, spiced with haba ero hot Tex Mex flavor. When a controversial English professor is found dead, shot twice in the chest with a . 45, Tres Navarre P.I. and erstwhile Berkeley Ph.D. is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure Tres they already have a suspect, a stone cold killer who’s just returned from a stint in a Mexican jail and is suspected of murdering a Texas amuseme*nt park kingpin years before. While the police wrap up the open and shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three clas*ses, grade on a curve…
and walk in a dead man’s shoes. It should be an easy assignment. But one thing Tres Navarre doesn’t do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn’t stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin. He quickly becomes embroiled in a nasty tangle of family secrets, backstabbing squabbles for control of a million dollar amuseme*nt ride business, and a high stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio’s West Side. Behind it all the specter of a murdered man who once proclaimed himself the King of the South Texas carnivals. As fast paced as the Texas Tornadoes, as funny as Lyle Lovett crossed with Kinky Friedman, as soulful as Willie Nelson, The Last King of Texas is an unforgettable, impossible to put down whirlwind of suspense…
in which everyone is guilty of something. The cops already have a suspect in the murder of Tres’s predecessor at the University of Texas at San Antonio a stone cold killer who’s spent six years in prison for murdering an amuseme*nt park kingpin. Now Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin. Suddenly he’s on a carousel ride collision course with a killer a one way ticket to betrayal and death in a novel of suspense in which everyone is guilty of something. Lean, mean, and completely lovable, Jackson ‘Tres’ Navarre is a worthy successor to Spenser and Elvis Cole; The Last King of Texas is an impossible to put down whirlwind of a book; and Rick Riordan is the hottest new star in the suspense firmament.

The Devil Went Down to Austin

Rick Riordan, triple crown winner of the Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus Awards, has already emblazoned his name on the map of crime fiction with his Tres Navarre novels a fast, funny, totally hip series that blends masterful writing with richly drawn characters and nonstop action. Now Riordan brings his P.I. Tres Navarre to the heart of Texas Austin with a fiercely original thriller that explores family ties as deep and twisted as the waterways of Lake Travis. Tres Navarre, private eye and sometimes English professor, is hoping for a laid back working vacation when he accepts a teaching gig at the University of Texas at Austin, even if it means shacking up for six weeks with his big brother Garrett, who calls Austin home. Garrett Navarre computer programmer extraordinaire, Jimmy Buffett fanatic, and all around eccentric is hoping to retire a multimillionaire thanks to a high tech start up company he and two buddies have launched. Garrett has bet everything from his career to the Navarre family ranch that the company will stay alive long enough to make a public stock offering, allowing him to ride the Austin high tech boom right into the saddle of luxury. Both Tres’s and Garrett’s hopes are shattered with a single gunshot. Garrett’s oldest friend and business partner ends up murdered at his lakefront home and Garrett is the only suspect. As Tres delves into Garrett’s bizarre world to find the truth behind the murder, he comes face to face with the damaged relationships, violent lives, and billion dollar schemes of a brave new high tech world. Among the players: a corporate takeover artist with a trail of broken enemies in his wake and an overzealous desire to make Garrett’s company his own; the victim’s wife, a hard edged beauty haunted by three generations of family failure; and the head of an oil rich clan with more power than morals and enough skeletons in the closet to man a ghost ship. Connecting them all the beautiful waters of Lake Travis and an unspeakable evil that lies within its depths.A suspense novel of depth and sizzling emotional power, The Devil Went Down to Austin is Rick Riordan’s most entertaining work to date.

Southtown

For Tres Navarre, English professor turned private investigator, business has lately taken a drastic turn south. But if chasing down bail jumpers, adulterous spouses, and workmen’s comp cases seemed like the dregs of the PI game, it was at least a living. Not as much could be said for tracking down a man like Will the Ghost Stirman. The stone cold killer has just staged a bloody escape from the Floresville State Penitentiary with a gang of violent cons as spooked by Stirman as those on the outside who helped put him behind bars. And no one seems more worried than Navarre s boss and mentor, Erainya Manos. It was her husband along with rival PI Sam Barrera who built the case that sent Stirman away. But Erainya s husband is dead and she s certain Stirman won t let that stand in the way of his taking revenge against her and her adopted son. All of Navarre s instincts are screaming that there s more to this case than meets the eye. But Erainya won t tell him and Sam Barrera seems to be escaping into a strange twilight from a truth too terrible to remember. That leaves Tres to dig into a twisted mystery of greed, vigilantism, and murder, where lives are bought and sold and the line between guilt and innocence is razor thin. Meanwhile, Stirman and his gang are coming, leaving behind them a trail of brutal, unforgiving violence that will end in an area of San Antonio known as Southtown but that may soon just as well be called hell on earth. From the Hardcover edition.

Mission Road

The triple crown winner of mystery’s most prestigious awards the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus Rick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene with one of its freshest and most intriguing protagonists, Tres Navarre. In Mission Road, Navarre returns in a wrenching crime drama in which he must revisit the sins of the past to catch a killer about to get away with murder again. San Antonio private investigator Tres Navarre is used to working on the edge that razor sharp line between legal and life sentence. But this time he s stepped straight into a no man s land. When an old friend appears at his door spattered with blood and wanted for attempted homicide, Tres doesn t have to think twice about where his loyalty lies or the consequences. Ralph Arguello is a criminal who put the street life behind him when he married SAPD detective Ana DeLeon. Now Ana s been gunned down and her fellow cops don t need to look far to find a prime suspect. For Ana recently reopened the most infamous cold case in SAPD history the unsolved murder on notorious Mission Road eighteen years before that threw the San Antonio underworld into bloody chaos. Ana was about to bring charges against the suspected killer: her husband, Ralph Arguello. Tres is sure that Ralph didn t do it and that he didn t shoot his wife. But with the police and the Mafia both out for revenge, there s no one to turn to for help. Now, armed and dangerous, the targets of a citywide manhunt, Tres and Ralph have just hours to discover what really happened on Mission Road almost two decades ago. To find the truth, they must set a collision course with the past and with a secret that will tear their lives apart. From the Hardcover edition.

Rebel Island

Triple crown winner of mystery’s most coveted awards the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus Rick Riordan and his Texas style take on the crime novel have never been bigger or darker than in this latest Tres Navarre thriller. This time Navarre faces a killer as unstoppable as a force of nature.

Tres Navarre had given up private investigation and with it a violent past that had buried too many friends. Newly married, with a baby on the way, it was time to find a safer line of work. He and Maia had come to Rebel Island to celebrate their honeymoon and a new future. But no sooner had they arrived than a reminder of the past showed up in the form of a corpse shot dead in room 12.

Just like that Tres finds himself flashing back on the memory of a grim childhood summer spent on the island a summer that changed everything in his life. A summer he could never forget but never entirely remember either. And when a second corpse turns up, it s clear to Tres that the past is not dead and buried after all, but is stalking Rebel Island with unfinished business of its own.

What really happened that long ago summer, what dark secrets were kept, and who has come back to avenge them these are the questions Tres, his brother Garrett, and the very pregnant Maia must answer and time is running out. For a monster hurricane is about to hit Rebel Island, cutting them off from the mainland and leaving them trapped on a flooding island with the hotel s remaining guests brutally dying one by one. Tres knows better than anyone that the bloodlines of South Texas are as twisted as barbed wire. This time they re guarding a revelation that can turn his dreams of happily ever after into the ultimate nightmare.