Amos Walker series by Loren D. Estleman

The Author

Loren D. Estleman is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He writes with a manual typewriter.

Estleman is most famous for his novels about P.I. Amos Walker. Other series characters include Old West marshal Page Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin. He has also written a series of novels about the history of crime in Detroit (also the setting of his Walker books.) His non-series works include Bloody Season, a fictional recreation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and several novels and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes.

The Books

General, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private investigators, Hard-Boiled

Amos Walker is a private investigator based on Detroit.

An aged mobster’s adopted daughter disappears, and Detroit PI Amos Walker is the only man tough enough to seek her outIt has been years since Ben Morningstar retired. The feared mobster, now decades past his prime, left his deadly business behind and retired to Phoenix. His only concern now is Maria, daughter of a long-ago murdered friend, whom Morningstar has raised as his own. When she disappears, the old man goes into action once more. When Morningstar comes to Detroit, he seeks out Amos Walker to aid him in his search. A Vietnam veteran thrown out of the Police Academy for slugging a fellow cadet, Walker is a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things. Maria’s trail is cold—the only clue a faded pornographic snapshot—but Walker is the toughest man in Detroit, and won’t give in no matter how dangerous the journey becomes.

The books in suggested reading order
Motor City Blue
Angel Eyes
The Midnight Man
The Glass Highway
Sugartown
Every Brilliant Eye
Lady Yesterday
Downriver
Silent Thunder
Sweet Women Lie
Never Street
The Witchfinder
The Hours of the Virgin
A Smile on the Face of the Tiger
Sinister Heights
Poison Blonde
Retro
Nicotine Kiss
American Detective
The Left-Handed Dollar
Infernal Angels
Burning Midnight
Don't Look for Me
You Know Who Killed Me
The Sundown Speech