Chris Culver Books in Order
Chris Culver is a New York Times bestselling author best known for the Detective Ash Rashid series, whose debut novel The Abbey was sixteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He writes police procedurals and crime thrillers set almost entirely in the Midwestern United States, in Indianapolis, St. Louis, and the fictional St. Augustine County, Missouri.
This page lists all Chris Culver books in order, including the Ash Rashid, Joe Court, Hana Blackwood, Homer Watson, and Gabe Ward series, and his standalone novels.
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Detective Ash Rashid Series (Books in Order)
The Ash Rashid series follows Indianapolis Metropolitan Police detective Ash Rashid, one of the few Muslim-American officers working on the force, who he investigates homicide cases and politically charged cases he’d rather stay away from. Rashid is often torn between his faith, his alcoholism, his sense of justice, and his place of work which is not always on his side during his investigations.
Reading Order
- The Abbey, 2011
- The Outsider, 2013
- By Any Means, 2014
- Measureless Night, 2015
- Pocketful of God, 2016
- No Room For Good Men, 2017
- Sleeper Cell, 2018
Gabe Ward Series (Books in Order)
The Gabe Ward series follows former Army intelligence officer Gabriel Ward, who is now working as a detective with a background in computers and data analysis, while investigating crimes using computer forensics, when he has to help in solving the case of the murder of his own brother-in-law, which brings him facing his past and wondering whether he will have to go back to his old job that he left behind years ago.
Reading Order
- Counting Room, 2017
Joe Court Series (Books in Order)
The Joe Court series follows detective Mary Joe Court, who is working in the fictional St. Augustine County in rural Missouri, as she investigates murders in a small-town she is not only going against hardened criminals but also the local bureaucratic malfunction. Court is dealing with a lot of personal history, and that backstory is present throughout the whole series.
Reading Order
- The Girl in the Motel, 2018
- The Girl in the Woods, 2019
- The Boys in the Church, 2019
- The Man in the Meth Lab, 2019
- The Woman Who Wore Roses, 2019
- The Man in the Park, 2019
- The Girl Who Told Stories, 2020
- The Men on the Farm, 2020
- The Man in the River, 2020
- The Man by the Creek, 2023
- The Girl in the Tent, 2024
- The Man in the Fire, 2025
- In the Company of Wolves, 2025
- The Man in the Grass, 2026
Hana Blackwood Series (Books in Order)
The Hana Blackwood series follows former Army combat medic and ex-St. Louis County detective Hana Blackwood, who lost everything: her job, her family, and her identity. She once had it all, but now she is a civilian on the road across America, where trouble finds her at all times while she is trying to solve complex cases.
Reading Order
- Night Work, 2021
- The Lost Ones, 2021
- Throwaways, 2022
Homer Watson Series (Books in Order)
The Homer Watson series follows St. Louis homicide detective Homer Watson, a methodical investigator who is dealing with the usual daily pressures of family life, which includes a leaky roof and noisy children, while hating his new job after behind demoted to work in the evidence vault. But the cases he investigates pull him deeper and deeper into dangerous territory.
Reading Order
- Those Who Remain, 2022
- , Where I Die, 2022
- Broken Empires, 2025
- Deemed Accidental, 2026
Standalone Novels
- Just Run, 2011
- Nine Years Gone, 2014
Chris Culver Biography
Chris Culver is an American crime fiction author who wrote the Ash Rashid series, the Joe Court series, and several other series set primarily in Indiana and Missouri. He has published more than 25 books since 2011.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in September 1981, Chris Culver grew up in Newburgh, Indiana after his family moved there in 1988. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Hanover College in 2004, which is where he met his future wife. Then studied further, first briefly in law school, then in a philosophy doctoral program at Purdue University, where he also taught as a graduate assistant. He eventually left the program when his wife became a teacher in Arkansas, and he started working at a small liberal arts university in that state teaching courses in ethics, comparative religion, and philosophy.
He was still in Arkansas when he wrote his first Ash Rashid book, The Abbey. Published in 2011, initially as a self-published ebook, it reached the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for sixteen weeks. Chris Culver created multiple series, changing the primary setting of his books from Indianapolis to the St. Louis area and rural Missouri. His Joe Court series, which began in 2018, became his most popular and also the longest series. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri, and continues to publish regularly.
