Roger Stelljes Books in Order
Roger Stelljes is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling Minnesota crime author best known for the McRyan Mysteries and the Agent Tori Hunter series. The McRyan books follow fourth-generation St. Paul police officer Michael McKenzie “Mac” McRyan. The Tori Hunter series begins when an FBI agent returns to the lake-country town she left after her twin sister disappeared.
A lifelong Minnesotan, he uses different parts of the state for the two series. McRyan’s investigations take place in St. Paul, Stillwater, and the St. Croix River area. The Tori Hunter books take place around fictional Manchester Bay, where cases often lead to remote lake homes, isolated roads, often during severe winter weather. The St. Paul Conspiracy was a Minnesota Book Award finalist and received a MIPA Merit Award for Commercial Fiction, while Deadly Stillwater won a Midwest Book Award for genre fiction.
This page lists all Roger Stelljes books in order, including the McRyan Mystery series, the Agent Tori Hunter series, the late-published McRyan prequel First Case: Murder Alley, and the short story Stakeout: A Case from the Dick Files.
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Where to Start with Roger Stelljes
→ New to Roger Stelljes? Start with Silenced Girls (Agent Tori Hunter #1). It brings Tori back to Manchester Bay when the disappearance of a local girl resembles what happened to her twin sister twenty years earlier.
→ Prefer a St. Paul police series? Start with First Case: Murder Alley. This short prequel follows Mac McRyan through his first murder investigation.
→ Want to begin with a full-length McRyan novel? Start with The St. Paul Conspiracy, the first McRyan book published, and return to First Case: Murder Alley later.
Latest Roger Stelljes Books
McRyan Mystery Series (Books in Order)
The McRyan Mystery series follows Detective Michael McKenzie “Mac” McRyan, a fourth-generation St. Paul police officer who left a legal career to join the police work. After four years as as cop, he finally became a homicide detective. The late-published prequel First Case: Murder Alley shows him handling his first murder investigation before he joins the homicide unit.
The cases begin in St. Paul and often take place in other related locations, like Stillwater, the St. Croix River area, and other parts of the Twin Cities. Mac works with many of the same officers and investigators throughout the series.
- First Case, 2012
- The St. Paul Conspiracy, 2006
- Deadly Stillwater, 2009
- Electing To Murder, 2013
- Fatally Bound, 2014
- Blood Silence, 2015
- Next Girl On The List, 2017
- Stakeout, 2016
- Fireball, 2017
- The Tangled Web We Weave, 2020
Agent Tori Hunter Series (Books in Order)
The Agent Tori Hunter series, also known as the Manchester Bay Mystery series, follows FBI agent Tori Hunter who returns to her Minnesota hometown twenty years after her twin sister disappeared. In Silenced Girls, another young woman disappears under similar circumstances, bringing Tori into an investigation with local detective Will Braddock who works for the Shepard County Sheriff’s Department.
Manchester Bay is a fictional lake-country town loosely based on Minnesota’s Brainerd Lakes area. Each crime case changes and gets resolved in its own book, but Tori’s family history is a main part of the setting, and her relationship with Braddock develops as the series goes on.
- Silenced Girls, 2019
- The Winter Girls, 2021
- The Hidden Girl, 2021
- Missing Angel, 2022
- The Snow Graves, 2023
- Their Lost Souls, 2023
- Taken in the Cold, 2024
- Trust No One, 2025
- Hunt You Down, 2026
Roger Stelljes Biography
Roger Stelljes is a Minnesota crime writer whose work includes the McRyan Mystery series and the Agent Tori Hunter series.
Official website: rogerstelljes.com
Roger Stelljes was born and raised in Minnesota. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato, in 1989 and graduated cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law in 1994 nd was admitted to the Minnesota bar that year. He continues to work as a lawyer and is a partner in the Benefits Service Line at Shumaker, where he concentrates on employee benefits and ERISA law.
He began writing his first novel in July 2002 while vacationing in Minnesota’s Brainerd Lakes area. The St. Paul Conspiracy was published in hardcover in 2006 and introduced St. Paul police officer Mac McRyan. During the early years of the series, Stelljes drove around the Midwest selling that book and Deadly Stillwater at bookstore signings, libraries, and book clubs. When ebooks became more widely used, he converted the McRyan novels to digital editions and built a much larger readership. The series later appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.
He wrote First Case: Murder Alley after readers asked for more information about Mac and the other recurring characters. The novella takes place before The St. Paul Conspiracy and shows Mac handling his first murder case.
Roger Stelljes later introduced FBI agent Tori Hunter in Silenced Girls, which he initially published himself. In 2020, Bookouture acquired world rights to three Tori Hunter novels and relaunched Silenced Girls before publishing the next books in the series. Bookouture has since signed him for more books in the series.
As the author grew up in Minnesota, he set most of his books in his native state. The McRyan series is set on St. Paul, Stillwater, and the St. Croix River area, while the Tori Hunter novels take place around fictional Manchester Bay in Minnesota’s Lake Country. Books from both series have been translated into German.
Roger Stelljes continues to practice law while publishing new crime novels, with the Agent Tori Hunter series now the more regularly active of his two series.
I have idea for book that would combine both charecters. No charge ,of course.
Is the McRyan series over or will there be more books? I just recently found this series and want more.
Why aren’t these books available in print? I found only one in paperback, and one in hardcover that they want $80.00 for – a little steep. I read “The St. Paul Conspiracy” and thought this would be a series I could get into, but I don’t do Kindle and I don’t want someone to read it to me. Too, bad, this seemed like good author and series.
If you don’t mind paperbacks try abesbooks.com some times they have ones that are hard to find
Why aren’t the Mac Ryan books 5-8 available in paperback?
I loved every book. I look forward to some more Mac McRyan books.
Added the new Hunter series, sorry about the delay. The list is fully updated now.
what a great idea for a website … but you need to stay updated! For example, Robert Stelljes has 2 more in the Mac McRyan series not listed here 🙁
Are there going to be anymore McRyan books? They are such a good read and the characters are likeable.
I have read your first four books, loved and enjoyed them. Just purchased #5 , Fatally Bound, for my Kindle. Thank you for many hours of reading pleasure.
When is roger steelhead going to write a new book?
I have read tons of your type of stories, Patterson, Child, Deaver and all the rest of the big boys. You are just as good as the best of the best and I do not know why you are not as assessable as those other authors. I am also a hockey nut as you must be. Mac McRyan is a great hero for you and us, the reader.
Thanks Roger.
I have read all the McRyan Mystery’s and wanted to know if you will be having more? I have loved really loved this series and I am hopeful there will be more with all the great character’s. Thank for you time.