Books By Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless, 2016

The first novel in the series introduces us to former Marine Sydney Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde, as they dive into the past in order to solve a modern-day murder involving members of Denver’s hobo community.

Barbara Nickless, 2017

A family is murdered, a child kidnapped, and Sydney and Clyde must work with the FBI to find the killer and save the girl.

Barbara Nickless, 2019

Sydney is drawn back into her time in Iraq when she goes searching for the missing child of the woman who acted as their interpreter during the war.

Barbara Nickless, 2021

At First Light introduces forensic semiotician Dr. Evan Wilding, who consults for Chicago PD on some of the city’s strangest and most brutal murders. A semiotician studies signs and symbols across cultures. A forensic semiotician studies the signs left by a killer at a crime scene or the killer’s posts on social media. Even letters to the newspapers. When a killer calling himself the Viking Poet leaves riddles written in Viking runes with his victims, homicide detective Addie Bisset turns to Evan for help.

Barbara Nickless, 2022

Evan and Addie join forces again, this time to stop a killer who is searching for a treasure discovered and then lost in the late 1800s—an actual treasure now believed to have been the first Dead Sea scroll ever found. Religious symbols, blood sacrifice, and a death by cobra kick off the story.

Barbara Nickless, 2023

A killer obsessed with the myth of the Minotaur is terrorizing Chicago. Joined by Evan’s brother, River, and his assistant, Diana, Evan and Addie face their most terrifying case yet as they race to stop a murderer who believes in human sacrifice.