The Hondo Velazquez Thrillers - Books 1-3 Boxset

The Hondo Velazquez Thriller Series Books 1-3 by bestselling author Adam Taylor Barker have brought readers across the globe and back again to the sun-scorched country of South Texas, leaving them breathless and desperate for more. Readers who love mystery-thrillers with action, suspense, and a touch of humor and romance, love the Hondo Velazquez Series. Come see for yourself with the first 3 books in the series right here!

ALL THE BONES IN BROOKS COUNTY, TEXAS (Book 1)

HOW DO YOU CATCH A KILLER

WHEN YOU CAN'T NAME HIS VICTIMS?

A mother and child buried in desert dirt…

No names. No missing persons report. No one asking questions…

Until now.

Deputy Hondo Velazquez just caught the case that’ll either make his career… or end it.

A former Marine corporal, Hondo has taken a lowly job as the newest badge in Brooks County, Texas––a place where the border crisis has everyone on edge.

For a man trained for war, it feels like a demotion.

But when the bones of a mother and child are unearthed on a remote oil ranch, Hondo is dragged into a world of violence he thought he left behind.

No one wants the case. Everyone wants him to look the other way.

Except for Magnolia Moss, a forensic analyst fighting her own demons and a department desperate to keep the past buried. She's been tracking the signs of a serial killer for years.

And now she has an ally.

Together, the two must face a system of power and prestige designed to bury the truth and anyone who comes close to it. They must dig deep within themselves to face a killer so close to home that it threatens to shake the foundations of everything they think they know.

And when they finally uncover the truth... they'll wish they'd never started digging in the first place.

ALL THE BONES THEY LEFT BEHIND (Book 2)

HOW DO YOU STOP A KILLER

WHEN YOU’RE THE PRIME SUSPECT?

When floodwaters unearth skeletal remains beneath a long-abandoned orphanage, Sheriff Hondo Velazquez is called to the Texas Hill Country to confront a chilling discovery: his own initials carved into a bone.

Miles from his own jurisdiction, Hondo is a man with no authority and a dark past he’s spent a lifetime outrunning. Now, as a vigilante begins a white-hot killing spree targeting the orphanage's former staff, the local detectives are closing in––and every piece of evidence points directly at Hondo.

Trapped in a city that wants him in a cage, Hondo is in a race against time. He isn’t just hunting a killer who knows his every secret... he’s fighting to save the future he and his new wife, Magnolia, are desperate to build.

To stop a killer forged from the same childhood fires, Hondo must face the boy he left behind––and the secrets they both buried.

ALL THE BONES HE CARRIED HOME (Book 3)

HOW DO YOU STOP A KILLER

WHO'S ALREADY DEAD?

Hondo Velazquez is done. Done with the badge, done with the killing, done with Brooks County. He and Magnolia have built a quiet life in Waco––the kind of life he never thought he'd have.

Then an old friend from Afghanistan turns up burned alive in a wheat field outside Houston.

And his sixteen-year-old daughter is missing.

Hondo knows this isn't just a murder––it's a signature. He's seen it before... in the poppy fields of a village half a world away.

Parents murdered. Bodies burned. Children taken.

He stopped that killer years ago. He's sure of it.

So why does this look exactly like his work?

With no badge, no authority, and no one to call for backup but Magnolia and a Plott Hound named Apache, Hondo is in a race he can't afford to lose. Because every thread he pulls leads somewhere worse. This isn't just a killer.

It's a machine built to make children disappear.

And his friend's daughter is next.

Get the first 3 books in the heralded Hondo Velazquez Thriller Series in one boxset now!