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Doc Ford Books in Order

by Randy Wayne WhiteMystery, Thriller & Suspense

24 books so far (book 29 is due July 13, 2027). They run from Sanibel Flats (1990) to Tomlinson's Wake (2025). Rated 4.3 across 9,075 listener reviews.

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  1. Sanibel Flats

    Book 1 1990 4.1 (1.3k)

    Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After 10 years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system.

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  2. The Heat Islands

    Book 2 1992 4.3 (665)

    Marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida's flat copper sea in search of sea anemones when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island: Marvin Rios.

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  3. The Man Who Invented Florida

    Book 3 1993 4.1 (513)

    When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn't know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle, Tucker Gatrell, would discover the Fountain of Youth, that the…

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  4. Captiva

    Book 4 2018 4.6 (382)

    In Captiva, Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer could hope to find.”—Carl Hiaasen Randy Wayne White is acclaimed as "wildly inventive" (The San Diego Union-Tribune), "a wonderful...

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  5. North of Havana

    Book 5 2018 4.4 (375)

    Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford novels have been praised as "witty" (San Diego Union-Tribune), "must-reads" (Chicago Tribune) and "superb." (Denver Post) Now, White's newest thriller takes Doc Ford...

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  6. Mangrove Coast

    Book 6 1998 4.4 (442)

    Marine Biologist Doc Ford is hot on the trail of a dead friend’s wife. Apparently, the woman vanished into the steaming jungles of South America guided by a truly disgusting specimen of humanity.

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  7. Ten Thousand Islands

    Book 7 2000 4.4 (501)

    Author of best-selling mysteries including Mangrove Coast, Randy Wayne White sets his novels in the Florida waters he knows so well - he is a veteran fishing guide and contributor to Outside magazine.

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  8. Shark River

    Book 8 2001 4.6 (367)

    Randy Wayne White is a journalist, veteran fishing guide, and author of several nonfiction collections. He also creates superb, best-selling suspense fiction.

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  9. Twelve Mile Limit

    Book 9 2018 4.7 (396)

    (Denver Post) Randy Wayne White's ninth Doc Ford novel starts out as a fun excursion for four divers off the Florida coast. After a tragic accident, only one diver is found alive two days later—naked atop a...

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  10. Hunter's Moon

    Book 14 2023 4.5 (78)

    Doc Ford saves a former President of the United States from assassination-and regrets it. Months ago, Kal Wilson's wife was killed in a plane crash. President Wilson is sure it was no accident-and he wants revenge.

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  11. Black Widow

    Book 15 2008 4.7 (278)

    A cult of death. A weapon of apocalyptic horror. Juan Cabrillo must stop them both. THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Some women you love. Some women you hate. Some women you survive.

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  12. Dead Silence

    Book 16 2009 4.3 (434)

    So terrifying it'll leave readers breathless... When a Minnesota teen is kidnapped, Doc Ford is given an unthinkable ultimatum, and only 36 hours to act on it.

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  13. Deep Shadow

    Book 17 2010 4.4 (357)

    Doc Ford wrestles more than one kind of demon, in the stunning novel from the New York Times-bestselling author. Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human.

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  14. Night Vision

    Book 18 2011 4.3 (322)

    Doc Ford is on a collision course with death in this extraordinary new novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Alot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers.

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  15. Chasing Midnight

    Book 19 2012 4.3 (207)

    It began peacefully enough, on one of Florida's private islands. At a reception hosted by a notorious Russian black marketeer, Doc Ford uses darkness, and his friend Tomlinson, as cover to get an underwater look at the billionaire's yacht.

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  16. Night Moves

    Book 20 2013 4.4 (289)

    Doc Ford has his share of secrets. One of them has returned with a vengeance. . . . While trying to solve one of Florida’s most profound mysteries, Doc Ford is the target of a murder attempt by someone who wants to make it look like an…

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  17. Bone Deep

    Book 21 2014 4.3 (308)

    When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson’s asks him to help recover relics stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along—but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they’ve let themselves in for.

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  18. Cuba Straits

    Book 22 2015 4.2 (308)

    The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times–bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford’s old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S.

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  19. Deep Blue

    Book 23 2016 4.3 (395)

    Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him. The electrifying new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author.

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  20. Mangrove Lightning

    Book 24 2017 4.2 (281)

    The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford in this electrifying novel in the New York Times–bestselling series. Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest.

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  21. Caribbean Rim

    Book 25 2018 4.1 (282)

    Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in this New York Times bestseller in Randy Wayne White's thrilling series.

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  22. Salt River

    Book 26 2020 4.4 (379)

    The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson in this thrilling new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White.

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  23. One Deadly Eye

    Book 27 2024 4.4 (156)

    From New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White, after the deadliest hurricane to hit Florida’s Gulf Coast in a century, Doc Ford must stop a gang of thieves—and worse—during the twelve hours of chaos that follow the passing of a…

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  24. Tomlinson's Wake

    Book 28 2025 4.0 (99)

    Doc Ford returns for a perilous journey into Mesoamerica after a world-shattering earthquake threatens his family's safety—and all of their lives In the wake of a killer hurricane, Doc Ford heads to Honduras, where his best friend,…

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  25. Flamingo Station

    Book 29 Out July 13, 2027

    Flamingo Station has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Doc Ford is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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