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Michael Brandman Books in Order

Michael Brandman has written 5 books, published between 2017 and 2023. The first book is Missing Persons (2017) and the newest is Death Threat (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2017–2023
Confirmed
5 of 5 titles
Pages on record
768 in 3 of 5 books
Reading time
13–19 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 768 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

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Buddy Steel is the recurring lead in Michael Brandman's five mysteries. Missing Persons (2017) opens the series, with One on One (2018), Wild Card (2019), Risk Factor (2021) and Death Threat (2023) following. Sheriffs, murder investigation, families and California settings fill the subject tags. Nothing new has appeared since 2023.

How many Michael Brandman books are there?

Michael Brandman has 5 books, released between 2017 and 2023.

Michael Brandman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Michael Brandman books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Missing PersonsBuddy Steel #12017 · confirmed 3/4
    2017–
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  2. 2
    One on OneBuddy Steel #22018 · 248 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018248
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  3. 3
    Wild CardBuddy Steel #32019 · 248 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019248
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  4. 4
    Risk FactorBuddy Steel #42021 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2021272
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  5. 5
    Death ThreatBuddy Steel #52023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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Michael Brandman books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Buddy Steel in order

5 books
  1. 1. Missing Persons
  2. 2. One on One
  3. 3. Wild Card
  4. 4. Risk Factor
  5. 5. Death Threat

Do you have to read Michael Brandman books in order?

You only need to read Michael Brandman books in order within the Buddy Steel series, which holds 5 of the 5 Michael Brandman books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Michael Brandman

Start with Missing Persons (2017), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Michael Brandman book?

Death Threat (2023) is the newest Michael Brandman book released so far.

Is there a new Michael Brandman book coming?

No next Michael Brandman book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Michael Brandman at a glance

Paused
No new Michael Brandman title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Michael Brandman books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
768 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 248 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Michael Brandman books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2010s.

What the Michael Brandman books are about

3 of the 5 Michael Brandman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: american literature is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.