Bob Moats

Bob Moats is a well-established author, who resides in Detroit area. Moats has been penning down short stories and plays for a very long time. Moats has lost several of his original short stories, most of which were either handwritten or typed.

The best place to start is the Jim Richards Murder Mysteries series, the earliest of Bob Moats's multi-book series: it opens with The Classmate Murders (2009) and runs to 44 books across 2009–2021, ending with A Cold Case Murder (2021). Bob Moats's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Bob Moats has 88 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2009 and 2021. 85 of them belong to 10 named series — the largest being the Jim Richards Murder Mysteries series with 44 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Bob Moats's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Jim Richards Murder Mysteries (2009–2021, 44 books), Jim Richards/Fatal (2011–2014, 6 books) and Arthur Doyle, P.I. (2014, 5 books), plus 7 more.

This guide splits Bob Moats's 88 books into 10 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Jim Richards Murder Mysteries (44 books, 2009–2021); Ghost Squad - Rest in Peace (10 books, 2016–2017); Jim Richards/Fatal (6 books, 2011–2014); Arthur Doyle, P.I. (5 books, 2014); Gus Mackie Detective Novella (5 books, 2014–2015), plus 5 further series.