
Night Tales
romantic suspense
Series · thriller
The Ed Eagle series by Stuart Woods has 4 books and is best read in publication order, starting with Santa Fe Rules (1992).
Start here: Santa Fe Rules (1992) — then read straight through in publication order.
The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.
Ed Eagle is a high-profile Santa Fe criminal defense attorney, introduced in Santa Fe Rules (1992) defending a client accused of a gruesome murder, then developed across three further novels beginning fourteen years later that lean harder into thriller territory: Short Straw (2006) opens with the shock of Eagle's own wife trying to have him killed, and the two Santa Fe books that follow keep him tangled in Southwestern intrigue, courtroom maneuvering and the kind of moneyed danger that runs through all of Stuart Woods's series leads. Eagle crosses paths with Stone Barrington in later Stone Barrington novels, part of the wider shared universe Woods built across his series.
Four novels: Santa Fe Rules (1992), Short Straw (2006), Santa Fe Dead (2008), and Santa Fe Edge (2010).
Publication order. Santa Fe Rules stands apart as an early, self-contained novel; Short Straw, Santa Fe Dead and Santa Fe Edge form a more tightly connected run fourteen years later.
Reading order last verified .