The Max Porter Box Set
Max Porter #10-12 • Book 10
by Stuart Jaffe
Why You'll Love This
Three books deep into a single box set, and the stakes just keep getting personal — Max Porter's world is unraveling at home and at war simultaneously.
- Great if you want: paranormal mysteries with genuine family stakes and long-running payoffs
- The experience: fast-moving and layered — mysteries, magic, and emotional gut-punches
- The writing: Jaffe juggles humor and tension without letting either undercut the other
- Skip if: you haven't read the earlier volumes — continuity matters here
About This Book
Magic, murder, and centuries-old grudges converge in this fourth Max Porter box set, where a haunted firehouse is just the beginning of something far darker. Stuart Jaffe throws his detective duo—Max Porter and the ghost of Drummond—into a witch war that has been smoldering since before either of them existed, while simultaneously testing the bonds of the found family they've carefully built. The personal and the paranormal collide with real weight here: the stakes aren't just supernatural survival but the people Max can't afford to lose.
What makes this collection worth settling into is Jaffe's steady hand with pacing across three full novels bundled together. He writes paranormal mystery with a noir undercurrent—sharp, propulsive, and never self-serious—while letting character relationships deepen naturally over hundreds of pages rather than forcing emotion. The dynamic between Max and Drummond remains genuinely funny and genuinely tense in equal measure. Reading three books back-to-back reveals how carefully Jaffe has been building this world, planting threads that pay off with satisfying precision rather than convenient coincidence.