Warren Adler

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  • Bibliography:
    61 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    September 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery

1 - American Quartet (Mar-1982)
2 - American Sextet (Dec-1982)
3 - Immaculate Deception (Feb-1991)
4 - Senator Love (Aug-1991)
5 - The Witch of Watergate (Sep-1992)
6 - The Ties That Bind (Jun-1994)

Book List in Order: 61 titles

  • Waters of Decision

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    The beautiful black aide and lover of a womanizing married Senator, has accidentally drowned. The Senator mounts a massive cover-up campaign of cynical lies designed to deflect the potential damage....

  • The Sunset Gang

    With time running short, these intrepid residents of Sunset Village prove that sex, love, intrigue and vitality continue to salt the so-called golden years. These acclaimed and timeless short stories have become a primer for the twilight years and a ...

  • Blood Ties

    During a family reunion at their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family -- arms dealers for over a hundred years -- suddenly find themselves in possession of stolen plutonium capable of creating the most destructive weapon on earth. Previously...

  • The War of the Roses

    This is the novel that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever made, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Oliver and Barbara Rose are a passionate couple who meet at a Cape Cod auction while bidding for matching figurines. ...

  • American Quartet

    A Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery - 1

    In this first book of the Fiona series, Fiona FitzGerald, a senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, pursues a serial killer in the nation's capitol with a bizarre MO. In her search to solve the crimes, she uncovers the disturb...

  • American Sextet

    A Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery - 2

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate the death of a beautiful young woman found at the bottom of the Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge. Was it a suicide or murder? Fiona, possessed...

  • Random Hearts

    What the author of The War of the Roses did for hate, he now does for love. He's a happily married man. She's a happily married woman with a little boy and a good life. Or so they both believe. There's absolutely no reason why they should ever me...

  • We Are Holding the President Hostage

    Aging Mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli is furious when fanatical Islamic terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with ineffective diplomatic measures and a lack of governmental action, the Don and his loyal hench...

  • Twilight Child

    When Charlie and Molly’s son dies in an accident, their daughter-in-law remarries quickly and is vaulted into a new world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and to keep her young son free from his grandparents’ blue-...



  • Immaculate Deception

    A Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery - 3

    IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL, EVERYONE PLAYS TO WIN....ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GAME IS MURDER! Congresswoman Frances "Frankie" McGuire was deadset against abortion and let everyone know it ... Until they found her dead in her luxury Beltway apartment. The ...

  • Private Lies

    When Ken and Maggie meet her client and wife, Eliot and Carol, Ken discovers that Carol is an old flame. Baffled by her non-recognition, he discovers her rich husband has no knowledge of her past. And, when the two couples share a safari to Africa, t...

  • Senator Love

    A Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery - 4

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. Soon, bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered, ...

  • The Housewife Blues

    A handsome advertising executive sweeps Jenny, a "nice" girl from the Midwest, off her feet while visiting and they are soon married. Afterwards, he spirits her away to the super-charged world of New York City. A control freak, he warns her to beware...

  • The Witch of Watergate

    A Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery - 5

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. An infamous Washing Post reporter whose poison pen has destroyed many a politicianâ€...

  • The Ties That Bind

    A Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery - 6

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in the investigate when the daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered. All clues begin to point to a revered Supreme Court Justice with a sadomasochi...

  • Never Too Late for Love

    More stories from The Sunset Gang. A collection that combines additional stories written after The Sunset Gang was published dealing with the same intrepid crew who inhabit Sunset Village. Anyone who is aging, meaning all of us, will revel in these s...

  • The Democratic Family

  • The Grace of Her Exit

  • Her Moment



  • Playing the Game

  • The Toast

  • The Vase

  • Wise Counsel

  • Banquet Before Dawn

    Congressman John J. Sullivan is a boozy, old-school politician who has lost touch with his constituency. After a quarter century of Washington entrenchment, he is unprepared for the steamroller primary challenge by the idealistic young reformer Aram ...

  • The Casanova Embrace

    Eduardo Allesandro Palmero is dead-killed by an exploding bomb Three women loved Eduardo, the prominent exile from the deposed Allende government: the ambassador's wife, the millionaire widow, and the aging revolutionary. Through the power of his s...

  • The Henderson Equation

    The people who run the influential newspaper the Washington Chronicle have just exposed and brought down a President with their investigative reporting. Flushed with power, they now attempt to create their own choice for Chief Executive. Clashing rel...

  • Undertow

    Senator Donald James, his party's most promising candidate for the presidential nomination, possesses that rare combination of charisma and frankness necessary to topple the incumbent. In his private life, James is a womanizing married man. Enjoying ...

  • Madeline's Miracles

    An artist, her stockbroker husband and their twin daughters move to Los Angeles and unwittingly fall prey to a Madeline, a self-professed "psychic" and can foresee their future. By persuading them that she holds the key to their success and can prote...

  • Natural Enemies

    In this fast-paced thriller, a young New York couple, unable to have children and their marriage on the rocks, is advised to leave their tense urban lives and take a vacation in a more peaceful and relaxed environment. Heading out west, they are purs...



  • Mourning Glory

    Rules For The Second Wife: 1. It doesn't matter if you lie, cheat, or steal - get the ring. 2. See rule #1. Grace Sorentino has had better days. Her sixteen-year-old daughter is driving her crazy. Her bank account is lower than the tide. And she's ju...

  • Trans-Siberian Express

    Famous American cancer specialist Dr. Alex Cousins is sent by the President of the United States to Russia to prolong the life of the Secretary General of the Politburo. While in Russia, Cousins learns that the Soviets plan to attack China. In an att...

  • Cult

    Warren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, "The War of the Roses" and "Random Hearts" were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. A successful entrepr...

  • Cult: A Novel of Brainwashing and Death

    Warren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, "The War of the Roses" and "Random Hearts" were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. A successful entrepr...

  • The Children of the Roses

    Warren Adler's The War of the Roses leaped onto the public consciousness and has since remained an essential thread in a wider tapestry of divorce iconography. Now, Adler presents us with the chandelier-shattering legacy of Barbara and Jonathan Rose ...

  • Death Of A Washington Madame

    Washington D.C's struggling underclass and the U.S. Capitol's socially prominent and politically aggressive upper strata collide in a horrifying crime. Homicide Detective Fiona Fitzgerald once again battles prejudice and privilege to uncover th...

  • New York Echoes

    Acclaimed author Warren Adler focuses his laser eye on New York City in these 22 deftly crafted and compelling short stories. New York, the frenetic, tough-minded, generous-hearted city, magnet for people's hopes and aspirations, is as vividly and l...

  • Funny Boys

    Since the fame attending the publication and film of Warren Adler's The War of the Roses, Adler has been chronicling the American experience in novels and screenplays. Now, with Funny Boys, Adler takes on the New York of his childhood in a new novel ...

  • Play

    The Classic Story of a Nasty Divorce. This is the book that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced. Shown somewhere in the world every week, the movie is an excellent adaptation of the book that has been translated in almo...

  • New York Echoes 2

    Acclaimed author Warren Adler focuses his laser eye on New York City in these 21 vividly rendered short stories revealing New York as the heartbeat of America, where creativity resides in every nook and cranny, and energy pulsates through its paveme...



  • The Serpent's Bite

    In an attempt to reconnect with his two alienated adult children, George Temple replicates the memorable horse trek through the forbidding Yellowstone wilderness they had enjoyed twenty years earlier. But his callous children, Courtney and Scott, ac...

  • The David Embrace

    In this fast-paced erotic thriller, John Champion, a professional hitman and Angela Ford, the wife of the man who orders the hit, engage in a passionate, overpowering and memorable love affair. Played out against the exotic locales of Florence, the R...

  • Empty Treasures

    The corruptive power of money and ambition in American politics begins in Venice where a Washington woman reporter trying to repair a bad marriage suddenly spots a professional jeweler, a key figure in the world of Washington's powerful social and po...

  • Flanagan's Dolls

    Josh and Emily Flanagan return to their hometown in upper Michigan where they open a funky antique shop which they hope will provide a sane and comfortable retirement. Both have pursued successful careers in Manhattan, she as an appraiser of antiques...

  • The Womanizer

    Allen Harris is a pillar of the community, a married lawyer of spotless reputation who is asked to assume the presidency of a conservative university after its last president has been fired for engaging in a sexual affair with a student. He is ...

  • Residue

    A firebombing of a black church in Brooklyn that was once a synagogue sets off a chain reaction of international intrigue and bloody violence. The fire bombers are young men of Arab extraction who mistakenly believe that this church whose stain glass...

  • Target Churchill

    As Great Britain and the United States celebrate a victorious end to WWII, Joseph Stalin's relentless Soviet Union is creeping across Eastern Europe leaving a trail of devastation and murder in its wake.

    Winston Churchill, the cigar-puffing...

  • The Serpent

    In an attempt to reconnect with his two alienated adult children, George Temple replicates the memorable horse trek through the forbidding Yellowstone wilderness they had enjoyed twenty years earlier. But his callous children, Courtney and Scot...

  • Washington Masquerade

    Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery #8: Adam Burns, Washington Post columnist and controversial Presidential critic, is dead. With no clear circumstance, speculation, gossip and rumor flood the media--accident, suicide or murder? Conspiracy theories run amok, a...

  • Trans-Siberia Express

    Een grootse roman over het land en het volk dat ooit door Winston Churchill werd beschreven als 'een raadsel gewikkeld in een mysterie, omringd door een enigma.' De Amerikaanse kankerspecialist dr. Alex Cousins maakt een geheime reis naar de USSR. Hi...



  • Treadmill

    Jack Cooper is an unhappy man, mind, body, and spirit. In the blink of an eye he has lost his longstanding job to the economy, his mother to illness, and his wife to her secret lover. Beaten, broken, and crippled by tragedy, he withdraws into total i...

  • Torture Man

    What happens when law enforcement isn't there to save you from a terrorist plot? A gripping, edge of your seat thriller about one family's struggle against terrorism. The caller made it clear-$10 million or her daughter's head. The power of unintende...

  • Jackson Hole Uneasy Eden

    The truth about the impact of "new" people on a mountain resort. In this collection of fictional short stories, the reader will find insights and truths engendered by the modern invasion of "new folks" to glorious mountain enclaves now dubbed "resort...

  • New York Echoes I

    Twenty-two short stories that will lift your spirits or break your heart, written to celebrate the author's return to New York City after 40 years in exile. Acclaimed author Warren Adler focuses his laser eye on New York City in these 22 deftly craft...

  • Jackson Hole

    The truth about the impact of "new" people on a mountain resort. In this collection of fictional short stories, the reader will find insights and truths engendered by the modern invasion of "new folks" to glorious mountain enclaves now dubbed "resort...

  • Red Herring

    Detective Fiona Fitzgerald’s privileged upbringing in the nation’s capital and her intimate knowledge of its inner workings come in handy when Fran Miller, a top lobbyist and legal expert, turns up dead on Independence Day. It looks like suicide,...

  • Mother Nile

    Mother Nile is the story of Si, the American-born son of an Irish father and Egyptian mother, who goes on a journey through the winding streets of the City of the Dead to resolve a half-century-old mystery. When his mother makes an urgent plea on ...

  • Heart of Gold

    "Warren Adler writes with skill and a sense of scene." -The New York Times Book Review A new thriller from the critically acclaimed novelist Warren Adler, well known for his iconic novel turned box office hit, The War of the Roses, and many more nota...

  • Finding Grace

    The chilling new drama from Warren Adler, the bestselling author of "The War of the Roses, gets to the heart of brainwashing and its power to corrupt and control.A father. A mother. A daughter. A cult. When...

  • High Noon in Hollywood

    A clever look into the machinations of Hollywood from the bestselling author of the blockbuster hit The War of the Roses... When Hollywood producer Zane Galvin’s failed movie leaves him with a $5 million debt and thirty days to pay it off, he goes ...

  • Last Call

    A candid and fearless exploration of love and intimacy among elders from the bestselling author of the iconic novel turned box-office hit The War of the RosesEighty-three-year-old Harvey Franklin never thought he would find love again after losing hi...

  • The Washington Dossier Diaries

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    Diplomacy, ethics, and passion clash in these chronicles of the social scene in the nation's capital. Originally published in Dossier magazine, these stories are a priceless series from bestselling "War of the Roses" author, Warren Adler, about the r...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Warren Adler has published 61 books.

Warren Adler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Last Call, was published in September 2018.

The first book by Warren Adler, Waters of Decision, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Warren Adler has 1 series.
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