Bryan Cassiday

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2009
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Chad Halverson

1 - Zombie Maelstrom (Dec-2011)
2 - Zombie Necropolis (Apr-2012)
3 - Sanctuary in Steel (Oct-2012)
4 - Kill Ratio (Jul-2013)
5 - Poxland (Oct-2013)

Ethan Carr

1 - Countdown to Death (Sep-2015)
2 - Dying to Breathe (Jul-2016)
3 - Force of Impact (Aug-2017)

Mina Deerling

1 - The Payout (Oct-2018)

Nick McQueen

1 - The Kill Option (Oct-2010)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Blood Moon

    "Blood Moon" by Bryan Cassiday is a collection of his short stories from the dark side; including, thriller, mystery, suspense, horror, and noir tales. "Blood Moon" features the vampire thriller "I Kill for Your Blood" about the director of the CIA w...

  • The Kill Option

    Nick McQueen - 1

    The feuding McQueen brothers must bury the hatchet long enough to thwart a conspiracy to assassinate a world leader in seventy-two hours. But which leader? Nick McQueen is a down-at-the-heels journalist in Los Angeles who seeks the truth and has trou...

  • The Anaconda Complex

    United States Senator John Stockwall of Texas is kidnaped on the doorstep of his house in McLean, Virginia. That's just the beginning of a conspiracy that will shake America to its very foundations. The trail of the kidnapers leads Nick McQueen, who ...

  • The Internecine Conspiracy--a Short Story

    What do you do when your whole life is turned on its head? A man comes home from work one day to his house in Mission Viejo, California, to face an unthinkable conspiracy. Against impossible odds, he must prevent the conspiracy. Who is this man? ...

  • Helter Skelter

    Evildoers run riot across the sun-drenched Southern California landscape in "Helter Skelter." Zombies, vampires, and other wicked creatures wreak mayhem and carnage in these shocking horror short stories by Bryan Cassiday. Not all of these tales feat...

  • Zombie Maelstrom

    Chad Halverson - 1

    Virulent pockets of plague, first reported in China, break out worldwide and spread with mind-boggling speed. CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson flies to Los Angeles to visit his brother after receiving a call that his brother has been hospitalized a...

  • Zombie Necropolis

    Chad Halverson - 2

    The world has turned. In this sequel to Bryan Cassiday's "Zombie Maelstrom," plague-infected, flesh-eating zombies now infest the earth. Black ops agent Chad Halverson of the CIA's top secret National Clandestine Service and a motley band of survivor...

  • Fete of Death

    A California senator is brutally slain. But that is only the beginning of the increasingly macabre murders of members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA hire their termination specialist, Tyrone Quade, an ex-weathermen infiltrator and curr...

  • Sanctuary in Steel

    Chad Halverson - 3

    CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson escapes plague-and zombie-ravaged Santa Monica with dress designer Victoria Brady and sets sail up the California coast straight into the jaws of great white sharks and shoals of zombies. 
    Fighting for their li...



  • The Zombie and the Chess Master--a Short Story

  • Kill Ratio

    Chad Halverson - 4

    The end of America is near.  A plague that kills its victims and resurrects them as flesh-eating ghouls has decimated the American population, forcing what's left of the government to take shelter underground in the Mount Weather Emergency Operatio...

  • Boxed

    In this horrifying zombie short story, seven characters find themselves trapped inside an elevator during a zombie apocalypse. The narrator, the last passenger to occupy the elevator, tells them that his wife, who was murdered by a zombie, told hi...

  • Poxland

    Chad Halverson - 5

    America has been devastated by both plague and the nuclear weapons used to kill off the infected flesh-eating creatures that roamed across the land preying on human beings.

    National Clandestine Service black ops agent Chad Halverson and dress...

  • Comes a Chopper

    Comes a Chopper is a collection of Bryan Cassiday's new spine-tingling tales from the dark side.
    An actor who fears a homicidal maniac is stalking him finds a terrifying impostor instead . . .A cell phone doesn't take calls.  It gives orders to ...

  • Alien Assault

    Mind-blowing science-fiction tales that will scare you to your very core.  Included are stories about alien invasions, time travel, zombie apocalypses, and more.  The human race is always under assault in these stories, and somehow we must survive....

  • Two Moons Rising

    Is this the end? Police investigate the murders of thirteen-year-old Lucinda Pugh's parents who died in their beds after somebody soaked them in gasoline and set their house on fire in their hometown of Santa Loma, California. All evidence points to ...

  • Countdown to Death

    Ethan Carr - 1

    Haunted by self-loathing, Ethan Carr quits the Los Angeles Police Department after he accidentally shoots to death an innocent boy on one of his assignments. Years later, he sets up shop as a private investigator and is hired by Richard Herbert to pr...

  • The Bus Stops Here and Other Zombie Tales

    All zombies all the time. Included in "The Bus Stops Here and other zombie tales" are five zombie short stories by Bryan Cassiday, together for the first time in one anthology. "The Bus Stops Here" is a brand-new short story that has never before bee...

  • Dying to Breathe

    Ethan Carr - 2

    Did the S&M just go too far or was it murder? Guilt-ridden PI Ethan Carr is hired by Constance Barnes, a troubled history professor at USC who claims she is being stalked by someone who is sending her cut-up photos of herself.When fellow professor M...



  • Wipeout

    Wallowing in guilt for shooting an innocent boy with a ricocheting bullet when he used to work as an LAPD cop, PI Ethan Carr is hired by a distraught amnesiac who wants to find out who he is.An assailant firebombs Carr's Mini Cooper, and in the trunk...

  • Force of Impact

    Ethan Carr - 3

    Struggling horror novelist Bart Dillinger doesn’t accept the official police report that says his girlfriend actress Jackie Merced committed suicide by shooting herself while driving off a cliff. He hires PI Ethan Carr to find out how she really di...

  • The Payout

    Mina Deerling - 1

    A distressed young woman falls under the spell of a homicidal maniac and becomes his partner in murder in this disturbing psychological thriller.

    Pondering suicide sitting on a Malibu dock one night after running away from home, doe-eyed young Mina...

  • Bolt

    A private detective's routine case of infidelity among Hollywood's elite leads to a transnational conspiracy of terror.

    Power-broker Hollywood talent manager Lyndon Fox's wife Deirdre hires epileptic LA private detective Scott Brody after a pr...

  • Murder LLC

    A bracing page-turner with an unconventional hero.--Kirkus ReviewsLA Noir meets International Espionage in this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat gem. Highly recommended for Michael Connelly fans.--BestThrillers.comPraise for Bryan Cassiday's ThrillersA...

  • Horde

    WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2022 AND THE AMERICAN FICTION AWARD 2021 FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL What if you were an amnesiac who found yourself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse? How dreadful must your memories be to make you want to forget t...

  • Ice in the Blood

    Hard-hitting crime stories from the edge of madness and terror where murderers, serial killers, and sociopaths skulk along the streets of Los Angeles by day and night. The skies may be sunny, but the streets of the city are cold as ice and teeming wi...

  • Knot of Fear

    Ivy Kingston is about to go down the rabbit hole to meet the ultimate horror.Ivy, a Los Angeles real estate agent plagued with self-doubts thanks to an overbearing mogul father, is assaulted by two avatars in a metaverse called Rabbit World owned by ...

  • Cutthroat Express

    From Bryan Cassiday, the award-winning author of Horde, comes Cutthroat Express, the explosive, bloodcurdling book 7 of his Zombie Apocalypse: The Chad Halverson Series. With America reeling from nuclear decimation during a raging zombie apocalyp...

  • Hotbed

    The nightmare of the quarantine of a virus that triggers cannibalistic madness in its victims begins without fanfare in the small Southern California town of Costaguana.Phoebe suspects her husband Jason, the mayor, of cheating on her with a prostitut...



  • Burn Hot Burn Long

    Phoebe is running for her life after discovering a dark secret about the police. She saw them murder individuals suspected of being infected with the lethal Novamors virus. Not only are the cops after her, but a sociopathic hit man hired by her vindi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bryan Cassiday has published 30 books.

Bryan Cassiday does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Burn Hot Burn Long, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Bryan Cassiday, Blood Moon, was published in September 2009.

Yes. Bryan Cassiday has 4 series.
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