J. Robert Janes

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1982
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Richard Hagen

1 - The Toy Shop (May-2008)
2 - The Watcher (1982)
3 - The Third Story (1983)
4 - The Hiding Place (1984)
5 - The Alice Factor (1991)

St. Cyr & Kohler

1 - Mirage (Oct-1992)
2 - Carousel (1992)
3 - Kaleidoscope (1993)
4 - Mannequin (1994)
5 - Salamander (1994)
6 - Dollmaker (1995)
7 - Stonekiller (1995)
8 - Sandman (Nov-1997)
9 - Gypsy (Jun-2012)
10 - Madrigal (Jun-2012)
11 - Beekeeper (Jun-2012)
12 - Flykiller (Jun-2012)
13 - Bellringer (Jun-2012)
14 - Tapestry (Jun-2013)
15 - Carnival (Mar-2014)
16 - Clandestine (Jul-2015)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • The Watcher

    Richard Hagen - 2

  • Danger on the River

  • The Third Story

    Richard Hagen - 3

  • The Hiding Place

    Richard Hagen - 4

  • The Alice Factor

    Richard Hagen - 5

    As war looms over Europe, a diamond dealer fights the Nazis from behind enemy lines It is 1937, and the Antwerp Diamond Exchange is preparing for war. The Wehrmacht is hungry for industrial diamonds, without which it's impossible to manufacture arm...

  • Carousel

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    St. Cyr & Kohler - 2

    In the sequel to Mirage, the unlikely duo of Chief Inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo investigate the murders of an art student and a carousel operator in the war-torn Paris of 1942....

  • Mirage

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 1

    Inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Su+a3rete+a7 is called in to investigate a murder in German-occupied France, but he is being shadowed by a maverick Gestapo officer who has been assigned to follow the progress of his investigation. A first novel....

  • Kaleidoscope

    • / Police Procedural
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    St. Cyr & Kohler - 3

    Investigating a local murder in 1942 Provence, inspectors Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler struggle with a sinister web of collusion and the reluctance of the Proventals, who fear Nazi reprisals. Reprint....

  • Mannequin

    • / Law Enforcement
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    St. Cyr & Kohler - 4

    A young girl vanishes, leaving nothing behind but a pile of nude photos Since the Germans occupied Paris, police inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr has not been able to work a murder, robbery, or arson case without his German overlords demanding he work...



  • Salamander

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    St. Cyr & Kohler - 5

    A gruesome arson case takes St-Cyr and Kohler to Lyon In a packed movie theater, an usher notices two women enter and leave just before the show begins. Moments later, the theater goes up in flames, and 183 people perish in the stampede to escape...

  • Dollmaker

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    St. Cyr & Kohler - 6

    A high-ranking German sailor is accused of petty, brutal murder As Allied bombers rain death on the German submarine pens of occupied France, police inspectors Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler stumble through the darkness to a crime scene. A ...

  • Stonekiller

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    St. Cyr & Kohler - 7

    A woman is found butchered not far from an archaeological site In the woods of the Dordogne, farmers and their pigs hunt the forest floor for truffles. It is June 1942, and one such farmer has found something unusual: the postmaster's wife, murde...

  • Sandman

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 8

    In the dead of winter, a serial killer targets the children of Paris It is January 1943, and as Germany reels from the defeat at Stalingrad, Hermann Kohler learns that his sons were among the German casualties. He has no choice but to set grief as...

  • The Toy Shop

    Richard Hagen - 1

  • Beekeeper

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 11

    St-Cyr and Kohler uncover a black market beekeeping conspiracy During winter, the bees of Paris huddle into spheres, sacrificing some of the drones to keep the queen warm. In the winter of 1943, as rationing limits access to luxury goods, those at...

  • Bellringer

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 13

    In a resort town turned internment camp, a female prisoner is brutally murdered Before the war, the hotels of Vittel hosted the wealthiest members of French society. Now, in the winter of 1943, two of France’s most luxurious resorts have been co...

  • Flykiller

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 12

    In Vichy, a dead mistress points to an assassination plot At the Battle of Verdun, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s heroic leadership won him the respect and admiration of all of France. In the decades that follow the Great War, his ambition is boundl...

  • Gypsy

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 9

    An international safecracker steals diamonds destined for the Reich A tip comes in to the Gestapo, warning of an impending burglary at the Paris Ritz. The target is the room of a special attaché to the German Ministry of Production, where a safe ...

  • Madrigal

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 10

    A woman is brutally murdered in Avignon’s Papal Palace Six hundred years before the Germans conquered Paris, the pope came to Avignon to rule the Roman Church from afar. In January 1943, Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler visit the former Papa...



  • The Hunting Ground

    In the wake of World War II, a Frenchwoman learns to live for vengeance In Geneva, a frail young woman sits down in a café. On her arm is a tattooed number -- a souvenir from her time in Bergen-Belsen. As far as the French government is concerned...

  • Tapestry

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 14

    A series of interlocking crimes send St-Cyr and Kohler into the heart of the Parisian underworld It is February 1943, and Paris is under a blackout. For three years, the French inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo have inv...

  • Carnival

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 15

    Amid the ruins of an abandoned Alsatian carnival, St-Cyr and Kohler investigate a pair of suspicious suicides During the Great War, Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr fought in Alsace on opposite sides of the barbed wire. Two decades later, they...

  • Betrayal

    Caught between empires, a young woman risks her life for Ireland Mary Ellen Fraser speeds down the lonely country road, aware that no matter how fast she drives, she cannot outrun the secret in her heart. In the POW camps of Northern Ireland, this...

  • Clandestine

    St. Cyr & Kohler - 16

    A hijacked delivery vehicle draws St-Cyr and Kohler back to the killing fields of World War I The last time Jean-Louis St-Cyr visited the ruins of this ancient abbey, during one of the bloodiest campaigns of the Great War, a sniper nearly killed h...

  • The Sleeper

    A schoolteacher enters a war of shadows to save his daughter from the 3rd Reich David Ashby spent the last war killing Germans, and the years after falling in love with one. By the time Hitler comes to power, David has a half-German daughter, Kare...

  • The Little Parachute

    From a master of World War II espionage, a thrilling tale of an adoptive mother and a lost boy fighting to survive in occupied France The moment Angélique arrives in Paris, she is taken prisoner by the SS. In a lonely little room, she is put in ...

  • Mayhem

    • / Mystery
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    Inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Surete Nationale is called in to investigate a murder in German-occupied Paris, but he is being shadowed by a maverick Gestapo officer who has been assigned to follow the progress of his investigation...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J. Robert Janes has published 27 books.

J. Robert Janes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Little Parachute, was published in August 2016.

The first book by J. Robert Janes, The Watcher, was published in January 1982.

Yes. J. Robert Janes has 2 series.
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