Jan Burke

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    Goodnight, Irene (March 1993)
  • Latest Book:
    Case Closed (November 2014)
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Full Series List in Order

An Irene Kelly Mystery

1 - Goodnight, Irene (Mar-1993)
2 - Sweet Dreams, Irene (Mar-1994)
3 - Dear Irene (Feb-1995)
4 - Remember Me, Irene (Feb-1996)
5 - Hocus (May-1997)
6 - Liar (May-1998)
7 - Bones (Sep-1999)
8 - Flight (Jan-2001)
8 - Bloodlines (Jan-2005)
9 - Kidnapped (Oct-2006)
10 - Disturbance (Jul-2011)

Books in Order: 26 titles

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  • Case Closed

    From New York Times bestselling author Jan Burke comes the last of six short story collections -- sure to please fans of suspense masters Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton, and Robert Parker.Case Closed is a mini-anthology containing a brand-new short s...

  • Justice Done

    The fifth of six e-short story collections from New York Times bestselling suspense author Jan Burke, including three stories from the highly acclaimed print anthology Eighteen, praised as “Astonishing…wry…these stories are sure to delight” (...

  • Convicted

    From New York Times bestselling suspense author Jan Burke comes the fourth of six e-short story collections.Convicted is a mini-anthology containing a brand-new short story, “The Anchorwoman” featuring a young Irene Kelly, plus three stories from...

  • Tried

    With a brand-new short story featuring Tyler Hawthorne from The Messenger, plus three stories from Eighteen, this is the third of six e-short story collections from New York Times bestselling suspense author Jan Burke....

  • Stepping Into the Dead Zone

    in Games Creatures Play

    Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this collection of the most peculiar plays ever made—including a story featuring ...

  • Apprehended

    From the New York Times bestselling suspense author Jan Burke comes a brand-new e-short story with the added bonus of three short stories from the Eighteen anthology. Apprehended is a mini-anthology containing a brand new short story from Jan Burk...

  • Caught Red-Handed

    This e-short story collection from New York Times bestselling suspense author Jan Burke features a brand new Irene Kelly short story, “Privileges,” plus three unforgettable stories from the print anthology Eighteen. Before Frank Harriman and I...

  • Disturbance

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 10

    Despite her reporter's nose for trouble, Irene Kelly's life has almost returned to normal -- the Las Piernas News Express wobbles along in defiance of its financial woes, and with the help of her husband, Frank, and a good therapist, she's recovered ...

  • The Messenger

    Who is Tyler Hawthorne? Beneath the Caribbean Sea, a salvage diver hears an eerie voice calling to him from the wreckage of a nineteenth-century ship. In return for promised riches, the diver becomes the servant of Adrian deVille, Lord Varre, the ...



  • Kidnapped

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 9

    News reporter Irene Kelly untangles the threads of a past crime and a haunting disappearance while trying to survive the present. Not long after the Las Piernas Express publishes Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children cases, bones turn up...

  • Lost and Found

    in Creature Cozies

    They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...

  • Bloodlines

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 8

    The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a ...

  • The Phoenix Rises

    in The Sunken Sailor

    Fourteen masters of the mystery and suspense genre--including Jan Burke, Carolyn Hart, Simon Brett, and Edward Marston--each contribute an individual chapter to a round robin mystery about a weekend house party in a small English village that is turn...

  • Nine

    Hailed by reviewers and fellow authors alike, Edgar Award winner Jan Burke has won a legion of devoted readers with her witty, ingeniously crafted novels featuring Irene Kelly. Now Burke, who earned critical acclaim for her stunning departure novel, ...

  • Eighteen

    USA Today bestselling author of Nine JAN BURKE delivers chills, suspense, shockers, and sharp wit in eighteen works of short fiction sure to satisfy longtime fans and newcomers alike. This positively addictive anthology is full of surprises -- a pa...

  • Flight

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 8

    Edgar Award-winning author Jan Burke, acclaimed for her Irene Kelly novels, hits the ground running with a harrowing thriller featuring homicide detective Frank Harriman. When the wreckage of a small plane belonging to a Las Piernas Police Department...

  • The Haunting of Carrick Hollow

    in Crime Through Time III

    ANDREW GREELEY introduces a monk of the Middle Ages who investigates corruption in the Vatican to crack "The Case of the Murdered Pope"... Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century magistrate, confronts crime at a stuffy dinner party in BRUCE ALE...

  • Bones

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 7

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JULIA SAYRE? She disappeared four years ago. A young mother of two, Sayre was more than a news story to reporter Irene Kelly. When Sayre's family sought Irene's help, the search became a personal mission--and a fruitless on...

  • A Man of My Stature

    in Crime Through Time II

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...



  • Liar

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 6

    Investigative reporting has its hazards, but trouble hits home for Irene Kelly when her estranged aunt is murdered--and Irene becomes the leading suspect. With the police hot on her trail, Irene sets out to find cousin Travis, her dead aunt's son, co...

  • Hocus

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 5

    For reporter Irene Kelly it's a terrifying investigation -- because it's so personal. Her husband, Detective Frank Harriman, has been kidnapped by terrorists who call themselves Hocus -- deadly manipulators who give Irene three days to meet their dem...

  • Mea Culpa

    in Malice Domestic 6

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Remember Me, Irene

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 4

    MURDER MAKES THE GRADE In an unsettling encounter on the streets of Las Piernas, newspaper reporter Irene Kelly fails to recognize the homeless man who, without a trace of irony, declares, "I'm not who I used to be." Only later does Irene realize ...

  • Dear Irene

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 3

    Death has written to Irene Kelly...personally. Tenacious and daring, newspaperwoman Irene Kelly will brave any danger to track down a good story. But this time the story is stalking her. A letter from "Thanatos" reaches Irene's desk--a cryptic ...

  • Sweet Dreams, Irene

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 2

    Even Dark Dreams Can Come True Jacob Henderson, the sixteen-year-old son of an aspiring candidate for D.A., has come to Irene Kelly for help. The corrupt incumbent plans to blackmail the boy's father with incriminating photos suggesting Jacob is i...

  • Goodnight, Irene

    An Irene Kelly Mystery - 1

    I'LL SEE YOU IN MY NIGHTMARES Irene's best friend O'Connor is dead -- murdered at his own front door...and all because of an unsolved, three-decades-old murder the blustery, big-hearted newspaperman wouldn't let rest in peace. Once Irene Kell...

Award-Winning Books by Jan Burke

Bloodlines
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery
Bones
2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
The Messenger
2009 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense/Thriller
Nine
2003 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jan Burke has published 26 books.

Jan Burke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Case Closed, was published in November 2014.

The first book by Jan Burke, Goodnight, Irene, was published in March 1993.

Yes. Jan Burke has 1 series.
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