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  • Bibliography:
    78 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1988
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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A former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times of London, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Los Angeles Times. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages. The author of thirty-one novels, two collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, he's received or been shortlisted for a number of awards around the world. His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association, and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller The Broken Window was also nominated for that prize. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award.

Full Series List in Order

The Broken Doll Series

1 - The Pain Hunter: A Novella (Dec-2022)
2 - Dodge: A Novella (Dec-2022)
3 - Execution Day: A Novella (Dec-2022)
4 - Sixty-One Seconds: A Novella (Dec-2022)

Colter Shaw

0.5 - Captivated (Mar-2019)
1 - The Never Game (May-2019)
1.5 - The Second Hostage (Mar-2020)
2 - The Goodbye Man (May-2020)
3 - The Final Twist (May-2021)
3.5 - The Deadline Clock (Sep-2022)
4 - Hunting Time (Nov-2022)

A Kathryn Dance Novel

1 - The Sleeping Doll (Jun-2007)
2 - Roadside Crosses (Jun-2009)
3 - XO (Jun-2012)
4 - Solitude Creek (May-2015)

A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

1 - The Bone Collector (Jan-1997)
2 - The Coffin Dancer (Sep-1998)
3 - The Empty Chair (Jun-2000)
4 - The Stone Monkey (Mar-2002)
5 - Vanished Man (Mar-2003)
6 - The Twelfth Card (Jun-2005)
7 - The Cold Moon (Jun-2006)
8 - The Broken Window (Jun-2008)
9 - The Burning Wire (Jun-2010)
9.5 - A Textbook Case (Apr-2013)
10 - The Kill Room (Jun-2013)
11 - The Skin Collector (May-2014)
11.5 - The Deliveryman (Feb-2016)
12 - The Steel Kiss (Mar-2016)
13 - The Burial Hour (Apr-2017)
14 - The Cutting Edge (Apr-2018)
14.5 - A Perfect Plan (Oct-2021)
15 - The Midnight Lock (Nov-2021)
15.5 - Swiping Hearts (Sep-2023)
16 - The Watchmaker's Hand (Dec-2023)

Rune

1 - Manhattan Is My Beat (Jul-1989)
2 - Death of a Blue Movie Star (Jul-1990)
3 - Hard News (Nov-1991)

Sanchez & Heron

1 - Fatal Intrusion (Aug-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

4 - An Acceptable Sacrifice (Nov-2012)

James Bond

Carte Blanche (Jun-2011)

Book List in Order: 78 titles



  • It started with a tourist's brush with evil on a sun-drenched Caribbean island, and Eleanor Bowers thought that the dark spot on her vacation was best forgotten. But a savage and ancient power has come home to New York with her, and soon the city...



  • Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job...



  • Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film - and she thinks she's f...



  • Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events - and she's got the story she...



  • Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in...



  • From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC seriesBill Corde looks down at the face of the murdered girl and sees the horror of sudden death. He cannot know, as he stands there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the ...



  • Eight deaf girls and their teachers are pulled off a school bus along a windswept Kansas road. They are held hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse by escaped murderer Lou Handy and two fellow inmates, who threaten to kill one hostage an hour unless ...



  • A storm-lashed night. A dangerously paranoid schizophrenic. a woman with a reason to be terrified. And a desperate search for the ultimate truth behind a shocking murder. Michael Hrubek has escaped from a mental hospital for the criminally insa...



  • Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With p...






  • Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer - an ingenious killer who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. So far, the...



  • New Year's Eve, 1999. An early morning machine-gun attack by the Digger, an emotionless, robot-like madman, leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C., subway system. In a message to the mayor's office, a criminal mastermind demands twenty million do...



  • Lincoln Rhyme, the renowned criminalist from The Bone Collector and The Coffin Dancer, faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing .....



  • Two men of words. One seeks only peace. The other, violence... Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man in a deadly ...



  • When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and -- with chilling precision -- lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murde...



  • A timeless anthology of the twentieth century's finest mystery, horror, and suspense stories encompasses contributions by Erle Stanley Gardner, Patricia Highsmith, John D. MacDonald, Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Bill Pronzini, Ellery Queen, Mickey Sp...



  • Forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme, along with his protegee, Amelia Sachs, has been recruited by the FBI to capture "the Ghost"--a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship headed for New York, the bust goes disastrously ...



  • Tempers Flare in the Heat of the Night… …And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, ...



  • It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the doo...



  • New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. Diverse and provocative, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signa...






  • New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected his award-w...



  • Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: ...



  • Schoolgirl Geneva Settle's research project into her slave ancestor Charles Singleton unearths more than just an interesting story. Suddenly Geneva seems to be the target of a professional assassin. A man who will ruthlessly kill anyone in his way un...



  • On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks inves-tigators fear ticked away the victims' ...



  • While best known for his twenty-four novels, Jeffery Deaver is also a short story master -- he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story, and he won the Short Story Dagger from the Crime Writers Association for...



  • Lincoln Rhyme is back! The brilliant criminologist returns with his partner and paramour Amelia Sachs, in a blistering bestseller that tests forensic detective work in a brave new world. When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator...



  • Lincoln Rhyme, "among the most brilliant and most vulnerable of crime fiction's heroes" (New York Post), faces the terrifying dark side of the Internet age . . . as a twisted techno-genius destroys lives with impunity by stealing personal information...



  • From the bestselling creator of criminologist Lincoln Rhyme comes a dynamic new thriller star -- a tough-as-nails deputy snared in a chilling fight for survival deep in the Wisconsin woods. When a 911 call from an isolated vacation house on Lake Mon...



  • "Astonishing" (New York Times Book Review) suspense master Jeffery Deaver brings back investigative agent Kathryn Dance (The Sleeping Doll) in a timely and chilling bestseller. Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Penins...



  • A secret spy ring is sent to unmask a terror network planning mass destruction in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author’s compelling short thriller.Retired Colonel James J. Peterson is head of a covert -- and illegal -- intelligence-gathering ope...






  • From International Thriller Writers comes Watchlist: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrill cast of characters in one major suspenseful package. The Chopin Manuscript and then The Copper Bracelet were a collaboration by some of the world’s...



  • A series of horrific explosions has rocked New York City, and a new breed of terror-monger is at large: someone is harnessing high-voltage arc flashes with the searing power to melt steel and incinerate dozens. With little forensic evidence, Lincoln ...



  • New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, h...



  • Henry Loving is a lifter, hired to get information by any means -- including torture. His expertise is in getting an "edge" by kidnapping or threatening someone close to his principal, exerting pressure until they cave. When Washington, D.C., police ...



  • JAMES BOND as you've never seen him before . . . in the smashing new thriller and #1 international bestseller from JEFFERY DEAVER A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electron...



  • Newsweek calls Jeffery Deaver a “suspense superstar,” and in his new novel, he lives up to the accolades once again as he sets his heroine Kathryn Dance on a quest to stop an obsessive stalker from destroying a beautiful young country singer. ...



  • A pair of federal agents from either side of the US-Mexico border target a cartel kingpin. They call him "Cuchillo," the Knife. Not because he kills with a blade - he has plenty of men to do that kind of work for him - but because his mind is so shar...



  • From the author of The Bone Collector, now an NBC TV series, comes three powerful short stories.In "Fast," Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balan...



  • When a young woman is found brutally murdered in a parking garage, with a veritable mountain of potential evidence to sift through, it may be the most challenging case former NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme has ever taken on....



  • A U.S. citizen in the Bahamas is shot by a sniper par excellence--a man capable of delivering a "million-dollar bullet" into the heart of his targets, a mile or more away. The investigation reveals that the victim, Robert Moreno, a man known to have ...






  • The shocking end is only the beginning . . . #1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has created the most riveting and original novel of the year-a race-against-the-clock mystery, told in reverse. THE OCTOBER LIST Gabriela waits desperately for...



  • Fiendish suspense. Shocking twists. Twelve diabolical tales. New York Times bestselling author and highly acclaimed storyteller Jeffery Deaver-the undisputed "grand master of the plot twist" (Booklist)-returns with a dazzling new collection of s...



  • Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues before the killer targets more victims-or Rhyme himself. The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements an...



  • A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the s...



  • An aborted raid targeting a major arms dealer. A hostage standoff at a bank that may not be what it seems. A plot to spring a former African dictator from prison. What is the threat that connects them all? And just who is the mysterious mastermind, T...




  • Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs return in this short story from New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver A man is murdered in a back alley. Renowned forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sach...



  • Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she ju...



  • From the New York Times best-selling author of the Lincoln Rhyme series, a short story about Lincoln Rhyme solving a mysterious plane crash with no forensic evidence.A small jet with only one pilot onboard crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Local autho...



  • When a lawyer discovers the possible existence of a lost, secret second novel from America's favorite writer, all hell breaks loose.For years, Frederick Lowell has quietly managed the estate of the revered novelist Edward Goodwin. Though the author o...






  • DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER. Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series. A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side s...




  • Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City to confront a killer terrorizing couples at their happiest--and most vulnerable. In the early hours of a quiet, weekend morning in Manhattan's Diamond District, a brutal triple murder shocks t...



  • Snap. Upload. Ruin a reputation.

    In this page-turning short story from international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, senior detective Jon Avery inherits a deeply troubling case. At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is ...



  • A new story from the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, introducing Colter Shaw.Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living traveling the country and locating missing persons, collecting reward money in return. So it is ...



  • The son of a survivalist family, Colter Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a “reward seeker,” traveling the country to help police solve crimes and locate missing persons for private citizens. “You’ve been abandoned. Escap...





  • A new original story from the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, featuring Colter Shaw.Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living locating missing persons and collecting reward money in return. In the course of his sear...



  • A thrilling new Colter Shaw adventure by the master of suspense, Jeffery Deaver. Colter Shaw, the itinerant reward-seeker readers met in The Never Game, returns in a new adventure. Colter takes on a new case when he learns of a reward--two, ac...



  • The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine...



  • A new Colter Shaw story from the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense.Colter Shaw makes his living traveling the country and locating missing persons, sometimes collecting reward money, sometimes not. Many of his cases are those that the ...



  • Deaver returns with a devilishly good thriller, and reward seeker Colter Shaw's most personal case to date. Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has t...



  • A race against time becomes a battle for the soul in this suspenseful story from New York Times best seller Jeffery Deaver. Death is a topic Bradford Douglas is intimately familiar with. The young attorney is on a crusade against capital punishmen...



  • The fear inside meets the terror out there in a story of unsettling suspense from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Jeffery Deaver. Evan Hart lives the good life, enjoying his job, his sports club, the occasional date - and especially his co...



  • From New York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver comes a tale of a bucolic getaway and an unsettling spirit. Amanda and Charlie are spending their first weekend away in months. They've rented a luxurious vacation house on Lost Valley Lak...



  • A deviously clever story featuring the beloved forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme.When the FBI comes to Lincoln Rhyme with the news that a mysterious assassin is targeting him, the detective is not particularly concerned. With his long career putting a...



  • Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest thriller featuring his beloved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs as they search for a criminal whose fascination with breaking locks terrorizes New York City. A woman awakes in the morning to find that ...



  • The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author reflects on the life and career of his character, NYPD forensic scientist Lincoln Rhyme, in this short story.The line between the disabled and the non-disabled is shrinking. Computers, video cameras, high-defin...



  • Reward seeker Colter Shaw faces a ticking clock with murderous consequences in this riveting short story.A serial kidnapper is on the loose in a small town in Maine, targeting wealthy women and demanding a huge ransom in bitcoin for their safe return...



  • The New York Times bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems.THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL. #1...



  • Nothing can stop an avenging vigilante from channeling her rage -- or pursuing her prey. Not the relentless cops in her rearview. Not the cunning and elusive sociopath she’s closing in on. A robbery goes awry. A female deputy is tortured and mur...



  • When justice is on the line, the courtroom becomes a battleground for a prosecutor obsessed with victory, a defense attorney hired to thwart it and a wily defendant making a bid for freedom. Steven Ross, a family man from a small midwestern town, ...



  • A violent jailbreak bleeds into a street fair in Wisconsin. In the wake of the carnage, a getaway van barrels down a rural highway. Inside are two men with a tenuous bond: an obsession with pain. One is Paul Offenbach, a sadistic crime boss with a...



  • The hunter has captured her prey, and a sociopathic crime boss faces justice at last. But it’s not the end of the story. On a crowded street, gunfire and death are waiting to explode. A festive street fair is underway in the shadow of the courth...



  • Beloved forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back in this fiendishly clever short story from New York Times bestselling Jeffery Deaver!...



  • When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and killing several people, Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are on the case. A political group claims to be behind the sabotage and threatens another crane collapse in tw...



  • Constant Marlowe follows a serial killer deep into the dark heart of a small town in this riveting novella by Jeffery Deaver, the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Doll collection and the Colter Shaw series. Special Agent Constant Ma...



  • As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patterns of an elusive killer. A propulsive new series by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabel...



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    Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

    After an introduction by the e...


Award-Winning Books by Jeffery Deaver

The Bodies Left Behind
2009 Thriller Award -- Novel
The Bone Collector
1999 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jeffery Deaver has published 78 books.

The next book by Jeffery Deaver, Fatal Intrusion, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Jeffery Deaver, Voodoo, was published in March 1988.

Yes. Jeffery Deaver has 6 series.