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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1982
  • Latest Book:
    October 2015
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Book List in Order: 14 titles


  • In John Katzenbach’s debut novel, the brutal murder of a young girl leads Malcolm Anderson, reporter for The Miami Journal, into an obsessive hunt for a ruthless mass murderer in this fast-paced thriller that was adapted into the film The Mean ...





  • A man, a woman, a car, and a camera on a sentimental journey through the past. He kills, he photographs, she writes about it -- or she dies, too. Detective Mercedes Barren has a reason to give chase: her niece was a victim. So does psychiatrist Marti...



  • Megan and Duncan Richards have come a long way from 1968 and their radical past. He's a banker; she's in real estate. They have two teenage daughters and a young son. But the past has not forgotten them. From her prison cell, the beautiful and cold-b...



  • "Powerful...Compelling...Katzenbach is a skilled storyteller who knows how to set up the kind of big and small questions that make one want to keep turning the pages"
    CHICAGO TRIBUNE
    Now a Warner Bros. Motion Picture starring Sean Connery.
    A...



  • "CHILLING. . . TAUT SUSPENSE.
    --The Boston Globe
    Berlin, 1943. Few saw his face; none knew his name. In whispered circles he was known only as Der Schattenmann, a merciless catcher for the Nazis who was always there, smiling, when the trains to...



  • Twenty-five years ago, Jeffrey and Susan Clayton fled their tyrannical father--a man who was later suspected in the heinous murder of a young student. Though the father was never charged, he committed suicide. Or so it seemed. For someone has sent Su...



  • The world is at war. Two men--one white, one black--find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, confined with the enemy, struggling to preserve a shred of dignity against impossible odds. They thought survival was their only purpose--until they r...



  • Happy fifty third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. Dr. Frederick Starks, a New York psychoanalyst, has just received a mysterious, threatening letter. Now he finds himself in the middle of a horrific game designed by a man wh...






  • It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum for his erratic behavior. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless life, perpetually medicated to ...



  • Scott Freeman is a man of reason -- a college professor grounded in the rational and practical. But he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughter's room: "No one could ever love you like I do. No one ever will. We wi...



  • When a retired academician witnesses a lovely young woman snatched off the street, he is unsatisfied by the police response and vows to find her on his own. She has been kidnapped and held prisoner by a married couple who have started an exclusive we...



  • A psycho turns fairy-tale endings into nightmares in this vivid cat-and-mice game from the New York Times bestselling author (William Bayer, Edgar Awardwinning author). Karen is a lonely middle-aged doctor with a house in the woods. Sarah is a...



  • A master of the psychological thriller, bestselling author John Katzenbach is an unrivaled investigator of that most primal human motive -- revenge. A tense, penetrating novel, The Dead Student follows a young man set on avenging his uncle, no matter...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Katzenbach has published 14 books.

John Katzenbach does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dead Student, was published in October 2015.

The first book by John Katzenbach, In the Heat of the Summer, was published in April 1982.

No. John Katzenbach does not write books in series.