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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1982
  • Latest Book:
    June 2026
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Books in Order: 16 titles

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  • Five serial killers … Known only to each other Alpha. Bravo. Charlie. Delta. Easy. Connected through a secure internet location, encrypted and concealed, a unique chat room they have named Jack’s Special Place in homage to their ultimate...



  • 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...



  • A psycho turns fairy-tale endings into nightmares in this "vivid cat-and-mice game" from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author (William Bayer, Edgar Awardâ€"winning author).   Karen is a lonely middle-aged doctor with a house in th...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Happy 53rd birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death.When a mysterious letter bearing these threatening words is delivered to Dr. Frederick Starks, his predictable life is thrown into chaos. Suddenly, the psychoanalyst is plunged into ...



  • 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...






  • 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...



  • "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...



  • A reporter is the only hope for an innocent man on death row for murder -- while the real killer roams free -- in this "riveting, provocative" thriller (Publishers Weekly).   When burnt-out Miami reporter Matt Cowart receives a lette...



  • A nice New England family has a dark secret in this "superb exercise in suspense" from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author (TheNew York Times Book Review).   Megan and Duncan Richards are no longer the radical activists they were...



  • From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author: "A powerful, obsessive novel of murder and madness" traveling cross-country (The New York Times).   Miami detective Mercedes Barren, recovering from a traumatic shooting, has transferred ...





  • 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 ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Katzenbach has published 16 books.

The next book by John Katzenbach, The Architect, will be published in June 2026.

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.