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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1982
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Book List in Order: 15 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 ...





  • 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 to the r...



  • 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 in 1968...



  • 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 letter from 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 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 ...






  • 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 Timesâ€"bestselling author (William Bayer, Edgar Awardâ€"winning author).   Karen is a lonely middle-aged doctor with a house in the woods....



  • 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...



  • From #1 internationally bestselling author John KatzenbachFive serial killers …Known only to each other as:Alpha. Bravo. Charlie. Delta. Easy.Connected through a secure internet location, encrypted and concealed, a unique chat room they hav...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Katzenbach has published 15 books.

The next book by John Katzenbach, Jack's Boys, will be published in June 2024.

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.