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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2002
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Travis Delaney Investigates

1 - The Ultimate Truth (Jan-2014)
2 - The Danger Game (Aug-2014)
3 - The Snake Trap (Aug-2016)

Book List in Order: 30 titles



  • Did I hate him? Of course I hated him. But I never meant to kill him. Martyn's father is dead. Now he has to make a choice. Tell the police what happened -- and be suspected of murder. Or get rid of the body and go on with the rest of his life. ...



  • I would have done anything to freeze the moment forever. One unforgettable summer afternoon, Caitlin meets a boy named Lucas, and her world turns upside down. Lucas is everything Caitlin longs to be. Brave. Honest. Free. And he is also everything ...



  • From the acclaimed author of MARTYN PIG and LUCAS comes another compelling, edgy ,YA thriller about love, loss, and life.

    Moo Nelson likes to be alone. Overweight and shy, Moo is constantly mocked and bullied by his cruel classmates. He's happ...



  • LOVE IS DANGEROUS Joe is a kid from the right side of the tracks who cares about his music and not much else -- until he falls for a girl named Candy. It starts as an attraction, a crush ... and then turns into something more like an obsession. Joe...



  • Two brothers leave their London home to hunt down the man who murdered their sister in this accomplished thriller by the acclaimed author of CANDY and KISSING THE RAIN.

    On a storm-ravaged night, a 19-year-old girl is kidnapped, raped, and kill...



  • "The Fugitive" meets "Blade Runner" with a Kevin Brooks kick in this heart-stopper about a boy who discovers he's not one hundred percent human.It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smi...



  • A smart, tense murder mystery twined with an emotional exploration of the ways love, sex, class, and celebrity can forever change--or end--friendships.

    Thoughtful Pete, tough Pauly, twins Eric and Nicole, strange Raymond: As kids they were tig...



  • Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in and she couldn't care less. Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago and it's all God's fault. When Dawn's dad found God, it was the worst time ever. He thought he'd found the answ...



  • Magical realism and gritty mystery meet in Brooks's provocative dissection of family, friendship, and faith. "A tense psychological thriller...hard-hitting."--Publishers WeeklyDawn Bundy lives in a cave. In her head. Where's she's been hiding for tw...






  • London, 1976: a summer of chaos, punk, love . . . and the boy they called Billy the Kid.It was the summer of so many things. Heat and violence, love and hate, heaven and hell. It was the time I met William Bonney - the boy from Belfast known as Billy...



  • What can he do with his new powers -- and what are they doing to him? Before the attack, Tom Harvey was just an average teen. But a head-on collision with high technology has turned him into an actualized App. Fragments of a shattered iPhone are e...



  • PI John Craine has come to Hale Island to get away from it all - the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won't let go. But within hours he stumbles across the dead body of a young girl on the beach. When the police arrive the body has inexpl...



  • New edition of a tense teen thriller from bestselling author Kevin Brooks. Finbar's day gets considerably more exciting when a crazy girl bursts into his house, with a gun and a bag full of cash. Who is she? And what has she done? Tense teen thriller...




  • PI John Craine, still struggling to cope with the weight of his past, is forced to finally confront it in his most personal and frightening case yet. Third in the series. PI John Craine is hired to investigate the brutal murder of a Somali youth c...



  • When Travis Delaney's parents die in a car crash, Travis is devastated. In a bid to pull himself out of his grief, he starts to look into the last case they were investigating at the private investigation agency they ran. What starts as a minor distr...



  • Fourteen-year-old Travis Delaney is trying to get his life back on track following the crash that killed his parents last summer. The police called it an accident, but Travis knows better. His parents were on to something, and whatever they were inve...



  • A darkly humorous and brilliantly observed novel about the intensity of teenage friendships and disaffected youth.When Dean first appears at school, Jack knows right away that there''s something different about him. The two form a fast bond and dream...



  • I can't believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor...






  • A brutally honest and effective story about adolescent boredom and destructive friendships, from Carnegie medalist Kevin Brooks. It was one of those childhood friendships of convenience - two lads in the same village who go to the same school. But ...




  • Following a death-defying escape from the hands of a criminal overlord, young PI Travis Delaney thinks he might finally be getting closer to finding out who killed his parents, and why. But things are about to get a whole lot more deadly . . .One mom...



  • Elliot has lived his first thirteen years confined to his home, incapacitated by fear. Now he’s out of pills, snow is falling, and his only safe person is missing. A terrifying thriller from Carnegie Medalist Kevin Brooks. From the moment of his bi...



  • London, 1976: A summer of creation, destruction, and blistering heat. Lili Garcia stands at the edge of London's growing punk scene, playing bass with one of city's wildest bands. The group's success has only strained things between Lili and Curtis ...



  • Like steel in the fires of a forge, Barabbas is now a hardened man. Plagued by supernatural beings and pursued by bloodthirsty Roman soldiers, Barabbas plots his revenge as he flees to the high Mountain of Hermon, just north of his homeland. But he...



  • A boy raised by wild dogs fights for survival in this gripping post apocalyptic tale by an acclaimed Carnegie Medalist. Jeet is a dogchild, raised by the wild dogs who killed his parents, then recaptured and “rehumanized.” He now lives with on...



  • THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, KEVIN BROOKSWhen fifteen-year-old Kenzie wakes up in hospital in a darkened room, she’s in the dark about what has happened to her too. The doctors break the devastating news that she has b...



  • In Book 3 of The Lost Gospel of Barabbas Book Series, the adventures of Barabbas continue. Haunted by the supernatural, the insurrectionist pushes ever closer toward his destiny.Through the mountains of Ephraim and dusty villages of the Jezreel, he e...



  • It’s a hot summer’s night in London and riots have broken out across the city. Young gang member Castro is in the back of a police car, being taken into custody. When an attack takes out the officers in the car, Castro and detective Judy ...






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    PI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. Sixteen years ago his wife, Stacy, was brutally murdered. Craine found her body in their bed. And since then, to escape the pain and the unanswered questions, he has buried himself in ...


Award-Winning Books by Kevin Brooks

The Bunker Diary
2014 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kevin Brooks has published 30 books.

Kevin Brooks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bad Castro, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig, was published in May 2002.

Yes. Kevin Brooks has 1 series.