Rick Mofina

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2000
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Jack Gannon

1 - Vengeance Road (Sep-2009)
2 - The Panic Zone (Jul-2010)
3 - In Desperation (Mar-2011)
4 - The Burning Edge (Dec-2011)

Jason Wade

1 - The Dying Hour (Jul-2005)
2 - Every Fear (Sep-2006)
3 - A Perfect Grave (Sep-2007)

Kate Page

1 - Whirlwind (Mar-2014)
2 - Full Tilt (Feb-2015)
3 - Free Fall (Aug-2016)

A Ray Wyatt Thriller

1 - Into the Fire (Sep-2022)
2 - The Hollow Place (Oct-2022)
3 - Requiem (Nov-2022)

Reed-Sydowski

1 - If Angels Fall (Feb-2000)
2 - Cold Fear (Jul-2001)
3 - Blood of Others (Jun-2002)
4 - No Way Back (Jun-2003)
5 - Be Mine (Jul-2004)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • If Angels Fall

    Reed-Sydowski - 1

    There are some horrors a man can never forget. Sounds so chilling that they can never be silenced. The frantic screams of drowning children. The anguished sobs of the father who couldn't save them. How long before those echoes give way to whispers...

  • Cold Fear

    Reed-Sydowski - 2

    In the remote reaches of Glacier National Park, a ten-year-old girl disappears on a family camping trip. At a rescue command center, a multi-agency task force launches a massive search, while the dramatic story grips an entire nation. Now, as a...

  • Blood of Others

    Reed-Sydowski - 3

    In the broken heart of a cold city, a shy, solitary woman searches for her soulmate -- someone who will finally love her. Hidden away from a world that rejected him, a tortured man finds the one woman who can forgive his monstrous sins -- and red...

  • No Way Back

    Reed-Sydowski - 4

    Witness San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burnt out. The breaking story of a jewel heist gone violently awry--with the murder of a cop and the abduction of a female hostage--is one most journalists would kill for. Tom hopes it will be his l...

  • Be Mine

    Reed-Sydowski - 5

    Obsession The others were all wrong for her. He would make her understand that. When she saw his work, she would feel awe at his power...and she would have to love him... Is Another Word San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed has seen a lot o...

  • The Dying Hour

    Jason Wade - 1

    The Answer To Her Prayers When a fight with her boyfriend drives Seattle college student Karen Harding out into one of the worst storms in years, all she wants is to get to her sister's place in one piece--instead, she finds herself stranded on a de...

  • Every Fear

    Jason Wade - 2

    On an ordinary morning, Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She only turns her back for a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees his empty stroller, at the same time he is being abducted into a waiting van. Maria climbs on...

  • A Perfect Grave

    Jason Wade - 3

    The murder of Sister Anne, a beloved Seattle nun, takes Seattle Mirror crime reporter Jason Wade into the hidden past of an order of nuns, and leads to an unlikely suspect. In his relentless pursuit of the story, Jason, a troubled loner from the wro...

  • Six Seconds

    A vengeful woman who aches for her place in paradise... In Iraq an aid worker who lost her husband and child in a brutal attack saves the life of an American contractor. Believing he can help her avenge her family's deaths, she follows him back ho...



  • Vengeance Road

    Jack Gannon - 1

    The murder of a brokenhearted woman... The body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. ...and the chilling disappearance of her friend... Jolene Peller, ...

  • The Panic Zone

    Jack Gannon - 2

    AN ANGUISHED MOTHER AND A RELENTLESS REPORTER PURSUE A PERFECT KILLER. A CAR CRASHES IN WYOMING A young mother is thrown clear of the devastating car crash. Dazed, she sees a figure pull her infant son from the flames. Or does she? The police belie...

  • In Desperation

    Jack Gannon - 3

    A single mother answers a knock at her door and enters a nightmare... Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five...

  • Blood Red Rings

    After 24 years of putting his life on the line, Officer Frank Harper sees it all tick down to one defining moment. Blood Red Rings is a soul-wrenching short story by former crime reporter and award-winning author Rick Mofina. Blood Red Rings is one o...

  • Dangerous Women & Desperate Men

    Twenty-six year-old Jessie Scout had endured a life steeped in pain. She had come to Las Vegas, a city of risk, not to gamble but to collect. “Lightning Rider,” by Rick Mofina received Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ell...

  • Lightning Rider

    Twenty-six year-old Jessie Scout had endured a life steeped in pain. She had come to Las Vegas, a city of risk, not to gamble but to collect. “Lightning Rider,” by Rick Mofina received Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ell...

  • Three Bullets To Queensland

    Ike Decker, a loss recovery agent, for the armored car industry, is a desperate man. He has a dream and the only thing in his way to realizing it is Paco Sanchez and $1.2 million in stolen cash. Three Bullets To Queensland is another compelling short...

  • As Long As We Both Shall Live

    Liz Dalton's world was coming apart but she fought back with a shocking vengeance. Presented in the format of a court transcript, this short work was named a finalist for Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best ...

  • The Burning Edge

    Jack Gannon - 4

    A SINGLE MOTHER BECOMES AN EYEWITNESS TO MURDER Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an arm...

  • Backup

    An 11-year-old boy finds his dad's gun and rushes to a deadly stand off at the mall. "Backup" by Rick Mofina is the 2,300-word, gut-wrenching short story that was nominated for Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ellis Award, in...



  • The Last Pursuit

    John Garrett is a cop aching to redeem himself for the mistake he made that destroyed two innocent lives and his own. He works alone to pursue the murderer he was escorting to trial, after their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains of the...

  • A Lifetime Burning In A Moment

    John Devlin is a mild-mannered actuary and lifelong weakling who has been bullied much of his life, until one day he is forced to search for courage when his family is threatened while vacationing in a remote region far from help. "A Lifetime Burning...

  • Three to the Heart

    With his anthology, THREE TO THE HEART, Rick Mofina provides three of his finest short pieces of crime fiction. Three acclaimed, heart-wrenching short stories of people facing enormous odds.In the story, "Backup," an 11-year-old boy finds his father'...

  • They Disappeared

    A loving family,fracturing under pressure… Jeff Griffin, a mechanic, and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face the heart-wrenching turmoil that has them te...

  • Into the Dark

    The sole survivor of a heartbreaking family tragedy… Claire Bowen, a haunted psychologist, devotes her life to helping troubled women rebuild theirs. But her dream of a family with her new husband, Robert, a pilot and local hero, begins to crumb...

  • Whirlwind

    Kate Page - 1

    An anguished mother loses her baby in a deadly storm… A kind stranger helps Jenna Cooper protect her baby boy when a killer tornado rips through a Dallas flea market. But in the aftermath, Jenna can't find her son or the woman who'd been holdin...

  • The Only Human

    With THE ONLY HUMAN, internationally acclaimed bestselling author Rick Mofina takes young readers on a white-knuckled, heart-pounding thrill ride across New York City. Thirteen-year-old Tyler Price is struggling with his parents’ divorce as he pinb...

  • Full Tilt

    Kate Page - 2

    Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. She is burned beyond recognition, and her dying words point police to a labyrinth of "confinement rooms" -- rooms designed to hold human beings captive -- where they make other chill...

  • Every Second

    Terror claws into the lives of an American family… On a quiet night in their tranquil suburban home, the Fulton family awakens to a nightmare. Four armed men force bank manager Dan Fulton to steal a quarter million dollars from his branch -- st...

  • Free Fall

    Kate Page - 3

    CRISIS IN THE SKIES Pilots with no control… High above the Adirondack Mountains, a commuter flight to New York City turns into a rolling, twisting nightmare, plunging from the sky before the crew regains control. Then, in London, a jetliner...



  • Before Sunrise

    In Before Sunrise, Will Fortin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is on patrol in southern Alberta. It’s a lonely region where the sky meets the land on even terms, where the landscape exaggerates or diminishes your place in the world. If you’r...

  • Last Seen

    They are the perfect family. But perfection is fragile. Cal Hudson knows the world can be an ugly place. As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, Cal has journeyed into society’s darkest corners to expose the vilest crimes. But the world he an...

  • Missing Daughter

    Families with nothing to hide don’t have so many secrets Life can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their twelve-year-old daughter’s window open, their beloved Maddie missing from her bed. ...

  • The Lying House

    There’s only one way to bury a secret… Lisa Taylor had friends, family and a job she loved back in Cleveland. But when her husband, Jeff, lands the promotion of a lifetime, she gives it all up to stand by him. Their whirlwind move to Miami fee...

  • Their Last Secret

    Some mistakes can never be forgotten -- or forgiven. Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prair...

  • Search for Her

    A missing daughter, a family with secrets, a race for the truth… At a truck stop near Las Vegas, fourteen-year-old Riley Jarrett vanishes from her family’s RV, turning their cross-country dream of starting over into a nightmare. Investigato...

  • Her Last Goodbye

    Family ties run deep. Family secrets run deeper. Perfect wife. Doting mom. Jennifer Griffin was loved by everyone, including the women in her suburban-neighborhood book club. Their meetings sometimes went late, but Jenn always came home. Until ...

  • Into the Fire

    A Ray Wyatt Thriller - 1

    Author Rick Mofina’s novels have been praised by:James Patterson · Dean Koontz · Michael Connelly · Lee Child · Tess Gerritsen · Jeffery Deaver · Louise Penny · Sandra Brown · James Rollins · Brad Th...

  • The Hollow Place

    A Ray Wyatt Thriller - 2

    Author Rick Mofina’s novels have been praised by:James Patterson · Dean Koontz · Michael Connelly · Lee Child · Tess Gerritsen · Jeffery Deaver · Louise Penny · Sandra Brown · James Rollins · Brad Th...

  • Requiem

    A Ray Wyatt Thriller - 3

    Author Rick Mofina’s novels have been praised by:James Patterson · Dean Koontz · Michael Connelly · Lee Child · Tess Gerritsen · Jeffery Deaver · Louise Penny · Sandra Brown · James Rollins · Brad Th...



  • Everything She Feared

    Every mother worries about their child. But Sara Harmon fears hers… When a teen falls while taking a selfie at the edge of a cliff, the last thing she sees before plummeting to her death is Katie Harmon, the nine-year-old girl she was babysittin...

  • Someone Saw Something

    “Mofina expertly weaves together an anguishing story of a family’s trauma with a propulsive, twisty thriller that pays off to the very last page.” -- Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling authorA missing child is every parent’s ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rick Mofina has published 41 books.

The next book by Rick Mofina, Someone Saw Something, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Rick Mofina, If Angels Fall, was published in February 2000.

Yes. Rick Mofina has 5 series.
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