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  • Bibliography:
    130 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1988
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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About the Author

Stephen Leather was born in Manchester, and grew up in Sale, he attended Manchester Grammar School. Stephen was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full-time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London s Burning, The Knock and the BBC’s Murder in Mind series.

Full Series List in Order

A Dan Shepherd Mystery

1 - Hard Landing (Apr-2006)
2 - Soft Target (Feb-2005)
3 - Cold Kill (Feb-2006)
4 - Hot Blood (Mar-2007)
5 - Dead Men (Feb-2008)
6 - Live Fire (Feb-2009)
7 - Rough Justice (Feb-2010)
8 - Fair Game (Dec-2011)
9 - False Friends (Aug-2012)
10 - True Colours (Jul-2013)
11 - White Lies (Oct-2014)
12 - Black Ops (Aug-2015)
13 - Dark Forces (Jul-2016)
14 - Light Touch (Jul-2017)
15 - Tall Order (Jul-2018)
16 - Short Range (Jul-2019)
17 - Slow Burn (Jul-2020)
18 - Fast Track (Feb-2022)
19 - Dirty War (Jul-2022)
20 - Clean Kill (Jul-2023)
21 - First Strike (Jul-2024)

Jack Nightingale

1 - Nightfall (Jan-2010)
2 - Midnight (Jan-2011)
3 - Nightmare (Nov-2012)
5 - Lastnight (Sep-2014)
6 - San Francisco Night (Dec-2014)
7 - New York Night (Nov-2015)
8 - Tennessee Night (Jul-2018)
8.4 - The Whisper Man (Jul-2021)
8.5 - Witch Hunt (Aug-2021)
9 - New Orleans Night (Sep-2021)
10 - Las Vegas Night (Jun-2022)
11 - Rio Grande Night (Nov-2022)
12 - Houston Night (Feb-2025)

Matt Standing

1 - The Hunting (Nov-2021)
2 - Standing Alone (Apr-2022)
3 - Still Standing (Jan-2023)
4 - Standing Strong (Sep-2024)

Mike Cramer

1 - The Long Shot (Oct-2002)
2 - The Double Tap (Jan-2002)

Book List in Order: 130 titles

  • Pay Off

    Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA? Jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a cold-blooded act of mu...

  • The Fireman

    Sally is a young, talented journalist living life to the full. So why would she leap fifteen floors to her death?When the Hong Kong authorities decide it was suicide, Sally's brother, a London-based crime reporter, begins his own investigation to fin...

  • The Chinaman

    Soft cover; Very good; First printing. A trade paperback Advance Reading Copy (ARC). (ISBN 0-671-74301-5) very good tight copy, unread, outer page edges very faintly marked, very good shiny wrappers very faint scuff at top of cover near spine. In fro...

  • The Vets

    Hong Kong. The British administration is preparing to hand the capitalist colony back to Communist China with the minimum of fuss.Colonel Joel Tyler, however, has other plans for the British colony - plans that involve four Vietnam War veterans and a...

  • Hungry Ghost

    Hong Kong, 1991. The colony is preparing for Chinese rule.Geoff Howells, a government-trained killing machine, is brought out of retirement and sent to there. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader, Simon Ng. Howells devises a dangerous and c...

  • The Solitary Man

    Chris Hutchison is a man on the run.Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Hutch escapes from a British maximum-security prison and starts a new life in Hong Kong. But a ghost from his past catches up with him and gives him a choice: help a former ...

  • The Stretch

    As a big player in the 90s London underworld, Terry Greene has always made a priority of 'taking care of business' personally. Preston Snow was out of line. So the up-close-and-personal visit was in no way out of character.It was a messy hit. But the...

  • The Double Tap

    Mike Cramer - 2

    The assassin: the world's most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each and every target.The Judas goat: an ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfec...

  • The Long Shot

    Mike Cramer - 1

    The plan is so complex, the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert.Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination. But he doesn't know ...



  • The Eyewitness

    Jack Solomon is a messenger of death.Working in the fractured remains of Yugoslavia, his task is to identify the victims of ethnic cleansing and to tell families that their loved ones are never coming home.Years of toiling in the killing fields have ...

  • The Bombmaker

    Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's most deadly killers. But when a misplaced bomb ripped apart a group of passing kids, she left all that behind her.Now, years later, she lives a quiet, suburban life with her husband and young daughter, and her days o...

  • Soft Target

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 2

    The second book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop . . . and that's a corrupt cop with a gun.When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug ...

  • Private Dancer

  • The Birthday Girl

    Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she's his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and it seems like her past is another country.But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she di...

  • Cold Kill

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 3

    EVEN DEADLIER THAN TERRORISTS... ARE THE MEN WHO'VE GOT THEM IN THEIR SIGHTS People-smuggling, counterfeit currency and attempted murder. It's all in a day's work for undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd. But what starts as a run-of-the-mill in...

  • The Tunnel Rats

    Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok.The bodies are brutally mutilated, an ace of spades impaled upon their chests. In Washington, a US senator receives photographs of the corpses. And realises that his past has come b...

  • Hard Landing

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 1

    The blistering first book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad he has lied, cheated and conned in order to bring Britain's most wanted cr...

  • Tango One

    ***Now a motion picture, out 5th March 2018*** In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses...

  • Hot Blood

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 4

    Dan Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the territory when you're an undercover cop. Now working for Britain's top anti-organized crime agency, Shepherd is pitting his wits against the toughest criminals in the country. But...



  • Dead Men

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 5

    The fifth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan Spider Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Sh...

  • Live Fire

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 6

    The sixth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Mickey and Mark Moore are Ordinary Decent Criminals - hard men who live by their own code and leaders of a gang that has made millions at the point of a gun. But when Dan 'Spider' Shephe...

  • Nightfall

    Jack Nightingale - 1

    “You're going to hell, Jack Nightingale.”

    These are the words that ended Jack Nightingale's career as a police negotiator. Now a struggling private detective, the chilling words return with a vengeance when Jack inherits a mansion with...

  • Rough Justice

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 7

    The seventh book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Villains across London are being beaten, crippled and killed by vigilante cops. Crime rates are falling, but the powers that be want Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to bring the wave of rough ju...

  • Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon

    Long-term Bangkok resident and former New Orleans cop Bob Turtledove has the knack of getting people out of difficult situations.So when a young man from Utah goes missing in Bangkok, his parents are soon knocking on Bob’s door asking for help.But ...

  • Midnight

    Jack Nightingale - 2

    “Your sister is going to hell, Jack Nightingale.” Somehow, variations of that line keep former police negotiator Nightingale’s life careening in wild, unforeseen directions. This time, it is uttered by a dead woman hanging over a staircase, her...

  • Dreamer's Cat

    A science fiction murder mystery set in a future world where virtual reality is a way of life.The hero is a Dreamer, a one-in-a-million talent who lays down psi-discs for the Cerebral Broadcasting Corporation. Dreamers are employed on billion-dollar ...

  • Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish

    Inspector Zhang loves mysteries, but as a Detective Inspector with the Singapore Police Force he knows that mysteries are few and far between. There are relatively few crimes in the city state and those that are committed are usually solved quickly. ...

  • Inspector Zhang and the Dead Thai Gangster

    The inscrutable Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is Bangkok-bound on a passenger jet when a passenger is found dead in the first class cabin. But who killed him, and why? It's up to Inspector Zhang and his assistant, Sergeant Lee, to sol...

  • Inspector Zhang and the Disappearing Drugs

    Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is called in when a huge consignment of narcotics vanishes from under the nose of Drugs Squad detectives. It's a locked room mystery that has the police baffled. But can Inspector Zhang crack the case?Thi...



  • Inspector Zhang and the Falling Woman

    Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is horrified when a woman falls to her death in front of him one evening. But what seems to be a simple case of suicide soon becomes a much more complicated affair and one that will test his detective ski...

  • The Bestseller

    Would you kill to write a bestseller? Well Adrian Slater says that he’s prepared to do just that " and announces the fact in a creative writing class. Lecturer Dudley Grose is convinced that Slater is a psychopath and means what he says. But the ...

  • The Basement

    New York is a city full of strangers. For NYPD detectives Turner and Marcinko, none are harder to figure out than the serial killer on the loose torturing and killing young women. In fact, right now, somewhere in the city, a woman is being held capti...

  • Cursed

    An exciting short story, part of the Jack Nightingale series by bestselling author Stephen Leather - thrillers with an occult twist.Jack Nightingale - lives in the shadows, fights in the dark. Ex-cop turned private eye Jack Nightingale is used to dea...

  • Fair Game

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 8

    The eighth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Kidnapping is one of the cruellest crimes - lives are put at risk for cold, hard cash. But when Somali pirates seize the crew of a yacht off the coast of Africa, they bite off more tha...

  • Once Bitten

    As a psychologist for the Los Angeles police department, Jamie Beaverbrook has seen it all. Or so he thinks until the night a full moon brings out the crazies, including Terry Ferriman. Trouble is, Terry isn't exactly crazy. But how else can the poli...

  • Inspector Zhang and the Perfect Alibi

    Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is called in to what appears to be an open and shut case. A young woman has been killed during a burglary. The fingerprints on the murder weapon point to a well-known house-breaker. And his bite marks are...

  • Banging Bill's Wife

  • The Alphabet Game

  • The Pregnant Wife



  • Short Fuses

    Four free short stories from bestselling author Stephen Leather, plus opening chapters of six of his bestselling thrillers.The short stories are: Breaking In (where a burglar gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a London house), Strang...

  • False Friends

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 9

    ✨ PRE-ORDER LAST CHANCE, THE NEW SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLER, OUT 31 JULY 2025 ✨ READERS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SPIDER SHEPHERD SERIES'A terrific tale of terrorism' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Stephen Leather always delivers the goods' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

  • Inspector Zhang Goes To Harrogate

    Inspector Zhang goes to Harrogate to attend a mystery writers convention. But what was supposed to be a vacation turns into one of his most difficult cases when a famous writer is found dead in a locked room.This is a short story, just over 11,000 wo...

  • Asian Heat Boxed Set

  • Nightmare

    Jack Nightingale - 3

    The last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then he’s saved his own soul from the devil…but now he’s haunted by Sophie’s cries for help. And when a gangbanger lyin...

  • The Threesome

  • Friendly Fire

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in Afghanistan. It’s November 2001 and Shepherd is sent on a dangerous mission to a Taliban stronghold on the trail of the most wanted man in the wo...

  • Take Two

    Carolyn Castle is one of the most famous faces in the UK - a soap opera star known to millions. But when she witnesses a gangland killing she has to ask herself if her fame could be the death of her. The killer is charismatic gangster Warwick Richard...

  • Kill Zone

    SAS trooper Dan "Spider" Shepherd in action in Afghanistan, on the trail of a murderous Taliban assassin.Shepherd went on to become an undercover cop in London in the series written by bestselling author Stephen Leather.Kill Zone is just under 15,000...

  • Stephen Leather



  • Dead Drop

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in Afghanistan. It’s 2002 and Shepherd puts his life on the line to help a 12-year-old boy get revenge on a murderous Taliban enforcer.Dead Drop is a...

  • The Ladyboy Lover

  • Spider's Web

    Three all-action short stories, including two brand new Spider Shepherd adventures. The collection also includes an extract from the tenth Spider Shepherd thriller, TRUE COLOURS, out 18 July 2013.One of the new Spider Shepherd short stories, Hard Evi...

  • True Colours

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 10

    Readers can't get enough of Dan 'Spider' Shepherd'I simply can't get enough of Spider Shepherd' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Spider Shepherd is the new James Bond' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This series just gets better and better' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Action packed, spine-chi...

  • Natural Selection

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days on the SAS selection course. Shepherd is tested to his limits - and is given his nickname.Natural Selection is about 14,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you hav...

  • Warning Order

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper. Shepherd almost dies on a training exercise off the Norwegian coast, but his life is on the line again when he is sent on an operation in Sierra Leone...

  • Hostile Territory

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in war-torn Sierra Leone.Hostile Territory is about 14,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.Stephen Leather is one ...

  • Rough Diamonds

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in war-torn Sierra Leone. Rough Diamonds is about 12,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare. Stephen Leather is one o...

  • Still Bleeding

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a case of stigmata. A young girl is bleeding from her hands and feet and claims to be talking to the Virgin Mary. But Nightingale soon realises that all is not as it seems - and the ...

  • Inspector Zhang and the Island of the Dead

    Inspector Zhang is called in to investigate a murder where a doctor is knifed in a locked room. But nothing is as it first appears.The story is about 10,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.Stephen Leather is one ...

  • Nightshade

  • Narrow Escape

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days on the SAS Escape & Evasion course. Mid-way through the exercise Shepherd realises that all is not as it seems - and his life is on the line.Narrow Escape is about 12,00...

  • Personal Protection

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days in the SAS. In Personal Protection he is assigned as a bodyguard to a Middle Eastern ruler whose life is under threat.Personal Protection is about 13,000 words, about th...

  • Blood Bath

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a series of bloody deaths in a struggling hotel. Blood Bath is a short story written by bestselling author Stephen Leather, accompanied by six more short stories written by fans insp...

  • More Short Fuses

    Four short stories from bestselling author Stephen Leather, plus opening chapters of five of his bestselling thrillers.The short stories are: Rules of Engagement (where Spider Shepherd has to help a friend who is in serious trouble with the police), ...

  • Remote Control

    A brand new Spider Shepherd short story, including an exclusive extract from the eleventh Spider Shepherd all action thriller, WHITE LIES, out 14 August 2014.When Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called urgently to a remote UK RAF base, he has no idea of the...

  • Lastnight

    Jack Nightingale - 5

    A killer is murdering Goths with relish - skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help.

    Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing i...

  • White Lies

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 11

    Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission.But when the ...

  • My Name Is Lydia

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a young girl who appears to be possessed by an evil spirit. My Name Is Lydia is about 10,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare. Stephen Leather is ...

  • Spider Shepherd: SAS (Volume 1)

    Six Spider Shepherd short stories in one volume by bestselling author Stephen Leather. The short stories are Hard Targets, Natural Selection, Narrow Escape, Warning Order, Hostile Territory and Rough Diamonds and feature Dan "Spider" Shepherd whose a...

  • Spider Shepherd: SAS (Volume 2)

    The second volume of six Spider Shepherd short stories in one volume by bestselling author Stephen Leather. The short stories are Personal Protection, The Rope, Planning Pack, Friendly Fire, Dead Drop and Kill Zone and feature Dan "Spider" Shepherd w...

  • Tracks

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate when an old man appears to have been hit by a train on an abandoned railway line. But there hasn't been a train there in more than fifty years. So what killed the old man? As Nightin...

  • San Francisco Night

    Jack Nightingale - 6

    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows " in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the ope...

  • I Know Who Did It

    Jack Nightingale was always happier dealing with criminal cases or even divorce than he was with matters of the supernatural. So when a client came with a simple request to uncover the meaning behind her father’s last words, he was happy enough to ...

  • Black Ops

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 12

    In what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil. As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he's asked to assume the identity...

  • Hard Targets

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd before he joined the SAS. On active service as a paratrooper in war-torn Sarajevo in 1995, he realises that the SAS is where he belongs. This story is also available in the collection S...

  • Planning Pack

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days in the SAS. In Planning Pack he is in the Arabian desert taking on a group of dangerous terrorists. The short story also appears in the collection Spider Shepherd: SAS ...

  • The Rope

    An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd on a mission to Nepal where he meets an SAS living legend. The short story also appears in the collection Spider Shepherd: SAS Volume 2....

  • New York Night

    Jack Nightingale - 7

    WOULD YOU GIVE UP YOUR SOUL TO SAVE A CITY? Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can’t help, nor can psychiatrists. So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate, and fi...

  • First Response

    From the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd and Jack Nightingale series comes First Response, the awesome new thriller by Stephen Leather. London is under siege.Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in nine different locati...

  • Dark Forces

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 13

    When you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive . . .A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can gather enough evidence against them while posing as a ruthless hitman. What he doesn't know is ...

  • Penalties

    Premier League footballer Gabe Savage is on the way to one of the most important matches of his life when he gets a phone call from his wife.

    She has been kidnapped along with their young son. And the message from her captors is brutal: ‘If your...

  • Children Of The Dark

  • The Creeper

  • The Sandpit

    Who was Dan 'Spider' Shepherd before he signed up as an undercover cop and began working for MI5? The Sandpit rewinds with an action-packed rollercoaster to his days in the SAS... Dan Shepherd and his SAS team are sent into the badlands of Afghani...

  • The Asylum

  • The Doll

  • Takedown

    When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button is hired to work out what his plan is and to take him down before he can carry it out. When the man returns to the UK it looks like the threat will be a lot closer t...

  • The Undead

    Jack Nightingale knows the dangers of doing a deal with a devil, but sometimes beggars can't be choosers. And when his nemesis Proserpine comes up from the bowels of Hell to ask for a favour, he has no choice other to help. Which is why the supernat...

  • The Mansion

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is sent to investigate a haunted house. But he discovers that there is more than a ghost causing mayhem. The Mansion is a fast-paced supernatural story about 10,000 words long....

  • The Cards

  • Wrong Turn

  • Possession

  • Light Touch

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 14

    Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice.But what do you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and aligned herself with the international dr...

  • The Eight Curious Cases of Inspector Zhang

    Crimes are rare in Singapore but when there's one that has the police baffled, it is Inspector Zhang that they turn to. From locked-room mysteries to murders disguised as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along...

  • The Shout

    He hunts. He kills. He burnsVicky Lewis is a force to be reckoned with: not yet thirty and already crew manager in the London Fire Brigade, she's destined for great things.But when she enters a burning building to save a man's life and leaves it with...

  • Claws

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate when a man is ripped apart in his home. Is a big cat on the loose - or is it something more sinister?Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and...

  • The House On Gable Street

    Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate spooky goings-on in a rock star's mansion. The House On Gable Street is a fast-paced supernatural story about 30,000 words long, almost a novella. Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thrille...

  • Knock Knock

    Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate an App that allows a demon from Hell to cause havoc on Earth. Knock Knock is a fast-paced supernatural story about 14,000 words long, featuring his long-suffering assistant Jenny McLean and his nemesis, th...

  • Watery Grave

    A grieving widow believes that her husband has come back from the dead. But does he want to help her or hurt her? Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate.Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers,...

  • Moving Targets

    Not all terrorists are driven by religion or politics. Dan "Spider" Shepherd and his SAS team are on the trail of a terrorist whose motives are much more personal. Sabit Kusen wants revenge and doesn't care how many innocents he kills along the way. ...

  • Tall Order

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 15

    He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed Saladin. He plans and executes devastating attacks and then, ghost-like, he disappears.Ten years ago he blew a plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's killed dozens in a London s...

  • Tennessee Night

    Jack Nightingale - 8

    Children are killing themselves across the State of Tennessee. Is it a horrible coincidence, or are dark forces at work? When Jack Nightingale learns that there is a mysterious list of children who are at risk, he takes the case, spurred on by the f...

  • Last Man Standing

    From the legendary, bestselling thriller author readers can't get enough of.'Five stars aren't enough' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An absolute belter of a read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Stephen Leather never lets you down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The British Boss o...

  • The Bag Carrier

    A dead body in the prayer hall of a mosque isn't the best start to the day for anyone. But for Detective Inspector Harold Porter it's all in a day's work. The problem is that DI Porter has been given a new partner -" a young Muslim detective by the...

  • Short Range

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 16

    An explosive thriller in the Spider Shepherd seriesDan 'Spider' Shepherd's career path - soldier, cop, MI5 officer - has always put a strain on his family. So he is far from happy to learn that MI5 is using teenagers as informants. Parents are bein...

  • The Runner

    ***'Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style' - Financial Times******'Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series' - Irish Independent***The explosive new stand-alone th...

  • Rogue Warrior

    No one knows for sure who Richard Yokely worked for in the past - the Army, the CIA, DEA, NSA - he has carried out missions for them all. But now he works for Grey Fox, the super secret agency that takes care of business that the White House would pr...

  • Slow Burn

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 17

    'Leather's latest full-throttle thriller could hardly be more topical . . . it hurtles off the page, grabbing the reader by the throat' Daily Mail'This cracking Spider Shepherd thriller zips along like a sniper's bullet' The SunShould we bring them b...

  • Desperate Measures

    She put her life on the line for her family. But now it's time to pay the price.All Malee wanted was a better life for herself and her son. And the only way she could make that happen was to sell her body, to exchange sex for money.But her plan falls...

  • The Whisper Man

    Jack Nightingale - 8.4

    He's charming and good looking, he makes you laugh and he has a twinkle in his eyes. He's the sort of guy you'd be happy to spend time with. Until the moment when he asks you if you want to know a secret. You say yes, of course, and you lean towards ...

  • Witch Hunt

    Jack Nightingale - 8.5

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale has always dealt with unusual - and dangerous - cases. So when a serial killer starts killing victims using Witchfinder methods of execution, Nightingale is asked to help. As the body count mounts, Nightingale ...

  • New Orleans Night

    Jack Nightingale - 9

    New Orleans. They call it the Big Easy, but there's nothing easy about Jack Nightingale's latest case.Dead usually means dead, but corpses are coming back to life and carrying out targeted killings.The supernatural detective is called in to investiga...

  • Russian Roulette

    Russian troops are preparing to cross the border into Belarus, threatening its independence. The only thing facing them are an armed partisan group but they are poorly trained and will be no match for the Russians. The British Government wants an ind...

  • Killing Time

    Serial killers never retire. They just go on hiatus. The urge to kill is always there, bubbling below the surface.Billy and Charlie thought their killing days were behind them. They used to be prolific life-takers, but old age finally caught up with ...

  • The Hunting

    Matt Standing - 1

    'I doubt if a more exciting and muscular book will come along this year' Peterborough Telegraph Money can't buy everythingBut it can buy revenge Can a doctor take lives instead of saving them?British doctor Raj Patel puts his own life on the line to ...

  • Fast Track

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 18

    'Stephen Leather writes really exciting action thrillers. It's like being there yourself' CHRIS RYAN, AUTHOR OF Zero 22'The fast-paced action scenes are expertly choreographed; the description of settings - from the luxurious bars where Ankara's gang...

  • Standing Alone

    Matt Standing - 2

    'The action scenes are deftly choreographed and Standing is an engaging protagonist' Financial TimesWhat makes a good man become an assassin?A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. Ryan French ...

  • Las Vegas Night

    Jack Nightingale - 10

    Las Vegas is known as Sin City. And what happens in Vegas usually stays in Vegas.But someone in the city has powers that allow them to strike anywhere in the world and take lives - for a price.Jack Nightingale has a track record of dealing with occul...

  • Dirty War

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 19

    THE NEW MUST-READ SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLERThe target - the Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose.The only man who can stop them? Dan "Spider" Shepherd.But Shepherd's reputation is also on the line - he helped get...

  • Rio Grande Night

    Jack Nightingale - 11

    Mexico is famous for its rich culture, ancient ruins, dazzling beaches, and spicy cuisine.But there is a darker side to America's southern neighbour, with vicious gangs dealing in drugs. extortion, money laundering, human trafficking and contract kil...

  • The Chase

    An Iranian defector shows his true colours and returns to his own country - taking a vital piece of intelligence equipment with him. The race is on to capture the turncoat and get the equipment back. Only one man is up for the job - American super-sp...

  • Still Standing

    Matt Standing - 3

    The SAS are used to deaths during combat - it goes with the turf. But when one of their own is said to have committed suicide in Thailand, red flags are raised. Pete Green wasn't the sort of soldier who would ever take his own life - and no one is mo...

  • Triggers

    Marianne is an assassin. One of the best in the business.Except killing isn't her business - it's her way of getting revenge. Revenge that has been a long time coming.But there are dark forces who want to use Marianne for their own ends. Dark forces ...

  • Clean Kill

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 20

    'Enthralling' Financial Times *** 'Explosive' The Sun *** 'Grabs the reader by the throat' Daily MailTerrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their lives are on the line and the British government is r...

  • Baltic Black Ops

    The twentieth century is drawing to a close and the Russians are up to all sorts of dirty tricks in Lithuania and Kaliningrad. MI6 decide to fight fire with fire and send in a crack SAS team led by Dan 'Spider' Shepherd. Their mission - to create cha...

  • First Strike

    A Dan Shepherd Mystery - 21

    'Enthralling' Financial Times'Explosive' The Sun'Grabs the reader by the throat' Daily MailSpider Shepherd must face his most dangerous mission yet in the unforgettable new thriller from Stephen Leather.'From the geopolitical concerns of African conf...

  • Standing Strong

    Matt Standing - 4

    February, 2022. Russia invades Ukraine, the biggest attack on a European country since World War I. Matt 'Lastman' Standing and a crack SAS team are sent into the war zone. Their mission - to help the Ukrainians defend their country from the Russian ...

  • Houston Night

    Jack Nightingale - 12

    Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale used to be a police negotiator in a previous life - back in the days before he confronted devils and demons for a living.So when a young woman embarks on a killing spree in a Houston mansion, Nightingale is the...

  • Last Chance

    A GLOBAL CABAL OF HITMEN. ONE MAN STOOD IN THEIR PATH.'Two things to make a Summer afternoon great: a Stephen Leather novel, and a cold beer' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Spider keeps getting better and better' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'The best series I have ever read' ...

  • Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye

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Stephen Leather has published 130 books.

The next book by Stephen Leather, Last Chance, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Stephen Leather, Pay Off, was published in February 1988.

Yes. Stephen Leather has 4 series.
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