Category: Thriller

If you’re looking for David Rosenfelt books in order, the main thing to know is that Andy Carpenter is the big series, but it isn’t the whole bibliography. Rosenfelt has also written the K Team spin-off, the Doug Brock thrillers, standalone suspense novels, and nonfiction books about dogs and rescue work.

For most readers, I’d start with Andy Carpenter …

This guide to the Ruth Ware books in order includes the Lo Blacklock series, her standalone psychological thrillers, short fiction, anthology contributions, and the YA fantasy books she published as Ruth Warburton. Most of Ware’s thrillers can be read in any order, but The Woman in Cabin 10 should come before The Woman in Suite 11.

I’ve listed each …

If you’re looking for the John Connolly books in order, you’re probably most interested in Charlie Parker. I’ve included that complete series first, followed by Connolly’s fantasy, science-fiction, standalone, short-fiction, and nonfiction books.

The dates below use the first U.S. publication year when a U.S. edition is available. Original U.K. titles are included when they differ.

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The Linwood Barclay books in order span darkly funny mysteries, psychological thrillers, supernatural suspense, middle-grade adventures, short fiction, and nonfiction. Barclay began his fiction career with the Zack Walker mysteries before No Time for Goodbye brought his thrillers to a much wider international audience.

His stories often begin with an ordinary family facing a sudden, unsettling mystery. Some share characters …

Following her debut publication, Tami Hoag wrote quite a few category romances before shifting into romantic suspense and then crime thrillers. That means reading the Tami Hoag books in order can look a little different depending on whether you want her early romances, her darker suspense novels, or one of her crime series.

I’ve grouped her books by series below, …

Reading the Nick Petrie books in order is straightforward because all of his novels follow Peter Ash, a former Marine dealing with PTSD and severe claustrophobia after returning home from war. The crime thrillers take Peter across the United States and beyond as he steps in to help people facing dangerous situations.

Nick Petrie introduced Peter in The Drifter. …

The Amos Decker series in order is easiest to read from the beginning. Each book gives Decker a new case, but his personal story, FBI work, and relationships build as the series goes.

David Baldacci’s Amos Decker series is also known as the Memory Man series. It follows a former football player turned investigator whose life changes after a violent …

Looking for the Gray Man books in order? Mark Greaney’s Court Gentry series is best read in publication order, starting with The Gray Man and continuing through The Hard Line.

The series follows Court Gentry, a former CIA operative and assassin whose past keeps catching up with him. The books move fast, but the relationships, betrayals, and fallout …