Jeffery Deaver Books In Order – Complete List of Books

Jeffery Deaver is one of the most popular contemporary thriller authors who brought us the well-known Lincoln Rhyme book series. Reading the Jeffery Deaver books in order involves picking up this book series and a few other shorter series, as well as several standalone novels.

Here are the Jeffery Deaver books in order for his Lincoln Rhyme series, the Kathryn Dance series, the John Pellam series, his Rune trilogy, the new Colter Shaw books, and other novels he has written, including his popular Amazon Original Stories short story collection.

Latest Jeffery Deaver Books

Fatal Intrusion (Sanchez & Heron #1), 2024

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Lincoln Rhyme Books in Publication Order

  1. The Bone Collector (#1), 1997
  2. The Coffin Dancer (#2), 1998
  3. The Empty Chair (#3), 2000
  4. The Stone Monkey (#4), 2002
  5. The Vanished Man (#5), 2003
  6. The Twelfth Card (#6), 2005
  7. The Cold Moon (#7), 2006
  8. The Broken Window (#8), 2008
  9. The Burning Wire (#9), 2010
  10. A Textbook Case ( #9.5), 2013
  11. The Kill Room (#10), 2013
  12. The Skin Collector (#11), 2014
  13. The Deliveryman (#11.5), 2016
  14. The Steel Kiss (#12), 2016
  15. The Burial Hour (#13), 2017
  16. The Cutting Edge (#14), 2018
  17. The Midnight Lock (#15), 2019
  18. Swiping Hearts (#15.5), 2023
  19. The Watchmaker’s Hand (#16), 2023

Lincoln Rhyme Short Stories and Related Books

Sanchez & Heron Books in Publication Order

  1. Fatal Intrusion, 2024
  2. The Grief Artist, 2025

Broken Doll Books in Publication Order

  1. The Pain Hunter, 2022
  2. Dodge, 2022
  3. Execution Day, 2022
  4. Sixty-One Seconds, 2022

Colter Shaw Books in Publication Order

  1. Captivated (#0.5), 2019
  2. The Never Game (#1), 2019
  3. The Second Hostage (#1.5), 2020
  4. The Goodbye Man (#2), 2020
  5. The Final Twist (#3), 2021
  6. The Deadline Clock (#3.5), 2022
  7. Hunting Time (#4), 2022

Kathryn Dance Books in Publication Order

  1. The Sleeping Doll (#1), 2007
  2. Roadside Crosses (#2), 2009
  3. XO (#3), 2012
  4. Solitude Creek (#4), 2015

John Pellam Books in Publication Order

The John Pellam series was originally written under the pseudonym William Jefferies

  1. Shallow Graves, 1992
  2. Bloody River Blues, 1993
  3. Hell’s Kitchen, 2001

Unsettling Books in Publication Order

audiobook novellas / short stories

  1. The Intruder, 2021
  2. Stay Tuned, 2021
  3. Date Night, 2021
  4. The Muse, 2023

Rune Trilogy in Publication Order

  1. Manhattan Is My Beat, 1988
  2. Death of a Blue Movie Star, 1990
  3. Hard News, 1991

Harold Middleton Books in Publication Order

A serial thriller co-authored with other prominent writers

  1. The Chopin Manuscript, 2007
  2. The Copper Bracelet, 2009
  3. The Starling Project, 2014

Bibliomysteries Books in Publication Order

  • The Book of Virtue (By: Ken Bruen), 2012
  • Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By: C.J. Box), 2012
  • The Book Thing (By: Laura Lippman), 2012
  • The Book Case (By: Nelson DeMille), 2012
  • An Acceptable Sacrifice (By: Jeffery Deaver), 2012
  • Death Leaves a Bookmark (By: William Link), 2012
  • The Final Testament (By: Peter Blauner), 2013
  • Rides a Stranger (By: David Bell), 2013
  • The Long Sonata of the Dead (By: Andrew Taylor), 2013
  • The Book of Ghosts (By: Reed Farrel Coleman), 2013
  • The Compendium of Srem (By: F. Paul Wilson), 2014
  • What’s in a Name? (By: Thomas H. Cook), 2014
  • Remaindered (By: Peter Lovesey), 2014
  • The Sequel (By: R.L. Stine), 2014
  • The Gospel of Sheba (By: Lyndsay Faye), 2014
  • The Nature of My Inheritance (By: Bradford Morrow), 2014
  • It’s in the Book (By: Mickey Spillane), 2014
  • The Scroll (By: Anne Perry), 2014
  • The Book of the Lion, 2015
  • The Little Men (By: Megan Abbott), 2015
  • Condor in the Stacks (By: James Grady), 2015
  • Mystery, Inc. (By: Joyce Carol Oates), 2015
  • Every Seven Years (By: Denise Mina), 2015
  • From the Queen (By: Carolyn Hart), 2015
  • The Travelling Companion (By: Ian Rankin), 2016
  • Citadel (By: Stephen Hunter), 2016
  • Reconciliation Day (By: Christopher Fowler), 2016
  • Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By: John Harvey), 2016
  • The Haze (By: James W. Hall), 2016
  • Hoodoo Harry (By: Joe R. Lansdale), 2017
  • The Pretty Little Box (By: Charles Todd), 2018
  • Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson), 2018
  • The Hemingway Valise (By: Robert Olen Butler), 2018
  • The Last Honest Horse Thief (By: Michael Koryta), 2018
  • The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By: John Connolly), 2018
  • The Dark Door (By: Lisa Unger), 2022

Bibliomysteries Books in Chronological Order

  • The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen), 2012
  • The Scroll (By:Anne Perry), 2014
  • Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box), 2012
  • An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver), 2012
  • Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link), 2012
  • Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson), 2018
  • The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman), 2012
  • The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman), 2013
  • The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor), 2013
  • The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner), 2013
  • Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell), 2013
  • What’s in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook), 2014
  • It’s in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane), 2014
  • The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow), 2014
  • Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey), 2014
  • The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson), 2014
  • The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye), 2014
  • The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine), 2014
  • The Book of the Lion, 2015
  • The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott), 2015
  • From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart), 2015
  • Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina), 2015
  • Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter), 2016
  • Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady), 2015
  • Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates), 2015
  • The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin), 2016
  • The Haze (By:James W. Hall), 2016
  • Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By:John Harvey), 2016
  • Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler), 2016
  • Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale), 2017
  • The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd), 2018
  • The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly), 2018
  • The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler), 2018
  • The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta), 2018
  • The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille), 2012
  • The Dark Door (By: Lisa Unger), 2022

Standalone Novels Books in Publication Order

Novellas and Short Stories in Publication Order

Short Story Collections Books in Publication Order

Anthologies in Publication Order

Amazon Original Short Stories in Order of Publication

Hush Collection Books in Publication Order

The World’s Finest Mysteries Books in Publication Order

annual collection of mystery and suspense novels by various authors

  1. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1, 2000
  2. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2, 2020
  3. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3, 2002
  4. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4, 2003
  5. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5, 2004

Non Fiction Books

Writing as Jeffery Wilds Deaver

  • Always a Thief, 1988
  • Woodoo, 1988

Jeffery Deaver Biography

Jeffery Deaver author

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver was born in 1950 in  Glen Ellyn, outside Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Missouri from where he obtained a bachelor degree in journalism, after which he worked as a magazine writer for a bit, before returning to study law at the Fordham University in New York City.

After getting his law degree, he worked as a corporate lawyer on Wall Street.

In his spare time, however, he kept on writing and trying to get his books published. After several rejections (or self-terminations due to the author realizing that what he wrote were not up to par), his next work, Hoodoo, got accepted by a smaller publisher. His next book, Always A Thief got accepted eventually as well.

Over time, however, he changed the way he wrote books. He even admits these days that he’s not overly fond of his earlier creations and he doesn’t mind if those books are continuously out of print (in fact I haven’t been able to find a copy of either of those early novels, no matter how much I searched. Still not giving up…)

Reading the author’s books in order is a real treat for every FBI-style thrillers reader. The author has written close to 30 novels which have been translated into 25 languages and were sold in over 150 countries.

It was published in 1997, and two years later the overnight hit movie with the same title featuring two of my favorite actors, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie played in theaters. I have to say, the actors did a good job transplanting what the book had to offer to the big screen.

His first serious debut novel was not intended to become part of a series. But I’m glad it did because Lincoln Rhyme is one of the most interesting characters I met in books.

A quadriplegic from the very first book, he is up against the most ruthless of criminals, and only his sharp wits and his above-average mind and intellect helps him solve crimes after crimes from a physical impairment position where most people would give up on the world and will to live by now.

In Coffin Dancer, the story of the main character and Amelia Sachs continues with a more harrowing case.

In The Cutting Edge, which is book #14 in the book series, Lincoln Rhyme and his bride and partner, Amelia Sachs, return from their honeymoon in Italy just in time to realize that their home city is under terror by a serial killer. Newspapers and media called him Fiancé Killer and as usual, the name stuck.

The killer’s MO is following newly engaged couples to jewelry stores and killing them before they get the chance to actually buy the wedding ring. When the killer escapes once again, the police asks Lincoln Rhyme to kindly lend a hand and his unbeatable forensic expertise in catching the monster roaming the streets.

But the closer Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia get to the killer, the nearer he gets to them. Now, the couple has to stop them before their lives are stopped…for good.

The Colter Shaw series starting in 2019 features a private investigator / excellent tracker/problem solver guy who, in The Never Game, is tasked by a man to find his missing daughter. Shaw is perfect for the job since, as the son of a survivalist family, he has uncanny tracking abilities, and he puts those to good use while he is traveling across the country to solve cases that need his particular flavor of expertise.

Soon, however, a second victim goes missing, and all signs point to a particular video game which has as topic survival in unfriendly places after being abandoned there. Could there be a connection between the two cases and to the said video game?

The book series starts with the short novella, Captivated, which introduces us to Colter Shaw, where he is already working the case of a missing woman who might have fled from her husband and gone to a retreat in Indiana. But the more he investigates, the clearer it is that things are a bit more complicated than initially anticipated.

He has also started writing crime stories and collections, especially for Amazon, all crime stories of around 60 pages each. There are also several Lincoln Rhyme shorter stories, including one with Lincoln Rhyme vs Lucas Davenport, titled Rhymes with Prey.

It was initially included in the Face Off collection. These stories are also part of the Lincoln Rhyme series, albeit very short.

The author also contributed to the James Bond Extended series with Jeffery Deaver’s Carte Blanche, a novel published in 2011. The series original was written by Ian Flemming, and then was continued by authors such as Robert Markham, John George Pearson, Christopher Wood, Raymond Benson, and John Gardner, who wrote several novels in the series.

His books have appeared on several bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Corriere della Sera in Italy, and The Los Angeles Times.

Who is Lincoln Rhyme?

Lincoln Rhyme is the best-known crime fiction character written by Jeffery Deaver. He is a brilliant Forensic Criminalist Consultant with the Dept. and a former NYPD Homicide Detective who changed jobs due to physical reasons. After being involved in an accident at a crime scene where an oak beam fell on him, which crushed his C4 vertebrae, it also left him paralyzed from his shoulders down. This left him quadriplegic, which means that except for his very upper body, he can only move his left ring finger.

Lincoln is first introduced in The Bone Collector, which teams him up with Amelia Sachs. She is a 31-year-old police officer who gets involved in the case and basically becomes Lincoln’s ears, eyes, brains, and fingers while examining the crime scenes.

Just before their first case together, Lincoln was actually contemplating suicide with the help of Dr. William Berger, who is a pro-euthanasia doctor. Thankfully for this case, and for Amelia, our main character got to live for many books more so the two could solve many homicide crimes, and get together for real as well.

In the first main case, Lincoln is visited by his former partner, Lon Sellitto, who needs help with a puzzling case where two people have been kidnapped. One is alive and the other one is still missing. Initially, Lincoln has no major interest in the case since he is busy with ending his life, but soon he gets hooked on the case details against his own reluctance.

In Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme books, as the story progresses, Lincoln and Amelia form a work-related partnership and a romantic relationship later on too.

The main character was soon introduced to the big screen in a 1999 movie which featured mostly the plot from the first book. It is one of the finest mystery thriller books and crime stories to be transferred to the cinema.

Jeffery Deaver Awards and Nominations

The author was nominated for and has received several awards over the years, including:

  • The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association
  • The Broken Window and Edge were nominated for the same award
  • The Garden of Beasts won the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in England
  • He has been nominated for three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America
  • The author has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, the Strand Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy.

Jeffery Deaver’s Books Adaptations

Currently, three books have been turned into movies:

  • Tracker – 2024 TV series based on the Colter Shaw series featuring Justin Hartley 
  • Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector – 2020 TV series based on The Bone Collector starring Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel
  • The Devil’s Teardrop – 2010 same-titled movie starring Natasha Henstridge, Tom Everett Scott, and Rena Sofer on Lifetime Network
  • The Bone Collector – 1999 same-titled movie featuring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie
  • Dead Silence – 1997 movie based on A Maiden’s Grave starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin

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3 Comments

  1. One of my favorite 2 authors….Stories packed with intelligent and detailed subject matter. Needs to write more novels!

  2. Can you tell me the title of the book that is about the use of data (loyalty cards) in frame people for murders? Thamnk you.

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