Mystery & Thriller Authors A–Z

Browse all mystery and thriller authors featured on Mystery Sequels in alphabetical order. Under each author you’ll find their series listed separately, with links to full “books in order” pages for each author and, where available, dedicated series reading order pages. Many of these authors also write in adjacent subgenres; they’re included here because at least one of their major series has a strong legal focus.

Click on an author’s name to see their complete bibliography in order of publication, along with any series lists, short stories and novellas, and basic author information. If you’re looking for a particular series in order rather than everything an author has written, you can scan the series listed beneath each name and click straight through to that series page when it exists.

This page is updated as new authors and series are added to the site. If you notice a mystery or thriller author you’d expect to see here but can’t find, you can suggest them via the contact page.

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A 20 authors

Jeff Abbott

  • Sam Capra series
  • Whit Mosley series
  • Jordan Poteet Mystery series

Mark Abernethy

  • Alan McQueen series
  • Mike Daly series
  • Gerry Galen series

Suzanne Adair

  • Mystery of the American Revolution series
  • Michael Stoddard American Revolution Thriller series

Steve Alten

  • MEG series
  • Domain series
  • Loch series
  • Grim Reaper series

Ace Atkins

  • Nick Travers series
  • Quinn Colson series
  • Spenser series
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B 32 authors

Joseph Badal

  • Bob Danforth series
  • Lassiter/Martinez Case Files

David Baldacci

  • Sean King & Michelle Maxwell series
  • Camel Club series
  • Shaw series
  • Will Robie series
  • John Puller series
  • Amos Decker series

Robert Bailey

  • McMurtrie and Drake series
  • Bocephus Haynes series
  • Jason Rich series
  • Max Ringo series

Linwood Barclay

  • Zack Walker series
  • No Time For Goodbye series
  • Promise Falls series
  • Chase series

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

  • Debutantes series
  • The Naturals series
  • The Fixer series
  • Tattoo series
  • The Squad series
  • Golden
  • Raised by Wolves
  • The Inheritance Games
  • The Grandest Game

James Becker

  • Chris Bronson series
  • The Lost Treasure of the Templars series

James Scott Bell

  • Ty Buchanan series
  • Mike Romeo series
  • Irish Jimmy Gallagher series
  • Force of Habit series
  • Shanon Saga
  • Trials Of Kit Shannon series

Steve Berry

  • Cotton Malone series
  • Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure series
  • Luke Daniels series

Lisa Black

  • Theresa MacLean series
  • Gardiner and Renner series

C. J. Box

  • Joe Pickett series
  • Cody Hoyt series
  • Cassie Dewell series

Allison Brennan

  • Predator trilogy
  • No Evil trilogy
  • Prison Break trilogy
  • 7 Deadly Sins series
  • FBI trilogy
  • Lucy Kincaid series
  • River City series
  • Max Revere series
  • Moreno & Heart Mysteries
  • Quinn & Costa Thrillers
  • Regan Merrit series

Sandra Brown

  • Bed & Breakfast series
  • Coleman Family Saga
  • Mason Sisters series
  • Mitchell & Associates series
  • Texas! Tyler Family Saga
  • Lee Coburn series
  • Hell Raisers series

James Lee Burke

  • Dave Robicheaux series
  • Billy Bob Holland series
  • Hackberry Holland series
  • Holland Family series

Mary Burton

  • Texas Ranger series
  • Senseless series
  • Morgans of Nashville series
  • The Forgotten Files series
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C 24 authors

Tom Clancy

  • Jack Ryan series
  • John Clark series
  • Jack Ryan Jr. series

Ann Cleeves

  • George and Molly Palmer-Jones series
  • Inspector Ramsay series
  • Vera Stanhope series
  • Shetland series
  • Two Rivers series
  • Jimmy Perez series

Harlan Coben

  • Myron Bolitar series
  • Mickey Bolitar series
  • Windsor Horne Lockwood III series

John Connolly

  • Charlie Parker series
  • Samuel Johnson series
  • The Chronicles of the Invaders Trilogy

Robin Cook

  • Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series
  • Dr. Marissa Blumenthal series
  • Pia Grazdani series

Patricia Cornwell

  • Kay Scarpetta series
  • Andy Brazil series
  • Vin Garano series
  • Captain Chase series

Robert Crais

  • Elvis Cole & Joe Pike series
  • Scott James & Maggie

A. J. Cross

  • Dr. Kate Hanson series
  • Will Traynor Forensic Mystery series
  • Teigan Craft Forensic Mystery series

Blake Crouch

  • Wayward Pines series
  • Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite series
  • Letty Dobesh series

Clive Cussler

  • Dirk Pitt series
  • NUMA Files
  • Oregon Files
  • Isaac Bell Adventures
  • Fargo Adventures
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D 6 authors

Mark Dawson

  • John Milton series
  • Beatrix Rose series
  • Isabella Rose series
  • Soho Noir series

Jeffery Deaver

  • Lincoln Rhyme series
  • Colter Shaw series
  • Kathryn Dance series
  • John Pellam series
  • Special Agent Constant Marlowe series
  • Sanchez & Heron series

Nelson deMille

  • John Sutter series
  • Paul Brenner series
  • John Corey series
  • Joe Ryker series
  • Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor series

Phillip DePoy

  • Flip Tucker series
  • Fever Develin series
  • Foggy Moskowitch series
  • Phillip Marlowe series

Robert Dugoni

  • Tracy Crosswhite series
  • Keera Duggan series
  • Charles Jenkins series
  • David Sloane series
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E 4 authors

Barry Eisler

  • John Rain series
  • Ben Treven series
  • Livia Lone series
  • Dox series

Janet Evanovich

  • Stephanie Plum series
  • Fox And O'Hare series
  • Full series
  • Lizzy & Diesel series
  • Knight And Moon series
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F 8 authors

G.M. Ford

  • Leo Waterman series
  • Frank Corso series

Barbara Freethy

  • Deception series
  • Sanders Brothers series
  • Lightning Strikes trilogy
  • Off the Grid: FBI trilogy

Tana French

  • Dublin Murder Squad series
  • Cal Hooper series
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G 16 authors

Lisa Gardner

  • FBI Profiler series
  • Detective D.D. Warren series
  • Frankie Elkin series
  • Tessa Leoni series

Meg Gardiner

  • Evan Delaney series
  • Jo Beckett series
  • UNSUB series

Elizabeth George

  • Inspector Lynley series
  • Whidbey Island Saga/Saratoga Woods series

Joel Goldman

  • Lou Mason series
  • Jack Davis series
  • Alex Stone series

Heather Graham

  • Bone Island series
  • Flynn Brothers series
  • Harrison Investigation series
  • Krewe of Hunters series
  • Suspense series
  • Soap series

Mark Greaney

  • The Gray Man/Court Gentry series
  • co-author for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series

Martha Grimes

  • Richard Jury series
  • Emma Graham series
  • Andi Olivier series

John Grisham

  • Theodore Boone series
  • standalone legal thrillers
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H 18 authors

C.S. Harris

  • Sebastian St. Cyr series
  • Jax Alexander series (written as C.S. Graham)

Steven F. Havill

  • Bill Bastner series
  • Posadas Country series
  • Dr. Thomas Parks series

David Hewson

  • Nic Costa series
  • The Killing series
  • Pieter Vos series

Tami Hoag

  • Kovac & Liska series
  • Oak Knoll series
  • Elena Estes series
  • Deer Lake series
  • Broussard and Fourcade series

Linda Howard

  • Rescues series
  • Mackenzie Family Saga
  • CIA Spies series
  • Blair Mallory series

Stephen Hunter

  • Bob Lee Swagger series
  • Earl Swagger series
  • Ray Cruz series
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I 2 authors

Greg Iles

  • Penn Cage series
  • Nanchez Burning series
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J 6 authors

Lisa Jackson

  • San Francisco series
  • To Die/Montana series
  • West Coast series
  • New Orleans series
  • Savannah series
  • Colony series
  • Wyoming series

Peter James

  • Roy Grace series
  • Cold Hill series
  • Max Flynn series

Steven James

  • Patrick Bowers Files
  • The Bowers Files: The New York Years
  • Travis Brock series
  • The Jevin Banks Experience series
  • Blur Trilogy

J.A. Jance

  • J.P. Beaumont series
  • Ali Reynolds series
  • Joanna Brady series
  • Walker Family series

Iris Johansen

  • Eve Duncan series
  • Catherine Ling series
  • Kendra Michaels series
  • Wind Dancer series
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K 8 authors

Alex Kava

  • Maggie O'Dell series
  • Ryder Creed series

Stephen King

  • Shining series
  • Dark Tower series
  • Mr. Mercedes trilogy
  • Talisman series
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L 13 authors

Jon Land

  • Caitlin Strong series
  • The Tyrant series
  • Ben Kamal & Danielle Barnea series
  • Blaine McCracken series
  • Jared Kimberlain series
  • Murder She Wrote series

Ward Larsen

  • David Slaton series
  • David Slaton and Tru Miller series
  • Jammer Davis series

Victoria Laurie

  • Psychic Eye Mystery series
  • Ghost Hunter Mystery series
  • Oracles Of Delphi Keep series
  • When series
  • The Life Coach Mystery series

Stephen Leather

  • Dan "Spider" Shepherd series
  • Jack Nightingale series
  • Inspector Zhang and Mike Cramer series
  • Lex Harper series
  • Matt Standing series
  • Mike Cramer series
  • Richard Yokely series

John Lescroart

  • Auguste Lupa series
  • Dismas Hardy series
  • Abe Glitsky series
  • Wyatt Hunt series

Paul Levine

  • Jake Lassiter series
  • Solomon vs. Lord series
  • standalone legal thrillers

Katia Lief

  • Karin Schaeffer series
  • The Searchers series

Judith Lucci

  • Alex Destephano series
  • Michaela McPherson series
  • Artzy Chicks series
  • Dr. Sonia Amon MD series
  • Maura Robichard series

Robert Ludlum

  • Jason Bourne series
  • Covert-One series
  • Paul Janson series

Eric Van Lustbader

  • Nicholas Linnear series
  • China Maroc series
  • Jason Bourne series
  • Jack McClure series
  • Bravo Shaw series
  • Sunset Warrior series
  • Evan Ryder series
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M 14 authors

Jonathan Maberry

  • Joe Ledger series
  • Rogue Team International series
  • Rot & Ruin series
  • Pine Deep trilogy
  • Dead Of Night series
  • Dylan Quinn series
  • The Nightsiders series

Stuart MacBride

  • Logan McRae series
  • Ash Henderson series
  • DS Roberta Steel series

Scott Mariani

  • Ben Hope series
  • DI Tom McAllister series
  • Will Bowman series
  • Vampire Federation series

Kristine Mason

  • CORE Shadow trilogy
  • Ultimate CORE trilogy
  • Psychic CORE series
  • CORE Above The Law series
  • Reality TV series

Ed McMbain

  • 87th Precinct series
  • Matthew Hope series

Val McDermid

  • Tony Hill series
  • Lindsay Gordon series
  • Kate Brannigan series
  • Karen Pirie series
  • Allie Burns series

Rick Mofina

  • Tom Reed & Walt Sydowski series
  • Jason Wade series
  • Jack Gannon series
  • Kate Page series
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N 3 authors

Carla Neggers

  • Carriage House series
  • Cold Ridge/U.S. Marshals series
  • Sharpe & Donovan series
  • Swift River Valley series
  • Black Falls series

Jo Nesbo

  • Harry Hole series
  • Blood on Snow series

Brenda Novak

  • Fairham Island Series
  • Evelyn Talbot Chronicles
  • Bulletproof trilogy
  • Dept 6 Hired Guns series
  • Last Stand series
  • Stillwater Trilogy
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O 2 authors
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P 9 authors

James Patterson

  • Alex Cross series
  • Ali Cross series
  • Women's Murder Club series
  • Private series
  • Michael Bennett series
  • NYPD Red series
  • Travis McKinley series
  • Detective Harriet Blue series
  • Texas Ranger series
  • Sisters Detective Agency series
  • Shadow series
  • Black Box series
  • Holmes, Marple & Poe series

Anne Perry

  • Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series
  • William Monk series
  • Christmas Stories series
  • World War I series
  • Timepiece series
  • Tathea series

Thomas Perry

  • Butcher's Boy series
  • Jane Whitefield series
  • Jack Till series

Linda La Plante

  • Legacy series
  • Prime Suspect series
  • Lorraine Page series
  • Trial and Retribution series
  • Anna Travis series
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Q 2 authors
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R 8 authors

Kathy Reichs

  • Temperance Brennan series
  • Virals - Tory Brennan series

Karen Robards

  • Dr. Charlotte Stone series
  • Jessica Ford series
  • The Guardian series
  • Banning Sisters series
  • Pirate duology

James Rollins

  • Sigma Force Series
  • Tucker Wayne series
  • Jake Ransom series
  • Order Of The Sanguines series
  • Moonfall Series series

Karen Rose

  • Chicago
  • New Orleans
  • Baltimore
  • St. Petersburg
  • Cincinnati
  • Minneapolis
  • Sacramento
  • San Diego
  • Daniel Vartanian

Garry Ryan

  • Detective Lane series
  • Blackbirds series
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S 13 authors

John Sandford

  • Lucas Davenport/Prey series
  • Letty Davenport series
  • Virgil Flowers series
  • Kidd series
  • The Singular Menace series

Lisa Scottoline

  • Rosato & Associates series
  • Rosato & DiNuncio series
  • Harold Middleton series
  • The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman series

Maggie Shayne

  • Mordercai Young series
  • Secrets Of Shadow Falls series
  • Brown & De Luca series
  • Shattered Sisters series
  • Wings In The Night series
  • Fairies Of Shara series
  • Immortal Witches series
  • Portal series
  • Texas Brand series
  • Oklahoma All-Girl Brand series
  • The McIntyre Men series

Rob Sinclair

  • Enemy series
  • James Ryker series
  • Sleeper 13 series
  • DI Dani Stephens series
  • Simon Peake series

Karin Slaughter

  • Grant County series
  • Will Trent series
  • Georgia series
  • Good Daughter series
  • Andrea Oliver series

Walter Sorrells

  • Hunted series
  • Flight 29 Down series
  • Pendragon: Before the war series
  • Cold Case Thriller series
  • Sunny Childs series

James Swain

  • Tony Valentine series
  • Jack Carpenter series
  • Peter Warlock series
  • Billy Cunningham series
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T 10 authors

Jon Talton

  • David Mapstone series
  • Will Borders series

Charles Todd

  • Inspector Ian Rutledge series
  • Bess Crawford series
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U 1 author

Lisa Unger

  • Lydia Strong series
  • Ridley Jones series
  • Jones Cooper series
  • Whispers trilogy
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V 1 author

Jack Vance

  • Dying Earth series
  • Demon Princes Cadwall Chronicles
  • Lyonnese series
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W 8 authors

Chuck Wendig

  • Zeroes series
  • Miriam Black series
  • Mookie Pearl series

Leslie Wolfe

  • Alex Hoffman series
  • Tess Winnett series
  • Baxter and Holt series

Stuart Woods

  • Stone Barrington series
  • Holly Barker series
  • Will Lee series
  • Ed Eagle series
  • Rick Barron series
  • Herbie Fisher series
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X 1 author
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Y 3 authors

Tom Young

  • Michael Parson & Sofia Gold series
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  2. Older British Mystery Authors: Paul Doherty who has written under several different names but his series includes: Hugh Corbett, Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Aethelstan, Sir Roger Shallot Tudor Mysteries, Kathryn Swinbrooke, and Nicholas Segalla. Douglas Clark’s Masters and Green Mysteries, Margery Allingham’s Campion and Jonathin Gash’s Lovejoy

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