15 Best Blake Crouch Books

Jason Dessen, a physics professor and family man, is abducted off a Chicago street and wakes in a world where he never married and instead built a device that accesses parallel realities. To get home, he must navigate infinite versions of his own life.

A New York City detective investigating a bizarre memory illness crosses paths with a neuroscientist who has built a chair that lets people relive and alter their past. Their choices fracture reality into looping timelines and escalating disasters.

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke comes to Wayward Pines, Idaho, looking for two missing colleagues and wakes from a car crash in a town where nothing feels quite right. Cut off from the outside world and hemmed in by an electric fence, he starts digging for the truth.

After a strange aurora lights the night sky, many Americans become murderously violent, driven to kill anyone who did not see the display. Jack Colclough and his family hit the road, fleeing across a collapsing country where every stranger might be a predator.

In a near-future scarred by a failed gene-editing experiment, Logan Ramsay works for the Gene Protection Agency hunting illegal labs. An explosion infects him with a tailored virus that rewrites his DNA, making him faster and smarter and pulling him into a plan to “fix” humanity itself.

Now sheriff of Wayward Pines, Ethan Burke knows what lies beyond the electrified fence encircling the town. As residents chafe under constant surveillance and rigid rules, he must keep the horrifying truth from destroying the last fragile remnant of humanity.

In the final Wayward Pines novel, Ethan Burke has exposed the town’s terrible secret just as the monsters outside the fence surge in. With a few hundred people left alive, he must somehow protect his family and neighbors from annihilation on both sides of the walls.

In 1893 an entire Colorado mining town vanished without a trace. More than a century later, a journalist, her estranged father, and a small expedition snowshoe into the ruins to find answers, only to discover that some secrets outlive the people who kept them.

Novelist Andrew Thomas finds a note claiming there is a body buried on his land, covered in his blood. Framed for murder and lured into the desert by a long-lost twin, he is forced into a sadistic game that tests his sanity and morality.

Thirty years after a childhood accident in the Cascades, Seattle detective Grant Moreton tracks a bloody case to the brownstone where his estranged sister now lives. Inside, a malevolent presence rules the house, trapping anyone who enters in a terrifying, gothic game.

Lancelot Blue Dunkquist is a 38-year-old nobody who happens to look exactly like movie star James Jansen. After losing his job, he decides to stop impersonating his idol for fun and start stealing the actor’s entire life, whatever it costs.

Still hiding in the Yukon and branded a serial killer, Andrew Thomas learns that his old accomplice Luther Kite is alive and carving a bloody path toward everyone Andrew ever cared about. To stop him, Andrew must come out of exile and face his past.

Five years after his wife vanished during a storm, Will Innis lives under an assumed name with his teenage daughter. When a relentless ex–FBI agent appears with proof of similar abductions, father and daughter are drawn into a hunt that leads to a remote Alaskan nightmare.

A collection of Crouch’s short work, including stories like *69, Remaking, On the Good, Red Road, Perfect Little Town, The Meteorologist, and others. Ordinary people stumble into voicemails, storms, ghost towns, and strangers that turn a single day into a nightmare.

Letty Dobesh is newly sober and crossing the country to see her son when a mercenary offers her a role in an audacious Las Vegas casino heist. One impossible pickpocket job could change her life, or end it, if anyone makes a wrong move.