Alma Katsu Books in Order

When Lanore McIlvrae arrives at a rural Maine hospital in police custody, doctor Luke Findley is drawn into her impossible confession. Her story stretches back two centuries, to a bargain that brought immortality, obsession, and a terrible cost.

Lanore arrives in 1846 Baltimore to confront a fear from her past and crosses paths with a dark, sharp-eyed writer named Edgar Allan Poe. This short Taker tale pairs gothic mood with one very unsettling meeting.

After centuries on the run, Lanore thinks she has finally cleared a path toward a life with Luke, until Adair escapes his prison. Their story widens into a globe-spanning pursuit where immortality, vengeance, and desire keep colliding.

Lanore tracks Adair to his remote island home and asks him for the one thing only he can give her, a path to the underworld. The final Taker novel turns their twisted bond into a last, dangerous bargain.

In this short Taker story, Adair wanders into the fens and meets two witch sisters who are far more dangerous than they first appear. It's a quick, eerie glimpse of the strange world lurking around the trilogy's edges.

The Donner Party is already doomed by hunger, weather, and bad decisions, but something else seems to be stalking the wagon train. As rations vanish and tempers snap, Alma Katsu turns a familiar American tragedy into slow, creeping horror.

A maid survives the Titanic only to meet its ghosts again aboard the Britannic during World War I. As Annie Hebbley searches for the truth behind a string of deaths, love and vengeance pull her toward another disaster.

Suspended CIA officer Lyndsey Duncan is pulled into a mole hunt inside the agency's Russia Division after several assets are exposed. Her best lead may be Theresa Warner, the so-called Red Widow, whose own secrets could change everything.

In 1944, Meiko Briggs and her daughter are trapped in a Japanese American internment camp when a strange illness sparks violence and fear. As officials close ranks, Meiko and a few uneasy allies uncover something older and darker behind the outbreak.

In defeated Germany at the end of World War II, timid Uwe Fuchs is pulled into a local resistance band that promises power through ancient werewolf lore. The result is a grim historical horror story about violence, fear, and complicity.

Fifteen years after reporting a strange object over Mongolia and wrecking his career, CIA officer Craig Norton is pulled into a new task force on unexplained aerial phenomena. What starts as vindication soon opens onto a much bigger conspiracy.

Sent to London after exposing a mole, CIA officer Lyndsey Duncan juggles a dangerous Russian asset and a new mission involving a wealthy oligarch's wife. What begins as a friendly approach turns into a race through money, power, and geopolitical secrets.

Hidden in a CIA safehouse, Yuri Kozlov seems to be settling in, yet his past keeps tugging at him. This second installment digs into the mission that made his name and the loyalties he may not be able to escape.

Taken to Jamaica for a high-level political gathering, Yuri Kozlov faces the final test of his defection. As secrets surface and both sides keep pushing him, he must decide who he is willing to betray, and what survival is worth.

Legendary Russian spy Yuri Kozlov defects to the United States during the war in Ukraine, but nobody believes his motives are simple. As the CIA tests his story, Yuri must prove whether he is seeking refuge or running an operation.

The Berisha family built its fortune on uncanny luck and ruthless power, but the force protecting them is older and far more dangerous than they admit. As the siblings fight for control, greed turns into modern corporate horror.

Marion Wagner creates a stunning virtual influencer named Isabella and finally gets the attention she has always craved. But as Isabella's fame explodes, Marion starts to lose control of her creation, and of the self she poured into it.