Andrew Klavan Books in Order

Klavan’s debut novel follows two drifters whose search for a long-lost sweetheart begins as a half-serious quest and slowly turns lethal. As the men chase a story they have invented, obsession hardens into violence and the line between harmless fantasy and real-world danger disappears.

As a boy, Harry met strange, intense Agnes Mallory by a creek and never forgot her eerie talk of ghosts and the supernatural. Decades later, a disgraced lawyer living as a recluse, he takes in a runaway and is forced to confront buried memories that tie Agnes’s short life to secrets reaching back to the Holocaust.

Told in the voice of poet Samantha Bradford, this offbeat novel follows a young woman from privileged Connecticut upbringing through failed affairs, a suicide attempt, and marriage to quirky prosecutor Arthur Clementine. Working nights at a suicide hotline, she tries to turn sex, love, and art into a path toward genuine sanity.

A bold, imaginative retelling of the life of Jesus that treats him as a man of flesh and blood rather than a distant icon. Through shifting, quasi-apocryphal narratives and earthy voices, the novel explores doubt, desire, betrayal, and the cost of a mission that ends on a cross.

When Mayforth Kendrick III—rich kid turned small-time drug dealer—offers John Wells photographs that could destroy a Senate candidate, the reporter refuses to buy sleaze. The next day Kendrick is dead and the pictures are gone, pushing Wells into a dangerous chase through New York’s political and criminal underworld.

New York Star reporter John Wells is pulled off the mob trial he has spent years building to cover a rash of teenage suicides in a rural county. Still grieving his own daughter’s death, he comes to believe the hangings are murders and risks becoming the next body swinging in the barn.

Crime reporter John Wells spends a late night drinking with famed war correspondent Timothy Colt, only to wake and see Colt shot dead in his hotel room. Branded a suspect and haunted by what he saw, Wells digs into Colt’s past battlefields and love affairs to uncover the motive for murder.

Fifteen years after a small-time gambler was buried alive beneath a Little Italy playground, a dying cop confesses that the killers were actually officers on the mob’s payroll. Newspaperman John Wells follows the lead into a cold case that threatens powerful men and could put him under the concrete next.

Adrift and lonely at Christmas, office worker Mike North welcomes an invitation to his boss’s country house, where he falls for the boss’s daughter, Susannah. After a ghost story he improvises about a scar-faced killer rattles her badly, Mike discovers that his invention matches a real nightmare—and that the past is stalking them both.

Manhattan psychiatrist Nathan Conrad wakes to find his apartment ransacked and his small daughter missing, kidnapped by two violent criminals watching his every move. Their demand is simple and terrifying: extract a long-buried secret from a traumatized young woman under his care, and tell no one, or his child dies.

On Halloween in New York City, young attorney Nancy Kincaid arrives at work to discover that no one seems to know who she is. Hounded by voices and carrying a gun she does not remember acquiring, she is told that at eight o’clock—the animal hour—she must kill a stranger, or be hunted herself.

Journalist Sally Dawes becomes obsessed with exposing how a small-town sheriff has turned his office into a machine for fear and control. As a local election approaches and old secrets surface, her investigation pits her against a ruthless politician who knows exactly how to silence inconvenient truth-tellers.

Reporter Steve Everett is a self-destructive journalist with one last chance to redeem himself: he is convinced the man scheduled for execution tonight is innocent. Racing the clock, hung over and out of allies, he has only hours to uncover the truth before the state carries out a murder in his name.

A bleakly titled early thriller that circles around a suspicious death ruled a suicide and the people drawn into its aftermath. Klavan uses the case as a frame for exploring obsession, corruption, and the destructive pull of despair without offering easy answers.

Hollywood producer Richard Storm has made a fortune turning classic English ghost stories into movies, but his own life is coming apart. Traveling to England in search of proof that spirits are real, he meets a haunted scholar, a woman in peril, and a seemingly immortal killer who drags him into a very real nightmare.

After a passenger jet explodes over a small town, little Amanda survives unscathed and begins to display an uncanny power to heal. Her mother, terrified of what shadowy forces might do to a child like that, flees to New York, pursued by a relentless professional killer and an unlikely, guilt-ridden rescuer.

Psychiatrist Cal Bradley thinks he has an enviable life with his beloved wife Marie and a calm suburban practice. When a disturbed nineteen-year-old patient named Peter Blue is charged with a shocking crime, Cal’s efforts to help him peel back layers of deception and violence that point straight at Marie’s buried past.

World-weary ex-cop Scott Weiss sends his toughest operative, Jim Bishop, to probe corruption at a small Northern California airport. What begins as a routine job drags them into the orbit of the Shadowman, a ghostlike contract killer, and a criminal plot that builds toward an audacious, seemingly impossible assassination.

Private investigator Jim Bishop goes undercover among a violent biker gang to track a runaway woman who may be bait in a larger scheme. Back in San Francisco, Scott Weiss pieces together how the case connects to the legendary hit man Shadowman, knowing that Bishop’s recklessness could get them both killed.

In the brutal conclusion to the Weiss and Bishop saga, the elusive assassin known as the Shadowman turns his sights on the detectives who have hunted him for years. As Scott Weiss and Jim Bishop scramble to protect the women they love, every compromise and sin from earlier cases comes due on one bloody street.

Jason Harrow has remade himself as a sober, church-going family man after a reckless youth in New York. When an old lover begs him to find her missing daughter, he stumbles onto what may be an Islamist terror plot—or a paranoid delusion—and must decide whether to trust his instincts or his sanity.

Charlie West goes to bed thinking about karate class and a girl from school and wakes up tied to a chair in a windowless room while strangers discuss how to kill him. Escaping into the night, he discovers he is wanted for murder and terrorism, and has somehow lost an entire year of his life.

Still branded a killer and terrorist, Charlie West sneaks back to his hometown to search for answers about the missing year. Hiding in an abandoned mansion with old friends and the girl he loves, he uncovers new pieces of the Homelanders plot and learns just how far their reach extends.

Small-time criminal John Shannon is framed for a brutal multiple murder and expects to die in prison, until a stranger offers him a new face and a new life. Relocated to a flooded, corrupt city trying to rebuild, he remakes himself as a carpenter—only to discover he has been dropped into someone else’s deadly game.

Still on the run and missing a year of his memory, Charlie West goes hunting for a mysterious agent known only as Waterman, hoping the man can explain what happened to him. The closer he gets to the truth, the more killers converge and the more dangerous Charlie’s forgotten choices prove to be.

In the last Homelanders novel, fugitive teenager Charlie West finally understands the missing year of his life and the terror plot he stumbled into. With both the authorities and jihadists closing in, he has one chance to stop a devastating attack and clear his name before time runs out.

Sam Hopkins is a pastor’s kid running with the wrong crowd until he steps in to defend Jennifer, a bullied classmate who has terrifying visions of demons and disaster. As her hallucinations begin to match real-world events, Sam risks his reputation and his life to stop the coming catastrophe.

On a church mission trip to a Central American country, teenager Will Peterson and three friends are caught in a sudden revolution that targets Americans. With gunmen in the streets and a disillusioned ex-Marine as their only guide, they must fight their way through jungle and war zone to reach the border alive.

Three years after infiltrating a child-sex-trafficking ring for the NYPD, former detective Dan Champion is a small-town cop trying to stay clean and sane. When a woman from his drug-induced visions turns up dead on a riverbank, he is forced back into a nightmare case that blurs the line between memory and madness.

High-school reporter Tom wakes to find his town empty, smothered in sea fog and stalked by something hungry in the mist. With only cryptic warnings and a maybe-trustworthy girlfriend to guide him, he has just hours to uncover what is really happening before the nightmare swallows him for good.

Written under a pen name, this middle-grade adventure follows eleven-year-old Hunter Stevens and his best friend Megan after they discover an old cave filled with gold. Their find draws them into a centuries-old mystery, dangerous enemies, and a race to protect Hunter’s family and the treasure’s true secret.

Once a star high-school quarterback, Rick Dial is now crippled, bitter, and lost in video games after a car accident. Recruited by a secret government unit, he must jack into a terrifying virtual landscape called the MindWar Realm to battle a madman who plans to crash America’s computer systems from the inside.

A short, sharp essay in which Klavan argues that modern culture has largely been captured by the political left, and that conservatives cannot simply retreat from movies, novels, and television. Instead he urges them to support and create new art that is entertaining, honest, and morally serious.

First installment in the Time Trap sequence, this brief thriller centers on a girl named Chloe whose ordinary life is suddenly disrupted by forces she barely understands. Designed as an opening episode, it sets up a larger suspense story about danger, escape, and hard choices.

Rick Dial is ready to reenter the MindWar Realm to stop a fresh cyberattack, until terrorists kidnap his best friend Molly and threaten to kill her if he goes back in. The novel cuts between Rick’s perilous mission in the digital battlefield and Molly’s desperate struggle to outsmart her captors.

In an upscale Connecticut suburb, a seemingly ordinary carpenter hides the mind of a sadistic killer. As Paul White’s secret life of slaughter collides with the quiet routines of his gentle wife and daughter, the neighborhood becomes the stage for escalating, intimate terror.

Soft-spoken homicide detective Zach 'Cowboy' Adams hunts a European crime boss for a federal task force, only to be mauled in a German forest under a full moon. Cursed to become a killer himself, he has to unravel an ancient evil and decide whether any part of him can still be called good.

In the final Mindwar book, Rick Dial’s link to the MindWar Realm spins out of control and begins dragging him into the digital world without warning. As monsters leak into real streets and his enemy tightens the net, Rick must destroy the Realm before it destroys everyone he loves.

Klavan’s memoir traces his journey from a secular Jewish childhood and years of depression and anger through literary ambition, breakdown, and finally Christian faith. It is a candid story about family wounds, the power of stories, and the slow, surprising work of grace.

A struggling Hollywood hopeful steps through a door and into a dungeon, framed for murder in two different worlds at once. As Austin Lively ricochets between corrupt Los Angeles and the embattled kingdom of Galiana, he stumbles into a conspiracy that ties magic, politics, and storytelling together.

Book two in the Another Kingdom series finds failed screenwriter Austin Lively now a chosen hero, slipping between Los Angeles and the medieval realm of Galiana. Charged with carrying a talisman and hunting a missing manuscript, he must evade a vengeful wizard and a murderous billionaire while the horrors of both worlds close in.

Final volume of the Another Kingdom trilogy, in which Hollywood screenwriter Austin Lively has everything he once wanted yet knows something is terribly wrong. To save the woman he loves and the Eleven Lands, he must reenter the fantasy kingdom, follow a dead emperor into darkness, and face the truth about his own soul.

Introducing Cameron Winter, this holiday mystery sends the ex-spy turned literature professor to a lakeside town where a decorated soldier has confessed to killing his girlfriend. As Winter digs beneath the tidy story, he uncovers buried traumas, small-town secrets, and a crime that does not fit the confession.

English professor and former spy Cameron Winter is shaken when a troubled ex-student dies by apparent suicide after texting him for help. Following the trail into Silicon Valley, he clashes with a charismatic tech billionaire and uses his eerie gift to reconstruct what really happened.

A reflective work of nonfiction in which Klavan looks to English Romantic writers to illuminate the words of Jesus, arguing that great poetry and story can deepen our understanding of the Gospels and what it means to live a faithful life.

When a wealthy Chicago-area family and their nanny are found shot to death in their burning mansion, only a seven-year-old boy survives. Cameron Winter, now teaching near the city, cannot shake the case and conducts his own inquiry, uncovering buried sins behind the community’s polished façade.

Haunted by an unfinished mission against a child trafficker and an unresolved first love, Cameron Winter returns to the field when he catches the scent of both in the present day. His search leads from academia to extremist movements and a reclusive novelist, forcing him to confront the violence in his own past.

In this later Cameron Winter novel, the ex-assassin turned professor is drawn into a baffling locked-room mystery: a man who murdered his family is found dead inside a monitored padded cell, apparently killed with no weapon in sight. Following echoes of the crime to another state, Winter faces a conspiracy that links his old enemies to a new love.

A work of nonfiction in which Klavan explores how stories about murder—from the biblical tale of Cain and Abel to novels and films by major artists—can reveal God’s presence in a dark world and teach us how to live honestly, bravely, and joyfully amid evil.