Campbell Armstrong Books in Order

A family rents a house in a Northern California vacation town, hoping for peace and fresh air. Instead, their young son falls under the spell of a disturbingly attentive older couple and the town's buried secret.

Eric Billings rents a quiet room and tries to get on with his life, but small frictions begin to wear him down. Sleepless nights and rising anger turn an ordinary boardinghouse into a place of real menace.

In ruined postwar Berlin, a former SS surgeon hides behind a new name and a respectable life. Then a Jewish survivor from his past reappears, setting off a relentless chase through guilt, fear, and revenge.

Berg arrives in a strange town hoping for a clean start, but everything feels wrong from the moment he steps in. After a brutal assault is pinned on him, he is dragged into a nightmare of dread and bureaucratic madness.

White House aide John Thorne inherits a file on the secret Asterisk Project and starts asking dangerous questions. As he and a desperate CIA ally dig deeper, the conspiracy around them turns deadly.

After his diplomat brother's death is called suicide, John Rayner begins digging and finds something far worse. His search uncovers murder, mind control, and a plot that could hand terrifying power to the wrong people.

Emily Allbright joins a babysitting co-op to win time for her writing, but the women around her are not what they seem. Threats gather around her children, and an ordinary suburban plan turns frightening.

A slow-burning occult mystery, this novel follows a family's increasingly strange experiences as they turn to a daughter's former professor for answers. What starts as confusion grows into something darker and more disturbing.

Armstrong's novelization follows Indiana Jones from a booby-trapped South American temple to a race with the Nazis for the Ark of the Covenant. It keeps the film's pulpy chases, traps, and breathless momentum.

Pregnant Ellen Campbell should be feeling safe, but someone keeps terrorizing her with intimate, cruel threats. As her husband's past starts to crack open, love and motherhood give way to a deeply unsettling nightmare.

Published as Thomas Altman, this winter-set horror novel turns Christmas into a season of dread, as fear, violence, and suspicion spread through a snowbound community.

One of Armstrong's early standalones, this is a lean suspense tale where attraction and threat arrive together. A seemingly ordinary encounter turns risky fast, and the tension keeps tightening from there.

Christy McNair thinks she has married the perfect man, until three strangers begin tearing holes in her new life. As her husband's buried past surfaces, marriage, sanity, and survival all come under attack.

A frustrated New York artist launches a hotline where criminals can anonymously confess and turns the recordings into art. Then one caller announces a killing spree, and the project becomes a direct threat to his life.

A battered Ouija board seems like harmless fun in a run-down seaside cottage, until two children start receiving sinister messages. Soon the adults are facing visions, possession, and an old evil that has not gone away.

Women in the upscale community of Las Cosimas start dying one by one, some in compromising circumstances. Former cop Tobias Manning fears Caroline Cassidy may be next, especially when her new lover seems tied to the past.

Published as Campbell Black, this dark standalone builds its suspense patiently, letting menace seep into everyday life until the ordinary starts to feel trapped. It is a good pick if you like Armstrong at his most brooding.

When IRA money disappears in a violent hijacking, the organization sends its most trusted assassin after it. Frank Pagan follows close behind, and the two enemies are forced toward an uneasy alliance as the hunt widens.

What should have been a simple escort job ends with a Russian envoy shot and Frank Pagan under pressure from every side. To clear the case, he has to move through espionage networks stretching from Britain to the Soviet Union.

Frank Pagan escorts a Russian envoy to Edinburgh, then watches the routine assignment explode into murder and international crisis. Spies, émigré politics, and a plot against glasnost send him racing across East and West.

Frank Pagan hunts a notorious bomb maker whose spectacular attacks have killed all over the world. The chase runs through Britain, Miami, and Havana, where espionage and geopolitics make every lead more dangerous.

A murdered woman in Los Angeles sends suspended cop Charlie Galloway into a case that reaches from Manila to Washington. What looks local soon opens into revenge, covert power, and a lethal government conspiracy.

Writing as Campbell Black, Armstrong takes Indiana Jones from screen to page in a brisk pulp adventure full of ancient mysteries, traps, escapes, and the fast, cliff-edge rhythm of the films.

An ex-hippie with huge holes in his memory is pulled back toward the sixties after a police raid wrecks his quiet life. To survive, Harry Tennant must uncover why an old photograph still matters to killers.

After a deadly bombing on the London Underground, Frank Pagan returns to the hunt and starts following the trail of the terrorist Carlotta. The case widens into assassination, double lives, and a dense international plot.

Frank Pagan cannot stop thinking about Carlotta, the elusive terrorist linked to countless deaths. As duty slips toward obsession, hunter and quarry circle each other in a tense game that may end only with one of them dead.

Sara Klein's husband disappears along with millions from a broker's accounts, and federal agents think she knows why. With the clock running, she has a day to uncover what happened and decide whom to trust.

A key witness who helped jail an arms smuggler is found murdered despite federal protection. Former prosecutor Amanda Scholes digs into the failure and finds a conspiracy that may reach inside the system meant to keep people safe.

Published as Thomas Weldon, this later suspense novel turns family ties and buried secrets into a tight, fast-moving threat. It is Armstrong in a more contemporary key, with private lives pushed toward public danger.

Armstrong's memoir tells the story of his first wife, Eileen, her daughter given up for adoption, and the painful reunion that comes just as illness closes in. It is candid, unsparing, and unexpectedly tender.

A Los Angeles psychiatrist learns his wife has been kidnapped and will die unless he hands over a patient's confidential file. To save her, he has to outmaneuver both the kidnappers and the damage that secret could cause.

Armstrong's memoir tells the story of his first wife, Eileen, her daughter given up for adoption, and the painful reunion that comes just as illness closes in. It is candid, unsparing, and unexpectedly tender.

Eddie Mallon comes back to Glasgow for the funeral of the father he barely knew, then starts asking questions about the murder. What begins as family business opens into older secrets and a much larger threat.

When a businessman turns up hanging from Central Station Bridge, Lou Perlman suspects murder, not suicide. The case draws him into old loyalties, childhood shadows, and the bitter corners of Glasgow.

A fall from a window and the murder of a schoolteacher point to racially driven violence in Glasgow. Lou Perlman chases the killers while grief, family strain, and buried connections make the case even more dangerous.

Officially sidelined, Lou Perlman is pulled back by a gruesome discovery in his own house. His search for Miriam and the truth leads into gangland violence, illegal surgery, and one of Glasgow's most frightening crime bosses.

Cop Gregory Samsa survives a rain-soaked crash, but the prostitute beside him dies. He hides the truth, then ends up investigating when her body surfaces, trapping himself in guilt, lies, and danger.

A rare late short story published under Campbell Black, this is chiefly of interest to longtime Armstrong readers curious about one of his final credited pieces and its familiar dark undertow.