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Chris Carter Books in Order

Explore Chris Carter's Robert Hunter thrillers in order, with book lists, summaries, series background and where-to-start tips for intense crime novels.

Last updated: December 21, 2025

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14 books

Genesis

by Chris Carter

2022

Hunter is called to the most vicious crime scene of his career, where the autopsy reveals a poem hidden inside the victim’s body. As more deaths follow and new verses appear, he faces a disciplined killer who treats each murder as a lesson in fear.

Written in Blood

by Chris Carter

2020

Pickpocket Angela Wood steals a stranger’s bag to teach him a lesson and instead finds a journal filled with meticulous accounts of murder. When she turns it over, Hunter realises it belongs to an unknown serial killer who will kill again to reclaim it.

Hunting Evil

by Chris Carter

2019

Years after Robert Hunter helped capture Lucien Folter, the FBI’s most dangerous serial killer, Lucien escapes solitary confinement. Determined to make Hunter suffer, he launches a calculated campaign of abductions and atrocities that forces Hunter to confront his past and his limits.

The Gallery of the Dead

by Chris Carter

2018

A LAPD lieutenant warns Hunter and Garcia that if he could erase one memory, it would be the scene they’re about to see. The mutilated body is only the first exhibit in a roaming gallery curated by a killer who treats murder as art.

The Caller

by Chris Carter

2017

After a long week, Tanya Kaitlin answers a video call from her best friend and sees her gagged and bound, watched by a masked stranger. Every wrong answer means new torture, and Hunter and Garcia must stop a killer who weaponises technology and fear.

I Am Death

by Chris Carter

2015

A twenty‑year‑old woman is found near Los Angeles International Airport, tortured and murdered in a bizarre way, with a blood‑written note claiming to be the killer’s name. As more victims appear, Hunter chases a methodical killer who keeps shifting tactics.

Chris Carter at Large

by Chris Carter

2015

This memoir from broadcaster Chris Carter chronicles a lifetime spent inside motorcycle racing, from 1960s scrambling to modern road‑race circuits. He shares paddock gossip, near‑misses and personal reflections on how the sport, and its risks, have evolved.

An Evil Mind

by Chris Carter

2014

A crash in rural Wyoming reveals severed heads in a car trunk and a suspect who will speak only to Robert Hunter. The man is Hunter’s former roommate, now a serial killer turning their reunion into a chilling psychological game.

The Hunter

by Chris Carter

2013

On his first day as the LAPD’s youngest homicide detective, Robert Hunter is handed a straightforward suicide. The locked apartment and tidy scene look convincing, but a few details don’t fit, and following his instincts leads him to a hidden murder.

One by One

by Chris Carter

2013

Hunter receives an anonymous call directing him to a private website where a bound victim waits in a glass box. Forced to choose how the stranger will die, he’s dragged into a live‑streamed killing game that soon opens to the internet.

The Death Sculptor

by Chris Carter

2012

A student nurse finds a terminally ill prosecutor brutally murdered, his remains arranged into a grotesque sculpture. Each new body brings another macabre installation, and Hunter, Garcia and investigator Alice Beaumont must decode the artwork before the killer completes his masterpiece.

The Night Stalker

by Chris Carter

2011

When an unidentified woman reaches the LA morgue with no obvious injuries and her lips stitched closed, the autopsy reveals a horrifying secret inside. As more women vanish, Hunter hunts a predator whose warped idea of love turns captivity into torture.

The Executioner

by Chris Carter

2010

A priest’s decapitated body is discovered on a Los Angeles altar, the number 3 scrawled in blood across his chest. As more victims die in the exact way they fear most, Hunter must uncover how the killer knows their nightmares.

The Crucifix Killer

by Chris Carter

2009

In a derelict Los Angeles cottage, a young woman is found murdered with a double‑cross carved into her neck. The mark matches an executed serial killer, dragging Robert Hunter back into a nightmare he thought was over.

Where should I start?

If you want the full series experience: The Crucifix KillerThe ExecutionerThe Night Stalker
If you prefer a short taster: The HunterThe Crucifix Killer
If you like intense psychological showdowns: An Evil MindHunting EvilGenesis
If you want tech-driven, very modern cases: One by OneThe CallerWritten in Blood
If you just want a strong standalone: The Death SculptorThe Gallery of the Dead

Author bio

Chris Carter was born in Brasília, Brazil, in 1965 to Italian parents and grew up there through his school years, surrounded by the noise and sprawl of a young capital city.

In his late teens he moved to the United States and studied psychology and criminal behavior at a university in Michigan, focusing on how and why people commit violent crimes.

Like a lot of students, he paid the bills any way he could: working fast‑food shifts, picking up casual jobs, even spending a stint in an all‑male dance group, experiences he later talks about with dry amusement.

After graduating, he joined the criminal psychology team attached to the state prosecutor’s office in Michigan, working for several years on homicide and serial‑killer cases. The job meant long hours, hard evidence, and an education in what real‑world violence looks like.

Eventually, he realised the work was taking a personal toll and walked away from the courthouse and interview rooms. He moved to Los Angeles, swapped suits for ripped jeans, and poured his energy into music, playing guitar in rock and glam‑rock bands.

Tours took him across the United States and around the world. Later he settled in London, still on the road much of the year, sharing stages with big‑name artists and living the slightly chaotic life that comes with night buses, rehearsal rooms and soundchecks.

Somewhere in the middle of that schedule he started to write. At first it was just trying out scenes and ideas drawn from his psychology background, but the pages kept piling up. Out of those late‑night experiments came his debut novel, The Crucifix Killer, which introduced LAPD detective and criminal psychologist Robert Hunter and the ultra‑violent cases that would define the series.

Since then he has written a long run of Hunter novels, including The Executioner, The Night Stalker, One by One, An Evil Mind, I Am Death, The Caller, Hunting Evil, Written in Blood and Genesis. Readers come to them for the intricate investigations, the tense cat‑and‑mouse with sadistic killers, and the forensic and psychological detail drawn from his previous career.

Carter’s books have become bestsellers in the United Kingdom and across Europe, with translations into many languages and a particularly strong following in Germany and Scandinavia. He’s open about the fact that the violence in the series is graphic, but he treats the horror as part of the job his detectives face rather than a spectacle in itself.

Today he lives in London and writes full‑time. He still brings a musician’s sense of rhythm to the way his stories move: quiet stretches of procedure and character, then sudden, sharp bursts of action. The result is a body of work that feels grounded in real experience while never forgetting that its first job is to keep you turning the pages.

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