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Chris Mooney Books in Order

Explore Chris Mooney books in order, from Darby McCormick and Malcolm Fletcher to standalones, with summaries, series notes, and where to start.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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17 books

Deviant Ways

by Chris Mooney

2000

Former FBI profiler Jack Casey is trying to rebuild his life as a small-town cop when a killer called the Sandman starts slaughtering families. To stop him, Casey has to face old trauma, buried secrets, and a terrifyingly smart enemy.

World Without End

by Chris Mooney

2001

CIA operative Steve Conway hunts a master thief known as Angel Eyes after a prototype invisibility suit is stolen. The chase grows even more dangerous when Conway realizes the conspiracy may reach inside the agency itself.

Remembering Sarah

by Chris Mooney

2004

After his six-year-old daughter disappears during a snowstorm, Mike Sullivan spends years chasing the truth and destroying his own life in the process. When new evidence surfaces, he races a dying suspect for answers that could change everything.

Falling

by Chris Mooney

2006

This short thriller offers an early glimpse of Malcolm Fletcher, the damaged profiler who later anchors his own series. It is brief, tense, and focused on the moral gray area where justice, grief, and vengeance start to blur.

The Missing

by Chris Mooney

2007

As a teenager, Darby McCormick survived a killer who murdered her friends in the woods. Years later, a fresh abduction case forces her back onto the trail of the man who shattered her past.

The Secret Friend

by Chris Mooney

2008

When two murdered students are linked by eerie details and a third girl disappears, Darby McCormick starts hunting a predator who gets close before he kills. The case also brings her face to face with fugitive profiler Malcolm Fletcher.

The Dead Room

by Chris Mooney

2009

A mother and son are executed in their home, but the evidence points to a murderer who supposedly died twenty years earlier. Darby McCormick has to untangle hidden history, false trails, and a killer who stays ahead of the facts.

The Soul Collectors

by Chris Mooney

2010

Ten years after a kidnapped boy vanished, he reappears mutilated and desperate, demanding to see Darby McCormick. His return opens the door to a terrifying conspiracy and one of the darkest cases of Darby's career.

The Killing House

by Chris Mooney

2012

Former FBI profiler Malcolm Fletcher arrives in Colorado to help a mother whose long-missing son may still be alive. Then a brutal ultimatum turns the case into a deadly manhunt, with Fletcher chased by both killers and the law.

Fear the Dark

by Chris Mooney

2015

A killer is targeting entire families in a Colorado town, and Darby McCormick is called in when local police hit a wall. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous the town's loyalties and secrets become.

Every Three Hours

by Chris Mooney

2016

What begins as a return to Boston for a cold case turns into a hostage crisis and a bombing countdown. With explosives set to go off every three hours, Darby McCormick must uncover a buried truth before more people die.

Every Pretty Thing

by Chris Mooney

2017

Darby McCormick heads to Montana after a survivor of a long-running serial killer reaches out, then the FBI agent who called her disappears. Alone in an unfamiliar town, Darby has to find him before she becomes the next target.

The Snow Girls

by Chris Mooney

2018

Eleven years after a little girl vanished on a snowy hill, Darby McCormick is pulled back into the cold case. A dying priest wants to talk, but someone is still willing to kill to keep the past buried.

Blood World

by Chris Mooney

2020

A medical miracle has turned the blood of rare young carriers into the world's most valuable commodity. LAPD officer Ellie Batista goes undercover to stop the cartels, kidnappers, and killers feeding on that brutal new economy.

Walk in My Combat Boots

by Chris Mooney

2021

Built from interviews with American service members, this nonfiction book shares wartime stories from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. It focuses on courage, fear, loss, and the hard road home after combat.

Diana, William, and Harry

by Chris Mooney

2022

A narrative biography of Princess Diana told through her bond with her two sons. It follows her effort to raise William and Harry inside royal life, and the lasting mark she left on both men.

Walk The Blue Line

by Chris Mooney

2023

This nonfiction collection gathers first-person stories from police officers, detectives, sheriffs, and K9 handlers. It looks past the headlines to the pressure, grief, duty, and split-second decisions that come with wearing a badge.

Where should I start?

If you want the core Darby McCormick arc: The MissingThe Secret FriendThe Dead RoomThe Soul Collectors
If you want Darby's later, bigger thrillers: Fear the DarkEvery Three HoursEvery Pretty ThingThe Snow Girls
If you want a fugitive-led conspiracy story: The Killing HouseFalling
If you want standalones first: Remembering SarahBlood World
If you want narrative nonfiction: Walk in My Combat BootsWalk The Blue LineDiana, William, and Harry

Author bio

Chris Mooney was born and raised in Lynn, Massachusetts, just north of Boston. He went to St. John's Prep in Danvers, studied at the University of New Hampshire, and later also spent time at Northeastern University in Boston. Before fiction became his full-time work, he moved through a string of ordinary jobs and kept writing whenever he could.

Writing started early. In fifth grade, home sick with the flu, he watched a bad black-and-white monster movie and decided he could do better. So he wrote a science fiction story longhand, handed it to his teacher, and soon found himself reading it aloud to the class.

That sounds a little like the start of one of his books.

He has said that reading Stephen King's The Shining when he was young helped lock in his love of thrillers. What grabbed him was not just the fear, but the feeling of being unable to stop reading. That sense of momentum, the need to know what happens next, still runs through his work.

His first published novel, Deviant Ways, arrived in 2000 after years of writing and revision. World Without End followed, then Remembering Sarah, a missing-child thriller that was nominated for both the Edgar Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel. Those early books already showed what Mooney does well: damaged people under pressure, strong hooks, short chapters, and danger that feels painfully close.

Many readers know him best for Darby McCormick, the forensic investigator at the center of The Missing. That series gave him a character tough enough to carry police procedure, serial killer suspense, and the emotional weight of old trauma all at once. In books like The Secret Friend, The Dead Room, The Soul Collectors, Every Three Hours, and The Snow Girls, he keeps raising the pressure while staying close to the human cost of violence.

Boston matters in his fiction.

Even when he moves beyond the city, his stories often keep a New England chill to them. There are working cops, old neighborhoods, broken families, church secrets, and institutions that do not always deserve trust. He also likes investigators who carry scars with them. Malcolm Fletcher, the fugitive profiler at the heart of The Killing House, is a good example of that, smart, hunted, and never quite safe inside any system.

Mooney has not stayed in one lane, either. Blood World pushes into science fiction while keeping the pace and brutality of a thriller. On the nonfiction side, he has worked on books such as Walk in My Combat Boots, Walk The Blue Line, and Diana, William, and Harry, helping shape true stories with the same forward pull that drives his novels.

He teaches creative writing at Harvard and the Harvard Extension School, which makes sense when you look at how his books are built. He is interested in pace, scene work, and stories that keep moving without losing sight of grief, guilt, fear, or hope. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and son, and that local connection still runs through the work. So does the impulse that started back in fifth grade: to scare you a little, move you a little, and make it very hard to stop at just one more chapter.

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