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Daniel Easterman Books in Order

Browse Daniel Easterman books in order, with short summaries, pen-name notes, and easy where-to-start tips for his thrillers and ghost stories.

Last updated: July 1, 2026

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The Last Assassin

by Daniel Easterman

1984

CIA agent Peter Randall uncovers a plot by seven powerful Iranians to assassinate seven world leaders. With help from an Iranian ally, he has to move fast through a maze of politics, religion, and espionage.

The Seventh Sanctuary

by Daniel Easterman

1987

Archaeologist David Rosen is hunting a lost city in Syria when murders begin to close around him. His search for Iram becomes a race against a neo-Nazi plot, with faith, identity, and survival all on the line.

Brotherhood of the Tomb

by Daniel Easterman

1989

A tomb discovered in Jerusalem, and what may lie inside it, sets off decades of secrecy and violence. Former CIA man Patrick Canavan is drawn into murders, cryptic texts, and a brotherhood with plans for the Church.

The Ninth Buddha

by Daniel Easterman

1989

When his son is kidnapped, former intelligence officer Christopher Wylam follows the trail to Tibet and Mongolia. The hunt becomes a clash of spies, prophecies, and reincarnation, with a child at the center of competing visions of power.

Naomi's Room

by Daniel Easterman

1991

Charles Hillenbrand's young daughter disappears on a Christmas shopping trip and is later found murdered. Grief gives way to haunting, and his search for the truth opens the door to something far older and more vicious.

Night of the Seventh Darkness

by Daniel Easterman

1991

Haitian-born artist Angelina Hammel returns to Brooklyn and finds horror waiting under her own floorboards. With Lieutenant Reuben Abrams, she follows murder, voodoo, and old slave-trade secrets all the way to Haiti.

Name of the Beast

by Daniel Easterman

1992

Egyptologist A'isha Manfaluti unwraps a mummy and finds her murdered husband inside. As plague, terror, and prophecy spread across Egypt, she and Michael Hunt race to stop a fanatic who may be staging his own apocalypse.

Whispers in the Dark

by Daniel Easterman

1992

After losing her comfortable life, Charlotte Metcalf goes in search of her missing brother and arrives at Barras Hall. The house offers safety by day, but at night it fills with whispers, dread, and a terrible destiny.

The Judas Testament

by Daniel Easterman

1994

An Aramaic scholar becomes the unwilling center of a deadly struggle over a scroll said to be written by Jesus himself. If the document is genuine, it could shake the Church, and several ruthless men want control of it.

The Vanishment

by Daniel Easterman

1994

Peter and Sarah head to Cornwall hoping a quiet house will mend their failing marriage. Instead the place seems to remember too much, and when Sarah disappears Peter is left with grief, suspicion, and something far stranger.

Night of the Apocalypse / Day of Wrath

by Daniel Easterman

1995

When a secret peace conference in Ireland is attacked and its delegates vanish, Declan Carberry is forced into a desperate hunt. Grief, terrorism, intelligence games, and apocalyptic obsession all close in at once.

The Matrix

by Daniel Easterman

1995

Andrew MacLeod discovers a sixteenth-century book of magic and finds that the text is reading him back. Strange dreams, forbidden learning, and a shadowy cult pull him toward a terror older than reason.

The Final Judgement

by Daniel Easterman

1996

A child's kidnapping pulls Yosef Abuhatseira into a brutal rescue mission that quickly turns larger and darker. As murders pile up, he uncovers a neo-Nazi plot aimed at Holocaust survivors and the future of Europe.

The Lost

by Daniel Easterman

1996

Tired of his life in England, Michael Feraru travels to Romania to claim a family inheritance. What waits in a remote Transylvanian castle is not just property, but a dark legacy that seems to know his name.

K

by Daniel Easterman

1997

John Ridgeforth enters an alternate wartime America ruled by the Ku Klux Klan, where camps, lynchings, and informers are part of daily life. His secret mission becomes a chilling look at how near democracy can come to fascism.

A Shadow on the Wall

by Daniel Easterman

1999

When a Victorian rector disturbs an ancient tomb beneath his church, something malign slips free. He turns to Cambridge scholar Richard Asquith, but some buried things do not stay quiet for long.

The Talisman

by Daniel Easterman

1999

A sinister statue unearthed in Babylon reaches London and begins poisoning the lives around it. Mesopotamian scholar Tom Alton must uncover what it is, and what it wants, before the evil spreads even further.

Incarnation

by Daniel Easterman

2000

In northern India, a twelve-year-old boy claims memories that belong to a dead British agent. If he is telling the truth, he may be the only person who can stop a terrifying conspiracy tied to China, Iraq, and a hidden superweapon.

The Jaguar Mask

by Daniel Easterman

2001

While an archaeologist uncovers a Mayan city in the Mexican jungle, Declan Carberry investigates ritual murders in France. Their stories collide in a thriller of ancient codes, colonial history, and modern bloodshed.

Midnight Comes at Noon

by Daniel Easterman

2002

A whole English village is wiped out, a reforming president is kidnapped, and the violence is only beginning. Easterman turns the hunt for answers into a dark political thriller about fanaticism, terror, and the price of power.

Maroc

by Daniel Easterman

2003

In 1936, Beatrice and Gerard Le Tourneau leave France for Morocco, where love, war, and divided loyalties reshape their lives. Decades later, Nicholas Budgeon digs into his ex-wife's family history and uncovers the tragedy still echoing through it.

A Garden Lost in Time

by Daniel Easterman

2004

After his father's death in the First World War, a fifteen-year-old boy is sent to relatives in Cornwall. Trevelyan Priors offers comfort on the surface, but its garden, its house, and its past are hiding something hungry.

Sword

by Daniel Easterman

2008

A Cairo scholar is asked to authenticate a sword said to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammad. Almost at once his family is shattered, and he is pulled into a chase to stop extremists from turning the relic into a weapon of holy war.

Spear of Destiny

by Daniel Easterman

2009

When Ethan Usherwood finds his uncle dead beside an ancient relic, he follows wartime diaries across Europe and Egypt. The trail points to Christ's tomb, a deadly secret, and a Nazi-tinged conspiracy that is not finished yet.

The Silence of Ghosts

by Daniel Easterman

2013

During the Blitz, wounded naval gunner Dominic Lancaster is sent with his deaf sister to a decaying lakeside estate. There, voices, dead children, and an older evil turn recovery into a fight for survival.

Where should I start?

If you want globe-spanning thrillers: The Seventh SanctuaryThe Ninth BuddhaBrotherhood of the Tomb
If you like religious conspiracies and sacred relics: The Judas TestamentThe Final JudgementSwordSpear of Destiny
If you want classic ghost story chills: Naomi's RoomThe MatrixThe Vanishment
If you prefer a more historical, atmospheric haunt: Whispers in the DarkA Shadow on the WallThe Silence of Ghosts

Author bio

Daniel Easterman was the thriller name used by Denis MacEoin, a Belfast-born writer, scholar, and teacher whose fiction drew heavily on the places, languages, and religious histories he knew firsthand. Born in 1949 in Northern Ireland, he grew up with a strong interest in books and language, and he was taught English at school by the poet Michael Longley, a small detail that feels fitting when you look at how much reading and study shaped the rest of his life.

In 1967 he left Belfast for Dublin to study English at Trinity College. After that he moved to Edinburgh, where he studied Persian, Arabic, and Islamic history, then went on to King's College, Cambridge, where he completed a PhD in Persian studies in 1979. That academic route gave him a deep grounding in religion, politics, and the Middle East, and those subjects later became the raw material for much of his fiction.

He came to fiction through scholarship, travel, and work, not through any neat literary apprenticeship.

After Cambridge he taught in Fez, Morocco, an experience he later described in bleak and darkly funny terms. It was also important because it helped spark his first novel, The Last Assassin, which drew on his knowledge of Iran and Shi'ism. He later taught Arabic and Islamic studies at Newcastle, but by the 1980s he was moving away from academic life and toward writing full time.

That shift mattered. Under the Daniel Easterman name, he wrote international thrillers that mixed espionage with archaeology, religious history, political extremism, and the unsettling idea that the past is never really finished. These are big, restless books. They move from deserts and monasteries to libraries, embassies, ruined churches, and cities under pressure.

Some of his best-known Easterman novels show that range clearly. The Seventh Sanctuary sends archaeologist David Rosen into a hunt tied to a lost city and a neo-Nazi plot. The Ninth Buddha travels through India, Tibet, and Mongolia, blending intelligence work with prophecy and reincarnation. Brotherhood of the Tomb and The Judas Testament both turn on ancient discoveries that could upend the modern world, which is very much his territory as a storyteller.

He liked big stakes, but he also liked big questions.

Again and again, his fiction returns to fanaticism, buried belief, and the way old myths can be weaponized in modern politics. Books like The Final Judgement, Name of the Beast, Sword, and Spear of Destiny are full of kidnappings, secret groups, sacred objects, and men convinced that history is on their side. What keeps them interesting is that MacEoin knew the material behind the thrill. He understood the texts, the sects, the symbols, and the places.

He also wrote as Jonathan Aycliffe, the name he used for ghost stories such as Naomi's Room, The Matrix, and The Silence of Ghosts. Those books work on a different scale, but they share some of the same instincts. Old houses matter. Hidden histories matter. The dead are rarely done with the living. If the Easterman novels are outward-looking and geopolitical, the Aycliffe books are intimate, claustrophobic, and quietly vicious.

Alongside the novels, MacEoin published academic work and journalism on Islamic studies and Middle Eastern affairs. He was married for many years to writer and homeopath Beth MacEoin, and he spent much of his later life in the north of England. Denis MacEoin died in June 2022. The Daniel Easterman books still hold up for readers who want thrillers with real historical weight, strong ideas, and a genuine taste for the uncanny.

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