Dean Koontz Books in Order

A two-novel volume pairing Watchers and Mr. Murder. One story brings together a super-intelligent dog, a lethal creature, and people caught in a government-made nightmare; the other follows novelist Martin Stillwater as a killer with his face begins invading his family life.

Two brothers are changed after an encounter with a dying stranger—and suddenly they’re hunted. As their abilities grow, they unravel the man’s past and discover the people chasing them fear what the brothers might become.

A collection of playful rhymes and poems that celebrate both real holidays and made-up ones, with a silly, kid-friendly sense of fun. It’s light verse meant to be read aloud, with humor that swings from sweet to mischievous.

Odd Thomas is a young fry cook in small-town California who sees the dead and the shadowy creatures that gather around coming violence. When a stranger arrives surrounded by bodachs, Odd realizes disaster is close—and he’s the only one who can stop it.

This small volume gathers poetry by Dean Koontz and was issued in limited hardcover editions in 2003 after an earlier digital release. It is a verse collection rather than a novel or short-fiction anthology.

A reclusive movie star hires a private security expert and invites him into a life built on secrets, fear, and carefully staged illusions. When a killer closes in, the bodyguard has to protect a man the world thinks it knows—but doesn’t.

A carnival fortune-teller lays out five dates when a boy will die—and he survives the first attempt the same night. Years later, he works backward through the prophecy, using humor and grit to protect his family and outmaneuver a killer.

Presented in the voice of Trixie, Dean Koontz’s golden retriever, this small book shares playful, photo-filled thoughts on joy, trust, naps, snacks, and love. It’s light, funny, and built around simple lessons from dog logic.

Bob Claus tries to redeem himself by building a robot Santa to help with deliveries, but the machine goes haywire at the worst possible time. Charlotte and Emily return for another wild, funny holiday rescue mission.

A strange, sticky rain falls on a small California town, and the night fills with silent shapes. As a couple tries to stay alive and stay together, they face a siege that feels like an invasion—but the truth may be even weirder.

Trixie returns with a dog’s-eye view of the holidays, mixing humor with warm reminders about family, patience, and enjoying the small stuff. Expect cheerful photos, short reflections, and plenty of canine enthusiasm for treats and traditions.

Carson O’Connor and her partner dig deeper into crimes that point to a hidden effort to reshape humanity. With Deucalion as an uneasy ally, they hunt a genius who treats a city like his laboratory—and sees people as spare parts.

Odd tries to protect the people he loves when mysterious attacks and strange warnings point to a new threat in Pico Mundo. As danger escalates, his gift pulls him into a fight that feels both personal and supernatural.

In modern New Orleans, detective Carson O’Connor and her partner Michael Maddison investigate a serial murderer as Deucalion, a man carrying a centuries-old secret, arrives in town. Their cases converge on Victor Frankenstein, whose experiments have created a terrifying conspiracy.

A bartender finds a note on his windshield: kill a stranger, or your wife dies. With no time and no clear enemy, he tries to outthink a mastermind who turns every choice into a moral disaster.

Seeking quiet, Odd takes refuge at a remote monastery and hopes to heal. But the dead won’t leave him alone, and a new presence suggests something dangerous is hiding behind the monastery’s peaceful walls.

A mild-mannered landscaper gets a call: his wife has been kidnapped, and he has one hour to deliver a fortune—or she dies. With no help and no time, he has to become someone his enemies didn’t expect.

A couple rescuing a battered golden retriever begins to sense the dog was running from something truly evil. As the threat follows them home, they discover the animal may be a guardian as much as a victim.

A lonely man gets a phone call meant for someone else, warning him that a woman is about to be murdered. He decides to help anyway, but the closer he gets, the more he realizes he’s been pulled into a deadly game he didn’t start.

With gentle humor and a dog’s sense of priorities, Trixie offers bite-size advice about happiness, gratitude, and being present. It’s a quick, uplifting read that leans on photos and playful observations rather than heavy self-help.

In this graphic prequel, Odd Thomas is still a teenager learning what it means to see the dead. When a series of murders hits town, his gift and his instincts push him toward a dangerous first attempt at saving strangers.

Odd’s journey takes him to a secretive coastal estate where a ghost begs for help and bodachs gather. What starts as a request turns into a high-stakes confrontation with people who treat human lives like experiments.

A man’s life improves after a heart transplant, until disturbing messages and eerie encounters suggest his donor isn’t done with him. As obsession and paranoia build, he has to uncover who is watching—and what they want from his new heart.

Koontz writes a heartfelt memoir of Trixie, a retired service dog who became part of his family. It’s an affectionate portrait of daily life with a brilliant golden retriever, and how her joy changed the rhythm of a working writer’s home.

A novelist in the mountains becomes the caretaker of a very unusual golden retriever and crosses paths with a scientist hiding the results of forbidden research. What looks like a quiet life turns into a chase involving genetic secrets and a predator that won’t quit.

The hunt for Victor Frankenstein intensifies as his new creations multiply and his ambitions grow darker. Carson O’Connor and Deucalion are pushed to their limits, facing a foe who can rebuild bodies and identities as easily as machines.

A picture book narrated by Trixie, who explains why being a dog is the best job in the world. With silly observations and warm humor, it’s a kid-friendly celebration of belly rubs, snacks, and unconditional love.

Victor Frankenstein’s plans reach a new stage as his engineered beings move into the world. While Carson and Deucalion race to stop him, the story shifts between hunters and hunted, showing how easy it is to manufacture both life and cruelty.

An original graphic novel that blends noir-style mystery with supernatural menace, following a man pulled into a case that keeps getting stranger. It’s a fast, visual thriller built on mood, twists, and creeping dread.

A suspense novelist is attacked by a man who claims the author stole his life story—and won’t stop until he gets revenge. Forced into flight, the writer must survive a journey where fiction and reality blur in violent ways.

A tribute anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, set in Jack Vance’s far-future Dying Earth. The stories riff on tricky wizards, doomed bargains, and decadent cities, capturing the setting’s mix of dark humor, beauty, and menace.

A quiet couple’s trip turns unsettling when they meet a stranger with too many questions and a smile that never warms. This novella delivers a quick hit of paranoia and menace as daylight itself starts to feel unsafe.

Odd and his friends investigate a new mystery as Odd’s abilities sharpen and the darkness around him grows bolder. This graphic installment mixes teenage life with supernatural danger, showing how quickly one good deed can turn into a fight.

This January 2010 issue of Suspense Magazine includes a feature on Dean Koontz and is cataloged as containing work by Steve Berry. It is a magazine issue rather than a standalone Steve Berry or Koontz novel.

When Jinx the dachshund goes on vacation, Trixie the golden retriever tries to make new friends and discovers no one quite measures up. A sweet picture book about missing your best friend—and welcoming them back with joy.

When a detective’s childhood brush with a killer resurfaces, the case threatens his family and his sanity. As new violence echoes old crimes, he faces the possibility that the evil he thought he stopped years ago never really left.

At the luxury apartment building known as the Pendleton, residents with very different lives are thrown together by a sudden, reality-bending crisis. With escape cut off and the building turning hostile, they have to survive the night—and what comes after.

In the showdown with Victor Frankenstein, Carson O’Connor and Deucalion confront a city-sized plan built on new bodies and controlled minds. The battle is both physical and moral: stop a monster who thinks he’s saving humanity, or watch his future take hold.

Homeless boy Crispin and his dog, Harley, are taken in by a kind woman—until a mysterious new neighbor starts stalking the building. This novella is a tense prelude that sets the mood and danger for 77 Shadow Street.

Odd’s high school world is rocked when a strange new threat points to a larger evil moving through town. With danger closing in and adults missing the signs, Odd has to act fast—before the house of Odd comes down.

Odd follows a trail to a lavish estate where something unnatural is being collected—and weaponized. Surrounded by ghosts, monsters, and human greed, he must figure out what’s really in the menagerie before it’s unleashed.

Three linked stories drop Odd into three very different nightmares, from an eerie coastal house to a citywide danger. Each case tests his courage and compassion, and the strange rules of the unseen world he lives with.

Odd goes on the road and keeps stumbling into people who are about to die. With only his instincts and his gift, he tries to interrupt a chain of violence while the bodachs around him hint at a larger catastrophe.

A man born with a face that terrifies on sight has lived hidden from the world, convinced he’s protecting others. When he meets a woman in danger, their bond forces them into the open—and into a chase that tests what innocence really means.

A man who has lived in isolation since childhood ventures out and meets someone who makes him question everything he believes about himself. This short story introduces the emotional core and outsider theme that echoes through Innocence.

In the same playful spirit as the dog books, Anna offers humorous advice for humans on everyday problems, from manners to happiness. Short and light, it reads like a tongue-in-cheek pet column with warmth underneath.

Jonah Kirk grows up in a close-knit family with a gift for music and a life that seems blessed. But as he comes of age, he learns that darkness can touch even the brightest places—and that love and art aren’t always enough to stop it.

In 1967, Malcolm Pomerantz’s quiet life is disrupted by a new neighbor and a series of unsettling events that feel too strange to be coincidence. This short story is a compact mystery about secrets, suspicion, and the cost of looking closer.

A bonus Odd Thomas tale that mixes humor with a chill of the supernatural. Odd follows a small, strange clue that leads to an unexpected act of kindness—and a reminder that love and loss travel together.

Bibi Blair is told she’s dying, then receives a stranger’s challenge: find a woman named Ashley Bell and live. Following the clues takes her into a twisting conspiracy, where identity shifts, reality bends, and the biggest question is whether Ashley Bell is real.

Makani’s gift pulls her into a new crisis when she senses a terrible crime behind a stranger’s calm face. With only a friend to help, she has to track down an innocent victim before a predator notices she’s hunting him.

Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can learn people’s darkest secrets with a touch, and she tries to live gently to avoid what she sees. When she meets a dangerous man with his own terrifying talent, her gift becomes a weapon—and a liability.

Odd returns to Pico Mundo for a final confrontation with the darkness that has followed him for years. With old friends, old ghosts, and his own fate in play, he fights to protect the living one last time.

Edited by Brian James Freeman, this anthology gathers deleted scenes, related stories, fragments, and essays that writers created while working on other books. Dean Koontz contributes “When I Was Twenty-Four and Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth,” alongside work by Stephen King, Clive Barker, and others.

Joe Mandel is an ordinary college student with a habit of doing the right thing, until strange intuitions push him straight into danger. When he interrupts a crime in progress, he’s drawn into a battle between human courage and an unearthly evil.

FBI agent Jane Hawk goes off the grid after her husband’s shocking suicide and the hints of a bigger pattern behind it. Hunted by her own agency, she races to expose whoever is pushing people to self-destruct.

Still a fugitive, Jane Hawk closes in on the shadowy network behind a wave of unexplained deaths. Each clue leads deeper into surveillance and coercion, and her hunt becomes a race to stay alive long enough to prove the truth.

Before the Jane Hawk novels begin, this short prequel drops a driven FBI agent into a case with eerie overtones and high stakes. It’s a quick look at her instincts, her moral line, and the kind of danger she can’t ignore.

Jane Hawk tracks a lead that points to private labs and the people who profit from controlling minds. As she gathers allies, she has to decide who to trust while the conspiracy tightens its grip on everyone she loves.

Jane Hawk’s hunt turns personal as she confronts the forces that engineered her husband’s death and have been erasing others the same way. To reach the truth, she must break into the enemy’s inner circle without being erased herself.

Nameless is sent to a deadly assignment that looks simple on paper and impossible in real life. As he moves through violence and secrets, he relies on quick thinking, hard-earned skills, and a stubborn sense of decency.

Nameless takes on a case where memory is both clue and weapon. As he pieces together what happened, he has to decide what truths are worth exposing—because in this world, remembering can be the most dangerous act.

On a new mission, Nameless crosses paths with a photographer whose work intersects with murder and memory. The case pulls him into a grim landscape where the past won’t stay buried and the wrong picture can get you killed.

A seemingly small task turns brutal when Nameless encounters violence that doesn’t follow normal rules. With danger coming from both people and something harder to explain, he has to finish the job without losing the part of him that still feels human.

Nameless returns for another assignment and finds himself in the path of a threat that strikes fast and disappears. As he hunts answers, he’s forced to confront how little control anyone really has when fear becomes a tool.

A man who endured relentless bullying as a child believes he’s finally moved on—until a chance encounter suggests his tormentor has prospered unchecked. Torn between letting the past lie and exacting overdue justice, he discovers that revenge rarely plays out the way it’s imagined.

In the final push, Jane Hawk goes straight at the hidden power steering lives from the shadows. With enemies exposed at last, she risks everything to end the program—and survive the reckoning.

Nameless heads into a strange, intimate mystery where trust is the rarest currency. A marriage, a secret, and a predator’s patience collide, and he has to spot the trap before it snaps shut.

A single mother and her young son become the target of a predator that feels older and darker than a human killer. A stranger with a loyal dog steps in to help, turning the story into a fight about protecting the vulnerable at any cost.

A mystery begins with a loss and a message that shouldn’t be possible, sending people into the space between grief and the unknown. Koontz blends suspense and the supernatural as the living learn what lies elsewhere can still reach back.

A case twists tighter with every step, pulling Nameless into a spiral of deception and violence. He’s used to danger, but this time the real threat is how quickly the mission can turn him into the weapon someone else wants.

Nameless follows a lead that starts quietly and turns lethal, forcing him to face a killer who hides behind charm. The tension builds like a slow fuse, ending in a confrontation where mercy and survival don’t always match.

A fractured trail of clues pulls Nameless through shifting identities and half-truths, like looking at the same scene through a kaleidoscope. He has to find the real pattern before the people behind it decide he’s the loose end.

Nameless confronts an adversary who thrives in the unseen corners, while small acts of kindness become the only steady ground. This episode leans into moral choices and the cost of doing good work when the world keeps pushing back.

In this Nameless episode, the mission leads into a city that feels alive with secrets. As Nameless chases a missing person and a hidden enemy, he discovers how easy it is to lose yourself when no one knows your name.

A writer still haunted by the fiancée he lost years ago meets a woman who looks exactly like her. The resemblance opens a door to memory manipulation, secret research, and a mystery that makes him question what he actually lived—and what was planted.

Nameless narrows his focus on a target who has slipped past everyone else, and the hunt turns into a razor-edged countdown. When he finally closes in, he learns the truth behind the mission is bigger than the assignment he was given.

Abandoned as a baby and raised in unusual circumstances, Quinn Quicksilver grows into a man with a strange pull on the people around him. When he sets out to learn who he is, he’s hunted across the country—and helped by allies as odd as his fate.

A collection of Koontz stories that range from eerie roadside encounters to high-concept thrillers. These tales show his love of twisty plots, oddball humor, and ordinary people meeting the supernatural at the worst possible moment.

On a remote stretch of the American West, a small group fights to survive when a hidden threat turns their open sky into a trap. It’s a blend of travel tension, big landscapes, and the feeling that something is stalking just beyond the headlights.

Michael Mace wakes up after a catastrophe kills everyone at a secret facility, and discovers he’s not entirely alive—or entirely dead. With new, strange abilities and powerful enemies hunting him, he becomes a reluctant weapon in a battle between good and evil.

Artist Katie lives alone on Jacob’s Ladder island, trying to heal from devastating loss, when agents arrive asking about something they won’t name. On the nearby island of Ringrock, a secret research project breaks loose, and survival becomes the only plan.

Benny Catspaw loses his job, his reputation, and his fiancée in a single blow, then inherits a mysterious crate from an unknown uncle. Whatever’s inside comes with a promise: all will be well in time—but first, Benny has to survive what’s coming.

A fearless woman raised deep in the woods tries to live quietly until powerful men and a corrupt system close in. Forced to run and fight back, she relies on wilderness skills and stubborn courage as myth, violence, and love collide.

Three friends return to their childhood town when one of their group falls into a coma, and the trip cracks open memories they’d buried. In Maple Grove, the past isn’t past, and friendship may be the only thing that keeps them alive.

During the hard years of the Great Depression era, a girl is freed from a carnival sideshow and brought into a loving home—only to learn she has a mysterious role to play. As danger gathers, she fights for her family with courage and sacrifice.

Set in 1950, this forthcoming historical suspense novel follows a character who survives a tornado reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and begins a journey to find his lost family.