Douglas Kennedy Books in Order

In this wry travel book, Kennedy moves past postcard Egypt and into the country's stranger, livelier corners. He finds monasteries, cemeteries, oases, and everyday absurdities, building a portrait that is as interested in modern life as in ancient monuments.

Traveling through the American Bible Belt, Kennedy looks past headlines and asks why people embrace born-again faith. The journey takes him from Miami to Nashville to Death Row, mixing sharp reporting with curiosity about belief and American life.

Kennedy follows money across financial worlds in London, Wall Street, Singapore, Sydney, Budapest, and Casablanca. Part travel book and part social portrait, it asks what people worship when they chase wealth, status, and the promise of getting rich.

American journalist Nick Hawthorne heads into the Australian outback chasing a map and a chance to escape his stalled life. Instead he stumbles into a sun-blasted nightmare where isolation, bad luck, and human cruelty close in fast.

Ben Bradford gave up photography for the safer life of a lawyer, husband, and suburban success story. When that life starts collapsing, one terrible decision opens the door to reinvention, obsession, and a thriller built on stolen identity.

Ned Allen thinks he has made it in Manhattan, with a rising career, a smart apartment, and a successful wife. Then workplace pressure, ethical compromise, and deception push him into a spiral where ambition turns dangerous.

On Thanksgiving Eve 1945, Sara Smythe meets returning Army journalist Jack Malone at a Greenwich Village party. Their love unfolds under postwar optimism and then the shadow of McCarthyism, with consequences that echo through many lives.

Struggling screenwriter David Armitage gets the Hollywood break he has chased for years and quickly loses his footing. Success brings money, status, and reckless choices, until one seductive offer threatens everything he thinks he has won.

American journalist Sally Goodchild falls for British correspondent Tony Hobbs and follows him to London, where marriage and motherhood arrive faster than expected. Kennedy turns culture clash and domestic strain into a sharp story about love, trust, and survival.

Schoolteacher Hannah Buchan has built a calm life in small-town Maine, until a man from her radical youth reappears with a book and dangerous memories. The novel moves between the protest era and a more conservative America, asking what old choices really cost.

After scandal costs him his job and marriage, former professor Harry Ricks flees to a bleak Paris winter and takes work as a night watchman. Then a mysterious woman enters his life, and reality starts to tilt toward nightmare.

Jane, a Harvard professor who never planned on motherhood, sees her life split apart by a devastating turn of events. She disappears into a new community, only to be drawn back into danger when a young girl goes missing.

On Christmas Eve, Manhattan lawyer Erica is alone at the office, carrying the expensive ring left from a failed marriage. When her ex wants it back, one small conversation in the lobby nudges her toward a different idea of value.

A box from Berlin pulls Maine writer Thomas Nesbitt back to the divided city where he once fell deeply in love. As he revisits his affair with Petra during the Cold War, buried loyalties and losses return with full force.

Laura works in a Maine hospital and feels her marriage slipping into silence. A weekend conference in Boston brings an unexpected connection with a man who understands her, forcing both of them to ask whether a different life is still possible.

This short story follows a man who falls hard for Gitte, a glamorous Paris lawyer, and slowly realizes love has blurred his judgment. Kennedy keeps the focus tight on attraction, self-deception, and the moment a romance turns sour.

Robin travels to Morocco with her older husband, hoping the trip might repair their marriage and finally lead to pregnancy. When he vanishes and she becomes a suspect, the holiday turns into a disorienting chase through Casablanca and the Sahara.

Robin agrees to a trip to Morocco with her husband Paul, believing they might recover what their marriage has lost. When Paul disappears and betrayal surfaces, she is pulled into a tense search across Casablanca and the Sahara.

In 1980s New York, editor Alice Burns looks back on a family shaped by secrets, grief, class tension, and the upheavals of modern America. Her story moves from Connecticut to Ireland and back as private lives crack under public change.

Paris, early 1970s. Young American Sam falls into an afternoon affair with Isabelle, an older married woman he meets in a bookshop. What starts as a carefully bounded arrangement deepens into a love that follows him for decades.