Elijah Chronicles Books in Order

The Elijah Chronicles is a modern suspense series written with Ray Bentley, and it feels very different from the Thoenes' older historical sagas. These books live in present-day Israel and the wider Middle East, where terrorism, prophecy, journalism, memory, and geopolitics all collide.

A key figure in the series is Jack Garrison, a man pulled from skepticism toward belief as events around him become harder to dismiss. Bette Deekmann is also central, especially as the books connect present danger to older crimes, family history, and the unfinished moral business of the twentieth century. Running through it all is the mysterious presence of Eliyahu, who opens the past in ways that make the future look newly urgent.

These are thrillers with a prophetic frame.

What links the books is the idea that Israel's history is not dead history. Ancient places, promises, and conflicts still shape the modern world, and the series keeps pushing that point through visions, attacks, political crises, and private reckonings. The result is part action novel, part spiritual warning, part guided tour through the long argument over what Israel means.

If you want contemporary religious suspense rather than classic historical fiction, the Elijah Chronicles is the branch of the Thoene bookshelf that goes there most directly.