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Eric Wilson Books in Order

Browse Eric Wilson books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and tips on where to start with his suspense novels and film tie-ins.

Last updated: July 9, 2026

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19 books

Flywheel

by Eric Wilson

2003

Used-car dealer Jay Austin has built his life on pressure, shortcuts, and the next sale. When everything starts falling apart at home and at work, he has to decide whether success is worth losing his family and integrity.

Dark to Mortal Eyes

by Eric Wilson

2004

Josee Walker travels to meet the birth parents she never really knew and finds a family already cracking apart. When her mother vanishes and an ancient evil stirs, the search for truth turns into a supernatural fight for survival.

Expiration Date

by Eric Wilson

2005

Back in his Pacific Northwest hometown, Clay Ryker hopes for a reset after wrecking his business and marriage. Instead he starts seeing when people will die and gets dragged into a serial killer case tied to his own buried guilt.

The Best of Evil

by Eric Wilson

2006

Trying to leave violence behind, Aramis Black opens an espresso shop in Nashville. Then a man is murdered in front of him, pulling Aramis into family secrets, a centuries-old conspiracy, and a hard fight with his own past.

A Shred of Truth

by Eric Wilson

2007

Aramis Black thought his worst secrets were behind him, until his brother is found attacked in Nashville with a message carved into his back. A violent enemy forces Aramis to face old sins before they destroy what is left of his family.

Facing the Giants

by Eric Wilson

2007

Coach Grant Taylor is running out of time, wins, and reasons to hope. As pressure builds at school and at home, he must decide what kind of leader he wants to be when every sign says he should fail.

Field of Blood

by Eric Wilson

2008

When work crews disturb burial caves near Jerusalem, an ancient evil tied to Judas's blood awakens. Gina Lazarescu and the mysterious Cal Nichols are drawn into a brutal supernatural struggle with human lives and history at stake.

Fireproof

by Eric Wilson

2008

Firefighter Caleb Holt can rescue strangers, but he has no idea how to save his own marriage. A challenge from his father pushes him toward honesty, sacrifice, and a last attempt to win back his wife.

Haunt of Jackals

by Eric Wilson

2009

Wounded but still in the fight, Gina Lazarescu keeps running from the blood-soaked forces tied to Akeldama. As the hunt spreads across Europe and the Middle East, she and Cal Nichols face deeper betrayals and a widening war.

Valley Of Bones

by Eric Wilson

2010

Gina Lazarescu has already given up too much to survive the war tied to Akeldama. As ancient enemies regroup and prophecy tightens its grip, she and her allies race toward a final clash over blood, loyalty, and hope.

One Step Away

by Eric Wilson

2011

Bret and Sara Vreeland finally catch a break when a fortune drops into their lives. But sudden success brings suspicion, spiritual pressure, and hidden danger, turning a dream blessing into a hard test of what they truly trust.

2 Seconds Late

by Eric Wilson

2012

After a chance meeting at a Nashville book festival, Natalie Flynn starts dating rising politician Reuben Black. Soon she is pulled into a web of dangerous surveillance technology, political secrets, and moral choices that could cost lives.

Alice Goes the Way of the Maya

by Eric Wilson

2012

Seventy-year-old novelist Alice Brimble heads to Central America with her young assistant to research a book. Instead they stumble into conspiracies, danger, and end-times chatter, in a brisk adventure with a lively older heroine.

Amelia's Last Secret

by Eric Wilson

2012

This short adventure imagines fresh answers to Amelia Earhart's disappearance. Mixing mystery, espionage, and island intrigue, Wilson plays with the theories surrounding her final flight without losing sight of the woman at the center of them.

October Baby

by Eric Wilson

2012

College student Hannah Lawson learns she is adopted and the survivor of an attempted abortion. A road trip to uncover the truth about her birth becomes a painful, hopeful search for identity, forgiveness, and family.

Taming the Beast

by Eric Wilson

2014

Written with Rory Holloway, this nonfiction book follows Mike Tyson from troubled teenager to global boxing star. It focuses on the people around him, the chaos inside Team Tyson, and the cost of living near such explosive fame.

Samson

by Eric Wilson

2018

Wilson retells the biblical story as a fast-moving novel, following gifted, impulsive Samson as he rises against Philistine rule and drifts from his calling. Betrayal strips him bare and forces one final act of faith.

Three Fatal Blows

by Eric Wilson

2020

After his sister is killed by an internet predator, an undercover police officer goes hunting for answers. The deeper he gets, the more he has to decide whether he wants justice, revenge, or something far harder to live with.

American Leftovers

by Eric Wilson

2023

In this memoir, Eric Wilson and his siblings revisit a childhood shaped by Bible-smuggling trips, church culture, and family collapse. It's a candid story about faith, damage, memory, and the hard work of making sense of home.

Where should I start?

If you want supernatural suspense: Dark to Mortal EyesExpiration Date
If you want a flawed antihero in Nashville: The Best of EvilA Shred of Truth
If you want biblical horror and big stakes: Field of BloodHaunt of JackalsValley Of Bones
If you want modern moral thrillers: One Step Away2 Seconds LateThree Fatal Blows
If you want emotional movie tie-ins: Facing the GiantsFlywheelFireproofOctober Baby

Author bio

Eric Wilson grew up between places. He was born in California and raised in Oregon, but some of his strongest early memories came from time overseas with missionary parents. Those years around Eastern Europe, during an era when his parents smuggled Bibles, gave him a lasting feel for border crossings, risk, and the strange way faith and fear can sit side by side.

Travel got into his system early.

From an early age, he wanted to write. The urge was there long before the career was. Before novels started reaching readers, he moved through other kinds of work, spent time in ministry, and kept gathering the sort of details that would later make his fiction feel lived-in instead of neatly manufactured. His books rarely sound like they were built in a vacuum. They sound like they came from a writer who has seen enough of people to know that nobody is simple for very long.

His first published novels, Dark to Mortal Eyes and Expiration Date, introduced the blend that would become familiar in his fiction. He likes ordinary people with damaged histories. He likes spiritual pressure that feels personal. He likes suspense that keeps moving even while the characters are wrestling with guilt, family strain, and the possibility that the visible world is only part of the story. In Dark to Mortal Eyes, a search for family truth becomes a supernatural crisis. In Expiration Date, Clay Ryker comes home and starts seeing when people will die.

He followed those books with The Best of Evil and A Shred of Truth, which center on Aramis Black, a man trying to build a quieter life in Nashville after years shaped by violence. Readers who click with Wilson often respond to that kind of lead character. His protagonists are rarely polished. They are bruised, stubborn, and capable of making bad choices. They also keep reaching for redemption, even when they are not sure they deserve it.

Then he went bigger.

That wider scale shows up in the Jerusalem's Undead trilogy, beginning with Field of Blood and continuing through Haunt of Jackals and Valley Of Bones. Those novels mix biblical history, horror, action, and prophecy in a way that is unusual even within faith-based suspense. Wilson also reached a much larger audience through movie novelizations such as Facing the Giants, Flywheel, Fireproof, October Baby, and later Samson. Those books helped make him a New York Times bestselling author, while still keeping his usual interest in failure, forgiveness, calling, and second chances.

His later work widened again. Taming the Beast, written with Rory Holloway, steps into the orbit of Mike Tyson and the chaos around Team Tyson. Much later, American Leftovers, written with his siblings Heidi Wilson Messner and Shaun Wilson, turned inward. That memoir revisits their childhood, family collapse, church culture, and the long process of making sense of what faith and family had done to them.

Wilson lives in Nashville with his wife, songwriter Carolyn Rose. They have two grown daughters, and family life, travel, and a love of the outdoors have all fed the way he writes. However different the plots may look on the surface, most Eric Wilson books come back to the same plain question: what does a person do when the life they built stops making sense?

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