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Ian CP Irvine Books in Order

Browse Ian CP Irvine books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and suggestions on where to start across his thrillers and speculative fiction.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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21 books

The Crown of Thorns

by Ian CP Irvine

2011

Oxford student Jason Dyke chases an idea that could overturn religion and geopolitics, cloning Jesus from DNA on the Crown of Thorns. Genetics, espionage, and power struggles turn one academic project into a dangerous international race.

The Orlando File

by Ian CP Irvine

2011

When six top geneticists die in suspicious circumstances, former cop turned journalist Kerrin Graham goes after the truth. The trail leads to a secret treatment, a missing file, and a moral choice with enormous consequences.

London 2012

by Ian CP Irvine

2012

James Quinn wakes to a London that looks familiar but is profoundly wrong, his office has vanished, his family is gone, and his dead father is alive. The result is a reality-bending thriller about parallel worlds and second lives.

Free to Infect, First to Die

by Ian CP Irvine

2013

Captain Rob McGregor and his displaced pirate crew are stranded in the modern Caribbean, where a hostage standoff collides with a terrifying new plague. What starts as time-travel adventure quickly becomes a fight for survival.

Haunted from Within

by Ian CP Irvine

2013

After reporter Peter Nicolson survives a brutal attack through a double kidney transplant and experimental treatment, he begins seeing visions of unsolved murders. His hunt for the killer opens into a dark medical conspiracy with unsettling questions about identity.

The Messiah Conspiracy

by Ian CP Irvine

2013

Jason Dyke's cloning plan moves from theory toward a world-changing reality, and intelligence agencies close in fast. Faith, politics, and genetic science collide as rival powers try to control the outcome.

The Sleeping Truth

by Ian CP Irvine

2013

In London after the July 7 bombings, one person's search for love and certainty is shattered by the suspicion that an entire life may be built on lies. The suspense comes from trust, grief, and the slow unravelling of identity.

Time Ship

by Ian CP Irvine

2013

Captain Rob McGregor and his pirate crew steal a legendary treasure, then an electrical storm throws them into 2014. Their arrival at a Puerto Rican resort sparks a hostage crisis and a deadly plague threat.

Susie's Story

by Ian CP Irvine

2014

As Peter Nicolson follows eerie clues and corporate secrets, Susie is drawn into the same widening nightmare after her father's dying words leave too many questions behind. Ghostly sightings, kidnapping, and a hidden file keep the pressure high.

Sofia Meets Wiziwam the Wizard

by Ian CP Irvine

2015

Sofia meets the wizard Wiziwam and steps into a gentle magical adventure built for younger readers. It is a light fantasy about curiosity, courage, and staying calm when the impossible suddenly feels real.

I Spy, I Saw Her Die

by Ian CP Irvine

2016

Cyber-security expert Ray Luck sees something online he was never meant to witness, and suddenly he is being hunted from all sides. To survive, he must save his kidnapped girlfriend and stop a conspiracy that reaches toward government.

I Spy, I Saw Her Die - Book Two

by Ian CP Irvine

2016

Ray Luck stays on the run as the evidence he uncovered threatens people powerful enough to bury murder and topple lives. The second half turns the pressure up on the cyber plot, the cover-up, and his fight to save the woman he loves.

The Assassin's Gift

by Ian CP Irvine

2018

Salvador is a legendary assassin until a strange meeting by Loch Ness leaves him with the power to heal. Forced to rethink a life built on killing, he becomes both more dangerous and more vulnerable.

Get Writing!

by Ian CP Irvine

2019

Irvine lays out a practical, encouraging method for planning, drafting, and finishing a novel. It is a straightforward guide for people who want to stop thinking about writing and actually get a book done.

Remember Me?

by Ian CP Irvine

2020

Two teachers are murdered within hours, and DCI McKenzie returns to duty straight into a killer's game. With a school reunion underway and more deaths looming, he must outthink a murderer who seems always one step ahead.

Am I Dead?

by Ian CP Irvine

2021

James Quinn's search for his missing wife and daughters continues in a world that keeps becoming harder to understand. With London emptied, millions dead, and fresh clues appearing, the series grows darker and more urgent.

Who Stole My Life?

by Ian CP Irvine

2021

James Quinn goes to work and finds that his office, his company, and the life he knew have disappeared. As strangers occupy his home and his dead father returns, he is forced into a desperate search for his missing family.

Say You're Sorry

by Ian CP Irvine

2022

A careless act by Scottish crime lord Tommy McNunn sets off a chain reaction involving an old man, a call-centre worker, and DCI Campbell McKenzie. What starts small grows into a sharp crime thriller about power, pride, and payback.

See Them Dead

by Ian CP Irvine

2022

Peter Nicolson is pulled into a case that mixes the dead, the missing, and a secret powerful interests will kill to protect. This eerie thriller blends conspiracy, investigation, and a creeping sense that the world is becoming stranger.

The Kill Switch

by Ian CP Irvine

2022

Ray Luck is asked to help MI5 and MI6 stop a string of devastating cyber attacks. Chasing the elusive Sebastian, he faces a threat aimed not just at one target, but at the fragile systems modern life depends on.

The Kill Switch - Book Two

by Ian CP Irvine

2022

Ray Luck's battle with Sebastian continues as the cyber attacks grow deadlier and the room for error disappears. This follow-up leans into digital paranoia, covert operations, and the fear that hidden systems can be turned against everyone.

Where should I start?

If you want biotech conspiracy thrillers: The Crown of ThornsThe Messiah Conspiracy
If you prefer Scottish police thrillers: Say You're SorryThe Assassin's GiftRemember Me?
If you like eerie medical suspense: Haunted from WithinSusie's StorySee Them Dead
If you want cyber conspiracy and surveillance danger: I Spy, I Saw Her DieI Spy, I Saw Her Die - Book TwoThe Kill Switch
If you want reality-bending suspense: London 2012Who Stole My Life?Am I Dead?

Author bio

Ian CP Irvine grew up in Scotland and spent a lot of time studying physics before fiction took over. Long before he was publishing thrillers, he was working in high-technology companies and travelling widely for the job. He has said that much of his career went into helping build the internet, alongside bringing up a family.

Science came first.

That matters because his books usually start with a real idea and then push it into a tense, human problem. He likes taking something grounded in genetics, cyber security, medicine, or physics and asking the kind of question that can carry a story for hundreds of pages. He has also said he wants readers to come away having learned something they would not normally have picked up.

Writing seems to have grown alongside the day job rather than replacing it overnight. In a 2019 piece about his own process, he explained that he wrote and published Haunted from Within in just five months while still working, which tells you a lot about his practical streak. He is not precious about waiting for the perfect moment. He plans, writes, and gets the book done.

His early novels show the pattern clearly. The Orlando File turns stem cell research into a conspiracy thriller. The Crown of Thorns asks what might happen if scientists tried to clone Jesus from genetic material on a holy relic. London 2012 moves away from biotech and into parallel worlds, following a man forced to confront the life he has and the lives he might have lived.

He likes big questions, but he wraps them in chase scenes, secrets, and people under pressure.

Readers who come to Irvine through crime fiction often start with the DCI McKenzie books. Say You're Sorry, The Assassin's Gift, and Remember Me? mix murder investigation with cybercrime, moral knots, and a very Scottish sense of place. He also writes technology-driven thrillers such as I Spy, I Saw Her Die and The Kill Switch, where the danger comes through screens, surveillance, intelligence services, and the uneasy feeling that modern systems are never as secure as we hope.

He has never stuck to one lane for long. There is the eerie medical mystery of Haunted from Within, the time-bending pirate adventure of Time Ship, the reality-warping Who Stole My Life? and Am I Dead?, and even children's fantasy in Sofia Meets Wiziwam the Wizard. He also wrote Get Writing!, a plainspoken guide for would-be novelists, which fits the rest of his career rather well. He seems to enjoy making the whole business of writing feel possible.

Outside books, he has mentioned painting and composing as part of ordinary life, not as some grand author pose. That detail fits his work. For all the large premises and international stakes, there is something workmanlike about the way he talks about story, build the idea, see the end, sit down, write it. By the late 2010s, his books had already been downloaded well over a million times, and he has kept adding titles across thriller, crime, speculative fiction, and children's adventure.

If there is a simple way into Ian CP Irvine, it is this: he writes thrillers for readers who like a strong hook, a scientific or technical angle, and a story that keeps asking, could this happen sooner than we think?

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