J.H. Markert Books in Order

After a boy falls into a coma near an abandoned tunnel, strange murders suggest the passage leads into a monstrous dream world. His brother and a deputy confront a threat seeking to cross into waking life through vulnerable sleepers.

Murders begin reproducing scenes from Ben Bookman’s latest horror novel, turning the writer into a suspect. As detectives pursue the killer, Ben investigates gaps in his memory and the sinister history of the ancestral house where he finished the book.

Following a notorious killer’s execution, a new murderer targets the detective who captured him and abducts his granddaughter. The girl’s mother turns to the original case’s sole survivor, hoping his damaged memories can help bring her child home.

True-crime writer Ellie became obsessed with a serial killer after discovering that one victim looked exactly like her. Her efforts to identify forgotten victims draw her into the investigation, where her therapist’s arrest raises disturbing questions about the case.

Years after a boy’s massacre, his father begins digging into the soil of Crow Island. A mysterious compulsion spreads among the residents, exposing secrets and provoking violence as the island seems to demand something buried beneath their lives.

A condemned cult leader claims he secretly wrote a bestselling thriller series and offers a lost manuscript in exchange for a reprieve. A filmmaker and a cult survivor search for it while a kidnapping creates a deadly opposing demand.

A journalist returns to Kentucky in 1974 after his brother’s disclosure leads police to a buried body. Revisiting the racist killing that followed a high-school basketball victory, he uncovers secrets the town has spent a decade suppressing.