J Robert Janes Books in Order

A geology text that explains the ideas behind plate tectonics and the changing Earth. Janes uses his scientific training to make rocks, continents, earthquakes, and large-scale planetary processes easier to understand.

Janes's first novel for younger readers follows a group of boys caught up in a battle over a tree fort. What begins as a neighborhood conflict becomes a lively story about loyalty, rivalry, and growing up.

A nonfiction look at Canada's vast northern and wilderness regions. Drawing on Janes's geological background, the book introduces the landscapes, natural features, and human stories that shape the country's remote interior.

A theft draws young people into a dangerous mystery involving missing gold. This early Janes novel combines an adventure-driven setup with clues, mounting suspicion, and the need to act before the criminals get away.

The first Richard Hagen novel introduces the Antwerp diamond dealer in a tense European thriller. Hagen's work, contacts, and instinct for survival become essential as the political landscape around him grows increasingly dangerous.

Richard Hagen faces another suspenseful assignment in a Europe where information is dangerous currency. The novel continues Janes's interest in secret networks, shifting trust, and the personal risks behind political conflict.

A young adult mystery set around a market, where a murder puts young people close to danger. Janes builds the story around clues, suspicion, and the hard work of seeing what adults may have missed.

A summer on Georgian Bay promises freedom and fun, until a group of teenagers runs into mystery and danger. This young adult thriller turns a holiday setting into a test of courage and quick thinking.

Richard Hagen returns in a wartime suspense story where concealment can be as dangerous as discovery. As Nazi power spreads across Europe, his business knowledge and contacts draw him deeper into a world of secrets.

This Richard Hagen thriller follows a man navigating a Europe shadowed by Nazi expansion. Surveillance, uncertain loyalties, and the danger of being noticed turn ordinary professional connections into potential traps.

In 1937, Antwerp diamond dealer Richard Hagen tries to sabotage Nazi access to vital industrial diamonds. Posing as a friend of the Reich, he sends coded messages based on Alice in Wonderland while the Gestapo closes in.

After a young woman is found murdered in a Paris hotel, St-Cyr and Kohler follow counterfeit coins toward the city's wealthy elite. The victim's identity is false, and her killer has far more to hide than murder.

As Paris falls to the Germans, French inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr is paired with Gestapo detective Hermann Kohler. Their first case, an unidentified murdered man in a forest, exposes the brutal pressures of occupation.

A wealthy woman is killed with a crossbow in war-torn Provence. St-Cyr and Kohler find that the village's silence protects a black market, one the local people believe they need in order to survive.

A young woman answers a modeling advertisement and disappears, leaving behind photographs taken at gunpoint. St-Cyr and Kohler connect her case to a major bank robbery, knowing time is running out to find her alive.

A packed Lyon cinema burns, killing 183 people in a panic, and two women seen leaving early become crucial clues. St-Cyr and Kohler must identify the arsonists before they strike again in a frightened city.

A shopkeeper is beaten to death beside the fragments of a porcelain doll in occupied France. The obvious suspect is a celebrated U-boat commander with a dollmaking hobby, making St-Cyr and Kohler's case politically dangerous.

Near the Lascaux caves in the Dordogne, a postmaster's wife is found brutally murdered in the woods. St-Cyr and Kohler investigate as Nazi officials and a film crew descend on the important archaeological site.

A serial killer is murdering Parisian schoolgirls and leaving their bodies in plain sight. As Kohler grieves the loss of his own sons at Stalingrad, he and St-Cyr race to stop Sandman before another child dies.

A master safecracker steals industrial diamonds intended for the Reich, then rigs the safe to explode behind him. St-Cyr and Kohler hunt the thief known as Gypsy through occupied Paris, where the victims are powerful Nazis.

A Paris beekeeper is murdered after crossing a smuggling operation, then his hives are robbed. St-Cyr and Kohler follow the loss of honey and bees into a black-market conspiracy that could inflame the city.

A woman in Renaissance finery is found murdered in Avignon's Papal Palace during the occupation. St-Cyr and Kohler dig through the city's rivalries and history, where old grudges have found a new use in wartime.

In Vichy in 1943, the murder of a young woman linked to Marshal Pétain raises fears of an assassination plot. St-Cyr and Kohler are called in, only to find a darker and more complicated danger.

At an internment camp in the former resorts of Vittel, an American woman is found stabbed through the heart. St-Cyr and Kohler uncover a conspiracy among prisoners, guards, and desperate people trapped in a polished hell.

A river outing turns dangerous in this young adult suspense novel. Janes puts young characters in a fast-moving situation where careful observation, nerve, and trust matter as much as getting safely home.

A burglary, an assault, and a body in a cellar pull St-Cyr and Kohler into Paris's underworld. In the blackout and sleet of February 1943, the detectives suspect the crimes are part of one deliberate scheme.

After surviving Bergen-Belsen, Lily de St-Germain returns to a world that believes she is dead. Haunted by betrayal and her work in the Resistance, she sets out to confront those who abandoned and betrayed her.

A Northern Irish doctor's wife carries a letter for her German lover, only to learn it contains a coded message for the Nazi navy. To undo the damage, Mary Ellen Fraser must survive pressure from Britain, Germany, and the IRA.

St-Cyr and Kohler return to occupied Alsace, where a deserted carnival now houses a POW labor camp. Two suspicious suicides lead them toward a conspiracy shaped by war, industry, and old wounds from the Great War.

In autumn 1943, St-Cyr and Kohler investigate a ransacked bank cargo van and murdered passengers near a ruined abbey. Smuggled luxuries, an abandoned pair of heels, and old wartime memories point to a hidden killer.

American schoolteacher David Ashby flees Nazi Germany with his half-German daughter and hides in England. When German intelligence activates a sleeper agent, David must protect Karen while becoming caught in a secret war.

In occupied France, Angélique is arrested by the SS while protecting Martin, the silent boy she loves as a son. His mysterious past, and a small parachute, could expose both of them to deadly danger.