Jake Adler Books in Order

Forensic psychiatrist Jake Adler leaves a quiet life in California wine country to assist an FBI hunt for a ritualistic murderer. The killer's taunting clues become increasingly personal, turning a national investigation into a psychological contest directed at Adler himself.

Murders targeting people in witness protection bring Jake Adler and agent Dan Huggard into an investigation shadowed by federal failures. Their opponent understands the system and communicates through each death, forcing Adler to interpret a mind as disciplined as his own.

A surgeon's murder and missing organs take Jake Adler and Dan Huggard to Minneapolis. Tracing connections within the transplant system reveals a killer whose belief in saving lives justifies taking others, making each discovery point toward another potential victim.

Ritual murders on the Massachusetts coast leave precisely arranged bodies marked by old wax seals. Jake Adler follows maritime history and inherited identities toward a doctrine of cleansing, discovering that the pattern may place him among the killer's intended targets.

As a hurricane approaches Florida, writers die in ways apparently dictated by their own stories. Jake Adler investigates a killer manipulating fiction and reality, only to realize that understanding the design may also mean recognizing his assigned role within it.

Disappearances leave puzzle-like rooms but no bodies, drawing Jake Adler and agent Dan Huggard toward a killer communicating through staged absences. Interpreting the spaces becomes their only means of understanding a larger design before another person is taken.

The deaths of judges lead FBI consultant Jake Adler toward concealed corruption connecting money, influence, and enforced silence. Finding the murderer is only part of the problem as exposing the network threatens consequences that extend beyond the immediate killings.

A dying serial killer offers information about a forgotten victim but insists on speaking only to Jake Adler. With no known connection to the man, Adler investigates why he was chosen and enters a psychological game rooted in decades of concealed events.

Repeated killings connected to Room 616 reveal a pattern of precise staging and specialized knowledge. Jake Adler and Dan Huggard follow deliberately placed clues, aware their opponent is anticipating the investigation and has already selected someone else to die.

Anonymous calls demand that recipients correct an unspecified wrong, followed by deaths disguised as accidents. Jake Adler realizes the warnings are central to the method and must identify who chooses the targets before another call's threatened consequence is carried out.

A seemingly motiveless killing brings Jake Adler and Dan Huggard to a Colorado town where the victim was widely liked. Further deaths suggest a grievance buried for decades, making local history the key to preventing another calculated act of revenge.

The murder of a respected forensic psychiatrist exposes secrets hidden within an apparently familiar life. Jake Adler's investigation repeatedly changes his understanding of the victim, leading toward a mysterious patient whom someone has worked carefully to remove from the record.

Children missing for years are discovered in the wilderness, revealing a killer who treats human survival as sport. Jake Adler pursues the person responsible, but stopping the hunt may require entering the deadly contest on its own unforgiving terms.