Jake Crowley Adventures Books in Order

Jake Crowley lives in a darker corner of David Wood's fiction. These books still move like adventures, but the atmosphere is heavier, stranger, and more openly occult. Secret orders, lost journals, graveyards, cursed relics, and buried histories all matter here, but the real hook is the partnership between Jake and Rose Black as they keep stumbling into things sensible people would leave alone.

The series begins before the main run, with Sanctum.

That novella shows Jake trying to outrun his past by teaching in an English village, only to collide with Black Shuck and a secret society with roots in Roman times. From there, Blood Codex throws him together with Rose in London, where a rescue on the street becomes a much larger conspiracy. Anubis Key widens the map with pyramids, lost cities, and cultists, while Revenant drags the story into New York's buried spaces and an eerie mystery tied to Edgar Allan Poe.

Jake is a good lead for this kind of material because he is capable without feeling invincible. He can handle himself, but he is never so comfortable that the danger stops working. Rose brings her own drive and intelligence, and together they give the series a little more emotional pull than a straight puzzle-box thriller would have on its own.

Tone matters a lot here. These are not cozy occult mysteries. The books are fast, but they are also moody. Cemeteries, tunnels, forgotten chambers, ancient cults, and half-buried manuscripts keep turning up. Even when the action gets loud, there is usually something unsettling underneath it.

If Dane Maddock is Wood's open-sky adventure line, Jake Crowley is the lamp-lit version, more ritual, more dread, more danger hiding in old stories. Readers who like their thrillers with secret history and a strong supernatural shiver should feel right at home here.