Jay Bonansinga Books in Order

Truckers Lucas Hyde and Sophie Cohen answer a desperate CB call from a motorist who claims he cannot stop moving without dying. Helping him draws them into the same supernatural curse, turning an ordinary delivery run into a fight for survival.

Doctors investigating a strange growth affecting dancer Sarah discover something more sinister than an ordinary medical condition. Sarah and a team of scientists attempt to destroy the evil force taking root within her, only to face an even deadlier cure.

Diagnosed with a terminal illness, professional assassin Joe Flood arranges a contract on his own life rather than endure a lingering death. When the diagnosis proves mistaken, he must survive the killers already competing to collect the bounty.

A severely injured man awakens with no memory of his identity, then escapes a visitor who claims to be his brother but tries to kill him. Private investigator Jessie Bales helps him uncover a past linked to dangerous people.

Psychic Charlotte Vickers has helped police find missing people, but a new client's vanished fiance presents a different problem. As she follows the trail, Charlotte discovers he is fleeing a threat that may put her own life in danger.

Disgraced former priest Martin Delaney is approached by a former altar boy, now a lawyer, to perform an exorcism. The apparently routine request conceals a secretive assignment that forces Delaney to confront both an evil presence and his damaged faith.

Detective Frank Janus struggles with insomnia, unexplained blackouts, and troubling nightmares while deaths begin to coincide with his sleep. Unsure whether someone is manipulating him or he is responsible, Frank fears his investigation may identify him as the killer.

This historical account reconstructs the 1915 capsizing of the Eastland at Chicago's riverfront, where workers and their families boarded for a company outing. Bonansinga focuses on the people caught in a disaster that unfolded while the vessel was still in port.

FBI profiler Ulysses Grove examines an ancient murder victim discovered frozen in Alaska and recognizes details matching a modern serial killer. Working with journalist Maura County, he investigates an impossible connection between prehistoric violence and his own unsolved case.

In this edition of Frozen, profiler Ulysses Grove's unusual ability to understand killers is faltering as the Sun City murderer strikes again. An Alaskan ice mummy offers a disturbing lead when its ancient injuries match the contemporary killer's methods.

The murder of a professor friend draws profiler Ulysses Grove to New Orleans, where ritual killings suggest a connection to a failed Mayan expedition. Grove and journalist Maura County investigate amid fears that another hurricane season could intensify the danger.

The Mississippi Ripper arranges victims in grotesque matching pairs, challenging FBI profiler Ulysses Grove to decipher the pattern. As the investigation grows personal, Grove must examine his own past while confronting a killer with resources that threaten those he loves.

A brutal killing in a crowded shopping mall contains a message intended specifically for profiler Ulysses Grove. Hunting a meticulous murderer obsessed with becoming history's greatest serial killer draws Grove toward a carefully designed trap and puts further lives at risk.

Bonansinga examines Allan Pinkerton's Civil War work protecting Abraham Lincoln and organizing Union espionage. The account follows the detective's network of agents operating behind Confederate lines and explores the development of an early federal intelligence and protection service.

In a future city permeated by magic, detective Eva Strange serves a secret police unit tasked with investigating dark sorcery. Known as Sevens, she follows a case that reveals a conspiracy threatening the structure of space and time.

Drawing on The Walking Dead, Jay Bonansinga discusses how a comic-book story can become prose fiction. His essay examines the shift between these storytelling forms and the work of translating a familiar fictional world into novels.

Jay Bonansinga gathers short stories and novellas spanning horror, crime, dark fantasy, and erotica. Tales including The Miniaturist, Animal Rites, and The Beaumont Prophecy explore unsettling events and dangerous impulses through a range of supernatural and psychological encounters.

Written with Danielle Gomes, this nonfiction account follows gaming investigator Dennis Gomes's pursuit of organized crime in Las Vegas. Audits become dangerous investigations as he uncovers casino corruption and later returns as a witness in a major mob trial.

Seventeen-year-old Lori Blaine's dreams repeatedly contain an ominous door, which she finally decides to enter. Discovering a surreal realm behind human dreams makes her a link between nightmare and reality, with consequences that threaten far more than her own sleep.

Heroin-dependent Johnny Fitzgerald accidentally becomes trapped in a deserted storage facility with his six-year-old son. Hunger, thirst, and withdrawal make survival increasingly difficult, while the building itself appears to harbor something darker than Johnny's terrifying hallucinations.

Chicago hit man Oswald Means promises his dying wife he will redeem himself by saving as many lives as he has taken. With a friend's help and a deadline approaching, his attempts at rescue become dangerous, darkly comic encounters.

A betrayed special-operations team accepts supernatural powers from the Devil to escape certain death. Instead of carrying out his plans, the five soldiers use their abilities to fight evil, while struggling to keep the infernal bargain from corrupting them.

The Devil’s Quintet use powers granted by Satan to fight evil, provoking their benefactor’s revenge. Five apparently saintly people become hosts for powerful demons, creating a rival team designed to destroy the Quintet and extinguish humanity’s remaining hope.