Joseph Finder Books in Order

Red Carpet explores how a small circle of American business leaders built close relationships with Soviet officials. Drawing on interviews and government files, Finder charts the deals, favors, and back channels that linked Wall Street money to Kremlin power.

When CIA Kremlinologist Charlie Stone reviews a smuggled tape hinting at a coup inside the Soviet leadership, he stumbles into a frame‑up and an international manhunt. To prove his innocence and stop the plotters, he has to follow the conspiracy back to Moscow.

After the CIA director—who is also his father‑in‑law—dies in a suspicious crash, lawyer and former agent Ben Ellison is pulled into a classified program studying telepathy. Hunting an exiled KGB chief and missing Russian gold, he discovers just how corrupt his own side may be.

Counterterrorism specialist Sarah Cahill is tracking a South African mercenary known as the Prince of Darkness when attacks strike at the heart of Wall Street. As the terrorist turns his sights on her young son, Sarah races to stop a plot built around the global financial system.

Harvard law professor and defense attorney Claire Heller Chapman sees her comfortable life shatter when her husband is arrested as a fugitive accused of a Central American massacre. Taking his case into a secret military court, she uncovers buried combat files and a dangerous cover‑up.

Twenty‑something tech employee Adam Cassidy is caught pulling an expensive stunt at work and offered a brutal choice: prison, or spying on his company’s biggest rival. Groomed as a rising star inside the competitor, he starts to enjoy the perks even as the lies close in.

Nick Conover, the embattled CEO of a hometown manufacturing giant, is dealing with layoffs, angry locals, and a stalker targeting his children. One desperate night leads to a death he can’t explain away, drawing the police and his own board of directors into a tightening noose.

Salesman Jason Steadman has charm but no edge until he befriends Kurt Semko, a volatile former Special Forces soldier. After Jason gets Kurt hired in corporate security, his rivals suffer a series of accidents and his career soars—until he realizes his new ally has become a lethal problem.

Junior executive Jake Landry is sent to a remote wilderness lodge with his company’s top brass, where supposedly harmless hunters crash the opening dinner and reveal themselves as hostage‑takers. Cut off from the outside world, Jake’s hidden past becomes the only real leverage the captives have.

When his sister‑in‑law is beaten and his estranged brother disappears from a Georgetown street, private intelligence operative Nick Heller starts asking questions. The search pulls him into the shadowy world of defense contracts and political influence, where family secrets collide with national security.

This collaborative thriller brings together The Chopin Manuscript and its sequel, The Copper Bracelet. A large group of suspense writers follows former war-crimes investigator Harold Middleton from a dangerous musical discovery to an international crisis that could trigger war between India and Pakistan.

Back in Boston with his own firm, Nick Heller is hired when a hedge‑fund titan’s teenage daughter is kidnapped and entombed underground, her ordeal streamed online. To find her before time runs out, Nick has to sort genuine ransom threats from the enemies circling her father.

In this Nick Heller novella, a teenage girl is being held inside a heavily guarded compound outside Barcelona. Nick’s job is to slip in, extract her, and disappear again, but when the first plan collapses he has to improvise fast inside hostile walls.

Edited by Brad Meltzer, this anthology presents twenty-one original mystery stories linked by the idea of a box holding secrets. The varied interpretations range from strongboxes and coffins to hidden knowledge; Joseph Finder contributes the story “Heirloom.”

Cold War tensions echo in the present when an old code name—Comrad 35—resurfaces during an investigation. As spies, ex‑agents and ordinary citizens collide, Deaver shows how unfinished operations and forgotten loyalties can still claim lives years later.

During a Yankees–Red Sox game in a Boston bar, drifter Jack Reacher and private spy Nick Heller realize the nervous man sitting between them is about to be targeted. What begins as small talk turns into a tight, violent showdown with a crew of would‑be enforcers.

Harry Bosch flies to Boston chasing a lead in a long-cold murder while local PI Patrick Kenzie hunts the same man over a missing seventh-grader. When their paths collide outside the suspect's house, each detective must trade information and instincts to solve both crimes.

This June 2014 issue of Suspense Magazine collects work by thriller writers including Eric Jerome Dickey and Joseph Finder. Available bibliographic records confirm their inclusion, but do not provide sufficient detail about the issue’s individual pieces.

Single father Danny Goodman accepts a seemingly generous loan from the wealthy father of his daughter’s best friend, just to keep her in an elite school. Moments after the money hits his account, federal agents reveal it belongs to a cartel and force him into spying to stay out of prison.

Down‑on‑his‑luck journalist Rick Hoffman retreats to his childhood home and discovers more than three million dollars hidden in a wall. Tracing the cash back to his now‑silent lawyer father and Boston’s old corruption, he finds himself hunted by people who thought that history was safely buried.

Nick Heller is called to Washington when a scandal site prepares to publish a story claiming the chief justice of the Supreme Court hired an escort. With only two days to knock it down, Nick follows the money behind the website and stumbles into murder and political sabotage.

Rushing through airport security, coffee entrepreneur Michael Tanner accidentally picks up a U.S. senator’s laptop loaded with classified files. Once he opens it, returning the machine is as risky as keeping it, and soon he’s being hunted by political fixers and national‑security operatives.

At a conference far from home, respected Boston judge Juliana Brody has a brief affair she assumes will stay secret. Back on the bench she discovers her lover working on a high‑profile case in her courtroom—and shadowy figures threaten to destroy her life if she rules the wrong way.

After an old army buddy dies from an overdose of a blockbuster opioid, Nick Heller is hired by the drug’s manufacturer’s rebellious daughter to find a suppressed study. Infiltrating the powerful Kimball family, he must navigate sibling rivalries and corporate spin to expose the truth.

Years after marrying the daughter of a charming Russian billionaire and joining the family’s investment firm, Paul Brightman is hiding in New England under a new name. When assassins finally track him down, he has to survive the hunt and untangle the conspiracy that began with his father‑in‑law’s money.