Kevin Brooks Books in Order

On a small island, Caitlin is drawn to Lucas, a mysterious outsider who seems almost unreal. Their brief, intense connection stirs up jealousy, prejudice, and fear, and turns one summer into something unforgettable.

After his abusive father dies during an argument, Martyn faces a terrible choice, call the police or hide the body. Each lie makes things worse, and his darkly funny survival plan starts spinning out of control.

Bored fifteen-year-old Finn Black is watching TV with his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather when an armed robber bursts in. What follows is a tense stand-off that exposes family greed, betrayal, and Finn's own breaking point.

Moo Nelson keeps his head down until he witnesses, or thinks he witnesses, a car chase and a murder. Suddenly everyone wants something from him, and truth becomes more dangerous than lying.

Joe falls for Candy the moment he sees her, and at first their connection feels simple and bright. Then he sees the danger around her, and love becomes a fight against addiction, violence, and false hope.

Keith and Sally head to the Rock Out festival feeling let down by ordinary life. A pair of VIP passes, a stack of lies, and a sudden spark between them turn the weekend into a funny, messy romance.

Gang war looms on the Foster Estate, but Johnny has one obsession, finding who killed his father and why. His hunt for answers pulls him into old loyalties, family secrets, and danger high above the streets.

Johnny decides to become a private detective on his rough estate. A simple spying job on local bad boy Lee Kirk turns nasty fast, and Johnny ends up running from a murder charge he never saw coming.

When his sister Rachel is found strangled far from home, Ruben joins his older brother Cole to retrace her last days. Their road trip becomes a raw search for truth, revenge, and what bound the three siblings together.

Robert Smith goes into hospital for routine tests and wakes to discover something impossible inside his body. Hunted by armed agents and unsure if he is even human, he runs for his life and for answers.

Pete Boland expects a lazy summer until old friends call him to the funfair. One long night brings back buried grudges, jealousy, and secrets, and the reunion slides toward something dark and irreversible.

Dawn's father vanished after a religious awakening that wrecked the family he left behind. Angry, sharp-eyed, and tired of easy answers, she starts asking what it would mean to put God on trial.

Haunted PI John Craine still cannot get past his wife's murder. When Anna Gerrish goes missing, a routine job turns into a personal case full of corruption, lies, and echoes of the night that broke him.

After an attack leaves phone fragments lodged in his brain, Tom Harvey wakes with strange new abilities. He can see and know things no one should, and he must decide what to do with that power.

In the blistering London summer of 1976, Lili joins a rising punk band called Naked and falls under the spell of its wild frontman. Then a quieter guitarist enters the picture, bringing music, desire, and trouble from Belfast.

Trying to escape his past on Hale Island, John Craine finds what looks like a dead girl on the beach. When the body vanishes, he is pulled into a closed community ruled by fear and buried secrets.

Linus wakes up in an underground bunker with no way out and no idea who put him there. As more captives arrive, his diary becomes a record of fear, survival, and a nightmare that keeps tightening.

John Craine is hired to look into the murder of Jamaal Tan, a Somali teenager the police seem eager to dismiss. Then his mentor dies, and two troubling cases merge into his most personal investigation yet.

Trying to rebuild his life, Travis Delaney gets dragged into trouble when his partner Courtney is attacked during a routine inquiry. School thefts, gang violence, and betrayal soon point to a conspiracy much closer to home.

After his parents die in a car crash, Travis Delaney starts digging into the last case from their detective agency. What begins with a missing boy soon makes him question whether the crash was ever an accident.

Cassidy has always been strange, and getting on his bad side is a mistake. When boredom and cruelty start to curdle into violence, one bad day reveals how destructive a friendship can become.

Jack is ordinary until Dean crashes into his life, reckless, magnetic, and hungry for more danger than most people can handle. Their friendship, and the band they form, starts thrillingly and ends somewhere much darker.

Travis thinks he is finally close to the truth about his parents' deaths. Then terrorists storm Delaney & Co, he is abducted, and he must choose between saving himself and saving someone he loves.

Elliot has spent his life trapped by extreme fear and barely leaves his room. When his mother fails to come home in a snowstorm, he must face the outside world, not knowing criminals are already closing in.

Brothers Cole and Ruben walk into a shabby pub expecting an ordinary errand and find gangsters, a girl, and a monkey in a cage. Soon they are on the run north, caught in a wild chase they never wanted.

Lili Garcia stands at the edge of London's new punk scene in 1976, playing bass in a band called Naked. Fame, obsession, and a mysterious guitarist from Belfast push her toward choices that could change everything.

Jeet was raised by wild dogs in a broken future where survival is never guaranteed. When war, betrayal, and another lost child force him back into the wild, he must decide where he truly belongs.

After a rare condition leaves Kenzie's skin transparent, she becomes a viral spectacle she never asked for. Hiding from public scrutiny, she searches for answers and finds an unexpected connection with a boy who cannot see her.

This collection brings together Johnny's first two cases. He starts with a reckless spying job, then digs into his father's murder, as gang violence and bad choices close in around him.