Kevin Tumlinson Books in Order

A practical guide meant to make the college process feel less mysterious and less overwhelming. Tumlinson breaks things down into clearer decisions for students and families trying to plan well.

Humanity has spread into space, survived war, and built a fragile future among the stars. When a stranded colony faces sabotage and collapse, survival may depend on trust between old enemies.

A short standalone story built around escape, reinvention, and the cost of disappearing. The farther its lead tries to get from the past, the more unfinished business comes with them.

The survivors of First Colony face a divided mind, a failing return ship, and the emergence of a new species. Victory has not made life safer, it has only opened a stranger set of problems.

This short speculative piece leans into identity, pressure, and what remains human when the world starts treating a person more like a machine than a life. It moves quickly and leaves a sting.

Charlie Dustin has spent years drifting through Europe to avoid his old life. Then a sharp, dishonest woman named Elle crashes into his orbit, and running away stops being the simple answer.

The Citadel tower is in ruins, the lightrail network is under threat, and a child with vast power may decide the fate of humans and Esool alike. The trilogy closes on a much larger battlefield.

Sixteen-year-old Sawyer Jackson is pulled into the Long Land, where he learns he is one of the Teth, able to manipulate the knotwork of reality. Saving everyone else may cost him more than he expects.

Sawyer's path leads toward the Shadow Strait, the void between realities that no one returns from. As Aeodymus looms larger, allies grow uncertain and every choice feels more dangerous.

A playful short tale about a girl, a monster, and the trouble that starts when the impossible turns up too close to home. It has the feel of a quick, odd little adventure.

A brief urban story about how a short distance can hide a much larger emotional gap. It works through movement, memory, and the hard act of finally crossing over.

A straightforward writing guide built around daily habit, momentum, and finishing what you start. Tumlinson's focus is simple: write regularly, stop overcomplicating the process, and get the book done.

Charles Martins serves his sentence inside a body suit that functions as both prison and life support. Volunteering for deadly work in the Red Zone may finally get him free, if the truth beyond the edge does not break him first.

Jaylin Rowlin can absorb everything a person knows with a single touch. Hiding under the codename Evergreen, he takes a job that drags him into espionage, deadly attention, and the question of who owns a power like his.

Matt Decker walks away from a weapons-minded think tank and forms a new team built to do real good. Their first major test is finding a missing blogger before the trail in Vermont goes cold for good.

The Think Tank crew is pushed into a fast-moving mission shaped by uncertainty, movement, and shifting loyalties. It keeps the series focused on smart people solving dangerous problems without the luxury of stable ground.

Adam Bolland works at a water treatment facility and thinks he knows his life. Then his family and coworkers start acting strangely, and a mysterious chemical sends him running to learn what is really in the water.

Adam is on the run, his family has been taken, and time is running out. The second episode turns the mystery into a chase as he tries to expose what someone is desperately hiding.

Captain Somar boards a captured human vessel and begins to question the endless war between their species. When a surprising cargo changes the mission, he risks everything for the chance at peace.

This short piece is shaped by memory, burden, and the people who stay with us whether we invited them or not. Quiet at first, it builds its weight through what cannot be put down.

Matt Decker and his team face another high-risk crisis where intelligence, ethics, and speed matter more than brute force. The pressure is immediate, and small mistakes have room to become very large disasters.

Sylar only wanted to impress the guys, and now he is hurtling through space in a homemade craft with his life coming apart. This short Citadel story mixes humor, panic, and one very bad decision.

Alex Kotler charges a dollar to solve mysteries, but this case is bigger than lost homework or missing bikes. A new girl's stolen diamond sword draws him into a real adventure, and other people want it too.

Mysterious stones linked to Thomas Edison, Vietnam, and a corrupt empire send Dan Kotler toward the legend of Atlantis. Solving the riddle may be the only way to stop a modern disaster.

A Celtic tomb in the mountains of Egypt draws Dan Kotler into an impossible historical puzzle. The deeper he follows it, the more dangerous the truth behind the Brass Hall becomes.

A stolen medallion suggests Vikings reached deep into North America and found more than history admits. Dan Kotler becomes the FBI's prime suspect and has to solve the mystery before a terrorist weaponizes it.

Adam's fight to save his family and uncover the truth behind the spreading crisis reaches a breaking point. The final episode pushes the conspiracy wider as survival becomes harder by the minute.

A compact speculative story about what is left when every safety net is stripped away. Tumlinson builds tension around the idea of starting from nothing and discovering that nothing is never really empty.

Beyond the Long Land and beyond the Omniverse, Sawyer faces the White Room and the final push against Aeodymus. To save reality, he may have to leave everyone else behind and walk into the unknown alone.

A murdered philanthropist leaves behind one clue, Devil's Interval, and Dan Kotler soon finds a buried technology tied to history's greatest minds. If it falls into the wrong hands, billions could pay for it.

A forged Antarctic map hides the trail to a secret so dangerous even Hitler wanted it. Dan Kotler and Roland Denzel race a brilliant crime lord for a weapon no one should control.

The remains of a missing Broadway star are found inside a sealed Mayan tomb, reopening a mystery no one can explain. Dan Kotler must survive deadly traps and stop something dangerous from leaving the temple behind.

Tumlinson breaks down how to write sharper, more persuasive copy for your own books. It is a focused guide to blurbs that hook readers quickly without sounding forced or generic.

A sacred site in Egypt and an ancient bronze sword point toward the possibility of the Otherworld itself. Dan Kotler and Roland Denzel must stop a cult from turning myth into global power.

Dan Kotler uncovers an ancient hidden order that has shaped history from behind the scenes for centuries. When a radical faction moves to tighten its grip, the cost becomes personal as well as global.

Clues hidden since World War II lead Dan Kotler toward a secret vault buried in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. If the wrong people reach its artifacts first, history's darkest obsessions could become a modern catastrophe.

Two professors are abducted, and a mysterious manuscript may be the key to a sealed chamber beneath Manhattan. Dan Kotler must solve a deadly labyrinth of riddles before the hostages run out of time.

A practical nonfiction guide for writers who want stronger prose, sharper storytelling, and better habits at the keyboard. Tumlinson focuses on craft choices that help a draft read cleaner and land harder.

Wanted for murder and espionage, Alex Kayne survives with skill, nerve, and her powerful AI tool, QuIEK. When a young woman's advanced prosthetic arm is stolen, Alex risks everything to get it back.

The sacred bones of Saint Nicholas are stolen in broad daylight, and Dan Kotler is sent to help recover them. Out of jurisdiction and short on backup, he and Roland Denzel chase relic thieves through a dangerous holiday case.

Dan Kotler's grandfather resurfaces with stolen genetic samples and a plan to resurrect gods and kings of legend. The trail leads to Gobekli Tepe, where family history and forbidden science become the same nightmare.

Dan Kotler is pulled into a hidden conflict that has been gathering force out of sight for years. As old enemies move through history's shadows, he has to uncover the plan before the war fully wakes.

Alex Kayne takes up the case of a cop framed for a crime and uncovers corruption reaching all the way into Congress. Every move puts her closer to powerful enemies and closer to capture.

Alex Kayne is blackmailed into breaking into the Boston Literary Archives for a rare manuscript. With one client's life on the line and an enemy AI guarding the prize, she has only a week to escape the trap.

A short story collection that ranges from science fiction and horror to quieter literary pieces and stranger experiments. It is a good sampler of Tumlinson's range outside the longer series.

A lost plutonium core thought gone forever resurfaces in the hands of a man bent on revenge. Dan Kotler and Roland Denzel race to stop a nuclear threat before Washington, D.C., becomes the price of buried secrets.

A standalone about modern adulthood, awkward timing, and the strange pressure of being the last unattached person in the room. It leans into humor, vulnerability, and the quiet panic of wondering if everyone else figured life out first.

When Clara Rivers vanishes inside a buried government facility in New Mexico, Dan Kotler is called in to follow the clues. Alex Kayne joins the hunt, and an ancient stone leads them toward a killer hiding deep underground.

This standalone turns on expectations gone sideways, where emotions refuse to follow the season people planned for. It is a quieter story about relationships, memory, and the way life can feel out of place even in familiar weather.

A sharp, modern speculative story about information warfare and the damage ideas can do once they start spreading faster than facts. It treats culture itself like the battlefield.

Alex Kayne investigates patent thefts that point to a powerful technologist with too much reach. As Agent Eric Symon's art-theft case collides with hers, the fallout threatens Kayne, Symon, and Historic Crimes itself.

Jim Ryker wants a quiet life, but the CIA needs one last mission from him. A world-changing weapon, a tortured friend, and a hostile country force him back into action with no margin for error.

Dan Kotler heads to China's Huashan mystery caves expecting unusual history and finds something far more dangerous. With Alex Kayne taking her first case for Historic Crimes, both end up in a fight against the ancient Order of the Jani.

Dan Kotler thinks exploring a newly discovered Templar tunnel might finally count as a vacation. Then armed thieves arrive, and the only way out is through a deadly initiation path built centuries earlier.

After surviving an attempt to exploit his powers, Jaylin Rowlin goes looking for the truth about where he came from. His search leads to the Pit, an abandoned military lab that may explain everything.

A collection of 123 short reflections, lessons, and bits of hard-won advice gathered from mentors, family, and experience. It reads like a notebook of useful thoughts from a working writer.

This short speculative tale plays with absolute control and the ugly consequences of finally getting the power to rewrite the rules. The title says power fantasy, but the story looks at the cost.

A strange rune from a controversial dig in Turkey may explain a senator's disappearance and far more besides. Dan Kotler has to decipher it before ancient knowledge becomes a modern catastrophe.

A final departing flight becomes the center of a tense short story about panic, survival, and what people reveal when they believe there may not be another chance. The pressure is immediate and human.

A compact science fiction story about exploration at the far edge of the known map. The mission is simple on paper, but the deeper truth behind it asks bigger questions about purpose and control.

Alex Kayne spots a pattern in murders of isolated remote workers whose digital lives keep moving after death. To stop the killer, she has to reenter the hunted life she hoped to leave behind.

A murdered climate scientist appears to send a letter years after his death, pulling Dan Kotler and Roland Denzel into a biotech conspiracy. At the center is a secret that could weaponize the weather itself.