Mike Omer Books in Order
Explore all Mike Omer books in order, with series lists, reading order, summaries, and tips on where to start with his thrillers and psychological crime novels.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
12 books
Deadly Web
by Mike Omer
2016
A murdered internet troll and a strangled gaming addict give Glenmore Park detectives Hannah Shor and Jacob Cooper two cases rooted in online life. To catch the killer, they must wade into toxic social media, obsessive virtual worlds, and the real world grudges hiding behind screens.
Spider's Web
by Mike Omer
2016
In Glenmore Park, the brutal murder of Kendele Byers is followed by another woman's death, both preceded by cryptic warnings. Detective Mitchell Lonnie hunts a serial killer who taunts his victims, even as the investigation drags his own family into the line of fire.
Web of Fear
by Mike Omer
2016
Detective Hannah Shor's world tilts when a friend's twelve year old daughter is kidnapped and a ransom image hits Instagram. As the case goes viral and the family's secrets emerge, Hannah races to find the girl before public hysteria and hidden motives derail the investigation.
A Death Not Foretold
by Mike Omer
2017
When Glenmore Park psychic Jacqueline Mune is shot in what looks like a simple robbery, Detectives Hannah Shor and Bernard uncover a tangle of jealousies, debts, and grudges. Almost everyone around her had a reason to want her gone, and one of them is a killer.
A Killer's Mind
by Mike Omer
2018
Three Chicago women are discovered strangled, embalmed, and posed as if alive. The FBI brings in profiler Zoe Bentley, pairing her with rule bending agent Tatum Gray, and a chilling pattern soon links the case to the unsolved murders that shadowed Zoe's own youth.
In the Darkness
by Mike Omer
2019
An online video titled Experiment Number One shows a girl clawing at the ceiling of her own grave, pulling forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley and agent Tatum Gray into a race to stop a sadistic experimenter. At the same time, Zoe's lifelong tormentor begins closing in on her family.
Thicker than Blood
by Mike Omer
2020
After a young woman is found murdered and drained of blood, FBI profiler Zoe Bentley and agent Tatum Gray recognize the twisted hand of Rod Glover, the killer who has stalked Zoe since childhood. Now he has a partner, and the hunters may be his final intended victims.
A Deadly Influence
by Mike Omer
2021
Abby Mullen, an NYPD hostage negotiation instructor, takes on a kidnapping when fellow cult survivor Eden Fletcher's young son is taken for ransom. As online attention explodes, long buried secrets from their shared past may hold the key to bringing the boy home.
A Burning Obsession
by Mike Omer
2022
A series of deadly house fires points to a single arsonist, and Abby Mullen recognizes the signature of the cult leader who killed her parents. Partnering with profiler Zoe Bentley, she finally has a chance to confront him before her own family is targeted.
Damaged Intentions
by Mike Omer
2022
When conspiracy theorists calling themselves the Watchers storm a New York high school and take hostages, including Abby Mullen's daughter, the NYPD negotiator must stay composed while confronting cult trauma she thought was buried, before a volatile standoff turns deadly.
Please Tell Me
by Mike Omer
2023
Eight year old kidnap survivor Kathy Stone returns home after a year in captivity and refuses to speak, even to her parents. Child therapist Robin Hart reaches out through play, only to realize Kathy's dollhouse scenes mirror real unsolved murders and may foreshadow more to come.
Behind You
by Mike Omer
2024
At seventeen, Theodora Briggs fled her hometown after a Halloween party ended in blood and left her memories shattered. Years later, living as Gemma with a new family, strangers begin confronting her with the past she buried, and a menacing stalker forces her to face the truth.
Where should I start?
If you like FBI profiler thrillers: A Killer's Mind → In the Darkness → Thicker than Blood
If you prefer cult focused suspense and hostage drama: A Deadly Influence → Damaged Intentions → A Burning Obsession
If you want small city police procedurals: Spider's Web → A Death Not Foretold → Deadly Web → Web of Fear
If you just want a standalone psychological thriller: Please Tell Me → Behind You
Author bio
Mike Omer was born in Jerusalem in 1979, the son of two psychologists, and grew up surrounded by conversations about how people think and behave. As a kid he devoured science fiction and fantasy, and a family year in Boston helped him pick up fluent English that would later shape his writing life.
At sixteen he decided to stop just reading stories and write one. The result, a comic fantasy novel published in Hebrew, made him one of the youngest authors at his publisher. A second tongue in cheek fantasy followed and was nominated for a national speculative fiction award, cementing his sense that he could build entire worlds on the page.
He did not move straight into full time fiction. For a while Omer worked as a journalist and social commentator, writing sharp, funny pieces about everyday life and politics. That period taught him how to listen for voice and how to capture a scene in a few clean lines.
Games came next. With a small team he helped create a story heavy role playing game called Misfortune, spending years mapping out branching plots and character arcs. It was a crash course in pacing, choice, and cause and effect, skills that later fed directly into his crime novels.
Before turning to mystery, Omer also wrote for younger readers. His interactive supernatural thriller about a sleepless teen in the strange town of Narrowdale grew into the English language novel Sleepless and its sequels. Those books let him mix eerie suburban settings with anxious, funny teen voices, a balance he would keep chasing.
Omer shifted into crime and suspense with the Glenmore Park mysteries, set in a fictional Massachusetts city. In books like Spider's Web, Deadly Web, Web of Fear, and the novella A Death Not Foretold, he followed a rotating cast of detectives through serial murder cases, online harassment, and crimes that spill from digital spaces into real streets. The series is grounded in procedure but leaves room for dark humor and messy personal lives.
From there he moved to the FBI in the Zoe Bentley trilogy. Starting with A Killer's Mind and continuing through In the Darkness and Thicker than Blood, forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley and agent Tatum Gray track some of his most disturbing killers, including Rod Glover, a predator who has been tied to Zoe since childhood. These books blend tense investigations with an ongoing cat and mouse story that spans decades.
Omer then created Abby Mullen, an NYPD hostage negotiator and survivor of a violent cult. In A Deadly Influence, Damaged Intentions, and A Burning Obsession, Abby’s work on kidnappings, school sieges, and arson murders is tangled up with the charismatic cult leader who destroyed her family. The trilogy explores trauma, belief, and the pressure of talking people back from the brink, and it even brings Zoe Bentley into Abby’s orbit.
More recently he has written standalones such as Please Tell Me, about a child therapist trying to reach a mute kidnapping survivor whose play seems to predict new murders, and Behind You, in which a woman with a reinvented life is forced to relive the night that drove her out of her hometown. Across these books he returns to everyday people forced to confront buried secrets.
Omer’s novels have sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages and have appeared on major bestseller lists. He has received several crime fiction awards, and his work has been adapted for television, including a series based on A Killer's Mind. He now lives in Cork, Ireland, where he writes crime and thriller fiction as Mike Omer and fantasy as Alex Rivers, balancing intricate plots with a dry, human sense of humor and a steady curiosity about why people do the worst things they do.
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