Nelson DeMille Books in Order

Women are being slain by a killer dressed like a monk who believes he is destroying witches. As panic spreads, Joe Ryker follows a trail through churches, back alleys, and fringe religious circles to stop a self-appointed executioner.

A coldly efficient sniper is murdering New Yorkers at random, picking targets from rooftops and alleyways. Joe Ryker leads the manhunt, determined to outthink a careful killer who treats the city as his personal shooting range.

New York reels as a violent revolutionary group launches kidnappings and mass shootings in the name of freedom. Given wide latitude to respond, Joe Ryker takes the fight to them, testing how far he’ll bend the law to stop urban terrorism.

A string of brutal, ritualistic murders suggests a killer who feeds on both fear and flesh. Joe Ryker’s investigation drags him into a shadowy cult and a hunt for a charismatic leader whose followers will do anything to protect him.

NYPD Sergeant Joe Ryker is tasked with stopping a rogue CIA assassin who has turned New York into his personal killing ground. As bodies tied to covert operations pile up, Ryker clashes with federal handlers who would prefer the whole mess disappear.

During a sweltering New York summer, a radical group plans a bombing campaign designed to plunge the city into chaos. With tensions rising and clues scattered, Joe Ryker races to stop a single night of orchestrated terror from becoming reality.

Amid Ethiopia’s civil war, two journalists and a photographer encounter a dying priest who claims to know the hiding place of the Holy Grail. Their decision to believe him launches a dangerous journey through jungle battlefields, remote monasteries, and competing faiths.

Someone is slipping strychnine-laced heroin onto New York’s streets, leaving sex workers and addicts dead. Ryker teams up uneasily with an undercover female detective and a cop posing as her pimp to trace the poisoned supply back to a ruthless drug operation.

Two Concorde jets carrying Israeli leaders to historic peace talks are sabotaged and forced toward hostile territory. One is destroyed; the other crash-lands near ancient Babylon, where the survivors must create a makeshift fortress and hold off a well-armed enemy force.

A supersonic passenger jet over the Pacific is accidentally struck by a missile, killing or incapacitating most aboard. A few terrified survivors struggle to keep the aircraft in the air while corporate interests and the military weigh a deadly cover-up.

On St. Patrick’s Day in New York, an IRA splinter group seizes St. Patrick’s Cathedral and takes hundreds of hostages. Police, politicians, and British intelligence clash over how to end the siege before hidden explosives can turn the landmark into a tomb.

Former NYPD intelligence detective Tony Abrams stumbles onto evidence that a long-buried Soviet mole code-named Talbot still operates inside U.S. intelligence. As a secret first-strike plan moves forward, he and a young lawyer race to identify the traitor and stop catastrophe.

Successful executive and Vietnam veteran Ben Tyson is suddenly accused of covering up a massacre his platoon committed in Hue. Recalled to active duty for court-martial, he must confront buried memories, loyalty to his men, and a nation still divided over the war.

An anthology of fifty-eight suspense and horror-tinged short stories originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. The stories range from criminal schemes and dangerous obsessions to uncanny encounters; Nelson DeMille contributes “Life or Breath.”

In Cold War Russia, a young American driver meets a fugitive U.S. POW who claims to have escaped a secret camp where Americans train Soviet spies. An Air Force officer and embassy liaison risk their careers and lives to uncover the truth behind this "charm school."

Tax attorney John Sutter enjoys a comfortable life among Long Island’s old-money elite until Mafia don Frank Bellarosa buys the neighboring estate. As Bellarosa pulls John into his legal troubles and schemes, Sutter’s marriage and morals begin to quietly unravel.

At a Southern Army base, the brilliant daughter of a famous general is found murdered on a firing range. CID investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill must navigate military politics and buried scandals to uncover who killed the Army’s "golden girl."

After the Cold War ends, former Army intelligence officer Keith Landry retires and returns to his small Midwestern hometown. Reuniting with his first love, now married to the town’s abusive police chief, he finds himself drawn into a personal war he can’t walk away from.

Recovering from gunshot wounds on Long Island, NYPD detective John Corey is asked to consult on the double murder of two biologists from a nearby government lab. The case veers from stolen pathogens to buried pirate treasure and small-town secrets.

In this charity anthology, mystery and suspense writers each build a story around the same three required elements: a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak. The resulting tales were created to support Literacy Partners’ adult-literacy work.

Now with the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, John Corey watches a flight carrying a notorious Libyan terrorist land with everyone aboard mysteriously dead. When the assassin slips away, Corey and partner Kate Mayfield race to stop his ruthless revenge campaign.

This interactive Kinsey Millhone mystery combines a short story with a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. As Kinsey investigates Margery Crispin’s death for the victim’s sister, readers assemble the puzzle to uncover visual clues and solve the case.

Retired Army CID investigator Paul Brenner is pulled back into service and sent to Vietnam to solve a 30-year-old wartime murder. Traveling with a mysterious American expatriate, he confronts corruption, old enemies, and his own memories of combat.

Sixteen tales by Edgar Allan Poe are paired with twenty original essays by mystery writers on Poe’s influence on their reading and work. Edited by Michael Connelly, the volume includes an essay by Nelson DeMille and commemorates Poe’s bicentennial.

Five years after a passenger jet exploded off Long Island, John Corey and his FBI-agent wife Kate revisit the crash as a potential crime scene. A missing videotape, frightened witnesses, and official resistance pull them toward a truth others want buried.

This annual volume gathers twenty American mystery stories selected by guest editor Nelson DeMille from periodical publications. The choices represent varied approaches to crime fiction, ranging from psychological suspense and noir-inflected wrongdoing to unsettling moral dilemmas.

When a fellow agent is found dead near an exclusive Adirondack hunting club, John Corey and Kate Mayfield investigate and uncover a secret plan code-named Wild Fire: a privately run nuclear response meant to reshape the world after another major attack.

A decade after leaving Long Island in the wake of scandal and violence, John Sutter returns to live in the gatehouse of his former in-laws’ estate. Reunited with his ex-wife and confronted by a Mafia heir seeking revenge, he’s drawn back into dangerous games among the rich.

Libyan assassin Asad Khalil, the Lion, returns to America to settle unfinished business with John Corey. As bodies linked to past operations begin to fall, Corey must anticipate a brilliant enemy who has turned the hunt into something personal.

Edited and introduced by Nelson DeMille, this anthology collects crime and mystery stories set among the ultra-wealthy. From private islands to penthouse suites, it explores how greed, privilege, and entitlement can turn luxurious lives into very tempting targets.

Detective Jack Meigs heads to Key West for what should be a forced vacation, not a case. When a cruise passenger goes missing, the island getaway turns into a compact, clever mystery.

Bestselling crime novelist Jack Henry faces bankruptcy and blames his seemingly useless literary agent. Realizing they hold life insurance policies on each other, Jack begins to wonder whether he can turn real murder into the perfect business decision—and get away with it.

In Vietnam, an American infantry patrol nearing the end of its tour is stalked by a hidden sniper who knows the jungle better than they do. The lieutenant narrator battles fear, exhaustion, and doubt as his men are picked off one by one.

In his early NYPD days, John Corey investigates when a New York bookseller is killed by a falling bookcase. The cluttered shop and its tight circle of employees, authors, and family members hide motives that turn an apparent mishap into a clever murder.

John Corey and his wife Kate are sent to Yemen to help hunt a high-ranking Al Qaeda leader tied to the USS Cole bombing. Working with a small American team, they navigate tribal politics, deadly ambushes, and the suspicion that not everyone wants them home alive.

Assigned to surveil Russian diplomats in New York, John Corey expects a quiet posting until one of his targets disappears from a Long Island party. Following the trail, he uncovers a plot involving a covert nuclear device and a looming attack on Manhattan.

Convalescing at a remote lakeside cabin, John Corey expects solitude, not trouble. When lawyer Bennie Rosato bursts from the woods chased by masked gunmen, the two strong-willed strangers must improvise a plan to survive a long, violent night off the grid.

Eleven women thriller writers and eleven men thriller writers collaborate in paired short stories that bring together characters from their separate series. The collection includes Nelson DeMille’s contribution, “Getaway,” which is also available as a standalone ebook story.

Afghanistan veteran and Key West charter-boat captain Daniel "Mac" MacCormick is hired by Cuban exiles to recover a fortune hidden in Cuba since the revolution. Disguised as tourists, Mac and a young Cuban-American woman must outmaneuver state security, rival factions, and their own suspicions.

Army CID agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are sent to Venezuela to find Kyle Mercer, a decorated Delta Force captain who walked away from his unit in Afghanistan. Their hunt through a collapsing, violent country reveals secrets that powerful people would rather see buried forever.

Restless in forced retirement, John Corey agrees to join a sketchy private security firm on Long Island. The job draws him into a tangle of corrupt cops, missing women, and a serial killer whose dumping ground echoes the real-life Gilgo Beach murders.

Reunited in Berlin, Army CID agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor investigate the murder of a fellow investigator found in a park. Their search pulls them into refugee communities, Cold War shadows, and a conspiracy some in U.S. intelligence would kill to keep hidden.

At a remote Army training facility in the Mojave Desert, Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor probe the death of a scientist overseeing war games between Rangers and lethal autonomous robots. As alliances fracture, they must decide whether the real threat is human or machine.