RJ Ellory Books in Order

Former war photographer Stroud thought he had left conflict behind until a mentor believed killed in Jordan is reportedly seen alive in Istanbul. Chasing the truth across Europe and watched by rival intelligence services, he uncovers a conspiracy that reshapes his past.

Irish boxer Danny McCabe flees to Depression era America with siblings Nicky and Lucia Mariani, hoping for a fresh start. As Lucia pursues Hollywood fame and Nicky sinks into organised crime, Danny is torn between love, loyalty and survival in a country built on reinvention.

Photojournalist Mitch Newman is shattered when his former fiancee Jean apparently takes her own life while investigating the Kennedy assassination. Following the fragments of her work, he is drawn into an alternative history of Dallas 1963 where one missed shot changes everything.

After three brutal years in prison, Henry Quinn owes his life to fellow inmate Evan Riggs and promises to find the daughter Evan has never met. His search in a small Texas town angers Evan's sheriff brother and exposes secrets the community would rather bury.

In 1954, sixteen year old Nancy Denton vanishes after walking into the woods outside Whytesburg, Mississippi. Two decades later her preserved body is uncovered by the river, forcing Sheriff John Gaines to face buried town secrets and his own wartime ghosts as he hunts her killer.

In 1959 a travelling carnival rolls into a Kansas town, and a man's body is found hidden beneath the carousel. FBI agent Michael Travis is sent to investigate and soon discovers performers whose strange talents challenge his faith in logic, law and the world he thinks he understands.

This final Three Days in Chicagoland novella is narrated by a condemned man awaiting execution for a 1956 Chicago murder. As he looks back on an abusive childhood and the choices that shaped him, his confession offers a disturbing, intimate angle on a crime everyone thinks they understand.

In the second Three Days in Chicagoland novella, the detective who investigated a young woman's 1956 murder finally tells his version of events. His account adds missing details, questions the official story and shows how one case can haunt a cop for the rest of his life.

Detective Vincent Madigan is a New York cop in deep debt to an East Harlem drug lord, desperate enough to rob his own boss's cash house. When the heist turns bloody and an innocent child is hit, Madigan finds himself hunted by both the mob and the police.

Half brothers Clarence 'Clay' Luckman and Elliott 'Digger' Danziger grow up in state institutions after their mother is killed in a random attack. Taken hostage by a death row psychopath on a violent road trip through the 1960s West, they are forced to choose who they will become.

NYPD homicide detective Frank Parrish is drinking too much, grieving a dead partner and living in the shadow of a father everyone calls a hero. When teenage girls from broken homes start turning up dead, his obsessive hunt for their killer collides with family secrets he can no longer ignore.

John Costello survived an attack by the 'Hammer of God' killer that left his girlfriend dead and turned him into a reclusive expert on serial murder. When new killings mirror infamous crimes on their anniversaries, he helps a weary New York detective unmask a copycat before history repeats.

In the first Three Days in Chicagoland novella, a woman sits in an execution chamber watching the man who strangled her teenage sister die. As she relives the crime and the years of grief that followed, cracks begin to show in her certainty about what really happened.

Washington detective Robert Miller is assigned to a series of ribbon stranglings that look like the work of a serial killer, except the victims do not officially exist. His search for their identities leads into the shadow world of covert operations, Cold War politics and a truth powerful people want buried.

Joseph Vaughan grows up in rural Georgia as a series of horrific child murders shatters his town and his own family. Years later, now a writer in New York and still haunted by guilt, he becomes convinced the real killer is free and that his past is not finished with him.

Miami journalist and stalled novelist John Harper returns to New York when the father he believed dead is shot during a robbery. Discovering that man is a powerful crime boss, John is drawn into the city's underworld while untangling the lies that have shaped his family and his own identity.

When the daughter of Louisiana's governor is kidnapped in New Orleans, her abductor demands not money but a meeting with Ray Hartmann from a New York crime task force. Over one long night, Cuban hitman Ernesto Perez recounts his life in the Mafia and forces Hartmann to see how their stories intersect.

Manhattan bookseller Annie O'Neill has built a quiet life around her shop and friends, yet still aches for the father she lost as a child. A stranger who claims to have known him begins spinning a violent tale of gangsters and betrayal that slowly reveals the dark truth of her own past.

With thirty days left on death row, Daniel Ford tells a prison chaplain the story of his friendship with Nathan Verney, from 1950s boyhood to Vietnam and the turbulent sixties. As the clock ticks down, his memories cast new doubt on the murder that condemned him.