Sean Sweeney Books in Order

This holiday-themed horror anthology includes Sean Sweeney’s Red Christmas alongside stories by Bruce A. Sarte, Christopher Grosso, and Tim Reilly. Its varied tales bring together unsettling toys, sinister holiday events, and other threats, with additional material from the contributors’ work.

Following an attack on the Las Vegas Monorail, CIA director Alexandra Dupuis calls on Jaclyn Johnson despite the agent’s sense of betrayal. Jaclyn must confront a radical Christian terrorist whose plans threaten both the city and the wider country.

Michael Crane’s collection presents thirty horror drabbles about dangerous toys, disturbed people, and shadowy creatures. Stories involving a hostile doll, a fearful puppet maker, and an unsettling favorite toy accompany bonus contributions from Sean Sweeney and other writers.

A terrorist attack on Boston concertgoers brings young agent Jaclyn Johnson, code name Snapshot, into action. With further deaths and a looming deadline, she pursues a wealthy adversary whose plans exploit water and threaten consequences far beyond the city.

Christopher Nadeau assembles stories questioning what an apocalypse might actually look like, especially when it fails to match people’s expectations. Sean Sweeney joins the contributors to this collection of imagined endings, disappointments, and unsettling possibilities surrounding the end times.

Edited by Dean M. Drinkel, this horror anthology organizes phobia-inspired stories around the alphabet. Sean Sweeney contributes The Clown Cemetery, while the wider collection explores varied irrational fears through tales that turn familiar anxieties into frightening fictional encounters.

After the Yellowstone Caldera erupts, displaced survivors move east toward cities preparing for their arrival. This short story follows the pressures of rationing and survival, testing the resilience of both those fleeing devastation and the people expected to receive them.

A terrorist attack during an Olympic soccer match at Wembley sends Britain and the United States into heightened alert. CIA agent Jaclyn Johnson is dispatched to pursue the perpetrators, but political maneuvering complicates her London mission and challenges her loyalties.

Sportswriter Harry Edelson notices strange changes around a newly relocated baseball team owned by a Russian billionaire. A star player’s injury and unexpected return deepen his suspicions, and reporting what he discovers puts Harry’s life in danger.

Boston society woman Charlene Phillips visits Scollay Square despite her mother’s prohibition and meets Italian singer Joe Cafario. Their growing love confronts her parents’ objections to his religion and social background, set against the changing life of their city.

An escaped prisoner with Ku Klux Klan ties threatens an Atlanta presidential debate. Jaclyn Johnson is sent to protect the candidates, but the mission becomes more complicated when the fugitive appears to have a different target in mind.

Paroled after a lengthy imprisonment, Duane Thompson struggles to find work while the officer who arrested him continues pursuing him. Helping the poor offers a new purpose, but another person’s troubles and an extremist government complicate his effort to rebuild.

The kidnapping of former FBI agent and author Jack Henshaw sends Jaclyn Johnson and Tom Messingham to Detroit on Christmas Eve. A former Mountie claims responsibility and issues demands, while the investigation threatens to expose secrets affecting national security.

A series of brutal murders leaves Boston police without leads and residents frightened. Florist and former detective Ricky Madison works with his friend Mary Ruggles to identify the killer’s patterns, pursuing connections that challenge their assumptions about the crimes.

A vacation in Australia turns dangerous when CIA agent Jaclyn Johnson is framed for an assassination in Sydney. Working with Tom Messingham, Tasha, and an old friend, she must identify the conspiracy while confronting troubling developments back in Washington.

Jaclyn Johnson returns to Seattle for a memorial honoring her father, who died on September 11. A murder at her hotel disrupts the trip, forcing the CIA agent to confront her neglected past while coping with the loss of a close ally.

Jaclyn Johnson returns west to dismantle the trafficking ring that once held her teenage ward Tasha. Reaching the girl’s hometown brings unexpected obstacles, including a vanished town and an uncooperative police chief, as Jaclyn works to fulfill her promise.

Privateer Paulina plans to betray the Baron she has long served. Taking an all-women crew aboard the Good Queen Bess, she sails through the Caribe, confronting hostile scoundrels and mystical beings with steel and magic at her disposal.

A body discovered during Alex Bourque and Lauryn’s Cape Cod vacation draws the private investigator into a murder case. The dead man’s wife distrusts the police, and Alex recruits a Provincetown officer to help uncover what happened to her husband.

Young private investigator Alex Bourque takes his first assignment: reopening a decades-old case involving a murdered child. Using his father’s notes and help from girlfriend Lauryn, he follows scant evidence while facing people determined to keep the truth concealed.

Struggling with PTSD, Ricky Madison returns to Worcester and begins therapy. When details from old investigations resurface, police bring him back to connect the crimes, though the officer leading the inquiry resents his involvement in the case.

In a future America recovering from war and economic collapse, widely used inexpensive tablets conceal a catastrophic threat. After the East Coast is devastated, a Boston survivor rows toward Washington to tell the president what happened and seek a way forward.

Separate investigations pull Jaclyn Johnson and Tom Messingham apart, with Tom sent to London to investigate a football club owner. As their cases intersect, Jaclyn learns that the tycoon may now be targeting her husband himself.

Jury duty unexpectedly becomes a job for private investigator Alex Bourque when a defense attorney hires him to help an accused murderer. Examining the poorly prepared case, Alex uncovers troubling details about the defendant that could change the outcome.

A school trip to Tombstone becomes a fight for survival after a meteorite strikes Boot Hill Cemetery and zombies emerge. Twins Christian and Rachel join their friends in seeking safety and confronting the town’s resurrected past, drawing on a concealed family connection.

Attacks on Washington’s political leaders occur while Jaclyn Johnson is honeymooning in Wales. Tasha Verkler and Desmond Daly investigate the coordinated violence, but the danger reaches Jaclyn and Tom as well when their journey home comes under attack.