Sebastian Fitzek Books in Order
This page lists Sebastian Fitzek books in order, with brief summaries and a simple reading guide to help you choose psychological thrillers to start with.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
17 books
Therapy
by Sebastian Fitzek
2006
Well known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz is shattered when his twelve year old daughter vanishes from a doctor's office without a trace. Years later, hiding on a remote island, he is approached by a disturbed novelist whose hallucinations echo his daughter's case and may hold the key to the truth.
Amok
by Sebastian Fitzek
2007
Criminal psychologist Ira Samin intends to end her life, crushed by guilt over her daughter's death. Instead she is dragged into a live radio hostage crisis, where a gunman plays a deadly call in game that lets random listeners decide whether captives live or die.
Splinter
by Sebastian Fitzek
2008
Marc Lucas lost his wife and unborn child in a car accident he caused, a memory that haunts him every day. After he joins an experimental program to erase trauma, he wakes to find his key no longer fits his door and his life seems to belong to someone else.
The Eye Hunter
by Sebastian Fitzek
2011
Dr Suker is a brilliant eye surgeon who abducts women and surgically removes their eyelids, leaving them so traumatized that they soon take their own lives. When another victim disappears, blind physiotherapist Alina Gregoriev and journalist Alexander Zorbach are pulled into a sadistic new hunt.
The Eye Collector
by Sebastian Fitzek
2013
A sadistic killer known as the Eye Collector murders mothers, kidnaps their children, and gives the fathers forty five hours to find them, leaving each body without its left eye. When evidence points to reporter Alexander Zorbach, he and blind physiotherapist Alina Gregoriev race to stop the next game.
Passenger 23
by Sebastian Fitzek
2014
Five years after his wife and son disappeared from a cruise ship, police psychologist Martin Schwartz is still destroyed by grief. Called back on board when a missing girl reappears holding his son's teddy bear, he must uncover what really happens to passenger twenty three.
The Child
by Sebastian Fitzek
2014
Defense attorney Robert Stern meets a sick ten year old boy who calmly insists he was a serial killer in a previous life. Led by the child to hidden graves, Stern is pulled into a case where past and present murders suddenly collide.
The Nightwalker
by Sebastian Fitzek
2016
Years after treatment for violent sleepwalking, Leon Nader believes he is cured, until his wife vanishes from their apartment. To find out what he does at night, he straps a camera to his head and discovers his nocturnal self entering a door he has never seen.
The Package
by Sebastian Fitzek
2016
After being assaulted by a serial rapist known as the Hairdresser, young psychiatrist Emma Stein cannot bring herself to leave her house on the edge of Berlin. When she reluctantly accepts a parcel for a neighbor she has never met, paranoia and real danger begin to blur.
Seat 7A
by Sebastian Fitzek
2017
Aviophobic psychiatrist Mats Krüger boards a long haul flight to see his pregnant daughter, convinced he has controlled every risk. Then a caller claims to have kidnapped her and demands the unthinkable, that Mats use his influence to crash the plane.
The Gift
by Sebastian Fitzek
2019
Milan Berg stops at a traffic light when a car pulls up beside him and a terrified girl presses a note to the window. Because of his undiagnosed reading disorder he cannot decipher the message, yet he knows her life depends on what he does next.
Playlist
by Sebastian Fitzek
2021
A month after fifteen year old Feline Jagow disappears on her way to school, her streaming playlist suddenly changes. Former detective Alexander Zorbach and blind medium Alina Gregoriev try to decode the songs before time runs out for the missing girl.
The Soul Breaker
by Sebastian Fitzek
2021
The Soul Breaker does not kill his victims, he shatters their minds, leaving them catatonic with a cryptic note in their hands. When a storm cuts off an exclusive psychiatric clinic, an amnesiac patient and staff fear the predator is inside with them.
Walk Me Home
by Sebastian Fitzek
2022
For women walking home alone in Berlin, the Walk Me Home helpline offers a reassuring voice. New volunteer Jules answers a late night call from Klara, who believes a man from her past will kill her before a blood marked deadline.
The Inmate
by Sebastian Fitzek
2023
One year after his son Max vanished, a desperate father agrees to enter a high security psychiatric hospital under a false identity. Posing as a patient, he plans to force suspected child killer Guido T to finally confess, even if it costs him his sanity.
Click
by Sebastian Fitzek
2025
Hannah Herbst wakes up alone in a cheap motel room with no memory of the last hours and police at the door. There is video of her calmly confessing to murdering her own family, and every choice she makes now clicks her deeper into a trap.
Mimik
by Sebastian Fitzek
2025
As Germany's leading facial expression expert, Hannah Herbst can read the tiniest muscle twitch to uncover a person's true feelings. After surgery leaves her with memory gaps, she is asked to assess a confession video in which a mother admits killing her family, only to see her own face on the screen.
Where should I start?
If you want his debut psychological thriller: Therapy
If you enjoy reality bending, memory focused plots: Splinter → The Soul Breaker
If you like serial killer cat and mouse stories: The Eye Collector → The Eye Hunter → Playlist
If high concept, high stakes setups appeal to you: Passenger 23 → Seat 7A → The Package
If you want a recent standalone starting point: Walk Me Home or The Nightwalker
Author bio
Sebastian Fitzek grew up in West Berlin and has become one of Germany's best known writers of psychological thrillers. His novels have sold millions of copies, been translated around the world, and keep showing up on bestseller lists at home.
He did not take a straight path to writing. The son of a headmaster and a teacher, he first studied veterinary medicine, then switched to law and completed a doctorate in copyright before deciding that a traditional legal career was not for him.
Instead, he headed into radio.
Fitzek started out at a small private station, learning how to create programs that would keep listeners from changing the dial. Over time he became head of entertainment and later a program director and editor in chief at several German stations, juggling news, music, and on air personalities.
Working in media gave him a feel for pacing, cliffhangers, and audience expectations. Away from the studio he began to write, first co authoring a nonfiction book about names, then slowly shaping the story that would become his debut novel Therapy.
Therapy was published in 2006 after many rejections and rewrites, and it surprised the industry by knocking The Da Vinci Code from the top of the German charts. The book follows psychiatrist Viktor Larenz after the disappearance of his young daughter, blending grief, obsession, and an unreliable sense of reality on a remote island.
Fitzek followed that breakout with a steady run of high concept thrillers. Splinter plays with the idea of erasing traumatic memories and what happens when identity seems to slip. Passenger 23 traps a damaged police psychologist on a cruise ship where passengers keep vanishing. Seat 7A forces a terrified flyer to choose between the safety of hundreds of people on a plane and the life of his pregnant daughter on the ground.
Other books, such as The Package, The Eye Collector and its sequel The Eye Hunter, The Soul Breaker, The Nightwalker and newer releases like Walk Me Home, return again and again to some of his favorite questions. How well do we really know the people closest to us. What happens when we cannot trust our own memories, or even our senses.
A number of his stories have moved to screen. The Child and Cut Off reached cinemas, Amok game and other novels inspired television films, and Therapy was adapted into a limited series. Walk Me Home became a thriller film under a different title, extending his stories to viewers who may never have picked up the books.
Fitzek's influences stretch from the children's adventures he loved when he was young to later discoveries like Stephen King, Michael Crichton, John Grisham and Harlan Coben. You can feel those threads in his work, where everyday settings tilt into nightmare, and legal or medical details sit underneath the shocks.
Alongside the fiction he has created the Viktor Crime Awards to support new voices in crime writing, and he is active as a patron for a charity that supports families of premature babies, a cause that grew out of his own experience as a parent. He lives in Berlin, tours widely with his books, and still keeps close ties to radio and live events.
Across all of that, his constant project is the same, to tell tense, fast moving stories that dig into fear, guilt and love, and to leave readers wondering how they might react if their own safe life suddenly cracked open.
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