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Tim Kizer Books in Order

Browse Tim Kizer books in order, with quick summaries, where-to-start suggestions, and an overview of his suspense, thriller, and horror novels.

Last updated: July 6, 2026

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A Pure Thrill

by Tim Kizer

2013

This five-book collection bundles several of Kizer's early suspense pieces into one fast, twist-heavy read. Expect psychological pressure, dark turns, and premises built to hook quickly and keep the pages moving.

Dark Luck

by Tim Kizer

2013

Ted Duplass becomes rich overnight after receiving winning lottery numbers from the future. Then he learns he will be murdered before the year is out, turning his impossible good fortune into a ticking-clock puzzle.

Days of Vengeance

by Tim Kizer

2013

After a car crash wipes six years from Frank Fowler's memory, he starts to fear he murdered his missing wife. With a blackmailer, hostile in-laws, and buried secrets closing in, his search for the truth becomes a fight to stay alive.

Deception

by Tim Kizer

2013

A contract killing goes wrong when a murdered man turns up in Jeff Hackett's house, leaving Detective Miranda Murphy to untangle a web of lies. The deeper she digs, the more the case points to stolen money, family betrayal, and another looming hit.

Hitchhiker

by Tim Kizer

2013

A serial killer picks up a hitchhiker and slowly realizes the stranger may be just as dangerous as he is. The result is a nasty, clever road duel built on lies, nerves, and the urge to strike first.

Intoxication

by Tim Kizer

2013

Leslie is convinced someone at work is trying to poison her, and she is ready to strike back even if no one believes her. This tense psychological thriller keeps asking the same unnerving question: is she in danger, or coming apart?

Mania

by Tim Kizer

2013

Serial killer Richard Brower buried his wife in the woods, so her sudden phone calls and sightings should be impossible. As the evidence piles up, he has to figure out whether someone is framing him, haunting him, or driving him mad.

Scorned

by Tim Kizer

2013

When a mysterious woman gives eighteen-year-old Heather a chance to punish her cheating boyfriend without witnesses, revenge suddenly feels possible. But once she steps into the plan, she has to decide how far anger can carry her, and what it will cost.

Sixtus

by Tim Kizer

2013

Fifteen-year-old Zack was born with a sixth finger, and the voice he calls Jeremy keeps pushing him toward murder. What starts as a grotesque freak occurrence turns into a dark, violent spiral that blurs possession, madness, and choice.

Suburban Horrors

by Tim Kizer

2013

This suspense and horror collection turns familiar streets and domestic spaces into places of fear. The stories lean on quick hooks, nasty surprises, and the uneasy feeling that ordinary neighborhoods can hide very strange things.

The Bike

by Tim Kizer

2013

After a family's beloved dog is killed, revenge becomes a carefully staged trap. This short suspense tale follows a cruel payback plan designed to ruin one man's life in a single, devastating stroke.

The Dreamer

by Tim Kizer

2013

Psychiatrist Stanley Blake laughs off a patient's claim that the world exists only inside his afterlife dream, until the evidence grows harder to dismiss. What follows is a compact psychological thriller about belief, reality, and one terrifying test.

The Mindbender

by Tim Kizer

2013

When Navy SEAL Max Pollack survives a doomed Arctic mission, the government suspects he came back with mind-control powers. FBI agent Peter Anderson must investigate a man who may be manipulating thoughts, plans, and people at the highest levels.

What Doesn't Kill You

by Tim Kizer

2013

This collection brings together Dark Luck, The Dreamer, and Scorned, three suspense tales about twisted luck, warped reality, and revenge. It's a compact set of high-concept setups that turn everyday lives into traps.

Spellbound

by Tim Kizer

2014

Jack Nelson arrives in Porterville, Texas, only to be told he has already been living there for months. As missing time, false memories, and the town's eerie secrets close in, he starts to fear he is trapped in something far worse than a simple mistake.

The Vanished

by Tim Kizer

2015

After five-year-old Annie Miller disappears, her father David fails a lie detector test and even confesses under hypnosis to killing her. Then a stranger calls to say Annie is alive, and David must decide what terrible price he is willing to pay.

An Evil Mind

by Tim Kizer

2016

Edward Phillips is on death row for a brutal murder he insists he did not commit. When a nearly identical killing suggests the real murderer is still free, the victim's father is forced into a desperate search for the truth.

The Girl Who Didn't Die

by Tim Kizer

2016

Alice Cannon was told her baby died thirteen years ago, but a murdered teenage girl may be the daughter she never lost. As records, memories, and a strange adoption story unravel, Alice begins to fear she is being framed.

Abduction

by Tim Kizer

2017

Jane Shepard's husband and young daughter vanish from her car in a grocery store parking lot, yet official records say they died days earlier. With the police doubting her and a murder frame-up looming, she digs into a conspiracy far bigger than she expected.

Dead Girls

by Tim Kizer

2018

This box set pairs a serial-killer thriller, built around a deadly bus ride and a phone full of victim photos, with The Vanished. It's a brisk double feature of abduction, deception, and high-pressure survival.

The Killing Game

by Tim Kizer

2018

Holly's bus ride to Miami becomes a nightmare when she discovers a phone full of dead girls and learns its owner is on board. With a killer watching every move, each stop brings fresh danger and fewer places to hide.

I Saw What You Did

by Tim Kizer

2020

When Emma tells a 911 operator that she saw her husband kidnap a woman, he is arrested and the victim soon turns up murdered. But as Emma digs deeper, the case opens into a larger conspiracy and a killer with a longer list.

Where should I start?

If you want a missing-child thriller: The VanishedThe Girl Who Didn't DieAbduction
If you like paranoia and mind games: IntoxicationSpellboundThe Mindbender
If you want darker, horror-leaning suspense: Days of VengeanceAn Evil MindDead Girls
If you prefer twisty domestic danger: ManiaI Saw What You Did

Author bio

Tim Kizer writes suspense that likes to pull the floor out from under the reader. His books often begin with one clean, unsettling hook, a missing child, a husband who may be a killer, a stranger who remembers a life the hero does not, and then keep twisting until the obvious explanation no longer feels safe.

His publication trail shows how quickly he found his lane. He began with short, sharp pieces such as Intoxication, Hitchhiker, The Bike, Sixtus, and Dark Luck, stories built around paranoia, revenge, bad luck, and people who turn out to be much more dangerous than they first appear.

Then the books got bigger, but the engine stayed the same.

In novels like Days of Vengeance, The Mindbender, The Dreamer, and Spellbound, Kizer leans hard into memory loss, mind control, delusion, and the fear that reality itself may be unreliable. A man wakes up unsure whether he killed his wife. A Navy SEAL returns from a classified mission with powers the government does not understand. A psychiatrist starts to wonder whether a patient’s impossible theory might be true. Those are the kinds of openings Kizer clearly enjoys.

He also comes back again and again to ordinary lives pushed into nightmare territory. The Vanished turns a missing-child case into a brutal moral trap. The Girl Who Didn't Die takes a mother’s buried grief and turns it into a search full of missing records and broken memories. Abduction begins with a family disappearing in broad daylight, while I Saw What You Did starts with a wife telling emergency dispatch that her husband has just kidnapped a woman. The hooks are direct, fast, and meant to grab.

He likes compact premises.

Collections such as What Doesn't Kill You, Suburban Horrors, and A Pure Thrill make that early side of his work easy to see. They gather shorter suspense pieces into quick-hit packages, the kind you can read in one sitting and still walk away with one nasty idea stuck in your head. Even when the stories are brief, he tends to aim for pressure, reversal, and one more turn of the screw.

That pace is a big part of his appeal. Kizer’s fiction is usually driven less by elaborate style and more by constant forward motion: a clue that does not fit, a confession that makes no sense, a stranger who knows too much, a protagonist who can no longer trust memory, police, family, or even their own mind. Readers who enjoy high-concept suspense, especially stories with a psychological edge, will probably recognize that pull in books like Mania, An Evil Mind, Dead Girls, and The Killing Game.

Public author notes describe him as a suspense and mystery writer based in Southern California. Those same notes point to a career that moved quickly from early short fiction into a long run of standalones and collections, with a striking burst of releases in the early 2010s. Even when the premises tilt toward horror or the uncanny, the stories usually stay rooted in pursuit, suspicion, and survival.

That mix is really the key to reading Tim Kizer. If you like thrillers where the setup lands hard, the danger shows up early, and every answer opens the door to a worse question, his books are built for that kind of reading. Start almost anywhere among the standalones and you will get the same core promise: a bad situation, a mind under pressure, and a story that is not interested in playing nice.

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