Publication Order of Lincoln Rhyme Short Stories/Novellas
A Textbook Case
2013
The Deliveryman
2016
A Perfect Plan
2021
Swiping Hearts
2023
The Deadliest Sense
2026
Publication Order of Kathryn Dance Books
The Sleeping Doll
2007
Roadside Crosses
2009
XO
2012
Solitude Creek
2015
Publication Order of Colter Shaw Books
The Never Game
2019
The Goodbye Man
2020
The Final Twist
2021
Hunting Time
2022
South of Nowhere
2025
Freeze Frame
2027
Publication Order of Colter Shaw Short Stories/Novellas
Captivated
2019
The Second Hostage
2020
Forgotten
2021
The Deadline Clock
2022
The Bookkeeper
2026
Publication Order of Sanchez & Heron Books
Fatal Intrusion (With: Isabella Maldonado)
2024
The Grave Artist (With: Isabella Maldonado)
2025
Face Last Seen (With: Isabella Maldonado)
2026
Publication Order of Constant Marlowe Books
The Pain Hunter
2022
Dodge
2022
Execution Day
2022
Sixty-One Seconds
2022
The Rule of Threes
2024
Downstate
2025
Untouchable
2026
Publication Order of Rune Books
Manhattan Is My Beat
1988
Death of a Blue Movie Star
1990
Hard News
1991
Publication Order of John Pellam Books
Shallow Graves
1992
Bloody River Blues
1993
Hell’s Kitchen
2001
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Mistress of Justice
1992
The Lesson of Her Death
1993
Praying for Sleep
1994
A Maiden’s Grave
1995
Speaking in Tongues
1995
The Devil’s Teardrop
1999
The Blue Nowhere
2001
Garden of Beasts
2004
The Bodies Left Behind
2008
Edge
2010
Carte Blanche
2011
The October List
2013
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
An Acceptable Sacrifice
2012
Double Cross
2017
Surprise Ending
2017
The Victims’ Club
2018
Ninth & Nowhere
2019
Verona
2019
The Debriefing
2020
Buried
2020
Turning Point
2021
Cause of Death
2021
The Intruder
2021
Stay Tuned
2021
Date Night
2021
Scheme
2022
The Muse
2023
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Twisted
2003
More Twisted
2006
Triple Threat
2013
Trouble in Mind
2014
Dead Ends
2024
Deceptions
2026
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Complete Law School Companion
1984
About Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver is an American thriller writer, born in 1950, who created the quadriplegic forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme in “The Bone Collector” (1997). He has written more than fifty novels, among them the Kathryn Dance and Colter Shaw series, and his books are sold in 150 countries.
Deaver was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, near Chicago, to an artist mother and a father who wrote advertising copy. He took a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and a law degree at Fordham University, and worked as a journalist and then as a lawyer before turning to fiction. His earliest series novels, beginning with “Manhattan Is My Beat” in 1988, featured a character called Rune, and were followed by three books about the film location scout John Pellam.
The Lincoln Rhyme novels pair Rhyme with the New York police detective Amelia Sachs. “The Bone Collector” was filmed in 1999 with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and NBC later based the series “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector” on it. “The Cold Moon” (2006) introduced Kathryn Dance, who went on to lead four novels of her own, starting with “The Sleeping Doll”.
In 2019 Deaver began a series about the reward seeker Colter Shaw. The first book, “The Never Game”, is the basis of the CBS series “Tracker”, starring Justin Hartley. Since 2024 he has also written the Sanchez and Heron thrillers with Isabella Maldonado, and a run of novellas about Special Agent Constant Marlowe. His standalone novels include “A Maiden’s Grave”, which HBO filmed as “Dead Silence”, and “Carte Blanche” (2011), a James Bond novel set in 2011.
“Garden of Beasts” won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Steel Dagger, and “The Bodies Left Behind” was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers. Deaver has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, which has named him a Grand Master. A new Lincoln Rhyme novel, “The Collateral Heart”, is due in November 2026, with “Face Last Seen” to follow in December and the Colter Shaw novel “Freeze Frame” in May 2027.
