Jack Kerley's Books

The first in the series. Cryptic messages on beheaded corpses thrust Carson and Harry into a desperate search for a mysterious killer. Carson’s ace in the hole: his brother Jeremy, institutionalized for his own series of cryptic murders, a man intimate with the ways of madness.

The second book, voted "Best Foreign Mystery of the Decade" in Japan. The artwork of a psychopathic artist thirty years dead sends Carson and Harry into the chilling and hidden world of those who collect serial-killer memorabilia.

UK TITLE: The BROKEN SOULS. The third book. A series of brutal slayings leads Carson and Harry to the door of a wealthy and powerful family, each family member seeming to have his or her own concealed agenda at odds with the other members.

The fourth book. The Manhattan murder of a close friend draws Carson to New York, dropping him into a whirlpool that pulls him deep into his own past. Carson’s mad brother Jeremy returns to the mixture.

The fifth book. A baby floats in from the sea and launches Carson and Harry into a world of money-hungry preachers, white-supremacists, and genetics researchers. Where did the child come from? And why do so many forces wish it harm?

Number six. Carson reluctantly teams with a disgraced and mysteriously fired detective to investigate a horrifying series of child abductions. The first in the series where Carson doesn’t narrate the tale.

The seventh in the series. Carson's vacation in the Kentucky mountains is interrupted by a series of grisly murders. Carson's mad brother Jeremy appears, claiming innocence in the series of symbol-laden deaths. But Jeremy has never been a fan of the truth.

The eighth book. Abused women are entering a secret “underground railroad” to escape tormentors. But a killer is loose in the anonymous system. Carson and Harry send an undercover agent into the maze as bait. The concept quickly gets complicated, and the undercover cop adds a few complications of her own.

The ninth book. After a humiliating encounter with a cop, a twisted man launches a fierce vendetta against the Mobile, Alabama, police department. Who does he pick to symbolize the department? Its specialist in twisted crimes, of course: Carson Ryder.

Number ten. A hideous discovery in the ground leads Carson--newly transplanted to Florida--into the grim and dangerous world of human trafficking.

Number eleven. Carson Ryder knows everything about the perpetrator of a series of bizarre abductions… except how to find him.

Number twelve. Carson’s case in Florida intersects with Harry Nautilus’s case in Alabama. Suddenly the two are tracking down a religiously obsessed killer, with Carson’s brother Jeremy in the mix.