A.J. Scudiere

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2008
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Black Carbon

1 - The Hunted (Jun-2019)
2 - The Surface (May-2020)
3 - The Tempest (Mar-2021)
4 - The Swarm (Feb-2022)
5 - The Taken (Jan-2023)
6 - The Night (Jun-2024)

The Hangman's Shadow

1 - Bad Name (Jun-2024)
2 - In the Temple (Nov-2024)

The Nightshade Forensic Files

1 - Under Dark Skies (Nov-2014)
2 - Fracture Five (May-2016)
3 - The Atlas Defect (May-2017)
4 - Echo and Ember (Sep-2017)
5 - Salvage (Jul-2018)
6 - Garden of Bone (Nov-2018)
7 - The Camelot Gambit (Apr-2019)
8 - Dead Tide (Sep-2019)
9 - Sabotage (Aug-2020)
10 - Vanishing Point (Sep-2021)
11 - Beneath Memory (Jul-2022)
12 - The Axis Legacy (Jun-2023)
13 - Sacrifice (Feb-2025)

Vendetta Trifecta

1 - Vengeance (Nov-2008)
2 - Retribution (Apr-2014)
3 - Justice (Oct-2015)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Vengeance

    Vendetta Trifecta - 1

    Nine years ago, Claymore Beller tried to do the right thing. It was the last thing he did. In retaliation for his efforts, his mafia bosses laid waste to his family. Only the youngest - Cynthia - came up fighting.Three years ago, Lee Maxwell made the...

  • Resonance

    When the Earth’s magnetic poles begin trading places, four scientists will have to race against time to save humanity. Suspense and Sci-fi readers will love this page turner from a USA Today bestselling author. "An action-packed thriller. Highly re...

  • Relentless Suspense

  • God's Eye

    A demon climbing the corporate ladder. An angel one step away from ruin. Katharine is caught between them in a game she cannot comprehend. Suspense and Paranormal readers will love this page turner from a USA Today bestselling author. Katharine c...

  • Dumb Blonde

    Short story by AJ Scudiere, author of multiple award winning novels including The Shadow Constant and The NightShade Forensic Files Series.All horror films have that scene - the one where the scary music is playing and the stupid girl continues to wa...

  • Phoenix

    Jason Mondy’s world is unraveling.His seemingly secure job as a fire fighter is suddenly thrown into chaos. The bright spot in his week is that he rescued two children from a house fire, but he returns home that night to find all his furniture is m...

  • The Shadow Constant

    Someone is keeping watch over the machine. Should it ever have been built? The lure of the find behind the loose hearthstone at Hazleton House was too great. The schematic excited Evan, Reenie and Ivy for different reasons but it is Kayla who actuall...

  • Here Kitty Kitty

    Zero has been collecting the strange metal rocks from the woods behind his house for years now. But only recently has he realized they are chunks from a much larger original piece. And the pieces aren't as inanimate as he thought. About Game Nation: ...

  • Retribution

    Vendetta Trifecta - 2

    Book 2 - The SIN Trilogy Will and Diana Kincaid have left their pasts behind. They’ve even discarded their identities as Sin and Lee, but the past will never leave them. When the body of mafia leader Ivan Kurev turns up in her district, Diana is fo...



  • Under Dark Skies

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 1

    In NightShade nothing is as it seems . . . Eleri Eames thinks her life is getting back on track. She didn’t think she’d ever be allowed to work for the FBI again, so the special FBI division of NightShade seems like an amazing opportunity. But El...

  • Justice

    Vendetta Trifecta - 3

    Are you ready for “a non-stop, nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride!” and the book called “the best of the three in the series”?In the dead of night, in a well-hidden cabin in Georgia, assassins wake Sin from a dead sleep. No one should...

  • Fracture Five

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 2

    Eleri and Donovan are back! NightShade’s newest agents are in L.A. to bring down a burgeoning terrorist cell. To make things worse, it’s not just one terrorist cell, it’s two. Or is it three? There is little to go on, only links between missing...

  • The Atlas Defect

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 3

    Eleri wanted a different kind of case. She should have been careful what she wished for. When an odd human skeleton in Michigan’s Manistee-Huron National Forest triggers a NightShade investigation, Eleri and Donovan arrive to find it missing. But t...

  • Echo and Ember

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 4

    FBI agents Donovan and Eleri left their last case with a sense of unease. Unable to close the investigation, they’ve been thrown into their next assignment far too fast. A string of strange arson-based murders are just part of the trouble. Not only...

  • Fortune

    You love a good mystery. The first one is: which book do you start with?It took Rafe Vega five years to figure out a horrific crime had been committed against his family, and another three to figure out what to do about it. The only one left standing...

  • Salvage

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 5

    Your favorite series takes a new twist. Walter and GJ have the opportunity of a lifetime: become FBI agents. But once you’re in NightShade, the secrets start coming out… Former marine turned Private Investigator, Walter Reed, has been given yet a...

  • Garden of Bone

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 6

    Your favorite NightShade agents are back, only Eleri and Donovan are now on their own. This time they aren't working with the FBI, and the case is as personal as it can get...FBI Agent Eleri Eames was there the day her sister disappeared at eight yea...

  • LegendsThe Landa Landa & The Aellai

  • Legends: The Landa Landa & The Aellai

    Brenna and Dalena are sisters in their hearts, but now they are legends in their own right…When Dalena sees that no matter how much money she raises, she won’t really make these people care, she comes up with a plan of her own. Figuring sometimes...



  • Dissonance

    If you like your books to have substance and a bit of a mind twist, this is where you'll get it.When Dr. Priya Sengupta is called to the beach to help return a stranded pod of bottlenose dolphins into the Pacific, she can see that something has gone ...

  • The Camelot Gambit

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 7

    “She’s in the top five of my best writers list. I have a list of King, Grisham, Koontz…you know, those guys. They are the authors who you know will deliver.” " The Lit CriticCan Eleri and Donovan outsmart a killer who leaves no evidence beh...

  • The Hunted

    Black Carbon - 1

    Lights out. Keep still. Pray for morning.

    Joule and Cage Mazur feel like prisoners in their home. With something new stalking the streets at night, their family’s only protection is bolting the door and embracing the darkness. And even tho...

  • Dead Tide

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 8

    When a former mermaid turns up dead, Eleri and Donovan are stuck with a case they never wanted, but can’t shake…

    Eleri should have been recused. That’s her friend on the autopsy table. But her Special Agent in Charge won’t let...

  • The Surface

    Black Carbon - 2

    No Power. No Food. No Rescue.When the rains came the first time and campus flooded, Cage thought it was a freak weather incident. Joule saw it for what it was -- a warning.Life went back to normal when most of the water receded. But the standing pudd...

  • Sabotage

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 9

    FBI Agent Christina Pines is missing…Christina Pines could make anyone see or think anything she chose. Though it was a talent she'd had her whole life, it hadn't been enough to save her last partner. Now, it was barely helping her track escap...

  • The Tempest

    Black Carbon - 3

    Find shelter. Stay low. Hold on tight.The first tornado was an anomaly. It cleared the land and bumped up the time scale on the job. But as everyone rushes to set up the new solar farm, they find that something has shifted... At first it was a series...

  • Vanishing Point

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 10

    A witch who can't trust her power.A wolf who can't trust his nose.A serial killer who can vanish into the air.What should have been a straightforward case is turning into anything but.Someone is dumping bodies in the Florida Everglades after torturin...

  • The Swarm

    Black Carbon - 4

    Stay inside. Don't get bit. Pray for an antidote.It was supposed to be a vacation. Clear aquifer waters, wildlife sightings, sunshine and roller coasters. But the manatee beneath their paddle boards distracted Cage and Joule, and they didn't see what...

  • Beneath Memory

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 11

    A young woman holds the key to solving the greatest heist of the last century. But she wasn't even alive when the money was stolen...As Eleri and Christina work the strangest case yet, the clues all lead to a string of robberies in the late eighties....



  • Black Carbon - Vol 1

    HUGE SAVINGS OFF THE INDIVIDUAL BOOK PRICES!Includes the first 3 novels in the BLACK CARBON series: The Hunted, The Surface, The TempestTHE HUNTEDLights out. Keep still. Pray for morning.Joule and Cage Mazur feel like prisoners in their home. With so...

  • The Taken

    Black Carbon - 5

    Stay quietDon't leave tracksDon't ask the wrong questions...When Sarah goes missing Cage and Joule know they have to do everything to find her. But in the tiny town of El Indio, no one wants to answer their questions, and everyone is hiding something...

  • The Axis Legacy

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 12

    Someone is stalking them.A murdered girl matches the MO of a serial killer already in jail. Missing pages form a message that the wolves need to decipher before Miranda Industries get their hands on it. Eleri and Donovan have one case but more proble...

  • Black Carbon - Vol 2

  • Bad Name

    The Hangman's Shadow - 1

    Jesse Nash just lost her daughter. Georgia Dunham desperately needs to find her mother.Jesse is on her couch with a bottle of whiskey when she's supposed to be on the trail of a killer. Can Georgia convince her to take on yet another case when she ca...

  • The Night

    Black Carbon - 6

    Stay quiet.Follow the tracks.Fight back.When Joule saw the shadows on the street, her heart stopped. She'd believed the Night Hunters were gone. But the only explanation for the strange goings on is that the Hunters are back. The last time Joule and ...

  • In the Temple

    The Hangman's Shadow - 2

    He claims he's innocent, even if he's not.Jesse wouldn't take the case except Godwin Green's family is confident there's evidence that will exonerate him. But getting the man set free relies on pinning the crime on the scion of a wealthy, powerful fa...

  • The Edge

    Dive into this apocalypse thriller suspense from USA Today Bestselling author now!Step carefully.Don't fall.Hold on tight.Avalanches were an expected part of the job, the earth falling away under their feet wasn't.When an earthquake triggers a catast...

  • Sacrifice

    The Nightshade Forensic Files - 13

    No one can find Christina...And that's the way she wants it. The way it has to be. She's got one of the parchment sheets. Though she can't fully read it, there's something about the writing on this one that matches two sides of other pieces. It's a m...

  • Snake in the Grave

    Like a bad penny, Bodhi Heath keeps popping up and disappearing. But this time, Donovan will hunt his brother down and find out the truth about his mother, their father, and a past neither of them ever knew......



  • Tear Us Apart

    It seemed like a standard case. A missing woman, gone over six years, with no trace... but the clock was already ticking.Isaac Sofer has three months before his long missing wife Marlee is declared dead. But when Jesse and Cindy arrive to take the ca...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A.J. Scudiere has published 40 books.

The next book by A.J. Scudiere, Tear Us Apart, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by A.J. Scudiere, Vengeance, was published in November 2008.

Yes. A.J. Scudiere has 4 series.
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