Brad Parks

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2009
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Carter Ross

1 - Faces of the Gone (Dec-2009)
2 - Eyes of the Innocent (Feb-2011)
2.5 - The Nightgown (Mar-2012)
3 - The Girl Next Door (Mar-2012)
4 - The Good Cop (Mar-2013)
5 - The Player (Mar-2014)
6 - The Fraud (Jul-2015)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Faces of the Gone

    Carter Ross - 1

    Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. Immediately dispatched to t...

  • Eyes of the Innocent

    Carter Ross - 2

    Carter Ross, the sometimes-dashing investigative reporter for the Newark Eagle-Examiner, is back, and reporting on the latest tragedy to befall Newark, New Jersey, a fast-moving house fire that kills two boys. With the help of the paper's newest i...

  • The Girl Next Door

    Carter Ross - 3

    Reading his own newspaper's obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the...

  • The Nightgown

    Carter Ross - 2.5

    Shamus and Nero award-winning author Brad Parks takes readers back to the beginning of investigative reporter Carter Ross’s career with this intriguing prequel short story. Only 24 years old and still a wide-eyed reporter for a tiny backwater newsp...

  • The Good Cop

    Carter Ross - 4

    As long as Newark Eagle-Examiner reporter Carter Ross turns in his stories on deadline, no one bats an eye if he doesn’t wander into the newsroom until 10 or 11 in the morning. So it’s an unpleasant surprise when he’s awakened at 8:38 a.m. by a...

  • The Player

    Carter Ross - 5

    When he hears residents of a Newark neighborhood are getting sick -- and even dying -- from a strange disease, investigative reporter Carter Ross dives into the story -- so deep he comes down with the illness himself. With even more motivation to tra...

  • The Fraud

    Carter Ross - 6

    In the most thrilling entry yet in Brad Parks's award-winning series, investigative reporter Carter Ross must chose who gets to live: him or his unborn child. A rash of carjackings terrorizing Newark become newsworthy when one such theft ends in t...

  • Say Nothing

    Judge Scott Sampson doesn’t brag about having a perfect life, but the evidence is clear: A prestigious job. A loving marriage. A pair of healthy children. Then a phone call begins every parent’s most chilling nightmare. Scott’s six-year-old twi...

  • Killing Malmon

    Never before has killing someone benefitted such a good cause…

    In 2014, Crimespree Magazine held an internet-based flash fiction contest. The rules were simple: somewhere in the story you had to “Kill Dan Malmon.” That was it. The story...



  • Closer Than You Know

    Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew. Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know. It was a le...

  • The Whistleblower: A Novella

    From international bestselling author Brad Parks comes a gripping story and prequel to his new thriller, The Last Act.After a career rising through the ranks, Mitchell Dupree has finally landed his dream job: compliance director for the Latin America...

  • The Last Act

    Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers "a perfect piece of entertainment" (Steve Berry), a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted. Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing app...

  • Interference

    From international bestselling author Brad Parks comes an emotional, heart-pounding thriller that explores the scientific unknown -- and one woman’s efforts to save her husband from its consequences. Quantum physicist Matt Bronik is suffering fr...

  • Two For One

    “Two for One” is a return to Brad Parks’s storytelling roots: New Jersey, his place of birth and also where he spent ten years as a young reporter for the state’s largest newspaper, The Star-Ledger. Every character you’ll meet in this story...

  • Unthinkable

    From international bestselling author Brad Parks comes a new thriller about an ordinary man who may be able to save the world as we know it -- but to do so, he must make an impossible choice. Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-hom...

  • The Boundaries We Cross

    He swears by his boundaries. But did he cross the line?At 8 o' clock on a blustery, mid-January morning, Charles Bliss is summoned to the head of school' s office at Carrington Academy. Charles, a teacher at the elite Connecti...

Award-Winning Books by Brad Parks

Faces of the Gone
2010 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel
The Good Cop
2014 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brad Parks has published 16 books.

Brad Parks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Boundaries We Cross, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Brad Parks, Faces of the Gone, was published in December 2009.

Yes. Brad Parks has 1 series.
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