Catherine Jinks

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1996
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Allie's Ghost Hunters

1 - Eglantine (Oct-2007)
2 - Eustace (Nov-2007)
3 - Eloise (Nov-2007)
4 - Elysium (Nov-2007)

Genius

1 - Evil Genius (May-2007)
2 - Genius Squad (May-2008)
3 - The Genius Wars (Oct-2010)

Pagan

1 - Pagan's Crusade (Sep-2003)
2 - Pagan in Exile (Jan-2004)
3 - Pagan's Vows (Aug-2004)
4 - Pagan's Scribe (Feb-2005)

Related Books

1 - The Reformed Vampire Support Group (Apr-2009)
2 - The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group (Jul-2009)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • An Evening with the Messiah

  • The Horrible Holiday

  • The Stinking Great Lie

  • Bella Vista

  • The Inquisitor

    I hereby record those events which took place in and around the city of Lazet relating to the assassination of our venerable Brother Augustin Duese in the year of the Incarnate Word, 1318.So writes Brother Bernard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravit...

  • Pagan's Crusade

    Pagan - 1

    "Jinks's alternately hilarious, often poignant novel turns medieval history into fodder for both high comedy and allegory." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

    Down on his luck and kicked in the pants one too many times, Pagan Kidrouk arri...

  • Pagan in Exile

    Pagan - 2

    "I LOVE these books. I'm now addicted to Pagan!" -- Michael Cart, editor of Rush Hour

    The year is 1188, and Jerusalem is in the hands of the Infidel. Upstanding Crusaders and their squires -- like Lord Roland Roucy de Bram and Pagan Kidro...

  • Pagan's Vows

    Pagan - 3

    "Jinks again displays an amazing knack for blending utterly convincing period detail, earthy wisecracking, and profound respect for courtly and spiritual ideals." -- BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS

    Having renounced the sword, Pagan...

  • Pagan's Scribe

    Pagan - 4

    "Rich in authentic detail, humor, grief, and deep insight into the life of the mind as well as the heart, this makes a fitting close to a high-water mark in historical fiction." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

    Impressed by the bookish Isi...



  • The Gentleman's Garden

    Set in colonial Australia, this romantic novel explores love, hardship, and the strength of the human spirit. Dorothea Brande leaves the quiet harmony of her English home to accompany her soldier husband to rough-and-tumble Sydney in 1814. To soften ...

  • Spinning Around

    Hello? I think there's been some mistake... The life I ordered was the one with the gorgeous, helpful husband, the two well-mannered, angelic children, and the self-cleaning dream house. Here's what was delivered: Matt, the sort-of soul mate with gr...

  • The Road

    Suddenly Grace knew. Her heart began to hammer; she looked around wildly. 'He's here,' she gasped. 'He's found me. He's bloody found me!' A movement tugged at the corner of her eye and she whirled - but it was only the piece of old tyre slowly revolv...

  • Evil Genius

    Genius - 1

    Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he's fourteen and studying for his World Domination degree, taking classes like embezzlement, misinformation, forgery, a...

  • Eglantine

    Allie's Ghost Hunters - 1

    Allie Gebhardt thought sharing a room with her younger brother Bethan was bad enough, but sharing a room with a ghost proves to be down right frightful. In this deliciously spooky tale, Allie’s family is haunted by Eglantine Higgins, the ghost of a...

  • Eloise

    Allie's Ghost Hunters - 3

    When Allie's friend Bettina begs her to help her aunt contact a dead relative, Allie decides to join the Exorcists’ Club. Playing with ghosts can be dangerous, so Allie needs all her detective skills -- and the help of her friends -- to solve the...

  • Elysium

    Allie's Ghost Hunters - 4

    To Allie, the Jenolan Caves ghost tour sounded like the perfect weekend for a ghost hunter like herself. She didn't realize she was setting herself up for a whole lot more than just a haunted hotel and endless family squabbles. Something was on her t...

  • Eustace

    Allie's Ghost Hunters - 2

    After Allie's last experience with a ghost, she thought she was finally free of phantoms in her life -- but that was before she went on a school trip to Hill End and found herself investigating several more of them. First there is the ghost of Granny...

  • Genius Squad

    Genius - 2

    Now that the Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up; the founder, Dr. Phineas Darkkon has died; and Prosper English (who enrolled Cadel in the first place) is in jail for myriad offenses, Cadel Piggott has round-the-clock surveillance ...

  • Babylonne

    Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.

    Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Baby...



  • The Reformed Vampire Support Group

    Related Books - 1

    Think vampires are romantic, sexy, and powerful? Think again. Vampires are dead. And unless they want to end up staked, they have to give up fanging people, admit their addiction, join a support group, and reform themselves.    Nina Harrison, f...

  • The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group

    Related Books - 2

    The author of The Reformed Vampire Support Group turns her talents to shapeshifters of the furry kind in this howling good read.   When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the night before, his horrified mother tel...

  • Living Hell

    THE SMELL was the first thing we noticed. It was a terrible smell that made us all cough: a smell with another stench overlaying it. Then we saw Firmus standing by the door. He pointed. "Something is trying to get in." he rasped. What happens when...

  • The Genius Wars

    Genius - 3

    Boy-genius Cadel Piggot has a new name (Cadel Greenaius), a new family, and a new life. No more illegal hacking, no more false identities, and most of all, no more Prosper English. But when his best friend Sonja is attacked, it's up to him to figure ...

  • The Paradise Trap

    A boy . . . a witch . . . and a totallysinister paradise: that's what Marcus gets when his mom rents a scuzzy trailer and parks it near a dirty, noisy beach. Some vacation! Marcus would rather play video games anyway, but when he discovers a staircas...

  • Allie's Ghost Hunters

    We moved into our new house because Mum liked the vibes. But those vibes turned scary when ghostly writing started appearing on the walls of Bethan's room. Mum tried a few new-age tricks, but couldn't stop the creepy nightmares. We even called in ...

  • Saving Thanehaven

    Noble is a knight with a heart that's true and, well, noble. With his not-so-trusty sword, Smite, he fights his way through a vicious, unfriendly landscape, sure (or at least, he thinks he's sure) that one day he'll defeat the bad guys (whoever they ...

  • How to Catch a Bogle

    CATCHING BOGLES -- NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT! In the mean streets of Victorian London, orphans must do the most dangerous and unsavory jobs just to survive. Which is why young Birdie considers herself lucky to be apprenticed to Alfred the Bogler...

  • A Plague of Bogles

    Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles -- until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a way to earn his living. He’d like to work for the bogler Alfred Bunce, who kill...

  • The Last Bogler

    With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a bogler’s apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie....



  • Shepherd

    My father trained me to silence the way he trained his dogs, with food and a cane. Speech, he said, was poison. It scared the game, alerted the gamekeepers and betrayed your friends and family.Tom Clay was a poacher back in Suffolk. He was twelve whe...

  • The Dark Mountain

  • Pagan's Daughter

  • The Secret Familiar

  • Theophilus Grey and the Demon Thief

  • Theophilus Grey and the Traitor's Mask

  • A Very Peculiar Plague

  • A Very Singular Guild

  • A Very Unusual Pursuit

  • Shelter

    Meg lives alone: a little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That’s one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who’s escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it’s like to live with an abusive partner. ...



  • The Attack

    A boot camp for troubled young men, a hidden identity and murderous pursuit on a remote island. Catherine Jinks is back with another heart-pounding thriller. Robin Ayres was once a dedicated primary school teacher but now is a caretaker at a reformat...

  • Traced

    Jane is a contact tracer. She has to call a lot of people and some of them don’t want to talk. Various reasons â€" tax or immigration issues, infidelity. Domestic abuse. Jane knows all about that. She and her daughter Tara have spent years in hidin...

  • Panic

    After posting a drunken rant that goes horrifically viral, Bronte needs a place to lie low. Jobless, friendless, broke, she volunteers as a carer on an isolated rural property. She won’t be paid for looking after dementia sufferer Nell, but at leas...

  • Daryl's Dinner

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  • Piggy in the Middle

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  • To Die For

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Catherine Jinks has published 45 books.

The next book by Catherine Jinks, Panic, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Catherine Jinks, An Evening with the Messiah, was published in November 1996.

Yes. Catherine Jinks has 4 series.
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