Chris Knopf

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2006
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Arthur Cathcart

1 - Dead Anyway (Oct-2012)
2 - Cries of the Lost (Nov-2013)
3 - A Billion Ways to Die (Nov-2014)

Jacqueline 'Jackie' Swaitkowski

1 - Short Squeeze (Jan-2010)
2 - Bad Bird (Feb-2011)
3 - Ice Cap (Jun-2012)

Sam Aquillo

1 - The Last Refuge (Jun-2006)
2 - Two Time (Aug-2006)
3 - Head Wounds (May-2008)
4 - Hard Stop (May-2009)
5 - Black Swan (May-2011)
6 - Cop Job (Dec-2015)
7 - Back Lash (Jun-2016)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Last Refuge

    Sam Aquillo - 1

    Available in Canada for the first time â€" a compelling debut from a fresh new voice in crime fiction.

    Sam Acquillo’s at the end of the line. A middle-aged corporate dropout living in his dead parents’ ramshackle cottage in the Hamptons, S...

  • Two Time

    Sam Aquillo - 2

    Sam Aquillo â€" ex-boxer, ex-corporate executive and accidental hero of The Last Refuge â€" is back in this action-packed, page-turning sequel.

    All Sam wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka,...

  • Head Wounds

    Sam Aquillo - 3

    Sam Acquillo can hide in his windswept waterfront cottage all he wants, but the demons of his past are going to find him. Worse, they've teamed up with some pretty nasty demons of the present, including a very determined Chief of Police whose top det...

  • Hard Stop

    Sam Aquillo - 4

    In this, the fourth installment in the Sam Acquillo series, Sam’s past reaches out to pull him back into the world of big money and even bigger egos, where the term “corporate intrigue” is redundant and ambition the only virtue. It seems a woma...

  • Short Squeeze

    Jacqueline 'Jackie' Swaitkowski - 1

    Chris Knopf has been praised for his humor and broad knowledge of Hamptons life. Now, in this new series, he brings a smart-aleck Southampton attorney to center stage. Jackie Swaitkowski's business relies on the constant movement of the Hamptons' rea...

  • Elysiana

    Gwendalynn Anders, a mid-Western girl who's never seen the ocean, wonders what was in that joint she smoked a week before waking up on Elysiana, and why it feels like the trip will last the entire summer of 1969. Jack Halcyon, living atop an aban...

  • Bad Bird

    Jacqueline 'Jackie' Swaitkowski - 2

    Jackie Swaitkowski may not be the most buttoned-up lawyer in the Hamptons, but a plane crash before her very eyes is hard to miss. Just before the struggling air taxi takes a nosedive, its female pilot tosses out a camera case. To Jackie, the acciden...

  • Black Swan

    Sam Aquillo - 5

    Sailing back from Maine, Sam Acquillo, the hero of four Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mysteries from Permanent Press, his girlfriend Amanda Anselma and screwball mutt Eddie Van Halen get blown off course by a dangerous gale. With damaged boat and frayed nerv...

  • Ice Cap

    Jacqueline 'Jackie' Swaitkowski - 3

    Crazy weather, crazy artists, organized crime, and digital wizardry all play a role in a murder mystery that could only happen in the Hamptons. Jackie Swaitkowski has made the transition from lackadaisical, pot-smoking real-estate lawyer to obsess...



  • Dead Anyway

    Arthur Cathcart - 1

    2013 NERO AWARD WINNER
    Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
    Kirkus, Starred Review
    Booklist, Starred Review
    Library Journal, Starred Review
    Publishers Weekly Top Twelve Mystery/Thrillers of 2012
    Kirkus Best Fiction of 2012

    New ...

  • Cries of the Lost

    Arthur Cathcart - 2

    Library Journal names Cries of the Lost a Best Mystery of 2013.

    One of the best, top-rated mystery thriller and suspense books you'll read this year. If you're looking for a genuine edge-of-your seat read, a thrilling mystery adventure awaits....

  • A Billion Ways to Die

    Arthur Cathcart - 3

    Arthur Cathcart and Natsumi Fitzgerald wanted to believe they were free of the nearly invisible, malignant forces they had pursued, and been pursued by, across continents and oceans. The slightly brain-damaged tech-freak researcher and the blackjack-...

  • Cop Job

    Sam Aquillo - 6

    It's bad enough when someone you know is brutally murdered; it's worse when the guy was a paranoid schizophrenic helplessly bound to a wheelchair. Sam Acquillo and Jackie Swaitkowski tried to look after Alfie Aldergreen, as had other Southampton vill...

  • Back Lash

    Sam Aquillo - 7

    As Sam Acquillo tells us in the early pages of Back Lash, "Not everyone gets to live their adult lives orbiting a central mystery." But that's how it's been for Sam, whose entire existence has been defined by a single, horrific event. Now that event ...

  • Tango Down

    A routine visit to one of Sam Acquillo's job sites becomes anything but. The home's owner, Victor Bollings, is lying in a pool of blood, the back of his head bashed in. One of Sam's closest friends in the cabinetry trade is quickly behind bars as the...

  • You're Dead

    Organizational psychologist Dr. Waters is a happily solitary guy with a few deep attachments, including to his boss Paresh Rajput, the owner of a thriving hi-tech aerospace company. Until something really bad happens to CEO Rajput, which throws Water...

  • Deep Dive

    Sam Acquillo has spent most of his time in the Hamptons hanging out with the other half of the moneyed wonderland cops and bartenders, carpenters, store clerks and firemen. He couldn't care less about the concerns of the 1%, until his best friend Bur...

  • Four Thousand Rounds

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Organizational psychologist Dr. Waters is a happily solitary guy with a few deep attachments, including to his boss Paresh Rajput, the owner of a thriving hi-tech aerospace company. Until something really bad happens to CEO Rajput, which throws Wa...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chris Knopf has published 18 books.

Chris Knopf does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Deep Dive, was published in May 2019.

The first book by Chris Knopf, The Last Refuge, was published in June 2006.

Yes. Chris Knopf has 3 series.
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