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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1999
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • After being shot and left for dead, Johnny Buffalo, a soldier in the United States Army, watches in horror as a lynch mob viciously murders his best friend and mentor. Bitter and disillusioned by the army's justice system, Johnny takes the law into h...



  • Shea Burke, a new FBI agent, is assigned to investigate eight cold cases of missing teenage girls. The local police had considered each girl a runaway, but Shea becomes convinced that one person-one monster-is responsible. She finds a seemingly harml...



  • On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies São Tiago - a small town without a conscience, forsaken by its people and by God - the perfect place for a fallen priest to escape his past. Sam whiles away his time drinking and fishing, but when one...





  • On the other side of paradise, a nightmare waits...After caring for his mother in her last days, Alex has gone off round the world - with no plan other than to travel and maybe recapture some of his lost youth. Beginning his travels in Indonesia, the...



  • In the tradition of City of Thieves and Child 44, a troubled First World War veteran races across the frozen steppe of 1930s Ukraine to save a child from a shadowy killer with unthinkable plans. Luka is a war veteran who now wants only to have a q...



  • Eb McCourry’s final year at a tiny Appalachian school is rushing at a frantic pace toward showdowns on all fronts. Living in a children’s home, he’s struggling for an identity at his new school and finds it with the football and square dance te...



  • Delivering harrowing adventure and suspense set against an unforgiving landscape, the new novel by Dan Smith will leave you chilled to the bone... 1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and ret...








  • Leaving behind his life of violence in Brazil's darkest shadows, Zico is determined to become a better man. But it seems his old life isn't quite done with him yet when he's tasked with making one last kill. It's one that could get him everything he ...



  • A fascinating new perspective on World War II; a fictitious, personalized take on the real-life rebel German youth group, the Edelweiss Pirates. Karl Friedman is only twelve, but like all boys his age in Germany, he's already playing war games, tr...



  • A heart-stopping middle grade survival adventure where the only way to survive is to evolve. Hatchet meets a young Jason Bourne, for readers of Margaret Peterson Haddix.His mother is a scientist. His dad was a soldier. Ash is something new altogether...



  • When Zak's plane crash-lands on Outpost Zero, a small Antarctic research base in one of the most isolated places on Earth, he discovers a cold, dark nightmare. The power's out and the people who live there have disappeared. Worse, a...



  • 'Action, adventure, wolves, snow ... this story has EVERYTHING. I devoured it so quickly I need to read it again.' EMMA CARROLL Northumbria, 866. Washed ashore on a frozen English beach, Ylva's survived. She will not cry. She's mea...



  • Stranger Things meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this thrilling sci-fi adventure from bestselling author Dan SmithStranger Things meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this fast-paced, horror adventure with an ecological twist.Something sini...



  • A school camping trip takes a turn for the sinister in this page-turning thriller for fans of mysteries and the supernatural.What’s hiding in Harwood Forest?When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they’re in for an ...



  • Animals behaving oddly, people falling suddenly ill â€" what’s creeping around down at the farm? Crooked Oak’s mystery-solving team return with another spine-tingling adventure.A mystery is growing at Dunwick Farm and it all started wit...





  • It is 1969 and young newspaper sportswriter Eb McCourry’s world is about to change. He is pushed into emergency service by the newsroom when an airline crashes near Asheville, North Carolina, and his first real news assignment is like a drug. W...






  • A groundâ€"breaking experiment at a new research farm quickly grows out of control in this modern take on Day of the Triffids from master of creepy sci-fi Dan Smith.When Pete, Krish and Nancy read a story in the local paper about weird gunk being fou...




  • A meteorite harbouring an alien lifeform crashes to Earth with horrifying consequences in this gruesome and gripping tale from master of creepy sci-fi Dan Smith.What’s slithering about deep underground …?When a meteorite crashes to Earth near Cro...






Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dan Smith has published 24 books.

The next book by Dan Smith, The Night House Files, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Dan Smith, Johnny Buffalo, was published in August 1999.

No. Dan Smith does not write books in series.