Author Information
David Rotenberg's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1998
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

Dream Chronicles

1 - The Dream Chronicles (Feb-2017)

The Junction Chronicles

1 - The Placebo Effect (Mar-2013)
2 - A Murder of Crows (Mar-2013)
3 - The Glass House (Nov-2014)

A Zhong Fong Mystery

1 - The Shanghai Murders (Apr-1998)
2 - The Lake Ching Murders (Jul-2001)
3 - The Hua Shan Hospital Murders (May-2003)
4 - The Hamlet Murders (Oct-2004)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • A young, ambitious homicide detective in Shanghai is worried about his wife and marriage, frustrated by his superiors, and consumed by the Dim Sum serial killer case, and in the end all these factors comverge in an explosive climax...



  • Possibly Zhong Fong is the only person in all of China who can completely decipher Lily's English, and he hasn't heard from her -- or anyone else -- in fifty-four months. His own English is excellent, but it has been that long since he had a use for ...



  • Detective Fong has regained his position as head of Special Investigations in Shanghai. All seems under control until one of Shanghai's state run abortion clinics explodes in a ball of fire. A note is left in English, then a second clinic is attacked...



  • In the latest installment in the Zhong Fong series. The city's 18 million residents are hurtling toward modernization, and hits home when Fong rooms at the Shanghai Theatre are being condo-ized and he can buy them at a special price―four years wort...



  • With his last breath, China’s First Emperor, Q’in She Huang, entrusts his followers with a sacred task. Scenes intricately carved into a narwhal tusk show the future of a city “at the Bend in the River,” and The Emperor’s chosen three -- hi...



  • David Rotenberg’s Decker Roberts is back, and he always knows when who’s telling the truth. Since Decker Roberts’ last run in with the NSA, he’s been trying to remain off the radar, searching for his estranged son. His synaesthetic abiliti...



  • The first book in a new series starring an acting teacher with a surprising talent. Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his identity secret from the companies that pay him to te...



  • Decker Roberts is back in the riveting climax to the Junction Chronicles series. Decker Roberts was born with a gift: he always knows when you’re telling the truth. Over time, however, that gift has become a burden. Struggling to find his way, D...



  • THE DREAM CHRONICLES envisions a potential future for humankind as security keeps trumping individual freedom. It is a warning and a celebration of the human spirit. It is adventure on the high seas of space: pirates and slavers and huge governments ...






  • It’s a future time. A time of extremely long life spans, almost perfect health, human colonization of planets throughout the galaxy—and dreamlessness. It has been over three hundred years since any human being’s sleep has been distu...



  • The first book in the Shanghai Tetralogy - City Rising - starts on the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ where the First Emperor, the most powerful man the world to that time had ever known, bequeaths a talisman to his three truste...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Rotenberg has published 12 books.

David Rotenberg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, City Rising, was published in November 2023.

The first book by David Rotenberg, The Shanghai Murders, was published in April 1998.

Yes. David Rotenberg has 3 series.