J. Kevin Tumlinson

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2010
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Citadel

1 - First Colony (Mar-2010)
2 - Paths in Darkness (Apr-2012)
3 - Children of Light (May-2014)
3.5 - The Value of War (Sep-2015)
3.6 - Colony Girl (May-2016)

A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller

0.5 - The Brass Hall (May-2016)
1 - The Coelho Medallion (May-2016)
2 - The Atlantis Riddle (Nov-2016)
3 - The Devil's Interval (Aug-2017)
4 - The Girl in the Mayan Tomb (Jan-2018)
5 - The Antarctic Forgery (Dec-2018)
6 - The Stepping Maze (Jan-2019)
7 - The God Extinction (Mar-2019)
8 - The Spanish Papers (May-2019)
9 - The Hidden Persuaders (Oct-2019)
10 - The Sleeper's War (Jan-2020)
11 - The God Resurrection (May-2020)
11.5 - The Bones of Saint Nicholas (Aug-2020)

Quake Runner: Alex Kayne

1 - Shaken (Sep-2020)
2 - Triggered (Oct-2020)

Sawyer Jackson

1 - Sawyer Jackson and the Long Land (Jul-2014)
2 - Sawyer Jackson and the Shadow Strait (Nov-2014)
3 - Sawyer Jackson and the White Room (May-2017)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • First Colony

    Citadel - 1

    TURNS OUT CRASHING WAS THE EASY PART. ""There was something so fascinating about this story and the cast of characters he put together."" - LEAH PETERSEN, AUTHOR OF "FIGHTING GRAVITY" AN ALIEN THREAT. AN ENEMY WITHIN. THE WRONG FREAKING PLANET. It's...

  • A Little Bit of Everything

  • Paths in Darkness

    Citadel - 2

    THE REAL STRANGERS ARE WITHIN. ""Kevin Tumlinson has this ability to make us believe in his characters. In addition to the understated precision of his style, the thing that distinguishes Kevin's fiction is his ability with plot. He is a natural stor...

  • Tin Man

    A Merciless Enemy. A New Threat. A Mysterious New Hope. The Ataxica, a brutal and chaotic enemy, have wiped out most of humanity, leaving behind only children. Years after that disastrous first contact, a remnant military force known as the Service r...

  • Getting Gone

    Shawn Stewart is kind of an unusual husband. He has high-functioning Asperger's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from becoming an incredibly wealthy inventor with a gorgeous wife. Brilliant and resourceful, and sometimes a little clueless, Shaw...

  • The Three Reasons to Avoid Being Punched in the Face

    A new novella from the author of "Getting Gone."Sometimes you find yourself in the strangest places. No one knows that better than Charlie Dustin. He's been avoiding his life for three years in every dusty church and old building in Europe. Until the...

  • Teresa's Monster

    CANCER IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK

    Teresa thought that being diagnosed with cancer was the worst thing that could happen to her. But as she comes to grips with the inevitable, she starts to see horrible, vicious little monsters feasting on the pe...

  • Two Blocks East

    THE ANSWER COULD BE RIGHT IN YOUR FACE. "Two blocks East." Sometimes direction comes when you least expect it. "Two blocks East." When his beard suddenly started speaking, he felt he had no choice but to do what it said. Two blocks east and his life ...

  • Children of Light

    Citadel - 3

    NEW LIFE. NEW RULES. ""This well written science fiction story will capture your interest on page one and won't let go until you finish. The characters are mysterious, fascinating, and likable."" - JAMES CHALK, AUTHOR OF "MEAT MARKET" A SECOND CHANC...



  • Sawyer Jackson and the Long Land

    Sawyer Jackson - 1

    "It's like a mashup of Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and the Iron Druid Chronicles, with a pinch of Doctor Who for flavor."

    Some kids are born in a tangle.

    At sixteen years old, Sawyer Jackson hasn't seen much beyond his grandparents' remote h...

  • Sawyer Jackson and the Shadow Strait

    Sawyer Jackson - 2

    Ready for another tangle?

    "The Long Land is a strange and dangerous place, but at the edge of the continent is a dark gap - the Shadow Strait. It is a void between realities, and no one who enters has ever been known to return."

    So, of cours...

  • Edge

    Not since the Martian and Andy Weir has there been a better science fiction combination."If you think you know plots, I dare you to figure this one out before the conclusion."Charles Martins, prisoner number 61789, is serving time in a body suit-a pr...

  • The Value of War

    Citadel - 3.5

    A CITADEL NOVELLA

    SOME WARS MUST BE FOUGHT

    As his officers and soldiers invade a conquered human vessel, Captain Somar of the Esool is troubled by the ongoing war. Are these two species doomed to war until one of them is extinct. As the h...

  • Evergreen

    ONE TOUCH AND HE KNOWS ALL YOU KNOWA brush of a hand, a casual bump of an arm, a firm handshake-that's all it takes for Jaylin Roland to absorb everything you know and everything you are, and you have no idea it's happening. Operating under the coden...

  • Zero

    Are we sure we're ready?What if you discovered the ultimate power source-something that could redefine what it means to be human. What if you discovered, in the simplest of places, that the universe was no longer out of reach? And what if you learned...

  • The Brass Hall

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 0.5

    WHAT IS A CELTIC TOMB DOING IN EGYPT?Dan Kotler ('The Coelho Medallion') is back in this thrilling prequel! Dan Kotler can't turn away from a good historic mystery. And finding a tomb for a Celtic god in a mountainous region of Egypt certainly qualif...

  • The Coelho Medallion

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 1

    “Kevin has crashed onto the action-thriller scene as only an action-thriller author can: with provocative plot lines, unforgettable characters, and enough adrenaline to keep you awake all night.” -- Nick Thacker, author of 'The Enigma Strain...

  • Colony Girl

    Citadel - 3.6

    LIES CAN TAKE YOU PLACESSylar just wanted to impress the guys. It wasn't until everything blew up that he figured he should rethink things. So he fibbed a little. Maybe he didn't acutally have a girlfriend...

  • The Atlantis Riddle

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 2

    DAN KOTLER IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE’S TACKLING ONE OF THE OLDEST MYSTERIES IN HISTORY 1914 -- Thomas Edison stands and watches his West Orange laboratory burn to the ground, taking his life’s work with it. And he smiles. In his pocket is a ston...



  • Sawyer Jackson and the White Room

    Sawyer Jackson - 3

    EVERY KNOT CAN BE UNTIEDBeyond the layers, beyond the Long Land, beyond the Omniverse itself, the White Room awaits. Some call it death. Some think of it as purgatory-a waiting room to the afterlife. For Sawyer and his family, it's just one more stop...

  • The Devil's Interval

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 3

    "Half way through I was waiting for Harrison Ford to leap out of the pages " -Deanne, Review for 'The Coelho Medallion' As new technology, based on forbidden historic research, emerges, it quickly turns from hope for millions to a potential threat to...

  • The Girl in the Mayan Tomb

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 4

    When Broadway star Maggie Hamilton disappeared five years ago, it was a mystery that captured the imaginatinons of everyone. When her body turns up in the tomb of a Mayan god, it opens the door for an evil that could consume the world. Dan Kolter and...

  • The Antarctic Forgery

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 5

    When an ancient map of Antarctica is found to be a forgery, it reveals an enigma of history and a terrifying modern-day threat. 

    For the past two years, Gail McCarthy has been a constant source of danger and chaos in the lives of Dan Kotler...

  • The Stepping Maze

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 6

    HISTORY HAS ITS SECRETS, AND SOMEONE WANTS THEM ALL.

    Behind six feet of steel, buried under the streets of Manhattan, lies the Black Chamber -- a room that once housed a team of codebreakers who would one day help to found the NSA.

    "Im...

  • The God Extinction

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 7

    WHAT IF THE GODS WERE REAL?

    That's the question Dr. Dan Kotler -- Archaeologist and FBI Consultant -- finds himself struggling to answer after a Druidic tomb is unearthed in the mountains of Egypt. 

    Why did the Druids build a site in ...

  • The Spanish Papers

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 8

    THEY BELIEVE SECRETS GIVE THEM POWERWorld War II -- Hitler is obsessed with gathering ancient knowledge and artifacts from around the globe, in an effort to consolidate the wisdom and power of long-gone cultures and rule the modern world. The Div...

  • The Hidden Persuaders

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 9

    FOURTEEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, ABDUCTED RIGHT FROM THE SENATE FLOOR.For centuries the Jani have hidden among us, gathering artifacts of great historical significance, accumulating power, infiltrating the highest offices of governments around the world...

  • The Sleeper's War

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 10

    An ancient drug will determine humanity's futureMakry ypno. Long Sleep. Lost in the darkness of history for millennia, referenced only in obscure Greek medical texts, this strange plant holds the key to allowing humanity to survive global threats by ...

  • The Book of Gods and Kings

    HISTORY COULD BE THE DEATH OF HIMArchaeologist Dan Kotler and his FBI partner, Agent Roland Denzel, have faced world-threats, personal betryals, and the worst assortment of would-be dictators and despots around.Now they face a new threat, nearly two ...



  • The God Resurrection

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 11

    ANCIENT MYTH MEETS DARK SCIENCE, AND GODS AND KINGS WILL RISE AGAINFollowing the events of The God Extinction and The Hidden Persuaders, Dr. Dan Kotler finds himself embroiled in a plot that turns out to be the family business. Kotler's grandfather&m...

  • The Bones of Saint Nicholas

    A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller - 11.5

    What could be safer than Ol' Saint Nick?Displayed in Italy's Basilica di San Nicola, the bones of Saint Nicholas have been a popular tourist attraction for over a century. More, they have been reputed to be the source of miraculous healing for anyone...

  • Shaken

    Quake Runner: Alex Kayne - 1

    Alex Kayne wanted to make the world a better, safer place for everyone-now she's on the run.A fugitive, wanted for murder and epsionage, Alex survives through skill, training, and a little luck. And with the help of her invention: the Quantum Integra...

  • Triggered

    Quake Runner: Alex Kayne - 2

    ALEX KAYNE NEVER STOPS RUNNINGWhen a cop is framed for a crime, Alex Kayne comes to town to bring justice to the powerless. But there's more happening here than even she could plan for.Digging in to help her client reveals corruption that goes all th...

  • The Last Single Guy

    Jack liked his life. He wasn't looking for changes. But change comes along anyway, and when it did Jack knew he was definitley not ready. But what do you do when your dreams are pulling you in one direction and the girl of your dreams is pulling you...

  • Lies that Tell the Truth

    From bestselling and award-winning author Kevin Tumlinson comes a short story collection featuring a full spectrum of tales—from scifi and horror to literary and avante garde. This author-selected collection features some stories that have neve...

  • Winter in July

    Paul Bryce never screwed around. It's a point he has to make, again and again, because at the heart of the story of why his marriage fell apart, there is the accusation that he was unfaithful. He never was. But his ex wouldn't have it.And the hits ke...

  • The Demon Core

    FORGOTTEN SECRETS UNLEASH A RISING DARKNESS IN THE WORLDThe Demon Core--history records that the third and final plutonium core meant for Hiroshima was destroyed nearly a century ago. But history is wrong, and now the core reemerges in the hands of a...

  • The Man Below

    SOME SECRETS REFUSE TO STAY BURIEDIn the dark and silent halls of a defunct secret government facility, buried deep in the mountains surrounding Los Lunas, New Mexico, Dr. Clara Rivers—a civilian consultant and agent for a fledgling Federal tas...

  • Compromised

    EVERYONE WANTS ALEX KAYNEFBI, CIA, NSA, Foreign Governments—and now an international thief and conman with seemingly unlimited reach.Reed Harltan has plans for Alex Kayne. With one of Alex's clients under his thumb, Harltan may just have m...



  • A Meme of War

    NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU GO, THE PAST TRAVELS WITH YOUMim-Mat—short for mimetic material. It's the miracle technology that has enabled humanity to rise and thrive among the stars. With it, we have conquered illness, conquered space itsel...

  • Aftershock

    NOWHERE LEFT TO RUNALEX KAYNE never stops running.It's just who she is.But when Kayne looks into a series of patent thefts that lead her to billionaire technologist ROSS ECKHART, she finds herself running out of road. Is Eckhart who he appears to be?...

  • The Outsiders Gambit

    ANCIENT SECRETS THREATEN THE MODERN WORLD, AND THE HISTORIC CRIMES UNIT IS OUR ONLY HOPEWhen Dr. Dan Kotler--Archaeologist and FBI Consultant--gets an invitation to explore the Huashan mystery caves, located in China's Anhui Province, it's an offer t...

  • The Templar Tunnel

    SOME TESTS ARE LIFE OR DEATHDAN KOTLER—Archaeologist, occasional FBI Consultant, certified Trouble Magnet—just wanted a vacation. And an invitation to help uncover and explore a newly discovered Templar tunnel seemed like just the ticket....

  • God Mode

    The Stack can't be hacked.But Brate has done it anyway. And he's not alone—he's one of a klatch of hackers who have worked out ways to get around in the system, to get things people want. It's dangerous work. The Stack isn't just a network̵...

  • The Forgotten Rune

    A mysterious artifact holds the key to unraveling the mystery behind a senator's disappearance-but it may be humanity's greatest threat.Dr. Kotler is in a whole other world of trouble, when he's recruited to decipher a mysterious rune, found at a rec...

  • Secret of the Diamond Sword

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    Any mystery solved—but it will cost you a buckAlex Kotler has always been good at solving mysteries. That's why he started his own detective agency—any mystery solved, but it will cost you a buck. For one dollar, Alex finds lost homework,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J. Kevin Tumlinson has published 46 books.

J. Kevin Tumlinson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Forgotten Rune, was published in May 2024.

The first book by J. Kevin Tumlinson, First Colony, was published in March 2010.

Yes. J. Kevin Tumlinson has 4 series.
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