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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Book List in Order: 20 titles





  • Responding to his former girlfriend's plea for help, 17-year-old Brian goes to her Greenwich Village apartment only to find her dead and himself framed for her murder. He vows to findher killers and the reason for her death....






  • Two weeks before he is due to receive his inheritance on his eighteenth birthday, Chris receives an anonymous letter informing him that his mother did not die a natural death and that he himself is in danger from the murderer....











  • It starts out as a perfect summer for eighteen-year-old Paul Barrett. A championship swimmer, he lands a plum job as a lifeguard on a beach at a New Jersey resort. It gets even better when he meets the beautiful Jody Miller, a ballet dancer on vacati...




  • The headline in the newspaper screamed at Jason. The photo of Marian haunted him, her sad eyes filling his heart with dread. For Marian Feldon is Jason's mother. And on his eighteenth birthday she will die.

    Marian Feldon will be executed for t...



  • The phone rang and his life ended. The recipient of the call was Jonathan Atwood, the bright young grandson of Peter Atwood, one of the most influential people in America. It was his grandfather who raised him, who taught him to be proud of the Atwo...



  • "Quick and fun with a satisfying resolution."
    VOYA
    All Brad remembers about that party was that his friend Alden Whitlock drove him home. He also has the nagging feeling that while he was sleeping in the passenger seat, Alden hit something--or ...



  • And Cory knew it would be soon. He'd already seen the hooded man from his bedroom window, looking up, ready to strike, a grisly but familiar figure ever since his best friend, Fred, was killed in a tragic accident. There had been four of them once --...



  • Shane Lockwood is lucky and he knows it. He's only a teenager, but considered a talented violinist whom the world adores. At the end of a successful concert tour in Venice, however, someone steals his precious violin. Then he starts receiving menacin...








  • $100,000. What would you do if you found so much money on the back seat of a taxicab? Eddie Doran figured he'd keep it. The money was all in small bills. Untraceable. Probably a payoff of some kind. Or a pick-up. Racket money. Dirty money. Dirty o...


Award-Winning Books by Jay Bennett

The Dangling Witness
1975 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jay Bennett has published 20 books.

Jay Bennett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder Money, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Jay Bennett, Say Hello to the Hit Man, was published in January 1976.

No. Jay Bennett does not write books in series.