Martin Cruz Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Arkady Renko Novel

1 - Gorky Park (Feb-1981)
2 - Polar Star (1989)
3 - Red Square (1992)
4 - Havana Bay (May-1999)
5 - Wolves Eat Dogs (Nov-2004)
6 - Stalin's Ghost (Jan-2007)
7 - Three Stations (Aug-2010)
8 - Tatiana (Nov-2013)
9 - The Siberian Dilemma (Nov-2019)
10 - Independence Square (May-2023)

Roman Grey

1 - Gypsy in Amber (1971)
2 - Canto for a Gypsy (1972)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Gypsy in Amber

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Roman Grey - 1

    One Girl Was Dead, One Girl Was Threatened, One Girl Was Possessed, One girl was found horribly mutilated, the victim of a rite that no sane person believed could take place in the modern world. One girl lay trembling in her apartment, as the st...

  • Canto for a Gypsy

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    Roman Grey - 2

    Gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey is back in one of Martin Cruz Smith’s most beloved novels -- ​the exciting and fast-paced Canto for a Gypsy.The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary is on display in St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Guarded by man...

  • Nightwing

    From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a reissue of Nightwing, the million-copy bestseller that Stephen King called “one of the best horror novels in the last twenty years.”As darkness gathers, the sky...

  • Gorky Park

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 1

    A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive. honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identi...

  • The Analog Bullet

  • The Indians Won

    First published in 1970 and long out of print, The Indians Won is a stunning work of speculative fiction that imagines that, following the defeat of Custer and Benteen at the Little Bighorn in 1876, the many Indigenous tribes of America formed an all...

  • Stallion Gate

    This is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history.Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.In a New Mexico blizz...

  • Polar Star

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    An Arkady Renko Novel - 2

    He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscow’s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous...

  • Red Square

    • / Law Enforcement
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    An Arkady Renko Novel - 3

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted . . . [Red Square] should find as many friends as did Gorky Park.” -- The Washington Post Book WorldBack from exile in the ...



  • Rose

    For explorer and adventurer Jonathan Blair, nothing could be more repulsive than trekking to the dreary coal town of Wigan, England. But he has no choice. To earn passage back to his beloved Africa, Blair must accept a commission: discover what happe...

  • Havana Bay

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 4

    When the corpse of a Russian is hauled from the oily waters of Havana Bay, Arkady Renko comes to Cuba to identify the body. Looking for the killer, he discovers a city of faded loneliness, unexpected danger, and bewildering contradictions. His invest...

  • Death by Espionage: Intriguing Stories of Betrayal and Deception

    A collection of nineteen stories of revenge, betrayal, and treachery from the International Association of Crime Writers and some of the world's most well-known authors. There are assassins and seducers, stolen plans, and intricate games of cat and m...

  • December 6

    Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism -- a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles. In many ways, Niles should be as America...

  • Tokyo Station

    1922, Tokyo. Harry Niles is a 'wild child', an American boy in a strange country, ignored by his missionary parents, he begins to lead his life in the Tokyo underworld. One night, he is charged with delivering a painting to an enigmatic figure, the...

  • Wolves Eat Dogs

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 5

    In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the N...

  • Stalin's Ghost

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 6

    Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Met...

  • Three Stations

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 7

    A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing without a trace. So begins Martin Cruz Smith's masterful T...

  • Tatiana

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 8

    Arkady Renko, one of the iconic inves­tigators of contemporary fiction, has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. ...

  • The Girl from Venice

    The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared “that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction,” The Girl from Venice is a s...



  • The Siberian Dilemma

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 9

    From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna. Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the mo...

  • Independence Square

    An Arkady Renko Novel - 10

    Detective Arkaday Renko -- “one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY) -- risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared.Martin Cr...

  • Hotel Ukraine

    Detective Arkady Renko -- “one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY) -- returns in this tense thriller set amid the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith’s celebrated A...

Award-Winning Books by Martin Cruz Smith

Havana Bay
2000 Hammett -- Best Novel
Rose
1997 Hammett -- Best Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Martin Cruz Smith has published 22 books.

The next book by Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Martin Cruz Smith, Gypsy in Amber, was published in January 1971.

Yes. Martin Cruz Smith has 2 series.
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