Michael Cadnum

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1990
  • Latest Book:
    November 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Hubert and Edmund

1 - The Book of the Lion (Mar-2000)
2 - The Leopard Sword (Sep-2002)
3 - Dragon Throne (May-2005)

Robin Hood

1 - In a Dark Wood (Mar-1998)
2 - Forbidden Forest (Apr-2002)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Nightlight

    Paul Wright’s family sends him to find his cousin, a photographer whose subjects have become increasingly macabre. Paul investigates Len’s last known address, a cabin in California’s Napa Valley, only to discover the frightening and sinister tr...

  • Sleepwalker

    San Francisco Bay Area archaeologist Davis Lowry has everything -- success, a fascinating profession -- but he is troubled by a bout of sleepwalking. For a change of scenery, he travels to York, England, where a bog man has been unearthed. A series o...

  • Calling Home

    An Edgar Award Finalist: A troubled teen accidentally kills his best friend and tries to cover up his crime When the muggers come for Peter, he runs as fast as he can, cradling the 6 pack under his arm like it’s the most valuable thing in the world...

  • The Horses of the Night

    San Francisco architect Stratton Fields has just discovered that a contest was rigged against him and that the man who engineered the cheat, Ty DeVere, is determined to keep Stratton from success. But when Stratton’s enemies, including Ty, start dy...

  • Ghostwright

    Hamilton Speke is a successful playwright and composer -- an extraordinary creative force. He lives and works on an estate south of San Francisco, secure in a woodland sanctuary where, to his surprise, he receives a visitor from his past, an old frie...

  • Skyscape

    Red Patterson is a TV psychiatrist, a video force, and a famous healer. His newest patient, Curtis Newns, is an artist with a damaged soul. Red is so intrigued by Curtis that he seeks to separate the artist and his wife and claim Curtis’s creative ...

  • Breaking the Fall

    An Edgar Award Finalist: A lost teen allows a friend to draw him into a suicidal game Stanley chose the house carefully. It has 3 chimneys and a perfect lawn. Stanley knows it’s nicer than any place he will ever live -- and tonight, he’s breaking...

  • The Judas Glass

    Richard Stirling is a successful lawyer who specializes in defending the rights of the underprivileged. He falls in love with the pianist Rebecca Pennant, and as their romance develops, a tragic event takes Rebecca out of his life. In the wake of thi...

  • Edge

    A teenage boy searches for revenge on the streets of Oakland The battle is nearly over. The outsiders -- who came to Oakland looking for excitement -- are about to get back on the highway and go home. But they hurt 1 of Zach’s friends, and he canâ€...



  • The Lost and Found House

    A young girl leaves the house she loves, saddened by the memories she will leave behind, but in arriving at her new home, her worries are soon eased as she gets settled and begins to create new memories in her new environment....

  • In a Dark Wood

    Robin Hood - 1

    A desperate sheriff in Sherwood Forest chases a bandit called Robin Hood The boar charges and Geoffrey, the sheriff of Nottingham, stands tall with an iron spear gripped in his hands, waiting for the moment to strike. Just before the beast is upon hi...

  • Ella and the Canary Prince

  • Rundown

    Driven by something she cannot understand, a teenager tells a dangerous lie In the last 16 days, 7 women have been assaulted by the South Bay rapist, and the students of UC Berkeley walk to class in fear. To the campus, he’s a terror. To Jennifer, ...

  • The Book of the Lion

    Hubert and Edmund - 1

    A National Book Award nominee!Returning to the same era of his "In a Dark Wood", Cadnum's majestic novel--part mystery, part history--chronicles the pageantry and brutality of the Crusades under King Richard.Edmund, a young apprentice, is awaiting pu...

  • Forbidden Forest

    Robin Hood - 2

    Little John lives a lifetime of adventure -- from humble ferryman to legendary outlaw John Little is strong enough to be a knight, but he knows he is destined to life as a thief. He spends his days on the river, poling nobles back and forth on a wood...

  • The Leopard Sword

    Hubert and Edmund - 2

    Ragged and exhausted from fighting in the Crusades, Hubert, a knight's squire, and his fellow crusaders board a ship bound for England. But the return home is neither quick nor easy. Hubert must use his sword against ships full of attacking infidels,...

  • Dragon Throne

    Hubert and Edmund - 3

    Edmund and Herbert, newly made knights, return to England expecting to revel in the pleasure of being home. Instead, scheming Prince John has a new task for the weary Crusaders; they are to escort two young women on a pilgrimage to Rome, a journey th...

  • Can't Catch Me: and Other Twice-Told Tales

    This collection of deftly rearranged myths and fairy tales, including six original stories, rekindles the excitement of adored childhood adventures. National Endowment for the Arts recipient Michael Cadnum creates twice-told narratives revealed throu...

  • Nightsong: The Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice

    A poet journeys into the underworld to rescue his bride  His name is Orpheus, and he is the greatest poet on Earth. With his lyre, he can make music so beautiful it causes the gods to weep, but they are not who he wants to impress. Orpheus has b...



  • The King's Arrow

    When eighteen-year-old Simon, the half-English, half-Norman son of a noble family living in Norman-occupied England in 1100, is offered the chance to accompany the king?s friend Walter Tirel on a royal hunt, he is flattered by the honor. He hopes his...

  • Peril on the Sea

    It is the summer of 1588 and a pair of unlikely shipmates is traveling on the Vixen, a privateer that will soon be drafted to join a flotilla of English ships bound for a fiery clash with the Spanish Armada. Seventeen-year-old Sherwin is aboard to re...

  • Flash

    When two teenage brothers bungle a bank robbery, their attempt to hide evidence is witnessed--arually--by their legally blind neighbor....

  • Seize the Storm

    Sailing from California to Hawaii, Susannah, her family, and a crewman are driven by a vicious storm into the path of a drifting powerboat. The ghostly boat carries the bodies of two drug runners and a huge stash of money. For the sailors, stealing t...

  • Heat

    A champion diver fights to conquer her fears and get back on the board Bonnie is doing a reverse 2-and-a-half somersault when her forehead hits the diving board. She sinks into the pool, unconscious, sucking water into her lungs. When her teammate...

  • Redhanded

    A teenage boxer learns how to fight dirty -- in and out of the ring As soon as the bell chimes, Steven knows he’s in trouble. Del Toro is stronger, faster, and in better shape; he’s by far the better boxer. But Steven has been learning to figh...

  • Taking It

    A make-believe shoplifter is shocked to find herself actually stealing Anna loves everything about department stores: the smell, the clothes, the crowds. But her favorite things to watch are the detectives. She can spot a store detective a mile aw...

  • Zero at the Bone

    His sister’s disappearance threatens to tear a boy’s family apart Cray is the first to smell smoke. It’s his 1st week on the job, working alongside his father at the family plant, and he’s afraid of making a fool of himself. So he waits on...

  • Blood Gold

    From the jungles of Panama to the gold fields of California, a young man searches for justice In 1849, there are 2 ways to reach California: overland or by sea. Traveling by land is safer -- a long, slow journey across the American plains -- but t...

  • Daughter of the Wind

    A young warrior sets out to rescue a Viking princess On the frosty coast of Scandinavia, the greatest warriors are the berserkers -- men chosen by the god Odin to perform superhuman feats of strength, obliterating their enemies with the frenzied p...



  • Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun

    A child of the sun seeks his father -- and risks destruction for the thrill of speed In the grazing fields outside the village, a griffin swoops from the sky to attack a lamb. To save the innocent creature, a boy called Phaeton hurls rocks at the ass...

  • Raven of the Waves

    A 17-year-old Viking learns the horrible nature of warfare during his first raid The warriors of Lidsmod’s village live for war. When the waters thaw, they set their ships upon the waves, ranging up and down the coasts of Scandinavia in search o...

  • Ship of Fire

    A young Englishman embarks on history’s most daring naval assault Thomas Spyre wields his rapier like an expert, but his blade has never drawn blood. A surgeon’s apprentice in Elizabethan London, young Thomas spends his days learning the most ...

  • Earthquake Murder

    Michael Cadnum's Earthquake Murder is a collection of short fiction published in a variety anthologies and magazines in recent years and collected here for the first time. Featuring a foreword by radio and publishing force Andrew Tonkovick, these sur...

  • Saint Peter's Wolf

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    Art collector Benjamin Byrd has added a curious and most startling artifact to his collection: a set of fangs embedded in silver. He is mesmerized by his latest treasure, obsessed with looking at the fangs, holding them. Feeling their strange power. ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Cadnum has published 34 books.

Michael Cadnum does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Earthquake Murder, was published in November 2017.

The first book by Michael Cadnum, Nightlight, was published in April 1990.

Yes. Michael Cadnum has 2 series.
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