Peter Abrahams

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1980
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

An Echo Falls Mystery

1 - Down the Rabbit Hole (Apr-2005)
2 - Behind the Curtain (May-2006)
3 - Into the Dark (Aug-2008)

The Outlaws of Sherwood Street

1 - Stealing from the Rich (Jan-2012)
2 - Giving to the Poor (May-2013)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Fury of Rachel Monette

    A woman must untangle a dark enigma that dates back to World War II in order to find her kidnapped son in this riveting international thriller from Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Rachel Monette arrives home...

  • Tongues of Fire

    A chilling and explosive tale of revenge set in the Middle East from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns ...

  • The View from Coyaba

  • This Island Now

  • Red Message

    The CIA concludes that the disappearance of math genius Teddy Wu is an obvious defection to Red China, but his lover, Beth Hunter, investigates further and discovers an international political conspiracy of terrifying proportions...

  • Hard Rain

    Stephen King’s “favorite American suspense novelist” plunges a woman into secrets of the 1960s and ’70s as she races to save her daughter. Peter Abrahams (also known as Spencer Quinn, New York Times"bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie...

  • Pressure Drop

    A thrilling adventure set in the world of underwater diving from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Deciding on her thirty-ninth birthday that a baby is the best present she could gi...

  • Revolution #9

    Blake Wrightman died during the Vietnam War. Not on a Southeast Asian battlefield, but on an American college campus. He died the day the bomb he planted at an anti-war protest claimed a small boy’s life -- and forced Blake Wrightman to vanish. Now...

  • Lights Out

    Fifteen years is a long sentence for anyone. It feels even longer for Eddie Nye, who goes in innocent and comes out dangerous. His rap sheet nails him for dope smuggling and three dead inmates. Some of it's true, but Eddie wants to know who's respons...



  • The Fan

    Bobby Rayburn has an ex-cheerleader for a wife and a girl in every big-league town. The ball comes off his hat like a firecracker. Bobby isn't just a b4seball star. He's a god. Gil Renard has a wife who's left him. His bank balance slides toward zero...

  • A Perfect Crime

    “A perfect page-turner . . . Books this well written and involving don’t come along often. . . . Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.” -- Stephen King   An unfaithful wife. A cheating lover. A loyal friend. A jealous h...

  • Crying Wolf

    For Nat and his new friends, Grace and Izzie Zorn. twin sisters as seductive as they are elusive, it was the perfect plan for some quick cash. A bold scheme with an admirable motive: to save the bright future of a deserving young man. And the victim,...

  • Last of the Dixie Heroes

    Roy Hill married the girl of his dreams, dotes on his eleven-year-old son, and is next in line for a big promotion in the Atlanta office of a global corporation. Then, almost imperceptibly, it all starts to unravel. A chance encounter with a group of...

  • The Tutor

    Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home.When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled t...

  • Their Wildest Dreams

    "Mackie dreaded the mail." From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a de...

  • Down the Rabbit Hole

    An Echo Falls Mystery - 1

    "My all-time favorite. Astonishing." (Stephen King)Down the Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams. Perfect for middle school readers looking for a good mystery.Welco...

  • Oblivion

    What determines your identity? Is it the clothes you wear? The way other people treat you? The stories, anecdotes and experiences you have stored in your memory? When Nick Petrov wakes up in a hospital room, his clothes are two sizes too big. Everyon...

  • End of Story

    Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she h...

  • Behind the Curtain

    An Echo Falls Mystery - 2

    In echo falls you never know what's coming next -- and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy, but he won't explain why. Ingrid's brother, Ty, is getting buff -- really buff -- but when Ty starts g...



  • Nerve Damage

    Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams . . . at least that's true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died fifteen years earlier while working for a private think tank and he has never forgotten her. Roy is a well-known sculptor in the art world. His...

  • The Mejai

  • Delusion

    A woman's world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago in this latest ingenious thriller from the author Publishers Weekly calls "one of the best contemporary thriller writers around." T...

  • Up All Night

    A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search f...

  • Into the Dark

    An Echo Falls Mystery - 3

    In Echo Falls, secrets buried in the past don't always stay there.In the third book in the Edgar Award"nominated and national bestselling Echo Falls series, Peter Abrahams's talent for building suspense shines as Ingrid embarks on her most harrowin...

  • Mine Boy

    'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday TimesAnd the black man and the white wer...

  • 666: The Number Of The Beast

    Will you dare to be scared? This chilling new collection of terrifying stories from today's top horror writers is sure to keep you up at night!

    Now in paperback!

    Tales of Evil. Tales of Darkness. Tales of Beasts.

    There's the...

  • Reality Check

    QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest--and smartest--girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea,...

  • Quacky Baseball

    It's opening day at the ballpark, and Thumby Duckling is nervous. He hopes it won't be one, two, three strikes, he's out Trailing by three in the bottom of the ninth, the Webbies are counting on Thumby to save the day. Can Thumby shake his jitters an...

  • Stealing from the Rich

    The Outlaws of Sherwood Street - 1

    Robbie Forester always knew life wasn't fair, but she never thought she could do anything about it. Until one day a powerful charm comes into her possession, a charm that guides her, her three friends, and her dog Pendleton on the path to justice. Bu...



  • Giving to the Poor

    The Outlaws of Sherwood Street - 2

    A modern-day Robin Hood by a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author! Robbie Forester has learned the hard way that life isn’t fair. So have her friends Ashanti, Silas and Tut-Tut. But Robbie and her friends -- who call themsel...

  • The Anfield Man

    There once lived a young man called Alfonso, who was a citizen of Spain. Alfonso fell in love with a Spanish girl. His mother, however, did not approve of the love match; this because the girl’s grandmother had South American blood in her veins...

  • Killers of The True Holy War

    Observing the terrible suffering of children around the world, especially in developing countries, brought about by bad religious teachings and warped exegesis, served as the catalyst for Peter to write Killers of the True Holy War.In this, Abraham...

  • A Wreath for Udomo

    'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday TimesThose men who are history now; did they feel like this?A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the corn...

Award-Winning Books by Peter Abrahams

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2010 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Abrahams has published 33 books.

Peter Abrahams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Wreath for Udomo, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Peter Abrahams, The Fury of Rachel Monette, was published in August 1980.

Yes. Peter Abrahams has 2 series.
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