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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2009
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Derrick Storm

1 - Storm Front (May-2013)
2 - Wild Storm (May-2014)
3 - Heat Storm (May-2017)
A Brewing Storm (May-2012)
A Raging Storm (Jul-2012)
A Bloody Storm (Aug-2012)

Nikki Heat

1 - Heat Wave (Oct-2009)
2 - Naked Heat (Oct-2010)
3 - Heat Rises (Sep-2011)
4 - Frozen Heat (Sep-2012)
5 - Deadly Heat (Sep-2013)
6 - Raging Heat (Sep-2014)
7 - Driving Heat (Sep-2015)
8 - High Heat (Oct-2016)
9 - Crashing Heat (Mar-2019)

Richard Castle

1 - Storm Season (Oct-2012)
2 - A Calm Before Storm (Jul-2013)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she lead...



  • When New York's most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high-profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. But Heat's murder investigation is complica...



  • Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet. The bizarre murder of a pa...



  • Part One of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short. When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn't just retire. He had to fake his own death. So when his...



  • Days after being brought out of retirement to investigate a kidnapping, Derrick Storm has a dead US senator on his hands, an assassin to track down, and nearly six billion dollars' worth of gold bars--hidden by the Communist Party somewhere in the fo...



  • The final piece of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short. Derrick Storm is back--this time with a crack team of ghost CIA operatives. These former agents have al...



  • Hot on the heels of Richard Castle's #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Heat Rises" comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, "Frozen Heat." Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki ...




  • Derrick Storm is hired to bug an African head of state’s hotel suite -- but the routine mission quickly spirals out of control when Storm overhears a woman’s terrifying scream on the wire. Soon, he’ll discover an international conspiracy rea...






  • There's a storm front coming! Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm--the man who made Richard Castle a perennial bestseller--is back in this rip-roaring, full-length thriller. From Tokyo, to London, to Johannesburg, high-level ba...



  • Collects Castle: A Calm Before Storm #1-5. The Derrick Storm adaptations continue in an all-new miniseries based on the hit ABC show Castle! Derrick Storm's gruesome discovery winds up drawing him into an international spectacle. Who is The Fear? Wha...



  • Picking up where Frozen Heat left off, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago. For the hunt, Nikki teams once again with her romantic partner, ...



  • Airliners are dropping from the sky, shot down by a terrifying futuristic weapon. The intelligence community is blindsided and scrambling for answers. The media is calling it another 9/11.But the terrorists have aimed their weapon at the one man who ...



  • In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-win...




  • Richard Castle, New York Times mega-bestselling mystery writer and star of ABC's hit primetime show Castle is back. In the seventh novel of his popular Nikki Heat series, the NYPD's top homicide detective has been promoted to captain just in time to ...



  • An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writ...



  • Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in th...



  • New York Police Captain Nikki Heat is accustomed to dealing with murders, even those with no leads and no motives. But having her husband as a suspect makes her newest case the most personal one yet. [end of box] Nikki Heat does not like to be away f...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Castle has published 19 books.

Richard Castle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Crashing Heat, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Richard Castle, Heat Wave, was published in October 2009.

Yes. Richard Castle has 3 series.