Ridley Pearson

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1985
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Indestructibles

1 - The First Fracture (Mar-2021)

The Kingdom Keepers

1 - Disney After Dark (Sep-2005)
2 - Disney at Dawn (Sep-2008)
3 - Disney in Shadow (Apr-2010)
4 - Power Play (Apr-2011)
5 - Shell Game (Apr-2012)
6 - Dark Passage (Apr-2013)
7 - The Insider (Apr-2014)
8 - Disney Lands (Apr-2015)
9 - Legacy of Secrets (Apr-2016)
10 - Disney At Last! (Apr-2017)

Kingdom Keepers: The Return

1 - Disney Lands (Apr-2015)
2 - Legacy of Secrets (Apr-2016)
3 - Disney At Last! (Apr-2017)

Kingdom Keepers Inheritance

1 - Inheritance (Feb-2023)
2 - Villains Realm (Mar-2024)
3 - The Final Draw (Mar-2025)

Lock and Key

1 - The Initiation (Sep-2016)
2 - The Downward Spiral (Oct-2017)
3 - The Final Step (Nov-2018)

Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews

1 - Undercurrents (May-1988)
2 - The Angel Maker (Mar-1993)
3 - No Witnesses (1994)
4 - Beyond Recognition (Jan-1997)
5 - The Pied Piper (Aug-1998)
6 - The First Victim (Jul-1999)
7 - Middle of Nowhere (Jun-2001)
8 - The Art of Deception (Aug-2002)
9 - The Body of David Hayes (Apr-2004)

Magical Map

1 - Magical Map (Aug-2025)
2 - Jungle Cruise (Aug-2025)

A Risk Agent Novel

1 - The Risk Agent (Jun-2012)
2 - Choke Point (Jun-2013)
3 - The Red Room (Jun-2014)
4 - White Bone (Jul-2016)

Steel Trap

1 - The Challenge (Apr-2008)
2 - The Academy (Jan-2010)

Super Sons

1 - The PolarShield Project (Apr-2019)
2 - The Foxglove Mission (Nov-2019)
3 - Escape to Landis (Oct-2020)

Walt Fleming

1 - Killer Weekend (Jul-2007)
2 - Killer View (Jul-2008)
3 - Killer Summer (Jul-2009)
4 - In Harm's Way (Aug-2010)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Never Look Back

    A Soviet agent has entered the United States -- carrying a terrifying weapon -- in this Cold War thriller by the #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author . . .   Agent Andy Clayton has been inactive for eighteen months, kept under tight surveillan...

  • Blood of the Albatross

    An innocent Seattle sailor is pulled into a dangerous web of espionage in this thriller that “is almost impossible to put the book down” (The Oregonian).   In this “enthralling” thriller by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, Jay Be...

  • The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall

  • Undercurrents

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 1

    Police Sgt. Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle’s homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up o...

  • Probable Cause

    A police detective struggles to outwit a twisted killer in this “breathless” crime novel by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of Undercurrents (Chicago Tribune).   Carmel, California is a scenic, peaceful tourist haven where James Dewi...

  • Hard Fall

    The tragic bombing of EuroTours Flight 1023 was big news. To FBI Agent Cam Daggett it was more than that. It was personal. His parents and son were on that plane. And for two years he's been after the killer who did it. All he has to go on is a name:...

  • The Angel Maker

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 2

    DEEP IN THE HEART OF A HEARTLESS CITY… She could have been any homeless, young woman trying to escape Seattle’s mean streets. Except the sixteen-year-old who stumbled into The Shelter that night was missing a lot of blood, and something even more...

  • Hidden Charges

    New York Times-bestselling author: This thriller about a suburban mall taken hostage by a madman offers “sheer edge-of-your-chair excitement” (Wilmington News-Journal).   The setting is The Yankee Green -- an enormous shopping center and ent...

  • No Witnesses

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 3

    Product tampering. Innocent lives. Nice suburban homes. A Seattle food company is victim to an ingenious extortion that has the FBI two steps behind. Seattle's veteran homicide sergeant, Lou Boldt, and police psychologist Daphne Matthews approach the...



  • Chain of Evidence

    Can Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli uncover the truth? Or, more importantly, does he dare? Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have ...

  • Beyond Recognition

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 4

    Seattle police sergeant Lou Boldt is stunned when the local fire investigator presents him with frightening evidence in a series of fires that have occurred in the Seattle area. These white-hot fires burn so cleanly that even the ash disintegrates--l...

  • The Pied Piper

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 5

    Who's that knocking at your door? Do you always look? Do you always know? From best-selling suspense writer Ridley Pearson comes a heart-pounding story of deceit and betrayal featuring Seattle detective Lou Boldt and forensic pathologist Daphne Ma...

  • The First Victim

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 6

    In this gripping novel, Lou Boldt is back and entering dark new territory. A shipping container washed ashore leads Seattle television news anchor Stevie McNeal and her reporter friend, Melissa, on the trail of a scam involving the importation of ill...

  • Middle of Nowhere

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 7

    In Middle of Nowhere, the "Blu Flu" has struck the Seattle Police force and a majority of the officers are on an unofficial strike, with the exception of a few, including Detective Lou Boldt, who is committed to the job. When a string of robberies an...

  • Parallel Lies

    In Parallel Lies, a series of train derailments sets ex-cop Peter Tyler looking to jumpstart his career after being suspended from the force. Umberto Alvarez, a suspected terrorist, blames the railroad company for the crossing guard collision that ki...

  • The Art of Deception

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 8

    Friendship comes at a cost. For beautiful Mary-Ann Walker, who struggled with the challenges of a difficult family history, that cost proves to be her life. With Mary-Ann's past as its only guideline, the Seattle homicide unit must delve into the rel...

  • The Body of David Hayes

    Lou Boldt & Daphne Matthews - 9

    Years ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with David Hayes, a young computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive. When Liz ended the relationship after reconciling with Lou, Hayes engaged in a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years l...

  • Cut and Run

    A spellbinding thriller pitting a U.S. federal marshal against the mob's most resourceful killer--in a race to save the woman he loves. Six years ago, witness protection marshal Roland Larson did the unthinkable: He fell in love with a protected w...

  • Disney After Dark

    The Kingdom Keepers - 1

    IN THIS FANTASTICAL THRILLER, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches who threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Usi...



  • Queeny

    in Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Killer Weekend

    Walt Fleming - 1

    Eight years ago in Sun Valley, all that stood between controversial New York State attorney general Liz Shaler and a knife-wielding intruder was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now, Fleming is the county sheriff, and Shaler's returning to Sun Valley to...

  • The Challenge

    Steel Trap - 1

    In this riveting crime novel, 14-year-old Steven "Steel" Trapp sets off with his mom and their dog, Cairo, on a 2-day Amtrak journey to compete in the National Science Competition in Washington, DC. Steel is both blessed and cursed with a remarkable ...

  • Killer View

    Walt Fleming - 2

    When a skier goes missing from a Sun Valley mountaintop, Sheriff Walt Fleming and his Search and Rescue team -- including his close friend, Mark Aker -- are called upon to find him. In a blinding snowstorm, a team member is found dead. The following ...

  • Disney at Dawn

    The Kingdom Keepers - 2

    It's supposed to be a happy day at the Magic Kingdom-the return of the teenaged holographic hosts. But things go very wrong when a sudden lightning storm disrupts the celebration, and Amanda's mysterious sister, Jez, disappears. The only clue is the ...

  • Boldt's Broken Angel

    in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

    A disgraced detective gets a disturbing chance at redemption in the #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author’s thriller short.Police detective Lou Boldt returns from a three-month suspension and a demotion to work a missing person’s case. But when ...

  • Killer Summer

    Walt Fleming - 3

    Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in this high-intensity thriller from New York Times? bestselling author Ridley Pearson. Sun Valley, Idaho--playground of the wealthy and politically connected--is home to an annual wine auction that attracts...

  • The Academy

    Steel Trap - 2

    Steven “Steel” Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there’s a clubby element of the faculty and upper classmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surpr...

  • Disney in Shadow

    The Kingdom Keepers - 3

    With the adventures set forth in the first books now behind them, Kingdom Keepers 3: Disney In Shadow follows the five teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck as they search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriousl...

  • In Harm's Way

    Walt Fleming - 4

    Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming's budding relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch after Fiona is involved in a heroic river rescue and she attempts to duck the press. Despite her job and her laudable actions, she begs Walt to ...



  • Power Play

    The Kingdom Keepers - 4

    JUST WHEN LIFE FOR THE FIVE Kingdom Keepers is beginning to settle down, an intriguing video suddenly appears on Philby's computer at school. It's a call to action: it seems that the Overtakers, a group of Disney villains, are plotting to rescue thei...

  • Shell Game

    The Kingdom Keepers - 5

    AS the five Kingdom Keepers enter high school, everything is about to change. The Maintenance Base that controls all four parks in Disney World is under attack by the Overtakers, a group determined to change Disney forever. Relationships between the ...

  • The Risk Agent

    A Risk Agent Novel - 1

    A Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight. His one-man security detail goes missing as well. Rutherford Risk is a firm specializing in extraction: the negotiat...

  • Dark Passage

    The Kingdom Keepers - 6

    The five Kingdom Keepers and their core friends have uncovered a startling truth: Maleficent and the Overtakers (Disney villains) are plotting a catastrophic event that could have repercussions far beyond the world of Disney. Aboard the Disney Cru...

  • Choke Point

    A Risk Agent Novel - 2

    When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as a “knot shop” that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it...

  • The Insider

    The Kingdom Keepers - 7

    The Kingdom Keepers' senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs ...

  • The Red Room

    A Risk Agent Novel - 3

    In the newest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson, John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable and often incompatible duo, team up again, this time in the exotic “city between two worlds,” Istanbul. Wh...

  • Disney Lands

    Kingdom Keepers: The Return - 1
    The Kingdom Keepers - 8

    With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher...

  • Legacy of Secrets

    Kingdom Keepers: The Return - 2
    The Kingdom Keepers - 9

    Disneyland, Opening Day, 1955. When five present-day teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers find themselves thrown into a past that would make anyone envious, things don't exactly work out the way they'd hoped. Finn, Charlene, Maybeck, Willa, and P...

  • White Bone

    A Risk Agent Novel - 4

    John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable duo of the Risk Agent novels, team up again in the latest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson. When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partne...



  • The Gadwall Incident

    The New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatcher and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the stirring digital prequel to the Lock and Key series, which reimagines the origins of the rivalry between Sherlock Ho...

  • The Initiation

    Lock and Key - 1

    The New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatchers and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the riveting first tale of the Lock and Key trilogy about the origins of the rivalry between literature's most famous enemie...

  • Disney At Last!

    Kingdom Keepers: The Return - 3
    The Kingdom Keepers - 10

    The stakes are high--both for the past and the future. The finale of The Return series leaves the Kingdom Keepers with unimaginable choices to make. ...

  • The Downward Spiral

    Lock and Key - 2

    This bravely reimagined origin story of the rivalry of literature’s most famous enemies -- Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty -- is told from the perspective of James’s observant little sister, Moira. At the thrilling conclusion to book one, ...

  • The Final Step

    Lock and Key - 3

    The New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatchers and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the thrilling conclusion to the Lock and Key trilogy. Before James Moriarty and his sister Moria enrolled in Baskerville ...

  • The PolarShield Project

    Super Sons - 1

    Jon Kent and Ian Wayne are opposites in every way except one--they are the sons of the World's Greatest Heroes, Superman and Batman! To uncover a global conspiracy, this unlikely duo will need to learn to trust each other and work together to sav...

  • The Foxglove Mission

    Super Sons - 2

    The Foxglove Mission is the rare sequel that takes everything readers love about Super Sons and raises the stakes without losing any of the charm or sense of wonder. Join New York Times bestselling author Ridley Pearson (Kingdom Keepers) and artist I...

  • Escape to Landis

    Super Sons - 3

    Finishing the thrilling adventure that began in The PolarShield Project, a mysterious new foe plans to release a deadly virus, leaving the sons of the world's two greatest superheroes on their biggest mission yet! With the news of the Four Fin...

  • The First Fracture

    Indestructibles - 1

  • Lou Boldt: A Mysterious Profile

    The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author’s “engaging cop hero” finds himself on the other side of the interview room in this revealing short story (Publishers Weekly).   After twenty-seven years on the force, Lt. Lou Boldt is suddenly seate...



  • Disney Cautionary Tales

    What you are holding is no ordinary book. This book contains scary stories. Thrilling and chilling tales that feature the worst Disney villains. They twist and turn through unfortunate circumstances. Maybe you've heard of a cave full of wonders where...

  • Inheritance

    Kingdom Keepers Inheritance - 1

    In the near future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney's imagination, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park. Five unique families are among the residents -- and some of the parents were once...

  • Villains Realm

    Kingdom Keepers Inheritance - 2

    The second book in this all new KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE trilogy follows our young heroes to parks around the world as they work to stop the most villainous villain of all -- Ursula -- from taking over for good!In this latest book in the series th...

  • The Final Draw

    Kingdom Keepers Inheritance - 3

    This epic conclusion to the KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE trilogy will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page!In this final installment in the series that has sold over a million copies worldwide, Ridley Pearson concludes the Kingdo...

  • Jungle Cruise

    Magical Map - 2

    New York Times bestselling author of the Kingdom Keepers series is back with an all-new Disney-inspired chapter book adventure!Gemma and her brother, Torin, have a big secret. They found a hand-drawn map of Walt Disney World that can magically transp...

  • Magical Map

    Magical Map - 1

    New York Times bestselling author of the Kingdom Keepers series is back with an all-new Disney-inspired chapter book adventure!Ten-year-old Gemma wishes everything could stay the same, but that’s impossible after her mother accepts a new job at...

Award-Winning Books by Ridley Pearson

Disney After Dark
2009 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award -- Grades 6-8


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ridley Pearson has published 55 books.

The next book by Ridley Pearson, Magical Map, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Ridley Pearson, Never Look Back, was published in April 1985.

Yes. Ridley Pearson has 11 series.
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