Thomas Perry

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1982
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Butcher Boy

1 - The Butcher's Boy (May-1982)
2 - Sleeping Dogs (May-1992)
3 - The Informant (May-2011)
4 - Eddie's Boy (Dec-2020)

Jack Till

1 - Silence (Jul-2007)
2 - The Boyfriend (Mar-2013)

Jane Whitefield

1 - Vanishing Act (Feb-1995)
2 - Dance for the Dead (Apr-1996)
3 - Shadow Woman (May-1997)
4 - The Face-Changers (May-1998)
5 - Blood Money (Jan-2000)
6 - Runner (Jan-2009)
7 - Poison Flower (Mar-2012)
8 - A String of Beads (Jan-2015)
9 - The Left-Handed Twin (Nov-2021)

John Walker

1 - Death Benefits (Jan-2001)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

20 - The Book of the Lion (Jul-2015)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • The Butcher's Boy

    Butcher Boy - 1

    Murder has always been easy for the Butcher's Boy-it's what he does best and what they pay him for. But after the successful assassination of a senator, he arrives in Las Vegas to collect his fee only to discover he has become a liability to his shad...

  • Metzger's Dog

    A soldier of fortune. His cat. His ex-lover. With a clean shot at 10 million. All they have to do is read the want ads. Blackmail the CIA. Shut down a major American city. And get away with it ... When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a pr...

  • Big Fish

    First published in 1985 and long out-of-print, Big Fish, one of Thomas Perry’s most sought-after titles, is now available to readers in an e-book format. Powerfully-plotted and funny, Big Fish follows dangerous and mysterious Los Angeles entr...

  • Island

    Island, first published in 1987 and long out-of-print, one of Thomas Perry’s most sought-after titles, is now available to readers in e-book format. The riveting and entertaining thriller follows a husband-and-wife con team on the run from th...

  • Sleeping Dogs

    Butcher Boy - 2

    He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher&#...

  • Vanishing Act

    Jane Whitefield - 1

    Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness--not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membe...

  • Dance for the Dead

    Jane Whitefield - 2

    “Compelling . . . Nobody writes a chase better than [Thomas] Perry.” -- The Washington Post Book WorldJane Whitefield is the patron saint of the pursued, a Native American “guide” who specializes in making victims vanish. Calling on the ...

  • Shadow Woman

    Jane Whitefield - 3

    Jane Whitefield is a name to be whispered like a prayer. A shadow woman who rescues the helpless and the hunted when their enemies leave them no place to hide. Now with the bone-deep cunning of her Native American forebears, she arranges a vanishing ...

  • The Face-Changers

    Jane Whitefield - 4

    Jane Whitefield, legendary half-Indian shadow guide who spirits hunted people away from certain death, has never had a client like Dr. Richard Dahlman. A famous plastic surgeon who has dedicated his life to healing, the good doctor hasn't a clue why ...



  • Blood Money

    Jane Whitefield - 5

    Even before she heard the teenager's story, Jane Whitefield's Native American intuition whispered danger. For a year, Rita Shelford kept house for an old man in Florida. When he disappeared, other men came and tried to kill her. That was before she k...

  • Death Benefits

    John Walker - 1

    When gruff and intimidating security consultant Max Stillman appears without warning in the San Francisco office of McClaren Life and Casualty and begins asking questions and scrutinizing files, the employees can't help wondering just which of them h...

  • Pursuit

    Roy Prescott is all alone in the world, living lies, making plans, meticulously going about his job. Prescott's job is to hunt people down . . . and then to kill them. Now he has been hired to find a monster -- a man who is as alone as he is, as smar...

  • Dead Aim

    Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon's desperate attempts, he loses her, and be...

  • Nightlife

    When the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole is found shot to death in his home in Portland, Oregon, homicide detective Catherine Hobbes is determined to solve the case. But her feelings, and the investigation, are complicated when Hug...

  • Silence

    Jack Till - 1

    Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Pa...

  • Fidelity

    When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. How could Phil leave her penniless? What was he going to do with the money? And, mos...

  • Runner

    Jane Whitefield - 6

    Jane Whitefield -- New York Times best-selling writer Thomas Perry's most popular character - returns from retirement to the world of the runner, guiding fugitives out of danger. After a nine-year absence, the fiercely resourceful Native Ame...

  • Strip

    An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu Manco Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank's night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lo...

  • The Informant

    Butcher Boy - 3

    THE BUTCHER'S BOY IS BACK. Thomas Perry's vengeful assassin has returned to play a deadly psychological game with Elizabeth Waring, the only Justice Department official who ever believed he existed. The Butcher's Boy knows Waring can help him ...



  • Poison Flower

    Jane Whitefield - 7

    Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry's celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But t...

  • The Boyfriend

    Jack Till - 2

    Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down Syndrome. But when the...

  • A String of Beads

    Jane Whitefield - 8

    After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job that took a dangerous turn for the worse, Jane McKinnon, née Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York --...

  • The Book of the Lion

    Bibliomysteries - 20

    A long lost manuscript by Geoffrey Chaucer draws Professor Dominic Hallkyn through the streets of Boston and into a mysterious plot. When Professor Dominic Hallkyn receives an anonymous phone call late one night from a voice claiming to possess a pri...

  • Forty Thieves

    Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in...

  • The Old Man

    To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don’t have multiple driver’s licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the...

  • The Bomb Maker

    A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber’s predictions of human behavior―a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In THE BOMB MAKER, Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind...

  • The Burglar

    From the New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry, “who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks” (Stephen King), comes a new thriller about an unlikely burglar―a young woman in her 20s―who realizes she must solve a string of...

  • A Small Town

    In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and des...

  • Eddie's Boy

    Butcher Boy - 4

    Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael’s life. He is immediately thrust into act...



  • The Left-Handed Twin

    Jane Whitefield - 9

    Jane Whitefield helps people disappear. Fearing for their lives, fleeing dangerous situations, her clients come to her when they need to vanish completely -- to assume a new identity and establish a new life somewhere they won’t be found. And when ...

  • Jane Whitefield: A Mysterious Profile

    Get the backstory on an amazing heroine in this suspenseful kidnapping tale from the bestselling author of Vanishing Act and The Left-Handed Twin.   A Native American of Seneca descent, Jane Whitefield helps people in harm’s way disappear with...

  • Murder Book

    When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization -...

  • Hero

    A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also make her its next victim.… Justine Poole takes her job seriously providing security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars. When she prevents a ...

  • Pro Bono

    A tenacious attorney grapples with a dangerous group of thieves in this new thriller from the author of The Old Man. Charles Warren, Los Angeles attorney, has dedicated his career to aiding people in financial straits. He is particularly skilled at t...

Award-Winning Books by Thomas Perry

The Butcher's Boy
1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel


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Thomas Perry has published 34 books.

The next book by Thomas Perry, Pro Bono, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Thomas Perry, The Butcher's Boy, was published in May 1982.

Yes. Thomas Perry has 4 series.
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