William Bayer

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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About the Author

William Bayer's last novel was the noir thriller Blind Side. He is the author of the bestsellers Switch and Pattern Crimes and the Edgar Award winner Peregrine. He and his wife, food writer Paula Wolfen, divide their time between homes in western Connecticut and Martha's Vineyard.

Full Series List in Order

Foreign Detective

Tangier (Feb-1978)
Pattern Crimes (Apr-1988)

Frank Janek

1 - Peregrine (Sep-1981)
2 - Switch (Jun-1984)
3 - Wallflower (1991)
4 - Mirror Maze (Feb-1994)

Kay Farrow Novels

1 - The Magician's Tale (Apr-2012)
2 - Trick of Light (Apr-2012)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Visions of Isabelle

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    In 1903, a tall woman with flashing Tartar eyes was the talk of military circles, newspaper offices and salons. Her name was Isabelle Eberhardt, and the life she actually led made her justifiably the object of the most scandalous gossip in Paris as w...

  • Tangier

    Foreign Detective

    Tangier, a sweeping novel of romance and intrigue set in a fabled North African resort, may remind readers of the Alexandria Quartet. In this book Tangier is more than just a place; it is a city of unholy loves. Titled Europeans, Moroccan hustlers,...

  • Punish Me With Kisses

    Punish Me with Kisses is the story of two sisters and the Mysterious Dark Man to whom both are helplessly drawn. It begins in Bar Harbor, Maine, summer playground of the rich. Shy and sensitive Penny Berring watches as her beautiful sister Suzie puts...

  • Peregrine

    Frank Janek - 1

    This novel won the Mystery Writers of American Edgar Award for Best Novel.Circling high over Rockefeller Center is a peregrine falcon, the most awesome of the flying predators. She awaits a signal from her falconer. It is given: the bird attacks, plu...

  • Switch

    Frank Janek - 2

    When a prim and proper teacher from New York's Upper East Side and a prostitute across town are decapitated, and their heads switched, Detective Frank Janek must become as coldly creative as the killer he is stalking...

  • Pattern Crimes

    Foreign Detective

    It begins when the strangely marked body of a young prostitute is found just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. A similarly disfigured corpse of an American nun turns up. Then an Arab boy. As the list of victims grows, their only apparen...

  • Blind Side

    Geoffrey Barnett is a photographer. Due to a mysterious trauma in his past, he has for many years been unable to photograph people. When Kimberly Yates suddenly enters his life, Geoffrey's world is turned upside down. She nurtures him back to life-em...

  • Wallflower

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Frank Janek - 3

    Not since the infamous "Switch" case had Detective Janek seen such perverse brutality. The killer hod defiled the victims' bodies so carefully, so lovingly, that only a mind twisted by the most extreme sexual obsession could conceive such acts. But n...

  • Mirror Maze

    Frank Janek - 4

    The ritual was always the same. First, she would visit the abandoned mirror maze from her broken childhood. Then, she would drive into the city, pick up a stranger, drug him, rob him, and humiliate him. Now one of her "marks" has been found murdered....



  • The Dream of the Broken Horses

    One hot summer afternoon a quarter century ago, a wealthy socialite and her young lover were gunned down in a cheap motel room on the outskirts of the Midwestern city of Calista. Forensic sketch-artist David Weiss has been haunted by the notorious...

  • The Magician's Tale

    Kay Farrow Novels - 1

    This book was previously published under the pseudonym David HuntA woman who sees what others cannot see seeks the murderer of a young street hustler, a man she had befriended in photographing San Francisco's dark, sexually charged netherworld.The co...

  • Trick of Light

    Kay Farrow Novels - 2

    Originally released under the pseudonym David Hunt.A shocking and provocative new thriller from the author of the national bestseller The Magician's Tale. Kay Farrow, a color-blind photographer who sees the world in black, white and shades of gray, p...

  • City of Knives

    CITY OF KNIVES is a psychological thriller set in one of the world’s most fascinating cities. The destinies of four main characters, each pursuing his/her own agenda, intersect in Buenos Aires. MARTA ABECASIS, homicide detective, known as La Incorr...

  • Hiding in the Weave

    New York Times best-selling crime fiction writer William Bayer breaks new ground with this novel, a coming-of-age/psychological mystery. Hiding in the Weave, written from the perspective of eighteen-year-old Joel Barlev, a senior at Delamere, a schoo...

  • The Luzern Photograph

    In this fascinating psychological neo-noir mystery, a notorious late 19th-century photograph provides the key to a contemporary murder. In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche ...

  • The Murals

    In this multi-layered psychological mystery, photographer Jason Poe is transfixed by a disturbing set of murals he encounters in the attic of an abandoned house, and resolves to uncover the secret behind them. "The murals hit me hard. First ca...

Award-Winning Books by William Bayer

Peregrine
1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Bayer has published 16 books.

William Bayer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Murals, was published in December 2019.

The first book by William Bayer, Visions of Isabelle, was published in January 1976.

Yes. William Bayer has 3 series.
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