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Alex Delaware Books in Order

by Jonathan KellermanMystery, Thriller & Suspense

41 books so far (book 42 is due February 2, 2027). They run from When the Bough Breaks (1985) to Jigsaw (2026). Rated 4.3 across 35,831 listener reviews.

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  1. When the Bough Breaks

    Book 1 1985 4.2 (1.5k)

    In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation.

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  2. Blood Test

    Book 2 1986 4.3 (753)

    It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life.

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  3. Over the Edge

    Book 3 1987 4.4 (751)

    When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before—and who now…

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  4. Silent Partner

    Book 4 1989 4.3 (549)

    The bestselling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet and featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware.

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  5. Time Bomb

    Book 5 1990 4.4 (622)

    Edgar Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California's golden coast and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense. By the time psychologist Dr.

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  6. Private Eyes

    Book 6 1991 4.5 (459)

    The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-years-old Melissa Dickinson dialed a hospital help line for comfort--and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware.

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  7. Devil's Waltz

    Book 7 1992 4.5 (505)

    The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the terrifying disease that causes parents to induce illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr.

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  8. Bad Love

    Book 8 1993 4.4 (434)

    It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address--an audiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice chanting: "Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love... ".

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  9. Self-Defense

    Book 9 1995 4.3 (472)

    Dr. Alex Delaware doesn’t see many private patients anymore, but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream. Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detective Milo Sturgis.

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  10. The Web

    Book 10 1995 4.2 (396)

    The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist-detective Dr.

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  11. The Clinic

    Book 11 1996 4.3 (461)

    Upon his return to Los Angeles from a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific, Alex is called upon by his friend Milo Sturgis to help solve the murder of a celebrity author.

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  12. Survival of the Fittest

    Book 12 1988 4.1 (679)

    The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip—lured into the Santa Monica Mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.

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  13. Monster

    Book 13 1999 4.4 (354)

    The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Alex Delaware faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a…

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  14. Dr. Death

    Book 14 2000 4.5 (416)

    Who killed the killer? In his brilliant and startling new novel, Jonathan Kellerman, perennial bestselling author and premier proprietor of the psychological thriller, gives a sharp and timely twist to homicide's central question.

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  15. Flesh and Blood

    Book 15 2001 4.5 (520)

    Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created a riveting and memorable Alex Delaware novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant…

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  16. The Murder Book

    Book 16 2002 4.2 (791)

    Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the master of the psychological thriller. Now L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware confronts a long-unsolved murder of unspeakable brutality—an ice-cold case whose resolution threatens…

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  17. A Cold Heart

    Book 17 2003 4.2 (644)

    Jonathan Kellerman is a master at creating psychologically nuanced novels of suspense—an author whose name is synonymous with unrelenting action, intriguing plot twists, and penetrating insight into the criminal mind.

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  18. Therapy

    Book 18 2004 4.1 (584)

    Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels.

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  19. Rage

    Book 19 2005 4.2 (679)

    In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware–and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A.

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  20. Gone

    Book 20 2006 4.1 (811)

    No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the psychological…

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  21. Obsession

    Book 21 2007 4.0 (744)

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman is the unequivocal “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr.

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  22. Compulsion

    Book 22 2008 4.3 (564)

    Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling.

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  23. Bones

    Book 23 2008 4.2 (756)

    The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . .

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  24. Evidence

    Book 24 2009 4.2 (640)

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles.

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  25. Deception

    Book 25 2010 4.1 (923)

    Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels as compelling as they are addictive.

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  26. Mystery

    Book 26 2011 4.1 (1.1k)

    Few know the city of Los Angeles the way #1 bestselling author and acclaimed suspense master Jonathan Kellerman does. His thrilling novels of psychological drama and criminal detection make the capital of dreams a living, breathing…

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  27. Victims

    Book 27 2012 4.2 (1.2k)

    Unraveling the madness behind L.A.’s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best.

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  28. Guilt

    Book 28 2013 4.2 (1.1k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jonathan Kellerman’s “psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix” (Los Angeles Times), and this intensely thrilling blend has never been so powerful as in the acclaimed author’s new novel of…

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  29. Killer

    Book 29 2014 4.3 (1.2k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the…

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  30. Motive

    Book 30 2015 4.2 (1.2k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! “Jonathan Kellerman has mastered the art of lean, evocative prose [in] a series that grows stronger with…

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  31. Breakdown

    Book 31 2016 4.3 (1.6k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! “Jonathan Kellerman’s psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix.”—Los Angeles Times…

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  32. Heartbreak Hotel

    Book 32 2017 4.3 (1.6k)

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex’s most mysterious patient to…

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  33. Night Moves

    Book 33 2018 4.5 (1.6k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The master of the psychological thriller makes all the right moves in this novel of spellbinding suspense.

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  34. The Wedding Guest

    Book 34 2019 4.3 (2.1k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis unravel a shocking crime at a raucous wedding…

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  35. The Museum of Desire

    Book 35 2020 4.5 (1.5k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable…

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  36. Serpentine

    Book 36 2021 4.6 (1.3k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in…

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  37. City of the Dead

    Book 37 2022 4.5 (1.5k)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The past comes back to haunt psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis when they investigate a…

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  38. Unnatural History

    Book 38 2023 4.3 (714)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying novel of art and…

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  39. The Ghost Orchid

    Book 39 2024 4.4 (865)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis confront a baffling, vicious double homicide that…

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  40. Open Season

    Book 40 2025 4.5 (636)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist Alex Delaware and Homicide Detective Milo Sturgis race against time to find a twisted killer in…

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  41. Jigsaw

    Book 41 2026 4.5 (402)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, the most beloved duo in American crime fiction,…

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  42. Malice

    Book 42 Out February 2, 2027

    Psychologist Alex Delaware and Homicide Detective Milo Sturgis face one of their most baffling and troubling cases in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling “master of suspense” (Los Angeles Times).

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Alex Delaware is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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