Jeff Lindsay Books in Order (Dexter, Billy Knight, Riley Wolfe)

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All of Jeff Lindsay’s Books in Order!

Who is Jeff Lindsay?

Dexter Morgan is maybe now one of the most famous fictional serial killers on television. Before making a killing on Showtime, he was created by American crime novelist Jeff Lindsay. It was not Lindsay’s first book as the writer launched his writing career in 1994 and wrote several books during the next few years with his wife, Hilary Hemingway, daughter of Leicester Hemingway and niece of Ernest Hemingway. The couple has three children.

Lindsay did a lot of work, from acting to teaching, cooking to gardening, and more. He played music in the L.A. club scene in the early 1980s, and worked as a script doctor, screenwriter, and columnist. And he found success in 2004, with his first Dexter book, Darkly Dreaming Dexter; for which he won the 2005 Dilys Award and the 2007 Book to TV award. His books appear in 44 languages around the world.

How to read Jeff Lindsay Books in Order?

Dexter Books in Order

The Dexter Series

Dexter Morgan is a forensic blood-spatter analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department by day and a serial killer by night. Convinced the legal system failed to stop murderers, rapists, and other criminals, Dexter takes justice in his own hands and kills them.

For more details, go to the Dexter reading order.

  1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)
  2. Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005)
  3. Dexter in the Dark (2007)
  4. Dexter by Design (2009)
  5. Dexter Is Delicious (2010)
  6. Double Dexter (2011)
  7. Dexter’s Final Cut (2013) – aka Dexter’s Debut
  8. Dexter is Dead (2015)

The Billy Knight Series

  1. Tropical Depression (2015) – When a hostage situation turns deadly, Billy loses everything – his wife, his daughter, and his career. Devastated, he heads to Key West to put down his gun and pick up a rod and reel as a fishing boat captain. But former co-worker Roscoe McAuley isn’t ready to let Billy rest. When Roscoe tells Billy that someone murdered his son, Billy sends him away. When Roscoe himself turns up dead a few weeks later, however, Billy can’t keep from getting sucked back into Los Angeles, and the streets that took so much from him. Billy’s investigations into the death of a former cop, and his son, will put him on a collision course with the law, with his past, with his former fellow officers, and with the dark aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.
  2. Red Tide (2015) – Ex-cop Billy Knight wants to ride out Key West’s slow season with the occasional fishing charter and the frequent beer. But when he discovers a dead body floating in the gulf, Billy gets drawn into a deadly plot of dark superstition and profound evil. Along with his gun-happy friend Nicky, and Anna, a resilient and mysterious survivor of her own horrors, Billy sets out to right the wrongs the police won’t-putting himself in mortal peril along the way.

The Riley Wolfe Series

Just Watch Me Riley Wolfe Series - Jeff Lindsay Books in Order

  1. Just Watch Me (2019) – Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it’s needed. It’s no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they’re in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. Now, Riley will try to steal the Crown Jewels of Iran. Yes, these jewels are worth billions, but the true attraction for grabbing them comes down to one simple fact: stealing these jewels is absolutely impossible. The collection is guarded by space-age electronics and teams of heavily armed mercenaries. No one could even think of getting past the airtight security and hope to get away alive, let alone with even a single diamond from the Imperial Collection. No one but Riley Wolfe.
  2. Fool Me Twice (2020) – Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double-cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world’s most demanding-and dangerous-collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe’s life. Held prisoner by a top-dog international arms dealer, and a top-notch art collector, Riley has to steal an artwork. Small problem-it’s a fresco, “The Liberation of St. Peter.” Slightly larger problem-it’s in the Vatican. And, it’s a literal wall. Riley has no choice: agree or die.
  3. The Three-Edged Sword (2022) – Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all and he uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips. It’s not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it’s the fact that Riley has to do the man’s dirty work to set them free. It’s something Riley ordinarily would find a modest day’s work, infiltrating a madman’s Soviet missile silo in one of the world’s most remote places, all to find a secret on a tiny flash drive-but he’s never had to race the clock like this.

  1. The Fourth Rule (2023) – The Cobra is a shadowy figure of international crime. And only one man can stop what’s about to happen: Sly and sharp-witted Riley Wolfe, the ultimate thief, fresh off the toughest escape of his life and looking for something new.

Other fiction novels written as Jeffry P. Lindsay

  • Tropical Depression: A Novel of Suspense (1994) – Street-smart L.A. cop-turned-fishing charter captain, Billy Knight, returns to L.A. to investigate the deaths of a friend and his son, a budding social reformer compared to Martin Luther King, shortly after the Rodney King riots.
  • Dream Land: A Novel of the UFO Coverup (1995) – Co-written with Hilary Hemingway. For the past eight years Hilary Hemingway and her husband Jeffery P. Lindsay have researched the UFO enigma. They sat in on abductees hypnosis sessions, traveled to crop circles, and reviewed their findings with the Department of Defense. The startling result is Dreamland: A Novel of the UFO Cover-Up, a fictionalized account of very real and frightening events surrounding an Air Force base in the Nevada desert. Known only as “Area 51” or “Dreamland”, it is so secret it doesn’t appear on any map.
  • Time Blender (1997) – Co-written with Hilary Hemingway and Michael Dorn. After cultural anthropologist Tony Millers plane is blown off course, he must land on a strange tropical island. The natives capture Miller and force him to run a deadly gauntlet through the jungle towards a strangely glowing boulder that they worship as a god. With a combination of luck and resourcefulness, Miller is able to quell the natives and return to his lab at UC Berkeley to examine part of the boulder. But en route, during a raging electrical storm, the rock is dislodged, crashing to earth… literally ripping Time/Space in the process.
  • Dreamchild (1998) – Co-written with Hilary Hemingway. Max is not your usual five-year-old boy. Unable to speak, shy and strange, he was conceived while his mother was the victim of an alien abduction. Max is a unique being: a hybrid of human and alien. He carries the fate of all mankind in his tiny hands. And now that the government has discovered his powerful connection to the aliens, will Max survive long enough to fulfill his purpose–for either side?

Non-fiction by Jeff Lindsay

  • Hunting with Hemingway: Based on the Stories of Leicester Hemingway (2000) – Co-written with Hilary Hemingway. Fifteen years after her father’s death, Hilary Hemingway receives a curious inheritance: an audio cassette of Les, her father, telling outrageous stories about hunting with his famous older brother, Ernest Hemingway. Les clearly aims to amuse the listeners with tales of the Hemingway brothers hunting vicious ostriches, hungry crocodiles, and deadly komodo dragons, but where Les Hemingway gets serious is in defending and explaining his brother’s reputation to a contemptuous Hemingway scholar. Hilary transcribes these stories, revealing the bond between two larger-than-life brothers-and tells of her own quest to make peace with the painful parts of the Hemingway legacy.

If you like Jeff Lindsay’s books, you may also want to take a look at our Gillian Flynn reading order, or the work of Thomas Harris. Don’t hesitate to follow us on Twitter or Facebook to discover more book series.

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