Howard Roughan Books In Order

Honeymoon Books In Publication Order

  1. Honeymoon (2005)
  2. Second Honeymoon (2013)

Instinct Books In Publication Order

  1. Murder Games / Instinct (2017)
  2. Killer Instinct (2019)
  3. Steal (2022)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Up and Comer (2001)
  2. The Promise of a Lie (2004)
  3. You’ve Been Warned (With: James Patterson) (2007)
  4. Sail (With: James Patterson) (2008)
  5. Don’t Blink (With: James Patterson) (2010)
  6. Truth or Die (With: James Patterson) (2015)

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Howard Roughan Books Overview

Honeymoon

The Honeymoon is over now the murders can begin. America’s 1 thriller writer returns with his sexiest, scariest novel ever. Hotter than The Beach House and scarier than Kiss the Girls, James Patterson’s explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted and deadly. When a young investment banker dies of baffling causes, FBI agent John O’Hara immediately suspects the only witness, the banker’s alluring and mysterious fianc’e. Nora Sinclair is a beautiful decorator who expects the best, and will do anything to get it. Agent O’Hara keeps closing in, but the stronger his case, the less he knows whether he’s pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession. In a novel so compelling it reads like a collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, James Patterson unveils surprise after surprise that will keep readers guessing until the last deadly kiss.

The Up and Comer

Philip Randall has it all: youth, looks, wealth. Hes got a successful career with a prestigious Manhattan law firm, a luxurious downtown loft, a filthy rich wife, and a gorgeous mistress who also happens to be his best friends wife. Self satisfaction suddenly turns deadly, however, when a prep school classmate appears with an eye on Philips bank account, and telling photographs of Philip and his mistress together.

The Promise of a Lie

Nothing can prepare Dr. David Remler for the shocking phone call he receives from a patient named Samantha Kent. Stunned and anxious to help, he rushes out into the Manhattan night to keep a bloody act of violence from spinning further out of control.

He knows he is too involved, that hes crossed a line, and that his professional reputation is at stake. But he has no idea what awaits him at his destination…
that hes become a pawn in a very deadly game of revenge.

Suddenly the focus of a criminal case that flares into an out of control media circus, David has only one shot to clear his name. But first he has to clear up the mystery of his patient, Samantha Kent. Just who is she? And why did she choose to involve David? Little by little, the outlines ofa brilliant plot emergeand, with it, the horrifying power of a single lie…

In this richly textured tale of a mans battle against the mother of all manipulations, the perfect setup is even more diabolical than it looks.

You’ve Been Warned (With: James Patterson)

Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy ‘Don’t think, just shoot’ pictures, that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as the nanny for the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two wonderful children and waiting for her glamorous life as a New York photographer to begin. When her photographs are considered by an elite Manhattan art gallery, it seems she might finally get the chance that will start her career. But Kristin has a major distraction: forbidden love. The man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. Breathless with an inexhaustible passion and the excitement of being within reach of her goals, Kristen ignores all signs of catastrophe brewing. Fear exists for a reason. And Kristin can only dismiss the warnings for so long. Searching desperately for the truth through the lens of her camera, she can only hope that it’s not too late. This novel of psychological suspense is a stunning achievement for thriller master James Patterson, ‘one of the bestselling writers in history’ New York Sun.

Sail (With: James Patterson)

THE SIZZLING 1 BESTSELLER

1 New York Times
1 Chicago Tribune
1 Washington Post
1 Wall Street Journal
1 USA Today
1 Newsday

America’s 1 bestselling thriller writer, James Patterson presents his most suspenseful, explosive tale ever. Only an hour out of port, the Dunne family’s summer getaway to paradise is already turning into the trip from hell. The three children are miserable and not shy about showing it. Katherine Dunne had hoped this vacation would bring back the togetherness they’d lost when her husband died four years earlier. Maybe if her new husband had joined them it would all have been okay.

Suddenly, a disaster hits and it’s perfect. Faced with this real threat, the Dunnes rediscover the meaning of family. But this catastrophe is just a tiny taste of the true danger that lurks ahead somewhere out there, someone wants to make sure that the Dunne family never leaves paradise alive.

Don’t Blink (With: James Patterson)

The goodNew York’s Lombardo’s Steak House is famous for three reasons the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police’s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The badSeated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once in a lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas on both sides of the law. And the deadBack off or die is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.

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