Alan Jacobson Books In Order

The 7th Victim

The Dead Eyes Killer lurks in the backyard of the famed FBI Profiling Unit. His brutal murders, unlike any others previously seen, confound the local task force, despite the gifted profiling skills of Special Agent Karen Vail. But along with Vail’s insight and expertise comes considerable personal and professional baggage.

On leave pending a review of her assault on her abusive ex husband, Vail must battle forces determined to bring her down, as she fights to find Dead Eyes before he murders more young women. But the seventh victim is the key to all that stirs this killer…
the key that will unlock secrets perhaps too painful for Vail to bear. These are secrets that threaten to destroy her, secrets that will bring down her storied and promising career. For Karen Vail, the truth rests at the heart of a lie. And uncovering it could get her killed…

With material meticulously researched during seven years of study with the Bureau s vaunted profiling unit, Alan Jacobson brings refreshing realism and unprecedented accuracy to his pages, as he takes readers behind the scenes of the FBI Academy, where he worked with the actual profilers who have studied and interviewed twenty years worth of serial killers.

Crush

Fresh off the most challenging case of her career, The 7th Victim hero*ine and renowned FBI profiler Karen Vail returns in an explosive thriller set against the backdrop of California’s wine country.

Hoping to find solace from the demons that haunt her, Vail makes her first trip to the Napa Valley. But shortly after arriving, a victim is found in the deepest reaches of an exclusive wine cave, the work of an extraordinarily unpredictable serial killer. From the outset, Vail is frustrated by her inability to profile the offender until she realizes why: the Behavioral Analysis Unit has not previously encountered a killer like him.

As Vail and the task force work around the clock to identify and locate him, they re caught in a web knotted with secretive organizations, a decades long feud between prominent wine families, and widespread corruption that leads Vail to wonder whom, if anyone, she can trust. Meanwhile, as the victim count rises, Vail can’t shake the gnawing sense that something isn’t right.

With the killer s actions threatening the Napa Valley s multi billion dollar industry, the stakes have never been greater, and the race to find the killer never more urgent.

And through it all, a surprise lurks one that Karen Vail never sees coming.

Meticulously researched during years of work with the FBI profiling unit and extensive interviews with wine industry professionals, bestselling author Alan Jacobson delivers a high velocity thriller featuring the kind of edge of your seat ending that inspired Nelson DeMille to call him ‘a hell of a writer.’

Velocity

FBI profiler Karen Vail returns in Velocity, national bestselling author Alan Jacobson’s most explosive thriller to date. Vail s boyfriend, Detective Robby Hernandez, has seemingly disappeared into the dense air of a Napa Valley evening. There are no clues to his whereabouts, other than a blood stain and potential connections to a serial killer operating in the wine country. Despite using all means at her disposal to find out what happened to Robby, Vail s efforts are thwarted until her colleague, Detective Paul Bledsoe, hooks her up with Hector DeSantos, a covert Defense Department operative who has a knack for finding difficult to locate information. But DeSantos is an unwilling partner, and other than offering superficial cooperation to pay back the debt he owes Bledsoe, he is reluctant to work his valuable informants for what he views as Vail s personal crusade to find her lover. That is, until Vail pries loose long buried secrets, lies, and deceptions on the part of her own task force members. It s information that even DeSantos can t ignore, a discovery of great magnitude that reveals larger forces at play forces which propel Vail and DeSantos into a frantic search that takes them from the wineries of Napa Valley to the monuments of Washington, D.C., the wealthy beach enclaves of San Diego, and the bright excesses of Las Vegas.

The Hunted

How well do you really know the person you love? How far would you go to find out? If there was one person in the world Dr. Lauren Chambers was sure she could rely on, it was her beloved husband, Michael. Recovering from an agoraphobic depression and prone to episodes of blinding anxiety, Lauren is a gifted psychologist for whom her husband’s love and support mean everything. So when Michael suddenly and mysteriously vanishes, Lauren once again finds herself balancing on a knife’s edge, haunted more than ever by an all too familiar paranoia. Is there more to it than paranoia, though? Private investigator Nick Bradley believes so. As the pair takes off on a cross country journey in search of answers a search that yields a series of unsettling truths about the husband Lauren believed she knew so well bestselling author Alan Jacobson sets into motion a page turning tale of concealed identities, an assassin’s vendetta, and murderous revenge. Once again proving his mastery of the shocking twist and the ingenious turn, Jacobson leads readers on an exhilarating road thriller built for hairpin turns and unexpected detours as Lauren heads for a face off with the most dangerous secret of all: the truth. From Alan Jacobson, ‘one of the brightest stars of the publishing world’ CNN, comes a chilling follow up to his breakthrough bestseller False Accusations: a high velocity thriller of deadly revenge and psychological mayhem.

False Accusations

Everything Dr. Phillip Madison has wealth, power, a priveleged life in the suburbs of Sacramento, California comes crashing down when the respected surgeon is charged with double homicide: a brutal hit and run that has killed a young couple. Blood evidence and an eyewitness has placed him at the crime scene. And Madison has no alibi. While the arrest shakes the tenuous faith of his wife, his colleagues, and even his attorney, Madison himself makes an alarming discovery: the eyewitness who has targeted him is as seductive woman executing a chilling and malicious scheme. But unveiling her motives means exposing Madison’s own startling secrets disclosures that may just destroy him. Alan Jacobson has created the year’s most gripping thriller a suspense masterpiece powered by stunning twists. With intensely real characters and details drawn from Jacobson’s first hand medical and legal expertise, False Accusations is a tale of deadly revenge where the assurance of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is not what it seems.