Kerley Jack Books

J.A. Kerley is an American author who transitioned to writing after a successful twenty-year career in advertising. His works, frequently set in Alabama, explore compelling narratives through intricate plots and character development. Kerley's writing is known for its psychological depth and ability to create complex individuals that draw readers into his stories. His novels offer captivating storytelling with unexpected twists.

Buried Alive
400 pages
14 hours of reading
4.1(576)Add rating
The next in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers
Blood Brother
436 pages
16 hours of reading
4.1(946)Add rating
Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers - albeit imprisoned. Now though, his brother's escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help. What should be a straightforward manhunt couldn't be more different - or more terrifying. A dangerous cat-and-mouse game develops between Jeremy and the NYPD with Ryder in the middle, trying to keep his brother alive and the cops in the dark. But it's a game of life, death and deceit, a game with an unknown number of players and no clear way of winning ...
In the Blood
423 pages
15 hours of reading
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The author of BLOOD BROTHER returns with a new psychological thriller featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers - his brother's one.
The Death Box
400 pages
14 hours of reading
4.0(978)Add rating
Detective Carson Ryder faces his most terrifying adversary yet in this nail- biting thriller from the author of Her Last Scream.
The Memory Killer
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Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream.
Little Girls Lost
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Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues - and, as yet, no bodies. Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental and civic politics. And with his partner Harry Nautilus fighting for his life after being viciously attacked, Carson is feeling increasingly isolated. Public rage is now reaching dangerous levels, and Ryder's bosses turn for help to ex-Detective Conner Sandhill whose uncanny ability to spot connections and details missed by others is legendary - but who left the department under a cloud. Ryder and Sandhill form an uneasy alliance in the hunt for the missing children, a hunt which becomes all the more urgent for tragic personal reasons. But at the root of these disappearances is something truly evil! and its source is closer to home than either could have imagined.
The Apostle
3.9(203)Add rating
From the bestselling author of Her Last Scream, a chilling tale of ritual murder and corruption, featuring Detective Carson Ryder.
The hundredth man
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A darkly compelling serial-killer novel introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for many books to come.
The Death Collectors
3.8(109)Add rating
A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man.
The Death File
338 pages
12 hours of reading
3.6(23)Add rating
Detective Carson Ryder returns, on the trail of a brutal killer with mysterious motives.