Books written by R.J. Ellory

  • Bad Signs: A Thriller

    R.J. Ellory once again delivers a thriller as beautiful as it is riveting, returning to the haunting ground of his international bestseller A Quiet Belief in Angels.

  • City Of Lies

    A superb, powerful thriller from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] John Harper has always been alone.

  • A Quiet Vendetta: A Thriller

    I'm just the ex-alcoholic who drove a twelve-wheeler through his life and then got dragged down here against his will and wants nothing more than to go home. But don't blame me if he gets so pissed off he decides he's never gonna tell ...

  • The Anniversary Man

    The anniversary killercould have replicated any one of them, and even if he had adhered solely to those confirmed, it would havebeen a Zodiac anniversary onJuly 5th.As far as Irving knewno double murder had been reported on July 5th ...

  • The Devil and the River: A Thriller

    And that truth, so much darker than he could ever have imagined, may be the one thing that finally destroys him. The Devil and the River is the tense and shadowy story that will haunt you from its very first pages.

  • Saints of New York: A Thriller

    Dark and intense, Saints of New York is a novel of corruption and redemption, of the relentless persistence required to find the truth, and of one man’s search for meaning amidst the ghosts of his own conscience.

  • A Quiet Belief In Angels: A Richard and Judy bestseller

    Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated.

  • Saints of New York

    The thing is managed and run by the Port Authority for NewYork and New Jersey. The Port Authority, right? For New York andNew Jersey. All the wayback totheFifties, when planes instead of ships started carrying America to therestof ...

  • Candlemoth: A Novel

    In this “searing . . . harrowing” novel from a “prose master,” a white man reflects on the murder of his black best friend that brought him to death row.(Publishers Weekly) Daniel Ford and Nathan Verney were six years old when they ...

  • Ghostheart: A Thriller

    Praised by Alan Furst as a “uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer,” R.J. Ellory, the bestselling author of A Quiet Belief in Angels and City of Lies, is back with a novel packed with mystery, betrayal, and shocking family ...

  • A Dark and Broken Heart: A Thriller

    . . Ellory is beginning to sound like the master [James Ellroy].” —Daily Mail

  • A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel

    In this acclaimed psychological thriller, a man is haunted by a killer who terrorized his rural Southern hometown: “a tour de force” (Michael Connelly).

  • The Anniversary Man: A Novel

    From a “master of the genre,” a psychological thriller about a detective who turns to a trauma survivor to track down a copycat serial killer. (New York Times bestselling authorClive Cussler) This murderer went after young courting ...

  • A Simple Act of Violence

    A D.C. detective’s search for a killer leads to Cold War political intrigue in this “must-read for noir fans” by the author of A Quiet Beliefin Angels (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

  • City of Lies: A Thriller

    A struggling writer is drawn into his estranged father’s life in the New York underworld in this thriller by the author of A Quiet Belief in Angels.

  • The Killer

    Now, in the third and final story in this atmospheric crime trilogy, the truth is finally revealed. The Killer delivers a probing portrait of what makes a murderer—with a shocking climactic twist.

  • The Sister

    The testimonies of the sister, the cop and the killer will at last reveal the dreadful truth behind the brutal murder of a young girl in Chicago in 1956.

  • The Cop

    Now it’s time to hear from someone who saw what the sister didn’t see. The Cop brings new layers of tension to R.J. Ellory’s electrifying trilogy, Three Days in Chicagoland.

  • A Quiet Vendetta

    R.J. Ellory. Praise for R. J. Ellory A QUIET VENDETTA 'With exquisite pace and perfect timing, R. J. Ellory has given us a piercing assessment of the nature of love, loyalty and obsessive revenge, not to mention a deep understanding of ...

  • Saints of New York: A Novel

    As brisk and brustal and an episode of The Wire, Saints of New York is a fast-paced and gripping thriller set in the crooked world of the NYPD.