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THE COMPLETE LIBRARY

Every novel, in order.

From debut to bestseller. Start anywhere — but read with the lights on.

the silent hour

DETECTIVE MARA VOSS · BOOK 1 · 2025

The Silent Hour

“Every city has an hour when no one is watching. He waits for it.”

When a string of disappearances cuts through the city between 3 and 4 a.m., Detective Mara Voss realizes the killer isn't choosing victims at random — he's choosing them by the silence they keep. To stop him, she'll have to break a silence of her own.

392 PAGES

“Kane writes the kind of thriller you can't put down until your hands stop shaking.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A masterclass in dread.”

— THE GUARDIAN

blackwater.jfif

STANDALONE NOVEL · 2023

Blackwater

“The lake remembers what the town tried to forget.”

Twenty years after her sister vanished from the shoreline of Blackwater Lake, a journalist returns home to find that the past hasn't drowned — it's been waiting.

368 PAGES

“Atmospheric, devastating, impossible to look away from.”

— TANA FRENCH

“Kane is the new master of the slow-burn thriller.”

— USA TODAY

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STANDALONE NOVEL · 2021

The Last Witness

“She saw everything. Now she's the only one left.”

A retired stenographer is the last living witness to a trial that was supposed to be over. When the convicted man walks free, she begins receiving pages from a transcript that was never recorded.

344 PAGES

“Page-turning brilliance.”

— THE TIMES

“Kane's most assured novel yet.”

— BOOKLIST

cold river.jfif

STANDALONE NOVEL · 2019

Cold River

“Some currents only run one way.”

A small-town sheriff finds a body where no body should be — and a clue pointing to a case her father closed thirty years ago, on the night he died.

312 PAGES

“A debut that hits like a thunderclap.”

— STEFAN KING

“If you've read one Kane novel, you've already started the next.”

— THE OBSERVER

New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers that keep readers up past midnight.

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