Richard Castle Books in Order

When Jameson Rook accepts a visiting professorship at his old college paper, it seems like a harmless break from danger. Then one of his students is found murdered in his bed, and Nikki Heat must decide how far to trust her own husband.

Seventeen years after believing her mother dead, Nikki Heat discovers Cynthia has been living in hiding from a powerful criminal syndicate. Joining forces with Jameson Rook and superspy Derrick Storm, she chases the Shanghai Seven before they silence her family for good.

A terror cell in New York posts a gruesome beheading video and names Jameson Rook as its next victim. While hunting the killers, Captain Nikki Heat is rattled by a fleeting glimpse of a woman who looks exactly like her long dead mother.

On her first day as captain of the Twentieth Precinct, Nikki Heat finds her NYPD therapist murdered. When she learns Jameson Rook had been secretly interviewing him for an article, a clever killer is not the only threat straining their engagement.

After using his climbing gear to save a plunging passenger jet, Storm learns other planes have crashed in the same mysterious way. Tracking the attacks from Monaco to Panama and Egypt, he hunts a fanatic with a ground based weapon capable of shooting airliners from the sky.

The daughters of four powerful businessmen are found murdered in New York, each scene marked by a strange blood symbol. Hired by a prestigious French family, Storm teams with Clara Strike to follow a trail through voodoo rituals and uncover the very human killers behind them.

An undocumented man falls from the sky onto a Manhattan street, and Nikki Heats investigation quickly tangles with Jameson Rooks latest story. While Hurricane Sandy pounds New York, the case pits detective and reporter against each other over who has arrested the wrong man.

Years after faking his death, Derrick Storm is sent after a sadistic one eyed killer targeting high level bankers around the world. Chasing his old nemesis Gregor Volkov from Tokyo to New York, Storm stumbles onto a scheme that could crash the global economy.

Picking up after Frozen Heat, Nikki pursues the rogue former CIA chief behind her mothers death. As that hunt exposes a looming terror plot and a taunting serial killer, she and Rook race to stop attacks that have already begun counting down.

Ready to sail away from the life of a private eye, Derrick Storm is dragged back when a Russian diplomats severed head surfaces in the Hudson before a crucial UN summit. With Clara Strike, he faces mercenaries, an ex KGB assassin and a plot with global stakes.

Nikki Heat is shaken when a womans body turns up stuffed in a suitcase stolen from her mother on the night of her murder. With Jameson Rook, she follows the trail from New York to Paris, risking everything to thaw a decade‑old case.

Days after the kidnapping case, Storm is juggling a dead US senator, a missing assassin and billions in communist gold hidden somewhere in the former Soviet Union. With April Showers, he probes secretive tycoon Ivan Petrov and a mole feeding Moscow.

Pulled out of fake retirement, former CIA operative Derrick Storm is ordered to investigate the kidnapping of a senators son. Teaming reluctantly with sharp FBI agent April Showers, he uncovers ransom notes, political games and hints of a much larger plot brewing.

Storm joins a covert team of supposedly dead CIA operatives searching the remote Molguzar Mountains for a fortune in lost KGB gold. Along the way he must rescue April Showers from a sadistic captor and survive a mission that may not be what it seems.

A parish priest is found murdered in a secret bondage club, pulling Nikki Heat into a case that reeks of scandal. As clues climb toward powerful figures, she is pushed off the force and left to hunt the truth on her own.

Gossip columnist Cassidy Towne built a career destroying reputations, so her murder leaves Nikki Heat with a long list of powerful suspects. Forced to partner again with Jameson Rook, Nikki chases a killer through Manhattans celebrities, mobsters and politicians.

When a New York real estate tycoon plunges from his Manhattan balcony, Detective Nikki Heat leads the case. With a record heat wave gripping the city and meddling journalist Jameson Rook at her side, every alibi and secret starts to sweat.