“Jason Starr is hypnotically good. Some of the best new writing there is.”
A MARRIAGE. A DISAPPEARANCE. A STORY NO ONE WILL BELIEVE.
Nineteen years ago, Vanessa Rizzo’s fiancé vanished without warning—no goodbye, no explanation, no trace. She built a new life on top of that unanswered question: a marriage, two teenage sons, a polished Upper East Side world that finally feels safe.
Then she sees him on a Manhattan street.
Days later, her husband disappears.
Suddenly the life Vanessa fought to protect is under investigation—by the police, by her neighbors, by the people who think they know her best. The past she buried has begun to move inside the present, and every answer leads to a more terrifying question:
How many times can one woman lose the man she loves?
Propulsive, emotionally charged, and impossible to put down, VANESSA’S MEN is the must-read thriller of the season—a novel about marriage, memory, and the moment an ordinary life turns dangerous.
From the international bestselling author of The Follower and Too Far
“Jason Starr is hypnotically good. Some of the best new writing there is.” — Lee Child
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ONE NIGHT. ONE DATE. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?
Jack and Maria Harper live in a claustrophobic Manhattan apartment with their eight-year-old son, Jonah. Jack has quit booze, but his music career has stalled, and his real estate career isn’t going much better. Maria’s thriving at her corporate job, but her frequent travel strains their already fragile marriage. They love their son, but beyond that, they’re barely holding on.
When a former bandmate tells Jack about a new extramarital dating app, he downloads it on a whim…and quickly connects with the mysterious, seductive Sophia. Their online affair escalates fast, and when they finally arrange to meet in person, Jack steps into a trap that will shatter everything he thought he knew about marriage, loyalty, and survival.
What begins as a secret date becomes a sinister scheme, one that may cost him his freedom…and his life.
PRAISE FOR TOO FAR
“A rocket-paced, propulsive and utterly addictive thrill-ride.”
—Lisa Unger, New York Times Bestselling Author
“If you enjoy being manipulated by a brilliant storyteller with a diabolical mind, then Too Far is your kind of novel. I loved it, pure and simple, and recommend it to anyone.”
—Scott Pratt, Author of the Joe Dillard Legal Thrillers
“Too Far is another tour de force from the man with the wickedest imagination in crime fiction.”
—Mark Edwards, International Bestselling Author
Previously published as Fugitive Red (U.S.) and as Too Far (U.K.)
Previously published as Savage Lane (U.S. & U.K.) and Phantasien (German edition)
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YOUR CAN’T PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM EVERYTHING
Dr. Adam Bloom seems to have the perfect life. He is financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their daughter, Marissa, a recent college grad. Late one night, his daughter wakes up and says, “Somebody’s downstairs.” From that moment on, life in the Bloom household will never be the same.
As the family recovers from the break-in and the Blooms’ marriage starts to fall apart, Marissa meets a young, talented artist named Xan. Adam feels that something’s not quite right with Xan, but his daughter ignores his warnings and falls for him. When suspicious things happen all over again, Adam realizes that his first instinct about Xan was probably dead on...
PRAISE FOR JASON STARR’S PANIC ATTACK
"Panic Attack is the ultimate page-turner." - Michael Connelly
“Funny and suspenseful, this is Starr delightfully at the top of his game.” - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Starr’s writing is slick and his plotting is second to none.” - Guardian, London
“Completely brilliant...If there is such a thing as the perfect thriller, Starr has just written it.” - Jerry Stahl
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EVERYONE HAS FANTASIES.
SOME OF THEM ARE WATCHING YOU.
Karen Daily moved to Savage Lane to start over.
Newly divorced and rebuilding her life in an affluent New York suburb, she believes she’s finally found stability—teaching at the local school, dating again, and trusting the friendliness of neighbors who seem eager to welcome her in.
But Mark Berman has been watching her from the very beginning.
Trapped in a marriage he no longer wants, Mark constructs a private world with Karen at its center—studying her routines, interpreting her gestures, and convincing himself their connection is inevitable. What begins as a harmless fantasy slowly hardens into obsession.
And Mark isn’t the only one paying attention.
As boundaries blur and tensions simmer beneath the surface of suburban perfection, Karen realizes that the life she stepped into is shaped by hidden desires, quiet surveillance, and dangerous assumptions. On Savage Lane, fantasies don’t stay harmless for long.
FANTASIES is a tense, unputdownable psychological thriller about obsession, voyeurism, and the thin line between imagining a life and deciding to take it—told with Jason Starr’s trademark sharp dialogue and relentless suspense.
“A hard-to-put-down book—you are likely to find yourself repeatedly thinking, ‘I’ll just read one more chapter.’ One of the best crime fiction books of the year.”
— The Telegraph (London)
“Jason Starr is hypnotically good. Some of the best new writing there is.”
— Lee Child
“Starr is one of the greatest writers now working in the United States.”
— Bookreporter
Previously published as Savage Lane (U.S. & U.K.) and Phantasien (German edition)
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YOU'RE NEVER ALONE
Katie Porter is tired of meaningless dates and disappointing men. No matter how wide she casts the net, she can’t find someone who truly sees her. But someone does. Someone who watches her at the gym, follows her into the coffee bar she visits every morning, and studies her routines with obsessive precision.
Peter Wells believes Katie is meant for him—meant to be part of his future. And he won’t let anything or anyone stand in his way.
As Katie’s life begins to unravel, she realizes too late that someone is always just one step behind her…
“[Starr] absolutely shines with these characters…A very funny, dark social satire.” —Publishers Weekly
“Jason Starr takes the big-city singles scene and turns it inside out. Keen social satire and a deliriously addictive story.” —Megan Abbott
“Jason Starr’s masterpiece.” —Bret Easton Ellis
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Three compulsively readable novels set in Manhattan—where marriages have secrets and ordinary lives hide dangerous edges.
An ex–advertising star will do anything to win back the life he lost.
A married man becomes obsessed with the childhood bully he blames for his failures—and the fixation poisons his marriage with secrecy and paranoia.
A financial reporter meets a man in a bar, loses his wallet, and finds himself in a blackmail scheme that turns frighteningly personal.
This is Jason Starr’s New York: couples arguing in overheated apartments, partners checking each other’s phones, credit cards pushed to the limit, flirtations that feel harmless until they don’t. A city where people stay together for the wrong reasons—and discover how quickly love can turn into suspicion.
These three psychological thrillers explore the pressure points of modern relationships: the need to be wanted, the fear of being ordinary, the humiliations we hide from the person in the next room. One bad decision leads to another. A secret becomes a habit. And the one you trust most can suddenly look like a stranger.
Tense, intimate, and darkly addictive, The Manhattan Trilogy is domestic suspense with a Manhattan pulse—stories about people like us, making choices we swear we’d never make.
This collection includes:
• Cold Caller
• Hard Feelings
• Twisted City
“Jason Starr has the New York sound and energy, dialogue that’s on the beat.”
— Elmore Leonard
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A dark psychological crime novel by Jason Starr
There’s more than one way to lose everything at the track.
Tommy Russo is a New York City bouncer with bigger dreams and a dangerous appetite for risk. When he’s offered a chance to join a horse-owning syndicate, it feels like his ticket out of obscurity.
There’s just one problem: the buy-in is $10,000—money he doesn’t have.
What starts as a harmless lie spirals into obsession, betrayal, and violence as Tommy crosses line after line, convinced that one big score will fix everything. Instead, each decision tightens the trap, pulling him deeper into a nightmare of guilt, desperation, and self-destruction.
FAKE I.D. is a gritty psychological crime thriller about ambition, identity, and the seductive pull of shortcuts—the kind that ruin lives.
Dark, compulsively readable, and morally ruthless, this novel will appeal to readers of:
Jim Thompson
Patricia Highsmith
Dennis Lehane
Chuck Palahniuk
Don Winslow
Gillian Flynn’s darker psychological edge
“Jason Starr is the link between Richard Prather and Albert Camus… It’s almost impossible to do Fake I.D. its proper justice.”
— Book Reporter
“An American masterpiece — great literature and a great crime novel.”
— Pulpetti
“A fine example of the tough stuff… I love it.”
— Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
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“The King of Noir is back. It doesn’t get any darker or funnier than this.. The best novel of the year.” - Bookends
”An original modern noir tale reminiscent of Jim Thompson or David Goodis.” - The Irish Times
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"A literary tour de force." - The Baltimore Sun
"Well crafted." - The Times (London)
"Cool, deadpan, a rollercoaster ride to hell." - The Guardian (London)
In development as a feature film!
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"Clean, cold and extremely chilling." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"Jason Starr is the first writer of his generation to convincingly update the modern crime novel by giving it provocative new spins." - Bret Easton Ellis
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Anthony Award Winner!
"Starr is a master." - Publishers Weekly
"Starr is such a polished writer that once you start reading it's painful to tear yourself away." - John Freeman, Time Out New York
In development as a feature film!
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Barry Award Winner!
"You can't put it down. Starr [is] a terrifically taut writer." - The Baltimore Sun
"You can’t stop reading." - Newsweek
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"Lights Out has the New York sound, the energy, dialog that's on the beat…Read it." - Elmore Leonard
"A furious page-turner from the git-go." - Jeffery Deaver
“Wickedly entertaining.” - Booklist
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Jason Starr’s mind-bending new thriller!
"I really don’t know how Jason Starr does it: I start out thinking I’m only going to read a chapter and an hour later I’m on page eighty.” - Bret Easton Ellis
“So fresh and clever and compelling. I don’t know when I last turned pages so quickly.” - Ian Rankin
"THE NEXT TIME I DIE is a paranoid noir freakout playing its own one-of-a-kind game... and a shameless page-turner." - Joe Hill
“Completely enthralling. THE NEXT TIME I DIE is sharp, super-suspenseful and impossible to put down.” -Alison Gaylin
"An audacious mindbender of a novel. A high-octane cocktail of infidelity, murder and alternate realities, served up straight from the Twilight Zone." - Wallace Stroby
“Beautifully and perfectly crafted. Halfway between Christopher Nolan's Memento and a story by Philip K. Dick.” - Matteo Strukul
“A verifiable page turner with bona fide twists.” - Previews World
“It's officially time for fans of hard and heady science fiction to add a new book onto their radar.” - Screen Rant
"With The Next Time I Die, Jason Starr has taken a next level leap... It's like Philip K. Dick is still with us and has just written a new, brain-frying work of New York noir." - Brian Greene, Criminal Element
"Swift-moving and entrancing" - Locus
Read an exclusive preview of the opening chapters in Screen Rant
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Book one in The Pack series!
What is it about Simon's new friends?
"Starr succeeds in keeping readers on the edge of their seats." - Library Journal (starred review)
"Guy's night out takes a droll new meaning." - New York Times Book Review (Summer Pick)
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Book two in The Pack series!
Once you're part of the pack, there's no getting out...
"You can't predict what will happen in this book." - Charlaine Harris
"Starr once again shows a real gift for satiric humor and capturing the contemporary New York scene." - Publishers Weekly
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Marvel's smallest hero stars in his biggest story yet: an all-new, original prose novel timed to coincide with the ANT-MAN feature film! Meet Scott Lang: ex-con, single father and part-time super hero. Scott and his teenage daughter, Cassie, are just settling down in a new city when a criminal from Scott's past comes gunning for them. But is the killer really after Scott, or the secrets of the Ant-Man tech? And just how far will Scott go to protect his only child? Award-winning crime writer Jason Starr (Twisted City, Wolverine Max) spins a thrilling tale of desperation, secrets and microscopic adventure.
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The sequel to GOTHAM: DAWN OF DARKESS and the official link between Gotham seasons two and three, revealing Jim Gordon's return to Gotham City to set himself up as a freelance bounty hunter.
Having escaped Arkham Asylum, Hugo Strange's monsters stalk the streets, spreading chaos, fear, and death. Herself a victim of the madman's experiment, Fish Mooney seeks to retake her place at the top of the underworld. Street thief Selina Kyle covets a place at her side.
Overwhelmed by this crisis, the city offers to pay a bounty for the creatures--dead or alive. Though no longer a cop, Jim Gordon nevertheless proves to be the most skilled at bringing these super humans to justice, some in body bags. Yet even he may not be able to stop the most bloodthirsty of the monsters.
Praise for Jason Starr and Gotham:
"Some of the best new writing there is." - Lee Child
"The ultimate Batman prequel." - New York Post
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A break-in at Wayne Manor. The death of a masked intruder. Amid the seething crime and corruption of Gotham City, Thomas Wayne fights to protect his family and his company from forces unknown. While detective Harvey Bullock investigates the incident as a simple burglary, Wayne discovers that the threat may come from his own dark past.
Peeling back layer upon layer of secrets, this is the official prequel to the hit television series.
Praise for Jason Starr and Gotham:
"Some of the best new writing there is." - Lee Child
"The ultimate Batman prequel." - New York Post