Jack Heath 🖊️

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Hi, I'm Jack! I'm a novelist from Canberra, Australia. My work includes 300 Minutes of Danger (for kids), Kill Your Husbands (not for kids), and forty-eight other books, which have sold half a million copies in ten languages. I live with my wife, five chickens, three possums, two cats, some fish, and a pair of human children. 🏡

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Choppy Water

November 2026 · age 18+

NOBODY CAN CATCH THIS KILLER.
I'M NOBODY.

A woman's body is found in a laundry cart aboard the Silver Lady cruise ship. Management says it was a freak accident. The death is quickly covered up, so as not to ruin the voyage for the passengers.

Cesar Cain doesn't want to get involved. He boarded the Silver Lady to disappear.

But it's March 2020, and the borders are slamming shut. Cesar soon discovers that the woman wasn't the first victim—and with the ship suddenly quarantined and unable to dock anywhere, she won't be the last...

"Sublimely relentless ... Jack Heath at his breakneck best."
—KATE SOLLY

  • Hangman

    4-book series · age 18+

  • Kill Your Brother

    3-book series · age 15+

  • If You Tell Anyone, You're Next

    2-book series · age 12+

  • Bullet Train

    3-book series · age 10+

  • 1000 Minutes of Danger

    7-book series · age 10+

  • Scream

    4-book series · age 10+

  • Spy Academy

    2-book series · age 10+

  • Liars

    5-book series · age 10+

  • The Cut Out

    2-book series · age 10+

  • Stunt Kid Seriously Stacks It!

    3-book series · age 8+

  • More books

    complete bibliography

What a rarity to find a thriller as dark as a Palahniuk and as compulsively readable as a Patterson.

⭐ Gregg Hurwitz, bestselling author of Orphan X ⭐

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What readers say

"A true master of the genre."

Helen Farch, @fhclibrary
"Twists and turns at every corner that will leave readers breathless."
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"Deadpan wit, genuinely thrilling action sequences (and) wickedly tense plotting."
Annie Waters, BOOKS+PUBLISHING

"This book! Argh...! I loved this book!"

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