2026 Reading Challenge

Burke Series

18 primary works • 18 total works
Burke, outlaw soldier-of-fortune investigator in New York City:

Book 1

Flood
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3.95 · 4029 Ratings · 300 Reviews · published 1985 · 3 editions
Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who …

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    Book 2

    Strega
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    4.03     · 2849 Ratings · 116 Reviews · published 1987 · 3 editions
    Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new c…

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    Book 3

    Blue Belle
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    4.09     · 2476 Ratings · 112 Reviews · published 1988 · 47 editions
    Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangel…

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    Book 4

    Hard Candy
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    4.08     · 2107 Ratings · 81 Reviews · published 1989 · 32 editions
    In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the…

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    Book 5

    Blossom
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    4.04     · 1794 Ratings · 70 Reviews · published 1990 · 39 editions
    In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given co…

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    Book 6

    Sacrifice
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    4.00     · 1582 Ratings · 52 Reviews · published 1991 · 34 editions
    What—or who—could turn a gifted little boy into a …

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    Book 7

    Down in the Zero
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    3.98     · 1597 Ratings · 61 Reviews · published 1994 · 4 editions
       Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction …

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    Book 8

    Footsteps of the Hawk
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    3.95     · 1101 Ratings · 37 Reviews · published 1995 · 26 editions
      In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in dan…

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    Book 9

    False Allegations
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    3.84     · 1120 Ratings · 38 Reviews · published 1996 · 27 editions
    Burke--ex-con, mercenary, sometime killer--makes h…

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    Book 10

    Safe House
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    3.99     · 1328 Ratings · 33 Reviews · published 1998 · 27 editions
    In Burke, Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a h…

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    Book 11

    Choice of Evil
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    3.88     · 1091 Ratings · 38 Reviews · published 1999 · 22 editions
    When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down …

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    Book 12

    Dead and Gone
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    4.04     · 1255 Ratings · 43 Reviews · published 2000 · 25 editions
    From the modern master of noir, Andrew Vachss, com…

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    Book 13

    Pain Management
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    3.91     · 1086 Ratings · 41 Reviews · published 2001 · 26 editions
    Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, u…

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    Book 14

    Only Child
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    3.92     · 904 Ratings · 33 Reviews · published 2002 · 20 editions
    It’s been years since Burke has been home, years s…

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    Book 15

    Down Here
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    3.91     · 958 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 2004 · 15 editions
    For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love…

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    Book 16

    Mask Market
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    3.81     · 889 Ratings · 46 Reviews · published 2006 · 32 editions
    They meet in a no–name diner. A shadowy man hands …

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    Book 17

    Terminal
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    3.90     · 883 Ratings · 56 Reviews · published 2007 · 26 editions
    "You know why we hate you? Not because you don't k…

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    Book 18

    Another Life
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    3.92     · 830 Ratings · 83 Reviews · published 2008 · 25 editions
    When the two-year-old son of a Saudi prince is kid…

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