Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Therapy | 2006 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 2 | Splinter | 2008 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 3 | The Eye Hunter | 2011 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 4 | The Eye Collector | 2013 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 5 | The Child | 2014 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 6 | Passenger 23 | 2014 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 7 | The Nightwalker / Der Nachtwandler | 2016 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 8 | The Package | 2016 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 9 | Seat 7A | 2017 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 10 | The Gift | 2019 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 11 | The Soul Breaker | 2021 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 12 | Playlist | 2021 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 13 | Walk Me Home | 2022 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 14 | The Inmate | 2023 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
| 15 | Mimik | 2025 | Sebastian Fitzek | Buy |
Sebastian Fitzek has built his career on standalone psychological thrillers, each one constructed around a different high-concept scenario. His debut, Therapy (2006), introduced readers to his approach: a psychiatrist isolates himself on an island to grieve, only to be confronted by a patient with an impossible story. From there, Fitzek kept returning to confined settings and unreliable perspectives. Splinter (2008) deals with implanted memories, The Eye Collector (2013) follows a serial killer who takes children’s eyes, and The Nightwalker (2016) centers on a man who discovers his nocturnal sleepwalking episodes may involve violence.
Several of his later novels use transportation as a pressure cooker for suspense. Passenger 23 (2014) is set aboard a cruise ship where passengers have vanished, and Seat 7A (2017) traps its protagonist on a long-haul flight with a terrible choice. The Package (2016) and The Gift (2019) take more domestic settings and fill them with paranoia. More recently, The Inmate (2023) sends a father undercover into a forensic psychiatric facility. With fifteen standalone novels and counting, Fitzek’s output is remarkably consistent in quality and pace, with Playlist (2021), Walk Me Home (2022), and Mimik (2025) rounding out his recent work.