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Chris Holm Books in Order

Chris Holm has written 10 books, published between 2010 and 2022. The first book is 8 Pounds (2010) and the newest is Child Zero (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2010–2022
Pages on record
1,815 in 5 of 10 books
Reading time
30–45 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,815 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Chris Holm is an American author, born in Syracuse, New York and based in Portland, Maine. The Killing Kind took the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2016. Holm worked as a molecular biologist before turning to writing, and that background fed the 2022 novel Child Zero. Ten books are catalogued from 8 Pounds (2010) to Child Zero (2022), among them Dead Harvest (2012), The Wrong Goodbye (2012), The Big Reap (2013) and Red Right Hand (2016). Michael Hendricks is Holm's catalogued series, and recorded subjects include assassins, the devil, hell and terrorism.

How many Chris Holm books are there?

Chris Holm has 10 books, released between 2010 and 2022. They include 2 series and 3 titles listed outside any series.

Chris Holm Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Chris Holm books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Dead Harvest by Chris Holm, book 1 of the Collector series (2012)
  2. Cover of The Wrong Goodbye by Chris Holm, book 2 of the Collector series (2012)
  3. Cover of The Big Reap by Chris Holm, book 3 of the Collector series (2013)
  4. Cover of The Killing Kind by Chris Holm, book 1 of the Michael Hendricks series (2015)
  5. Cover of Red Right Hand by Chris Holm, book 2 of the Michael Hendricks series (2016)
  1. 1
    8 PoundsChris F. Holm Short Story #12010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  2. 2
    The Hitter2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  3. 3
    Dead HarvestCollector #12012 · 381 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012381
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  4. 4
    The Wrong GoodbyeCollector #22012 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012400
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Dead LettersChris F. Holm Short Story #22013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  6. 6
    The Big ReapCollector #32013 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013384
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  7. 7
    The Killing KindMichael Hendricks #12015 · 309 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015309
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  8. 8
    Red Right HandMichael Hendricks #22016 · 341 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016341
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  9. 9
    The Approach2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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  10. 10
    Child Zero2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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Chris Holm books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Collector in order

3 books
  1. 1. Dead Harvest
  2. 2. The Wrong Goodbye
  3. 3. The Big Reap

Chris F. Holm Short Story

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Michael Hendricks in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Killing Kind
  2. 2. Red Right Hand

Standalone books

3 books

3 Chris Holm titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Chris Holm books in order?

You only need to read Chris Holm books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Chris Holm

Start with 8 Pounds (2010), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Chris Holm book?

Child Zero (2022) is the newest Chris Holm book released so far.

Is there a new Chris Holm book coming?

No next Chris Holm book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Chris Holm at a glance

Paused
No new Chris Holm title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Chris Holm books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,815 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 381 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Chris Holm books, 9 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Chris Holm books are about

3 of the 10 Chris Holm books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: assassins is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.