John Marrs Books in Order

John Marrs has written 14 books, published between 2013 and 2026. The first book is The Wronged Sons / When You Disappeared (2013) and the newest is Dead in the Water (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
2013–2026
Confirmed
14 of 14 titles
Pages on record
2,293 in 6 of 14 books

John Marrs is a British writer of psychological thrillers and speculative fiction and a former journalist. Marrs's novel The One (2016) was adapted into an eight-part Netflix series, and a sequence of standalone near-future novels shares its fictional universe. The catalogue lists 14 Marrs books, from The Wronged Sons / When You Disappeared (2013) to Dead in the Water (2026), including The Passengers (2019), The Minders (2020) and The Marriage Act (2023).

One of Marrs's novels is set in a future where artificial intelligence and automation have taken over most aspects of daily life, eliminating privacy. A small group of characters recognizes this too late and works to reclaim control, discovering that others have chosen to embrace the new order and resist that effort.

How many John Marrs books are there?

John Marrs has 14 books, released between 2013 and 2026.

John Marrs Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 John Marrs books in the order they were released, 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. 1
    The Wronged Sons / When You DisappearedJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #12013 · confirmed 3/4
    2013
  2. 2
    Welcome To Wherever You Are / The VacationJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #22015 · 366 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2015366
  3. 3
    The OneDark Future #12016 · 416 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016416
  4. 4
    The Good SamaritanJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #32017 · 399 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2017399
  5. 5
    Her Last MoveJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #42018 · 351 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018351
  6. 6
    The PassengersDark Future #22019 · confirmed 4/4
    2019
  7. 7
    The MindersDark Future #32020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020
  8. 8
    What Lies Between UsJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #52020 · 362 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2020362
  9. 9
    Keep It In The FamilyJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #62022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022
  10. 10
    The Marriage ActDark Future #42023 · confirmed 4/4
    2023
  11. 11
    The Family ExperimentDark Future #52024 · confirmed 4/4
    2024
  12. 12
    The Stranger in Her HouseJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #72024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024
  13. 13
    You Killed Me FirstJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #82025 · 399 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2025399
  14. 14
    Dead in the WaterJohn Marrs Standalone Novels #102026 · confirmed 4/4
    2026

John Marrs 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.

John Marrs Standalone Novels

9 books

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

Dark Future in order

5 books
  1. 1. The One
  2. 2. The Passengers
  3. 3. The Minders
  4. 4. The Marriage Act
  5. 5. The Family Experiment

Do you have to read John Marrs books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 14 John Marrs books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

What order should you read John Marrs books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with The Wronged Sons / When You Disappeared (2013), the earliest published title. After it come Welcome To Wherever You Are / The Vacation (2015), The One (2016), The Good Samaritan (2017) and Her Last Move (2018); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest John Marrs book?

Dead in the Water (2026) is the newest John Marrs book released so far.

Is there a new John Marrs book coming?

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

John Marrs at a glance

Still publishing
John Marrs published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
John Marrs books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,293 pages across the 6 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 382 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most John Marrs books, 8 of 14, were published in the 2020s.
Corroboration
10 of the 14 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the John Marrs books are about

4 of the 14 John Marrs books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: suspense is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.