John Glatt

He left school at the age of sixteen, and worked a variety of jobs, including messenger and tea boy, before he joined a tiny weekly newspaper just outside of London, where he honed his keen news sense. Over the next few years, he freelanced for numerous national English papers, including The Sunday People, The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, and Woman Magazine. He moved to New York in 1981, working on staff for News Limited, as well as freelancing for Omni, the Australian, Newsweek, Modern Business, as well as other papers and magazines worldwide.

The best place to start is the St. Martin's True Crime Library series, the earliest of John Glatt's multi-book series: it opens with Abandoned Prayers (1990) and runs to 74 books across 1990–2017, ending with Taken from Home (2017).

John Glatt has 99 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1990 and 2023. 74 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the St. Martin's True Crime Library series with 74 books — and 25 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. John Glatt's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are St. Martin's True Crime Library (1990–2017, 74 books).

This guide splits John Glatt's 99 books into 1 named series and 25 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: St. Martin's True Crime Library (74 books, 1990–2017).