🎯 Where Should I Start?
ⓘ About Robert I. Katz
Robert grew up on Long Island, in a pleasant and suburban town roughly thirty miles from New York City. He loved to read from a young age, reading five or more books each week. Even then, he had a dim idea that he could do at least as well as many of these stories he was reading. He graduated with an English degree in 1974 from Columbia. Not encouraged by the job prospects for English majors during this time, he went on to medical school at Northwestern, where he acquired, along with his medical degree, a lifelong love for deep dish pizza. He did his residency in Anesthesiology at Columbia Presbyterian and spent much of his career at Stony Brook. It was here that he eventually rose to the academic rank of Professor and Vice-Chairman for Administration, Department of Anesthesiology.
All Book Series by Robert I. Katz
Virtually Lace
Series opener · book 1 of 8 · published 2018 Anthology · Uvi Poznansky
Virtually Undetectable
Book 7 of 8 · published 2020 Anthology · Libby Fischer Hellmann
Virtually Impossible
Latest in the series · book 8 of 8 · published 2020 Anthology · Barbara Ebel
To The Ends of the Earth in the Deep Blue Sea
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2014
Make Money, Don't Lose Money: The Defensive Investor on Thriving and Surviving Through Bull and Bear Markets
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2018
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Robert I. Katz?
Robert grew up on Long Island, in a pleasant and suburban town roughly thirty miles from New York City. He loved to read from a young age, reading five or more books each week. Even then, he had a dim idea that he could do at least as well as many of these stories he was reading.
Which Robert I. Katz series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Kurtz and Barent Mysteries series, the earliest of Robert I. Katz's multi-book series: it opens with Surgical Risk (2002) and runs to 9 books across 2002–2025, ending with Adverse Outcome (2025). Robert I. Katz's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Robert I. Katz written?
Robert I. Katz has 36 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2001 and 2026. 30 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Kurtz and Barent Mysteries series with 9 books — and 6 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Robert I. Katz's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Robert I. Katz's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Kurtz and Barent Mysteries (2002–2025, 9 books), Chronicles of the Second Interstellar Empire of Mankind (2018–2021, 6 books) and Richard Kurtz Medical Mystery (2018, 1 book), plus 1 more.
How are Robert I. Katz's books organised into series?
This guide splits Robert I. Katz's 36 books into 5 named series and 6 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Kurtz and Barent Mysteries (9 books, 2002–2025); Chronicles of the Second Interstellar Empire of Mankind (6 books, 2018–2021); The Survivors (6 books, 2019–2026); Richard Kurtz Medical Mystery (1 book, 2018); High-Tech Crime Solvers (8 books, 2018–2020).