Michael Bennett · Book 20
Delusional
- Published
- 17 August 2026
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780316569835
- Type
- novel
About this book
Delusional (August 2026, Little, Brown and Company, 368 pages) is the 18th Michael Bennett novel, co-written with James O. Born. Bennett and NYPD officer Rob Trilling investigate a wave of bombings in New York City and a military-base burglary that leads them to Montana. It follows Paranoia as the series' most recent entry.
Its place in Michael Bennett
Delusional is book 20 in the Michael Bennett series. It follows Paranoia. See the full Michael Bennett reading order.
Detective Michael Bennett works major cases for the NYPD while raising ten adopted children alone in a cramped Manhattan apartment, with his grandfather Seamus (a wisecracking retired priest) and, later, nanny-turned-partner Mary Catherine holding the household together. That domestic chaos is the series' secret weapon: Patterson pairs it against some of his most theatrical New York set-pieces — hostage sieges at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a serial killer targeting the city's elite, international manhunts that pull…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316569835