Instinct
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 323
- ISBN-13
- 9781473536265
- Type
- novel
About this book
Instinct opens the series in 2017 at 323 pages -- originally published as Murder Games before being reissued under its current title to match the 2018 CBS adaptation -- co-written by James Patterson and Howard Roughan to pair Yale professor Dylan Reinhart with NYPD Detective Lizzie Needham.
Key facts about Instinct
Howard Roughan and James Patterson wrote Instinct, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 January 2017. The book has 323 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781473536265 to find the main one.
Instinct is book 1 of 3 in the Instinct series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Steal is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 May 2022.
Additionally, James Patterson writes Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club and Honeymoon, plus 12 more series. Those series sit on our thriller, science fiction thriller and legal thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Delusional is the latest published James Patterson book on file, from 17 August 2026.
About James Patterson
James Patterson is an American author widely regarded as one of the bestselling and most prolific novelists in publishing history, with hundreds of books credited to his name across thrillers, young-adult fiction and non-fiction. See every James Patterson book in order.
Its place in Instinct
Instinct is book 1 in the Instinct series. It is followed by Killer Instinct. See the full Instinct reading order.
Dr. Dylan Reinhart is a Yale professor and former CIA operative -- an academic authority on criminal psychology who gets pulled back into fieldwork when NYPD Detective Elizabeth "Lizzie" Needham needs an outside mind on cases too strange for standard procedure. James Patterson and thriller novelist Howard Roughan built the series around that professor-and-cop pairing: Dylan's analytical, criminology-classroom read on a killer's psychology set against Lizzie's street-level instincts, working a string of elaborate…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781473536265