Instinct · Book 3

Steal

Published
1 May 2022
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9781538703540
Type
novel
Cover of Steal

About this book

Steal, published in May 2022 at 400 pages, closes out James Patterson and Howard Roughan's Instinct trilogy, continuing Dr. Dylan Reinhart and NYPD Detective Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Needham's partnership after Killer Instinct (2019). No further entry has been announced since, so newcomers can treat the academic-criminologist-and-cop pairing's run as a complete trilogy rather than an open franchise.

Key facts about Steal

Steal is a novel by Howard Roughan and James Patterson. Readers have had it since 1 May 2022. It runs to 400 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Steal. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781538703540 to find the main one.

Steal is book 3 of 3 in the Instinct series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with Instinct (2017). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.

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

Steal is book 3 in the Instinct series. It follows 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…

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