Ben H. Winters is a writer. 

THE LATEST

Back in 2010 I published a psychological thriller called BEDBUGS, about a woman terrorized by monstrous insects no one else can see.

The good folks at Quirk Books are now republishing that book, on August 1, 2023, with a new jacket and a new title.

Welcome to THE BONUS ROOM.

“One of crime fiction’s most inventive practitioners.” - The San Francisco Chronicle

  • THE QUIET BOY - a novel

  • GOLDEN STATE - a novel

  • UNDERGROUND AIRLINES - a novel

    winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire

    New York Times bestseller

  • THE LAST POLICEMAN - a novel

    winner of the Edgar Award

  • COUNTDOWN CITY - book II in the Last Policeman Trilogy

    Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award

  • WORLD OF TROUBLE — book III in the Last Policeman Trilogy

    Edgar Award nominee

“Winters has a knack for creating appealing detective fictions

that skew reality in thought-provoking ways,

producing a hybrid of the familiar and the uncanny.” - The Washington Post

“Exceptional…indisputably a winner.” - NPR

  • STRANGER - an Audible Original

  • THE HIGHWAY KIND - an anthology, including Ben’s story “Test Drive”

  • SELF HELP - an Audible Original

  • INSIDE JOBS – an Audible Original

  • Q & A - an Audible Original

  • SPECULATIVE LOS ANGELES - an anthology, including Ben’s story “Peak TV”

“Winters is such a fine writer that by the time he asks you to suspend your disbelief,

you’ll follow him anywhere.” - The New York Times

“An appealing hybrid of the best of science fiction and crime fiction.” - The Washington Post

“Sharp, funny, and deeply wise.” - Slate

  • MANHATTAN MAYHEM - an anthology, including Ben’s story “Trapped!”

  • THE SECRET LIFE OF MS. FINKLEMAN - a novel for middle-grade readers

    Edgar Award nominee

  • THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING EVERYTHING - book II in the Finkleman series

  • ANDROID KARENINA – a mash-up novel

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS - a mash-up novel

    New York Times bestseller

  • THE MAD SCIENTIST’S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION - an anthology, including Ben’s story “The Food Taster’s Boy”