There are 6 books in the John Cleaver series. The newest book is Nothing Left to Lose which came out in 2017.

1
I Am Not a Serial Killer

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I Am Not A Serial Killer is now a major film starring Christopher Lloyd and Max Records. This is the first title in the thrillingly dark John Wayne Carver series.

John works in his family's mortuary and has an obsession with serial killers. He wants to be a good person,…

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2
Mr. Monster

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Mr Monster is the second chilling novel in Dan Wells's John Wayne Carver series, and the follow up to I Am Not A Serial Killer - now a major motion picture.

John Wayne Cleaver has always known he has a dark side but he's fought hard to oppress it and…

3
I Don't Want to Kill You

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Dan Wells introduced us to John Wayne Cleaver in the chilling novels I Am Not a Serial Killer and Mr. Monster. In I Don't Want to Kill You, Cleaver faces his toughest challenge yet.John Wayne Cleaver has called a demon---literally called it on the phone---and challenged it to a fight.…

4
The Devil's Only Friend

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John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can . . .

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5
Over Your Dead Body

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New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells continues his popular John Wayne Cleaver series in Over Your Dead Body.

John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the midwest--but the Withered are hunting them back, and the…

6
Nothing Left to Lose

Book cover of Nothing Left to Lose

Hi. My name is John Cleaver, and I hunt monsters. I used to do it alone, and then for a while I did it with a team of government specialists, and then the monsters found us and killed almost everyone, and now I hunt them alone again.

This is my…