Sarah Roberts Books In Order

Publication Order of Sarah Roberts Books

The Sarah Roberts series is a series of thriller novels written by one of the renowned novelists from Canada named Jonas Saul. There is a total of 16 books in this series, which were released between the years 2010 and 2015. All the novels of this thriller series have the lead character in the role of Sarah Roberts, who is depicted by author Jonas Saul as an eighteen year old girl. Sarah is described as suffering from frequent blackouts in her life for some time. And when the blackouts occur, Sarah Roberts goes into deep sleep all of a sudden, no matter at what place she is or what she is doing. When she finally wakes up after some time, she finds several notes written in her handwriting lying beside her. The notes seem to have the detailed description of some future unhealthy events. Sarah knows that as she is one who has come across the details of the events, she is only one who can stop them from happening. Apart from this, Sarah Roberts also suffers from a disorder called trichotillomania. This is one type of impulse disorder in which the patient feels the compulsion to pull out the hairs of people. Author Jonas Saul has said that he got the idea of writing the Sarah Roberts series in the year 2010. Subsequently, he began with the first story and published the debut novel in the same year. Currently, he is trying to develop a few more plots and introduce some more interesting characters, which he is going to include in the next books of the series.

According to author Saul, the next few books in the series are expected to come out very soon in the days to come. The beginning of the series shows the introduction of Sarah Roberts as an 18 year old girl. She experiences her first blackout and after gaining consciousness, she finds that she has written down the descriptions of some dark visions in her handwriting during her sleep. The visions seem so dark to her that she begins to work toward preventing them from happening. As the next events in her life follow, Sarah Roberts realizes that she can try and stop the events on her own. Other than the automatic writing thing, Sarah also experiences the symptoms of trichotillomania, that is the disorder of hair pulling. In the first automatic description, Sarah Roberts comes to know about a kidnapping that is about to happen. She also finds the things that she should in order to prevent the kidnapping, written in the notes. Sarah finds the notes to be very specific and realizes that she has already done the things in the past. Therefore, she feels confident to pull off the thing once again. However, things begin to take a bad turn when she kidnappers spot her and some people get killed.

A few witnesses see Sarah Roberts at the crime scene. As the police come to arrest her, they come across the notebook in which she had filled with the details of all the events that she has dealt with in the past. The notebook all the details about the prophecies of the numerous crimes and accidents in which Sarah Roberts was involved. As the police begin to think that all the events were created her alone, she finds herself in a situation to fight for herself. She knows that she is innocent, but does not know how to prove it to the police and everyone else. On the other hand, the kidnappers are curious as to how she came to know about their operation. During this whole time, the parents of Sarah Roberts think that she is staying at the house of her friend and do not seem to have any idea about the recent events. As the series progresses further, readers get acquainted with a few other interesting events from the life of Sarah Roberts. All the events seem even more intriguing and interesting to read because of the excellent writing style of author Saul.

One of the initial books in the Sarah Roberts series written by Jonas Saul was published under the title ‘The Crypt’. The book was released by Imagine Press publication in 2011. The starting scene of this book shows that Sarah is looking for a weapon in Budapest. She comes across a strange man who agrees to get her to the weapon. Sarah tries to find out who the strange man is, but before that she gets arrested and sent to the Hungarian jail. After getting released, Sarah is asked to leave the country. Before she leaves, the strange man visits her at the Budapest hotel. He tells Sarah that he represents a psychic organization that carries out research programs and then asks her to come with him to the United States. Sarah feels something is wrong and refuses to go. But, the man tells that she does have any other choice as she has become the U.S. Government property. Soon after,Sarah Roberts comes across a note that says that everything will end in The Crypt in the next 9 days. The note also comes with an apology. While still in Hungary, Sarah tries to get to her target, but needs to be careful about the Hungarian government’s tracking team. Also, she has to prevent herself from getting spotted by the strange American and his team. Sarah decides to fake her death as a measure to escape from their reach. Thinking of it as her only option, she plots a plan to deal with the target as well as get herself killed during the process.

Another initial book published in the series by the Imagine Press is titled as ‘The Hostage’. This book was released is the year 2012. In this book, author Saul has introduced a character named Elmore Ackerman, who idolizes Sarah from far away. He has been doing s for the past 5 years. Elmore has carried a deep study about Sarah Roberts through her pictures and stories. He has also memorized all her clippings and now waits patiently for the day when he take her as hostage. Elmore appears to have planned several things that he will carry out on Sarah in a steel cage, where he keep her after capturing. In fact, he has practiced those things on a few girls who are dead now and buried under his property. Elmore goes to such an extent in torturing his victims that eventually give in. He has planned the same thing for Sarah also. Soon, the day comes when she finally walks into the trap set up for her by Elmore Ackerman. No one knows where she is taken after getting captured. Now, she has to fight not just for the freedom, but also for her life.