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Alan Gregory Books in Order

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See the Alan Gregory series by Stephen White in order, with short summaries, background on the Boulder thrillers, and advice on where to start.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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20 books

1

Privileged Information

by Stephen White

1991

When several of Alan Gregory's female patients die, suspicion lands on him. The only evidence that might clear his name is protected by doctor-patient privilege, and the killer may be sitting in his office.

2

Private Practices

by Stephen White

1993

Alan Gregory's practice turns into a crime scene after a brutal attack, and a blizzard cuts off easy answers. A troubled teenage patient, two suspicious deaths, and too many secrets push him into dangerous territory.

3

Higher Authority

by Stephen White

1994

A high-profile sexual harassment case throws attorney Lauren Crowder into a storm of missing evidence and murder. Alan Gregory is pulled into a legal and political nightmare with deadly stakes.

4

Harm's Way

by Stephen White

1996

After a close friend is murdered, Alan helps build a profile of the killer and starts uncovering ugly secrets about the dead man's past. The search pulls him into grief, doubt, and real physical danger.

5

Remote Control

by Stephen White

1997

A shocking act of violence leaves Lauren Crowder under suspicion for murder while another woman is threatened by a hidden attacker. Alan must untangle fame, greed, and a secret someone will kill to protect.

6

Critical Conditions

by Stephen White

1998

Alan is drawn into a family's medical nightmare when a desperately ill child is denied treatment and a teenager attempts suicide. Corporate power, buried violence, and one murder turn private tragedy into something far darker.

7

Manner of Death

by Stephen White

1999

At a former colleague's funeral, Alan learns that a string of old accidents may actually be murders. Digging into the past puts his marriage, his memories, and his life in a killer's sights.

8

Cold Case

by Stephen White

2000

Alan is asked to build a psychological profile in the reopened case of two murdered teenage girls. The deeper he digs into their lives, the more the old crime starts destroying the present.

9

The Program

by Stephen White

2001

After a condemned man vows revenge, prosecutor Kirsten Lord enters witness protection with her daughter. Boulder feels safe until Alan Gregory realizes the danger may be coming from inside the program itself.

10

Warning Signs

by Stephen White

2002

Boulder's district attorney is murdered, and the case hits close to home because Alan's wife once worked for him. Then a frightened new patient suggests another crime is coming, and Alan faces a brutal ethical trap.

11

The Best Revenge

by Stephen White

2003

Alan takes on two difficult patients, an FBI agent hiding severe pain and a man freed from death row. Their secrets collide in a case about wrongful conviction, obsession, and revenge that refuses to stay buried.

12

Blinded

by Stephen White

2004

A beautiful new patient tells Alan she fears her husband has already killed once and will kill again. What begins as a troubled marriage case turns into a tense hunt for a possible serial murderer.

13

Missing Persons

by Stephen White

2005

When fellow therapist Hannah Grant dies suddenly, Alan follows the clues she left behind and starts questioning people he thought he knew. A missing patient and a fragile client may hold the key to both mysteries.

14

Kill Me

by Stephen White

2006

A wealthy thrill-seeker joins a secret group that promises to end his life if illness ever takes everything from him. The deal seems rational until he discovers the price of control may be murder.

15

Dry Ice

by Stephen White

2007

Michael McClelland, the killer from Alan's first case, escapes the hospital and comes hunting for revenge. Alan must protect his family while facing the buried secrets that give his enemy the edge.

16

Dead Time

by Stephen White

2008

Alan's ex-wife asks for help when the surrogate carrying her child disappears. The case reaches back to an older disappearance near the Grand Canyon and cracks open painful truths from Alan's past.

17

The Siege

by Stephen White

2009

Sam Purdy joins an emergency investigation at Yale after several powerful men's sons disappear. As hostages are killed one by one, the hunt becomes a no-rules race against a patient, invisible enemy.

18

The Last Lie

by Stephen White

2010

A rape accusation after a wealthy neighbor's party rattles Boulder, and Alan finds himself with a troubling angle on what really happened. Before he can make sense of it, witnesses start dying.

19

Line of Fire

by Stephen White

2012

An old investigation into J. Winter Brown's death heats up again, threatening to expose Alan and Sam Purdy's buried role in it. At the same time, a strange new patient seems dangerously close to Alan's private life.

20

Compound Fractures

by Stephen White

2013

As old allies and long-absent figures return, Alan is forced back to an ethical crisis from his early career. A deadly mystery in Eldorado Springs becomes the final test of who he can still trust.

Series background & context

Alan Gregory is a Boulder clinical psychologist who keeps getting pulled out of the therapy room and into murder cases, missing-person investigations, and other people's worst decisions. From Privileged Information onward, the hook is simple and smart: Alan is not a cop or a private eye. He is a therapist, which means he meets people when they are scared, ashamed, defensive, or desperate. That makes every case feel personal from the start.

Professional ethics are a big part of the tension. Alan often knows things he cannot easily share, or suspects danger before he can prove it. Stephen White gets a lot of mileage out of questions about confidentiality, duty, trust, and what happens when private pain spills into public violence. The suspense is not just about who did it. It is also about what Alan can live with, what he can reveal, and what a secret might cost.

Boulder matters here.

These books use Colorado's mix of money, ambition, university culture, mountain beauty, and small-city politics as more than scenery. White likes to begin in places that seem orderly and comfortable, then peel back the surface. The result is a series where upscale neighborhoods, courtrooms, hospitals, and quiet streets can all turn dangerous fast.

Alan's personal life carries across the books too. His relationship with prosecutor Lauren Crowder becomes one of the series' emotional anchors, and detective Sam Purdy is the other major constant, sometimes ally, sometimes headache, often both. Friends, colleagues, former partners, and patients keep circling back, so the series rewards reading in order even when individual cases stand on their own.

Secrets do the heavy lifting.

White also changes the formula just enough to keep the series fresh. Cold Case digs into an old unsolved murder. Kill Me starts with a morally strange bargain about death and control. Dead Time and the later books pull buried history back into Alan's life. Even when the setup changes, the series stays grounded in the same idea: people are messier, sadder, and more dangerous than they first appear.

The tone sits between psychological suspense and crime fiction. There are murders, threats, and manhunts, but there are also therapy sessions, marriages under strain, illness, grief, and old trauma returning at the worst possible time. Some books stay tightly focused on Alan, while others, like The Program and The Siege, widen the lens and give more space to people in his orbit. If you like mysteries built on motive, conversation, and moral pressure, this is a very good series to settle into, all the way to the planned finale in Line of Fire and Compound Fractures.

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