Alex Sigmore Books in Order

Assigned a Chesapeake murder while barred from pursuing her husband's killer, Emily Slate encounters feuding police departments and an elusive motive. A second death points to deliberate targeting, while a personal revelation pulls her loyalties in competing directions.

The murder of an FBI agent leads Emily Slate to a killer staging crimes from a local writer's books. As she tries to protect the author's life, a warning connected to her husband's death complicates the investigation.

Grieving her husband and struggling after a failed case, FBI agent Emily Slate accepts an investigation in a Virginia mountain town. A woman buried with her eyes sewn shut points toward a killer who soon turns attention toward Emily.

Emily Slate investigates Charleston fires that conceal the deliberate killings of firefighters. Strange symbols at the scenes suggest a larger plan, and escalating attacks force her to set aside her own search for answers about her husband's murder.

A federal judge's daughter disappears, drawing recently reinstated agent Emily Slate into a race to find her. A calculating opponent frustrates the investigation while unresolved questions from Emily's previous case threaten to distract her from the missing girl's fate.

Her husband's killer forces Emily into an alliance against the organization that betrayed them both. Tracking a congressman's missing daughter may expose its leadership, but every step deepens Emily's doubts about her partner and the people around her.

A letter in her dead mother's handwriting sends Emily seeking distraction in a New Hampshire murder case. With victims appearing every Saturday, she and Zara must identify a pattern before another carefully staged death forces an impossible moral choice.

A hiker's shooting brings Emily back to Stillwater, where she suspects a hunter is targeting people. Proving intent becomes increasingly dangerous, while a personal decision tests the loyalties she relies on to keep herself and others safe.

When Zara disappears while infiltrating a terrorist cell, Emily joins the search against orders. Bombings across American cities intensify the pressure to identify the group's leader, forcing Emily to work with a team she struggles to trust.

Three robbers dressed as Santa Claus turn a series of jewelry thefts deadly. Emily Slate and Zara investigate before the next holiday attack, discovering motives more complicated than the money and a danger that threatens to keep escalating.

A mysterious call draws Emily to her hometown, where a missing teenager's remains have been found inside her former home's walls. The victim's connection to Emily's childhood forces her to confront old secrets and a killer still at large.

Facing an unwanted transfer, Emily accepts one final local case involving a teenager's mutilated and staged body. Conflicting evidence frustrates her investigation, while the search for a motive threatens to collide with the conspiracy that shattered her family.

A bloodless corpse brings Emily alone to a Louisiana town steeped in superstition. When another body appears, she challenges claims of a supernatural killer and searches the community's long history for a more tangible explanation.

Women are disappearing from a Caribbean island while local authorities fail to act. Emily goes undercover to investigate, discovering that the resort setting conceals a threat capable of turning her search for the missing into a struggle for survival.

Detective Ivy Bishop cannot remember the night her family disappeared. When a headless body washes ashore during her first case, familiar clues suggest a killer is deliberately drawing her toward the trauma she has spent years avoiding.

A priest's murder draws Ivy Bishop into an investigation beneath Oakhurst's respectable surface. Connections to an underground criminal network expose corruption among the town's powerful residents, who have good reason to keep her from discovering the truth.

Two children and their caretaker disappear from Oakhurst without a ransom demand. Defying her superiors, Ivy Bishop investigates a possible connection to the forgotten night her own family vanished, risking both the victims' safety and her fragile understanding of herself.

Following months of mysterious letters, Emily confronts someone who appears to be her dead mother. Isolated from her usual support, she must unravel concealed family history before the search for answers cuts her off from the people she loves.

Killings in Washington's criminal underworld threaten to trigger a gang war. Emily and her team hunt a precise, elusive murderer while she continues investigating her own family, racing to prevent the violence from reaching innocent bystanders.

A crisis draws Emily and Zara back to Washington, where two sidelined agents have died suspiciously. Without the usual protection of her badge, Emily hunts a traitor whose widening conspiracy threatens the institution she once trusted.

With her boss missing, Ivy Bishop investigates a stalker terrorizing an Oakhurst family. The unseen watcher seems to understand her own buried past, turning the pursuit into a dangerous search for answers about her family's destruction.

New evidence about the destruction of her family forces Ivy Bishop to reopen her most personal mystery. Still grieving a young victim she failed to save, she must confront painful secrets while questioning her ability to protect anyone.

Called to Oak Creek, detective Charlotte Dawes questions the apparent drowning of a woman found by a river. An artist's subsequent murder echoes her paintings, suggesting the remaining works may identify a calculating killer's next victims.

A threatening inscription in a novel exposes a woman's fiancé as a liar about his past. As she begins to feel watched in their secluded home, her search for the truth threatens the life they have built together.

Reassigned to Albuquerque after a data breach, Emily investigates a young woman's death in the desert. With Zara as her only backup, she uncovers a wider conspiracy and must identify its purpose before the next victim is chosen.

Emily Slate and Zara investigate a couple's murder in a seemingly idyllic lakeside town. With motives scattered throughout the community and Zara struggling after a recent trauma, they must untangle old resentments before hidden loyalties derail the case.

A branded body draws retired detective Charlotte Dawes back to an unsolved ritual murder case from her early career. As the pattern repeats in Oak Creek, she must connect two investigations before the killer completes another deadly sequence.

Leading a new FBI team, Emily Slate investigates disturbing reports from an isolated psychiatric facility. Cut-off patients and unexplained staff changes point toward a conspiracy whose protectors are willing to kill to keep the institution's secrets buried.

Fire investigator Calla Rowe retreats to Oregon after losing her partner in a suspicious blaze. A local wildfire and a missing environmental activist pull her back into work, exposing dangerous connections that could make her the next target.