Alison Gaylin Books in Order

Bookstore owner Meg Russo is driving her daughter to college when a terrifying encounter on the highway ends in a fatal crash that kills her husband. Months later, an online cult obsessed with a fantasy novel Meg wrote as a teenager begins targeting her family, blurring the line between paranoia and real danger.

Years after her teenage daughter dies following a college frat party assault, Camille Gardener is drawn into a secret online group of grieving mothers who target their children’s killers, forcing her to confront how easily justice can tip into something much darker.

Actress Lyla McCord’s eight-year-old daughter vanishes without a trace, shattering the glossy life Lyla and her husband have built. When he turns to a psychic whose visions seem disturbingly accurate, Lyla must decide whether she is being conned or confronted with a truth she does not want to face.

For thirteen days in 1976, teenage lovers April Cooper and Gabriel LeRoy terrorized Southern California before apparently dying in a fire. Decades later, a true-crime podcaster and a New York film columnist uncover disturbing links between that killing spree and their own families.

When her estranged younger sister is found murdered in a Washington, DC, hotel room in the 1970s, small-town sheriff Normandy Gold rides into the capital to investigate. Posing as a high-priced escort, she uncovers a prostitution ring and political conspiracy that reaches into the halls of power.

In the quiet Hudson Valley town of Havenkill, a late-night carjacking ends with a beloved teenager left for dead and a solitary high school outcast accused online of being a monster. As outrage spreads, one family fights to uncover the truth.

At seventeen, Kelly Michelle Lund shot and killed a famous Hollywood director at a party and became a tabloid obsession. Thirty years later, when her movie-star father-in-law is murdered in the same way, Kelly is thrust back into the spotlight and forced to face buried secrets.

Brenna Spector’s perfect memory lets her replay every moment of her adult life, except the day her sister vanished. When her own teenage daughter disappears and clues point back to that decades-old mystery, Brenna’s obsession and her work collide in the most dangerous way yet.

Sixteen-year-old Estella Blanchard is the weary big sister on a hit reality show about her sextuplet half siblings, always acting for the cameras. When a strange gift hints that her supposedly dead father is alive, Estella is pulled into child-star therapy sessions, obsessed fans and a mystery that may turn lethal.

Private investigator Brenna Spector is hired to find Lula Belle, a missing webcam performer whose intimate online confessions echo stories only Brenna and her lost sister could know. Following the trail into the internet’s shadows, she uncovers a tangle of obsession, exploitation and long-buried family secrets.

Missing persons investigator Brenna Spector cannot forget anything that has happened since the day her sister disappeared. Hired to track down suburban wife Carol Wentz, she uncovers eerie ties between Carol, a long-ago child abduction and the unsolved loss that has defined her own life.

Entertainment reporter Zoe Greene gives up her Manhattan life to move in with soap star Warren Clark in the idyllic Mexican town of San Esteban. Surrounded by a strange longevity cult and a string of gruesome deaths, she starts to suspect that the locals’ interest in her blood is anything but harmless.

Fresh out of journalism school, Simone Glass heads to Los Angeles and ends up at The Asteroid, a ruthless Hollywood tabloid. As she learns to sift through celebrity trash and go undercover for scoops, a series of deaths among the stars turns her latest assignment into a deadly investigation.

Sam Leiffer is living with detective John Krull and trying to believe in happily ever after when a nervous stranger hands her a note warning that she is in danger. As more messages appear and people around her start dying, Sam must decide whether the messenger is a savior or a predator.

Preschool teacher and theater box-office worker Samantha Leiffer is trying to enjoy her offbeat Manhattan life when she sees a couple dump a suspicious ice chest into the Hudson River. After a child’s body is found, her uneasy hunch pulls her into a stalker’s sights and a chilling murder case.