Andee Lawrence Books in Order

Detective Andee Lawrence’s series lives at the intersection of police work and family drama. Andee is a capable, sometimes stubborn investigator whose professional cases keep colliding with the unresolved pain in her own past.

The sequence begins with Behind Closed Doors, where Andee is assigned to find Sophie Monroe, a fourteen‑year‑old who vanishes from a British coastal town after an argument with her parents. While most people assume Sophie has simply run away, Andee is convinced something darker has happened. As she digs into the girl’s social circle, she uncovers a community full of secrets and is forced to revisit the loss that shattered her own family years before.

In The Girl Who Came Back, Andee returns when Jules Bright learns that Amelia Quentin, the young woman convicted of her daughter’s murder, is being released from prison. Although the story centres on Jules’s hunger for justice and revenge, Andee’s quiet persistence in the background keeps the investigation grounded and shows how past crimes echo through a small town.

The Moment She Left pivots to the disappearance of a promising student in Kesterly‑on‑Sea. Andee, now separated from her husband, throws herself into the search just as local matriarch Rowzee Cayne hides a terminal diagnosis from those she loves. Their intertwined journeys reveal how many different forms of secrecy a single community can contain.

By the time of Hiding in Plain Sight, Andee has left the police and is trying to build a new life in the South of France. A brief, chilling encounter on a village street—someone from her childhood saying, “Remember me?”—drags her back to the unsolved disappearance of her sister Penny and the trauma that has haunted her since adolescence.

Later books and crossovers, including appearances in other standalone novels, show Andee consulting on tricky cases alongside younger investigators. Whether she’s officially on the force or not, she remains the person who can’t walk away when a child is missing or a story doesn’t quite add up.

Readers drawn to slow‑burn, character‑driven crime will find in Andee Lawrence a detective whose own life is as layered as the cases she tackles. The series balances clues and twists with marriage breakdowns, blended families and the long shadow of unresolved grief.