Bailey Flynn FBI Books in Order
Part ofMelinda Woodhall Books in OrderSee the Bailey Flynn FBI books by Melinda Woodhall in order, with concise summaries, series background, and help choosing the right starting point.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Bailey Flynn FBI books in publication order
11 books
Chasing Monsters
by Melinda Woodhall
2024
A troubled woman's murder and a teenage girl's body in an old grave pull Bailey into a case built on revenge. To save the next target, she has to sort truth from corruption before the killer strikes again.
Dreading Darkness
by Melinda Woodhall
2024
When a detective's daughter vanishes, Bailey joins the search and finds two dead teens in an abandoned car. The trail leads to a former gravedigger, another missing girl, and a killer who works well in the dark.
Forgotten Remains
by Melinda Woodhall
2024
A brutal stabbing in Belle Harbor leads Bailey to a hidden skeleton and a link to a notorious cartel. Piece by piece, she uncovers the obsession driving a killer who has been waiting decades.
Gathering Bones
by Melinda Woodhall
2024
Fresh remains found in an abandoned burial ground point Bailey toward a serial killer with roots in Belle Harbor's past. When a forensic anthropologist disappears, the excavation turns into a race for survival.
Vanishing Angels
by Melinda Woodhall
2024
FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn has barely started over in Washington, D.C., when a call pulls her back to Belle Harbor, Florida. With her search and rescue dog Ludwig, she hunts the predator who murdered someone from her past.
Deadly Mercy
by Melinda Woodhall
2025
A hit and run exposes the mutilated body of a local woman, and Bailey links the killing to two more grisly deaths. When a beekeeper with key information disappears, she must untangle the killer's damaged past fast.
Forsaken Souls
by Melinda Woodhall
2025
A coffee shop owner's daylight shooting looks personal, but Bailey soon ties it to a vicious internet troll and a much older crime. The deeper she digs, the closer the case comes to her own past.
Heartless Highway
by Melinda Woodhall
2025
A tourist is found dead beside a highway, and the evidence suggests the FBI may have caught the wrong East Coast Highway Killer. Bailey follows the case onto a dangerous road trip with no room for easy answers.
Tracking Evil
by Melinda Woodhall
2025
A bachelorette party turns deadly at Bellamy Island Resort, and Bailey suspects a bride-to-be's unsolved murder from ten years earlier. She calls in profiler Bridget Bishop as bodies, clues, and danger begin to pile up.
Dangerous Midnight
by Melinda Woodhall
2026
A wealthy widow returns to her hometown for a fresh start and is almost immediately murdered. Bailey traces the case from Everston Creek to the Everglades, where the Midnight Caller is still waiting to strike again.
Nightmare in Summerset
by Melinda Woodhall
2026
An aspiring actress vanishes on the way to an audition at Scorched Pine Studios. Bailey steps into a bizarre case of film-set ambition, staged fantasy, and a killer determined to cast her in his final scene.
Bailey Flynn FBI books in chronological order

Vanishing Angels
by Melinda Woodhall
2024Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 1
Gathering Bones
by Melinda Woodhall
2024Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 2
Chasing Monsters
by Melinda Woodhall
2024Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 3
Forgotten Remains
by Melinda Woodhall
2024Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 4
Dreading Darkness
by Melinda Woodhall
2024Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 5
Forsaken Souls
by Melinda Woodhall
2025Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 6
Tracking Evil
by Melinda Woodhall
2025Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 7
Deadly Mercy
by Melinda Woodhall
2025Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 8
Heartless Highway
by Melinda Woodhall
2025Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 9
Dangerous Midnight
by Melinda Woodhall
2026Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 10
Nightmare in Summerset
by Melinda Woodhall
2026Bailey Flynn FBI, Book 11
Series background & context
The Bailey Flynn FBI books follow FBI Special Agent Bailey Flynn as she tries to start fresh and keeps getting pulled back into the places she knows best. She begins the series on a Major Crimes task force in Washington, D.C., but the cases keep drawing her toward Belle Harbor and Summerset County in South Florida. That homecoming angle gives the books a useful emotional hook. Bailey is not just solving crimes in these towns, she is walking back into old grief, old loyalties, and old mistakes.
Ludwig matters, too.
Bailey's search and rescue dog is more than a bit of character color. He makes the investigations feel physical, grounded, and immediate, especially when the trail runs through beaches, burial grounds, abandoned cars, highways, wooded properties, and the edge of the Everglades. These are books full of remains being unearthed, missing people being hunted, and clues that have literally been buried.
Compared with Bridget Bishop's profiling-heavy stories, the Bailey books feel a little closer to fieldwork. Bailey is practical, stubborn, and emotionally invested, especially when the victims connect to people from her past. The cases often start with a shocking discovery, a missing friend, fresh bones, a staged scene, or a body in plain sight, then widen into something older and uglier than anyone first thought.
The Florida setting does a lot of work here. Belle Harbor and the wider county feel coastal and humid, but also isolated in the way small communities can be when everyone knows the local history. Woodhall uses old cemeteries, bus routes, resorts, film studios, roadside stops, and swampland to keep the setting varied without losing the series identity.
There is a growing shared-world feel as the series continues. Bridget Bishop crosses over in Tracking Evil, and recurring law enforcement ties help the books feel connected to Woodhall's other thrillers. Even with those links, Bailey remains the clear center. If you want dark FBI procedurals with a K9 partner, strong hometown tension, and self-contained cases that still build a bigger personal story, this is a good place to start.
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