Brand of Justice Books in Order
Part ofLisa Phillips Books in OrderSee all Brand of Justice books by Lisa Phillips in order, with short summaries, series background, and a clear starting point for Kenna Banbury.
Last updated: January 12, 2026
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Publication Order
13 books
Storm and Tempest
by Lisa Phillips
2025
A brewing storm mirrors the chaos of a case that refuses to stay contained. Kenna Banbury has to navigate shifting loyalties and a threat that hits hard, before the tempest becomes a tragedy.
Out of Time
by Lisa Phillips
2025
The clock is the real villain as Kenna Banbury races to prevent a death she can see coming. With leads collapsing and danger closing in, she has to make one last push before time runs out.
One More Chance
by Lisa Phillips
2025
Kenna Banbury is offered one more chance to save someone who doesn’t think they’re worth saving. But a determined enemy has other plans, and the next decision could be the difference between rescue and regret.
Every Which Way
by Lisa Phillips
2025
A case with too many angles drags Kenna Banbury into a maze of false trails. As the pressure builds, she must choose the right path quickly, because the wrong turn could be fatal.
Long Road Home
by Lisa Phillips
2024
A case pulls Kenna Banbury onto a long road with no clear finish line and too many people lying. To bring someone home, she must face what she’s been avoiding, and who is willing to kill to keep her from the truth.
Fear No Evil
by Lisa Phillips
2024
A new threat tests Kenna Banbury’s resolve and her growing circle of allies. To stop a killer who feeds on fear, she has to keep moving forward, even when the risk feels personal.
Dead to Rights
by Lisa Phillips
2024
Kenna Banbury is forced to defend someone everyone else has already judged. As the evidence twists, she has to fight for the truth, and her own safety, before the wrong person pays the price.
Skin and Bone
by Lisa Phillips
2023
When a case strips away the polite surface of a community, Kenna Banbury finds motives hiding in plain sight. Following the evidence means getting uncomfortably close to someone who would rather she stop asking questions.
Quick and Dead
by Lisa Phillips
2023
PI Kenna Banbury takes a case that turns urgent fast, with a victim running out of time and a killer tightening the net. To solve it, she has to trust her instincts, and the people she keeps at arm’s length.
Over the Limit
by Lisa Phillips
2023
A new investigation pushes Kenna Banbury past every safe boundary she’s built. With danger escalating and answers hard to pin down, she has to decide how far she’ll go for justice, and what it might cost.
Dust and Ashes
by Lisa Phillips
2023
Kenna Banbury follows a cold trail that turns hot when someone starts cleaning up loose ends. With the past resurfacing and the present on fire, she must find the truth before it burns everything down.
Cold Dead Night
by Lisa Phillips
2022
Private investigator Kenna Banbury is drawn into an FBI case when bodies start turning up in a small town. As the clues echo her own violent past, she has to decide who to trust before the killer strikes again.
Burn the Dawn
by Lisa Phillips
2022
When girls vanish and fear spreads through a tight-knit community, PI Kenna Banbury joins the hunt. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that someone is watching her moves and setting a trap she might not see coming.
Series background & context
Brand of Justice follows private investigator Kenna Banbury, a woman who makes her living finding the people everyone else has stopped looking for. Her cases take her across the western United States, from quiet towns to lonely highways, and she tends to arrive right when a community is running out of options. Kenna doesn't just collect facts, she listens for the part of the story nobody wanted to say out loud.
Kenna isn't chasing glory. She's chasing closure.
Two years earlier, Kenna lost everything at the hands of a serial killer, and the fallout left her wary of the people who are supposed to protect and serve. She rebuilt anyway, turning pain into a kind of stubborn purpose. She chose the work of finding the missing and the forgotten because it lets her do something concrete with the grief, one case, one person, one hard truth at a time.
In Cold Dead Night, new murders pull her into an FBI investigation, and the work forces her to look straight at the place where her own life first shattered. That collision of past and present becomes a quiet thread through the series: Kenna is always solving the case in front of her, but she's also learning what trust looks like now, and what justice costs when you have to live with it afterward.
Each book delivers a complete mystery with real bite: missing people, cold leads that suddenly thaw, and suspects who know how to hide in plain sight. Burn the Dawn raises the stakes with missing girls and a town on edge, and later cases keep pushing Kenna into situations where help is far away, resources are limited, and the wrong decision can get someone killed. The setting matters, too. Wide-open spaces can feel like freedom, until you realize they make it easier for danger to disappear.
The romantic thread is present, but it doesn't cancel out the danger. It grows in the cracks between late-night interviews, long drives, and the moment you realize the person beside you might be the only safe place left. The relationships don't come easy for Kenna, and that's part of what makes them satisfying, she has to decide, again and again, whether she can let someone in.
If you like a series with a steady lead character and a bigger emotional arc, read this one in order. You can jump in later, the cases stand on their own, but the payoffs land better when you've watched Kenna rebuild her life piece by piece, and when you recognize the people who keep showing up to have her back. It's a modern PI series that keeps the pace high and the hope earned.
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