Brenda Chapman Books in Order

Thirteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon still hopes her absent father will come home and make her family whole again. When he suddenly reappears and Jennifer witnesses something terrifying, she must untangle the truth before silence destroys someone she loves.

Hoping to escape trouble at home, fourteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon talks her way into a summer at her grandmother's cottage. In Hawk's Creek she is drawn toward Audrey Musquash, a girl blamed for everything, and into secrets that force Jennifer to rethink what she believes.

Jennifer Bannon expects an ordinary summer as a camp counsellor on Georgian Bay, until odd after-hours activity and uneasy cabin secrets start piling up. When she suspects the camp is being used to hide drug smuggling, the danger turns very real.

Jennifer Bannon starts grade eleven with her family splintering, her boyfriend gone to university, and her best friend keeping risky secrets. This quieter final installment mixes emotional upheaval with questions of belonging, loyalty, and how to stand on your own.

After her father's murder, Maja Cleary returns to Duved Cove, Minnesota, the place she swore she'd left behind for good. Her brother is the prime suspect, but defending him means reopening the family's darkest wounds while a killer closes in.

A year after her divorce, Duluth police officer Gwen Lake agrees to meet her ex-husband's new wife, and the encounter ends in murder. With her ex arrested and the case turning personal, Gwen starts digging on her own and steps straight into danger.

In the summer of 1971, fifteen-year-old Darlene Findley heads to Cedar Lake and finds herself caught between a reckless older cousin, mysterious neighbours, and her own dream of becoming a writer. It's a coming-of-age story about family, freedom, and lost innocence.

Anna Sweet, an ex-cop drifting across the U.S., is jolted off the road by a late-night call from Ottawa. Her sister's brakes have failed, and Cheri insists she'll be dead by Christmas unless Anna comes home and finds out who's after her.

Paul Taylor is in jail for murdering his lover, and almost no one believes he's innocent. Anna Sweet takes the case anyway, only to find herself digging through money, betrayal, and ugly secrets that could clear a man or free a killer.

Anna Sweet agrees to a date with Nick Roma, then learns his ex-girlfriend has been found dead near a lake. With gossip closing in and suspicion settling on Nick, Anna has to decide how much she trusts him and what the evidence is really saying.

Days before Christmas, wealthy businessman Tom Underwood vanishes, and new Ottawa police recruit Kala Stonechild is sent to bring him home. The missing-person case quickly turns into murder, exposing a family thick with resentment, secrets, and reasons to kill.

When Anna Sweet's business partner Jada Price disappears, Anna and new hire Nick Roma start pulling at every loose thread they can find. Their search leads to a murdered teen, a secret dating site, and a killer desperate to keep the truth buried.

When a university student is murdered and another woman survives a brutal assault, the crimes seem unrelated at first. Jacques Rouleau and Kala Stonechild uncover hidden links, buried secrets, and the kind of violence that can spread through several lives at once.

Ryan Green disappears after school and six months pass with no answers. Private investigator Anna Sweet reopens the trail, and when a body is found in the woods, the case turns darker and more urgent than anyone feared.

A mother and young daughter vanish, then the mother's body is found by the highway with no sign of the child. Kala Stonechild follows the trail from Kingston to Quebec, where old gang ties and one devastating betrayal reshape the case.

Shelley Vincent has been missing for more than a year, and her fiancé hires Anna Sweet to find out why. The deeper Anna digs into Shelley's past, the more it feels like someone is watching her and making sure the truth stays buried.

Jane Thompson has just made parole after serving time for abusing a student, and she has plans of her own. When that former student is found bludgeoned on the shore of Lake Ontario, Kala Stonechild is pulled into a case full of buried guilt and fresh danger.

A dying man brings his children back together in Kingston, reopening old suspicions around a friend's unsolved murder. Before the family can even settle, another woman disappears, and Kala Stonechild's team is dragged into a winter case packed with betrayal.

New single mother Nadia Armstrong is found dead at a Kingston construction site, and Major Crimes cannot tell whether she was murdered or pushed to the edge. At the same time, hidden leaks, predatory men, and dangerous secrets put Kala Stonechild's team and the girls around them at risk.

Officer Kala Stonechild takes her young relative Dawn on a canoe trip to a northern Ontario lodge, hoping for a break. Instead, a teenage employee vanishes, a body turns up, and Stonechild is drawn into a wilderness murder investigation with old ties of its own.

During an Ottawa heat wave, Anna Sweet takes on a case involving Brent Rose, a man who has been secretly dating three women at once. One of them wants revenge, and Anna has to figure out whether this is harassment, a setup, or a murder in the making.

Anna Sweet is asked to watch over Max, a troubled runaway who feels safer in the woods than at home. Then a favour for an old friend leads her to a body, and Anna ends up juggling two dangerous cases at once.

True-crime podcaster Ella Tate is shaken when a murdered teacher turns out to have been living in Ella's old apartment and looks uncannily like her. As more people around Ella get hurt, she teams up with Liam Hunter and realizes she may be the real target.

A missing three-year-old boy and an earlier disappearance of a university student seem unrelated, until Liam Hunter and Ella Tate start finding unsettling links. With Ottawa sweltering under a heat wave, the search becomes a race against time and bad odds.

Eleven-year-old Matt Clark thinks he'll soon head home from the village of Ashton, unaware that someone has been posting his location online. When a double murder and a missing boy put Liam Hunter and Ella Tate on the case, small-town tensions turn deadly.

A dead woman in the woods, an escaped captive, and an anonymous source pointing to powerful people all collide in Ottawa. Liam Hunter and Ella Tate chase a case that reaches from trafficking to buried identities, with the danger growing wider by the hour.