Brianna Labuskes Books in Order
This page lists Brianna Labuskes books in order, with series guides, standalone novels, short summaries, and where-to-start reading help.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
One Step Behind
by Brianna Labuskes
2016
In 1812 London, Gemma Lancaster hunts her cousin’s killer while Lucas Stone searches for a blackmailer. Their investigations collide in drawing rooms and dark studies, turning suspicion into a risky partnership and reluctant romance.
It Ends With Her
by Brianna Labuskes
2018
FBI agent Clarke Sinclair has chased serial killer Simon Cross for years, following his clues from victim to victim. When his pattern changes, Clarke realizes the game may have been designed for her all along.
Black Rock Bay
by Brianna Labuskes
2019
Detective Mia Hart returns to the Maine island she fled after a teenage tragedy. When a journalist is found dead in the bay, his final clue points straight toward the past Mia tried to bury.
Girls of Glass
by Brianna Labuskes
2019
Detective Alice Garner investigates the disappearance of a powerful Florida judge’s granddaughter, a case that reopens the wound of her own child’s murder. Behind the Burke family’s polished image, dangerous secrets are waiting.
Her Final Words
by Brianna Labuskes
2020
When teenager Eliza Cook walks into an FBI office and confesses to murdering a boy, Agent Lucy Thorne should have an easy case. Instead, the trail leads to an Idaho town built on silence and secrets.
A Familiar Sight
by Brianna Labuskes
2021
Dr. Gretchen White, a psychologist and admitted sociopath, consults on a case involving a teenage girl accused of killing her mother. The more Gretchen sees herself in the suspect, the less simple the case becomes.
What Can't Be Seen
by Brianna Labuskes
2022
Gretchen White has solved other people’s crimes, but not the murder that shaped her own life. When Lauren Marconi reopens Gretchen’s childhood case, old secrets threaten to prove everyone’s worst suspicions right.
See It End
by Brianna Labuskes
2023
When Detective Lauren Marconi is arrested for an execution-style murder, Gretchen White refuses to believe the evidence. To clear her friend, Gretchen must dig into Lauren’s secrets and question her own instincts.
The Librarian of Burned Books
by Brianna Labuskes
2023
In Berlin, Paris, and wartime New York, three women are linked by banned books, resistance, and censorship. As their stories converge, each must decide what risks are worth taking for truth and freedom.
The Lies You Wrote
by Brianna Labuskes
2024
FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto investigates a double murder that mirrors a decades-old family killing. With psychologist Callum Kilkenny, she follows confessions, online theories, and written clues toward a truth someone wants buried.
The Lost Book of Bonn
by Brianna Labuskes
2024
In 1946 Germany, librarian Emmy Clarke helps return books stolen by the Nazis. A Rilke volume dedicated to an Edelweiss Pirate leads her to two sisters, a wartime betrayal, and a brave public protest.
The Truth You Told
by Brianna Labuskes
2024
A serial killer on death row claims he did not murder Callum Kilkenny’s wife. Raisa Susanto finds inconsistencies in his coded letters, reopening a case built on grief, manipulation, and unfinished lies.
By the Time You Read This
by Brianna Labuskes
2025
Raisa Susanto receives a final message from her imprisoned sister Isabel, then learns Isabel is dead. When new murders copy Isabel’s methods, Raisa and Callum hunt someone turning a killer’s legacy into a roadmap.
The Boxcar Librarian
by Brianna Labuskes
2025
During the Depression, WPA editor Millie Lang is sent to Montana to fix a troubled guidebook project. Her search leads to Alice Monroe, a boxcar library, and secrets tied to mining towns and labor fights.
Clean Slate
by Brianna Labuskes
2026
Crime scene cleaner Olive Hunt notices the same strange item at two apparent suicides in Atlanta. When a third body appears and roses arrive at her door, she realizes a killer is leaving clues for her.
Her Beautiful Life
by Brianna Labuskes
2026
Journalist Holland Tate profiles her former best friend, now a famous tradwife influencer, inside a guarded family compound. The perfect domestic image soon cracks, leaving Holland trapped between old wounds and new danger.
Where should I start?
For psychological suspense with a series arc: A Familiar Sight → What Can't Be Seen → See It End
For FBI puzzles built around language: The Lies You Wrote → The Truth You Told → By the Time You Read This
For historical fiction about books and resistance: The Librarian of Burned Books → The Lost Book of Bonn → The Boxcar Librarian
For standalone crime thrillers: It Ends With Her → Girls of Glass → Her Final Words → Black Rock Bay
For her romance roots, or a new crime-scene-cleaner lead: One Step Behind → Clean Slate
Author bio
Brianna Labuskes was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the state before heading to Penn State University, where she studied journalism. That background matters. Her books often move like investigations, with people asking the wrong questions until one odd detail cracks the case open.
She was a reader first. In interviews, Labuskes has talked about being the kid with her head in a book and remembering a sixth-grade class project where she wrote and illustrated her own story. That was one of those small early sparks that can turn into a long habit.
Before writing fiction full time, she spent more than a decade in journalism, including years in Washington, D.C., covering politics and policy. She worked as an editor at small-town papers and national news organizations, which gave her a close-up view of deadlines, public pressure, and how stories get shaped.
That is useful training for a thriller writer.
Labuskes first published One Step Behind, a Regency romance with a murder mystery tucked into the courtship plot. She has said she started in romance with a small publisher, and you can still feel that interest in relationships even when the books turn darker. Her investigators may be chasing killers, but they are also trying to figure out who to trust.
Her suspense novels soon became a major part of her work. It Ends With Her follows an FBI agent locked in a long cat-and-mouse hunt with a serial killer. Girls of Glass, Black Rock Bay, and Her Final Words all deal with families, small communities, and secrets that have been protected for too long. Readers who like her thrillers tend to come for the puzzles, but they stay for the damaged, stubborn women at the center of them.
Then came Gretchen White.
In A Familiar Sight, Labuskes introduced a psychologist and criminologist who helps the Boston police while carrying a disturbing history of her own. The Gretchen White books lean into moral gray areas, uncomfortable questions, and the strange tension between insight and danger. Later, the Raisa Susanto series brought in another sharp professional angle, this time through forensic linguistics and the way a person’s words can give them away.
Labuskes also writes historical fiction about books, censorship, war, and resistance. The Librarian of Burned Books, The Lost Book of Bonn, and The Boxcar Librarian all use book culture as more than a backdrop. In those novels, libraries, letters, and hidden volumes become ways people remember, resist, and try to repair what history has broken.
Today, Labuskes writes psychological thrillers and historical fiction, and her books have reached major bestseller lists. She now lives in Pennsylvania with her dog, Jinx, and she pronounces her last name La-bus-kiss, a helpful note for anyone who has been guessing at it in their head.
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