C.R. Chandler Books in Order

Execution-style murders in a national forest send Special Agent Ricki James searching for an elusive serial killer. Working with a local police chief, she discovers a link to herself before another disappearance turns the investigation painfully personal.

Two bodies found in an abandoned lighthouse were killed fifty years apart. As Ricki James investigates the link between a private detective and an unidentified ranger, increasingly dangerous accidents suggest someone will kill to preserve an old secret.

After surviving the ambush that killed her partner, Ricki James is rebuilding her career when another agent is murdered. Suspecting a connection, she joins the investigation and enters a conspiracy that tests her understanding of trust and betrayal.

Assigned to a new interagency team, Ricki James investigates scattered murders linked by a distinctive missing patch of skin. Working with a profiler she distrusts, she suspects the evidence is leading them into the killer’s carefully prepared trap.

A film crew and their ranger escort are murdered during Yellowstone’s brief winter opening. With few clues and a personal connection to one victim, Ricki hunts someone skilled in the frozen backcountry who may be hiding among the park’s staff.

An investigation into illegal hunting in North Cascades uncovers murder and an elusive figure known as the Hermit. Forced to accept a profiler’s help, Ricki must catch a killer while keeping her team safe from another dangerous pursuer.

An attack on wilderness hikers leaves Ricki’s former husband critically injured and several visitors dead. Seeking a connection among conference guests, she confronts another attack that puts her directly in the path of the killer she is pursuing.

A murdered man leaves behind a claim that he can identify the elusive serial killer known as the Traveler. Ricki and police chief Clay investigate his life, trying to distinguish the killer’s work from a possible copycat before more witnesses die.

Ricki’s engagement is disrupted when Clay’s fugitive brother, a contract killer, returns. After an ambush wounds Clay, she follows a confusing trail of clues and bodies to stop a man with a long memory and little mercy.

Ricki travels to Tennessee after her friend and business partner is arrested for murdering a fellow Marine. Convinced he is innocent despite mounting evidence, she investigates what happened during their camping trip in the Great Smoky Mountains.

A pharmaceutical executive’s body draws FBI agent Gin Reilly into a case spanning the country. Forced to work with a new partner, she follows a growing trail of victims while someone begins targeting her with suspicious accidents.

A friend is murdered near Ricki’s home just as she turns her attention to wedding plans. The investigation exposes an unsolved robbery from seven years earlier and suggests a killer is hiding among the people she trusts.

A routine investigation into a hiking accident becomes a murder case when Ricki discovers the victims were stabbed before being thrown from a cliff. Similar killings and taunting messages draw her toward a trap on the killer’s home ground.

A woman’s murder interrupts Gin Reilly’s leave and leads to other strangulations with few usable clues. A connection to the elusive Final Line terrorist group gives her a dangerous lead, with a killer exploiting its secrecy.

Murders across several states carry the same message: everyone must pay. Investigating a deadly nightclub fire, Gin Reilly traces the victims to an eighteen-year-old tragedy while a revenge-driven killer threatens her entire team.

Gin Reilly investigates murders within a violent survivalist group whose members refuse to cooperate. A link to missing women expands the case, drawing her toward a killer prepared to murder again to protect years of hidden crimes.

A banker’s roadside murder leads Gin Reilly to a skeleton buried in the victim’s basement. Its connection to missing millions and inexplicably recent banknotes creates a puzzle someone will kill to keep unsolved.