Christina McDonald Books in Order

Betsy Bird visits the trees and a giraffe's birthday celebration in a picture book about opposites. Encounters with friends introduce young readers to contrasting words and ideas through a simple story intended for preschool children.

Betsy Bird works toward learning to fly in a rhyming picture book for young children. Her efforts introduce the importance of practice, patience, and persistence as she learns a new skill that cannot be mastered immediately.

Gatsby the cat wants to swim, while Duffy the duck dreams of running. Their difficulties lead them to explore the value of their differences in a rhyming picture book about accepting what makes each friend distinctive.

Zoe Zebra loses the Z that makes her a zebra and begins an alphabet adventure to find it. Rhymes, repetition, and encounters with unusual animals carry young readers through the letters from A to Z.

Abi Knight is told that her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen from a bridge and is pregnant. Although police call it an accident, troubling injuries drive Abi to investigate what happened and confront secrets surrounding Olivia's life.

Eva Hansen wakes in hospital after a lightning strike, unable to remember the night her mother was murdered. Under suspicion, she follows clues from Seattle to London, searching her mother's past while questioning whom she can trust.

Doctor Emma faces an unaffordable treatment for her son's rare cancer and begins selling opioids to raise the money. When a murder investigation follows, the detective pursuing the case is her husband, placing her family in further danger.

After a home invasion, Neve returns with her daughter to Black Lake, where a woman’s body is discovered near their house. Detective Jess Lambert investigates, drawing both women toward buried secrets as another death deepens the danger.

Newly arrived in Black Lake, Jess Lambert befriends glamorous stranger Annie Parker, then finds her wandering in bloodied shoes. Annie’s disappearance and evidence of violence at her home draw Jess into a mystery rooted in the house’s disturbing past.

A year after a car crash leaves teenager Alice Harper alone and her family missing, her sister’s bloodied backpack surfaces. Detective Jess Lambert investigates secrets that connect the troubled witness’s experience with painful events from her own past.

Detective Jess Lambert wakes without memories of the night a viral video apparently shows her committing murder. Pursued by her own department, she returns to an abandoned investigation, seeking whoever has manipulated her past to destroy her life.