Detective Amanda Steele Books in Order

A burned body leads Amanda Steele to the long-ago disappearance of a thirteen-year-old girl, but the identification does not hold. When more girls are found, the case circles back to Amanda's own past.

Amanda Steele cannot look away when the drunk driver who killed her family turns up murdered. Digging into his past exposes a link to another young victim and a killer still at work.

A murdered family leaves one survivor, six-year-old Zoe, hidden and too traumatized to speak. Amanda must protect the child and uncover what the killers were so desperate to find.

A young woman's body is found by the Potomac with a black orchid laid on her chest. Amanda Steele digs into cold cases and finds unsettling echoes of a killing from twenty years earlier.

Amanda Steele investigates the death of Alicia Gordon in a remote cabin and is rattled to realize she knows the husband. The closer she looks, the less her old friend seems above suspicion.

Amanda reconnects with an old boyfriend and finds his estranged wife's body in his bed. As she retraces the victim's final days, another suspicious death suggests the danger is not over.

The bodies of a missing mother and daughter devastate Amanda Steele and seem to point to domestic violence. Then another grave is found, and the case becomes far larger and darker.

Author Felicity Kelley is murdered just after calling Amanda Steele, leaving the detective with guilt and a fierce need for answers. A playing card at the scene hints that someone is bringing the writer's fiction to life.

Amanda looks into a missing teenager for her niece, only for the girl to be found murdered at a prom venue. When a witness is killed too, she realizes the killer is silencing everyone nearby.

A hometown skating star is found dead among flowers after a special return performance. Amanda soon learns the black ribbon on a bouquet was treated with the substance Michaela feared most.

A gas station clerk is murdered before dawn, and security footage shows another victim being abducted. Amanda Steele is horrified to recognize the woman taken and races against time to bring her back.

Burned human remains behind a dumpster send Amanda Steele into a case that hits her partner Trent personally. With little left but a wedding ring, the investigation starts in ash and grief.

Human remains hidden inside a church wall bring Amanda Steele and FBI negotiator Sandra Vos together on a cold case. The victim has been gone for more than thirty years, but her killer may still be within reach.

A young ballerina is found murdered on a carousel, echoing a crime from twelve years earlier. Amanda and Trent reopen old wounds to find out whether the same killer has returned.

A family vanishes, leaving only an abandoned car in a mall parking lot. Amanda and Trent uncover an abduction, charred remains, and a case tied to an older disappearance and someone close to the department.

A late-night house showing ends with realtor Christine Lane dead in an upscale Woodbridge home. Amanda Steele investigates while her half-brother, the victim's boyfriend, becomes the obvious suspect.