Detective Katie Scott Books in Order
Part ofJennifer Chase Books in OrderSee the Detective Katie Scott books in order by Jennifer Chase, with quick summaries, series background, recurring characters, and where to start.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
Her Last Whisper
by Jennifer Chase
2019
A nurse who once escaped her kidnapper is found dead, and Katie is convinced the police missed the pattern. When another woman linked to the victim vanishes, Katie races to stop the next body from appearing.
Little Girls Sleeping
by Jennifer Chase
2019
Eight-year-old Chelsea Compton disappears, and Katie's search leads to a makeshift cemetery hidden in the forest. With another child taken and a pattern emerging from years of missing girls, she has to move fast.
Flowers on Her Grave
by Jennifer Chase
2020
Katie's aunt is murdered and all evidence points to her uncle, Pine Valley's sheriff. Digging into old case files, Katie finds a trail that links past and present murders, and may be the only way to clear the last family she has.
Last Girls Alive
by Jennifer Chase
2020
When a girl's body is found at a former children's home, Katie thinks she has finally solved a cold case. Instead she uncovers a killer targeting the home's former residents, one by one.
Pretty Broken Dolls
by Jennifer Chase
2021
Women are turning up staged and murdered across California, and the pattern points straight toward Pine Valley. As Katie tracks the killer, she realizes the case may be tied to the military past she has tried to bury.
The Fragile Ones
by Jennifer Chase
2021
Two sisters are found dead at the bottom of a ravine, but the youngest is linked to an older kidnapping. Racing through another missing-child case, Katie and Cisco hunt a killer who counts his victims.
Silent Little Angels
by Jennifer Chase
2022
A camp counselor's body in the lake at Eagle Ridge Summer Camp pulls Katie back to the place where her childhood friend vanished. When more bodies appear and someone plants clues tied to her past, the case turns brutally personal.
Three Small Bones
by Jennifer Chase
2022
A house fire reveals human remains buried beneath a Pine Valley home, and Katie quickly suspects the blaze was no accident. Then more bodies surface on the property, forcing her to dig into a family's disappearance and the secrets hidden on their land.
Her Dying Kiss
by Jennifer Chase
2023
Katie is still searching for her missing fiancé when another brutal murder lands on her desk. As clues begin to connect the new victim to her old cases and Chad's disappearance, the hunt turns sharply personal.
The First Girl
by Jennifer Chase
2023
Seven shallow graves on abandoned farmland send Katie into a case that stretches back fifteen years. When another young woman is taken and someone opens fire at the scene, she knows the killer is far from finished.
The Rose Girls
by Jennifer Chase
2023
When fifteen-year-old Ivy Miller is found tied to a tree with a fresh rose tattoo, Katie Scott is called to a nearby town in panic. As more girls die and old secrets surface, she has to untangle a mystery that reaches far beyond one murder.
Count Their Graves
by Jennifer Chase
2024
Katie finds a terrified little girl alone in the woods, then follows her trail to a slaughtered family in matching pajamas. The case widens into multiple family murders and a deadly secret hidden inside witness protection.
Find My Daughter
by Jennifer Chase
2025
A dying mother begs Katie to find her missing daughter, Anna Braxton, before it is too late. The search leads through teenage secrets, a fake talent agency, and a murder that suggests the killer is still close.
The Whispering Girls
by Jennifer Chase
2025
While taking a break in a cabin with Cisco, Katie is led to a dead girl in the woods by a frightened teenager who then vanishes. When that girl turns up murdered too, a chain of ritual-like killings begins to surface.
Race to Save Her
by Jennifer Chase
2026
A preserved finger left in Katie's car marks the start of a grim hunt for a killer scattering body parts across Pine Valley. When forensics suggest one victim may still be alive, every hour suddenly matters.
Sing Her to Sleep
by Jennifer Chase
2026
Two skeletons, a mother and child still clutching hands, are uncovered at a building site twenty years after they disappeared. Katie's investigation stirs up old witnesses, fresh deaths, and someone watching her home at night.
Series background & context
The Detective Katie Scott books are dark police procedurals built around a lead who is capable, stubborn, and almost never willing to leave a case alone. Katie works in and around Pine Valley, California, where quiet woods, cabins, ravines, camps, and family homes keep turning into crime scenes. Pine Valley feels like a place that keeps its secrets in the trees.
Katie is a military veteran, and that background shapes the series in useful ways. She is disciplined, practical, and trained to keep moving when the pressure spikes. At the same time, she lives with PTSD, so these books carry real emotional weight as well as procedural momentum. Jennifer Chase does not treat that history like decoration. It changes how Katie works, what she notices, and which cases cut deepest.
Cisco is part of the heartbeat of the series.
Katie's service dog, Cisco, is more than a sidekick. He searches, tracks, warns, and grounds her when scenes start pressing on old memories. That bond gives the books a little warmth in the middle of some very bleak cases. It also makes the action feel more physical, because Cisco is often right there in the woods, at the lake, or on the trail when Katie is closing in.
These books do not waste time.
Most entries open with a disappearance, a body, or a cold case that suddenly cracks open, then widen into something much darker. Missing children, hidden graves, serial offenders, and family secrets show up again and again. Books like Little Girls Sleeping, Flowers on Her Grave, and Three Small Bones show how Chase likes to connect the present crime to an older wound, either in the town or in Katie herself.
Even though each mystery reaches its own conclusion, there is a strong continuing thread underneath the series. Katie's family ties, her military past, and later personal relationships all carry forward, so reading in order gives the fullest picture. Still, the cases are cleanly built enough that newcomers can drop in and get hooked fast. If you like your thrillers grim, fast, and full of cold-case energy, this series delivers that without losing sight of the people caught in the fallout.
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