Diane Capri Books in Order
Browse all Diane Capri books in order, with short summaries, series guides, character background, and simple suggestions for where to start.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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Publication Order
76 books
Annabelle's Attack / Raw Justice
by Diane Capri
2011
Young lawyer Jennifer Lane is handed a billion-dollar case involving a stolen drug formula just as a researcher is killed and a young woman vanishes. The deeper she digs, the more her secret past and her life are at risk.
Carly’s Conspiracy / Due Justice
by Diane Capri
2011
When a plastic surgeon's body surfaces in Tampa Bay, Judge Willa Carson's younger sister disappears into a web of blackmail and deceit. Willa races through Florida's moneyed world to uncover who killed him, and whether Carly knows too much.
Due Justice
by Diane Capri
2011
When a plastic surgeon's body surfaces in Tampa Bay, Judge Willa Carson's younger sister disappears into a web of blackmail and deceit. Willa races through Florida's moneyed world to uncover who killed him, and whether Carly knows too much.
George's Game / Twisted Justice
by Diane Capri
2011
War hero Randall Andrews is headed for the Supreme Court until he's shot dead and Willa Carson's husband George is arrested. Willa must untangle politics, ambition, and marriage before the case destroys them both.
Harper's Hell / Secret Justice
by Diane Capri
2011
At Tampa's Gasparilla festival, Willa Carson's secretary becomes entangled with a shady jeweler, and soon two men are dead. Willa follows the trail through fraud, art theft, and family chaos to prove her friend's innocence.
Kate's Killing / Wasted Justice
by Diane Capri
2011
A 30-year-old murder draws Willa into her mother's world when evidence suggests Billie Jo Steam was wrongly convicted. Old secrets, new DNA, and powerful Tampa figures stand between Willa and the truth.
Don't Know Jack
by Diane Capri
2012
FBI agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are ordered to build a secret file on Jack Reacher. Their search starts in Margrave, where the line between wanted man and necessary ally is anything but clear.
Fatal Distraction
by Diane Capri
2012
Governor Helen Sullivan thought her nightmare ended when the killer tied to her son's death was cornered at a funeral. Jess Kimball digs into the aftermath and finds a patient assassin who isn't finished yet.
Fatal Enemy
by Diane Capri
2012
Jess comes face to face with Richard Martin, a man from her past who once knew her as a gullible teenager. Now she's older, tougher, and caught in a confrontation that turns old pain into fresh danger.
Jack and Kill
by Diane Capri
2012
A lead places Jack Reacher in New Hope, Virginia, and Otto and Gaspar move fast. The closer they get, the harder it becomes to guess whether meeting Reacher would solve anything at all.
Jack in a Box
by Diane Capri
2012
On their off-the-books assignment, Otto and Gaspar try to pin down the man no one can pin down. This short entry gives fresh clues about Reacher and the agents hunting him.
Darla's Deceit / Mistaken Justice
by Diane Capri
2013
After a rainy-night mistake leaves three lives shattered, Darla Nixon hides the truth until Jennifer Lane gets pulled in. Capri turns one terrible decision into a tense story about guilt, damage, and whether justice can still be done.
Get Back Jack
by Diane Capri
2013
Reacher's unfinished business from an old military case erupts into kidnappings and revenge. Otto and Gaspar track the fallout through a grudge war that keeps putting women and children in the crossfire.
Raw Justice
by Diane Capri
2013
Young lawyer Jennifer Lane is handed a billion-dollar case involving a stolen drug formula just as a researcher is killed and a young woman vanishes. The deeper she digs, the more her secret past and her life are at risk.
Secret Justice
by Diane Capri
2013
At Tampa's Gasparilla festival, Willa Carson's secretary becomes entangled with a shady jeweler, and soon two men are dead. Willa follows the trail through fraud, art theft, and family chaos to prove her friend's innocence.
Twisted Justice
by Diane Capri
2013
War hero Randall Andrews is headed for the Supreme Court until he's shot dead and Willa Carson's husband George is arrested. Willa must untangle politics, ambition, and marriage before the case destroys them both.
False Truth 1
by Diane Capri
2014
Fresh out of journalism school, Jordan Fox lands at News Channel 12 while secretly chasing answers about her mother's cold-case murder. Before day one is over, she's demoted, underestimated, and already in trouble.
Hit the Road Jack
by Diane Capri
2014
This collection gathers early Hunt for Reacher shorts, including Otto and Gaspar's first cases, and adds a pair of Hunt for Justice tales. It's a good sampler of Capri's connected thriller world.
Jack in the Green
by Diane Capri
2014
Back in Tampa, Otto and Gaspar join forces with Willa Carson, Jess Kimball, and Jennifer Lane when a retired colonel becomes an easy target. Capri smartly collides two of her series in one crowded, dangerous case.
Cold Justice
by Diane Capri
2015
A winter getaway to Pleasant Harbor, Michigan becomes murder when Willa and George find a corpse in a stranded car. Local authorities want it buried, but Willa sees too much to walk away.
False Truth 2
by Diane Capri
2015
Jordan needs a big story badly, and her first assignment gives her one when she finds a brutal crime victim. The case might save her job, but it also pulls her deeper into the danger around her mother's killers.
False Truth 3
by Diane Capri
2015
Trying to prove herself, Jordan investigates a casino murder that isn't supposed to be her story. Her stubbornness puts her face to face with a killer and shows how dangerous newsroom ambition can be.
False Truth 4
by Diane Capri
2015
Assigned to softer coverage, Jordan instead chases the bigger story behind the crisis in Haiti. The decision pushes her closer to the truth about her mother, and into trouble she didn't see coming.
False Truth 5
by Diane Capri
2015
Jordan uncovers a kidnapping plot tied to a drug cartel and learns the cartel will kill to protect its business. The deeper she digs, the less room she has to make mistakes.
False Truth 6
by Diane Capri
2015
Jordan's Haiti assignment barrels toward a hard finish with help from a meteorologist, a dead nurse, and a Haitian friend. Capri keeps this installment moving fast while the larger mystery tightens around her.
False Truth 7
by Diane Capri
2015
What starts as a date-night rescue at a brewery turns into a deadly drone case after Jordan stops a sexual assault. Suddenly the eyes in the sky are on her, and they mean to kill.
False Truth 8
by Diane Capri
2015
A small plane crashes into Tampa Bay, and Jordan knows who is responsible. Even when the FBI pulls her off the trail, she can't shake the hunt for the people using drones as weapons.
False Truth 9
by Diane Capri
2015
Back at work after forced recovery, Jordan returns to the cold case at the center of her life. The cartel launches another attack, making clear it plans to silence her before she reaches the truth.
False Truth 10
by Diane Capri
2015
Jordan finds herself under constant protection after a human trafficking ring is busted and the El Pulpo cartel marks her for death. Reporting the story is dangerous. Surviving it may be harder.
False Truth 11
by Diane Capri
2015
Jordan's internship from hell hurtles toward its finale as she comes face to face with the boss of the El Pulpo cartel. To solve her mother's murder, she has to survive the man who wants her dead.
Fatal Demand
by Diane Capri
2015
A Taboo Magazine assignment drops Jess into the path of a modern Italian crime family. Teaming with FBI agent Henry Morris, she chases a hostage case from Dallas to Rome, knowing greed will kill again if she fails.
Fatal Error
by Diane Capri
2015
After the Rome airport exchange goes wrong, Jess becomes the last killer's next target. To save the remaining hostage and herself, she has to outlast a desperate man with nothing left to lose.
Jack and Joe
by Diane Capri
2015
Sent to Fort Bird, North Carolina, Otto and Gaspar chase secrets Reacher left behind inside a military town with dangerous enemies. The mission looks simple only until bodies and buried loyalties surface.
Wasted Justice
by Diane Capri
2015
A 30-year-old murder draws Willa into her mother's world when evidence suggests Billie Jo Steam was wrongly convicted. Old secrets, new DNA, and powerful Tampa figures stand between Willa and the truth.
Blood Trails
by Diane Capri
2016
Michael Flint, a forensic genealogist and former clandestine agent, is hired to find a vanished heir before rival oil barons destroy each other. The search runs from West Texas to snowy Saskatchewan, with mercenaries on every side.
Deep Cover Jack
by Diane Capri
2016
Otto and Gaspar head to Houston looking for Susan Duffy, one of Reacher's known associates. Duffy is already moving toward trouble, and the people hiding Reacher's secrets are prepared to kill to keep them buried.
Fatal Fall
by Diane Capri
2016
A lead that could finally point Jess to her stolen son sends her racing to Seattle. Instead she crosses paths with a powerful senator whose buried life is deadly enough to make Jess and the boy targets.
Fair Justice
by Diane Capri
2017
A young TV reporter covering Willa Carson's courtroom stumbles onto a small-town poisoning scandal. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he needs Willa to keep him alive.
False Justice
by Diane Capri
2017
Broadcast journalist Ursula Westfield gets a cryptic email about a hometown judge and can't ignore it. When she returns to Tampa, Willa Carson helps her chase a conspiracy that leads straight to a killer.
Fatal Bond
by Diane Capri
2017
When a grieving mother asks Jess to clear her son after a bombing, Jess can't say no. The trail runs from Iowa to Spain and beyond, where a missing witness and a lethal insecticide raise the stakes.
Fatal Edge
by Diane Capri
2017
When a rich man's girlfriend vanishes at a Wyoming ski resort, Jess's assistant Mandy Donovan takes the lead. The search turns deadly fast, and Jess has to reach Mandy before she becomes the next victim.
Fatal Game
by Diane Capri
2017
A heart surgeon swears he's innocent of murder and kidnapping, even though the evidence says otherwise. Jess takes the case and starts pulling at threads that lead toward a ruthless killer.
Fatal Past
by Diane Capri
2017
A body found in the Paris catacombs ties Jess's history to an unsolved death buried deep underground. What starts as Sam Sommers's retirement trip becomes a race through the tunnels after a killer still hiding in the dark.
Jack the Reaper
by Diane Capri
2017
After events tied to *The Hard Way*, Otto and Gaspar aren't the only ones hunting Reacher. A corrupt general wants payback, and Reacher's old friends may die first if the agents can't get ahead of him.
Trace Evidence
by Diane Capri
2017
A desperate mother asks Michael Flint to find the missing father who could save her child. His search reopens a deadly plane crash, a buried secret, and the question of whether the man should be found at all.
True Justice
by Diane Capri
2017
Ginny Richards thinks her new job with Judge Willa Carson is a fresh start, until a night of jazz singing ends in murder. Willa steps in when a harmless outing turns deadly.
Black Jack
by Diane Capri
2018
When the FBI claims Reacher is the Green Paint Bathtub Killer, Otto and Gaspar call foul. Their hunt for the truth turns into a brutal game with a copycat, powerful players, and collateral damage waiting to happen.
Fatal Dawn
by Diane Capri
2018
A phone call changes Jess's life forever and sends her across the Rocky Mountains chasing the people who stole her son. She will not stop, even if the trail ends in blood.
Ten Two Jack
by Diane Capri
2018
Reacher may be gone, but the enemies from *The Midnight Line* aren't. Otto follows missing people and a dead body from Detroit to Mexico, chasing fallout from one of Reacher's good deeds.
Early Check Out
by Diane Capri
2019
Andi's shaky new life at the Park Hotel gets worse when a simple errand turns into another body. She can't stop investigating, even if it risks the job keeping her afloat.
Jack of Spades
by Diane Capri
2019
In the wake of *Past Tense*, Otto tries to use the perfect bait to draw Reacher in. Instead she gets dragged into a fight over stolen spoils, a real owner with a long memory, and a very bad bet.
Late Arrival
by Diane Capri
2019
Andi's disgraced former boss shows up looking for a flash drive, then turns up dead below the bluff. With her best friend kidnapped and suspicion landing on her, Andi has to solve the case fast.
Night Justice
by Diane Capri
2019
After Willa Carson hits a man with her car, the scandal explodes before the facts are clear. To save her name, her husband's restaurant, and her career, she has to prove what really happened that rainy night.
Reservation with Death
by Diane Capri
2019
Former lawyer Andi Steele takes a stopgap concierge job at the Park Hotel on Frontenac Island and hopes to lie low. That plan ends when she finds a dead body and starts asking questions.
Room with a Clue
by Diane Capri
2019
During the island flower festival, the hotel florist is arrested after her rival is found dead in the hedge maze. Andi steps in to clear her friend, while romance and suspicion crowd the case.
Full Metal Jack
by Diane Capri
2020
Back in Carter's Crossing, Mississippi, another woman is dead where Reacher's military career ended years earlier. Otto finds local power brokers and Army officers determined to bury the truth all over again.
Prepper Jack
by Diane Capri
2020
A kidnapper's late-night message turns Otto's hunt personal. To save hostages caught between cartels and a prepper community, she has to improvise fast and accept that Reacher may be the partner she can't reach.
Fatal Heat
by Diane Capri
2021
Jess heads into Arizona heat to help a friend track down a killer. It's a short, sharp case that shows how quickly one favor can turn into a fight for survival.
Jack Frost
by Diane Capri
2021
A ruthless gangster survives the slaughter tied to Reacher's South Dakota past and breaks out of prison. Otto and her new partner William Burke race across frozen country before he vanishes for good.
Jack of Hearts
by Diane Capri
2021
Otto follows a trail back to the women Reacher once saved from a brutal mob boss. As vengeance closes in, she and Burke have to find Reacher's path before innocent lives are crushed in Las Vegas.
Straight Jack
by Diane Capri
2021
A murder in a lonely New Mexico motel leads Otto into a wider crime wave and a pack of men on the move. With Frances Neagley filling in the missing pieces, the hunt races toward Chicago.
Jack Knife
by Diane Capri
2022
Major Susan Turner and Kim Otto team up when men hunting revenge target Reacher's nephew. The case pulls in old military history, fresh danger, and Otto's ongoing question of how far Reacher's shadow really reaches.
Lone Star Jack
by Diane Capri
2022
Otto's boss drags her to Dallas to lure Reacher out, but a funeral riot exposes a larger assassination plot. Michael Flint joins the chase as old Texas bloodshed spills into the present.
Bet on Jack
by Diane Capri
2023
Four military veterans are dead, and one of them was supposed to be under Reacher's protection. Kim Otto teams up with Jake Reacher to figure out whether the deaths were random, or the start of something bigger.
Bulletproof Jack
by Diane Capri
2023
A stranger is executed on Kim Otto's doorstep before he can deliver Reacher's message. An encrypted phone, a hidden identity, and Michelle Chang send Kim from Detroit to Niagara Falls after killers who aren't nearly as invisible as they think.
Fatal Shot
by Diane Capri
2023
When a young driver dies in a fiery mountain-road crash, Jess suspects road rage is only the cover story. Her reporting uncovers a larger drug and money-laundering operation, and a sniper who decides she knows too much.
Ground Truth
by Diane Capri
2023
When Hanna Campbell spots her supposedly dead sister on a news report, she hires Michael Flint to prove the impossible. The case leads him toward a series of murders and a powerful man willing to kill to stay untouchable.
Hard Money
by Diane Capri
2024
A vanished grandson, an underwater explosion, and a family curse pull Michael Flint into the Lyman empire. He doesn't believe in curses, but he does believe someone wants the last heir dead.
Jack On A Wire
by Diane Capri
2024
A lead in Reacher's old bank records takes Kim to Key West, where other hunters are already waiting. They know Reacher better than she does, which makes every move in this cat-and-mouse game more dangerous.
Tracking Jack
by Diane Capri
2024
After an airport attacker and a former NYPD detective are both murdered, Otto follows the breadcrumbs Reacher left behind. The trail runs from North Carolina to Washington as revenge and mass destruction close in.
Dead Lock
by Diane Capri
2025
A billionaire wants Michael Flint to reopen a tragedy long thought closed after three siblings supposedly died in a fire. New evidence points to survivors, and the search collides with another billionaire's violent empire.
Jack Rabbit
by Diane Capri
2025
Kim's only informant is gunned down in an Arizona dive bar, pushing her into a conspiracy of mercenaries, black money, and government ghosts. Out of allies and out of time, she may have to trust Reacher's shadow.
Jumping Jack
by Diane Capri
2025
When Jake Reacher's ex-girlfriend becomes the target of a coordinated kill team, Jake calls Kim Otto for help. Otto and Gaspar race against sunrise to keep Valerie alive and crack the black-ops force behind the hunt.
Cold Impact
by Diane Capri
2026
After a woman's private jet vanishes and every record proving she exists disappears with it, Michael Flint gets a chilling new case. Identity theft, fake lives, and powerful operators make this one of his most dangerous hunts yet.
Shadow Jack
by Diane Capri
2026
A stranger arrives with a message that Reacher wants Kim Otto. That pulls her into a fight between criminal empires, diverted weapons, and a mission where Reacher may finally step out of the shadows.
No Way Jack
by Diane Capri
2027
Kim Otto's hunt for Reacher takes another dangerous turn when every route forward is blocked by hidden enemies. Capri keeps the pressure high as old loyalties and fresh threats collide around Reacher's shadow.
Where should I start?
If you want her legal thrillers first: Due Justice → Twisted Justice → Secret Justice
If you want the Reacher-linked chase: Don't Know Jack → Jack in a Box → Get Back Jack
If you want a relentless reporter lead: Fatal Distraction → Fatal Demand → Fatal Error
If you want action with a fresh premise: Blood Trails → Trace Evidence → Ground Truth
If you want a cozy mystery detour: Reservation with Death → Early Check Out → Room with a Clue
Author bio
Diane Capri was born in Alabama and grew up in a small German-American farming town north of Detroit. She has described her childhood as book-filled, and that early reading life still shows up in her fiction. Crime stories, suspense, and mysteries were the books she loved most, long before she started writing her own.
Before she became a novelist, she built a full legal career. She graduated cum laude from Wayne Law School, served as an editor of the Wayne Law Review, and went on to practice law across the United States for clients from around the world. By her own account, she published millions of words during those years, but almost all of them were nonfiction.
She was writing anyway.
Like a lot of future novelists, Capri spent years learning the craft in the margins of a busy life. Airplanes, hotel rooms, and the in-between hours of work became writing time. She has joked that her early fiction files were mostly desire and unfinished projects, which is a very human way to begin.
Then came the hard turn. In 1995, her biggest client filed for bankruptcy, and the thriving law practice she had built suddenly looked very different. Instead of treating that moment as only a professional disaster, she used the opening it created. She decided it was now or never and finished Due Justice, the novel that introduced Judge Willa Carson and set the tone for much of what followed.
That first wave of books helped define Capri's world. Due Justice and its follow-ups brought readers into Florida legal mysteries full of stubborn women, family trouble, murder, and a sly streak of humor. Raw Justice shifted the spotlight to young attorney Jennifer Lane. Fatal Distraction launched Jess Kimball, an investigative journalist and victims' rights advocate whose missing son gives the series its emotional backbone.
Justice matters in Capri's books, but so do the people who get missed by the system.
Her work widened again after another career jolt, when publisher trouble and bankruptcy forced her to rebuild. She did, and one of the most visible results was Don't Know Jack, the start of her long-running Hunt for Reacher novels. That series grew out of a 2009 conversation with Lee Child about the question, where is Jack Reacher? Capri took that idea and ran with it, following FBI agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar as they chase the fallout of Reacher's past cases.
She has also shown she likes to stretch. Blood Trails introduced Michael Flint, a forensic genealogist and heir hunter with a taste for dangerous missing-person cases. Reservation with Death opened the Park Hotel mysteries, a lighter but still crime-filled series set on a Michigan island. Different setup, same interest in smart people under pressure.
These days Capri divides her time between Florida and Northern Michigan. She has called herself a snowbird, which feels exactly right for a writer whose books often move between sunshine and cold weather trouble. She is married, loves dogs, and has said she enjoys warm temperatures, gourmet food, red wine, convertible cars, and her large extended family.
That mix fits the books too. They are fast, sharp, and serious about danger, but they never forget that real life has personality.
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