DK Hood Books in Order

If you want the full story from the beginning: Don't Tell a Soul → Bring Me Flowers → Follow Me Home
If you want the classic Black Rock Falls cases: Where Angels Fear → Whisper in the Night → Break the Silence → Her Broken Wings
If you want the deeper Jenna and Dave backstory: Cross My Heart → Lose Your Breath → Fallen Angel → Don't Look Back
If you want later, bigger-stakes cases: Promises in the Dark → Be Mine Forever → Pray for Mercy → Her Bleeding Heart

D.K. Hood was born in London, travelled widely, and later settled in Australia. Her career as a novelist did not begin early or in a neat, preplanned way. She has written openly about living for years with severe pain, and about how the long search for answers around fibromyalgia changed the course of her life.

Writing began as a way to cope.

After a back operation, while lying in hospital and trying to keep her mind off the pain, she started making up stories and asked her husband to bring her a notepad and pens. Those first stories were fantasy, the kind filled with dragons, witches, and the sense of escape she had loved as a child. She found that when she disappeared into a story world, the pain backed off for a while. That was enough to keep going.

From there, the path bent toward crime. Hood has said her background is in science, and that she has long been fascinated by forensic science, the criminal mind, true crime, trials, autopsy reports, and the way new technology changes investigations. She has also said she was not a classic crime-only reader. Her listening jumped from Harry Potter, Eragon, and Outlander to non-fiction and case material, which helps explain why her books mix procedural detail with a strong sense of momentum.

Then David Kane showed up.

Hood has described David Kane arriving in her imagination first, damaged, stubborn, and carrying a tragic past that would not leave her alone. Jenna Alton followed, a former undercover agent with deep scars of her own. Once those two characters clicked together, the books seemed to come fast. Their partnership became the engine of Don't Tell a Soul, the novel that launched the Black Rock Falls stories and began her long-running Kane and Alton series.

Sending that manuscript out was a leap. Crime thrillers felt outside what she had expected to write, but she submitted Don't Tell a Soul anyway and received an offer from commissioning editor Helen Jenner at Bookouture. That break mattered. It gave Hood the space to keep building the world of Black Rock Falls, a fictional Montana setting where isolated roads, forests, storms, and tight-lipped locals make almost every case feel trapped and urgent.

Readers who pick up Don't Tell a Soul, Bring Me Flowers, Whisper in the Night, or Her Shallow Grave will quickly see what she likes to do. She throws Jenna and Dave into missing-person cases, serial killer hunts, and dangerous small-town secrets, then pushes the pace hard. The books are visual, blunt, and built to move. Hood has said she writes action so the reader feels inside the scene, almost like watching it unfold rather than hearing about it after the fact.

She did not stop with one lane.

Alongside Kane and Alton, Hood has written the Beth Katz books and psychological thrillers including The Liar I Married and His Next Wife. By 2026, her publisher said her books had passed 2 million copies sold. That kind of reach says a lot without needing extra fuss. Readers know what they are coming for, fast chapters, dark cases, and lead characters who feel bruised enough to be real.

These days Hood lives quietly in Australia with her husband. She has mentioned a small garden filled with birds and water dragons, which feels like a gentle counterweight to the violence on the page. She is also a member of International Thriller Writers. For someone who came to fiction later in life, and through pain rather than plan, she has built a remarkably large body of work, one crime at a time.