Ellery A Kane Books in Order
Browse Ellery A Kane books in order, with short summaries, series background, standalone picks, and simple guidance on where to start reading.
Last updated: July 15, 2026
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Ellery A Kane books in publication order
16 books
Legacy
by Ellery A Kane
2014
In a future San Francisco warped by mood-altering drugs, Lex Knightley carries her researcher mother’s evidence to the Resistance. With former Guardian soldier Quin McAllister as her guide, Lex must decide whom to trust in a city under control.
Prophecy
by Ellery A Kane
2015
With San Francisco rebuilding after the Guardian Force, Lex hopes for a quieter life with Quin. But when Quin’s father is accused of murder, Lex uncovers evidence of a frame-up and secrets that strain every bond.
Revelation
by Ellery A Kane
2016
Lex Knightley faces a newly dangerous emotion-altering drug as San Francisco falls under tighter control. To bring down the company behind it, she must navigate shifting alliances, including Quin’s unsettling return to the other side.
Daddy Darkest
by Ellery A Kane
2017
After graduation, Sam Bronwyn flies to San Francisco with her best friend, Ginny. When Ginny vanishes while wearing Sam’s letterman jacket, Sam realizes she was the intended target and is drawn into her mother’s buried past.
The First Cut
by Ellery A Kane
2018
After her former lover and his wife are murdered in their Carmel mansion, Ava becomes a prime suspect when her name is found at the scene. To clear herself, she must face the betrayal and secret that destroyed their relationship.
The Hanging Tree
by Ellery A Kane
2018
Psychologist Evie Allcott cannot remember the night her best friend died near Oakland’s hanging tree when they were thirteen. When another strangling occurs decades later, she risks everything to recover the memory that could identify the killer.
Shadows Among Us
by Ellery A Kane
2019
Two years after her teenage daughter’s murder, psychologist Mollie Roar cannot let the case go cold. A dying veteran’s confession and her daughter’s secret online life lead Mollie toward a local serial killer and dangerous answers.
Watch Her Vanish
by Ellery A Kane
2020
Back in Fog Harbor to care for her sister, criminal psychologist Olivia Rockwell finds a murdered teacher. A jailed patient is the obvious suspect, but Olivia and Detective Will Decker uncover a threat aimed much closer to home.
Her Perfect Bones
by Ellery A Kane
2021
Seventeen-year-old Shelby arrives in Fog Harbor carrying a ragdoll and a secret, then vanishes into danger. After a girl’s body is found, criminal psychologist Olivia recognizes the doll and must confront her jailed father to stop the killer.
Lucky Girl
by Ellery A Kane
2021
Years after fleeing a murder accusation, Teddy Drucker has remade himself as therapist Trevor Dent. When a new patient knows his old name and his girlfriend disappears, he has forty-eight hours to outrun the past again.
One Child Alive
by Ellery A Kane
2021
When a family is slaughtered in their burning Fog Harbor beach house, Olivia finds young Thomas, the only survivor. His terror at Detective Will Decker’s badge points toward a disturbing suspect, before he too disappears.
The Good Wife
by Ellery A Kane
2022
A lawyer refuses to abandon her husband, Theo, after a young woman is found murdered outside his music studio. As she builds his defense, police scrutiny exposes lies in their marriage and forces her to decide whose secrets to protect.
The House Sitter
by Ellery A Kane
2022
Newly pregnant café worker Lydia accepts a room and a job helping Iris, an elderly Pacific Heights widow. When both women vanish after a frantic emergency call, investigators uncover reasons their meeting may not have been accidental.
The Wrong Family
by Ellery A Kane
2023
After a DNA service identifies Robert Thompson as her father, Hallie joins his wealthy Lake Tahoe family. Strange incidents turn everyone against her, then a new message reveals Robert is not related to her at all.
My Missing Daughter
by Ellery A Kane
2024
Tracy’s camping bus returns in a storm with no sign of her daughter Willow or Willow’s best friend. Finding evidence of a struggle, Tracy begins a frantic search and faces the awful question of what happened on the girls’ first trip away.
Long Buried
by Ellery A Kane
2026
Twenty years after homecoming queen Blair Lennox vanished, Juniper Pickett returns to Sweetbriar before her class time capsule is opened. When she finds Blair’s body, old secrets turn Juniper into a target and make escape impossible.
Where to start with Ellery A Kane
For domestic psychological thrillers: The House Sitter → The Good Wife → The Wrong Family
For crime cases with an ongoing duo: Watch Her Vanish → Her Perfect Bones → One Child Alive
For dark, standalone-style suspense: Daddy Darkest → The Hanging Tree → The First Cut
For young adult dystopian suspense: Legacy → Prophecy → Revelation
Ellery A Kane sub-series and character series
Doctors of Darkness books in order
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Daddy Darkest
by Ellery A Kane
2017Doctors of Darkness, Book 1
The First Cut
by Ellery A Kane
2018Doctors of Darkness, Book 3
The Hanging Tree
by Ellery A Kane
2018Doctors of Darkness, Book 2
Shadows Among Us
by Ellery A Kane
2019Doctors of Darkness, Book 4
Lucky Girl
by Ellery A Kane
2021Doctors of Darkness, Book 5
Long Buried
by Ellery A Kane
2026Doctors of Darkness, Book 6
Doctors of Darkness books in chronological order

Daddy Darkest
by Ellery A Kane
2017Doctors of Darkness, Book 1
The Hanging Tree
by Ellery A Kane
2018Doctors of Darkness, Book 2
The First Cut
by Ellery A Kane
2018Doctors of Darkness, Book 3
Shadows Among Us
by Ellery A Kane
2019Doctors of Darkness, Book 4
Lucky Girl
by Ellery A Kane
2021Doctors of Darkness, Book 5
Long Buried
by Ellery A Kane
2026Doctors of Darkness, Book 6
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Author bio
Ellery A. Kane is a forensic psychologist who writes crime and psychological thrillers when she is off the clock. Her books keep returning to a question that fits both jobs: why do people do what they do, especially after fear, grief, or violence has changed the shape of a life?
Writing has been part of Kane’s life for as long as she can remember. Her public biography says she has worked at it both creatively and professionally over the years, while the habit of asking why led her toward psychology. Rather than treating those paths as separate, she lets each feed the other.
Her day work offers a serious kind of research. Kane has evaluated violent offenders and worked with trauma survivors, experience that gives her fiction a close interest in behavior, memory, and the long reach of the past. She does not turn novels into case files. Instead, that professional grounding shows up in people who make bad choices, carry old wounds, and sometimes misread the danger right in front of them.
Her first novel, Legacy, arrived in 2014. It begins a young adult dystopian trilogy set in a damaged future San Francisco, where emotion-altering drugs have helped turn public safety into control. The book earned a gold medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards’ e-book category, a notable early marker for a new novelist.
Then Kane moved deeper into psychological suspense.
The Doctors of Darkness books, beginning with Daddy Darkest, put danger close to home: an airport disappearance, a forgotten childhood crime, an ex who cannot let go, a grieving mother searching for answers. The linked books use different central characters and cases, but they share an interest in secrets, trauma, and the thin line between the person a character presents and the person they might become under pressure.
With the Rockwell and Decker novels, Kane built a more traditional crime-series partnership. Criminal psychologist Olivia Rockwell and Detective Will Decker investigate killings in the small California town of Fog Harbor, while personal history keeps pressing into their cases. Watch Her Vanish, Her Perfect Bones, and One Child Alive combine investigation with family stakes.
The standalone thrillers tighten the lens even further.
In The House Sitter, two women disappear from a Pacific Heights home. The Good Wife follows a lawyer defending her husband after a murder accusation. The Wrong Family turns a longed-for DNA match into a trap, while My Missing Daughter follows a mother after a camping bus returns without her child. The setups change, but Kane’s interest remains steady: how trust breaks, and what people hide to survive.
Kane lives in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, a landscape that appears again and again in her fiction, from city streets to coastal towns. Away from writing and psychology, she has said she enjoys working out with a punching bag, bike rides with someone special, and a movie with popcorn and Milk Duds. It is an ordinary list for someone who spends so much time imagining terrible things.
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