Erin Prince Books in Order

The Erin Prince series follows a Washington, D.C. homicide detective who is trying to prove herself inside a job that gives her no room to hesitate. Erin comes from privilege, but she has chosen police work over the world her family expected for her. That background follows her into every interview room. Suspects, witnesses, and colleagues do not always let her forget where she came from.

Her first major case is brutal.

Killing Jane begins when a young woman is murdered in a way that points toward Jack the Ripper. Erin and her partner, Todd Beckett, have to decide whether they are chasing a copycat, someone obsessed with Ripper history, or a killer using the legend as cover for something more personal. The case pulls them through drugs, pornography, family secrets, old abuse, and the unsettling question of whether the killer could be a woman.

Todd Beckett is an important part of the setup. Readers who know Green’s Lucy Kendall books will recognize him, but the Erin Prince series can still be read on its own. Todd is more experienced and steadier than Erin, while Erin is smart but still learning how to lead a homicide case without letting self-doubt, anger, or family pressure take over.

The larger idea behind the series is famous killers reimagined in modern crimes. Killing Jane draws on the Jack or Jane the Ripper theory. Hyde turns toward Jekyll-and-Hyde imagery, using a killer who wants to expose what he sees as false public faces. That gives the series a slightly theatrical edge, but the investigations stay grounded in police work, victimology, and the dangerous gap between image and truth.

The setting helps. Washington, D.C. gives Erin cases where power, money, media, and family names can all bend an investigation. A murder is never just a murder when influential people want certain doors kept shut.

Start with Killing Jane. It introduces Erin, Todd, the tone of the series, and the iconic-killer framework. Readers who like darker police procedurals with historical-crime echoes should feel at home here.