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FBI Agent Jade Monroe: Live or Die Books in Order

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See the FBI Agent Jade Monroe: Live or Die series by CM Sutter, with novels listed in order, case summaries, series overview, and suggestions on where to join Jade's new FBI role.

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FBI Agent Jade Monroe: Live or Die books in publication order

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1

Blood Equity

by CM Sutter

2021

FBI agent Jade Monroe investigates people dying in public after consuming a lethal drug mixture in Savannah. When she vanishes during a victim’s funeral, partner Lorenzo must uncover the motive behind the killings to find her alive.

2

Blood in the Bayou

by CM Sutter

2021

On her first assignment as a senior FBI agent, Jade Monroe and partner Lorenzo DeLeon investigate human bones found deep in Louisiana bayou country. Distrustful locals and a too helpful hunter complicate the case as Jade learns she might be the one being hunted.

3

Blood Legacy

by CM Sutter

2021

Branded teenagers are found dead beside highways across several states, sending Jade Monroe and Lorenzo DeLeon after a mobile killer. A witness and a critically injured teen offer hope, but pursuing their leads puts the agents at risk.

4

Blood Reckoning

by CM Sutter

2021

Two waves of murders draw FBI agent Jade Monroe toward Milwaukee’s mayor and his powerful circle. With victims connected through their families and nobody willing to talk, she must expose the link before further lives are lost.

5

Blood Trail

by CM Sutter

2021

Jade Monroe and Lorenzo DeLeon pursue traffickers abducting teenage girls in South Dakota and Wyoming. As the kidnappers panic and victims begin dying, the investigation becomes a chase through Colorado’s backcountry to save the last captive.

6

Blood Stream

by CM Sutter

2022

A hurricane exposes a murdered woman in North Carolina, and a matching victim appears in Virginia. Jade Monroe and Lorenzo DeLeon struggle to identify them until marks carved into their faces and a questionable witness reveal a dangerous pattern.

7

Blood Bank

by CM Sutter

2023

A precise, ruthless gang carries out bank robberies across Milwaukee and nearby counties, leaving a security guard dead. Under political pressure and without useful leads, Jade Monroe’s FBI team races to stop the heists before another attack.

8

Blood Gamble

by CM Sutter

2023

A charming killer follows female casino winners from Las Vegas to Atlantic City, robbing and murdering them. Jade Monroe and Lorenzo DeLeon devise a trap with unexpected help, knowing their quarry may be planning one of his own.

9

Blood Retreat

by CM Sutter

2023

Jade Monroe begins a quiet vacation at a remote Wisconsin cabin just as two convicts escape nearby. Targeted for her car and isolation, she must survive their broader scheme while colleagues search for the missing FBI agent.

10

Blood Rules

by CM Sutter

2023

FBI agent Jade Monroe investigates bodies nailed to trees in northern Wisconsin, then encounters a survivor’s account of captivity. Further killings and a mysterious rescuer complicate the hunt for a couple whose motives remain dangerously unclear.

11

Blood Betrayal

by CM Sutter

2025

Similar murders in Wichita and Kansas City lead Jade Monroe and Lorenzo DeLeon toward a single killer. With no witnesses and apparently unrelated victims, they must trace the predator’s route before the growing body count rises again.

12

Blood Brother

by CM Sutter

2025

Jade Monroe’s planned weekend with her sister and friend ends when she vanishes without a trace. Her FBI colleagues search for evidence and a motive, while a serial killer’s private agenda threatens to keep her beyond their reach.

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Blood Oath

by CM Sutter

2026

A Denver police officer asks Jade Monroe for help after discovering corruption within her own department. As a drug operation protected by powerful officers emerges, threats and killings force Jade’s team to dismantle it before her friend dies.

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Blood Test

by CM Sutter

2026

Five women disappear from abandoned cars around Asheville, prompting Jade Monroe and Lorenzo DeLeon to investigate a calculated lure. When a rookie deputy helping them also vanishes, the agents must unravel the pattern before another victim is lost.

FBI Agent Jade Monroe: Live or Die books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Blood in the Bayou"

    Blood in the Bayou

    by CM Sutter

    2021FBI Agent Jade Monroe: Live or Die, Book 1

Series background & context

The FBI Agent Jade Monroe: Live or Die series picks up after Jade has already proved herself as a small town detective and as a frontline FBI agent. Now promoted to Senior Special Agent in the Bureau's Serial Crimes Unit, she is sent wherever the worst offenders are at work, often with little warning and less backup than she would like.

The opening book, Blood in the Bayou, sends Jade and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, deep into southern Louisiana. Human bones have been found at multiple remote sites in bayou country, and locals are not eager to have federal agents tramping across their land. Jade recruits a local hunter as a go between, hoping he can help her read the swamp and its people. As the investigation drags them through isolated waterways and closed ranks, she begins to question whether their helpful guide has his own reasons for staying close to the case.

Subsequent novels push Jade into other corners of the country, following trails of bodies, missing persons, and killers who seem to delight in remote, difficult terrain. The "Live or Die" tag on the series is more than a marketing line. These are investigations where victims are often held for a time, where deadlines are tight, and where Jade and Lorenzo must decide how much risk they can take in order to possibly save one more person.

Sutter lets Jade carry the experience from earlier books into this new role. She still thinks like the county sergeant from North Bend, looking for local politics and personal grudges beneath each crime. At the same time, she is now forced to navigate Bureau hierarchy, work with unfamiliar field offices, and deal with the glare that comes when federal cases hit national news.

The partnership with Lorenzo adds a new dynamic. He brings his own skills and history to the team, and the series spends time on the trust they have to build while racing from one violent scene to the next. Some cases test their instincts about who to believe in small communities that resent outside interference. Others test their ability to manage interagency cooperation when local law enforcement feels pushed aside.

Across the Live or Die books, readers can expect detailed investigative work, tense confrontations in hostile settings, and a constant undercurrent of urgency. Jade has grown from a local detective into a federal agent whose choices can affect multiple jurisdictions at once. This series shows what that promotion really looks like on the ground, as she balances gut level empathy for victims with the hard edges of federal procedure and politics.

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