J T Ellison (Alexandra Sokoloff) Books in Order

This listing brings together J.T. Ellison and Alexandra Sokoloff through Love Is Murder, a multi-author collection of romantic suspense stories. It is not a continuing detective series with one lead character or a single ongoing plot. Instead, it is a shared anthology space, where each writer contributes a standalone story with its own setting, cast, and danger.

Ellison’s contribution, The Number of Man, sits beside Sokoloff’s In Atlantis and stories by a wide range of thriller and suspense writers. That setup makes the collection useful for readers who enjoy trying several voices at once. You can read any story independently, without needing to know the other authors’ books beforehand.

The common thread is suspense with a relationship at stake. These stories use the compact shape of a thriller short, so characters face trouble quickly, information is limited, and a personal connection often makes the risk feel sharper. The tone moves between crime, romance, investigation, danger, and reversal, depending on the writer.

Sokoloff’s In Atlantis follows Melissa, who heads to the Bahamas after being left at the altar. At a luxury resort, a possible new romance and a valuable jeweled shell pull her into a dangerous game. It has the sunlit, uneasy atmosphere readers may recognize from her suspense fiction, with a fast-moving situation that gives a broken-heart getaway real consequences.

Ellison comes to the collection from a crime-fiction background that includes police investigations, forensic detail, and psychological tension. Her contribution offers a different flavor from Sokoloff’s paranormal and romantic suspense work, but both writers are interested in characters forced to make hard decisions under pressure.

Think of this connection as a crossover shelf, not a numbered sequence.

For readers already familiar with either author, Love Is Murder is a chance to see how their styles work in shorter form. For newcomers, it can also act as a sampler. Read Sokoloff’s story if you want a compact dose of her romantic suspense, then move to the Huntress books or her haunted thrillers for longer, more layered stories. Read Ellison’s entry if you want to sample her crime-driven approach before trying one of her larger series.