Jennifer Chase Books in Order

Emily Stone has no badge, but she still tracks the worst predators she can find and slips evidence to the police. When two serial killers terrorize her California beach town, her secret life becomes dangerously hard to hide.

Emily Stone and former detective Rick Lopez investigate a serial killer tied to a wildly popular video game. What starts as a hunt for a murderer turns into a trip through a hidden network, and straight onto the killer's radar.

After a grisly murder and a high-speed chase, K9 officer Jack Davis is pulled into a case full of family secrets and shifting suspects. With a vulnerable woman at the center and a psychopath in the mix, no one looks safe.

While searching for an abducted girl, Emily follows the trail from California to Kauai and walks into a new nightmare. A local serial killer, old superstitions, and a race against time make this one of her most dangerous cases.

A routine traffic stop turns into a night chase on a deserted rural road in this tense short story. Told from Officer John McGraw's point of view, it mixes cop suspense with something far stranger in the dark.

An arson killer is leaving bones and ashes across California, and Emily Stone dives into the case before more fires claim more lives. The deeper she goes, the more dangerous the line between hunter and hunted becomes.

This shorter Emily Stone story looks back to the case that changed her life as a teenager. It shows her early instincts, her first investigation, and the roots of the relentless hunter she becomes.

A child has been abducted, and the so-called Tick-Tock Killer promises the body will be dumped four days later. Emily Stone has little time, and even less room for error, as the case pushes her to the edge.

Three new murders and five cold cases collide in the Flower Girl investigation. Reclusive forensic profiler Dr. Chip Palmer joins Inspector Kate Rawlins to hunt a serial killer who stays several moves ahead of everyone else.

Frozen body parts left at murder scenes signal a vicious serial killer with a taste for spectacle. Emily Stone and her covert team race through a brutal investigation while official agencies close in from all sides.

Six months after a brutal serial killer case, two new murders leave investigators facing crime scenes so contaminated they seem almost impossible to solve. Forensic expert Chip Palmer and Inspector Kate Rawlins must outthink a killer who delights in taunting the police.

A nurse who once escaped her kidnapper is found dead, and Katie is convinced the police missed the pattern. When another woman linked to the victim vanishes, Katie races to stop the next body from appearing.

Eight-year-old Chelsea Compton disappears, and Katie's search leads to a makeshift cemetery hidden in the forest. With another child taken and a pattern emerging from years of missing girls, she has to move fast.

Katie's aunt is murdered and all evidence points to her uncle, Pine Valley's sheriff. Digging into old case files, Katie finds a trail that links past and present murders, and may be the only way to clear the last family she has.

When a girl's body is found at a former children's home, Katie thinks she has finally solved a cold case. Instead she uncovers a killer targeting the home's former residents, one by one.

Women are turning up staged and murdered across California, and the pattern points straight toward Pine Valley. As Katie tracks the killer, she realizes the case may be tied to the military past she has tried to bury.

Two sisters are found dead at the bottom of a ravine, but the youngest is linked to an older kidnapping. Racing through another missing-child case, Katie and Cisco hunt a killer who counts his victims.

A camp counselor's body in the lake at Eagle Ridge Summer Camp pulls Katie back to the place where her childhood friend vanished. When more bodies appear and someone plants clues tied to her past, the case turns brutally personal.

A house fire reveals human remains buried beneath a Pine Valley home, and Katie quickly suspects the blaze was no accident. Then more bodies surface on the property, forcing her to dig into a family's disappearance and the secrets hidden on their land.

Katie is still searching for her missing fiancé when another brutal murder lands on her desk. As clues begin to connect the new victim to her old cases and Chad's disappearance, the hunt turns sharply personal.

Seven shallow graves on abandoned farmland send Katie into a case that stretches back fifteen years. When another young woman is taken and someone opens fire at the scene, she knows the killer is far from finished.

When fifteen-year-old Ivy Miller is found tied to a tree with a fresh rose tattoo, Katie Scott is called to a nearby town in panic. As more girls die and old secrets surface, she has to untangle a mystery that reaches far beyond one murder.

Katie finds a terrified little girl alone in the woods, then follows her trail to a slaughtered family in matching pajamas. The case widens into multiple family murders and a deadly secret hidden inside witness protection.

A dying mother begs Katie to find her missing daughter, Anna Braxton, before it is too late. The search leads through teenage secrets, a fake talent agency, and a murder that suggests the killer is still close.

While taking a break in a cabin with Cisco, Katie is led to a dead girl in the woods by a frightened teenager who then vanishes. When that girl turns up murdered too, a chain of ritual-like killings begins to surface.

A preserved finger left in Katie's car marks the start of a grim hunt for a killer scattering body parts across Pine Valley. When forensics suggest one victim may still be alive, every hour suddenly matters.

Two skeletons, a mother and child still clutching hands, are uncovered at a building site twenty years after they disappeared. Katie's investigation stirs up old witnesses, fresh deaths, and someone watching her home at night.