Jennifer Harlow Books in Order
This page shows Jennifer Harlow books in order, with series guides, short summaries, and simple where-to-start picks for her paranormal, thriller, and fantasy novels.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
Mind Over Monsters
by Jennifer Harlow
2011
Elementary schoolteacher Beatrice Alexander can move things with her mind, but she has never mastered the gift. Recruited into a secret monster-fighting unit, she faces her first case, a zombie outbreak with deadly secrets behind it.
To Catch A Vampire
by Jennifer Harlow
2012
Bea goes undercover with irritatingly charming vampire Oliver Montrose to investigate disappearances in Dallas's goth vamp scene. Pretending to be a married couple is awkward enough before blood, secrets, and revenge enter the picture.
Death Takes a Holiday
by Jennifer Harlow
2013
Bea heads home for Christmas hoping to escape team drama and sort out her heart. Instead she gets an ex-boyfriend, a seductive vampire lord, and a dangerous holiday that is anything but restful.
Galilee Rising
by Jennifer Harlow
2013
A year after Galilee Falls loses its champion, Joanna Fallon is battered and the city is worse. New heroes arrive, a new love appears, and Emperor Cain threatens to finish what grief and chaos already started.
In The Beginning...
by Jennifer Harlow
2013
This short Galilee Falls companion introduces the series world through bonus fiction and extras, including the story Origins, Joanna Fallon's op-ed on superpowers, and a preview of Galilee Rising.
Justice
by Jennifer Harlow
2013
In a city crowded with superheroes and villains, Detective Joanna Fallon has to hunt escaped supervillain Alkaline without powers of her own. Old grudges, divided loyalties, and a broken heart make the job even harder.
Nancy Lake and the Case of the First Date
by Jennifer Harlow
2013
In this short F.R.E.A.K.S. story, teen agent Nancy Lake discovers that a first date can be as stressful as any monster case. It is a quick, funny glimpse into life beyond the squad's biggest missions.
What's a Witch to Do?
by Jennifer Harlow
2013
High priestess Mona McGregor runs a magic shop, leads a coven, and raises her nieces in Goodnight, Virginia. When werewolf Adam Blue warns that someone wants her dead, her already packed life turns lethal.
High Moon
by Jennifer Harlow
2014
Back with the F.R.E.A.K.S., Beatrice Alexander is determined to win werewolf agent Will Price for good. Then a savage werewolf case in North Carolina turns love, loyalty, and survival into the same fight.
Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part Five
by Jennifer Harlow
2014
Verity and Jamie finally push into enemy territory for a last attempt to save David. The serial ends with monsters, revelations, and a fight that forces both of them to drop their guard.
Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part Four
by Jennifer Harlow
2014
In Ireland, Verity turns to Jamie's werewolf kin for help while David remains in vampyre hands. Family tensions and growing feelings complicate the mission just as the final showdown starts to take shape.
Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part One
by Jennifer Harlow
2014
Lady Verity Hart is a brilliant Victorian inventor trapped behind her brother's public name. When vampyres kidnap David, she joins forces with abrasive bounty hunter Jamie McQueen and launches a dangerous rescue.
Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part Three
by Jennifer Harlow
2014
The pursuit widens across Wales and into the air as Verity and Jamie close in on the vampyres. Fear, attraction, and dangerous truths make the rescue mission even more precarious.
Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part Two
by Jennifer Harlow
2014
Verity and Jamie chase the kidnappers beyond London, following clues through trains, country roads, and mounting scandal. The search for David gets bloodier, and their uneasy partnership grows harder to dismiss.
Werewolf Sings the Blues
by Jennifer Harlow
2014
Eight years before Mona McGregor's story, singer Vivian Dahl is rescued by a stranger who claims ties to her missing father. Their desperate road trip uncovers werewolf secrets, family lies, and enemies close behind.
Fall Of Heroes
by Jennifer Harlow
2015
Joanna Fallon has already paid dearly to save Galilee Falls, and peace never lasts long in a city of heroes and villains. A looming catastrophe forces her back into battle when the whole world may be next.
Witch Upon a Star
by Jennifer Harlow
2015
Rescued from an abusive childhood by the vampire Asher, Anna Olmstead grows up tangled in his dangerous love. Years later, after building a family of her own, she must face the obsession she thought she escaped.
Beautiful Maids All in a Row
by Jennifer Harlow
2016
Former FBI profiler Iris Ballard is dragged back into the hunt for a serial killer who targets single mothers. When the Woodsman begins circling her personally, the case becomes a brutal test of her instincts and recovery.
Darkness at the Edge of Town
by Jennifer Harlow
2017
Forensic psychologist Iris Ballard returns to her Rust Belt hometown when her twin brother joins a dangerous cult. To get him out, she must outthink a charismatic leader before family history and federal pressure turn deadly.
The Sin Eater
by Jennifer Harlow
2017
After a devastating mission leaves her traumatized and adrift, telekinetic agent Beatrice Alexander falls into the orbit of vampire lord Connor McInnis. Passion, luxury, and an old vampire feud soon force her to decide who she still wants to be.
Crimson Vale
by Jennifer Harlow
2018
After inheriting a mansion in a small Southern town, battered Jane Harrow steps into a seductive new life. Voices, visions, and warnings from the living and the dead suggest Crimson Vale is no refuge at all.
Where should I start?
For monster-hunting urban fantasy: Mind Over Monsters → To Catch A Vampire → Death Takes a Holiday
For small-town paranormal mystery: What's a Witch to Do? → Werewolf Sings the Blues → Witch Upon a Star
For dark psychological suspense: Beautiful Maids All in a Row → Darkness at the Edge of Town
For superhero noir: Justice → Galilee Rising → Fall Of Heroes
For steampunk adventure: Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part One → Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part Two → Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part Three
Author bio
Jennifer Harlow spent her childhood fighting with her three brothers and scaring herself silly with horror movies and horror paperbacks. That mix of rough-and-tumble energy and a taste for the creepy never really went away. It helps explain why so many of her novels throw smart women into impossible situations and then ask them to keep their sense of humor while monsters, killers, or both close in.
She later earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Virginia. Before building her writing career, she worked a long list of jobs, including radio DJ, crisis hotline volunteer, bookseller, lab assistant, wedding coordinator, and government investigator. It is an unusually wide set of experiences, and you can feel it in her fiction. Her characters tend to notice how people behave under stress, how institutions work, and how ordinary working life can turn strange very quickly.
She has also been a member of Sisters in Crime. More importantly for readers, she has never seemed interested in staying in one lane for long. Her books move between paranormal mystery, urban fantasy, thriller, superhero fiction, and steampunk adventure, but they still feel connected by voice. She likes brisk plots, dark humor, bruised but capable heroines, and the idea that danger is often as emotional as it is physical.
The horror kid never left.
Many readers start with Mind Over Monsters, the opening F.R.E.A.K.S. book, where schoolteacher Beatrice Alexander discovers that telekinesis is only the beginning of her problems. That series gives Harlow room to mix zombies, vampires, covert investigations, and messy romance without losing sight of character. Bea is frightened, funny, stubborn, and often in over her head, which is exactly why the books work.
A similar mix shows up in What's a Witch to Do?, where family obligations, local magic, and murder trouble all land on Mona McGregor at once. Then there is Justice, which takes a very different route by placing a regular cop in a city crowded with superheroes and villains. Harlow is good at building worlds, but she is even better at showing what those worlds feel like from ground level, through women who still have to make dinner, solve the case, bury the grief, or get up and fight again tomorrow.
When she turns away from the supernatural, the tension stays. Beautiful Maids All in a Row and Darkness at the Edge of Town center on Iris Ballard, a forensic psychologist and former FBI profiler whose brilliance is matched by damage she cannot neatly file away. Across these books, and in standalones like Crimson Vale or the steampunk serial Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres, Harlow keeps returning to a few favorite themes: found family, old wounds, dangerous attraction, and women learning how much power they are willing to claim.
She writes fast, but she does not write small.
What makes her bibliography interesting is the range inside it. One book may give you monster-hunting agents and banter. Another gives you a cult, a serial killer, or a superhero city that has stopped believing in easy answers. The connective tissue is her interest in fear, loyalty, damage, and resilience. Even in the wildest setups, she tends to care most about people who have been hurt, underestimated, or backed into a corner.
Harlow now lives in Atlanta and, by her own telling, still enjoys scaring herself in her spare time. That feels right. She took a love of horror, a psychology degree, a stack of odd jobs, and a sharp eye for troubled people, then turned all of it into fiction that is lively, dark, and hard to mistake for anyone else's.
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