Karen Rose Books in Order

Mary Grace Winters fakes her death and that of her young son to escape her violently abusive police officer husband. Years later, living in Chicago as Caroline Stewart, she finds love with professor Max Hunter, until her furious husband tracks her new life down.

In a small North Carolina town, Special Agent Steven Thatcher hunts a serial killer abducting and murdering teenage girls with long dark hair. As the case tightens around his own troubled son, he falls for Brad's teacher, Jenna Marshall, even as the killer targets her.

Chicago prosecutor Kristen Mayhew begins receiving letters from a mysterious admirer who seems to know her every move and is executing criminals she failed to convict. Detective Abe Reagan must protect her while tracking a vigilante whose fixation is turning dangerously personal.

Dana Dupinsky runs Hanover House, a Chicago shelter that hides women and children from violent men. When a kidnapped little boy is smuggled into her care, security expert Ethan Buchanan follows the trail to her door, and together they confront a ruthless kidnapper bent on revenge.

Someone is tormenting psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli's patients, driving them to apparent suicide and framing her for their deaths. Detective Aidan Reagan distrusts Tess at first, but as the attacks escalate he must work with her to unmask a killer intent on destroying her life.

Chicago fire lieutenant Reed Solliday and detective Mia Mitchell join forces when a series of house fires turns homicidal. As the arsonist grows bolder and begins targeting people connected to them, Reed and Mia must confront both their attraction and a killer who enjoys watching victims burn.

Detective Vito Ciccotelli uncovers a field outside Philadelphia filled with carefully dug graves, some already occupied by tortured victims. Archaeologist Sophie Johannsen helps map the site, only to become the next target of a calculating killer who is reenacting a twisted historical game.

Georgia agent Daniel Vartanian investigates new murders that mirror a thirteen year old crime linked to his late serial killer brother. Nurse Alex Fallon, searching for her missing stepsister, is drawn into Daniel's case as the killer circles ever closer to her family.

Years after a vicious assault, Eve Wilson is rebuilding her life in Minneapolis and studying how an online game might help people gain confidence. When her test subjects start dying in staged suicides, detective Noah Webster believes a serial killer is hunting inside and outside the virtual world.

FBI agent Luke Papadopoulos and prosecutor Susannah Vartanian follow the trail of a trafficking ring that kidnaps teenage girls and auctions them online. The only surviving victim can expose the network, but protecting her forces Susannah to face the worst secrets of her past.

A group of college activists intend only to burn an empty Minneapolis development, but someone uses their fire to hide murder. Firefighter David Hunter and detective Olivia Sutherland investigate a deadly pattern of arson, blackmail and escalating violence that soon threatens the people they love.

Baltimore medical examiner Lucy Trask and homicide detective JD Fitzpatrick investigate a series of tortured bodies that seem tied to a long ago crime Lucy witnessed. As more victims connected to that night die, Lucy becomes both a key witness and the killer's ultimate target.

Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery thinks a jailed white supremacist is behind her teenage son's abduction after a high profile trial. FBI agent Joseph Carter is not convinced, and their investigation reveals a more personal enemy tied to Daphne's buried childhood trauma.

Rookie PI Paige Holden's pro bono client is gunned down in front of her home, leaving a cryptic warning and a bloodstained flash drive. Teaming up with State's Attorney Grayson Smith, Paige uncovers a wrongful conviction, a string of contract murders and a powerful cover up.

Ordered to take time off after her own kidnapping, Assistant State's Attorney Daphne Montgomery meets a six year old girl the police call Angel, found mute beside a burned out car. With FBI agent Joseph Carter, Daphne helps Angel speak and uncovers a chilling crime behind the wreck.

Detective Stevie Mazzetti reopens an old Baltimore case that may prove her late partner helped frame a suspect and that her own family was collateral damage. Bodyguard Clay Maynard has loved Stevie for years, and protecting her means facing a killer determined to erase loose ends.

Psychologist Faith Corcoran flees a relentless stalker by moving into her inherited grandmother's house outside Cincinnati, a place tied to her worst childhood memories. When college students vanish nearby, FBI agent Deacon Novak discovers a serial killer using tunnels beneath Faith's property as a hunting ground.

Sorting through her late husband's things, Emma Townsend finds a seventeen year old love letter from former friend Chris Walker and goes to find him. Their reunion rekindles old feelings but also attracts a stalker who has been waiting for a chance to punish them both.

Journalist and former Army Ranger Marcus O'Bannion is attacked while trying to help a frightened teenage girl in one of Cincinnati's roughest neighborhoods. After the girl is murdered, he teams with homicide detective Scarlett Bishop to uncover a human trafficking ring that will stop at nothing to silence witnesses.

Still recovering from a coma, FBI agent Griffin Decker Davenport insists on returning to work a child exploitation case tied to his last operation. With partner Kate Coppola, he hunts the mastermind of a pornography ring while survivor Mallory Martin risks her life to help free her sister.

Cincinnati homicide detective Adam Kimble is battling PTSD and alcoholism when someone targets psychologist Meredith Fallon, who counsels abuse survivors. As attacks against Meredith escalate and the killer homes in on her clients, Adam must trust his team and his feelings to keep her alive.

Equine therapy intern Taylor Dawson comes to Healing Hearts ranch to quietly observe security chief Clay Maynard, the father she was raised to fear. When the man who killed her young client's mother returns to finish the job, Taylor and Clay must protect sisters Jazzie and Janie from a relentless killer.

Baltimore defense attorney Thomas Thorne wakes bloodied beside a murdered woman with no memory of the night, framed to look like a copy of a long unsolved killing. Club manager Gwyn Weaver and their tight circle of friends rally to prove his innocence while a cruel enemy picks them off.

Deaf teenager Michael Rowland rescues his five year old brother from their abusive stepfather and witnesses the man's murder. Reporter and coach Diesel Kennedy takes the boys to doctor Dani Novak, and together they uncover a trafficking scheme while protecting Michael from a killer who wants him silenced.

In Sacramento, Daisy Dawson fights off a masked attacker and rips away his unusual necklace. Detective Rafe Sokolov recognises its link to the Eden cult, bringing in FBI agent Gideon Reynolds, who escaped it as a boy, and drawing Daisy into both a serial killer hunt and Gideon's past.

Cult escapee Mercy Callahan travels to Sacramento to repair her relationship with brother Gideon and to face her feelings for detective Rafe Sokolov. Her return alerts Eden's elder Ephraim Burton that she is alive, and he begins a bloody campaign to reclaim her and protect the cult's secrets.

FBI agents Tom Hunter and Gideon Reynolds finally get a solid lead on the Eden cult's hidden compound in the Pacific Northwest. As Tom and combat medic Liza Barkley risk their lives to rescue captives, their long friendship deepens into love during a final, violent confrontation with Eden.

New Orleans chef Gabe Hebert refuses to accept that his police officer father's death was suicide. Private investigator Burke Broussard assigns ex Marine Molly Sutton to look into the case, and together they uncover a trail of murders, dirty cops and high level corruption inside the department.

Public prosecutor Kaj Cardozo is working a high profile celebrity assault case when someone attempts to kidnap his young son. Broussard Investigations bodyguard and Marine veteran Val Sorensen moves in to protect the boy, drawing Kaj into a deadly clash with bayou gangs and corrupt officers.

San Diego psychologist Sam Reeves calls in an anonymous tip when a manipulative client hints at knowledge of long unsolved murders of teenage girls. Detective Kit McKittrick tracks the call, and the two are drawn into a tense partnership as they pursue a serial killer hiding behind lies.

Night security guard and former soldier Phineas Bishop becomes a suspect after a violent break in at Broussard Investigations. Librarian Cora Winslow, whose supposedly dead father has just been found buried under a demolished building, works with him to expose decades old fraud and fresh murders in New Orleans's Garden District.

When an elderly resident at Shady Oaks retirement village is found stabbed in his trashed apartment, detective Kit McKittrick suspects more than a simple burglary. Volunteer pianist Sam Reeves has the residents' trust, and together they navigate hidden grudges and old scandals to catch a killer lurking in the halls.

Philadelphia sketch artist Tino Ciccotelli is devastated when a brutally assaulted client turns out to be his former teacher, and her niece is the first love who left him years ago. Working together to identify a stalker, Tino and Charlotte realise the attacker may be fixing his sights on her.

On a long awaited second date, Kit McKittrick and Sam Reeves discover the mutilated body of a prominent San Diego politician. Their investigation exposes a shadowy group working from a hit list, forcing Kit's team to race a professional killer before more names are crossed off.

Former New Orleans police officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine and served five years in prison to protect her son. When the same corrupt cops force her to move drugs through her flower shop, she turns to Burke Broussard's team, sparking both a dangerous investigation and a complicated romance.

Kit McKittrick's foster sister Akiko is contacted by a woman claiming to know her birth mother, but their meeting ends with Kit shot and the woman dead. Even on medical leave, Kit and psychologist Sam Reeves dig into Akiko's tangled origins as someone kills to keep family secrets buried.