Kathryn Casey Books in Order
Browse Kathryn Casey books in order, with quick summaries, series guides for Clara Jefferies and Sarah Armstrong, and easy tips on where to start.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
Evil Beside Her
by Kathryn Casey
1995
Linda Bergstrom thinks she married a shy, dependable man, then learns he is the predator terrorizing women around Houston. Her fight to protect herself and be believed turns this case into a grim story of survival.
The Rapist's Wife
by Kathryn Casey
1995
In this earlier edition of the case later reissued as Evil Beside Her, Linda Bergstrom discovers that the husband she fears is also a serial rapist. Casey centers the terror of living with a hidden predator.
A Warrant to Kill
by Kathryn Casey
2000
Susan White says deputy Joseph Kent McGowen is stalking her after she rejects him, but few believe her until she is dead. Casey reconstructs a case about obsession, abuse of power, and a killer hiding behind a badge.
She Wanted It All
by Kathryn Casey
2005
Young wife Celeste Beard seems to have landed a fairy-tale life with millionaire Steven Beard, until a shotgun blast shatters the illusion. Casey unpacks the money, manipulation, and tangled loyalties behind an infamous Texas murder plot.
Die, My Love
by Kathryn Casey
2007
Professor Fred Jablin is gunned down outside his Richmond, Virginia home, and prosecutors focus on his ex-wife, Houston attorney Piper Rountree. Casey traces a marriage soured by bitterness, deception, and a cold plan for revenge.
A Descent Into Hell
by Kathryn Casey
2008
College student Jennifer Cave is found brutally murdered in an Austin apartment, and suspicion centers on former altar boy Colton Pitonyak. Casey follows the shocking crime, the flight from justice, and the ruin left behind.
Singularity
by Kathryn Casey
2008
Texas Ranger and profiler Sarah Armstrong is called to the posed murder of a wealthy businessman and his mistress at a Galveston beach house. What looks simple at first grows into a hunt for a far more dangerous killer.
Blood Lines
by Kathryn Casey
2009
Sarah Armstrong investigates the staged death of a powerful businesswoman while also protecting teen star Cassidy Collins from a relentless stalker. The two cases twist together into a tense hunt shaped by greed, fame, and family damage.
Shattered
by Kathryn Casey
2010
Belinda Temple, pregnant and beloved, is found murdered in her Katy home, and suspicion slowly turns toward her husband, David Temple. Casey follows the long investigation and the heartbreaking gaps between appearance, motive, and proof.
The Killing Storm
by Kathryn Casey
2010
A four-year-old boy vanishes from a park just as bizarre cattle killings begin outside Houston. As a hurricane closes in, Sarah Armstrong must connect the cases before the storm and a killer overtake them both.
True Crime Files
by Kathryn Casey
2011
This collection gathers three murder cases Casey never forgot from her years as a reporter. The pieces are compact but vivid, showing how victims, investigators, and one terrible turn can linger for decades.
Deadly Little Secrets
by Kathryn Casey
2012
When Kari Baker's death is staged as a suicide, her family refuses to accept the story. Casey follows the case against Baptist minister Matt Baker, exposing lies, betrayal, and the patient work it took to prove murder.
Deliver Us
by Kathryn Casey
2014
Casey examines decades of killings along the I-45 corridor south of Houston, where young women kept vanishing and turning up dead. It is part true crime investigation, part reckoning with the families and failures left behind.
Possessed
by Kathryn Casey
2016
Ana Trujillo is glamorous, volatile, and accused of killing her boyfriend, scientist Stefan Andersson, with a stiletto heel. Casey digs into obsession, control, and the strange mix of sex, status, and fear behind a shocking Houston murder.
In Plain Sight
by Kathryn Casey
2018
After the murders of a prosecutor, a district attorney, and the district attorney's wife, investigators uncover a revenge plot rooted in Kaufman County politics. Casey tracks the hunt for Eric and Kim Williams and the fear that gripped the town.
The Buried
by Kathryn Casey
2018
Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong follows an imprisoned serial killer's clues to graves hidden in East Texas. But even behind bars he keeps reaching for power, and Sarah races to protect the woman who once escaped him.
Her Final Prayer
by Kathryn Casey
2020
A brutal attack at a ranch outside Alber leaves mothers and children dead and a husband barely alive. Clara Jefferies suspects the answer lies inside the tight-lipped community, where even her own family may be hiding the truth.
The Fallen Girls
by Kathryn Casey
2020
Dallas detective Clara Jefferies returns to her Utah hometown when her half sister Delilah disappears. As more girls vanish near the family's cornfields, Clara must face the community she fled and the secrets it protects.
The Blessed Bones
by Kathryn Casey
2021
When the remains of a young pregnant girl are found near Alber, Police Chief Clara Jefferies digs into old missing-person files and discovers a chilling pattern. The case forces her back into buried town secrets and the damage they still cause.
Angel Falls
by Kathryn Casey
2023
Fleeing her controlling husband during a Gulf Coast storm, Gabby Jordan finds refuge with elderly Ruth Robertson. Their lives intertwine through danger, memory, and Ruth's haunting connection to the 1949 Angel Falls expedition.
Bone Cold
by Kathryn Casey
2024
A routine plumbing job exposes something far darker inside an old house, drawing Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong into a case that turns deadly fast. When an innocent man dies, Sarah's judgment is tested in public and in court.
Where should I start?
If you want her most famous true crime: She Wanted It All → Shattered → Deadly Little Secrets
If you want Texas justice and corruption cases: A Warrant to Kill → In Plain Sight → Possessed
If you want crime fiction with a Texas Ranger lead: Singularity → Blood Lines → The Killing Storm → The Buried
If you want dark small-town mysteries: The Fallen Girls → Her Final Prayer → The Blessed Bones
If you want something different: Angel Falls
Author bio
Kathryn Casey grew up in Wisconsin and moved to Texas with her husband in 1980. In Texas she studied journalism at the University of Houston, and that mix of Midwest roots and Gulf Coast reality would shape much of what she wrote afterward.
She got her start in 1984 as an intern at Houston City Magazine and worked her way up to senior editor. After that she edited Ultra, a regional magazine aimed at wealthy Texans, then spent years writing for publications including Ladies' Home Journal, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Reader's Digest, More, and Texas Monthly.
That reporting life became her crime school.
Long before the books, Casey was learning how to ask better questions and stay with a story after the first headline faded. She interviewed celebrities, presidents, and first ladies, but she also covered the Oklahoma City bombing, the aftermath of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, infertility, and other deeply personal subjects that demanded patience, empathy, and a strong stomach.
Crime kept pulling her back.
In the early 1990s she reported on a Houston-area serial rapist for Ladies' Home Journal, and that work became her first book, The Rapist's Wife, later reissued as Evil Beside Her. It was a natural turning point. The case showed how well she could combine hard reporting with the forward drive of a suspense story.
After that, true crime became her lane. Books like She Wanted It All, Shattered, Deadly Little Secrets, Deliver Us, and In Plain Sight are built on patient reporting, courtroom detail, and a steady interest in how ordinary lives get pulled into terrible events. Readers who like Casey usually like that she never loses sight of the victims, the families, or the investigators trying to make sense of the damage.
Then she moved into fiction without leaving crime behind. Her Sarah Armstrong novels begin with Singularity, which introduces a Texas Ranger and criminal profiler working high-pressure cases across the state. Her Clara Jefferies books, starting with The Fallen Girls, shift to Alber, Utah, where a detective returns to the closed religious community she once escaped. In both series, Casey leans into secrets, institutions, and the slow pressure that builds when nobody wants to talk.
Texas remains central to much of her work, even when the setting changes. She returns again and again to small towns, law enforcement culture, religion, ambition, and the private motives hiding beneath respectable surfaces. Her books are full of people who think they can control the story, until the facts start pushing back.
She lives in Houston with her husband, and she has kept stretching the range of what she writes. In Angel Falls, her first historical novel, she turns to Ruth Robertson and the 1949 expedition that measured Angel Falls in Venezuela, proof that even after years in true crime and mystery, she's still interested in people who head straight for the hard thing.
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