Katia Lief Books in Order

In the mid-1970s, fifteen-year-old Kate is sent to a progressive boarding school after her family falls apart. New friendships and first love offer hope, but Patrick's growing drug addiction forces Kate to face painful realities.

Dawn still loves her former fiancé, Hank, even though he is engaged to someone else. In 1980s Manhattan, a flamboyant escort-service owner's memoir tangles Dawn, Hank, and their friends in a comic romantic mess.

During a Cape Cod vacation, Emily Parker disappears on a quick trip to the store. Retired FBI profiler John Geary fears her abduction is part of a killer's ritual, with Emily's seven-year-old son next in danger.

After finding evidence of her husband's infidelity, Annie seeks refuge with her twin sister, Julie. Then Annie becomes the victim of identity theft, and Julie disappears with Annie's baby daughter, leaving Annie to reclaim her life.

When pregnant Lauren vanishes after failing to meet her friend at a Brooklyn playground, Alice Halpern joins the desperate search. Soon Alice, who is expecting twins, believes someone is watching her own family too.

Detective Dave Strauss and his wife Susan search Brooklyn when Susan's fourteen-year-old sister disappears after a family secret comes out. Dave fears the case connects to a schoolgirl's disappearance that has haunted him for years.

Aspiring cartoonist Cat Gold works for Rocky Love, a fading feminist celebrity planning a comeback. When Cat discovers Rocky's hypocrisy while facing an unexpected pregnancy, she joins the ghostwriter exposing Rocky's carefully managed image.

After her husband dies in a car accident, journalist Darcy Mayhew moves to New York with her teenage son for a fresh start. A persistent stalker and troubling clues make her question whether her husband's death was really accidental.

Karin's new life with Mac and their young son is shattered when Mac's parents are murdered and Mac vanishes. Refusing to accept his apparent suicide, she follows a trail of secrets from Brooklyn toward Mexico.

Former detective Karin Schaeffer survived the serial killer who murdered her husband and daughter. When the Domino Killer escapes prison, Karin must fight her despair and race to protect the family she has left.

A family gathers at a rural Connecticut home for the holidays, bringing old resentments and difficult confessions. Two burglars expecting an empty house take them hostage, and a break-in becomes a desperate fight to survive.

Effie Miller has kept a profitable secret for her boss, Ted Stollit, for years. After receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, she decides to tell the truth, setting up a deadly confrontation on Christmas Eve.

Karin and Mac expect a quiet Christmas morning with their family, until Mac's special present draws Karin into a wintry Coney Island encounter. A band of misfits wants the gift, and Karin is suddenly on her own.

Karin investigates a murdered woman and an injured eleven-year-old who may have seen something terrible. As another killer stalks Brooklyn, Karin must protect two vulnerable girls from a hidden trafficking network.

In this prequel to You Are Next, detective Karin Schaeffer returns home to the devastating aftermath of the Domino Killer's attack. It is a short, grim introduction to the crime and loss that shape her series.

A Sardinian family holiday becomes a nightmare when Karin Schaeffer and Mac MacLeary arrive to find their children and nanny missing. Their search leads back to Mac's investigation of a billionaire, where money, secrets, and danger collide.

On graduation day, Ada makes an impulsive choice involving her steady boyfriend George and their friend Claude. Told across a graduation, funeral, and wedding, this novella follows love, regret, and consequences over seven years.

Lena is alone at home when an intruder breaks in, expecting an easy target. In the days afterward, she tends her beloved orchid while quietly concealing the evidence of crimes that keep mounting.

New York prosecutor Con Mathis investigates the shadows around his German father's suicide after meeting a dangerous woman. Moving between Cold War Berlin and New York, the novel uncovers a legacy of espionage, betrayal, and family secrets.

Former filmmaker Joni Ackerman reconnects with Val after a Hollywood predator is publicly accused. As they revisit a long-buried assault, Joni's marriage, old ambitions, and sense of reality begin to unravel.