Katrina Williams Books in Order

The Katrina Williams books follow sheriff's detective Katrina "Hurricane" Williams in the Missouri Ozarks. She is a veteran, a local daughter, and a cop who is barely holding the pieces together when the series begins. Long before the first murder case lands on her desk, Katrina is already dealing with rage, grief, heavy drinking, and the trauma left by the military service that sent her home.

That damage is not just backstory.

The setting matters almost as much as the detective. Dunn's Ozarks are not postcard pretty. They are rural, hard, beautiful, suspicious, and full of pockets of history that never quite die. Lakes, woods, back roads, church tents, bars, hollows, and half-forgotten family land all shape the mood. So do the crimes. Bootlegging, poaching, biker gangs, meth, old grudges, and quiet corruption sit right beside ordinary small-town routines.

Each book opens with a case, but the cases rarely stay tidy. A missing girl turns into something larger. A body pulled from a lake leads Katrina toward federal agents, a preacher, and missing refugees. A brush fire reveals murder, racism, and buried family stories. Later, a dead country singer and stolen timber drag her into a case that cuts close to home. The series likes to show how one violent act can expose a whole local system beneath it.

Katrina is the reason these books stick. She is smart and stubborn, but she is not a clean hero. She makes bad calls. She pushes people away. She keeps trying anyway. Her relationship with Billy Blevins adds another layer, because partnership, trust, and love are never simple in Dunn's world. Across the series, her military past keeps pressing on the present, so personal history and police work are always tangled together.

Nothing stays small for long.

In tone, these are rural police procedurals with a strong streak of noir. They are gritty, but they are not empty about it. Dunn gives a lot of attention to scarred people, to what violence does after the headlines fade, and to the feel of a place where everyone knows part of your story. Start with A Living Grave and read forward. The emotional threads carry from book to book, and A Killing Secret lands harder when you have lived with Katrina through the earlier cases.