Kevin O'Brien Books in Order

After a senator's son assaults and impregnates her, young war widow Virginia Abrams flees Washington, DC, for Seattle under a new name. In a quirky apartment house, a neighbor's sudden death and rumors of wartime saboteurs pull her into a conspiracy that may expose her past.

In wartime Seattle, doctor's wife Nora Kinney joins the Boeing assembly line as a riveter while her husband serves overseas. When women from the plant are found strangled in their apartments, she suspects a link to her own family and a killer hiding on the home front.

Seattle TV reporter Anna Malone wakes from a brutal hangover with a sick sense something awful happened after dinner with her married lover and his wife. When the wife vanishes and suspicion falls on Anna, she must piece together her missing hours while a manipulator closes in.

Years after a notorious campus murder spree, half sisters Hannah and Eden O'Rourke end up sharing a bungalow at a small Illinois college. When new deaths echo the old killings, a probing journalism professor suspects the sisters are at the center.

When a teen girl appears on Sheila O'Rourke's Seattle doorstep claiming to be her husband's daughter, the O'Rourke family's fresh start unravels. As anonymous threats and eerie incidents mount, old secrets resurface and Sheila must decide whom she can trust.

At a luxury compound on Lopez Island, Washington, evangelist Scott Singleton and almost his entire family are slaughtered, leaving police baffled. Hours away, vintner Laura Gretchell's children are taken hostage by intruders who demand answers, forcing her to uncover how the massacre and her own marriage connect.

Divorced Caitlin Stoller snaps up a bargain Tudor house in the coastal town of Echo, Washington, hoping for stability for her kids. Instead they find ominous notes, stories of missing student athletes, and a watcher who knows exactly how tragedy once unfolded inside their home.

Copy editor Andrea Boyle brings her troubled nephew Spencer to Seattle for a fresh start and falls for playwright Luke, whose son Damon becomes Spencer's only real friend. When tragedy strikes and old crimes surface, Andrea must decide whether Spencer is victim, suspect, or both.

In 1970, actress Elaina Styles and her family were murdered in a Seattle mansion, while the nearby commune tied to the crime ended in mass suicide. Decades later, caterer Laurie Trotter works on a film about the case there and realizes someone will kill to protect the truth.

After her sister's apparent suicide, Stephanie Coburn is shattered again when her brother in law and his new wife are slaughtered in a supposed home invasion. Linking their case to other family tragedies, she and another victim's son track a patient, methodical killer obsessed with vengeance.

Therapist Olivia Barker begins to suspect that the chilling stories she hears from patients match a string of unsolved murders separated by decades. As threats close in and the body count rises, she must decide which confidences to break to stop a killer in her circle.

Years ago Megan Keeslar faked her own death to escape an abusive husband who went to prison for her supposed murder. Living quietly in Seattle with their son, she panics when he is released, threats begin again, and a masked intruder steals the boy away.

Molly Dennehy moves into gleaming Willow Tree Court hoping to blend into her husband's upscale Seattle neighborhood. But a brutal school killing, whispered loyalties to his ex wife, and a series of family massacres nearby convince her a vengeful presence is closing in.

For years a predator abducted young Seattle mothers in front of their sons, then the killings abruptly stopped. On a lakeside getaway with her fiancé and little boy, Susan Blanchette senses the nightmare beginning again when people vanish and someone starts circling the isolated house.

TV reporter Sydney Jordan hoped Seattle would offer a fresh start after personal disaster in Chicago. Instead, she receives grisly souvenirs from murders in three cities, proof that a meticulous killer sees her as his chosen audience and the final piece of his puzzle.

Eleven years after a dozen women vanished, Amelia Faraday is suffering blackouts and a gnawing fear that she is connected to the crimes. When new murders begin, she must untangle her lost hours to learn whether she is a victim, a pawn, or something worse.

Years after Seattle's Schoolgirl Murders seemed solved, bizarre killings across the country follow the same twisted script. Novelist Gillian McBride is the only one who sees the pattern, and her own past ties her terrifyingly close to the returning killer's plans.

Working on her twin brother's Senate campaign helps Bridget Corrigan forget her divorce, until an old high school secret resurfaces. As members of their former clique die in accidents, stalked and painted by an unseen artist, Bridget races to unmask the killer before her own portrait is finished.

Claire Shaw wakes in a Seattle hospital with no memory of the attack that nearly killed her or of the vicious serial murderer she somehow escaped. At a remote island resort, fragments return, and she begins to suspect the killer is closer than anyone thinks.

In Seattle, a sadistic voyeur fixes on a series of young women, each killed in a different, carefully staged way. While the city panics, his latest obsession has no idea she is being watched, tested, and prepared for the ultimate punishment.

A string of suspicious deaths around a Northwest Catholic seminary forces Father Jack Murphy to question the official stories. As he digs into decades of so called accidents, he uncovers a pattern of brutality and realizes a calculating killer has turned faith into a hunting ground.

Several seemingly successful people with very different lives share one problem, a stranger knows their worst secrets. As an unseen jury stalks them, infiltrating homes and careers, the victims realize too late that they are being judged, condemned, and lined up to die.

Office worker Carl Jorgenson reacts to his failing marriage by abducting an infant from another couple and starting over in Seattle with the boy he calls his own. Years later, questions about family and identity pull mother and child back together.