Leslie Wolfe Books in Order
Explore Leslie Wolfe books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple help on where to start across her thrillers and crime novels.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
30 books
Executive
by Leslie Wolfe
2011
A friendly-fire disaster and a rogue drone crash pull Alex Hoffmann into a corporate investigation with deadly stakes. As she digs deeper, military tech, greed, and hidden responsibility threaten to spark even more damage.
Devil's Move
by Leslie Wolfe
2014
In a presidential election year, Alex Hoffmann uncovers a plot tied to America's revamped voting system. Murders, conspiracies, and shadow players suggest the real target is the country's democratic core.
The Backup Asset
by Leslie Wolfe
2015
As Russia presses a new Cold War, plans for America's newest laser weapon are stolen. Alex Hoffmann races to stop the leak before one act of espionage shifts the balance of power.
The Ghost Pattern
by Leslie Wolfe
2015
Alex Hoffmann faces a modern terror plot built on sabotage, manipulation, and chemical control. The deeper she goes, the clearer it becomes that this enemy is aiming to break minds as well as bodies.
Dawn Girl
by Leslie Wolfe
2016
When a young woman's body is found on a deserted beach, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett senses this was not a one-off murder. To stop the killer before he strikes again, she must face secrets of her own.
Operation Sunset
by Leslie Wolfe
2016
Alex Hoffmann hunts an unknown Russian mastermind whose plan targets America's future, not just one city. With the clock ticking, she must stop a threat so vast it barely seems possible.
Glimpse of Death
by Leslie Wolfe
2017
A missing young mother turns up dead in her own backyard, and Tess Winnett realizes a hidden serial killer is stalking nearby. With another body found, the only clue is the killer's eerie warning ritual.
Stories Untold
by Leslie Wolfe
2017
Dr. Angela Blackwell agrees to help a stranger who wants her to witness his planned death in six months. As she digs into the veteran's past, grief, trauma, and a stubborn will to survive take over.
The Watson Girl
by Leslie Wolfe
2017
Laura Watson survived her family's murder as a child but cannot remember what really happened. As her memories begin to surface, Tess Winnett must protect the one witness a serial killer failed to erase.
Casino Girl
by Leslie Wolfe
2018
When Crystal is murdered after boarding an unmarked helicopter from the Scala Casino, Baxter and Holt enter a world of high rollers and hidden motives. In Vegas, every secret has a price.
Las Vegas Crime
by Leslie Wolfe
2018
A teenage girl is kidnapped from school, and for Baxter and Holt the case quickly turns personal. Their search leads into the Mojave Desert, where a merciless killer is targeting young girls.
Las Vegas Girl
by Leslie Wolfe
2018
Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt investigate the murder of a young girl in a luxury Las Vegas hotel. The case points toward political ambition, buried secrets, and a truth dangerous enough to kill for.
Taker of Lives
by Leslie Wolfe
2018
A model's apparent suicide does not convince Tess Winnett, and her instincts prove right. As the body count rises, she realizes a killer is controlling the game and pulling her deeper into it.
Alex Hoffmann
by Leslie Wolfe
2019
This collection gathers the five Alex Hoffmann thrillers, from Executive through Operation Sunset. It is an easy way to follow Alex through one long arc of espionage, technology, and national-security danger.
Love, Lies and Murder
by Leslie Wolfe
2019
This anthology collects nineteen suspense stories about love, guilt, justice, and the dangerous choices people make under pressure. The pieces are short, sharp, and built to land with a sting.
Not Really Dead
by Leslie Wolfe
2020
Tess Winnett takes on an off-book case after a brutal attack leaves one victim alive. The evidence suggests the notorious Word Killer is back, and this time the case hits Tess far too close to home.
Beneath Blackwater River
by Leslie Wolfe
2021
A dead teenager is found in the river wearing the locket of a child who vanished years earlier. Kay Sharp must untangle two mysteries at once before decades of lies claim another victim.
Girl With A Rose
by Leslie Wolfe
2021
When fifteen-year-old Kaylee vanishes, Tess Winnett fears she may be one victim in a much larger pattern. With time running out, Tess must decide whether she is chasing a single abduction or a serial predator.
Mile High Death
by Leslie Wolfe
2021
The body of a murdered young woman is pulled from the Gulf far from shore, and Tess Winnett suspects a killer whose victims were meant to disappear forever. With almost no evidence, every answer has to be forced into the light.
The Angel Creek Girls
by Leslie Wolfe
2021
A mother is murdered in front of her three daughters, and sixteen-year-old Julie is missing. Kay Sharp digs into a heartbreaking case that hints at a larger pattern hiding inside Mount Chester.
The Girl from Silent Lake
by Leslie Wolfe
2021
Former FBI profiler Kay Sharp returns to Mount Chester and finds a woman murdered with signs of ritual violence. When another woman and her little daughter vanish, the hunt becomes a race against a likely serial killer.
The Girl They Took
by Leslie Wolfe
2021
Nine-year-old Paige is kidnapped from a crowded children's play, and nobody sees a thing. Tess Winnett must choose between pursuing hard leads and helping with a ransom demand that may be a trap.
The Girl You Killed
by Leslie Wolfe
2021
Andrea Brafford seemed to have a perfect life until her husband was put on trial for her murder. As the case tears open her marriage and reputation, the real question becomes who Andrea really was.
Missing Girl at Frozen Falls
by Leslie Wolfe
2022
Kay Sharp's ex-husband is accused of killing Rachel, the former best friend he cheated with. Then Rachel's eight-year-old daughter vanishes, turning a painful murder case into a desperate search.
The Girl on Wildfire Ridge
by Leslie Wolfe
2022
Seventeen-year-old Jenna disappears, then turns up murdered in the mountains above Mount Chester. Kay Sharp digs into the victim's recent changes and the small-town secrets that may explain her death.
The Girl Hunter
by Leslie Wolfe
2023
TV celebrity Kiana Bayliss survived a nightmare in the Everglades but refuses to tell Tess Winnett the truth. With more women missing, Tess must decide whether Kiana is a witness, a suspect, or the only way in.
The Surgeon
by Leslie Wolfe
2023
A surgeon loses a patient she recognizes and instantly fears what will happen if anyone learns why. Guilt, revenge, and self-protection drive this tightly wound psychological thriller.
A Beautiful Couple
by Leslie Wolfe
2024
Amanda Davis thinks her life is enviable until her charming husband kills someone in a terrible accident. As she helps cover it up, his polished mask slips and the marriage itself starts to feel like a trap.
If I Go Missing
by Leslie Wolfe
2024
A woman prepares an if-I-go-missing binder for the friend who knows her best, just in case she disappears. When the worst happens, the search exposes old lies, guilt, and dangerous secrets next door.
The Hospital
by Leslie Wolfe
2024
After an attack, a woman wakes up injured and trapped in a hospital she does not trust. Betrayal, paranoia, and her own shaky grip on events turn escape into a desperate fight for survival.
Where should I start?
If you want techno-thrillers and espionage: Executive → Devil's Move → The Backup Asset
If you want serial-killer investigations: Dawn Girl → The Watson Girl → Glimpse of Death
If you prefer a small-town detective series: The Girl from Silent Lake → Beneath Blackwater River → The Angel Creek Girls
If you want standalones with big psychological twists: The Surgeon → If I Go Missing → The Hospital
Author bio
Leslie Wolfe is an American thriller writer who likes fast plots, smart women, and pressure that keeps building. She published her debut novel, Executive, in 2011, and that first book already pointed to the mix she would keep returning to, technology, power, and the mess people make when ambition outruns judgment.
She writes books that move.
Wolfe first made her mark with the Alex Hoffmann novels, a run of techno-thrillers that begin with corporate scrutiny and widen into espionage, election threats, weapons leaks, and terrorism. The books are full of systems, intelligence work, and worst-case scenarios, but the core is still character, especially a woman trying to stay clear-headed while everything around her speeds up.
Then she shifted hard into crime fiction. The Tess Winnett books, beginning with Dawn Girl, follow a blunt FBI agent through serial killer cases, kidnappings, and dark procedural puzzles. The Baxter and Holt novels trade federal cases for Las Vegas hotels, casino floors, and desert danger. With Kay Sharp, Wolfe moved again, this time into small-town crime, bringing a former FBI profiler back to a mountain community loaded with old wounds and fresh secrets.
Different setup, same instinct, keep the tension tight and the choices ugly.
Standalones have become a big part of her work too. Books like The Girl You Killed, The Surgeon, If I Go Missing, The Hospital, and A Beautiful Couple lean more toward psychological suspense and domestic strain. These are the books readers often pick up when they want marriages under pressure, hidden histories, and the slow dread of realizing the safest person in the room may not be safe at all.
Another reason her stories land is the research underneath them. Wolfe has said she digs deeply into technology, psychology, and the mechanics of crime, and that sections of her books are checked by people in law enforcement, medicine, science, and the law. You can feel that in the details, whether she is writing about a profiler, a surgeon, a corporate failure, or the small practical mistakes that crack an investigation open.
Her publishing path has grown over time as well. After building an audience with her earlier novels, she signed with Bookouture in 2020 for the Kay Sharp series. A few years later, The Surgeon hit number one on the UK Kindle chart, stayed in the U.S. top 100 for months, and helped bring a wider readership to her standalones. Her work has also been published through Grand Central Publishing and Thomas & Mercer, and several books have been translated into other languages.
Wolfe studied at the University of Maryland, but beyond that, she keeps a fair amount of her personal life offstage. In one interview she described herself as something of a recluse, more likely to be writing or answering readers by email than stepping into the spotlight. It is a useful reminder that her public story is mostly in the books themselves, not in a big author persona.
That focus works for her. Readers tend to come to Leslie Wolfe for clean, fast suspense, strong central women, and plots that keep twisting without losing the emotional thread. If you want a quick way into what she does, Dawn Girl shows her crime side, The Girl from Silent Lake shows her small-town detective mode, and The Surgeon shows how effective she is when she turns inward and makes the danger personal.
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