Lis Wiehl Books in Order
Browse the April Henry and Lis Wiehl books in order, with quick summaries, collaboration notes, and where to start with their crime thrillers.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Lis Wiehl books in publication order
20 books
The People v. George W. Bush
by Lis Wiehl
2004
This early nonfiction title uses a courtroom-style setup to weigh the case for and against President George W. Bush. It treats politics like a trial, focusing on evidence, argument, and the question of presidential accountability.
Winning Every Time
by Lis Wiehl
2004
Drawing on courtroom practice, Wiehl breaks down the habits lawyers use to build a case, ask better questions, and stay focused under pressure. The book translates trial strategy into practical advice for work, family, and everyday conflict.
The 51% Minority
by Lis Wiehl
2007
Wiehl looks at the legal and social gaps that still shape women's lives, from pay and pregnancy to safety and representation. She pairs the argument with practical advice aimed at helping readers push back and press for change.
Face of Betrayal
by Lis Wiehl
2008
When a Senate page vanishes over Christmas break, reporter Cassidy Shaw breaks the story first. Soon she is working with FBI agent Nicole Hedges and prosecutor Allison Pierce to untangle a case buried in politics and danger.
Hand of Fate
by Lis Wiehl
2010
A polarizing radio host dies when poison gas floods his studio during a live show. Nicole, Cassidy, and Allison race through panic, betrayal, and hidden motives to find the killer.
Heart of Ice
by Lis Wiehl
2011
The crimes look random at first, arson, theft, fraud, murder, until one chilling pattern emerges. A charming, calculating woman is pulling the strings, and the Triple Threat team may already know her.
The Truth Advantage
by Lis Wiehl
2011
In this nonfiction guide, Wiehl argues that honesty is more practical than it looks. She uses cases, stories, and everyday examples to show how telling the truth, spotting lies, and asking better questions can strengthen work and relationships.
Waking Hours
by Lis Wiehl
2011
When a teenage girl is found murdered in East Salem, forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris is drawn into a case full of missing memories and unsettling clues. Former football star Tommy Gunderson joins her as the mystery starts to feel darker than murder alone.
Darkness Rising
by Lis Wiehl
2012
Dani Harris and Tommy Gunderson dig deeper into the secrets around St. Adrian's Academy and find a threat that reaches far beyond an ordinary crime. The series turns more openly supernatural as murder, betrayal, and old evil converge.
Eyes of Justice
by Lis Wiehl
2012
A shocking crime hits the Triple Threat team close to home and sends Cassidy, Allison, and Nicole into their most personal case yet. False leads, hidden motives, and a relentless killer keep shifting the ground beneath them.
A Matter of Trust
by Lis Wiehl
2013
Seattle prosecutor Mia Quinn is already reeling from widowhood when a colleague is murdered during a phone call with her. Working the case with detective Charlie Carlson, she uncovers threats that may be aimed at her own family.
Fatal Tide
by Lis Wiehl
2013
A violent attack, a survivor in hiding, and a poisoned water source pull Dani and Tommy into a last desperate battle for East Salem. The conspiracy around St. Adrian's widens into an apocalyptic struggle with human and supernatural enemies.
A Deadly Business
by Lis Wiehl
2014
After a convicted man attacks her in court, prosecutor Mia Quinn is forced to face how dangerous her job really is. Then Charlie Carlson suggests her husband's fatal crash was no accident, and the unofficial investigation turns perilous.
Snapshot
by Lis Wiehl
2014
A photograph from a 1960s civil rights march jolts Boston prosecutor Lisa Waldren into a case tied to an old murder. If the picture means what it seems to mean, she may hold the key to clearing a man on death row.
Lethal Beauty
by Lis Wiehl
2015
Mia Quinn wants justice for Dandan Yee, a young Chinese woman killed by a wealthy client, but the case refuses to stay simple. Missing witnesses, jury interference, and linked murders push Mia and Charlie toward organized crime.
The Candidate
by Lis Wiehl
2016
Covering a presidential race, Erica Sparks becomes suspicious of war hero Mike Ortiz and his polished wife, Celeste. Her digging pulls her into a web of media manipulation, buried secrets, and danger that reaches her daughter.
The Newsmakers
by Lis Wiehl
2016
Reporter Erica Sparks lands a big New York network job and becomes famous after capturing two shocking events on camera. The sudden success feels wrong, and her search for the pattern behind it puts her career and life at risk.
The Separatists
by Lis Wiehl
2017
Erica Sparks heads to North Dakota to investigate a rising secessionist movement and quickly finds murder, political volatility, and trouble at home. What begins as a reporting assignment turns into a personal fight to uncover who is driving the crisis.
Hunting Charles Manson
by Lis Wiehl
2018
This true-crime account revisits the Manson murders, the long investigation, and the prosecution that followed. Drawing on research and interviews, Wiehl focuses on how the case unfolded and why it still unsettles people decades later.
A Spy in Plain Sight
by Lis Wiehl
2022
Wiehl digs into the Robert Hanssen case, tracing how an FBI agent spied for Russia for years while hiding in plain sight. It is part character study, part institutional warning about how a disaster like this happened.
Where to start with Lis Wiehl
For the team-based legal thrillers: Face of Betrayal → Hand of Fate → Heart of Ice → Eyes of Justice
For a more personal prosecutor-led mystery: A Matter of Trust → A Deadly Business → Lethal Beauty
For creepy supernatural suspense: Waking Hours → Darkness Rising → Fatal Tide
For media and political intrigue: The Newsmakers → The Candidate → The Separatists
For true crime: Hunting Charles Manson → A Spy in Plain Sight
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Author bio
Lis Wiehl grew up in Yakima, Washington, in a family where books and the law were never far apart. Her mother, a Danish immigrant with a PhD in English, encouraged her to read widely. Her father worked in law enforcement and prosecution, so stories about real cases were part of the background noise of childhood. That mix, books on one side, justice on the other, shows up all through her career.
She was a library kid.
Wiehl has said she wanted to be a writer when she was young, even if that dream later felt a little impractical. Years afterward, she went back to her old grade school library in Yakima and discovered that she had once checked out every book in it. It is the kind of detail that sounds almost too neat to be true, but it fits the rest of her story. Reading came first, then study: Barnard College, a master's degree in literature from the University of Queensland, and a law degree from Harvard.
Law came before publishing did.
After school, Wiehl built a serious legal career. She practiced law in Seattle, served as a federal prosecutor, and later taught at the University of Washington School of Law, where she directed the Trial Advocacy Program. Journalism ran alongside that work. She reported or provided legal analysis for NBC News, NPR's All Things Considered, and later Fox News, where she spent more than fifteen years as a legal analyst and reporter. More recently, she has continued to appear as a legal commentator on outlets including CNN, CBS, and NPR.
It is not hard to see how those jobs fed the fiction. Wiehl knows courtrooms, investigations, deadlines, and the public theater around crime. In the Triple Threat novels, beginning with Face of Betrayal, she and April Henry build suspense around three women who approach the same case from different angles: a reporter, an FBI agent, and a federal prosecutor. In the Mia Quinn books, starting with A Matter of Trust, the focus gets tighter and more personal, following a Seattle prosecutor trying to do her job while her private life keeps taking hard hits.
She also likes putting pressure on people whose work already comes with pressure built in.
That shows up again in The Newsmakers, where Erica Sparks moves through the brutal pace of television journalism, and in Snapshot, which uses one old photograph to connect a modern prosecutor to a civil rights era murder. Then there is the East Salem trilogy, which takes a sharper turn into supernatural suspense. In Waking Hours, forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris and Tommy Gunderson are pulled into a murder case that opens onto something older and stranger than an ordinary crime novel usually allows.
Wiehl has not stayed in one lane. Alongside her fiction, she has written nonfiction that draws directly on her legal background, including Winning Every Time, The 51% Minority, and The Truth Advantage. She also moved into true crime with books like Hunting Charles Manson and A Spy in Plain Sight, her account of FBI spy Robert Hanssen. Those books show the same interests that drive her novels: how power works, how people hide the truth, and how investigators piece it back together.
In recent years, she has kept writing while also mentoring emerging writers and serving on nonprofit boards. What readers usually get from a Lis Wiehl book is not fancy prose or showy style. It is momentum, insider detail, and a strong sense that facts matter, even when the people chasing them are tired, scared, or badly outnumbered. That turns out to be a pretty solid engine for both thrillers and true crime.
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