Lisa Black Books in Order

Forensic expert Evelyn James is called to a chilling Cleveland murder where the victim was drowned and weighted with concrete. As the clues point toward another young woman and city power players, the case turns dangerously personal.

Theresa MacLean’s workday begins with a murder scene and ends inside a Federal Reserve bank robbery. When her fiancé is taken hostage, she trades places with him and faces a crisis far deadlier than it first appears.

A wealthy woman is murdered inside a heavily secured Cleveland penthouse, leaving Evelyn James with almost no evidence and too many suspects. When someone close to her is attacked, the locked-room puzzle becomes brutally personal.

When young mother Jillian Perry is found dead in the woods, police call it suicide. Theresa MacLean is not convinced, and her search for proof of murder pulls her into a case with rising personal stakes.

A body hidden for decades draws Theresa MacLean into Cleveland’s unsolved Torso Killer history. As a modern killer leaves echoes of the old crimes, past and present begin to collide in unsettling ways.

A murdered attorney at a luxury hotel launches Theresa MacLean into a maze of trace evidence and high-powered suspects. When more bodies follow, she realizes the killer may be far closer to her family than she wants to believe.

A streetwise girl called Ghost sees her mother killed and refuses to let the truth stay buried. Theresa MacLean must protect the child and untangle a case full of conflicting motives before Ghost becomes the next target.

After surviving an explosion, Theresa MacLean stumbles into two cases that should not connect, but do. Old secrets, new money, and the meth trade pull her toward a conspiracy with a very long reach.

Theresa MacLean returns to the medical examiner’s office to find one coworker dead and another missing. When the victims keep multiplying inside her own workplace, the case becomes a hunt through fear, loyalty, and suspicion.

Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner examines the body of an unidentified teenage girl found in a cemetery. As the search for her killer widens, Maggie is drawn toward Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a dangerously personal sense of justice.

A body hanging above a newspaper press looks like suicide until Maggie Gardiner reads the scene differently. As more deaths follow, she is forced to rely on Jack Renner, the one man whose secrets she should fear most.

The brutal murder of a finance company founder sends Maggie Gardiner and Jack Renner into Cleveland’s cutthroat money world. Then unrelated killings begin to echo each other, and Maggie realizes a much darker pattern may be emerging.

A teenager’s death at a juvenile detention center looks like tragedy, then something far worse. Maggie Gardiner and Jack Renner dig into the lives inside Firebird and uncover danger aimed at the most vulnerable residents.

Days before a major election, a senator is electrocuted on her own doorstep. Maggie Gardiner and Jack Renner chase the murder through cash, corruption, and local politics while a reporter edges closer to Jack’s buried secrets.

A young man’s corpse in a cemetery opens a case that draws Maggie Gardiner back to the place where everything with Jack Renner began. Student housing, pill mills, and a widening fraud scheme make the danger personal.

Winter 2020 issue of Mystery Tribune, featuring a story by Lisa Black alongside other crime fiction, interviews, reviews, and photography. A good pick if you want shorter mystery work rather than a full novel.

When Ellie Carr investigates the kidnapping of her cousin’s baby, the case drags her into the world of wealth and lobbying. Teaming uneasily with Rachael Davies, she follows forensic traces toward a political conspiracy.

On her first day teaching at the Locard Institute, Ellie Carr finds a colleague dead and a second case close behind. With Rachael Davies, she must untangle a killer hiding inside a place built for forensic experts.

Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies are called to a billionaire’s Florida compound after a pregnant woman is found dead on the shore. Family secrets, military contracts, and stormy waters turn the investigation into a dangerous trap.

Rock star Billy Diamond asks Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies to find his missing daughter at a Nevada retreat. What starts as a search soon becomes an undercover investigation into manipulation, buried history, and death.