Lisa Gardner Books in Order

In Tucson’s blistering heat, Frankie Elkin searches for Sabera Ahmadi, an Afghan refugee and young mother who vanished three weeks earlier. A shocking video, a domineering husband, and a child with an extraordinary memory hint that the Ahmadi family’s past may be even more dangerous than their present.

Death row serial killer Kaylee Pierson asks Frankie Elkin to find her long missing sister before her execution date. The trail leads to a remote private island where a tech billionaire is building an eco resort, and where a storm, a dozen secrets, and a captive past converge.

Five years after Timothy O’Day vanished during a bachelor party camping trip in Wyoming, his father mounts one final search. Frankie Elkin joins the small team heading into the national forest, only to discover that something in the wilderness wants to make sure none of them come back.

Told from a child’s point of view, this brief guide explores what it is like when Mom lives with anxiety and panic attacks. In simple, honest language it offers reassurance, understanding, and a reminder that love is another kind of medicine.

Recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin drifts into Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood to search for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager missing for months. With no badge and few allies, Frankie navigates gangs, wary families, and her own demons to find a girl the city seems to have forgotten.

A new clue in serial killer Jacob Ness’s crimes sends D.D. Warren, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, and survivor Flora Dane to a small Georgia town with too many unmarked graves. As they uncover fresh horrors and hidden victims, Flora is forced to confront the full truth of what happened to her years ago.

A panicked man walks into Boston homicide convinced he is already dead, only to be sent home very much alive. Hours later his body turns up for real, and D.D. Warren must untangle fraud, mistaken identity, and murder to explain how someone managed to die twice.

Evie Carter stands over her husband’s body with a smoking gun and a history that includes another fatal shooting years before. As D.D. Warren reopens the old case and Flora Dane recognizes the dead man from her captivity, the two women pull on a tangle of family secrets someone will kill to protect.

Four members of a blended family are gunned down in their Boston home and sixteen year old Roxanna is missing. Partnering with vigilante Flora Dane, D.D. Warren follows a trail through foster files, teenage friendships, and old resentments to find the girl before someone else does.

Eight years ago, Sharlah Nash’s older brother killed their abusive father to save them both. Now thirteen and about to be adopted by profilers Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner, Sharlah learns her brother may be on a new killing spree and heading straight for her.

Five years after a young woman is strangled in a college library stairwell, only her missing sneakers and three possible suspects remain. Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner reexamine the cold case for Boston police, determined to identify the unseen fourth man whose obsession turned deadly.

Seven years after being kidnapped on spring break and held for 472 days, Flora Dane has rebuilt herself into a survivor who hunts predators. After she kills a man in self defense, D.D. Warren must sort out whether Flora is a victim, a vigilante, or bait in a larger game involving a missing college student.

Asked to teach a roomful of thriller writers how homicide really works, D.D. Warren presents one of her strangest cases: a seedy motel room, drugs, prostitution, and a severed leg. She dares the class to spot which part of her story is the lie.

In this crossover short story, Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates the murder of a psychologist and a missing jade Buddha statue. Her search leads her to past life researcher Malachai Samuels, and the unlikely pair must combine skeptic and believer to unmask a killer with a mystical obsession.

After a horrific car crash on a rural New Hampshire road, Nicky Frank wakes in the hospital insisting a little girl named Vero is missing. Her husband swears no such child exists. Sergeant Wyatt Foster and Tessa Leoni must untangle head injury, lies, and buried crimes to learn who needs saving.

A second mysterious blonde arrives in Grand Springs, and Josie finds herself in handcuffs while Jack struggles with divided loyalties. On the run from both the law and a determined killer, the pair must work together to expose the truth and earn their future.

Jack Stryker’s investigation into Mayor Olivia Stuart’s death leads straight to Josie, the woman he cannot forget and now may have to arrest. As evidence mounts and the storm rages, both must decide whether to trust their hearts or the case files.

In the opening installment of this 36 Hours story, a devastating storm bears down on Grand Springs, Colorado, as cop Jack Stryker and Josie Reynolds share a charged encounter. When the town’s mayor is murdered, their lives collide in a case that will test loyalty and attraction.

Recovering from a brutal on the job attack, D.D. Warren turns to pain specialist Dr. Adeline Glen, a woman born without the ability to feel pain. When a new killer echoes the crimes of Adeline’s infamous father and imprisoned sister, both women are dragged into a family nightmare that refuses to stay buried.

Boston power couple Justin and Libby Denbe and their teenage daughter vanish from their elegant home without a trace. Corporate investigator Tessa Leoni follows a trail from a ransacked townhouse to an abandoned prison, uncovering corporate betrayal, family secrets, and a kidnap plot built on more than money.

Seven months pregnant, D.D. Warren takes a side job advising on a serial killer movie shooting in a Boston graveyard. When the film’s former police consultant is found beaten to death, she suddenly finds herself chasing a real murderer among a cast and crew full of suspects.

For two years running, one of Charlie Grant’s childhood friends has been murdered on January 21. Convinced her turn is next, Charlie asks D.D. Warren to investigate her future death. As D.D. digs into Charlie’s past, she wonders whether her terrified client is truly a target or something more dangerous.

State police trooper Tessa Leoni admits she shot her abusive husband, but refuses to explain her injuries or her missing six year old daughter. Working the case, D.D. Warren must decide whether Tessa is a desperate mother, a calculating killer, or both before the little girl’s time runs out.

Four members of a family are massacred in their Boston home and the surviving father clings to life. D.D. Warren’s search for answers leads her to a locked pediatric psych ward and a desperate mother, where buried trauma links past and present in dangerous ways.

A young mother disappears from her South Boston home, leaving behind a four year old daughter and a husband who will not cooperate with police. As media frenzy grows, D.D. Warren has to decide whether she is dealing with a grieving spouse, a predator, or a victim of something stranger.

Pregnant FBI agent Kimberly Quincy is drawn into the case of missing runaways and sex workers when a terrified young prostitute hints at a sadist who uses spiders as his calling card. With no bodies and only whispers, Kimberly must decide whether the monster she hunts even exists until it is almost too late.

When the mummified bodies of six girls are discovered on the grounds of an abandoned mental hospital, Detective D.D. Warren fears a notorious killer has returned. A woman with a disturbingly similar childhood steps forward, and D.D. must untangle decades of secrets before someone else vanishes.

Ex FBI profiler Pierce Quincy returns home to find his wife Rainie’s car abandoned on an Oregon highway, engine running and purse on the seat. With few clues and the media circling, Quincy must confront Rainie’s past and his own failures to bring her home alive.

Police sniper Bobby Dodge makes a split second decision during a Boston hostage standoff and kills a well connected husband. As questions mount about what really happened, Detective D.D. Warren and Bobby uncover buried secrets and a far older evil.

A calculating predator always takes two victims, leaving one body behind packed with clues to the second captive’s location. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy joins her father Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner in a race against a brutal timetable as a deadly heatwave descends.

Jillian, Carol, and Meg refuse to call themselves victims after a serial rapist attacks them; they form the Survivors Club and help put him on trial. When he is gunned down outside the courthouse, the women become prime suspects and Detective Roan Griffin must decide who is seeking ultimate revenge.

A devastating school shooting shatters the small town of Bakersville, Oregon, and a frightened boy quickly confesses. Officer Rainie Conner calls in FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, and together they uncover a hidden predator who has only just begun playing a very personal game.

When his daughter dies in what appears to be a drunk driving crash, FBI profiler Pierce Quincy suspects murder. Teaming up with ex cop Rainie Conner, he hunts a mastermind who is targeting everyone he loves and using their deepest vulnerabilities as weapons.

In this Men in Blue romance, a woman who swore she was done with cops suddenly needs help from officer Mike once more. Old hurts, unresolved attraction, and a fresh investigation force them to decide whether lightning can strike twice in love and in danger.

Abandoned in a Boston hospital at nine and adopted by a prominent family, Melanie Stokes has no memories of her life before. When anonymous notes and a pushy reporter tie her to a Texas serial killer, Melanie must uncover who she really is and which family she can trust.

As a violent storm slams Grand Springs, Colorado, cop Jack Stryker and free spirited Josie Reynolds are thrown together by a shocking murder. With the town cut off and a killer still at large, suspicion, attraction, and danger make the next thirty six hours life changing.

Wildland firefighter Brandon Ferringer has never stopped questioning his father’s disappearance. His search brings him to single mother Victoria Meese’s Lady Luck Ranch, where sparks fly even as suspicious accidents mount. Together they must expose the truth before it destroys their fragile new family.

Tess Beckett thought she married the perfect cop until she helped send him to prison for murdering multiple women. When he escapes and vows revenge, Tess teams up with a burned out ex marine to protect her daughter and end the nightmare on her own terms.

Shy, rule following Maggie Ferringer is shocked when she is kidnapped from jury duty by escaped convict Cain Cannon. Cain swears he was framed for his girlfriend’s murder, and as Maggie helps him search for the truth, hostage and captor become unexpected allies and something more.

Tamara Allistair has spent ten years plotting revenge against the man who destroyed her family. Ex marine C.J. MacNamara steps in to keep her alive, but protecting Tamara means uncovering a conspiracy and convincing a fiercely independent woman that trusting him is not another mistake.

Known as the quiet one in the boisterous Guiness family, he has learned to keep his feelings locked down. That discipline is tested when a woman in serious trouble lands on his doorstep, pulling him into a case where love may be the riskiest move of all.

A patient, steady member of the Guiness clan finally meets the woman he has always wanted, only to find her life entangled in peril. To keep her safe, he will have to confront old ghosts and risk the future he has quietly dreamed about for years.

When a Guiness family member crosses paths with the lover who once slipped through his fingers, old feelings ignite fast. But a deadly threat gives them only a narrow window to rebuild trust, making survival their first priority and a second chance at love a distant second.

Jessica has spent years trying to outrun a past that left her wary of both cops and commitments. When trouble pushes her into the orbit of the close knit Guiness clan, she must decide whether to trust a determined protector even as danger draws steadily closer.

Elizabeth Guiness takes a nanny job with brilliant scientist Richard Keaton and his precocious, emotionally starved son, whose mother died under suspicious circumstances. As Liz tries to mend the fractured family, she realizes someone is willing to kill to keep the past buried.

Maria Pegauchi still wakes from nightmares of the day a child stealing ring shattered her life. When private investigator Sam Mathers asks her to help find a missing girl tied to the same predators, Maria must face old terror and the risky pull of new love.

Sabrina Duncan believes she has finally carved out a fragile haven for the Children of the Night she shelters in Portland. A new wave of violence forces her to work with a man carrying his own scars, testing the limits of loyalty, forgiveness, and second chances.

In Portland, Sabrina Duncan devotes her life to the Children of the Night, runaway teens surviving on the streets. When a brutal killer starts targeting the kids she protects, she reluctantly teams up with homicide lieutenant Thomas Lain and risks trusting both justice and love again.