Liz Bradford Books in Order
Explore Liz Bradford books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and simple where-to-start tips for Hazel Hill, Knoxville FBI, and more.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
A Frightful Noel
by Liz Bradford
2018
A gang execution, a pregnant witness, and a North Carolina snowstorm turn one Christmas night into a fight for survival. Detective Doug Ramirez and his team must keep a terrified young woman alive long enough to stop the killers.
Not Alone
by Liz Bradford
2018
Detective Rebecca Palmer is chasing a serial killer who targets single mothers, and every new victim cuts close to home. As Jared Johnson starts over in Hazel Hill, the case pulls both detectives into danger and unfinished feelings.
On Your Knees
by Liz Bradford
2019
A current murder case points Detective Adam Jamison toward a seventeen-year-old crime he thought was buried. To protect teacher Ella Perkins from the man who hurt her, Adam must face his own failures before the past strikes again.
Pursued
by Liz Bradford
2019
When Amelia Banik spots a pattern linking cold missing-person cases to her aunt's disappearance, the hunt becomes personal. With another couple missing and time running out, she has to trust both her instincts and paramedic Caleb Johnson.
A Shot at Redemption
by Liz Bradford
2020
A sniper is terrorizing Hazel Hill, and detective Gavin Riley is one of the few people trained to think like him. The case is hard enough on its own, but Gavin and forensic photographer Jocelyn North are already carrying a life-changing secret.
Giants Fall
by Liz Bradford
2021
When a new killing echoes the unsolved murder of his friend Tom Davis, Captain Keith Baker gets a second shot at the truth. But with threats closing in on Tom's widow Amy, solving the case suddenly turns painfully personal.
Into the Flames
by Liz Bradford
2021
On a case involving a kidnapped girl, FBI agents Dylan Harris and Jacq Sheppard clash over what really happened and where the trail leads. Their growing attraction only makes the stakes messier as the search edges toward the world of trafficking.
Revenge Ignited
by Liz Bradford
2021
After her sister's death, Aliza Blake is barely holding Christmas together for three grieving children. When theft and danger close in, officer Gabe Jacobs steps in to help, and the season turns into a tense race for safety and hope.
Under Fire
by Liz Bradford
2022
Jacq Sheppard thinks a missing-person case may connect to the friend she lost years ago, and not everyone believes her. Then an attempt on her life turns suspicion into urgency, forcing her and Dylan Harris deeper into a dangerous trafficking investigation.
Smoky Escape
by Liz Bradford
2023
FBI agent Gio Crespi finally rescues the woman who has haunted his thoughts for years, but freedom is not that simple for Morgan. When she disappears again and a battered body turns up, the search becomes desperate and deeply personal.
Swept Away
by Liz Bradford
2023
Called to southwestern Virginia with her dog Poirot, Chloe Jacobs expects a difficult search, not a murder scene. With floodwaters rising, reporters circling, and another person missing, Chloe and Josh Schneider may be chasing a killer instead of a rescue.
Too Late
by Liz Bradford
2023
K-9 handler Chloe Jacobs knows the ache of finding people too late, and a new search brings all that trauma rushing back. As mistakes pile up and a strange threat emerges, she and Josh Schneider have little room for one more failure.
Abandoned
by Liz Bradford
2024
New Hazel Hill officer Zara Grant keeps people at a distance, until threats from her past start getting real. Officer Will Cooper wants to protect her, but their own fears may be just as dangerous as the person closing in.
Out of the Ashes
by Liz Bradford
2024
Morgan Zalman is free, loved, and trying to build a future with Gio Crespi, but the past will not stay buried. Nightmares, missing memories, and a man who claims to know the truth threaten to trap her all over again.
Betrayed
by Liz Bradford
2025
Police officer Logan Jackson would rather face gunfire than the hurt he still carries from AJ, his former high school sweetheart. When a stalker targets firefighter AJ Jackson, they have to work together before old wounds cost them everything.
Stone Cold Christmas
by Liz Bradford
2025
Deputy Noelle Stone would gladly skip Christmas, but trouble in Dickens, Michigan will not let her. When the town fair is sabotaged and petty crimes turn deadly, new deputy Jack Baker becomes her uneasy ally in a dangerous holiday mystery.
Where should I start?
For small-town detective suspense: A Frightful Noel → Not Alone → Pursued
For FBI cases with the biggest ongoing arc: Revenge Ignited → Into the Flames → Under Fire → Smoky Escape → Out of the Ashes
For first-responder danger in Hazel Hill: Abandoned → Betrayed
For K-9 search and rescue: Too Late → Swept Away
For a Christmas mystery on its own: Stone Cold Christmas
Author bio
Liz Bradford writes Christian romantic suspense about detectives, FBI agents, first responders, and ordinary people trying to keep their footing when life turns dangerous. She was born in North Carolina, and even her pen name comes from family history, Bradford is a family name she chose because it was easier for readers to remember and share.
Reading did not come easily at first.
She has written about struggling with books as a fifth grader until she found the Three Cousins Detectives Club series. That was the switch. Reading became fun, and years later it feels fitting that the first series she built as a writer would also center on detectives.
Bradford did not grow up thinking she would become a novelist. She was homeschooled, later became an elementary teacher, and kept writing mostly to herself for years. Then, when her middle daughter was a little over a year old, a story idea would not leave her alone. She started staying up late after everyone else was asleep so she could get the words down.
That first manuscript stayed on her hard drive, but it started the habit.
Soon another story arrived, Becca and Jared's, and that became Not Alone. From there she built out the Hazel Hill books, including Pursued, On Your Knees, A Shot at Redemption, and Giants Fall, all set around a North Carolina police department where every case seems to touch somebody's private life. Later she widened the lens with the Knoxville FBI novels, beginning with Into the Flames, where a missing child case opens into the darker world of trafficking.
Her fiction kept branching after that. Under Fire, Smoky Escape, and Out of the Ashes continue the Knoxville thread. Abandoned and Betrayed move to police and fire characters in the same Hazel Hill world. Too Late and Swept Away bring in K-9 search and rescue. Even her Christmas stories, like A Frightful Noel and Stone Cold Christmas, keep suspense close at hand.
What readers tend to find in Bradford's books is a mix of pressure and tenderness. The crimes can be hard, serial killers, stalking, trafficking, old assaults, missing people, but the stories are just as interested in fear, guilt, forgiveness, and second chances. Her faith thread is open rather than hidden, and her characters often have to deal with spiritual questions at the same time they are trying to stay alive.
Place matters in her work. She has said her heart is drawn to North Carolina and Tennessee, which helps explain why those settings keep returning. Her towns and cities are not just scenery; they shape the people, the jobs, the family ties, and the kind of trouble that can find them.
These days Bradford lives in Southern Indiana with her husband and their three daughters, and homeschooling is a big part of her daily life. She describes herself as a second-generation homeschooler, and she is active in Christian writing groups, including ACFW Louisville. That mix of family life, faith, and late-night storytelling seems to sit right at the center of what she writes.
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