Lucky Strickland Books in Order

Lucky Strickland is Christine Bell's crime-thriller series written as Christine Gael. It moves away from romance and supernatural fiction to follow an NYPD homicide detective working a case designed to frighten the whole city.

The series begins with Lucky Break. Detective Lucky Strickland and her partner, Carlos Figueroa, are called when a grotesque sculpture made from human body parts appears outside New York's Museum of Modern Art. It is not an isolated act. The display is the opening move in a revenge-driven killer's plan.

Lucky is not lucky in the easy sense of the word. She is a working detective facing an investigation that gets more urgent with every new body, while the killer keeps controlling the pace and choosing the next public message. Her partnership with Carlos matters because the case demands trust, persistence, and someone who can tell her when she is pushing too hard.

New York is essential to the story. The city offers crowds, noise, institutions, and countless places for a determined killer to hide, but it also makes every crime feel more visible. The pressure builds as the investigation moves through streets and neighborhoods that should be ordinary but become part of a deadly game.

The tone is darker and more procedural than Bell's romance series. Readers should expect a murder investigation, violent imagery, escalating suspense, and a central detective who must keep her own instincts from becoming a liability.

Start with Lucky Break. It introduces Lucky, Carlos, and the kind of high-pressure case that defines the series, while leaving room for their professional partnership to develop in later investigations.