Private Books in Order

Newly admitted to Billings Hall, Reed Brennan faces blackmail from a roommate holding compromising photographs. While pressured to uncover her powerful housemates' secrets, she seeks entry to an exclusive Halloween party where her missing boyfriend may appear.

Scholarship student Reed Brennan arrives at elite Easton Academy hoping to escape her troubled home. Determined to join the influential Billings Girls, she discovers that their glamorous parties and social power conceal secrets they fiercely protect.

Thomas Pearson's death unsettles Easton Academy and Reed Brennan's new life among the Billings Girls. As Reed grows closer to Josh Hollis, suspicion turns toward him, forcing her to question the people around her.

With Josh Hollis arrested for Thomas Pearson's murder, Reed Brennan refuses to accept the case against her boyfriend. Her search for the real killer uncovers further secrets at Easton Academy and puts her own life at risk.

Returning to Easton for a new school year, Reed supports the headmaster's ban on Billings Hall's secret initiation. Cheyenne Martin insists on preserving the old traditions, setting the girls against each other over the newcomers' admission.

Reed Brennan tries to save Billings Hall from closure by organizing a glamorous New York fundraiser. Her new popularity falters when police questions about Cheyenne Martin's death suggest that someone wants both Reed and Billings destroyed.

A blizzard strands Ariana Osgood at Easton Academy with Thomas Pearson over Christmas break. Their secret attraction grows while an unseen watcher threatens them, revealing events that preceded Reed Brennan's arrival in this Private prequel.

After Cheyenne Martin's death, Reed Brennan becomes president of Billings Hall and enjoys its privileges. When Easton is excluded from the prestigious Legacy party, her classmates expect her to restore their access despite the hall's troubled history.

The discovery that Cheyenne Martin was murdered turns suspicion toward Reed Brennan, her successor as Billings president. Expelled from the dorm and isolated from her friends, Reed investigates the killing to recover her life and protect herself.

Reed Brennan hopes a luxurious Caribbean vacation will help her recover from Easton's recent tragedies. Reunited with Kiran and Taylor, she enjoys beaches and yacht parties while worrying that the Billings Girls' troubles may follow them.

On St. Barths, Reed Brennan falls for the sought-after Upton while vacationing with her Billings friends. Their romance attracts unwanted attention from his former girlfriends, including an ex determined to remove Reed from the picture.

Former Marine Jack Morgan runs Private, an investigation firm serving powerful clients. Already handling murdered schoolgirls and an NFL gambling scandal, he becomes personally involved when his best friend’s wife, once his lover, is killed.

Returning to Easton after a kidnapping, Reed Brennan discovers that Billings Hall has been demolished. Without the dorm that defined their status, she and the other Billings Girls must confront threats to their identity and influence.

In 1915, Eliza Williams arrives at the Billings School for Girls and forms a secret coven with her housemates. Their experiments with a discovered spell book turn dangerous when a seemingly harmless enchantment has deadly consequences.

Noelle disappears after the initiation into Reed Brennan's new secret society, leaving a mysterious note. Warned to keep the kidnapping secret, Reed searches for her friend while investigating the Billings Literary Society before she becomes another target.

Reed and Noelle learn that their Billings ancestry includes a coven of witches. When girls begin disappearing from Easton and a body carries a message for Reed, the school's troubled history becomes an increasingly personal threat.

Student Hannah Shapiro’s traumatic past follows her from Los Angeles to London. Private investigator Dan Carter and his police detective ex-wife investigate a series of mutilated murder victims that may be connected to the young American.

Reed Brennan is determined to rebuild Billings after the violence surrounding her birthday party. Resistance from Easton's headmaster and alumnae complicates her efforts, while unresolved threats return as the Private series reaches its final confrontation.

When a former lover is found murdered in his bed, investigator Jack Morgan becomes the prime suspect. While trying to clear himself, he faces mob pressure to recover stolen pharmaceuticals and murders at a luxury hotel chain.

Private investigator Peter Knight helps protect the London Olympics when an organizing committee member is murdered. A killer’s letter draws him and reporter Karen Pope into a race to stop attacks aimed at destroying the Games.

When Private Berlin investigator Chris Schneider vanishes, his colleague and former lover Mattie Engel follows his unfinished cases. Her search through the city’s hidden places uncovers troubling secrets about Chris and a threat beyond his disappearance.

A wounded young man interrupts the launch party for Private’s Sydney office. Craig Gisto’s new team inherits a growing caseload, including a possible kidnapping and disturbing murders in the city’s wealthy suburbs, before it can settle in.

Santosh Wagh leads Private’s Mumbai office into a hunt for a killer targeting seemingly unrelated women. Strange objects left at the crime scenes suggest a ritual, while another threat endangers the agency from within.

Hollywood’s celebrated golden couple disappears from its ranch without explanation. Jack Morgan investigates behind layers of security and carefully managed publicity, uncovering secrets that challenge the reassuring image the missing stars have presented to the world.

Private Sydney investigates the disappearance of research company chief Eric Moss, whose records have vanished too. As powerful people pursue conflicting agendas, a separate background check leads the team toward a stolen baby and a killer.

Jack Morgan follows two criminals from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, where Lester Olsen entertains young women before teaching them to kill. Private's investigation draws Morgan into a murder ring built around glamour and hidden motives.

Jack Morgan's Paris visit becomes a search for a client's granddaughter fleeing a drug dealer. Symbolic murders among France's cultural elite draw his team into a wider case as religious and ethnic tensions intensify.

Jack Morgan returns to Rio to provide security for the Olympics, but prominent clients disappear and bodies appear across the city. His team must uncover the threat before the world's sporting celebration becomes a catastrophe.

Santosh Wagh returns to lead Private's new Delhi office, where dissolved human remains appear in a government-owned property. With officials suppressing information, his investigation risks making him a target of those protecting the secret.

Princess Caroline summons Private investigator Jack Morgan to London to find her missing friend Sophie Edwards. Morgan suspects the princess is withholding information, while powerful people seem determined to prevent the investigation from uncovering the truth.

Jack Morgan witnesses the murder of an old Marine friend at the New York Stock Exchange. Hired to investigate, he finds a connection to another killing in Moscow and follows it into a conspiracy with international consequences.

A rich father hires Jack Morgan to find his missing daughter and grandchildren, but the case is anything but simple. The trail leads toward trained operatives, buried secrets, and Afghanistan.