Robin Mahle Books in Order
Explore Robin Mahle books in order, from Kate Reid to her stand-alone thrillers, with short summaries, series guides, and easy place-to-start picks.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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Publication Order
47 books
All the Shiny Things
by Robin Mahle
2013
Katie Reid's strange dreams lead her back to a childhood abduction everyone wants forgotten. With help from Detective Marshall Avery, she digs for the truth and wakes a predator who has already spilled blood before.
Beyond the Clearing
by Robin Mahle
2014
At a secluded mountain retreat, a guest vanishes into forbidden woods and the search reveals secrets the compound was never meant to give up. Wilderness danger and creeping unease drive this early suspense novel.
Landslide
by Robin Mahle
2014
A corporate suspense story about ambition, pressure, and the damage caused when buried secrets start to slide loose. As loyalties crack and mistakes stack up, the fallout becomes impossible to control.
Law of Five
by Robin Mahle
2014
A nationwide hunt for a serial killer known as the Highway Hunter pulls Kate deeper into danger. As the body count rises, she and FBI agent Nick Scarborough are forced into a case that feels disturbingly close.
Blackwaters
by Robin Mahle
2015
When a grim discovery near the water opens a new lead, Kate is pulled into a small-town case thick with buried secrets. What looks isolated at first soon reveals a killer with far more reach than expected.
Gone Unnoticed
by Robin Mahle
2015
Kate is still carrying the damage from earlier cases when a fresh investigation turns personal and deadly. Trust frays, old wounds reopen, and she has to keep moving even when the danger feels uncomfortably close.
Inherent Clarity
by Robin Mahle
2015
An early Robin Mahle novel that leans more introspective while still circling questions of truth, trust, and identity. Characters are forced to confront what they have hidden, and what clarity might cost them.
Endangered
by Robin Mahle
2016
Kate and the FBI race to stop a predator before more vulnerable victims disappear. The case pushes her instincts, her endurance, and her personal loyalties right to the edge.
State of Denial / Primal Deception
by Robin Mahle
2016
After a deadly bombing throws suspicion onto her husband, FBI analyst Lacy Merrick starts digging for answers. What she finds is a buried conspiracy that puts her children, her allies, and her own life at risk.
First Target
by Robin Mahle
2017
After tugging at a web of corruption, Lacy becomes a target herself. To protect her family and stop the next strike, she has to stay ahead of enemies who know exactly how to weaponize information.
Last Word
by Robin Mahle
2017
Threats aimed at a congressman pull Kate into a politically charged case where every message feels deliberate. The closer the FBI gets, the clearer it becomes someone powerful has a lot to lose.
Shadow Rising
by Robin Mahle
2017
Lacy Merrick is back, still chasing the network she exposed, when new evidence points to a deeper conspiracy. With Will Caison and Aaron Hunter beside her, she steps into another dangerous game of secrets and retaliation.
The Pretty Ones
by Robin Mahle
2017
A string of baffling murders draws Kate and Nick into a case where the victims seem unconnected until a darker pattern emerges. As the clues shift, the investigation becomes a race to identify a calculating killer.
Behind Her Eyes
by Robin Mahle
2018
In a small Indiana town, Riley Thompson grows up knowing she senses more than most people do. Her unusual gift makes her valuable when darkness hits close to home, but using it comes at a cost.
Deadly Reckoning
by Robin Mahle
2018
Kate's BAU team is called into a struggling Kentucky town where overdoses, disappearances, and murder are starting to blur together. As bodies pile up, she has to prove herself while chasing a brutal motive behind the chaos.
Ghost Nation
by Robin Mahle
2018
Lacy and her task force go after the man behind a black-market operation funding terror with stolen American intellectual property. When the network vanishes into the shadows, Lacy has to take bigger risks than ever.
Bad Beat
by Robin Mahle
2019
A devastating loss leaves police officer Riley Thompson reeling until rumors of an illegal gambling ring give new meaning to a message from the dead. To expose the truth, Riley may have to trust her gift more than ever.
Deep Blue Surrender
by Robin Mahle
2019
After her old life falls apart, Allison Hart takes an unexpected path into private investigation in Florida. Her first real case pulls her toward murder, corruption, and a world far more dangerous than she expected.
To the Bone
by Robin Mahle
2019
A fresh BAU case reopens old wounds for Kate and forces her to face the past while tracking a brutal killer. Personal history and present danger become impossible to separate.
Between Dark and Light
by Robin Mahle
2020
When a desperate woman asks Allison for help, the case opens onto buried secrets and a threat that keeps getting closer. Allison has to decide how far she will go for a client she may not fully trust.
Edge of Mercy
by Robin Mahle
2020
When rescued disaster victims start turning up poisoned, Kate's team follows a bizarre pattern from Texas to California and beyond. The case is strange, fast-moving, and dangerous enough to test Kate's place inside the BAU.
Lethal Passage
by Robin Mahle
2020
Allison is learning fast that PI work in Florida is never simple. What starts as a routine case turns into a tense chase through deception, danger, and the kind of people who do not leave loose ends.
See You Again
by Robin Mahle
2020
Kate and Nick should be enjoying the last days of their honeymoon at a historic Vermont resort. Instead, a murder drags Kate into a dangerous investigation where she may have to rely on no one but herself.
The Kill Season
by Robin Mahle
2020
Still shaken by recent events, Kate heads into another high-stakes investigation as violence spreads and the clues refuse to line up. The case tests both her nerve and the people she trusts most.
Dark Tides
by Robin Mahle
2021
Allison tries to keep work and friendship separate, but a new case makes that impossible. As loyalties shift and the truth keeps muddying, she finds herself chasing answers that could cost more than a client.
His Good Deeds
by Robin Mahle
2021
Kate wants a quieter stretch of life, but a new case tied to a seemingly decent man pulls her back into the darkest corners of human behavior. As evidence shifts, motives get harder to read.
Last Seen
by Robin Mahle
2021
After her partner is killed, Remy Fontaine joins Louisiana's fugitive apprehension unit hoping for a fresh start. Instead, her first case leads to kidnappers, multiple murders, and a hunt where the hunters soon become the hunted.
Sea of Lies
by Robin Mahle
2021
A trip to Daytona Beach goes badly wrong when five college friends find themselves tangled in fear, suspicion, and murder. Allison has to sort through old loyalties and fresh lies before someone else ends up dead.
The Devil's Wage
by Robin Mahle
2021
Remy Fontaine takes lead on a string of southern Louisiana bank robberies that turn deadly. As she works beside Deputy U.S. Marshal Cole Grayson, her past starts closing in and threatens to shake her focus.
Every Last One
by Robin Mahle
2022
When violence shatters a gathering in rural Virginia, Kate is drawn into a case tangled with family history and small-town loyalties. Silence protects the truth, and every interview raises the stakes.
Her Only Crime
by Robin Mahle
2022
The BAU faces a case that does not fit the usual pattern, and Kate has to work through layers of doubt, motive, and misdirection. What looks simple at first becomes something far more disturbing.
A Frozen Grave
by Robin Mahle
2023
A body thawing out in the woods looks like an accident until Rebecca Ellis spots signs of something worse. Her search leads to an old corporate cover-up, fresh attacks, and danger creeping toward her own family.
Leave No Trace
by Robin Mahle
2023
Families across Bangor start noticing signs that someone has been entering their homes at night. When stalking turns to murder, Rebecca Ellis has to stop an intruder who slips through the dark without leaving a trace.
No Safe Place
by Robin Mahle
2023
Detective Rebecca Ellis is assigned what looks like a tragic car fire in a church parking lot. Once she realizes the victim was trapped inside on purpose, the case turns into a hunt for a killer guarding a terrible secret.
The Dead Lake
by Robin Mahle
2023
Two teenagers are found dead in an icy lake, and Rebecca Ellis runs into a wall of silence at their school. A cryptic social media clue points toward a deadly tradition and a killer still hiding in plain sight.
The Forgotten Ones
by Robin Mahle
2023
A string of disappearances drags Kate into a case shaped by old secrets and people the world has stopped looking for. To find the missing, she has to uncover who benefits from forgetting them.
Final Witness
by Robin Mahle
2024
A murdered bride-to-be leads Remy into a case tied to a fugitive who has been hiding in plain sight for years. To stop a master of disguise, she has to untangle a trail of violence stretching back decades.
No Way Back
by Robin Mahle
2024
When Rebecca Ellis is called to the Penobscot River and finds her half-brother among the dead, the investigation turns brutally personal. The trail leads into cartel territory, and the people around her are suddenly in real danger.
River Ranch
by Robin Mahle
2024
Still recovering from devastating injuries, Remy returns to work just as a murder outside her brother-in-law's office drags her family into danger. To keep them safe, she has to face a ruthless crime network before it strikes again.
The Chef
by Robin Mahle
2024
A restaurant owner in Los Angeles hires a brilliant new chef after her dream business starts falling apart. But Chef Marco may be the answer to one problem and the start of a much worse one.
The Compound
by Robin Mahle
2024
Twenty years after escaping a fire that killed the rest of her family, a woman returns to her Iowa hometown. Going back means facing the night everything burned, and the man who may never have stopped hunting her.
The Man in my Attic
by Robin Mahle
2024
Lauren thinks the noises in her renovated Virginia home are just old-house creaks until her son starts talking about a man named Billy in the walls. Then she opens the attic door and learns Billy is real.
These Silent Bones
by Robin Mahle
2024
In the Lake of the Ozarks, a grim discovery pulls Kate into a case buried under years of lies. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes the dead are not the only ones keeping secrets.
All the Lies They Told
by Robin Mahle
2025
Two former best friends vanish in a small Idaho town, and suspicion falls hard on the families who know them best. Old betrayals and one buried secret turn the search into something far darker.
He's Lying About Everything
by Robin Mahle
2025
A woman with a beautiful home, a husband, and a young son sees her life split open when a dead girl is found in a university pool. Now she has to ask whether her husband is a liar, a killer, or both.
Not Her Daughter
by Robin Mahle
2025
Evelyn Moore flees to a small Pennsylvania town with her son and the baby she stole after her husband's affair. When a chilling note appears in her house, her fragile new life starts coming apart fast.
The Final Confession
by Robin Mahle
2026
Kate Reid returns for another case where silence, buried guilt, and one last revelation threaten to upend everything. As the investigation tightens, the truth looks harder and more dangerous than anyone expected.
Where should I start?
If you want the big FBI story from the beginning: All the Shiny Things → Law of Five → Gone Unnoticed
If you want a police procedural first: No Safe Place → A Frozen Grave → The Dead Lake
If you want Southern crime with a fugitive-hunting edge: Last Seen → The Devil's Wage → Final Witness
If you want a Florida private investigator series: Deep Blue Surrender → Lethal Passage → Between Dark and Light
If you want a stand-alone psychological thriller: The Chef or He's Lying About Everything
Author bio
Robin Mahle was born in Phoenix and grew up in Arizona, though not in one fixed place. She has written about a childhood that felt fairly nomadic, with time spent in different parts of the United States, and that mix of movement and place shows up all through her fiction. Phoenix stayed important to her, and so did San Diego, a city she has described as a kind of second home.
Before writing became her full-time job, Mahle spent about twenty years working in the construction industry. She was also raising two children, which meant her first books had to be squeezed into the edges of the day. That detail matters because her career did not begin as a neat, straight line. It began the way a lot of writing lives begin, in the middle of everything else.
Then she made the jump.
After early success with her novels, Mahle left her day job and gave her time to fiction. Her first big run came through the Kate Reid books, beginning with All the Shiny Things, a thriller that starts with buried childhood trauma and grows into a long-running FBI series. From there she kept building, book by book, series by series, with a clear taste for danger, momentum, and characters who are forced to act before they feel ready.
That work ethic shows.
Readers who move through her catalog will notice how wide her crime fiction world is. State of Denial opens the Lacy Merrick books with espionage, cybercrime, and government corruption. Deep Blue Surrender introduces Allison Hart and shifts into Florida private investigator territory. No Safe Place starts the Rebecca Ellis novels, which lean more police procedural, while Last Seen brings in Louisiana investigator Remy Fontaine. Even when the setup changes, Mahle keeps returning to the same pressure points: secrets, loyalty, trauma, family strain, and the cost of chasing the truth.
She also likes strong settings. Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Arizona, Virginia, and small towns across the country all play real roles in the stories rather than sitting in the background. Her books tend to move fast, but they are grounded in the places where people work, hide, grieve, and make bad decisions. That makes her thrillers feel less like puzzles floating in space and more like trouble breaking into everyday life.
In recent years Mahle has moved further into stand-alone psychological suspense with books like The Chef, The Man in my Attic, and He's Lying About Everything. She also writes historical fiction under the pen name Christine Chase. Along the way, she has adapted some of her novels into teleplays, which makes sense when you read her work. The scenes are built to move.
Now she lives in Coastal Virginia with her husband and two children. She has said that, when she is not writing, she is just as happy at the beach with a Kindle as she is watching detective shows. That feels exactly on brand. Her fiction comes from someone who clearly enjoys the mechanics of suspense, but also understands the messier human side of it.
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