Saint View Murder Squad Books in Order
Part ofElle Thorpe Books in OrderFollow the Saint View Murder Squad series by Elle Thorpe in order, with book summaries, series background, and guidance on where this vigilante rom-com fits in the Saint View universe.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
3 books
X's and O's
by Elle Thorpe
2025
Cleaning toilets to pay the bills, Violet never expects to wake up bound and staring into a killer’s eyes. Saved by the masked Murder Squad, three unbalanced vigilantes who insist she belongs with them, she is pulled into a deadly game with a taunting serial murderer who seems determined to make her their final prize.
Whips and Chains
by Elle Thorpe
2025
Lured into an abandoned warehouse, Violet finds herself the centre of a twisted game where a clock, a knife, and her sins are laid out on a table. As X, Whip, and Levi search the dark for her, secrets about their pasts and the mastermind stalking them finally start to unravel.
Reaper and Ruin
by Elle Thorpe
2025
An explosion hurls Violet’s three men off a bluff and into the raging sea, proving the killer hunting Murder Squad is willing to destroy everything. Grieving and furious, she joins forces with them to unmask the threat, end the twisted game, and decide what their future looks like once the killing stops.
Series background & context
Saint View Murder Squad combines vigilante justice, serial killer suspense, and a surprisingly sweet reverse harem romance. The Murder Squad themselves are a secret brotherhood of damaged men who only kill the worst of the worst, operating out of the same deadly city readers know from earlier Saint View books.
In X's and O's, Violet scrubs toilets for minimum wage and dreams of something more until she wakes up tied to a bed with a monster looming over her. Just as he is about to kill her, three masked men crash in, slaughter her attacker, and drag her into their chaotic world. X is an unhinged psychopath who insists Violet is his wife, Whip is a grumpy, older escort who makes a living being worshipped, and Levi is a former inmate whose handwritten letters once kept her going. Together they start hunting a taunting killer who leaves rhyming threats and seems fixated on their new relationship.
Whips and Chains turns that obsession into a deadly game staged in a warehouse filled with shadows, knives, and a ticking clock. Violet has to trust the very men who scare her as the three of them try to outthink a villain who knows all their secrets. The book digs deeper into each man’s backstory, explores kinks and boundaries, and pushes their strange little family to its limits.
In Reaper and Ruin, an explosion throws the men off a cliff and into the ocean, and for a moment it looks like Violet has lost everything. The mastermind behind the threats is still at large, using every new attack to pry at the cracks in their bond. As the Murder Squad closes in on the truth, they have to decide what kind of life they want after the killing is done, and whether four broken people can really build something lasting together.
Despite the body count, this trilogy leans into dark humor and banter as much as blood and trauma. Violet is tall, plus size, and unapologetic, the men proudly call themselves psychos, and the romance embraces messy feelings, jealousy, and male male attraction along the way. It is a natural next step if you have already devoured the other Saint View books and are ready for something that feels like a twisted love story wrapped in a vigilante thriller.
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