Stella Gold Books in Order

FBI agent Riley Paige returns from leave after surviving a serial killer's attack. Women are being murdered in rural Virginia, and the investigation draws her into doll collecting and damaged families while threatening her own fragile recovery.

LAPD missing-persons detective Keri Locke cannot forget her abducted daughter. Investigating a senator's missing teenager brings pressure to abandon the case, but Keri suspects danger and must find the girl before her chances of survival disappear.

New FBI agent Mackenzie White investigates murdered campers in a remote West Virginia national park. A fresh clue to her father's killing pulls her toward Nebraska, forcing her to balance an urgent assignment against a deeply personal mystery.

A woman's murder in Nebraska's cornfields signals the start of a serial killing spree. Detective Mackenzie White faces resistance from her colleagues as she works with the FBI, while her own troubled past complicates the hunt.

FBI trainee Mackenzie White receives an unusual chance to investigate a woman's death at a garbage dump. Similarities to her earlier Nebraska case draw her in, but mistakes and professional opposition could destroy her future at the bureau.

Former defense attorney Avery Black seeks redemption as a Boston homicide detective after helping a killer avoid conviction. Murders of women at elite colleges give her a chance to prove herself, but the killer challenges her insight and resolve.

A Boston serial killer leaves puzzling clues connected to the stars. Detective Avery Black must confront a calculating opponent and a rival precinct, while consulting imprisoned killer Howard Randall threatens the personal life she is trying to rebuild.

Murders of sex workers in Phoenix draw FBI agent Riley Paige into a case others have overlooked. When a teenage girl disappears, Riley must identify the killer quickly while keeping her own obsessive approach from overwhelming her.

A serial killer escapes from prison and targets FBI agent Riley Paige and her family. As he begins killing again, Riley must revisit his earlier crimes to understand the opponent who knows how to threaten her most personally.

Riley Paige wants to focus on helping her daughter recover, but disturbing murders pull her back to the FBI. Her investigation among hitchhikers and drifters becomes urgent when she discovers abducted women may still be alive.

A series of poisonings near Seattle brings FBI agent Riley Paige back into service despite threats that have shaken her family. Investigating hospitals, nursing homes, and caregivers, she must recognize a killer who may look entirely ordinary.

Women found hanging in chains in upstate New York lead the FBI to Riley Paige. Her investigation into the killer's psychology strains an already fragile recovery, while fears about another predator threaten her family and professional standing.

Keri Locke follows a new lead toward her abducted daughter while investigating another missing teenager. Ransom letters filled with riddles force her to decode a kidnapper's demands before time runs out for the girl she must save.

A Beverly Hills surgeon reports his wife missing, drawing Keri Locke into the secrets of wealthy households. With an unwanted new partner and conflicting evidence, she must decide whether the woman fled or became a victim.

Keri Locke pursues clues to her abducted daughter while racing to rescue another teenager from traffickers. The girl's captors keep moving her toward Mexico, forcing Keri and Ray into a pursuit where every delay matters.

FBI agent Mackenzie White investigates a series of murders whose victims are all blind. Interviews across homes and care facilities offer no easy answers, and understanding the killer's choice of targets becomes essential to stopping another death.

Murders in Nebraska bear the same antiques-store card left with Mackenzie White's father's body years earlier. The FBI agent returns home to investigate, facing a killer whose current crimes force her to confront her family's unresolved past.

Three married couples are found dead in their suburban homes, and FBI agent Mackenzie White must establish what connects them. Apparently happy households conceal troubling secrets, while her continuing search for her father's murderer complicates the case.

Priests are found killed against church doors in Washington, D.C. FBI agent Mackenzie White investigates religious clues and possible motives, while her determination to find her father's murderer competes with the demands of an escalating case.

Women disappear in rural Iowa, sending FBI agent Mackenzie White back into a landscape that recalls her difficult upbringing. Farms, silos, and isolated roads shape a hunt complicated by her continuing search for her father's killer.

Bodies trapped in ice suggest a serial killer is operating in Boston. Detective Avery Black faces pressure from supervisors and the media as she tries to understand the unusual pattern while struggling with depression and a deteriorating personal life.

Burned bodies near Boston leave detective Avery Black with little evidence and growing public pressure. Understanding the killer's fixation on fire becomes central to her investigation, while rebuilding relationships with her daughter and Ramirez remains difficult.

Howard Randall's escape coincides with new murders in Boston and threats against detective Avery Black. Others blame the escaped killer, but Avery recognizes disturbing connections to her own past that make the apparent explanation uncertain.

A killer leaves an hourglass at each crime scene, signaling another death when its sand runs out. FBI agent Riley Paige and a new partner must decipher the pattern while family troubles and media pressure consume her attention.

A victim's mother asks Riley Paige to revisit the one cold case she never solved. Another lead then points toward her own mother's killer, forcing Riley to confront two unresolved investigations with unusually personal stakes.

Riley Paige's daughter asks her to investigate a Georgetown student's apparent suicide. Similar deaths among other freshmen suggest murder, drawing Riley into a campus and family culture where pressure to succeed may conceal a serial killer.

Teenage girls disappear from a Midwestern suburb, and a body brings FBI agent Riley Paige into the search. An unwanted partnership complicates the investigation while an escaped enemy threatens the family life she is trying to stabilize.

Soldiers are found shot on a military base in California, leaving investigators unable to explain how the killer operates inside its defenses. Riley Paige enters the military community to pursue an opponent whose training may make him exceptionally dangerous.

FBI evidence-response agent Chloe Fine investigates a nanny's murder in an apparently ideal suburb. Secrets among couples and neighbors complicate the case, while her imprisoned father and unresolved past threaten a career that has barely begun.

Keri Locke receives a promising lead to her missing daughter while investigating an eighteen-year-old who vanished after sorority hazing. Searching college campuses forces her to confront hidden dangers while balancing two increasingly urgent hopes of rescue.

FBI agent Mackenzie White investigates victims killed by falls from extreme heights. The locations initially seem unconnected, but understanding the killer's obsession and motives may reveal where the next attack will happen before another victim dies.

Retired detective Avery Black agrees to investigate a woman found dead with poisonous spiders. Further unusual murders suggest a serial killer, and an inexperienced partner adds pressure as Avery confronts a case that threatens her precarious emotional recovery.

Retired FBI agent Kate Wise agrees to help after a friend's daughter is murdered during a home invasion. More deaths expose secrets behind apparently happy suburban marriages, turning her quiet retirement into a dangerous serial-killer investigation.

A wealthy suburban husband is shot in a way that recalls a case Kate Wise failed to solve ten years earlier. Called back from retirement, she must find the connection before another opportunity for answers slips away.

Retired FBI agent Kate Wise returns to investigate couples murdered fifty miles apart in the same manner. Finding their hidden connection becomes urgent as she tries to predict a killer whose next victims may already be in danger.

FBI intern Chloe Fine returns to her hometown expecting a fresh start with her fiancé. A death and her twin sister's troubles draw her into local secrets that may connect to her mother's death and father's imprisonment.

Women are found dead on railway tracks across multiple states, revealing a killer who binds victims before trains arrive. Riley Paige must understand how he chooses and approaches them while pursuing someone able to evade a nationwide investigation.

A serial killer resumes murdering women after ten years without an attack. Riley Paige must reconstruct the unsolved earlier crimes and connect them to new evidence, while a crisis in her personal life makes the investigation harder.

An abused wife accused of killing her wealthy husband asks Riley Paige for help. Another similar death makes Riley question the obvious explanation and investigate a possible serial killer whose motive remains frustratingly unclear.

Rookie profiler Jessie Hunt starts over in downtown Los Angeles after her marriage fails. Investigating a wealthy socialite's murder takes her back into suburban life, where polished appearances hide the secrets she hoped to leave behind.

Profiler-in-training Jessie Hunt moves with her husband to a wealthy California beach town. A murder exposes secrets among their new friends, while a serial killer she studies seems to know too much about her troubled childhood.

FBI intern Riley Paige tries to decipher the riddles of a killer who dresses his victims as clowns. Her first summer at the bureau becomes a personal fight for survival when the murderer turns his attention toward her.

Psychology student Riley Paige hopes to join the FBI, but a serial killer begins abducting and murdering her friends on campus. Suspecting she is also a target, she offers investigators her insight into the murderer's mind.

Cassandra Vale takes an au pair job at a wealthy family's estate outside Paris, hoping to escape her past. Troubled children, a damaged marriage and a murder reveal dangers beneath the household's carefully maintained appearance.

New mother Mackenzie White is called to Colorado when a serial killer begins targeting rock climbers. The FBI agent must confront her fear of heights and the strain of returning to work while trying to prevent another death.

A series of strangled women interrupts pregnant FBI agent Mackenzie White's honeymoon. The killer leaves no trace, and her unconventional theory threatens her career as she struggles to protect her unborn child and catch him.

Bodies found in self-storage units lead FBI agent Mackenzie White toward a killer with an obsession with clutter and confined spaces. She must discover what connects the victims and confront the murderer's thinking before he attacks again.

FBI agent Mackenzie White hopes a case on the shores of Puget Sound will ease her return after childbirth. Instead, bodies with few clues lead her into a serial murder investigation that tests her readiness for work.

Chloe Fine investigates the murder of a suburban wife and mother on the night of her twentieth high school reunion. Old cliques, betrayals and grudges complicate the case while Chloe faces the possible release of her imprisoned father.

Two husbands who were best friends are found dead in an exclusive suburban town. FBI agent Chloe Fine must get past the residents' polished public lives to uncover the men's secrets and identify who wanted them killed.

Women are being found dead in empty suburban houses, and retired FBI agent Kate Wise is called back to investigate. She must work out why the killer stages the bodies there and what connects his victims.

Two women in their fifties are murdered in their homes in a wealthy suburb, leaving the FBI without answers. Retired agent Kate Wise returns to duty to discover what connects these empty nesters before the killer strikes again.

Retired FBI agent Kate Wise investigates the deaths of two parents whose sixteen-year-old twin daughters have disappeared. With the case going cold, she must determine whether the murders were random and find the girls before time runs out.

Riley Paige hopes to concentrate on training at the FBI academy, but her mentors enlist her to investigate women killed with barbed wire. The recruit must understand the murderer's unusual method while putting her future career at risk.

A killer takes a dining chair from each victim, leaving FBI agent Riley Paige to find a connection between apparently random murders. Family difficulties and her own troubled past complicate her attempt to understand this unusual souvenir.

A serial killer strikes in several towns, and the only possible witness cannot speak. FBI agent Riley Paige must discover what this man knows while tracing the links between the victims and confronting her own psychological struggles.

A wealthy new resident is murdered after attracting attention in a suburban town. Chloe Fine investigates envy, gossip and possible secrets behind the woman's fortune while struggling with her father's release from prison and her sister's problems.

New FBI agent Riley Paige investigates teenage girls strangled in different states within days of each other. Working with her mentor Jake, she must find the connection between the victims as the case undermines her growing confidence.

On her first official FBI case, Riley Paige joins partner Jake to hunt a killer believed to travel in an RV. Their investigation takes them into the camper community as women are lured to their deaths across the country.

Fresh from the FBI Academy, Jessie Hunt investigates a suburban murder while her own murderous father hunts her. The profiler must confront memories she hoped to leave behind as professional danger and her family's past converge.

A popular gym trainer is murdered in a wealthy suburb, bringing profiler Jessie Hunt into a community shaped by affairs and damaged marriages. She must trace the victim's relationships to discover whose secrets provided a motive for murder.

Jessie Hunt investigates a woman murdered after arranging affairs with married men through a dating website. The profiler searches wealthy neighborhoods for a killer while facing the threat of her own father, who remains on the loose.

Cassandra Vale takes an au pair job with a divorced mother in Italy after her last placement in England falls apart. She hopes this family will offer stability, but a disturbing discovery pushes her toward another personal crisis.

After a disastrous placement in France, Cassandra Vale accepts an au pair job with a wealthy divorcee in the English countryside. His generosity and two children promise a fresh start until a revelation makes her question her employer and herself.

Young women from a fundamentalist polygamist commune are found dead in rural Utah. FBI agent Mackenzie White must gain access to the closed community, uncover possible motives and understand the killer before more women become victims.

Ella Dark joins the FBI's Behavioral Crimes Unit with a photographic memory and years of study about serial killers. A murder investigation in Louisiana's swamps forces her to rely on instinct when her accumulated knowledge proves insufficient.

Two teenagers are murdered after returning to their hometown for winter break from college. FBI agent Kate Wise investigates a possible serial killer, trying to understand his motives before another young woman becomes his next victim.

A killer is murdering victims by electrocution, bringing new FBI agent Riley Paige into another investigation. As she studies his methods, an unexpected development threatens her partnership with mentor Jake and unsettles her life outside the bureau.

A new lead in a stalled American serial murder case sends FBI agent Adele Sharp to Paris. Returning to the city of her childhood, she hunts the killer while confronting old relationships and her mother's unsolved murder.

An Italian couple's murder in Germany brings FBI agent Adele Sharp into an investigation alongside her estranged father. The cross-border pursuit also raises questions about her mother's unsolved death and the information her father has kept from her.

A woman escapes her attacker and is found dazed on a rural German road. Adele Sharp must help uncover what she remembers as an international investigation reveals other captives whose lives depend on finding the attacker's hideout.

A murder in Bordeaux appears connected to another killing in Italy, prompting an international hunt led by Adele Sharp. The FBI agent follows clues across borders, but new information threatens the assumptions behind her search for the killer.

A killer targets American expatriates in Paris with murders resembling Jack the Ripper's. FBI agent Adele Sharp returns to a city she once called home, pursuing the attacker while memories of her mother's murder haunt the investigation.

London Rose leaves a predictable future behind to become a guide on a European river cruise. When a passenger dies near Budapest, suspicion falls on London, who must investigate with an orphaned dog to clear her name.

Bodies discovered years after their deaths reveal a killer who strikes each Halloween. With the holiday approaching, FBI agent Riley Paige must uncover his pattern and identify the next target while dealing with difficulties in her own family.

The death of a porn star draws little concern from the LAPD, but FBI agent Jessie Hunt suspects a larger crime. Her investigation threatens to expose connections reaching into wealthy society and powerful circles beyond the victim's immediate life.

A suburban mother escapes a serial killer, only to be murdered weeks later. Jessie Hunt must determine whether the deaths are connected and whether the killer deliberately releases victims before returning to claim them again.

A Hollywood actress's murder sends Jessie Hunt into a web of studios, agents, producers and rival performers. With many people who might have wanted the star dead, the profiler must sift their motives while managing her own psychological struggles.

A man dies in a Los Angeles hotel after a night with a prostitute, and similar deaths soon establish a pattern. Jessie Hunt investigates a possible female serial killer whose victims initially attracted little attention from police.

A newcomer is murdered shortly after moving into an exclusive Manhattan Beach neighborhood. Jessie Hunt investigates the residents' secrets and a possible party connection while the case revives memories of her marriage and threats from her husband.

FBI agent Chloe Fine investigates the murder of a popular personal trainer in an affluent suburb. Broken marriages and affairs complicate her search, as the residents' polished appearances conceal motives that could put others at risk.

Diana Hope meets a new romantic interest in Barcelona and considers fulfilling her dream of running with the bulls in Pamplona. A murder interrupts her Spanish adventure, forcing her to investigate while trying to preserve her new happiness.

After her separation, Diana Hope begins a year in Europe hoping for romance and a fresh start. A night at the Versailles ball takes an alarming turn, leaving her with a crime to solve before her journey collapses.

FBI agent Laura Frost hides a psychic gift that brings disturbing visions of killers, victims and possible future crimes. She must decide whether those incomplete glimpses can help her save lives or misdirect an urgent investigation.

Women are found murdered with clocks around their necks, suggesting a countdown to death. FBI agent Laura Frost investigates the killer's intentions while struggling to reconcile her troubling psychic visions with the evidence before another victim dies.

A second acting teacher is murdered in Tacoma, bringing FBI agent Laura Frost into a possible serial murder investigation. Her psychic impressions may help identify the next victim, but their confusing nature threatens to derail her search.

Twins are murdered on the same day in different parts of Minnesota. FBI agent Laura Frost investigates whether their deaths are connected, using her psychic impressions to pursue a possible serial killer before another victim is lost.

Cruise guide London Rose visits Copenhagen during a Danish pastry festival, enjoying the city's historic harbor. Finding a dead body puts her under suspicion, and she must solve the murder quickly to avoid ending her trip in prison.

Detective Ava Gold investigates the strangling of a wealthy teenager just before her society debut in 1920s New York. Powerful families resist scrutiny, and Ava must uncover their secrets while protecting her career and preventing another murder.

In 1920s New York, homicide detective Ava Gold hunts a serial killer targeting young women. Her use of psychological profiling meets resistance from colleagues, while the investigation brings her into dangerous neighborhoods and potentially into the killer's sights.

London Rose's cruise visits Germany's historic towns and beer festivals, where an obnoxious local dies after drinking beer. When his death is ruled murder, suspicion falls on the passengers, and London must investigate to protect the cruise.

During a cruise stop in Austria, a guide dies after taking passengers through Mozart's theatre. Suspicion falls on the visitors, leaving London Rose to unravel the murder amid the sights and culinary attractions of Vienna and Salzburg.

Diana Hope arrives in Florence dreaming of a romantic proposal on the Ponte Vecchio. An unexpected discovery on the bridge disrupts her plans, turning another stop on her European journey into a mystery she must untangle.

Ella Dark recognizes echoes of earlier crimes after a woman escapes a serial killer's car. Her knowledge helps her pursue him, but the killer deliberately changes his methods, forcing Ella to reconsider the patterns she relies on.

Bodies hung high in redwood trees draw FBI agent Ella Dark into the hunt for the Artist Killer. Her extensive knowledge of past murders offers little help, leaving her to investigate without the advantage she normally depends on.

Apparently suicidal deaths from high bridges raise fears of a serial killer. FBI agent Rachel Gift investigates while concealing a terminal diagnosis, determined to protect potential victims despite her failing health and the pressure of her secret.

FBI agent Rachel Gift investigates murders of women seeking fertility treatment in Virginia. The case revives painful memories of her own treatment, while a hidden terminal diagnosis adds urgency to her attempt to understand the killer's motives.

A body suspended from the Sistine Chapel ceiling begins a series of murders at major European attractions. FBI agent Adele Sharp must connect the dramatic displays and understand the killer's motives before another landmark becomes a crime scene.

Bodies appear in ports across the Mediterranean, forcing FBI agent Adele Sharp to navigate conflicting national jurisdictions. She searches for the connection between the locations, vessels and victims before the killer adds another port to his route.

Masked victims are murdered at midnight balls in Venice. FBI agent Adele Sharp follows the city's canals in pursuit of the killer, seeking a pattern that might connect the killings to history and reveal his next target.