Teri Blake-Addison Books in Order

These books follow private investigator Teri Blake-Addison, a Maine PI who specializes in missing persons and keeps getting pulled into cases where absence leaves behind more questions than answers. The series is short, just Steal Away and Chat Room, but it gives a clear sense of who Teri is: smart, stubborn, emotionally guarded, and not especially interested in easy explanations.

She is a PI first, not a cozy amateur.

In Steal Away, Teri is hired by a well-known minister to find out what really happened to his wife, who was presumed dead after a sailing accident off the coast of Maine. What starts as a cold case becomes a live one when a new murder upends the investigation. In Chat Room, a lonely young woman asks Teri to find her missing friend after an online relationship goes bad. The trail leads far beyond a simple disappearance and into manipulation, false piety, and real danger.

What makes the series work is the mix of classic private-eye structure with distinctly Linda Hall concerns. Teri interviews people, follows trails, and keeps pushing when the story does not make sense. At the same time, these novels are interested in what respectable public lives can hide. Ministers, church circles, online religious spaces, and apparently safe communities all become places where people can lie, perform goodness, or prey on the vulnerable.

Teri herself is part of the appeal. She is married, but she is also independent to the point of isolation. Chat Room especially suggests how much she carries from earlier police work and why certain cases hit her harder than she expects. That gives the books some personal depth without turning them into confessionals.

Place matters here too. Maine is never just wallpaper, especially in Steal Away, where the coast and islands shape the mystery. But Hall also lets the series move outward when the case needs it, which keeps the books from feeling locked into one village or one routine. Teri's world is wider than it first looks.

Because there are only two books, the series reads almost like a concentrated sample of Hall's private-investigator mode. You get cold questions, emotional stakes, and communities where trust is fragile. You also get a lead character who is competent without being slick, and who knows that the people asking for help are often holding something back.

If you like female-led PI fiction with a little more moral weight and a little less wisecracking than the genre sometimes delivers, this series is worth a look. The cases start with missing women, but what Teri keeps uncovering is loneliness, deception, and the damage done by people who know exactly how to exploit trust.