The Huntress Books in Order

The Huntress, also known as the Huntress/FBI thrillers, begins with a question that keeps getting more complicated: who is Cara Lindstrom, and is she a murderer, a survivor, or both? Alexandra Sokoloff tells the story through the pursuit of Cara and the people whose lives are caught in the wake of her past.

FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is the series’ main investigator. In Huntress Moon, he is working a major criminal case in San Francisco when the murder of an undercover colleague puts him on the trail of a mysterious young woman. Cara seems to appear wherever terrible crimes and apparent accidents occur. Roarke suspects she may be a rare kind of serial killer, but the evidence also suggests that she is hunting people who have done terrible things themselves.

That moral tension drives the whole series.

Roarke is committed to the law, but his search forces him to confront the limits of legal justice and his own growing sympathy for Cara. Cara is not treated as a simple villain. Her history is central to the books, and each installment reveals more about the damage that shaped her and the dangers that keep following her.

The stories move across California and the wider American West, from cities and college campuses to isolated desert communities and coastal towns. Those settings matter because the series is built around movement, pursuit, old crimes, and people who have tried to disappear. The landscapes often feel wide open, but safety is never guaranteed.

After Huntress Moon, the books deepen the hunt rather than resetting it. Blood Moon revisits a massacre that took place decades earlier. Cold Moon puts Roarke on the trail of a new killer using methods associated with Cara. Bitter Moon reaches into Cara’s teenage years, while Hunger Moon brings Roarke into a new investigation involving threats against sexual predators. Shadow Moon shifts attention to FBI agent Antara Singh as an old case involving murdered homeless young people resurfaces.

Read these books in order.

The tone is dark, fast, and emotionally direct. The crimes can be brutal, but the larger focus is on survival, abuse of power, and what it means to protect vulnerable people when institutions fail them. Readers who want an FBI thriller with an ongoing relationship between hunter and hunted will find the strongest experience by starting with Huntress Moon and following the full sequence.