Wendy Hornsby Books in Order

After her wealthy mother's murder, history professor Kate Teague suspects the killing involves her family's valuable beachfront property. An attempt on Kate's own life turns her search for answers into a dangerous investigation of relatives and hidden grievances.

A disturbing discovery on the beach near Kate Teague's home draws her into another murder investigation. Her partner Roger Tejeda, still recovering from a serious injury, becomes involved despite concerns that the case could jeopardize his recovery.

Documentary filmmaker Maggie MacGowen arrives in Los Angeles to find her sister Emily critically injured by a shooting. Investigating the attack uncovers connections to Emily's radical past and a conspiracy that threatens anyone asking the wrong questions.

While filming Los Angeles street life, Maggie MacGowen meets a vulnerable teenage girl and helps her reach a shelter. The girl's subsequent murder sends Maggie searching for her origins and the circumstances that placed her in danger.

Maggie's move to Los Angeles with her daughter is disrupted when an old homicide conviction implicates her detective partner in questionable police work. Investigating the case forces her to weigh personal loyalty against uncomfortable possibilities about his past.

Maggie MacGowen plans a documentary about the long-unsolved murder of Los Angeles officer Roy Frady. Her partner's connection to the dead policeman draws the investigation into old relationships, controversial police practices, and secrets that remain dangerous decades later.

Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen agrees to investigate an attack on an old friend while managing upheaval in her family life. The search draws her toward missing Vietnamese acquaintances and connections involving her former husband and wartime artifacts.

Ten stories and an essay examine family crimes, dangerous obsessions, and the lingering effects of violence. A Depression-era Northern Plains family, a police admirer, and former officer Mike Flint confront mysteries that expose unsettling aspects of ordinary lives.

Edited by Scott Turow with series editor Otto Penzler, this annual anthology selects twenty-one mystery, crime, and suspense stories. Its contributors include C. J. Box, whose Yellowstone story "Pirates of Yellowstone" appears alongside work by established crime writers.

A note from Maggie MacGowen's late husband asks her to revisit the disappearance of a young informant. Following his files through Los Angeles communities, she encounters unexpected resistance as an unresolved case threatens to produce fresh violence.

A stranger's claim of kinship, followed by her death, unsettles Maggie MacGowen's understanding of her childhood. Traveling to France introduces an unknown family and a disputed inheritance, forcing her to investigate relatives with conflicting expectations and hidden motives.

Teaching film production at a community college, Maggie MacGowen discovers its unpopular president dead where a student's sculpture should hang. When suspicion falls on her young friend, she investigates campus resentments and the administrator's complicated political past.

An old home movie found among her late father's possessions prompts Maggie MacGowen to investigate a decades-old murder. Returning to her Berkeley childhood community, she discovers that familiar friends and neighbors have powerful reasons to resist her questions.

Filming agricultural life on her family's Normandy farm, Maggie MacGowen encounters buried remains that revive memories of the German occupation. The discovery attracts outsiders and competing interests, while a young woman's murder introduces an urgent contemporary mystery.

A puzzling message draws Maggie MacGowen from Paris to Venice, where her fiancé has survived an attempt on his life. Pursued across Italy, they must uncover the interests behind the threats and their connection to her inherited property.

Settling into life in France, Maggie MacGowen investigates a missing teenager while trying to protect an immigrant boy facing persecution. Her questions expose prejudice and concealed tensions beneath an affluent community's peaceful appearance, intensifying her position as an outsider.