Winter Black Books in Order
Part ofMary Stone Books in OrderBrowse the Winter Black FBI mysteries by Mary Stone in order, with book summaries, spin-off reading order, and tips on following Winter’s story across connected series.
Last updated: December 21, 2025
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Publication Order
19 books
Winter's Legacy
by Mary Stone
2025
Facing one final, devastating threat, Winter Black confronts what kind of legacy she’ll leave behind—for the families she’s helped, the people she’s loved, and the enemies she’s finally ready to face.
Winter's Stalker
by Mary Stone
2024
As a relentless stalker targets both Winter Black and those around her, every new message proves that sometimes the most dangerous predators are the ones who never stop watching.
Winter's Snare
by Mary Stone
2024
Drawn into what looks like a simple missing‑person case, Winter Black realizes too late that she’s walked into a carefully laid snare designed just for her.
Winter's Peak
by Mary Stone
2024
A dangerous investigation pushes Winter Black to her breaking point, and she has to find out whether this latest climb toward justice will be her peak—or the fall she can’t recover from.
Winter's Maze
by Mary Stone
2024
Trapped in a case where every clue leads to another dead end, Winter Black must navigate a maze of lies and misdirection before the killer reaches the center first.
Winter's Gamble
by Mary Stone
2024
When a client’s desperate gamble drags Winter Black into a high‑risk investigation, she must decide which risks are worth taking and which secrets are better left buried.
Winter's Shock
by Mary Stone
2023
A case delivers Winter Black a shocking revelation that ties her new life to old enemies, forcing her to decide how much of her hard‑won peace she’s willing to put on the line.
Winter's Rescue
by Mary Stone
2023
Working as a PI in Texas, Winter Black takes on a case that demands a risky rescue, proving that leaving the FBI hasn’t made her any less willing to run toward danger when someone needs saving.
Winter's Return
by Mary Stone
2022
Leaving the FBI behind, Winter Black moves to Texas to work as a private investigator, but her first client’s case proves that the ghosts of her past are more than willing to follow her into this new life.
Winter's Black Christmas
by Mary Stone
2021
A rare holiday break turns deadly when Winter Black and Noah Dalton stumble onto a dangerous plot, proving that even Christmas can’t keep old evils from resurfacing.
Winter's Storm
by Mary Stone
2020
A brutal new case crashes into Winter Black’s life like a storm, forcing her to protect the people she loves while confronting a killer who seems determined to tear apart what little peace she’s found.
Winter's End
by Mary Stone
2020
After thirteen years of chasing the man who destroyed her family, Winter Black finally faces the brother she thought she’d lost forever, and must choose between blood, justice, and her own survival.
Winter's Web
by Mary Stone
2019
When a former fugitive turns himself in claiming to know a brutal serial killer, Winter Black follows him into a tangle of dark‑web secrets and family threats, all while receiving chilling new messages from the brother she can’t find.
Winter's Secret
by Mary Stone
2019
With The Preacher dead, Winter Black should finally have peace, but taunting clues tied to her missing brother lead back to her childhood home and a secret that could destroy the fragile life she’s built.
Winter's Rise
by Mary Stone
2019
When a body is unearthed inside a fifty‑five‑gallon drum, Winter Black hunts a meticulous surgeon experimenting on unusual brains, even as a lead on her missing brother drags her childhood psychiatrist back into the frame.
Winter's Redemption
by Mary Stone
2019
A case that should bring closure instead rips open old wounds when Winter Black uncovers truths that challenge everything she believed about justice, guilt, and the price of revenge.
Winter's Mourn
by Mary Stone
2019
Thirteen years after her parents’ murder and her little brother’s abduction, rookie FBI agent Winter Black returns to her Virginia hometown to investigate a burial ground of children’s bones—and confront the nightmare that shattered her life.
Winter's Ghost
by Mary Stone
2019
A sniper starts executing unpunished criminals from impossible distances, and Winter Black must decide how far she’ll go to stop a vigilante many people secretly cheer for—especially when the crosshairs swing toward one of their own.
Winter's Curse
by Mary Stone
2019
As a brutal new series of killings mirrors the horrors of her own past, Winter Black is pushed to the edge, torn between following orders and chasing the preacher who destroyed her family once and for all.
Series background & context
The Winter Black series is the backbone of Mary Stone’s interconnected FBI universe. When readers first meet Winter, she’s a rookie agent carrying a past that would break most people: as a child she came home early from a sleepover to find her parents murdered and her little brother gone, taken by a serial killer known as The Preacher. A coma and long recovery left her with unsettling flashes and intuition she doesn’t fully understand, and a single driving goal—find the man who destroyed her family.
Working out of the FBI office in Virginia, Winter is assigned to violent crimes that often brush close to her own history. Each book tackles a new case—buried child victims in the woods, vigilante snipers executing unpunished offenders, killers who experiment on atypical brains—while The Preacher’s shadow hangs over everything. The tension isn’t just in whether she can stop the next murder, but whether she can do it without losing herself to vengeance.
Winter’s not alone in that struggle. Her partnership with fellow agent Noah Dalton grounds the series in friendship, slow‑build romance, and the friction between an investigator who lives by the rules and one who keeps wanting to break them. Forensic psychologist Autumn Trent, later the star of her own books, becomes Winter’s closest friend and sometimes conscience. Over time, family isn’t only the brother she lost; it’s the team she fights beside and the people she’s willing to risk her badge for.
As the first arc of the series closes, some long‑running mysteries finally explode into the open. Preacher’s story tangles with Winter’s missing brother Justin in ways she never expected, pushing her to reckon with what justice really looks like when the person on the other side of the table shares her blood. Those revelations echo forward into spin‑offs like Autumn Trent and A Villain’s Story, connecting seemingly separate timelines into one sprawling saga.
Later books follow Winter into a second act. Burned out by the Bureau yet incapable of walking away from victims, she moves to Texas and rebuilds herself as a private investigator. The setting shifts from federal offices to small towns and private clients, but the core remains the same: a woman shaped by childhood horror using her hard‑won skills, and that eerie intuition, to untangle dangerous cases.
At its heart, the Winter Black series is about resilience. It asks whether someone forged in trauma can build a life that’s bigger than their pain, even while chasing monsters that look a lot like the one that stole their past.
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