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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2002
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Evan Delaney Novel

1 - China Lake (2002)
2 - Mission Canyon (2003)
3 - Jericho Point (Aug-2008)
4 - Crosscut (Sep-2008)
5 - Kill Chain (May-2007)

Jo Beckett

1 - The Dirty Secrets Club (Jul-2008)
2 - The Memory Collector (Jun-2009)
3 - The Liar's Lullaby (Jul-2010)
4 - The Nightmare Thief (Aug-2011)

An Unsub Novel

1 - Unsub (Jul-2017)
2 - Into the Black Nowhere (Feb-2018)
3 - The Dark Corners of the Night (Feb-2020)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • Evan Delaney is shocked to learn that her ex-sister-in-law, Tabitha, has joined the Remnant, a religion with a dangerous and fanatical following. What is more alarming is that the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear...



  • While bicycling in the foothills of Santa Barbara, Jesse Blackburn and his friend Isaac are struck down by a hit-and-run driver. Isaac is killed, but Jesse survives. Now he wants revenge, and his fiancée, Evan Delaney, wants justice. Neither is simp...



  • When a wrecked car belonging to Evan Delaney's father is found at the bottom of a hundred-foot drop, the police suspect suicide, but there's no body. Evan's suspicions of something sinister are confirmed when she receives a call from her father's kid...



  • A flamboyant fashion designer burns to death, clutching the body of his murdered lover.... A U.S. attorney launches her BMW off a highway overpass, killing herself and three others.... A football superstar jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge.... ...



  • When the body of a young woman washes up on the black sands of the California beach Jericho Point, it's identified as Evan Delaney's. But Evan is very much alive -- apparently the victim of an identity thief who was playing the Hollywood rich for eve...



  • Evan Delaney knew China Lake was a tough place to grow up. She never knew how tough until she returns to the desert military base for her high school reunion and learns that several of her classmates have died young. Then, on the first night of the r...



  • From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2 Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of a plane inbound from London to San Francisco. A passenger is behaving erratically, offering Jo cryptic clues from ...



  • Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner returns with a third propulsive, groundbreaking thriller about forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and the lies that are even more dangerous than fame. Tasia McFarland is a washed-up country-pop singer desperate for t...



  • IGNORE THE SCREAMS. IT'S JUST PART OF THE GAME. Autumn wants something special for her twenty-first birthday. She has the sports car, the apartment, and the private college. Now she wants excitement. She's going to get it. Daddy has signed up Au...






  • JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTION You can't go home again -- and survive -- in this mesmerizing crime novel by Meg Gardiner. Rory Mackenzie vowed never to return to her hometown of Ransom River, California. But she comes back and does her civic duty. N...



  • Can a person ever really disappear for good by going off the grid? And what happens when vanishing is no longer an option? Sarah Keller is a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in Oklahoma. She’s also a skip tracer, an expert in ...



  • In Edgar Award -- winning author Meg Gardiner’s new stand-alone thriller, an injured cop and an ex-thief hunt down a killer nobody else believes exists. When shots ring out in a crowded L.A. club, bartender Harper Flynn watches helplessly as her...




  • A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narc...



  • In this exhilarating thriller inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a charming, merciless serial killer. In southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a mov...



  • I am the legion of the night … He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear -- the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents but leaves the children alive, tiny witnesses to unspeakable horror. The bedroom communities of Los An...




  • What happens when two serial killers begin to compete with each other?From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Gardiner comes a new high-octane thriller in the acclaimed UNSUB series.FBI Special Agent Caitlin Hendrix faces a case from nightmares...


Award-Winning Books by Meg Gardiner

China Lake
2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original
The Dirty Secrets Club
2008 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- PI Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Meg Gardiner has published 18 books.

Meg Gardiner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shadowheart, was published in June 2024.

The first book by Meg Gardiner, China Lake, was published in January 2002.

Yes. Meg Gardiner has 3 series.