Allison Brennan

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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2005
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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About the Author

Allison Brennan was born on 28th September in Elk Grove, California, USA. In 1987, she graduated at Menlo School in Atherton, California. She attended the college at UC Santa Cruz from 1987 to 1989. An only child, Allison entertained herself on rainy days by both reading and making up her own stories. Thinking she had to have a "real" job after dropping out of college, Allison worked in the California State Legislature as a consultant, married Dan Brennan in 1993, and they subsequently had five children and made their home outside Sacramento.

But Allison never stopped writing. In fact, she began over 100 books that she never finished. After turning 30, then giving birth to her third child, Allison decided to actively pursue a career in writing. Committing herself to write a book from beginning to end, she wrote five complete novels before selling The Prey in 2004. Two years later it was released and nudged the New York Times list at #33. The first four manuscripts have been destroyed and will never see the light of day.

Full Series List in Order

Angelhart Investigations

0.5 - Into the Fire (May-2024)
1 - You'll Never Find Me (Jun-2024)
2 - Don't Say a Word (May-2025)

Evil

1 - Speak No Evil (Feb-2007)
2 - See No Evil (Mar-2007)
3 - Fear No Evil (Apr-2007)

Lucy Kincaid

0.5 - Love Is Murder (Feb-2011)
1 - Love Me to Death (Jan-2011)
2 - Kiss Me, Kill Me (Feb-2011)
3 - If I Should Die (Nov-2011)
4 - Silenced (Apr-2012)
4.5 - Vacation Interrupted (Aug-2012)
5 - Stalked (Nov-2012)
5.5 - Reckless (Mar-2013)
6 - Stolen (Jun-2013)
7 - Cold Snap (Nov-2013)
8 - Dead Heat (Jun-2014)
9 - Best Laid Plans (Aug-2015)
10 - No Good Deed (Nov-2015)
11 - The Lost Girls (Nov-2016)
12 - Make Them Pay (Mar-2017)
12.5 - Two to Die For (Jun-2017)
13 - Breaking Point (Feb-2018)
14 - Too Far Gone (Nov-2018)
14.5 - Storm Warning (Apr-2019)
15 - Nothing to Hide (Apr-2019)
16 - Cut and Run (Apr-2020)
16.5 - No Way Out (Jun-2020)
17 - Cold as Ice (Nov-2020)
17.5 - A Deeper Fear (Jan-2021)

A Max Revere Novel

0.5 - Maximum Exposure (Feb-2014)
1 - Notorious (Mar-2014)
2 - Compulsion (Apr-2015)
3 - Poisonous (Apr-2016)
3.5 - Two to Die For (Jun-2017)
4 - Shattered (Aug-2017)
5 - Abandoned (Aug-2018)

Predator

1 - The Prey (Dec-2005)
2 - The Hunt (Jan-2006)
3 - The Kill (Mar-2006)

Prison Break

1 - Killing Fear (Feb-2008)
2 - Tempting Evil (May-2008)
3 - Playing Dead (Oct-2008)

Quinn & Costa

1 - The Third to Die (Feb-2020)
2 - Tell No Lies (Apr-2021)
3 - The Wrong Victim (May-2022)
4 - Seven Girls Gone (May-2023)
5 - The Missing Witness (Jan-2024)
6 - See How They Hide (Jan-2025)

Regan Merritt

1 - The Sorority Murder (Jan-2022)
2 - Don't Open the Door (Jan-2023)

Sacramento FBI

1 - Sudden Death (Mar-2009)
2 - Fatal Secrets (May-2009)
3 - Cutting Edge (Aug-2009)

The Seven Deadly Sins

0.5 - Deliver Us From Evil (Jan-2008)
1 - Original Sin (Feb-2010)
1.5 - Ghostly Justice (Nov-2014)
2 - Carnal Sin (Jun-2010)
3 - Mortal Sin (Nov-2014)

Book List in Order: 65 titles

  • The Prey

    Predator - 1

    First, she imagined it. Then a killer made it real. Rowan Smith is living in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her bestselling novel is made into a Hollywood movie. A former FBI agent with a haunted past, Rowan thinks she has outrun her demons. ...

  • The Hunt

    Predator - 2

    Touched by a killer, she feels the fire of revenge. Twelve years ago, Miranda Moore miraculously survived the torture of a serial killer who was never caught. Since then, Miranda, a former FBI trainee and now a member of a local search-and-rescue ...

  • The Kill

    Predator - 3

    Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice. For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty -- that while she wasn't able to save her sister's life, ...

  • Speak No Evil

    Evil - 1

    Silence is deadly. The murder of eighteen-year-old Angie Vance was exceptionally vile -- her mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity scrawled was across her skin, and she was suffocated in a garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detect...

  • See No Evil

    Evil - 2

    A cunning killer hides in plain sight. A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote ou...

  • Fear No Evil

    Evil - 3

    In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream. Instead of preparing for her high school graduation, Lucy Kincaid is facing a vicious execution. Lured by an online predator, she's destined to die horribly -- live on the Internet -- while hundreds of he...

  • Deliver Us From Evil

    in What You Can't See
    The Seven Deadly Sins - 0.5

    Demonologist Anthony Zaccardi can't save the twelve priests brutally slaughtered at a California mission, but he's determined to send the killer -- an ancient demon -- back to hell. And when tough, sexy local sheriff Skye McPherson refuses to believe...

  • Killing Fear

    Prison Break - 1

    FEAR NEVER DIES Theodore Glenn loves to inflict pain . . . both on his victims and on those who later find the mutilated corpses. At his trial seven years ago, Glenn vowed vengeance on Detective Will Hooper, the cop who nabbed him, and beautiful R...

  • Tempting Evil

    Prison Break - 2

    BIG DIE COUNTRY Joanna Sutton can cope with the fierce winter storm bearing down on the small rural community of Centennial Valley, Montana; the popular romance writer has survived much worse in life. Haunted by the loss of her husband and child, ...



  • Playing Dead

    Prison Break - 3

    DEAD MAN RUNNING Sentenced to death for crimes he didn't commit, ex-cop Tom O'Brien is now a hunted fugitive. After fifteen years in prison, he's determined to prove his innocence -- but first he must convince his daughter, whose testimony helped pu...

  • Sudden Death

    Sacramento FBI - 1

    HEROIC JUSTICE When a homeless veteran is found dead in a squalid Sacramento alley, FBI special agent Megan Elliott vows to find the murdered hero's killer. Her investigation gets complicated fast, for the victim, a former Delta Force soldier, is ...

  • Fatal Secrets

    Sacramento FBI - 2

    DEADLY QUEST When a top lieutenant in a notorious ring of human traffickers agrees to turn state's evidence, Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior agent Sonia Knight believes she'll finally take down the illegal operation's devilish mastermi...

  • Cutting Edge

    Sacramento FBI - 3

    A RADICAL WAY TO DIE When security specialist Duke Rogan's state-of-the-art computer system fails at a controversial bio-tech firm, a raging inferno spreads, and a grotesquely charred body is discovered in the aftermath. With an extremist anti-tec...

  • Original Sin

    The Seven Deadly Sins - 1

    Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O'Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira's global search has l...

  • Carnal Sin

    The Seven Deadly Sins - 2

    Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of the demon Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins released from Hell by black magic. The fiendish entity was finally trapped, but when more bodies bearing satanic marks surface in Los Angeles, demon...

  • Love Me to Death

    Lucy Kincaid - 1

    Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy's goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime, she's volunteering with a victim's rights group, surf...

  • Kiss Me, Kill Me

    Lucy Kincaid - 2

    KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE Lucy Kincaid has firsthand experience dealing with deadly criminal predators, and she’s fully prepared to share her many talents with the FBI. But when her career plans are derailed, her boyfriend, security expert...

  • Love Is Murder

    Lucy Kincaid - 0.5

    In this exclusive electronic novella that takes place a year before the events in Love Me To Death, Lucy Kincaid and her brother Patrick take a much-needed vacation at a remote lodge outside Lake Tahoe. But their fun is cut short when a snow storm an...

  • If I Should Die

    Lucy Kincaid - 3

    A TRIP TO THE DARK SIDE Aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her P.I. boyfriend, Sean Rogan, are heading to the Adirondack Mountains for a pleasant romantic getaway when they detour to help troubled friends, owners of a new resort who are battling m...



  • Silenced

    Lucy Kincaid - 4

    Lucy Kincaid is back--with a vengeance. A Washington Sex Scandal It has been seven years since Lucy was attacked--and almost killed--by an online predator. Today, she is well on her way toward a new life. While waiting to begin her training at ...

  • Murder in the River City

    Keep your friends close …When the long-time bartender at Dooley’s Pub is murdered, the police believe a violent gang of thieves is responsible. But Shauna Murphy, Dooley’s fiery granddaughter, thinks Mack’s killer is someone she knows. In add...

  • Killing Justice

    Three stories of suspense, seduction and murder …A Capitol ObsessionWhen a lobbyist is found dead in the armoire of a Senate leader, Detective John Black teams with his off-again girlfriend, State Senator Lara James to find the killer.Killing Justi...

  • Vacation Interrupted

    in Love Is Murder (Mira)
    Lucy Kincaid - 4.5

    In this Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan’s recurring protagonists Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan learn that taking an island vacation isn’t so relaxing -- especially when solving crimes is your occupation. Rescuing a...

  • Stalked

    Lucy Kincaid - 5

    Lucy Kincaid returns -- as a killer’s obsession. IN THE GAME OF CRIME A new trainee at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Lucy Kincaid has already seen more than her share of murder and mayhem. Still reeling from the sex-crime case that sealed her re...

  • Reckless

    Lucy Kincaid - 5.5

    Two suspicious hikers … An unmarked grave … A missing child … FBI trainee Lucy Kincaid's spontaneous weekend camping trip with her boyfriend, P.I. Sean Rogan, turns into a deadly nightmare when they come across two hikers looking for t...

  • Stolen

    Lucy Kincaid - 6

    Sean Rogan risks his life when he goes undercover ... but the last thing he expects is to put the woman he loves in danger. LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH Nothing is more important to private investigator Sean Rogan than his relationship with FBI tr...

  • Cold Snap

    Lucy Kincaid - 7

    The Kincaid Family Christmas Reunion is threatened by murder . . . ALL ROADS HOME On his way home to San Diego, P.I. Patrick Kincaid takes a detour through San Francisco to check on the well being of a family friend who's mysteriously been unreac...

  • 36 hours

    SHE'S RUNNING FOR HER LIFEStreet smart teenager Angel Saldana, running from a gang who wants her dead because she witnessed a brutal murder, is desperate and alone--until her father, an ex-cop turned bounty hunter, walks into her life for the first t...

  • Maximum Exposure

    A Max Revere Novel - 0.5

    In this thrilling story, New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan introduces tough-as-nails investigative reporter Maxine Revere, the compelling feature character of Notorious. Note: you can also find this novella in the back of Brennan's book "B...



  • Notorious

    A Max Revere Novel - 1

    New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan introduces an irrepressible heroine in her pulse-pounding new thriller Notorious, which Lisa Gardner says is, "Guaranteed to keep you up late at night." Maxine Revere has dedicated her life to inve...

  • Dead Heat

    Lucy Kincaid - 8

    FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid takes on her most explosive case yet in New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's Dead Heat DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS Assigned to San Antonio’s Violent Crimes unit, Lucy Kincaid joins a team of seasoned veterans and...

  • Ghostly Justice

    The Seven Deadly Sins - 1.5

    LAPD Detective Grant Nelson made a promise to his dying girlfriend that he would find out what happened to a Jane Doe who’s been in the morgue for months. Grant is a cop first, last and always " but what he’s recently witnessed makes him realiz...

  • Mortal Sin

    The Seven Deadly Sins - 3

    Four months ago, a black magic coven summoned the Seven Deadly Sins from hell then quickly lost control. Former witch Moira O’Donnell and her lover, ex-seminarian Rafe Cooper, captured two of the demons, but the remaining five Sins disappeared. Now...

  • Compulsion

    A Max Revere Novel - 2

    Investigative reporter Maxine Revere has a theory: that the five New York City murders for which Adam Bachman is being tried are just part of his killing spree. In probing the disappearance of a retired couple who vanished the prior summer, Max uncov...

  • Best Laid Plans

    Lucy Kincaid - 9

    In Best Laid Plans, newly minted FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is settling into her job in San Antonio, Texas, when the corpse of Harper Worthington, the husband of a sitting congresswoman, is found naked in a motel on the wrong side of town. It's up to Luc...

  • Aim to Kill

    When disgraced former cop Alexandra Morgan is shot saving the life of California's Lieutenant Governor, she doesn't expect to be caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, an FBI sting, an old rivalry ... and cold-blooded murder. When the shooter g...

  • No Good Deed

    Lucy Kincaid - 10

    Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA Agent Nicole Rollins behind bars for murder, conspiracy, and gunr...

  • Poisonous

    A Max Revere Novel - 3

    Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared ... except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy. He loved her in spite of her cruelty. He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is f...

  • The Lost Girls

    Lucy Kincaid - 11

    Photojournalist Siobhan Walsh has been searching for two sisters who disappeared two years ago in Mexico, so when she receives a call from a priest in Texas about an abandoned baby holding a locket with her name, she calls her friends in the FBI for ...



  • Make Them Pay

    Lucy Kincaid - 12

    Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan are finally tying the knot. Two weeks before their wedding, a surprise visitor shows up at their door: Eden, Sean’s estranged sister from Europe. She claims she’s in town for the wedding and wants to mend fences. Lucy ...

  • Two to Die For

    A Max Revere Novel - 3.5
    Lucy Kincaid - 12.5

    Two tales of murder and betrayal from Lucy Kincaid and Maxine Revere"Spiral"Sean Rogan and Lucy Kincaid are enjoying their honeymoon in a remote cabin outside Vail, Colorado. They sorely need the quiet time alone -- a break from the murder and violen...

  • Shattered

    A Max Revere Novel - 4

    New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's two series collide in SHATTERED, a powerful, enthralling read about the craving for revenge and the desire for justice. Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suf...

  • Breaking Point

    Lucy Kincaid - 13

    Bella Caruso survived a nightmare of abuse and betrayal. Today, she has dedicated her life to saving other young women from the hell that almost killed her―first as an officer of the law, then by stepping outside the law and into the darkness where...

  • Abandoned

    A Max Revere Novel - 5

    New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan weaves the intimate, unputdownable story of an investigator confronting the most important--and most dangerous--mystery of her career. Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but ...

  • Too Far Gone

    Lucy Kincaid - 14

    When a man who appears mentally unstable holds a group of people hostage and dies in a shootout with the FBI, Special Agent Lucy Kincaid is assigned to investigate what happened. Up until two months ago, McMahon was a respected scientist―then his w...

  • Nothing to Hide

    Lucy Kincaid - 15

    New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's latest novel featuring FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid finds her on the trail of a serial killer. With a background in psychology, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is good at getting into the heads of killers and victi...

  • Storm Warning

    Lucy Kincaid - 14.5

    An e-novella, Storm Warning, by New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan introduces readers to the world of Lucy Kincaid leading up to the next in the series, Nothing to Hide.FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid and her colleague Nate are racing a severe storm, b...

  • The Third to Die

    Quinn & Costa - 1

    An edgy female police detective…An ambitious FBI special agent. Together they are at the heart of the ticking-clock investigation for a psychopathic serial killer. The bond they forge in this crucible sets the stage for high-stakes suspense. Det...

  • Cut and Run

    Lucy Kincaid - 16

    New York Times bestseller Brennan’s latest novel featuring FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid finds her searching for a missing child in Cut and Run.“BRENNAN [IS] A MASTER.” -- Associated PressFBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is dead-set on solving a cold case -- ev...



  • No Way Out

    Lucy Kincaid - 16.5

    From Allison Brennan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cut and Run, comes a new e-novella, No Way Out: FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid faces her worst fear when her husband goes missing Nine years ago, mercenary Kane Rogan and photojournalist Siobh...

  • Cold as Ice

    Lucy Kincaid - 17

    In New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's Cold as Ice, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid must get into the head of a psychopath to save her family, and herself Two years ago, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid put psychopath Elise Hansen Hunt in juvenile detent...

  • A Deeper Fear

    Lucy Kincaid - 17.5

    FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is back in the new e-Novella, A Deeper Fear, from New York Times bestselling author Allison BrennanFBI Agent Lucy Kincaid’s husband, Sean Rogan, is in a dark place after being held captive. He won’t talk about it with anyon...

  • Tell No Lies

    Quinn & Costa - 2

    The unsolved murder of a young activist leads to the discovery of much darker crimes in New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan’s latest compelling thriller to feaure the young, edgy detective Kara Quinn and the loner FBI agent Matt Costa...

  • Mirror Mirror

    Everyone has a breaking point ...Jackie Regan broke the cycle of violence as a young teen when she turned her abusive father over to the police. Now, a detective in the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, Jackie has dedicated her life to helping ...

  • The Sorority Murder

    Regan Merritt - 1

    A popular sorority girl. An unsolved murder. A campus podcast with chilling repercussions. Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a sorority party one night and never came back. Her body was found after two weeks, but ...

  • The Wrong Victim

    Quinn & Costa - 3

    A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating community is in shock and asking who would commit such a heinous crime -- the largest act of mas...

  • Don't Open the Door

    Regan Merritt - 2

    A child is shot while playing video games at home. His mother will stop at nothing to find out who did it -- and why. After their ten-year-old son, Chase, was senselessly murdered, Regan's life unraveled. Her corporate lawyer husband, Grant, b...

  • Seven Girls Gone

    Quinn & Costa - 4

    For three years, women have been disappearing -- and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt...

  • North of Nowhere

    New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s latest standalone is an unputdownable race to the dramatic finish.After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, h...

  • The Missing Witness

    Quinn & Costa - 5

    When a key witness goes missing, Quinn & Costa must find her before a killer silences her for good… Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. ...

  • Into the Fire

    Angelhart Investigations - 0.5

    Things are heating up in Arizona in this thrilling novella introducing a page-turning new series by New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan Margo Angelhart was recently certified as a private investigator, but she isn’t convinced that ...

  • You'll Never Find Me

    Angelhart Investigations - 1

    Nothing brings family together like crime. Working alone as a private investigator is tough. Estranged from her PI family, Margo Angelhart does what she must to get by -- including taking on sordid cases that pay the bills, even if she’d rather ...

  • See How They Hide

    Quinn & Costa - 6

    No matter how far you run, some pasts never let you go… Two people were murdered -- at the exact same time, in the same gruesome manner, bodies covered in the same red poppies…but on opposite sides of the country. With Detective Kara Quinn invest...

  • Don't Say a Word

    Angelhart Investigations - 2

    A tragic accident…or a murder? The police ruled Elijah Martinez’s death an accidental drug overdose, but the teen’s grieving mother isn’t convinced. With the case officially closed, Angelhart Investigations is the only one who can help her fi...

  • Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds

    Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan will be available Aug 26, 2025. Preorder your copy today!...

Award-Winning Books by Allison Brennan

The Kill
2006 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel
Shattered
2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel


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Allison Brennan has published 65 books.

The next book by Allison Brennan, Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Allison Brennan, The Prey, was published in December 2005.

Yes. Allison Brennan has 10 series.
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