Gregg Olsen

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1995
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Birdy Waterman Thriller

1 - The Bone Box (Apr-2012)
2 - The Girl in the Woods (Nov-2014)
3 - Now That She's Gone (Nov-2015)
4 - Just Try to Stop Me (Dec-2016)

Detective Megan Carpenter

1 - Snow Creek (Nov-2019)
2 - Water's Edge (Jun-2020)
3 - Silent Ridge (Dec-2020)
4 - Stillwater Island (Dec-2021)
5 - Cougar Point (Sep-2024)

Emily Kenyon

1 - A Cold Dark Place (Apr-2008)
2 - Heart of Ice (Mar-2009)

Empty Coffin

1 - Envy // Beneath Her Skin (Aug-2011)
2 - Betrayal // Dying to Be Her (Sep-2012)

Kendall Stark

1 - Victim Six (Feb-2010)
2 - Closer Than Blood (Apr-2011)

Nicole Foster Thriller

1 - The Sound of Rain (Dec-2016)
2 - The Weight of Silence (Aug-2018)

Port Gamble Chronicles

1 - Envy // Beneath Her Skin (Aug-2011)
2 - Betrayal // Dying to Be Her (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Mockingbird

    Describes the story of nurse Tanya Reid, whose diagnosis with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy revealed that her first child, who supposedly died from SIDS, had been murdered by her mother, and that her second child was also being targeted. Original....

  • Starvation Heights

    In this true story -- a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights -- Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and D...

  • The Deep Dark

    “A vividly detailed, heartbreaking tale about a dark, alien place, the people who loved working there and a town that has never been the same. He brings to life the hot, dirty, treasure-hunt environment where danger was a miner's heroin." -- Seatt...

  • A Wicked Snow

    Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck on her family's farm. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up--one of them her mother's. It was the nation's worst murder scene in decades a...

  • Abandoned Prayers

  • Cruel Deception

  • A Cold Dark Place

    Emily Kenyon - 1

    THE SEEDS OF EVIL... In a secluded farm house in the Pacific Northwest, a family has been slaughtered--and a teenage son has disappeared. Single mother and cop, Emily Kenyon spearheads a dark hunt for a killer. But Emily's teenage daughter Jenna is ...

  • Heart of Ice

    Emily Kenyon - 2

    Three bodies, three different towns. Each victim was a sorority girl--pretty, privileged, and brutally murdered. There are no fingerprints, no clues. He is scrupulously careful, craving those exquisite seconds when the light fades from his victim's e...

  • Victim Six

    Kendall Stark - 1

    The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common -- except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture... a depraved killer w...



  • A Twisted Faith

    The New York Times bestselling author investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge I...

  • The Crime of My Life

    A short story by New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen.Here's what reviewers had to say about this story:Olsen’s “The Crime of My Life,” hit(s) like a hard swung sap.--Publisher’s WeeklyOlsen’s autobiographi...

  • Taken in the Night

    INCLUDES PHOTOSBonus chapters of Gregg Olsen's Bitch on Wheels and If Loving You is Wrong!In this exclusive ebook short, New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen introduces True Crime readers to the sensational kidnapping case that J. Edgar Hoov...

  • Closer Than Blood

    Kendall Stark - 2

    The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer's hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one...

  • Envy // Beneath Her Skin

    Empty Coffin - 1
    Port Gamble Chronicles - 1

    The night Katelyn died was the beginning of something that would change everything. EVERY. SINGLE. THING. EVIL COMES IN all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. That's what Katelyn discovers on the day she dies. One minute she's...

  • Bitch on Wheels

    From the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Gregg Olsen...The basis for a new documentary on Investigation Discovery!With photos for the first time in ebook!BONUS: Chapter from Olsen's latest: IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU...

  • The Bone Box

    A Birdy Waterman Thriller - 1

    Birdy Waterman stars in a riveting short story that will chill you to the bone -- from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of If You Tell. They call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt...

  • Betrayal // Dying to Be Her

    Empty Coffin - 2
    Port Gamble Chronicles - 2

    In this action-packed thriller sequel to Envy, foreign exchange student Olivia Grant is stabbed to death after a party--and the prime suspect is her best friend. As twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan get pulled into the aftermath of this Amanda Knox-like c...

  • If Loving You is Wrong

    New York Times Bestseller!Bonus: Chapter of If I Can't Have You (Susan Cox Powell case)."Wonderfully researched...Searing and brilliant...A must-read!"-- Ann Rule, the undisputed queen of True CrimeThe first case -- the one that launched an epidemic ...

  • Fear Collector

    Ted Bundy. America's most notorious serial killer. For two women, he is the ultimate obsession. One is cop whose sister may have been one of Bundy's victims. The other is a deranged groupie who corresponded with Bundy in prison - and raised her son t...



  • Shocking True Story

    Kevin Ryan is a writer in the much-maligned genre of true crime who desperately needs a devious, over-the-top story for the subject of his next book. How else can he keep his wife Valerie’s roots dyed and keep himself from handing out taco samples ...

  • Sex. Murder. Mystery.

    Three book box set (two full length book and a short story) by #1 New York Times bestselling author of Starvation Heights. BITCH ON WHEELS The unbelievable true story of Sharon Nelson, a Colorado woman, who had her mountainman man...

  • The Dead Soul

    "Read the first page of THE DEAD SOUL and you won't stop. … Phelps’s narrative grabs you by the lapels and doesn’t let go." "John Lutz, New York Times bestselling authorIn this first novel, serial killer expert, star of Investigation Discover...

  • Angel of Death

    New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan delve into murder and mayhem from notorious Ohio. Two brothers begin murdering young women and couples, and despite an intense manhunt, they manage to e...

  • The Girl in the Woods

    A Birdy Waterman Thriller - 2

    A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail--to a dangerous psychopath whose powers of persuasion seem t...

  • Bitter Almonds

    New York Times bestseller with photos!File updated and corrected July 3, 2015! Stella Nickell's small-time world was one of big-time dreams. In 1986, her biggest one came true when her husband died during a seizure, making her the beneficiary of a $1...

  • Now That She's Gone

    A Birdy Waterman Thriller - 3

    Notorious serial killer Brenda Nevins has cajoled, seduced, blackmailed, and left a trail of bodies all across Washington State. Now, after a daring prison escape, she is free to carry out her ultimate act of revenge. The targets: forensic pathologis...

  • The Girl on the Run

    A twisted murder, a tangle of lies...Now Rylee must run for her life.

    What if you discovered that everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie? Rylee is fifteen years old, and has spent her life being shuttled from city to city by ...

  • Just Try to Stop Me

    A Birdy Waterman Thriller - 4

    Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted -- and feared -- criminals in the world. Now the notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and is plotting her revenge. Using innocent yo...

  • The Sound of Rain

    Nicole Foster Thriller - 1

    Former homicide detective Nicole Foster has hit rock bottom. Driven off the force by her treacherous partner and lover, she’s flat broke and struggling with a gambling addiction. All Nicole has left is the dream of a warm bed at a homeless shelter ...



  • The Boy She Left Behind

    The second novel in Gregg Olsen's riveting and edgy Young Adult Vengeance series brings back Rylee Cassidey and thrusts her into a search that could change her life ... or end it. Rylee tracks a serial killer in Portland, Oregon doing what she doe...

  • The Last Thing She Ever Did

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a psychological thriller exploring the things we dare to do when no one is looking... The community along Oregon’s Deschutes River is one of successful careers and perfect families. For years, ...

  • The Weight of Silence

    Nicole Foster Thriller - 2

    A heart-pounding novel of unspeakable crimes and unforgivable sins Homicide detective Nicole Foster has finally balanced an unsteady life and is anxious for a second chance. There’s no better place to start over than at the beginning -- back at ...

  • Lying Next to Me

    No matter what you see, no matter what you’ve heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State’s Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It’s the perfect getaway to unplug -- an...

  • Snow Creek

    Detective Megan Carpenter - 1

    ‘OMG!!...I was simply blown away by this… I couldn't look away…even when I wanted to. The story took me by my throat making me gasp every few chapters…Wow!!’ Shalini’s Books and Reviews ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Footprints were scattered about like...

  • Water's Edge

    Detective Megan Carpenter - 2

    From the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author comes another book in the gripping Detective Megan Carpenter series.When the body of Leann Truitt is found in a secluded cove in Mystery B...

  • Silent Ridge

    Detective Megan Carpenter - 3

    One bath wall is a mural of a brilliant-yellow sunflower. The theme carries over to the shower curtains, but the yellow vinyl is spattered with red blotches. Propped against the mirror is a South Kitsap High School photo of a teenaged girl. Detect...

  • The Hive

    Glamorous messiah or charlatan? A mask of beauty hides deadly secrets in #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s mesmerizing novel of suspense.In the Pacific Northwest, detective Lindsay Jackman is investigating the...

  • Stillwater Island

    Detective Megan Carpenter - 4

    Mommy, I'm scared. Marlena's precious boy lies with his little arm thrown over her thigh. It's pitch-black, and she can hear seagulls. She realises they must be near water, and a new panic rises in her.At 2 a.m. one icy winter morning, in the smart s...

  • I Know Where You Live

    Revenge, justice, or closure? Family crimes can’t be hidden forever in this provocative novel of suspense by #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen.Violet knows that time is a futile healer. When she thinks of her happily married gran...



  • Cougar Point

    Detective Megan Carpenter - 5

    She wakes to find herself alone in complete darkness. Fearing for her life, in that moment her only thought is for her beloved daughters. What will they think when they find out she's missing? Then it hits her. She's kept a secret hidden from her fam...

  • If You Tell

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Award-Winning Books by Gregg Olsen

The Deep Dark
2005 Idaho Library Association Book Award -- Outstanding Contribution


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gregg Olsen has published 41 books.

Gregg Olsen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cougar Point, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Gregg Olsen, Mockingbird, was published in June 1995.

Yes. Gregg Olsen has 7 series.
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