J.T. Ellison

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2007
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Samantha Owens Novel

1 - A Deeper Darkness (Apr-2012)
2 - Edge of Black (Nov-2012)
3 - When Shadows Fall (Feb-2014)
4 - What Lies Behind (Jun-2015)
5 - Field of Graves (Jun-2016)

A Taylor Jackson Novel

1 - All The Pretty Girls (Nov-2007)
2 - 14 (Sep-2008)
3 - Judas Kiss (Jan-2009)
4 - The Cold Room (Mar-2010)
5 - The Immortals (Oct-2010)
6 - So Close the Hand of Death (Feb-2011)
7 - Where All the Dead Lie (Sep-2011)
8 - Crossed (Nov-2015)
9 - The Wolves Come at Night (May-2023)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • All The Pretty Girls

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 1

    When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer. The Southern Strangler is slaug...

  • 14

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 2

    Ten victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips. In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the...

  • Judas Kiss

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 3

    Sex, lies and videotape. It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother's bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home. Cameras ...

  • Killer Year

    This book contains stories to die for...from the hottest new crime writers. The Killer Year are a group of new and up-coming thriller writers who have turned their talents to this compelling new collection. Each author has been mentored along the way...

  • The Cold Room

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 4

    HE CAN ONLY TRULY LOVE HER ONCE HER HEART STOPS Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks she's seen it all in Nashville -- but she's never seen anything as perverse as The Conductor. Once his victim is captured, he contains her in a glass coffin, sl...

  • Killing Carol Ann

    in First Thrills

    New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, h...

  • The Immortals

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 5

    VENGEANCE BORN IN THE DARK OF THE MOON It is Samhain -- the Blood Harvest. Nonbelievers call it Hallowe'en. The night when eight Nashville teenagers are found dead, with occult symbols carved into their naked bodies. It's a ritual the killers believ...

  • Sweet Little Lies

  • So Close the Hand of Death

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 6

    TALENT BORROWS. GENIUS STEALS. EVIL DELEGATES. It's a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and...



  • Where All the Dead Lie

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 7

    The headshot didn't kill Taylor Jackson. But it will haunt. In her showdown with the murderous Pretender, a bullet taken at close range severed the connection between Taylor's thoughts and speech. Effectively mute, there's no telling if her voice wil...

  • Slices of Night

    One killer: A psychopath who flies under the radar, moving from city to city, preying on the lost and forgotten. Three investigators: Detective Stacy Killian from the New Orleans P.D., Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, and FBI profiler Ma...

  • Chimera

    Have you ever wondered what might happen if you sold your soul to the devil?"Chimera" is a short story by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison. It first appeared in SURREAL SOUTH '09, edited by Pinckney Benedict and Laura Benedict (Press 53...

  • Gray Lady, Lady Gray

    It lives in the attics of a remote Scottish Castle. It needs the blood of a bride. And there's a wedding scheduled today."Gray Lady, Lady Gray" is a short story by *New York Times* bestselling author J.T. Ellison. It first...

  • Prodigal Me

    When a relationship goes south, a young woman must come to grips with her new reality. "Prodigal Me" is a short story by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison. It first appeared in KILLER YEAR: Stories to Die For, edited by Lee Child (St. Ma...

  • Where'd You Get That Red Dress?

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  • A Deeper Darkness

    A Samantha Owens Novel - 1

    As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments. But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from Sam's life. She has b...

  • The Number of Man

    in Love Is Murder (Mira)

    "Eerie to the max. Hitchcock would have loved the creepy, delusional, manipulative character of Michael." - New York Times bestselling author Sandra BrownUnrequited love. Sounds romantic, doesn't it? But what happens when a stalker falls in love? "Th...

  • Edge of Black

    A Samantha Owens Novel - 2

    Dr. Samantha Owens is starting over: new city, new job, new man, new life. She's trying to put some distance between herself and the devastating loss of her husband and children -- but old hurts leave scars. Before she's even unpacked her office a...



  • When Shadows Fall

    A Samantha Owens Novel - 3

    Dear Dr. Owens, If you are reading this letter, I am dead and I would be most grateful if you could solve my murder… Forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Owens thought life was finally returning to normal after she suffered a terrible personal...

  • What Lies Behind

    A Samantha Owens Novel - 4

    Critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author J. T. Ellison delivers another riveting novel featuring the incomparable Dr. Samantha Owens Waking to sirens in the night is hardly unusual for Samantha Owens. No longer a medical examiner, s...

  • Blood Sugar Baby

    There's a new killer in town. And it's up to Taylor Jackson to stop him before he murders more of Nashville's elite. Metro Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson is none too happy when the body of a high-profile Nashvillian turns up after a pro...

  • Mad Love

    Some people will do anything for love. These short stories from New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison show just how far some are willing to go.THE NUMBER OF MAN"Eerie to the max. Hitchcock would have loved the creepy, delusional, manipulativ...

  • Three Tales from the Dark Side

    These creepy tales from New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will have you looking over your shoulder for the next few days . . . PRODIGAL MEWhen a relationship goes south, a young woman must come to grips with her new reality.CHIMERAHave ...

  • Whiteout

    Join Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson as she races to find a deadly assassin who's seemingly blended in with the blizzard. Metro Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson has reluctantly agreed to take the place of her fiancé, FBI pro...

  • Crossed

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 8

    All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse, and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer. Field of Graves reveals the origins of some of J. T. Ell...

  • The Omen Days

    Autumn disappeared from his life once. And he's not going to let her do it again.Zack Aukey hates Christmas -- despises it, actually. December carries painful memories of his first love Autumn Cleary, who left him during the holiday season. But when ...

  • No One Knows

    In an obsessive mystery as thrilling as The Girl on the Train and The Husband’s Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will make you question every twist in her page-turning novel -- and wonder which of her vividly drawn characters ...

  • Field of Graves

    A Samantha Owens Novel - 5

    J.T. Ellison goes back to where it all began… All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer. Field...



  • The First Decade

    Ten years of thrills. Two brand-new stories. One hair-raising collection.

    For the past decade, New York Times bestseller J.T. Ellison's thrillers have kept readers worldwide peeking into dark corners and double-checking their locks at night...

  • Storm Season

    The second exciting collaboration from Erica Spindler, Alex Kava and J.T. Ellison. One terrifying storm; three thrilling tales.They call it an Alberta Clipper â€" a massive storm system that rides the jet stream southward from Canada and across the U...

  • The Endarkening

    Art is her refuge, her passion -- and her hell. American art student Evie Williams is studying abroad in Edinburgh and having the time of her life -- especially when she falls hard for Thomas MacBean, a sexy art dealer with a Highlander's brogue. But...

  • Lie to Me

    Domestic noir at its best. Readers will devour this stunning page-turner about the disintegration of a marriage as grief, jealousy, betrayal and murder destroy the facade of the perfect literary couple. New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison ...

  • Dead Ends

    Look at this picture. Tell me what you see...

    The American South is rife with stories of a haunted past--especially its houses. In this eclectic and impressive collection, thirteen novelists were asked to build their tales around the photo o...

  • 2 Novellas from the Taylor Jackson Series

    Taylor Jackson is back! Join the fearless Nashville Homicide Lieutenant and familiar faces as Taylor tackles two of the most intriguing cases of her career. BLOOD SUGAR BABYMetro Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson is none too happy when the...

  • Stories of the Night

    A writer finds a cave keeping a dark secret for nearly a century.A ghost in a Scottish castle seeks blood on a wedding day.A student abroad loses herself in a dreamy art dealer and his dark painting.An undercover cop searches for the lover who's haun...

  • Catwood

    Five friends head on a weekend mountain getaway. Only four will return.A group of writers from Nashville piles into a car and heads to the mountains of north Georgia for a work retreat--and a bit of drinking and gossip. They've booked a cabin in the ...

  • Tear Me Apart

    The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellison’s Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them. One moment will ch...

  • A Thousand Doors

    The day Mia Jensen died, she finally got to live. We've all played the "what if" game. For forty-year-old Mia Jensen, "what if" is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to...



  • Good Girls Lie

    Goode girls don’t lie… Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only t...

  • Her Dark Lies

    At the wedding of the year, a killer needs no invitation Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. In the majestic cliff-top villa owned by the wealthy Compton family, up-and-com...

  • It's One Of Us

    Everybody lies. Even the ones you think you know best of all . . . Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients. But her own deepest desire can’t be fulfilled by marble counters or the perfect rug. She ...

  • The Wolves Come at Night

    A Taylor Jackson Novel - 9

    A detective on the brink. An assassin out for revenge. A desperate mother racing against the clock.While the high-profile murder of a young country singer turns Nashville inside out, danger lurks in the woods beyond the city's border. There was a wit...

  • A Very Bad Thing

    From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows.A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plo...

  • Last Seen

Award-Winning Books by J.T. Ellison

The Cold Room
2011 Thriller Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.T. Ellison has published 45 books.

The next book by J.T. Ellison, Last Seen, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by J.T. Ellison, All The Pretty Girls, was published in November 2007.

Yes. J.T. Ellison has 2 series.
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