Karen Rose

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2003
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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About the Author

Karen Rose is an award winning author who fell in love with books from the time she learned to read. She started writing stories of her own when the characters in her head started talking and just wouldn't be silenced. A former chemical engineer and high school chemistry and physics teacher, Karen lives in Florida with her husband of twenty years, their two children, and the family cat, Bella. When she's not writing, Karen is practicing for her next karate belt test! Karen would be thrilled to receive your email at karen@karenrosebooks.com.

Full Series List in Order

Baltimore

1 - You Belong to Me (Jun-2011)
2 - No One Left to Tell (Jun-2012)
3 - Did You Miss Me? (Feb-2013)
3.5 - Broken Silence (Oct-2013)
4 - Watch Your Back (Feb-2014)
5 - Monster in the Closet (Sep-2017)
6 - Death Is Not Enough (Oct-2018)

Chicago

1 - Don't Tell (Jul-2003)
2 - Have You Seen Her? (Feb-2004)
3 - I'm Watching You (Oct-2004)
4 - Nothing To Fear (Aug-2005)
5 - You Can't Hide (Apr-2006)
6 - Count to Ten (Feb-2007)

Cincinnati

1 - Closer Than You Think (Feb-2015)
2 - Alone in the Dark (Feb-2016)
3 - Every Dark Corner (Feb-2017)
4 - Edge of Darkness (Feb-2018)
5 - Into the Dark (Nov-2019)

Minneapolis

1 - I Can See You (Aug-2009)
2 - Silent Scream (May-2010)

New Orleans

1 - Quarter to Midnight (Aug-2022)
2 - Beneath Dark Waters (Aug-2023)
3 - Buried Too Deep (Aug-2024)
4 - Knife in the Back (Aug-2025)

Sacramento

1 - Say You're Sorry (Feb-2019)
2 - Say No More (Aug-2020)
3 - Say Goodbye (Aug-2021)

The San Diego Case Files

1 - Cold-Blooded Liar (Mar-2023)
2 - Cheater (Apr-2024)
3 - Dead Man's List (Mar-2025)

Vartanian Family

1 - Die for Me (Sep-2007)
2 - Scream for Me (May-2008)
3 - Kill for Me (Feb-2009)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Don't Tell

    Chicago - 1

    DON'T LOOK It was a desperate plan. But Mary Grace Winters knew the only way to save herself and her child from her abusive cop husband was to stage their own death. Now all that remains of their former life is at the bottom of a lake... DON'T TR...

  • Have You Seen Her?

    Chicago - 2

    DO YOU LOVE HER? One by one, the girls disappear from their beds at night. Each one is pretty, with long dark hair. And each one is found brutally murdered. DO YOU MISS HER? Special Agent Steven Thatcher has sworn to find the serial killer p...

  • I'm Watching You

    Chicago - 3

    I KNOW THEIR CRIMES. Star prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop. I HUNT DOWN THE GUILTY. ...

  • Nothing To Fear

    Chicago - 4

    NOTHING TO SEE As director of an inner-city women's shelter, Dana Dupinsky safeguards many secrets. Some are new identities; some are new addresses; and some are even hidden truths about herself. Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the wom...

  • Dirty Secrets

    in Hot Pursuit

    “Karen Rose writes hold-your-breath suspense” (Karen Robards) and in this breathtaking novella she’s at her seductive best as an unexpected reunion between two friends ignites the dangerous impulses in a secret enemy… Emma Townsend is asto...

  • You Can't Hide

    Chicago - 5

    YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her pa...

  • Count to Ten

    Chicago - 6

    1, 2 I'M COMING FOR YOU. In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday has never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires--devastating, vicious, and, in one case, homicidal. He has another problem--hi...

  • Die for Me

    Vartanian Family - 1

    COME TO ME The first victim is found in a snow-covered Philadelphia field. Detective Vito Ciccotelli enlists the aid of archaeologist Sophie Johannsen to determine exactly what lies beneath the frozen ground. Despite years of unearthing things lo...

  • Scream for Me

    Vartanian Family - 2

    Karen Rose presents a terrifying criminal who taunts you to... CLOSE YOUR EYES Special Agent Daniel Vartanian vows to find the serial killer whose crimes mimic a thirteen-year-old case. His only leads are some photographs that belonged to the ruthle...



  • Kill for Me

    Vartanian Family - 3

    Five teenage girls have been murdered. One survived, and only she can reveal the secrets of a disturbing ring of people who kidnap and sell teenage girls on the black market. But those responsible for the crimes will do whatever it takes to maintain ...

  • I Can See You

    Minneapolis - 1

    WHEREVER YOU GO... Eve Wilson's face was once marred by a vicious assault. Terrified and ashamed, she retreated to the virtual realm where no one could see her. Now, years later, her outer scars faded and inner scars buried, she's fought her way back...

  • Silent Scream

    Minneapolis - 2

    When a teenage girl dies in a suspicious fire, Detective Olivia Sutherland is assigned to track down the arsonist. Then she discovers something more sinister: a vicious blackmailer who preys on young people and murders without hesitation. Making her ...

  • The Shots

    in Mélange

  • You Belong to Me

    Baltimore - 1

    YEARS AGO A YOUNG WOMAN WAS BEATEN AND RAPED WHILE ONLOOKERS DID NOTHING, Now THOSE WITNESSES ARE BECOMING VICTIMS THEMSELVES... Baltimore city Homicide Detective JD Fitzpatrick has seen a lot of horrific violence, both as a cop and during his deplo...

  • No One Left to Tell

    Baltimore - 2

    KAREN ROSE RETURNS TO THE WORLD OF BALTIMORE'S COPS AND PROSECUTORS WITH A NEW TALE OF DANGER AND DESIRE.... A minivan crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden's home. And suddenly she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms -- from ...

  • Did You Miss Me?

    Baltimore - 3

    Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery pulled herself out of a damaged past to build a solid life for herself and her son. But after she helps to convict a killer, her confidence is shattered once again by the news that her son has been kidnapped. ...

  • Broken Silence

    Baltimore - 3.5

    From the #1 international bestselling author of Watch Your Back comes a suspenseful new novella featuring Assistant State’s Attorney Daphne Montgomery and Baltimore Special Agent Joseph Carter. After a traumatic kidnapping, Daphne’s boss insis...

  • Watch Your Back

    Baltimore - 4

    A cold case reopened. A murderer re-emerging more deadly than ever before... Baltimore Homicide Detective Stevie Mazzetti has suffered losses no woman should have to endure. And, despite it all, she’s still a fighter. When she learns that her e...

  • Closer Than You Think

    Cincinnati - 1

    Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who's made her life a nightmare for the past year--desperate enough to run to the one place that has been her nightmare far longer. Both boon and bane, her recent inheritance of her grand...



  • Alone in the Dark

    Cincinnati - 2

    The New York Times bestselling author of Closer Than You Think returns with a breathtaking new novel of suspense in the Cincinnati series -- one that crosses the line between danger and desire, and justice and revenge. Homicide Detective Scarlett...

  • Every Dark Corner

    Cincinnati - 3

    In this nerve-shattering novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Alone in the Dark, special Agents Griffin Davenport and Kate Coppola are on the trail of a depraved criminal... When FBI Special Agent Griffin "Decker" Davenport opens hi...

  • Monster in the Closet

    Baltimore - 5

    The New York Times bestselling author of Every Dark Corner returns to Baltimore, where a father-daughter reunion puts innocent victims in the sights of a stone-cold killer… Baltimore PI Clay Maynard routinely locates missing children for clients...

  • Edge of Darkness

    Cincinnati - 4

    A Cincinnati detective questions everything he knows--and everyone he trusts--in the new novel of romantic suspense from New York Times bestseller Karen Rose. Homicide detective Adam Kimble is no stranger to battling demons. But Meredith Fallon is...

  • Death Is Not Enough

    Baltimore - 6

    The past comes back to haunt a high-profile defense attorney in the newest book in the Baltimore series. In his work as a defense attorney in Baltimore, Thorne has always been noble to a fault--specializing in helping young people in trouble just ...

  • Say You're Sorry

    Sacramento - 1

    Introducing the first book in the new pulse-pounding Sacramento series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. FBI Special Agent Gideon Reynolds did not have a conventional upbringing. Raised in a cult in Northern California, his mother...

  • Into the Dark

    Cincinnati - 5

    New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose returns with a new thriller in her chilling Cincinnati series. Michael Rowland is not your typical teenager. Deaf from birth, he’s always looked out for his five-year-old brother, Joshua. When his st...

  • Say No More

    Sacramento - 2

    Mercy Callahan thought she'd escaped the cult decades ago, but its long fingers are reaching out for her again in this electrifying novel in the Sacramento series... Seventeen years ago. That was the last time Mercy Callahan saw Ephraim Burton...

  • Say Goodbye

    Sacramento - 3

    Eden faces a final reckoning when the cult's past victims hunt them down in this explosive, high-stakes thriller in the Sacramento series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. For decades, Eden has remained hidden in the remote w...

  • Quarter to Midnight

    New Orleans - 1

    Discover New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose’s brand-new series set in the sultry, crime-ridden city of New Orleans and featuring a tough team of high-end private investigators who are after justice -- no matter what they hav...



  • Cold-Blooded Liar

    The San Diego Case Files - 1

    Brace yourself for a scorching new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose, where San Diego means sun, surf, sand...and serial killers. Sam Reeves is a kindhearted psychologist who treats court-ordered clients. After on...

  • Beneath Dark Waters

    New Orleans - 2

    Deadly secrets lie beneath the murky waters of the Louisiana bayou in this pulse-pounding new romantic suspense novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose. There’s no safe place for a child to hide when danger comes from ...

  • Cheater

    The San Diego Case Files - 2

    A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting, high-stakes second installment of the San Diego Case Files, from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose.Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shad...

  • Buried Too Deep

    New Orleans - 3

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for -- or killing to keep. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.Employed as the nig...

  • The White Picket Fence

    Romantic thriller, Ciccotelli family, novella. Tino Ciccotelli is a sketch artist who discovers his newest client, a victim of a vicious assault, is his former high school art teacher. He is devastated to see her injuries and determined to help the p...

  • Dead Man's List

    The San Diego Case Files - 3

    Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick's latest case exposes the dark side of San Diego’s high society in this nerve-shattering tale of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose.On a long-anticipated second date with police psy...

  • Knife in the Back

    New Orleans - 4

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another "Intense, complex, and unforgettable” * novel.   Officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker and coerced -- through threats to he...

Award-Winning Books by Karen Rose

Die for Me
2007 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Romantic Suspense
I'm Watching You
2005 Rita Award -- Romantic Suspense
Kill for Me
2009 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery
Silent Scream
2011 Rita Award -- Romantic Suspense


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Rose has published 36 books.

The next book by Karen Rose, Knife in the Back, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Karen Rose, Don't Tell, was published in July 2003.

Yes. Karen Rose has 8 series.
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