Katia Lief

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2010
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Karin Schaeffer

1 - You Are Next (Oct-2010)
2 - Next Time You See Me (Nov-2010)
3 - Vanishing Girls (Jul-2012)
3.5 - The Gift (Dec-2012)
4 - The Money Kill (Apr-2013)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • You Are Next

    Karin Schaeffer - 1

    HE TOOK EVERYTHING...THEN CAME BACK FOR MORE. Former Detective Karin Schaeffer has nothing left to live for after serial killer Martin Price destroys all she holds dear. Known as "The Domino Killer" because he leaves dominoes as a clue to his next v...

  • Next Time You See Me

    Karin Schaeffer - 2

    KARIN SCHAEFFER THOUGHT SHE HAD ALREADY DEFEATED EVIL. BUT THERE WAS MORE. Three years ago, Detective Karin Schaeffer wanted to die when a madman murdered her family -- and she would have if her partner, Mac MacLeary, hadn't pulled her back from th...

  • Love, Sex & the Wrong Bride

    Dawn is still in love with Hank, who dumped her for Christine--and they're living together now. But when Dawn realizes how much Hank misses her, and might even regret their breakup, the game is on. Dating in 1980s Manhattan is confusing enough. Th...

  • The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love

    IS FAME REALLY WORTH ALL THE TROUBLE? Aspiring cartoonist Catherine "Cat" Gold earns her living as a celebrity assistant in uptown Manhattan, while navigating the cramped downtown spaces of life, love, and alternative art. Her boss is Rochelle "Ro...

  • Soul Catcher

    Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970's, and at the progressive school where ...

  • Hide and Seek

  • Waterbury: A Crime Novel

    Who will live and who will die? A team of burglars plans to rob a secluded country house in Waterbury, Connecticut, while the famous owner is away visiting relatives for the holidays. But volatile relationships within this family lead to a last mi...

  • Vanishing Girls

    Karin Schaeffer - 3

    GIRLS ARE VANISHING OFF THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY... ...and young women are being murdered. When the violence descends on Karin Schaeffer and Mac MacLeary's comfortable Brooklyn neighborhood, and their best friend becomes the lead investigator...

  • The Gift

    Karin Schaeffer - 3.5

    A gift inspires unexpected insight and generosity.A short story based on the bestselling Karin Schaeffer thriller series.Karin and Mac enjoy a quiet Christmas morning at home with their family. But after Mac gives Karin a special gi...



  • Heartbeat

    A dangerous secret, a broken heart.Originally published in Ellery Queen Magazine.Effie Miller has been a loyal assistant to Ted Stollit for many years. But when she receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer, she decides she will no longer keep the secr...

  • Names of the Dead // Watch You Die

    IF HE CAN'T HAVE HER, NO ONE WILL Award-winning journalist Darcy Mayhew thinks she has faced her worst nightmare when her beloved husband dies in a car accident. But after moving to New York City with her teenage son to begin their lives anew, she...

  • The Money Kill

    Karin Schaeffer - 4

    Former New York City police detectives-turned-Brooklyn private investigators Karin Schaeffer and her husband Mac survived when brutal terror invaded their lives more than once. Now the offer of thirty thousand dollars for one day's work in London, fo...

  • The Beautiful Years

    "The Beautiful Years is part character study, part love triangle, and part commentary on how the decisions we make in an instant can color decades of our lives. A gorgeous, rich, contemplative read." - Jodi PicoultOn the day she graduates from coll...

  • The Orchid Grower

    Lena, alone in her house in the middle of the night, surprises an intruder who expected to have the upper hand. In the days that follow, she tends her prized orchid while hiding evidence of her growing list of crimes. Derringer Award nomination, 2016...

  • A Map of the Dark

    A race-against-time thriller for fans of Tana French and Megan Abbott: To save a missing girl, FBI Agent Elsa Myers may have to lose herself. Even as her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York City, FBI Agent Elsa Myers can't ignore a call...

  • House of a Thousand Eyes

    KILLING EVE meets THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLDA Cold War spy's deceits rise through time to haunt his American son, in a dual narrative split between postwar Berlin and early twentieth-century New York City. Past becomes prologue as a father's s...

  • The 12th Victim

  • Dead Rich

  • Five Days to Die



  • Invisible Woman

    Other people kill their husbands. Not her.“A darkly clever thriller about women’s thwarted ambitions, celebrity, the Time’s Up movement and revenge.” -- People (Book of the Week)In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between...

  • Women Like Us

    Katia Lief’s Women Like Us is a sharply-rendered literary thriller that examines the complexities and responsibilities of female friendship -- what brings women together, and what drives them apart.Joni Ackerman was tired of being invisible.It’s ...

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Katia Lief has published 21 books.

The next book by Katia Lief, Women Like Us, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Katia Lief, You Are Next, was published in October 2010.

Yes. Katia Lief has 1 series.
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