Lisa Black

Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean

1 - Takeover (Sep-2008)
2 - Evidence of Murder (Sep-2009)
3 - Trail of Blood (Sep-2010)
4 - Defensive Wounds (Oct-2011)
5 - Blunt Impact (Apr-2013)
6 - The Price of Innocence (Nov-2013)
7 - Close to the Bone (Oct-2014)

A Gardiner and Renner Novel

1 - That Darkness (May-2016)
2 - Unpunished (Feb-2017)
3 - Perish (Jan-2018)
4 - Suffer the Children (Sep-2018)
5 - Let Justice Descend (Nov-2019)
6 - Every Kind of Wicked (Aug-2020)

A Locard Institute Thriller

1 - Red Flags (Aug-2022)
2 - What Harms You (Jul-2023)
3 - The Deepest Kill (Feb-2024)
4 - Not Who We Expected (Mar-2025)

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  Takeover
  

  • Sep-2008
  • / Police Procedural
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  Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean - 1
  

  Early one Thursday morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to the scene of a gruesome murder. The body of a man has been found on the front lawn of a house in suburban Cleveland, the back of his head bashed in. Although it's not the bes...

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  Evidence of Murder
  

  • Sep-2009
  • / Police Procedural
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  Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean - 2
  

  Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean takes on the worst kind of murder case -- one without clues -- in this second novel in a hot new series from Lisa Black Eight months ago, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean lost her fiance in a bank robbery g...

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  Trail of Blood
  

  • Sep-2010
  • / Police Procedural
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  Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean - 3
  

  Seventy-five years ago, a madman nicknamed the Torso Killer terrorized Cleveland. His horrific spree lasted four years and crisscrossed the entire city. Overall, he was credited with more than a dozen murders. And he was never caught. Today, foren...

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  Defensive Wounds
  

  • Oct-2011
  • / Police Procedural
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  Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean - 4
  

  In this fourth novel in Lisa Black's captivating suspense series, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean finds herself embroiled in a case in which everyone has a motive and everyone is a suspect -- especially when high-powered defense attorneys start...

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  Blunt Impact
  

  • Apr-2013
  • / Police Procedural
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  Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean - 5
  

  OVER THE EDGE… A construction worker's crushed body. A blood trail leading to a terrified eleven-year-old girl. These are just the first pieces of the forensic puzzle medical examiner Theresa MacLean must solve in her race against the clock. Onc...

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  The Price of Innocence
  

  • Nov-2013
  • / Police Procedural
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  Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean - 6
  

  Called out to investigate a suspected suicide in a luxury high-rise apartment, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean only just escapes with her life when the building is blown to smithereens. An accident--or something more sinister? A mostly empty block...

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  Close to the Bone
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / Police Procedural
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  Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean - 7
  

  Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean stumbles across a murder rather too close for comfort when she returns to the Medical Examiner’s office following a late-night call to find one deskman missing and the other beaten to death. Written in blood above...

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  The Intern's Predicament
  

  • May-2015
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  That Darkness
  

  • May-2016
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Gardiner and Renner Novel - 1
  

  In this tour de force of psychological suspense, bestselling author Lisa Black draws from her experience as a forensic investigator to create two of the most fascinating characters in crime fiction: a killer with a unique sense of justice and a woman...

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  Unpunished
  

  • Feb-2017
  • / Thriller
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  A Gardiner and Renner Novel - 2
  

  Maggie Gardiner, a forensic expert who studies the dead, and Jack Renner, a homicide cop who stalks the living, form an uneasy partnership to solve a series of murders in this powerful new thriller by the bestselling author of That Darkness. It be...

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  Perish
  

  • Jan-2018
  • / Thriller
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  A Gardiner and Renner Novel - 3
  

  Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner always follows the rules. Detective Jack Renner doesn’t believe in them . . . In a mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman’s body lies in a pool of blood. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder o...

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  Suffer the Children
  

  • Sep-2018
  • / Thriller
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  A Gardiner and Renner Novel - 4
  

  Maggie Gardiner, forensics expert for the Cleveland police department, and Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a killer secret, return in bestselling author Lisa Black’s new thriller as they confront the darkest threat yet to their careers -- an...

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  Let Justice Descend
  

  • Nov-2019
  • / Thriller
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  A Gardiner and Renner Novel - 5
  

  In a taut, brilliantly twisted new thriller from bestselling author Lisa Black, forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner investigate the bizarre murder of a senator with secrets to hide… Three days before a key elect...

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  Every Kind of Wicked
  

  • Aug-2020
  • / Thriller
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  A Gardiner and Renner Novel - 6
  

  In this mesmerizing new novel from bestselling author Lisa Black, the discovery of a young man’s corpse leads forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner into a dark and dangerous web of lies . . . Life and death have b...

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  Red Flags
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Thriller
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  A Locard Institute Thriller - 1
  

  New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black launches a pulse-pounding new series with a taut, compelling forensic thriller that introduces Dr. Ellie Carr and Dr. Rachael Davies, who must combine their expertise to solve deadly crimes . . . When D.C....

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  What Harms You
  

  • Jul-2023
  • / Thriller
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  A Locard Institute Thriller - 2
  

  A riveting thriller that puts the New York Times bestselling author squarely in the same league as Patricia Cornwell and Jefferson Bass, the Locard Institute Thriller series draws on Lisa Black’s real-life scientific expertise and her skill in craf...

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  The Deepest Kill
  

  • Feb-2024
  • / Thriller
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  A Locard Institute Thriller - 3
  

  A riveting thriller that puts the New York Times bestselling author squarely in the same league as Patricia Cornwell and Jefferson Bass, the Locard Institute Thriller series draws on Lisa Black’s real-life scientific expertise and her skill in craf...

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  The Adventures of the Giant Book 4
  

  • Aug-2024
  • / Fantasy
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  Not Who We Expected
  

  • Mar-2025
  • / Thriller
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  A Locard Institute Thriller - 4
  

  Dynamic forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies return in New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black’s latest riveting Locard Institute thriller, as they solve a deadly mystery unfolding in the shadow of a celebrated rock star. The two cr...

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