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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2011
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 ...



  • Winner of an Edgar Award for Best First Novel for Bent Road, Lori Roy returns with Until She Comes Home, a tale of spellbinding suspense in which a pair of seemingly unrelated murders crumbles the facade of a changing Detroit neighborhood. In 1958...



  • In the spellbinding and suspenseful "Let Me Die in His Footsteps," Edgar Award winner for Best Novel, author Lori Roy wrests from a Southern town the secrets of two families touched by an evil that has passed between generations. On a dark Kentuc...



  • Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy spins a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away. When Lane Fielding fled her isolated Florida hometown after high school for the anonymity of New Yo...



  • Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century’s worth of hate. On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front ya...



  • Set in the 1950s, this Southern Gothic thriller by Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, tying her fate to a dreamy teenager whose boyfriend runs afoul of the mob. Desperate to break free of small-town Florida,...



  • When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself.Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, a...




Award-Winning Books by Lori Roy

Bent Road
2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel
Let Me Die in His Footsteps
2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lori Roy has published 7 books.

The next book by Lori Roy, The Final Episode, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Lori Roy, Bent Road, was published in April 2011.

No. Lori Roy does not write books in series.