Melinda Leigh

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2011
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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About the Author

Author Melinda Leigh is a fully recovered banker. A life-long lover of books, she started writing as a way to preserve her sanity while raising her kids. The process was much more fun than analyzing financial statements, and she decided to turn her hobby into a career.

Her debut novel, SHE CAN RUN, was nominated for Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers. Since then, she has garnered numerous publisher awards, including two Silver Falchions and three Golden Leaf Awards. She is a two-time RITA® Award Finalist and has earned three Daphne du Maurier Award nominations. Melinda’s books have sold over 5.5 million copies.

Full Series List in Order

Bree Taggert

1 - Cross Her Heart (Mar-2020)
2 - See Her Die (Sep-2020)
3 - Drown Her Sorrows (Mar-2021)
4 - Right Behind Her (Sep-2021)
5 - Dead Against Her (May-2022)
6 - Lie To Her (Jan-2023)
7 - Catch Her Death (Sep-2023)
8 - On Her Watch (May-2024)
9 - Track Her Down (Jan-2025)
10 - Beyond Her Reach (Sep-2025)

Midnight

1 - Midnight Exposure (Aug-2012)
2 - Midnight Sacrifice (Apr-2013)
3 - Midnight Betrayal (Sep-2014)
4 - Midnight Obsession (Jan-2017)

Morgan Dane

1 - Say You're Sorry (May-2017)
2 - Her Last Goodbye (Oct-2017)
3 - Bones Don't Lie (Mar-2018)
4 - What I've Done (Sep-2018)
5 - Secrets Never Die (Mar-2019)
6 - Save Your Breath (Sep-2019)

Rogue Justice

1 - Twisted Truth: A Novella (Nov-2017)

Scarlet Falls

1 - Hour of Need (Dec-2014)
2 - Minutes to Kill (Jul-2015)
3 - Seconds to Live (Jul-2016)

She Can

1 - She Can Run (Dec-2011)
2 - She Can Tell (Dec-2012)
3 - She Can Scream (Sep-2013)
4 - She Can Hide (Mar-2014)
4.5 - He Can Fall (Apr-2014)
5 - She Can Kill (Dec-2015)

Multi-Author Series List

Rogue River

2 - Gone to Her Grave: A Novella (Oct-2014)
4 - Walking on Her Grave: A Novella (Nov-2014)

Rogue Vows

2 - Burned by Her Devotion: A Novella (Nov-2016)

Rogue Winter

1 - Tracks of Her Tears (Nov-2015)

Widow's Island

2 - A Bone to Pick: A Novella (Oct-2018)
3 - Whisper of Bones (Oct-2019)
6 - A Broken Bone (Nov-2020)
7 - Buried Bones (Oct-2021)
10 - The Wrong Bones (Oct-2022)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • She Can Run

    She Can - 1

    Elizabeth was a young widow with two small children when she met Congressman Richard Baker. Handsome and wealthy, with a sparkling public image, Richard seemed like the perfect man to provide the security that Beth and her kids were craving. But when...

  • Midnight Exposure

    Midnight - 1

    Point, click, die. When two hikers disappear, their hometown in Maine blames the blinding storms. But the truth is far more sinister. Unaware of the danger, tabloid photographer Jayne Sullivan follows an anonymous tip to find the most reclusive s...

  • She Can Tell

    She Can - 2

    When a terrible accident abruptly ends her riding career, Rachel Parker returns to Pennsylvania to rebuild her family’s horse farm. But her welcome home is anything but warm. Her sister’s abusive husband and a violent vandal threaten Rachel’s n...

  • Midnight Sacrifice

    Midnight - 2

    One by one, people are mysteriously disappearing from a small Maine town. Four months ago, a ruthless murderer killed two people and kidnapped three more, including Danny Sullivan’s sister, who barely escaped. Unfortunately so did the killer, va...

  • She Can Scream

    She Can - 3

    In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer. Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now sh...

  • She Can Hide

    She Can - 4

    From the moment Officer Ethan Hale pulls Abby Foster from icy waters, he senses there’s more to her than meets the eye. Abby has no memory of the accident that submerged her car in the frozen river. Three years ago, Abby was kidnapped and abandoned...

  • He Can Fall

    She Can - 4.5

  • Midnight Betrayal

    Midnight - 3

    Curator Dr. Louisa Hancock left behind Maine and her troubled past for Philadelphia and a job at a prominent museum. Just when it seems that Louisa’s new life is safe from her dark secrets, the body of a museum intern is found -- the victim of a br...

  • Gone to Her Grave: A Novella

    Rogue River - 2

    In Solitude, Oregon, everyone has secrets…and some will kill to keep them.

    When she believes a teen is falsely accused of drug dealing, social worker Carly Taylor takes on a high-risk case and her estranged husband -- the detective in char...



  • Walking on Her Grave: A Novella

    Rogue River - 4

    The electrifying conclusion of the romantic suspense novella series from Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot.

    The sleepy town of Solitude, Oregon, has turned into ground zero for a turf war between the manufacturers and distributors of a lethal ...

  • Hour of Need

    Scarlet Falls - 1

    While fighting in Afghanistan, Major Grant Barrett receives devastating news: his brother and sister-in-law have been murdered in Scarlet Falls, the sleepy suburb of Grant’s youth. Emotionally scarred from war, the career soldier returns home on em...

  • Minutes to Kill

    Scarlet Falls - 2

    After corporate attorney Hannah Barrett tries -- and fails -- to stop a kidnapping in Vegas, she can’t shake the haunting image of the terrified young girl she couldn’t save. She tells herself that a visit to her hometown in Scarlet Falls could b...

  • Tracks of Her Tears

    Rogue Winter - 1

    In the first thrilling Rogue Winter Novella, sleepy little Solitude, Oregon, wakes up to another deadly threat. County investigator Seth Harding intends to spend the holidays with his newly reconciled family, but a few days before Christmas, a hom...

  • She Can Kill

    She Can - 5

    Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his daughter in peace. But after twelve years on the run from a South American cartel, he learns that even the quiet little town of Westbury, Pennsylvania, has hidden dangers. Although he can’t shake the feeling he...

  • Seconds to Live

    Scarlet Falls - 3

    Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett avoided his hometown of Scarlet Falls for years -- too many bad memories. But when he receives the news that his father is dying, he rushes home only to discover he’s too late. Shaken, Mac retreats to his remote cabin...

  • Burned by Her Devotion: A Novella

    Rogue Vows - 2

    In the second Rogue Vows novella, the town of Solitude, Oregon, will learn that good TV makes for terrible reality. When Chase Ryan, a popular crime TV star, turns up dead, the entire town of Solitude is shaken -- but the show isn’t over yet. Th...

  • Midnight Obsession

    Midnight - 4

    Louisa Hancock thought she was safe…but there’s a new killer in town. When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that’s about to envelop her. The packag...

  • Say You're Sorry

    Morgan Dane - 1

    Former prosecutor Morgan Dane faces the most personal -- and deadly -- case of her lifetime. After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, s...

  • Her Last Goodbye

    Morgan Dane - 2

    In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, the Morgan Dane series continues as the fearless attorney and her partner, investigator Lance Kruger, take on a disturbing disappearance… Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls’ night ou...



  • Twisted Truth: A Novella

    Rogue Justice - 1

    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh comes the first thrilling novella in the Rogue Justice series. When Detective Seth Harding responds to shots being fired, he faces a familiar sight: a double homicide. However, he is shocke...

  • Bones Don't Lie

    Morgan Dane - 3

    Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Melinda Leigh’s acclaimed series continues. Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago. Since then he’s ...

  • What I've Done

    Morgan Dane - 4

    Morgan Dane’s new client has blood on her hands -- and no recollection of what happened -- as the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling series continues. Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before. When she sees a man lyin...

  • A Bone to Pick: A Novella

    Widow's Island - 2

    In this gripping second novella in the Widow’s Island series, bestselling author Melinda Leigh delivers a chilling tale of murder in the Pacific Northwest. Deputy Tessa Black gave up her career as a detective with the Seattle PD and returned to ...

  • Secrets Never Die

    Morgan Dane - 5

    The #1 Amazon Charts bestselling series continues as Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger fight for the innocence of a young murder suspect -- if only they could find him. When a retired sheriff’s deputy is shot to death in his home, his troubled tee...

  • Save Your Breath

    Morgan Dane - 6

    In the sixth thriller in the multimillion-copy bestselling series, Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger investigate the mysterious disappearance of a true-crime writer. When true-crime writer Olivia Cruz disappears with no signs of foul play, her new b...

  • Whisper of Bones

    Widow's Island - 3

    Dark secrets surface in the third Widow’s Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. When a body washes up on the state park beach, Deputy Tessa Black’s experience as a former Seattle detective tells her that th...

  • Cross Her Heart

    Bree Taggert - 1

    A homicide detective’s violent family history repeats itself in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of murder, secrets, and retribution. For more than twenty-five years, Philadelphia homicide detec...

  • See Her Die

    Bree Taggert - 2

    Sheriff Bree Taggert is both hunter and hunted in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s blood-freezing thriller of murder, rage, and revenge. New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground ...

  • A Broken Bone

    Widow's Island - 6

    The mysterious death of a local teen leads to a hunt for a killer in the sixth Widow’s Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. On Widow’s Island, the secrets are dark…and everybody has one. So when Deputy T...



  • Drown Her Sorrows

    Bree Taggert - 3

    Sheriff Bree Taggert is blindsided by a killer’s devious plan in number one Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of escalating shock and suspense. When Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a youn...

  • Right Behind Her

    Bree Taggert - 4

    The discovery of human remains unearths another nightmare from Sheriff Bree Taggert’s past in a bone-chilling thriller by #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert’s...

  • Buried Bones

    Widow's Island - 7

    A college student’s murder shines light on community secrets left in the dark in the seventh Widow’s Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s I...

  • Dead Against Her

    Bree Taggert - 5

    Sheriff Bree Taggert’s downfall is part of a killer’s cunning design in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of murder, lies, and revenge. Called to an isolated farm to check on an elderly widow, ...

  • The Wrong Bones

    Widow's Island - 10

    A frantic chase to catch a grave robber reveals a startling discovery in this tenth installment of the Widow’s Island novella series by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.Deputy Tessa Black spots a man disturbing a grave in th...

  • Lie To Her

    Bree Taggert - 6

    Lies from the heart lead to a dangerously intimate case for Sheriff Bree Taggert in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of revenge and fatal deceptions.When a digital marketer is found murdered in h...

  • Catch Her Death

    Bree Taggert - 7

    Sheriff Bree Taggert and those she loves become the target of a family’s deadly revenge in a chilling novel of suspense by #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.After Sheriff Bree Taggert’s takedown of ...

  • On Her Watch

    Bree Taggert - 8

    Sheriff Bree Taggert becomes a target when she follows the twisting trail of a serial killer in a bone-chilling novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A pair of hikers find a tarp-wrapped body in a clearing in th...

  • Track Her Down

    Bree Taggert - 9

    For Sheriff Bree Taggert, a gruesome double murder exposes the secrets of the dead in a shocking novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A teenager returns home from work and finds her parents shot to death in the...

  • Beyond Her Reach

    Bree Taggert - 10



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Melinda Leigh has published 39 books.

The next book by Melinda Leigh, Beyond Her Reach, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Melinda Leigh, She Can Run, was published in December 2011.

Yes. Melinda Leigh has 6 series.
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