Allison Brennan Books in Order

Below is the complete list of Allison Brennan books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.

Angelhart Investigations Books in Publication Order

1. Into the Fire (2024)
2. You’ll Never Find Me (2024)
3. Out of the Shadows (2025)
4. Don’t Say a Word (2025)
5. I’ll Be Watching You (2026)

Evil Books in Publication Order

1. Speak No Evil (2007)
2. See No Evil (2007)
3. Fear No Evil (2007)

FBI Trilogy Books in Publication Order

1. Sudden Death (2009)
2. Fatal Secrets (2009)
3. Cutting Edge (2009)

Lucy Kincaid Books in Publication Order

1. Love Me to Death (2010)
2. Kiss Me, Kill Me (2011)
3. If I Should Die (2011)
4. Silenced (2012)
5. Stalked (2012)
6. Stolen (2013)
7. Cold Snap (2013)
8. Dead Heat (2014)
9. Best Laid Plans (2015)
10. No Good Deed (2015)
11. The Lost Girls (2016)
12. Make Them Pay (2017)
13. Two to Die For (2017)
14. Breaking Point (2018)
15. Too Far Gone (2018)
16. Nothing to Hide (2019)
17. Cut and Run (2020)
18. Cold as Ice (2020)

Lucy Kincaid Short Stories/Novellas Books in Publication Order

1. Love is Murder (novella) (2011)
2. Reckless (2013)
3. Vacation Interrupted (2018)
4. Storm Warning (2019)
5. No Way Out (2020)
6. A Deeper Fear (2021)

Max Revere Books in Publication Order

1. Maximum Exposure (2014)
2. Notorious (2014)
3. Compulsion (2015)
4. Poisonous (2016)
5. Two to Die For (2017)
6. Shattered (2017)
7. Abandoned (2018)

Moreno & Hart Mysteries Books
with Laura Griffin

1. Crash and Burn (2013)
2. Hit and Run (2014)
3. Frosted (2015)
4. Lost and Found (2016)

Predator Trilogy Books in Publication Order

1. The Prey (2005)
2. The Hunt (2006)
3. The Kill (2006)

Prison Break Trilogy Books in Publication Order

1. Killing Fear (2008)
2. Tempting Evil (2008)
3. Playing Dead (2008)

Quinn & Costa Thriller Books in Publication Order

1. The Third to Die (2020)
2. Tell No Lies (2021)
3. The Wrong Victim (2022)
4. Seven Girls Gone (2023)
5. The Missing Witness (2024)
6. See How They Hide (2025)
7. Make It Out Alive (2026)
8. One Last Warning: (2027)

Regan Merritt Books in Publication Order

1. The Sorority Murder (2021)
2. Don’t Open the Door (2023)

River City Mysteries Books in Publication Order

1. Killing Justice (2012)
2. Murder in the River City (2012)
3. Aim to Kill (2015)
4. Mirror Mirror (2021)

Seven Deadly Sins Books in Publication Order

1. Original Sin (2000)
2. Carnal Sin (2010)
3. Ghostly Justice (2010)
4. Mortal Sin (2014)

Standalone Novels Books in Publication Order

1. 36 Hours (2013)
2. North of Nowhere (2023)
3. Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds (2025)
4. Whisper Creek (2026)

Short Stories/Novellas Books in Publication Order

1. Deliver Us From Evil (2017)

About Allison Brennan

Allison Brennan is a prolific American suspense writer whose career is best understood through the way she has repeatedly moved across adjacent thriller forms without losing her core appeal. She first built her readership with romantic suspense and paranormal-tinged thrillers, then expanded into long-running crime series, investigative thrillers, FBI-centered suspense, and standalones. Her official biography describes that progression directly: after writing twelve romantic thrillers and a supernatural trilogy, she launched the Lucy Kincaid series, later wrote the Maxine Revere novels, and then shifted into the Kara Quinn and Matt Costa books. She lives in Arizona and is widely presented by both her own site and her publisher as a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with a bibliography now exceeding fifty novels.

What makes Brennan’s body of work distinctive is not just volume, but adaptability. She writes commercial suspense with a strong instinct for propulsion, but the exact shape of that suspense changes from series to series. The Lucy Kincaid books lean into law enforcement, family trauma, cybercrime, and recurring character continuity. The Max Revere novels shift toward cold cases and investigative journalism. The Quinn and Costa books move in a more procedural-FBI direction, while recent work such as the Angelhart Investigations titles and newer standalones shows her continuing willingness to open fresh lanes inside the same broad suspense territory. That range is one of the clearest ways to read her bibliography: not as a pile of interchangeable thrillers, but as a long career built on related subgenres with different narrative engines.

The Lucy Kincaid series remains the central pillar of her fiction. Brennan’s own site identifies it as a long-running sequence that reached seventeen books and six novellas before she put Lucy “on hiatus” to concentrate on other work, and publisher material frames Lucy as a survivor who joins the FBI and becomes the center of a major ongoing thriller line. That series matters because it shows Brennan at her most expansive. It allowed her to build a recurring cast, deepen emotional stakes over time, and work with both immediate cases and longer personal arcs. For many readers, it is the best key to her strengths: pace, tension, competence, family bonds under strain, and a taste for dangerous secrets that keep unfolding beyond a single novel.

Her later career has shown the same energy in different forms. The Quinn and Costa novels have become another signature line, and her updated 2025 book list shows that sequence continuing through See How They Hide in 2025 with Make It Out Alive announced for 2026. The same list also shows how active Brennan remains across formats, with standalones such as North of Nowhere and Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds, plus the newer Angelhart Investigations strand. That ongoing productivity is important context for understanding her career. She is not an author defined by one breakout book or one frozen era. She has sustained a multi-series thriller career while continuing to widen the map of her fiction.

Her bibliography is best approached by series rather than by one single straight-through reading of every title. Brennan tends to build books around strong recurring protagonists and consistent emotional frameworks, so reading within a series in order gives the clearest experience of character development and tonal continuity. At the same time, the broader sweep of her career shows a writer who understands suspense as a flexible form. She can write darker investigative stories, FBI thrillers, journalist-led mysteries, or standalone danger narratives while preserving the same commercial clarity underneath. That is why her work has lasted. Brennan’s fiction is built to move, but it is also built to sustain loyalty over time, which is a different skill entirely.