Allison Brennan Books in Order

Allison Brennan is an American crime and suspense author best known for the Lucy Kincaid series and the Quinn & Costa thrillers. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with 50+ books published since 2005, she has won the Daphne du Maurier Award twice and earned five RITA nominations for Best Romantic Suspense. Her work include FBI procedurals, romantic suspense thrillers, private investigator mysteries, cold case journalism, and a supernatural thriller trilogy, with fast-paced plots and a strong emphasis on criminal psychology.

This page lists all Allison Brennan books in order, including her complete series, standalone novels, novellas, and short stories.

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Predator Trilogy (Books in Order)

The Predator trilogy follows FBI investigators tracking serial offenders across three linked novels set in California. The series launched Allison Brennan’s career with her 2005 debut, The Prey, and has a strong romantic suspense thread running through all three books.

Reading Order

  1. The Prey, 2006
  2. The Hunt, 2006
  3. The Kill, 2006

No Evil Trilogy (Books in Order)

The No Evil trilogy follows FBI investigators working three violent crime cases that are connected by a common theme across three standalone-ish novels. Set in California, the books have recurring characters and are best read in publication order.

Reading Order

  1. Speak No Evil, 2007
  2. See No Evil, 2007
  3. Fear No Evil, 2007

Prison Break Trilogy (Books in Order)

The Prison Break trilogy follows three interconnected crime novels dealing with the consequences of prison breaks and the violent crimes that follow. Each book follows another a different character, but there are recurring characters in the series and a continuous threat.

Reading Order

  1. Killing Fear, 2008
  2. Tempting Evil, 2008
  3. Playing Dead, 2008

FBI Trilogy (Books in Order)

The FBI trilogy follows FBI agents working violent crimes cases, primarily in the Sacramento, California area. The three novels feature different protagonists, but have recurring characters.

Reading Order

  1. Sudden Death, 2009
  2. Fatal Secrets, 2009
  3. Cutting Edge, 2009

7 Deadly Sins Series (Books in Order)

The 7 Deadly Sins series follows former witch Moira O’Donnell and ex-seminarian Rafe Cooper, who hunt together demons released from hell by a black magic coven. Different from the author’s FBI procedural series, this is a supernatural thriller series with paranormal and romance elements focusing on the concept of the seven deadly sins. The series includes a prequel novella, Deliver Us From Evil, which is best read before Original Sin.

Reading Order

  1. Deliver Us From Evil, 2007
  2. Original Sin, 2010
  3. Carnal Sin, 2010
  4. Ghostly Justice, 2011
  5. Mortal Sin, 2014

Lucy Kincaid Series (Books in Order)

The Lucy Kincaid series follows FBI agent Lucy Kincaid, who survived an attack by an online predator before joining the Bureau, and brings her background in criminal psychology to her cases. Set primarily at the FBI’s San Antonio field office, the series deals with cybercrime, human trafficking, serial killers, and political corruption, and it has a strong personal arc that involves her husband, private security expert Sean Rogan, and her extended family.

Reading Order

  1. Love is Murder, 2011
  2. Love Me to Death, 2010
  3. Kiss Me, Kill Me, 2011
  4. If I Should Die, 2011
  5. Vacation Interrupted, 2012
  6. Silenced, 2012
  7. Stalked, 2012
  8. Reckless, 2013
  9. Stolen, 2013
  10. Cold Snap, 2013
  11. Dead Heat, 2014
  12. Best Laid Plans, 2015
  13. No Good Deed, 2015
  14. The Lost Girls, 2016
  15. Make Them Pay, 2017
  16. Two to Die For, 2017
  17. Breaking Point, 2018
  18. Too Far Gone, 2018
  19. Storm Warning, 2019
  20. Nothing to Hide, 2019
  21. Cut and Run, 2020
  22. No Way Out, 2020
  23. Cold as Ice, 2020
  24. A Deeper Fear, 2021

River City Mysteries (Books in Order)

The River City Mysteries series follows detectives working violent crime cases in a fictional California city. The four books are digital-first standalones that have the same setting and have recurring characters but can be read in any order.

Reading Order

  1. Killing Justice, 2012
  2. Murder in the River City, 2012
  3. Aim to Kill, 2015
  4. Mirror, Mirror, 2018

Maxine Revere Series (Books in Order)

The Maxine Revere series follows investigative reporter Maxine Revere, who has her own true crime TV show and specializes in cold cases the police have closed or abandoned. Based in New York, Max brings to the table both media resources and her personal determination to solve murders that have gone unsolved for years. The series is darker than some of Allison Brennan’s FBI novels, and it has a background arc about about Max’s own complicated personal life.

Reading Order

  1. Maximum Exposure, 2014
  2. Notorious, 2014
  3. Compulsion, 2015
  4. Poisonous, 2016
  5. Shattered, 2017
  6. Abandoned, 2018

Moreno & Hart Mysteries Series (Books in Order)

The Moreno & Hart Mysteries series follows former LAPD detective Scarlet Moreno and ex-cop Krista Hart, who are partners in a private investigation firm in Orange County, California. Each book and novella deals with a different crime while never forgetting the background story about the night that first put the two women on this path together.

Co-authored with Laura Griffin.

Reading Order

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

Quinn & Costa Thriller Series (Books in Order)

The Quinn & Costa series follows LAPD detective Kara Quinn, who is on extended leave from her department, and FBI special agent Matt Costa, who runs a Mobile Response Team that travels to jurisdictions with limited law enforcement resources. The two meet while tracking a compulsive serial killer in the first book and continue working together as Kara is formally added to Costa’s team. The series moves to new location with each case, from rural Louisiana, the Arizona desert, the San Juan Islands, to Los Angeles, and there is a slow burning relationship forming between the two main leads.

Reading 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

Regan Merritt Series (Books in Order)

The Regan Merritt series follows former U.S. Marshal Regan Merritt, who gets drawn into an active homicide case after appearing as a guest on a true crime podcast that revisits an old sorority murder, while dealing with the aftermath of a personal tragedy that ended her law enforcement career.

Reading Order

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

Angelhart Investigations Series (Books in Order)

The Angelhart Investigations series follows private investigator Margo Angelhart, who has recently rejoined her family’s PI firm in Arizona after years on her own. The series has a strong family dynamic running through it: the Angelhart firm is a family business, and a long-unresolved case involving Margo’s father’s wrongful conviction, both which thread through the series as an ongoing overarching mystery behind the individual investigations.

Reading 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

Standalone Novels

Novellas and Short Stories

Short Story Collections

Anthologies

Allison Brennan Biography

Allison Brennan is an American thriller and suspense author whose work includes the Lucy Kincaid series, the Quinn & Costa thrillers, and the Angelhart Investigations series. She published her 50th book, Don’t Say a Word, in September 2025. So far, she has published 50+ books since her debut in 2006.
Official website: allisonbrennan.com

Born on September 29, 1969 in San Carlos, California, Allison Brennan attended UC Santa Cruz before working as a legislative consultant in the California State Legislature for 13 years, from 1992 to 2005. She left that career in 2005 after selling her debut novel, The Prey, which began the Predator trilogy and won the Borders Books Bestselling Debut Author award for the year.

From then on she wrote two more FBI-focused trilogies and a supernatural thriller series before launching the Lucy Kincaid series in 2010, which became her longest-running and most popular series. She has since added the Maxine Revere cold case series, the co-authored Moreno & Hart Mysteries (written with Laura Griffin), the Quinn & Costa Mobile Response Team thrillers, the Regan Merritt series, and the Angelhart Investigations family PI series set in Arizona.

Allison Brennan is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She has won the Daphne du Maurier Award twice (Fear No Evil in 2007 and Compulsion in 2015), the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award twice, and has been a five-time RITA finalist for Best Romantic Suspense. Her novel Cold Snap was nominated for the ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.

In 2019, she relocated from Northern California to Arizona with her husband Dan, where they live with assorted pets.

Allison Brennan Awards and Honors

Awards

  • The Kill – Best Suspense, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards (2006)
  • Fear No Evil – Best Mainstream Suspense, Daphne du Maurier Award (2007)
  • Compulsion – Best Mainstream Mystery/Suspense, Daphne du Maurier Award (2015)
  • Shattered – Best Suspense, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards (2017)
  • Borders Award, Bestselling Debut Author (2006)

Nominations and Shortlists

  • The Prey – Daphne du Maurier Award (2006)
  • The Kill – Best Romantic Suspense, RITA Awards (RWA)
  • Speak No Evil – Best Romantic Suspense, RITA Awards (RWA)
  • See No Evil – Best Novel with Romantic Elements, RITA Awards (RWA) (2007)
  • See No Evil – Best Contemporary Mystery, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards
  • Killing Fear – Best Suspense/Thriller, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards (2008)
  • Killing Fear – Best Romantic Suspense, RITA Awards (RWA) (2008)
  • Tempting Evil – Daphne du Maurier Award (2008)
  • Fatal Secrets – Daphne du Maurier Award (2009)
  • Fatal Secrets – Best Suspense/Thriller, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards (2009)
  • Love Me to Death – Best Romantic Suspense, RITA Awards (RWA)
  • Love Me to Death – Best Romantic Suspense, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards (2011)
  • Kiss Me, Kill Me – Daphne du Maurier Award (2012)
  • Cold Snap – Daphne du Maurier Award (2014)
  • Cold Snap – Best Paperback Thriller, International Thriller Writers (2014)
  • No Good Deed – Best Paperback Thriller, International Thriller Writers (2014)
  • Too Far Gone – Daphne du Maurier Award (2019)
  • Abandoned – Daphne du Maurier Award (2019)

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3 Comments

  1. Reading my first book in the Regan Merritt series. It has been amazing from page 1. I hate those mysteries that start off slow. Allison Brennan’d books always start with a bang. I read Seven Girls Gone previously. Did not see that ending coming.

  2. I love every book I listen too
    I can only do audible so it is a bit frustrating when I miss parts of a story line or when I can’t listen to all of the authors books written

  3. My First Allison Brennan book, “You’ll Never Find Me”
    I throughly enjoyed this book. I have read all of Luanne Rice books. I have been looking for a new mystery author. I believe I found one.

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