Allison Brennan Books in Order

Allison Brennan is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American author best known for the Lucy Kincaid series, the Quinn & Costa thrillers, and Angelhart Investigations. She published her 50th book, Don’t Say a Word, in 2025.

Before writing full time, she spent 13 years working in the California State Legislature. She has since completed the FBI Citizens Academy, toured Quantico, joined police ride-alongs and SWAT training scenarios, and observed an autopsy while researching her books. 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.

This page lists all Allison Brennan books in order, including her connected Kincaid and Rogan novels, independent series, standalone thrillers, novellas, short stories, and the Moreno & Hart mysteries written with Laura Griffin.

Latest Allison Brennan Books

More upcoming releases:

• I’ll Be Watching You – Angelhart Investigations #3, September 15, 2026
• One Last Warning – Quinn & Costa #8, January 19, 2027

How the Allison Brennan Series Connect

Allison Brennan’s early romantic-thriller trilogies and the Lucy Kincaid series share a loose family and professional setting. Members of the Kincaid family appear before Lucy receives her own series, while the Sacramento FBI books introduce the Rogans and the security firm that later becomes important around Lucy and Sean. You do not need all four early trilogies before starting Love Me to Death, although publication order gives the fullest background to the whole relationship.

The Maxine Revere series connects more directly to Lucy. Max works with Lucy and members of the Kincaid family in Shattered. She later joins Sean Rogan in Cut and Run, a Lucy Kincaid novel. Those two books are easier to follow after readers know both women.

Predator Trilogy (Books in Order)

The Predator trilogy begins with The Prey, Allison Brennan’s 2006 debut novel. Each book follows a different woman whose life has been impacted by a violent crime that was never completely over. FBI profiler John Flynn and other returning characters are present in the three stories.

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

No Evil Trilogy (Books in Order)

The No Evil trilogy introduces the Kincaid family, set in California. Each novel has a different main case to investigate, and Fear No Evil ends with the attack on the youngest sister, Lucy Kincaid, several years before her own series begins.

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 begins with criminals escaping custody and follows the officers, prosecutors, and relatives dealing with the aftermath of the violent crimes that follow the escapes. Will Hooper and members of the Kincaid family created a connection with these books to the earlier trilogies. Playing Dead also introduces characters and organizations that are later part of the Sacramento FBI and Lucy Kincaid books.

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

Sacramento FBI Trilogy (Books in Order)

The Sacramento FBI trilogy follows a different federal agent in each book. Sudden Death gives Megan Elliott, who first appeared in Playing Dead, a main role. Fatal Secrets brings in members of the Rogan family, and Cutting Edge follows Duke Rogan and gives Sean Rogan an important supporting role. These connections make publication order useful as they lead into the Lucy Kincaid series.

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

7 Deadly Sins Series (Books in Order)

The Seven Deadly Sins books follow Moira O’Donnell, a former witch, and Rafe Cooper as they try to stop 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. Start with the prequel novella Deliver Us From Evil, then continue in publication 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)

Lucy first appears in Fear No Evil, but Love Me to Death is the first book in her own series. The early novels follow her efforts to join the FBI. By Dead Heat, she is working as an agent in the San Antonio field office. Sean Rogan and several members of Lucy’s family appear regularly. Each book has a new case, while Lucy’s FBI career and her relationship with Sean move forward across the series.

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 solving violent crime cases in a fictional California city. The four short books are digital-first standalones that have the same setting and have recurring characters.

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

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 often enters families and communities where an old verdict or confession left important questions unanswered. The series is darker than some of Allison Brennan’s FBI novels, and it has a background arc about Max’s own complicated personal life where she is searching for answers about her own family.

Shattered and Lucy Kincaid’s Cut and Run also connect Max to the Kincaid and Rogan characters.

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.

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 developing between the two.

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 Series (Books in Order)

The Regan Merritt series follows former U.S. Marshal Regan Merritt whose law-enforcement career ended after a family tragedy. In The Sorority Murder, she gets drawn into an active homicide case after appearing as a guest on a true crime podcast that revisits an old sorority murder. Don’t Open the Door gives Regan a new investigation while continuing her personal story.

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 returned to join her family’s PI firm in Arizona after years on her own. The series has a strong family relationship present throughout. The Angelhart firm is a family business, and there is a long-unresolved case about Margo’s father’s wrongful conviction, where Margo tries to prove that her father confessed to a murder he didn’t commit.

The prequel novella Into the Fire shows Margo’s first major case. New readers can also begin with You’ll Never Find Me, the first novel. Publication order matters because the case involving Margo’s father is continuing throughout the series and it’s the main focus in I’ll Be Watching You.

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

Standalone Novels

• North of Nowhere, 2023
• Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds, 2025
• Whisper Creek, 2026

Novellas and Short Stories

• v36 Hours, 2013

Anthologies and Other Contributions

• What You Can’t See, 2007
• Killer Year, 2008
• Two of the Deadliest, 2009
• Blood Lite II: Overbite, 2010
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, 2010
• Love is Murder, 2012
• Premiere, 2015
• Betrayed: Powerful Stories of Kick-Ass Crime Survivors, 2017
• After Midnight, 2019
• Odd Partners, 2019
• How to Write a Mystery, 2021
• Promophobia, 2022
• Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge, 2022
• Infinity, 2023

Allison Brennan Biography

Allison Brennan is an American crime, suspense, and romantic-thriller author whose work includes several connected series as well as standalone series and novels. 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 for two years and several kinds of work, from bartending and graphic design to political campaign work. She became a legislative consultant in the California State Legislature for 13 years, from 1992 to 2005. She wrote novels in her spare time, and 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.

Her early books were split into connected romantic-suspense trilogies. She later moved into supernatural fiction with the Seven Deadly Sins series before launching the Lucy Kincaid series with Love Me to Death in 2010, which became her longest-running and most popular series. She has since created the Maxine Revere cold case series, the Quinn & Costa Mobile Response Team thrillers, the Regan Merritt series, and the Angelhart Investigations family PI series set in Arizona. She also writes the Moreno & Hart mysteries with Laura Griffin.

Before writing the books, Allison Brennan researcher the work her characters do. For example, she has completed the FBI Citizens Academy, visited the FBI Academy at Quantico, joined police ride-alongs, taken part in FBI SWAT training scenarios, visited Folsom State Prison, toured a morgue, and even observed an autopsy.

Allison Brennan 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 moved from Northern California to Arizona with her husband Dan, where they live with various pets.

Allison Brennan Awards and Honors

Awards

• The Prey – Borders Books Bestselling Debut Author (2006)
• The Kill – Best Suspense, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards (2006)
• Fear No Evil – Daphne du Maurier Award for Mainstream Suspense (2008)
• Compulsion – Best Mainstream Mystery/Suspense, Daphne du Maurier Award (2016)
• Shattered – Best Suspense, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards (2017)

Nominations and Shortlists

• The Kill – RITA Award, Romantic Suspense (2007)
• Speak No Evil – RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, Best Contemporary Mystery (2007)
• Speak No Evil – RITA Award, Romantic Suspense (2008)
• See No Evil – RITA Award, Novel with Strong Romantic Elements (2008)
• Killing Fear – RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, Best Suspense/Thriller (2008)
• Killing Fear – RITA Award, Romantic Suspense (2009)
• Fatal Secrets – RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, Best Suspense/Thriller (2009)
• Love Me to Death – RITA Award, Romantic Suspense (2011)
• Love Me to Death – RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, Romantic Suspense (2011)
• Kiss Me, Kill Me – Daphne du Maurier Award, Single Title Romantic Mystery/Suspense (2012)
• Cold Snap – Daphne du Maurier Award, Mainstream Mystery/Suspense (2014)
• Cold Snap – ITW Thriller Award, Best Original Paperback Novel (2014)
• Abandoned – Daphne du Maurier Award, Mainstream Mystery/Suspense (2019)
• Too Far Gone – Daphne du Maurier Award, Single Title Romantic Mystery/Suspense (2019)

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