Leslie Wolfe Books in Order

Leslie Wolfe is an American thriller author best known for the Tess Winnett, Detective Kay Sharp, Alex Hoffmann, and Baxter and Holt series, along with standalone psychological thrillers such as The Surgeon, The Hospital, A Beautiful Couple, and Ransom. Her books often follow investigators, profilers, detectives, and ordinary people forced into a corner when bad things happen to good people. The Surgeon became a no. 1 UK Kindle bestseller, and publisher bios list more than a million copies sold of her books.

This page lists all Leslie Wolfe books in order, including the Alex Hoffmann, Tess Winnett, Baxter and Holt, and Detective Kay Sharp series, plus standalone novels and short story collections.

Latest Leslie Wolfe Books

More upcoming releases:

• The Mind Thief (June 2027)
• The Body Keeper (August 2027)

Alex Hoffmann Series (Books in Order)

The Alex Hoffmann series follows private investigator Alex Hoffmann working cases of corporate secrecy, military technology, drone warfare, elections, espionage, and national-security threats. This is the author’s most technology-heavy series, and it shows the most her early interest in how systems can be abused by powerful people. Follow the release order as the The story starts with local danger and changes to big global threats and huge political drama.

1. Executive, 2011
2. Devil’s Move, 2014
3. The Backup Asset, 2015
4. The Ghost Pattern 2015
5. Operation Sunset, 2016

Tess Winnett Series (Books in Order)

The Tess Winnett series follows FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett, whose cases often involve serial killers, missing women, and crimes that need to involve the help of behavior and forensic evidence. Tess is one of Leslie Wolfe’s main law-enforcement characters, and the series is the perfect entry to her FBI crime fiction. The cases are mostly self-contained, and the author’s official site describes the series as readable in any order.

1. Dawn Girl, 2016
2. The Watson Girl, 2017
3. Glimpse of Death, 2017
4. Taker of Lives, 2018
5. Girl With a Rose, 2020
6. Not Really Dead, 2020
7. Mile High Death, 2020
8. The Girl They Took, 2021
9. The Girl Hunter, 2023

Baxter and Holt Series (Books in Order)

The Baxter and Holt series follows Las Vegas Metro homicide detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt as they investigate murders that happen in and in the vicinity of Las Vegas. The setting moves away from the author’s FBI and small-town books, and here the are tied to casinos, money, visitors, affluence, and the pressure to act perfect in a city that always needs to look good. This is a short, three-book series with each case being separate in each book, but but it’s worth to read them in order for Baxter and Holt’s growth as partners.

1. Las Vegas Girl, 2018
2. Casino Girl, 2018
3. Las Vegas Crime, 2018

Detective Kay Sharp Series (Books in Order)

The Detective Kay Sharp series follows Kay Sharp, a a brilliant FBI profiler and criminalist, who went through a childhood trauma that still keeps her awake. The books begin with The Girl from Silent Lake and move through missing-girl cases, old crimes, family secrets, and investigations in and around the small town of Mount Chester, California. Kay’s personal story and her relationship keep developing through the series, so the books are best read in publication order, even though the actual cases are usually solved by the end of each book.

1. The Girl From Silent Lake, 2021
2. Beneath Blackwater River, 2021
3. The Angel Creek Girls, 2021
4. The Girl on Wildfire Ridge, 2022
5. Missing Girl at Frozen Falls, 2022

Standalone Novels

• Stories Untold, 2017
• The Girl You Killed, 2021
• The Surgeon, 2023
• If I Go Missing, 2023
• The Hospital, 2024
• A Beautiful Couple, 2024
• Ransom, 2026
• The Mind Thief, 2027
• The Body Keeper, 2027

Short Story Collections and Anthologies

• Love, Lies, and Murder, 2019

Leslie Wolfe Biography

Leslie Wolfe is an American author of psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, and technology-driven suspense. Official website: lesliewolfe.com.
Official website: lesliewolfe.com

Leslie Wolfe was born in 1967. She had a strong interest in reading books from a very young age. She was reading books by authors like Alexandre Dumas and Jules Verne by the age of 10 and Tolstoy, E.A. Poe and Margaret Mitchell by the age of 16. During her teen years, Leslie Wolfe tutored children in literature.

She attended the University of Maryland and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked in the corporate world for a while as a senior business leader.

In 2011, Leslie Wolfe published her debut novel, Executive, becoming the first in the Alex Hofmann series, which uses corporate pressure, intelligence threats, and technology as major parts of the plot. It is part spy, part techno-thriller.

She later moved into FBI, police, and psychological suspense with her later series. Tess Winnett became her FBI profiler/investigator series, Baxter and Holt gave her a Las Vegas police partnership, and Detective Kay Sharp took her into small-town crime with a lead character who due to her past is interested in criminal psychology.

Leslie Wolfe does extensive background research for her books. For example, in Glimpse of Death, she brings a lot of modern exploration of the DNA forensics, along with general avant-garde forensic science and modern investigative procedures on how to capture serial killers, along with a bit on their psychology as well. Before publishing the book, the author runs the manuscript by several professionals in the medical, law enforcement and science fields.

Her career grew strongly through her partnership with Bookouture, which reported that the Detective Kay Sharp series sold in eight languages, and that the author’s Bookouture novels had sold more than 200,000 copies and passed 100 million Kindle Unlimited page reads. The Surgeon became a no. 1 UK Kindle bestseller, reached the top 50 in the U.S., and stayed in the U.S. top 100 for more than three months. So far there are more than one million copies of books sold.

Leslie Wolfe lives in Florida with her husband and their dog.

Leslie Wolfe Awards and Honors

Notable Recognition

• The Surgeon – no. 1 UK Kindle bestseller, top 50 in the U.S., and U.S. top 100 for more than three months (2023)
• The Surgeon – included in Reviewed.com’s 15 best mysteries to read in 2023 (2023)

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