Tami Hoag Books in Order

Tami Hoag is a New York Times bestselling author who has written over 30 mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, and romance novels, including the Broussard and Fourcade series, Kovac & Liska, and Oak Knoll, as well as standalone novels. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages.

The list below includes all the Tami Hoag books in publication order for her series and standalones.

A printable book list is available below. You can print it or save it as a PDF.

How the Doucet, Bayou and Broussard & Fourcade Books Connect

Over the years, Tami Hoag’s Louisiana books have been grouped in different ways. The Restless Heart and Lucky’s Lady have a connection through the Doucet family. However, the author’s own site groups Lucky Lady, Cry Wolf, and A Thin Dark Line together as the Bayou books.

A Thin Dark Line is also the first book where Annie Broussard and Nick Fourcade appear. Tami Hoag brought them back more than twenty years later in The Boy and then in Bad Liar. So A Thin Dark Line is really the bridge between the older Louisiana/Bayou books and the later Broussard & Fourcade series.

Tami Hoag Book Adaptations

Night Sins was adapted as a four-hour, two-part CBS television miniseries in 1997. Valerie Bertinelli played investigator Megan O’Malley and Harry Hamlin played police chief Mitch Holt. Robert Allan Ackerman directed the adaptation from a teleplay by John Leekley.

Tami Hoag has said that several of her other books have been optioned for film or television, but none of those projects were ultimately produced.

About Tami Hoag

Tami Hoag, real name, Tami Mikkelson, was born in 1959 in Cresco, Iowa, and she grew up in Harmony, Minnesota, a place where her father worked as an insurance salesman.

Tami knew she wanted to become a writer from a very early on. She loved reading and fell in love with books since childhood. Her first-ever work of fiction was a third grade project featuring two children and a pony.

After graduating from high school, she went to work at the La Crosse Tribune circulation department, after which she held several jobs, including being a photographer’s assistant, show-horse trainer, and designer bathroom accessories salesperson.

She got her debut novel and also her first romance novel, The Trouble With J.J., published by Bantam’s Loveswept line in 1988. She kept writing romances and romantic comedies, and she even wrote 16 novels in just five years.

In the mid 90s, Tami Hoag started writing more action-oriented stories, and changed her focus from romance to romantic suspense, mystery and thrillers, genres in which she is writing even today.

Her shift from romances to suspense-thrillers happened gradually, with suspense elements popping up in books like Dark Paradise, Cry Wolf, and A Thin Dark Line.

In an interview, she mentioned that “It was a gradual progression in my work. I started adding bits of suspense to the romance back when I was doing little short romance books and as I grew as a writer and wanted to do bigger, more complex deeper stories that was the direction that was natural for me to go was to suspense.”

She initially continued with romantic comedies, slowly trying to write romantic suspense, and then transitioning to her future suspense novels set in Louisiana.

The first truly suspense novel was Night Sins in 1995, the first in the Deer Lake series. Her success with this transition gave her the push to re-edit some of her earlier work and add elements of mystery and suspense to them.

Over the years, she had thirteen consecutive New York Times bestselling novels, and five of them were within 20 months. Night Sins was the first novel to reach the New York Times Bestseller list.

With three other authors, Eileen Dreyer, Elizabeth Grayson, and Kimberly Cates, who switched from romances to thriller at about the same time as her, Tami Hoag formed the Divas, a group that aimed to help and support each other in their writing ventures.

When she writes her novels, Tami Hoag writes chronologically, from the beginning through to the end. She also likes to edit as she writes. In the morning she re-reads what she wrote the previous day, edits it, and then moves on to the new material.

She is also more of a seat of the pants writers in terms of plot rather than an outline writer. She knows the main premise and the crime to be committed, and she has a general idea of who the bad guy is.

However, she likes to unfold her story as she writes it. She might get unexpected twists and turns, and new characters might emerge where there were none before.

More than 40 million copies of Tami Hoag’s books are currently in print as of now. As a number one New York Times bestselling author multiple times, her books have reached a worldwide audience since they were translated into over 30 languages.

When she is not writing, Tami Hoag is taking care of her horses that she rides sometimes even competitively. At some point, she stopped riding horses due to an accident where she fell, leaving her with five vertebrae in her back broken. After fully recovering, she continued riding competitively.

An accomplished equestrienne, Tami Hoag also brought her knowledge and love for horses to Dark Horse, the first in the Elena Estes books.

While most of her previous books had their cover and title designed and given by the publisher, Bad Liar was given the title by the the author herself. In an interview, she mentioned that she got the inspiration for the title from music, specifically Bad Liar by Imagine Dragons.

In addition, she also enjoys mixed martial arts fighting. Her solitary lifestyle gave her a unique perspective that she can easily integrate into her character traits and her unique storytelling.

Tami Hoag currently lives in the greater Los Angeles area.

Major Awards and Honors

• Mismatch – RT Reviewers Choice Award, Bantam Loveswept (1989)
• Lucky’s Lady – RT Reviewers Choice Award, Contemporary Romance (1993)
• Cry Wolf – RT Reviewers Choice Award, Romantic Suspense (1994)
• Night Sins – RT Reviewers Choice Award, Suspense Novel (1995)
• The Alibi Man – RT Reviewers Choice Award, Suspense (2007)

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