Lisa Gardner Books in Order (D.D. Warren, Frankie Elkin, Quincy & Rainie)

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American novelist, Lisa Gardner has written more than twenty bestsellers in the suspense genre. She began her career writing romantic suspense under the pseudonym Alicia Scott before she found success with her thriller, The Perfect Husband, in 1997.

Since then, Gardner has written multiple suspense series, most notably the D.D. Warren series and The FBI Profiler series (also known as the Quincy & Rainie series). Recently, she launched the Frankie Elkin series.

How to read Lisa Gardner’s Books in Order?

Read The D.D. Warren Book Series in Order

Lisa Gardner’s Detective D.D. Warren works for the Boston Homicide Division. She’s tracking serial killers and all other types of murderers. The cases we follow are mostly about complex crimes involving women. For more information about the series, go to our article about the D.D. Warren books.

1. Alone (2004)
2. Hide (2007)
3. The Neighbor (2009)
4. Live to Tell (2010)
5. Love You More (2011) crossover with Tessa Leoni series
6. “The 7th Month” (2012), short story
7. Catch Me (2012)
8. Fear Nothing (2014)
9. “3 Truths and a Lie” (2016), short story
10. Find Her (2016)
11. “The 4th Man” (2016), short story crossover with FBI Profiler series
12. Look For Me (2018)
13. “The Guy Who Died Twice” (2019), short story
14. Never Tell (2019)
15. When You See Me (2020) crossover with FBI Profiler series

Read the FBI Profiler, or The Quincy & Rainie Series in Order

1. The Perfect Husband (1997) – When Tess Beckett married Jim, a well-respected and decorated cop, she thought all her dreams had come true. But within two years the vows she made were shattered as her husband was charged with murdering ten women. With Jim behind bars, Tess feels certain that she can move on with her life. Until she learns that Jim has escaped from prison.
2. The Third Victim (2001) – An unspeakable act has ripped apart the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, and its once-peaceful residents are demanding quick justice. But though a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty. Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy. It’s hitting too close to home, bringing back her worst nightmares, threatening to expose her secret sins. But with the boy’s life at stake, she won’t let anything stop her from finding the real killer.
3. The Next Accident (2001) – What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you? These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter’s death was an accident. Quincy will risk everything to learn the truth-and there’s only one person willing to help. Ex-cop Rainie Connor had once been paired professionally-and personally-with the brilliant FBI profiler. He helped her through the darkest days of her life.

4. The Killing Hour (2003) – A serial killer watches and waits. Each time, he takes two victims, preparing the first’s body with all the clues the police need to find the second, who is still alive. The clock ticks, and the second one can still be saved. But the police never make it in time. The second one dies. For years, the killer has plagued the city with the same pattern, but the police never pick up on it quickly enough. Now, two girls have disappeared in the midst of a daunting heat wave. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy knows the killer’s deadline can be met. But she’ll have to break some rules in order to beat an exceedingly vicious criminal at a game he’s had years to perfect.
5. Gone (2006) – For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate. Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they’d been working on – a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart?
6. Say Goodbye (2008) – For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be true – but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care. As a member of the Evidence Response Team, dead hookers aren’t exactly Kimberly’s specialty. And without any bodies and with precious few clues, it’s all too clear that a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder…or Kimberly is chasing a crime that never happened.
7. “The 4th Man” (2016), short story crossover with Detective D.D. Warren series

8. Right Behind You (2017) – Thirteen-year-old Sharlah Nash knows that the first time her brother killed eight years ago, he did it to save their lives. Now, retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his wife, Rainie Connor, have offered Sharlah a new life of safety. She desperately wants to believe this is her shot at happily ever after. Then two people are murdered in their local convenience store, and Sharlah’s brother is identified as the killer.
9. When You See Me (2020) crossover with Detective D.D. Warren series.

Read The Tessa Leoni Series in Order

1. Love You More (2011) – crossover with Detective D.D. Warren series. One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter?
2. Touch & Go (2013) – Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you’d find in the pages of a glossy magazine: A beautiful 14-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes’ home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their cell phones and electronic devices remaining. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Just a perfect little family, gone.
3. Crash & Burn (2015) – Nicole Frank shouldn’t have survived the car accident, much less the crawl up the steep ravine. One thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help-she must save Vero. If the girl even exists. Arriving at the scene, Sergeant Wyatt Foster joins the desperate hunt for a missing child, only to learn that Nicky suffers from a rare brain injury that causes delusions. According to her husband, there is no child. Never has been. And yet Nicky remains adamant. She must save Vero. For Wyatt and investigator Tessa Leoni, nothing about this case is simple.

Red The Frankie Elkin Series in Order

Lisa Gardner’s Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.

1. Before She Disappeared (2021) – A new case brings Frankie Elkin to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim’s wary family tells Frankie she’s on her own. And she soon learns she’s asking questions someone doesn’t want to be answered.
2. One Step Too Far (2022) – A young man disappears during a stag weekend in the woods. Years later, he’s still missing. But his friends who were with him that day are still searching for him. Still hunting. They hike deep into the wilderness. With them is missing person specialist Frankie Elkin. What they don’t know is that they are putting their own lives in terrifying danger, and may not come back alive . . .
3. Still See You Everywhere (2024) – The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself “death,” but people called her the devil. Despite the media’s chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for “the Beautiful Butcher” who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously slitting their throats. Now, with only twenty-one days left to live, Pierson has finally received a lead on the whereabouts of the sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, and she needs Frankie’s help to find her.

Read the Other Novels by Lisa Gardner

• The Other Daughter (1999) – Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until the first cryptic, threatening note arrives: “You Get What You Deserve.” Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone wants her to remember it all-even the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced: the murder of their first daughter.
• The Survivors Club (2002) – The Survivors Club . . . that’s what Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen, and Meg Pesaturo call it. They won’t consider themselves victims. They are survivors. They helped lead the investigation that caught the man who changed their lives forever. Now they are the prime suspects in his murder.
• I’d Kill For That (2004), with more authors – On the banks of the Truxton River lies Gryphon’s Gate, a gated community built by Henry Drysdale where the rich and privileged live, work and play. Tempers flare when Henry’s ex- decides to develop the adjoining land and environmentalists, developers, residents and the media clash. Then the violence turns ugly–a dead body is found on the golf course and Detective Diane Robards is called in to investigate.

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Lisa Gardner’s books written as Alicia Scott

Here is a quick list of Lisa Gardner’s books written in the romantic suspense genre under the pseudonym Alicia Scott.

Walking After Midnight series in order:

1. Walking After Midnight (1992)
2. Shadow’s Flame (1994)

Guiness Gang series in order:

1. At the Midnight Hour (1995)
2. Hiding Jessica (1995)
3. The Quiet One (1996)
4. The One Worth Waiting For (1996)
5. The One Who Almost Got Away (1996)

Family Secrets, or Maximillian’s Children series in order:

1. Maggie’s Man (1997)
2. Macnamara’s Woman (1997)
3. Brandon’s Bride (1998)

Stand-alone Books:

• Waking Nightmare (1994)
• Partners in Crime (1998)
• Marrying Mike… Again (1999)

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