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Lisa Jackson Books in Order
Below is the complete list of Lisa Jackson books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
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The Cahills / San Francisco Series
- If She Only Knew (2000)
Buy on Amazon - Almost Dead (2007)
Buy on Amazon - You Will Pay (2017)
Buy on Amazon - You Betrayed Me (2020)
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Colony Series
- Wicked Game (2009)
(With Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Unseen (2009)
(By Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Blind Spot (2010)
(By Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Wicked Lies (2011)
(With Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Something Wicked (2013)
(With Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Wicked Ways (2014)
(With Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Wicked Dreams (2022)
(With Nancy Bush)
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Dark Jewels Trilogy Series
- Dark Ruby (1998)
Buy on Amazon - Dark Emerald (1999)
Buy on Amazon - Dark Sapphire (2000)
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Forever Family Series
- A Family Kind of Guy (1998)
Buy on Amazon - A Family Kind of Gal / A Family Kind of Girl (1998)
Buy on Amazon - A Family Kind of Wedding (1998)
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Historical Trilogy Series
as Susan Lynn Crose
- Enchantress (1993)
Buy on Amazon - Kiss of the Moon (1994)
Buy on Amazon - Outlaw (1995)
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Love Letters Series
- A Is for Always (1994)
Buy on Amazon - B Is For Baby (1994)
Buy on Amazon - C is for Cowboy (1994)
Buy on Amazon - D is for Dani’s Baby (1995)
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Maverick Series
- Forbidden Secrets / He’s a Bad Boy / Dangerous Revelations (1985)
Buy on Amazon - He’s Just a Cowboy / Breathless Innocence (1993)
Buy on Amazon - He’s the Rich Boy (1993)
Buy on Amazon - He’s My Soldier Boy / Tender Absolution (1994)
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The McCaffertys Series
- Thorne / Best-Kept Secrets (2000)
Buy on Amazon - Matt (2001)
Buy on Amazon - Slade (2002)
Buy on Amazon - Randi / Best-Kept Lies (2004)
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Medieval Trilogy Series
- Impostress (2003)
Buy on Amazon - Temptress (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Sorceress (2007)
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Mercy Series
- Without Mercy (2010)
Buy on Amazon - The Life and Death of Lauren Conway (2011)
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Platinum Mystery Series
- You’ll Find Out (2025)
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New Orleans Series
- Hot Blooded (2001)
Buy on Amazon - Cold Blooded (2002)
Buy on Amazon - Shiver (2006)
Buy on Amazon - Absolute Fear (2007)
Buy on Amazon - Lost Souls (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Malice (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Devious (2011)
Buy on Amazon - Never Die Alone (2015)
Buy on Amazon - The Last Sinner (2023)
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Savannah Series
- The Night Before (2003)
Buy on Amazon - The Morning After (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Tell Me (2013)
Buy on Amazon - The Third Grave (2021)
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Selena Alvarez/Regan Pescoli Series
- Left to Die (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Chosen to Die (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Born to Die (2011)
Buy on Amazon - Afraid to Die (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Ready to Die (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Deserves to Die (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Expecting to Die (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Willing to Die (2019)
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West Coast Series
- Deep Freeze (2005)
Buy on Amazon - Fatal Burn (2006)
Buy on Amazon - After She’s Gone (2015)
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Wyoming Series
with Nancy Bush, Rosalind Noonan
- Sinister (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Ominous (2017)
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Standalone Novels Series
- A Twist of Fate (1983)
Buy on Amazon - The Shadow of Time (1984)
Buy on Amazon - Pirate’s Gold / Secrets (1984)
Buy on Amazon - Dark Side of the Moon (1984)
Buy on Amazon - Tears of Pride (1984)
Buy on Amazon - Missing (1985)
Buy on Amazon - High Stakes (1985)
Buy on Amazon - A Dangerous Precedent (1985)
Buy on Amazon - Innocent by Association (1985)
Buy on Amazon - Midnight Sun (1985)
Buy on Amazon - Devil’s Gambit (1985)
Buy on Amazon - Zachary’s Law (1986)
Buy on Amazon - Mystic (1986)
Buy on Amazon - One Man’s Love (1986)
Buy on Amazon - Renegade Son (1987)
Buy on Amazon - Snowbound (1987)
Buy on Amazon - Summer Rain (1987)
Buy on Amazon - Stormy Nights (1988)
Buy on Amazon - The Brass Ring (1988)
(As: Susan Lynn Crose)
Buy on Amazon - Hurricane Force (1988)
Buy on Amazon - In Honor’s Shadow (1988)
Buy on Amazon - Montana Fire (1989)
Buy on Amazon - Aftermath (1989)
Buy on Amazon - Tender Trap (1989)
Buy on Amazon - Sweet Revenge (1990)
Buy on Amazon - His Bride To Be (1990)
Buy on Amazon - Strangers (1991)
Buy on Amazon - Sail Away (1991)
Buy on Amazon - Obsession (1991)
Buy on Amazon - Mystery Man (1991)
Buy on Amazon - Million Dollar Baby (1992)
Buy on Amazon - Treasures / See How She Dies (1994)
Buy on Amazon - Wishes / Running Scared (1995)
Buy on Amazon - Intimacies / Final Scream (1995)
Buy on Amazon - New Year’s Daddy / Remembering You (1995)
Buy on Amazon - All I Want from Santa (1995)
Buy on Amazon - Whispers (1996)
Buy on Amazon - Twice Kissed (1998)
Buy on Amazon - Unspoken (1999)
Buy on Amazon - Wild and Wicked (2002)
Buy on Amazon - Most Likely to Die (2007)
(With Beverly Barton, Wendy Corsi Staub)
Buy on Amazon - Abandoned (2011)
Buy on Amazon - You Don’t Want to Know (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Confessions (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Memories (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Close to Home (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Illicit (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Light of Day (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Lost Lives (2017)
Buy on Amazon - Ruthless (2018)
Buy on Amazon - The Sun Rises at Midnight (2018)
Buy on Amazon - One Last Breath (2018)
(With Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Liar, Liar (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Paranoid (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Last Girl Standing (2020)
(With Nancy Bush)
Buy on Amazon - Distrust (2021)
Buy on Amazon - The Girl Who Survived (2022)
Buy on Amazon - Retribution (2024)
Buy on Amazon - Our Little Secret (2024)
Buy on Amazon - It Happened on the Lake (2025)
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Short Stories/Novellas Series
- The Man from Pine Mountain (1993)
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Babies & Bachelors USA Series Series
- Double Exposure (1990)
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Western Lovers Series
- Yesterday’s Lies (1986)
Buy on Amazon - With No Regrets (1990)
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Fortune’s Children Series
- The Millionaire and the Cowgirl (1996)
Buy on Amazon - Angel Baby: A Classic Romance Novella (2017)
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The MatchUp Collection Series
- Deserves to Be Dead (2017)
(With John Sandford)
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Born in the USA Series Series
- Renegade Son (1987)
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Dangerous to Love USA Series Series
- Devil’s Gambit (1985)
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For Her Eyes Only Series
- First Love (1993)
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Montana Mavericks Series
- Lone Stallion’s Lady (2000)
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That Special Woman Series
- A Husband to Remember (1993)
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About Lisa Jackson
Lisa Jackson has built one of the longer and more commercially durable careers in contemporary popular suspense, but her bibliography makes the most sense when seen as a blend of two strengths rather than one. She is a thriller writer, certainly, but she also comes from a romance tradition that never fully disappeared from her work. Even in her darkest suspense novels, there is usually a strong emotional undertow: damaged families, old betrayals, sexual tension, buried secrets, and relationships under pressure. That combination is a large part of what made her stand out. She does not write cold procedural puzzles. She writes suspense with heat, fear, memory, and personal fallout built into it.
She is widely identified as a number-one New York Times bestselling author with a very large body of work, now running to well over ninety novels. Her career spans standalones, family-centered romantic fiction, and multiple recurring suspense lines. That scale matters because Jackson is not an author who built her name on one defining franchise alone. Instead, she created a broad shelf of books that can be grouped into recognizable clusters: the New Orleans novels featuring Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya, the Montana “To Die” books, the Alvarez and Pescoli novels, the Savannah books, the McCafferty family novels, and numerous standalones. The result is a bibliography that feels both expansive and structured.
Her suspense fiction is the clearest center of her reputation. The New Orleans books, in particular, helped establish her as a major name in serial-killer and investigative suspense. Those novels are darker and more procedurally rooted than some of her other work, but they still carry her characteristic interest in family damage, obsession, hidden history, and emotional vulnerability. The same is true of the Montana and Northwest-centered books, where landscape often plays a major role. Jackson is especially good at settings that feel isolating or watchful: places where storms, forests, snow, old houses, and remote roads intensify the fear already present in the plot. Her thrillers often depend as much on atmosphere as on revelation.
At the same time, her bibliography still shows the shape of her earlier romance and women’s fiction career. She wrote contemporary and historical romance before suspense became the dominant label around her name, and that background helps explain why even her thrillers tend to care so much about personal history. Her characters are rarely just investigators, victims, or villains moving pieces across a plotboard. They are usually carrying old grief, family estrangement, desire, guilt, or unresolved love. Jackson understands that danger is more compelling when it collides with emotional need.
Another important part of her bibliography is collaboration. She has co-written books with her sister Nancy Bush and also worked with other authors on selected projects. That collaborative side fits her larger career well. Jackson has always seemed less interested in protecting one narrow literary identity than in telling stories across adjacent popular forms, whether that means family sagas, suspense lines, or joint thriller projects.
Her bibliography is best approached by series groupings rather than straight through from first book to latest. That is partly because the shelf is so large, but also because her work naturally falls into tonal families. Readers looking for harsher serial-killer suspense may gravitate to Bentz and Montoya. Readers wanting female-led investigative thrillers may prefer the Montana books. Others may begin with a standalone and work outward from there. That flexibility is part of her longevity.
What ties the whole career together is momentum. Lisa Jackson writes books that are meant to pull readers forward, but she does not rely on pace alone. Her fiction is built on dread, family fracture, attraction, and the fear that the past is never as buried as people hope. That combination made her more than prolific. It made her dependable in the strongest commercial sense: a writer readers return to for suspense that feels both dangerous and emotionally charged.
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