Allison Brennan Books in Order: A Guide to Her Thriller Series

Start with Love Me to Death for Lucy Kincaid or The Third to Die for Quinn and Costa. Each opens a numbered series and gives recurring characters room to develop. This guide puts Allison Brennan’s novels in reading order by series, then separates her standalones from books with a continuing cast.

Allison Brennan Books by Series and Starting Point

The Allison Brennan books in order below follow the author’s May 2026 book list, with later availability checked against her series pages. The snapshot is November 1, 2026. A novella is a shorter work; it is marked where it sits beside the novels. The lists focus on series and named standalones rather than every anthology appearance.

Lucy Kincaid: Begin with the first novel

The reading sequence for Brennan’s Lucy Kincaid novels starts with Love Me to Death. Read the main novels in this order:

1. Love Me to Death
2. Kiss Me, Kill Me
3. If I Should Die
4. Silenced
5. Stalked
6. Stolen
7. Cold Snap
8. Dead Heat
9. Best Laid Plans
10. No Good Deed
11. The Lost Girls
12. Make Them Pay
13. Breaking Point
14. Too Far Gone
15. Nothing to Hide
16. Cut and Run
17. Cold as Ice

The optional prequel novella Love Is Murder takes place before the first novel; the author’s list says it is also included in If I Should Die. Other optional short works include Vacation Interrupted after If I Should Die and Reckless after Stalked. The latter is also included in Cold Snap. Two to Die For collects the novellas Spiral and Retired; it is not another full-length installment. Later, Missing collects three novellas: Storm Warning, No Way Out, and A Deeper Fear. The author’s Lucy Kincaid page labels that collection book 18; it is not an eighteenth full-length novel.

Quinn and Costa: Follow the team

For Brennan’s Quinn and Costa books in series order, begin with The Third to Die, then read:

1. The Third to Die
2. Tell No Lies
3. The Wrong Victim
4. Seven Girls Gone
5. The Missing Witness
6. See How They Hide
7. Make It Out Alive

The author’s Quinn & Costa page lists One Last Warning as book eight, due January 19, 2027. The May bibliography also lists an untitled ninth book for 2028. Those announced books follow the seven available novels; they are not extra titles to hunt down today.

Angelhart and Regan Merritt: Shorter series

The order of Brennan’s Angelhart novels is You’ll Never Find Me, Don’t Say a Word, then I’ll Be Watching You. The author’s Angelhart page identifies the third as available. Two optional ebook novellas, Into the Fire and Out of the Shadows, appear respectively before the first and second novels on her list. They add short cases without changing the numbered sequence.

For the Regan Merritt mysteries, read The Sorority Murder, followed by Don’t Open the Door. The first brings a former U.S. marshal into a cold-case investigation; the second continues with Regan. This is a shorter route through Brennan’s series fiction than Lucy’s long run.

Maxine Revere and the early trilogies

Brennan’s Maxine Revere reading order begins with the optional prequel Maximum Exposure, then the novels Notorious, Compulsion, Poisonous, Shattered, and Abandoned. The prequel also appears with Lucy’s Best Laid Plans. The Two to Die For novellas connect to this reading world; they remain optional short works, not a numbered novel between Poisonous and Shattered.

To read Allison Brennan books in order across her early thrillers, use the four separate trilogies. Read each line from left to right:

• Predator: The Prey → The Hunt → The Kill.
• No Evil: Speak No Evil → See No Evil → Fear No Evil.
• Prison Break: Killing Fear → Tempting Evil → Playing Dead.
• Sacramento FBI: Sudden Death → Fatal Secrets → Cutting Edge.

The Allison Brennan book list groups these as separate trilogies, so a reader can start with The Prey without treating it as the first Maxine or Quinn novel. The publication sequence of Brennan’s earlier thrillers keeps each group’s connections clear.

More series and standalone choices

For Allison Brennan’s other books in reading order, the Moreno & Hart mysteries, written with Laura Griffin, run Crash and Burn, Hit and Run, Frosted, and Lost and Found. The River City mysteries run Killing Justice, Murder in the River City, Aim to Kill, and Mirror, Mirror. Both are listed as ebook series in the author’s bibliography.

Her Seven Deadly Sins supernatural sequence begins with the optional prequel Deliver Us From Evil, followed by Original Sin, Carnal Sin, the novella Ghostly Justice, and Mortal Sin. It offers a supernatural route distinct from the crime series above.

The standalone novels North of Nowhere, Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds, and Whisper Creek do not require a series order. Brennan announced Whisper Creek‘s release in June 2026; her later book calendar lists hardcover, audio, and ebook as available and the paperback for May 2027. Format dates can differ.

Choose Love Me to Death for Lucy Kincaid or The Third to Die for Quinn and Costa, then follow that series in its numbered order.