Lynn Hightower Books In Order

Sonora Blair Books In Order

  1. Eyeshot (1986)
  2. Flashpoint (1995)
  3. No Good Deed (1998)
  4. The Debt Collector (1999)

Alien Books In Order

  1. Alien Blues (1992)
  2. Alien Eyes (1993)
  3. Alien Heat (1994)
  4. Alien Rites (1995)

Lena Padgett Books In Order

  1. Satan’s Lambs (1993)
  2. Fortunes of the Dead (2003)
  3. When Secrets Die (2005)

Novels

  1. High Water (2002)
  2. The Piper (2012)
  3. Even In Darkness (2013)
  4. The Enlightenment Project (2021)

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Lynn Hightower Books Overview

Eyeshot

Some days Cincinnati police detective Sonora Blair doesn’t want to be a cop. Not when she has to tell the father of two young children that the body parts turning up along I 75 belong to his missing wife, Julia. Eight years ago she witnessed a murder that was never solved, but not forgotten. A murder in which the body disappeared, and no one believed her story. Years later, Julia thinks she sees the killer. Then Julia disappears. And a dangerous sociopath, left undisturbed for eight years, is back in business in Cincinnati.

Flashpoint

When Police Specialist Sonora Blair of the Cincinnati Homicide Division receives an urgent summons to take a deathbed statement from a victim who can hardly speak, she becomes committed to finding the female killer before she strikes again, no matter what the cost. PW.

No Good Deed

The first time Sonora saw the farm, it was dusk, and there were horses running in the paddocks. It did not seem like the kind of place where a young girl of fifteen could saddle up a horse for an afternoon ride, and never come back…
Joelle Chauncey did not disappear without a trace she left blood, and a discarded riding boot. Cincinnati police detective Sonora Blair, a single parent herself, has a feeling this child is not coming back. Tracks from a horse trailer indicate both Joelle and the mare she was riding were taken together. Who was the target the girl, or the horse?Nobody saw a thing. The farm owner, Donna Delaney, was out. The uncomfortably handsome veterinarian from the farm next door heard nothing. The girl’s father, a single parent, was at work. Joelle’s disappearance is only the beginning…
and after a grisly mutilation at the barn, no one is getting involved. But crime talks, and Sonora is led by an eerie and unsettling presence, a killer wrapped in layers of internal conflict, a killer who will follow a bizarre path of good and evil, and dark compulsion. No Good Deed is the story of a child’s brutal abduction…
a lover’s betrayal…
and a good cop’s journey into the darkness.

The Debt Collector

On a warm March evening in Cincinnati, detective Sonora Blair says good bye to her two teenage children, drives to a neat suburban neighborhood, and walks through the door of a ‘home invasion’ a shocking mass murder scene. Thus begins Lynn Hightower’s latest novel, a masterpiece of suspense that combines meticulous procedural detail with page turning storytelling. From its opening scene to its stunning climax, The Debt Collector is at once chilling, thought provoking, and utterly impossible to put down.’No survivors,’ Sonora Blair said to herself when she and her partner, Sam, arrived at the crime scene. A typical American family lived here. In the driveway, a car is left behind in a hurry, its door open, its battery nearly dead. Before she followed Sam inside, Sonora knew what was waiting. She just didn’t know how bad it would look, how bizarre the evidence would be, and how powerfully a dying woman’s last words would echo in her mind: ‘The Angel.’Within hours Sonora had gotten over the shock. She’d gone home, checked on her kids, and washed the blood off her nice white blouse. Before long she’d be setting off to find a killer or maybe two. That’s when the case takes a sudden, strange turn. A retired cop, legendary to those who worked with him, practically hands Sonora the suspects on a plate: their names, histories, even where they can be found. But among her fellow cops Sonora alone believes there is something more to this case. A third man. Or an angel…
In The Debt Collector, Lynn Hightower chillingly captures the collision of a horrific crime with the ordinary lives of its victims. But another life is at stake here. The life of a woman who can’t mother her children the way she wishes she could, who misses people she once loved, and who even longs quietly for another chance at romance. And while one family has been wiped out by savage killers, the life of this good cop is at risk now. Because as Sonora moves further and further down a trail full of shocking surprises, bitter revelations, and unpaid debts, she now knows one thing for sure: how close she is getting to the edge.

Satan’s Lambs

Lena Padget was a mild mannered grad student in a quiet Kentucky town until her sister was brutally murdered, and everything changed. Over the seven years that the killer has been in prison, Lena has honed her anger to a razor’s edge, working as a private eye for women too scared to help themselves. But with her sister s killer out of jail and high on the twisted beliefs of the religious cult that raised him Lena is suddenly her own most desperate client. Lena could give any of the tough chicks in mystery fiction and not a few of the guys a run for their money: While she may not carry a gun, she packs a lethal baseball bat. But on this go round, she ll need every weapon she can muster to avoid becoming another lamb to the slaughter. Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel of 1993.

Fortunes of the Dead

Marking the highly anticipated return of popular crime busting hero*ine Lena Padget, Fortunes of the Dead is the finest novel to date from award winning author Lynn Hightower. Private investigator Lena Padget has seen far too many women and children fall through the cracks of the legal system, and she has made it her life’s work to redeem as many of them as she can. She and her lover, homicide detective Joel Mendez, have just moved into their dream cottage, signifying the beginning of a committed relationship. But Lena and Joel are soon torn by the need to balance personal trust with professional commitment when they find themselves working different ends of the same case. For two months running, Joel has immersed himself in an investigation full of dead ends: the disappearance of college intern Cheryl Dunkirk. Cheryl’s sister, Miranda, has turned to Lena for help. Just as Lena agrees to look into the case, Joel is teamed with Los Angeles ATF Agent Wilson McCoy, whose investigation of the Branch Davidian cult holocaust in Waco, Texas, cuts right into the heart of Joel’s case. It will take all three ofthem Lena, Joel, and Wilson McCoy to track down the killer. A killer who has been flying under the radar and threatens to slip away again; whose brutality will make you turn away. A killer who will keep you awake at night, contemplating the struggle for death and redemption.

When Secrets Die

They have kept the heart of her child…
They have accused her of murder…
Angels of mercy…
or the devil in disguise?Who owns your body, anyway?

Lynn Hightower’s novels have tackled such diverse subjects as female serial killers and lethal debt collectors. Now, in her most explosive and controversial thriller to date, she exposes the hidden secrets of hospital pathology labs, the darkest mysteries of motherhood, and the most unthinkable crime of all.

Private investigator Lena Padgett has been approached by a single mother with a stunning tale to tell. Emma Marsden, still grieving over the death of her infant son from an inexplicable illness, has been dealt another devastating blow. Her pediatrician, Theodore Tundridge, has accused Emma of poisoning her son in a psychotic bid for attention. Emma wants to counter his charges by accusing Tundridge of keeping a shocking chamber of horrors in his pathology lab all the more frightening because it is entirely legal. Lena agrees to take on Emma’s case and uncovers other suspicious deaths under the doctor’s care. But when a secretly taped video incriminates Emma in the most intimate of ways and Emma’s teenage daughter disappears even Lena isn’t prepared for where the truth will take her.

High Water

Beaufort, South Carolina is home to the Smallwoods, a family closely knit but fiercely at odds. Georgie, the youngest, is tormented by worry for her son, who vanished two years earlier, and by her anger at her father. An unforgiving patriarch and ex Marine, Georgie’s father neglects her mother, belittles her brother Ashby, and denies her sister Claire the financial support she needs after a trying divorce. When their mother dies suddenly and Georgie’s son returns home on the same day, tensions rise between the siblings, and Georgie begins to suspect their father had a role in both their mother’s death and her son’s disappearance.

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