Meg Gardiner Books In Order

Evan Delaney Books In Publication Order

  1. China Lake (2002)
  2. Mission Canyon (2004)
  3. Jericho Point (2004)
  4. Crosscut (2005)
  5. Kill Chain (2006)

Jo Beckett Books In Publication Order

  1. The Dirty Secrets Club (2008)
  2. The Memory Collector (2009)
  3. The Liar’s Lullaby (2010)
  4. The Nightmare Thief (2011)

UNSUB Books In Publication Order

  1. UNSUB (2017)
  2. Into the Black Nowhere (2018)
  3. The Dark Corners of the Night (2020)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Ransom River (2012)
  2. The Shadow Tracer (2013)
  3. Phantom Instinct (2014)

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Meg Gardiner Books Overview

China Lake

Evan Delaney is shocked to learn that her ex sister in law, Tabitha, has joined the Remnant, a religion with a dangerous and fanatical following. What is more alarming is that the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the church. She has the Remnant on her side, and they ll do anything it takes including murder to get what they want. But it’s another member of the Remnant who s killed, and when Evan s brother becomes a suspect, Evan is dragged even deeper into the nightmare.

From beginning to end, China Lake is a book no reader of thrillers will be able to put down. Great characters, dynamic plot, nail biting action Meg Gardiner gives us everything. Elizabeth George

Mission Canyon

Evan Delaney, novelist and legal go fer, is dressed as Diana Ross in order to crash a fancy dress party and serve a summons, when she hears that Franklin Brand is back in town. Brand is the hit and run driver who sentenced Evan’s lover Jesse to life in a wheelchair, and killed his best friend. Since the accident, Brand has been avoiding justice overseas; but if he’s back, Evan and Jesse are determined to get him, helped by the dead boy’s brother Adam. Brand had been a high flier in Mako Technologies, a cyber security firm, and this is where Evan starts looking. She quickly uncovers evidence that Brand was embezzling funds, and that Adam’s brother knew all about it. So maybe that hit and run wasn’t an accident at all? Then the policeman investigating is killed, and Adam and Jesse both come under suspicion. The plot has more twists, thrills and spills than a white knuckle ride, and is complicated by the confused emotions of the main parties involved: Jesse feels a survivor’s guilt; Adam resents the fact that Jesse is alive while his brother died. But there are more corpses including a near miss for Evan herself to come before the bad guys are finally brought to book.

Jericho Point

When the body of a young woman washes up on the black sands of the California beach Jericho Point, it’s identified as Evan Delaney s. But Evan is very much alive apparently the victim of an identity thief who was playing the Hollywood rich for everything they re worth. The crook may be dead, but the crimes she was murdered for crimes committed in Evan s name are turning Evan s life into a nightmare. Now, in the shadow of a dead woman s lies, it s all Evan can do to survive. A GRIPPING PLOT…
You ll find it impossible to find a resting point. Evening Times Glasgow A RELENTLESS, CLAUSTROPHOBIC examination of mistaken identity and the terror of being accused of a crime for which you are not responsible. Sherlock FAST PACED, WITTY, AND BRUTAL. The Independent London

Crosscut

School’s out forever class reunions can be a killer.

Something, or someone, is eliminating Evan Delaney s graduating class. For Evan, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn t realize just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died young. And on the night of the reunion, another one is savagely butchered. She s just the first. There s a serial killer on the loose. One with a major axe to grind with China Lake s high school graduates Meg Gardiner was raised in California and graduated from Stanford Law School; she practiced law in Los Angeles and taught in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kill Chain

When Evan Delaney’s father disappears, the cops think he s fled the country to avoid prosecution. But Evan is sure that Phil has been abducted or killed for reasons associated with his work for Naval Intelligence.

As Evan hunts for clues, she is attacked by an armed man. The attacker ends up dead and turns out to be a federal agent. Now Evan is on the run, implicated in his murder. Then she is contacted by a sinister duo a Madam and gigolo mother and son team who claim that Phil was mixed up in their very dirty business.

Can Evan save her father s reputation and his life? And can Jesse save Evan? Time is running out…

The Dirty Secrets Club

An ongoing string of high profile and very public murder suicides has San Francisco even more rattled than a string of recent earthquakes: A flamboyant fashion designer burns to death, clutching the body of his murdered lover. A superstar 49er jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. And most shocking of all, a U.S. attorney launches her BMW off a highway overpass, killing herself and three others.

Enter forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett, hired by the SFPD to cut open not the victim’s body, but the victim s life. Jo s job is to complete the psychological autopsy, shedding light on the circumstances of any equivocal death. Soon she makes a shocking discovery: All the suicides belonged to something called The Dirty Secrets Club, a group of A listers with nothing but money and plenty to hide. As the deaths continue, Jo delves into the disturbing motives behind this shadowy group until she receives a letter that contains a dark secret Jo thought she d left deep in her past, a secret that ends with the most chilling words of all: Welcome to The Dirty Secrets Club.

Praise for Meg Gardiner
If you read Sue Grafton, Lee Child, Janet Evanovich, Michael Connelly, or Nelson DeMille, you re going to think Meg Gardiner is a gift from heaven. Stephen King

A winner in every way. The Dirty Secrets Club is nuanced and layered and a harrowing thriller…
. Meg Gardiner makes every one of her characters leap alive off the page. Jeffery Deaver

Meg Gardiner is an astonishing writer, and The Dirty Secrets Club is a humdinger of a thriller, with shocks and twists galore. I couldn t turn the pages fast enough. Tess Gerritsen

The Memory Collector

The second pulse pounding thriller in Meg Gardiner’s Jo Beckett series, whose thrilling, 1 crackerjack, 2 adrenaline filled 3 debut was an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller.

Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett s specialty is the psychological autopsy an investigation into a person s life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She calls herself a deadshrinker instead of a head shrinker: The silence of her patients is a key part of the job s attraction. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person one with a suspect memory who can t be trusted to participate in his own medical care she knows all her skills will be put to the test.

Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that he s got anterograde amnesia, and can t form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk and yet can t help Jo figure out just what happened to him. For every cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a superdeadly biological agent code named Slick, a missing wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realizes her patient s addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. In order to prevent it, she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city and herself.

The Liar’s Lullaby

Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner returns with a third propulsive, groundbreaking thriller about forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and the lies that are even more dangerous than fame. Tasia McFarland is a washed up country pop singer desperate for the break that will get her topping the charts again. The tabloids have raked over every part of Tasia’s rocky life, following every high and low, her addictions, her breakdowns, her increasingly erratic behavior and every broken relationship. The highlight of this lowlight reel: her failed marriage to an ambitious Army officer whose political talents earned him a spot in the nation’s highest office. Tasia McFarland is the ex wife of the President of the United States. So when Tasia writes a song with politically charged lyrics, people take note and her star begins to rise anew. In the spectacle driven opener of her comeback tour, she is lowered into a stadium on a zip line and as helicopters fly overhead she fires her prop Colt 45 at the fireworks filled stage. Tasia is riding high. Until she’s killed by a bullet to the neck, before the shocked crowd of 40,000. When video can’t prove that the shot came from Tasia’s own Colt . 45 and the ballistics report comes up empty, the authorities call on forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett to do a psychological autopsy and clean up the potential political disaster. But as Jo sifts through the facts, she only finds more questions. Was Tasia’s gun loaded? Did she kill herself in one last cry for attention? Were her politically charged lyrics the rantings of a paranoid woman losing her grip? Or warnings from a woman afraid and in danger? For Jo, pouring over Tasia’s past quickly becomes a race to extinguish the conspiracy rumor mill before it incites a level of violence that reaches America’s highest corridors of power and tears apart the very fabric of our nation.

The Nightmare Thief

Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett returns in a fourth taut, groundbreaking thriller from Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner. Autumn Reiniger expects something special for her twenty first birthday. Daddy’s already bought her the sports car, the apartment, and admission to the private college where she parties away her weekends. Now she wants excitement, and she’s going to get it. Her father signs up Autumn and five friends for an ‘ultimate urban reality’ game: a simulated drug deal, manhunt, and jailbreak. It’s a high priced version of cops and robbers, played with fake guns and fast cars on the streets of San Francisco. Edge Adventures alerts the SFPD ahead of time that a ‘crime situation’ is underway, so the authorities can ignore the squealing tires and desperate cries for help. Which is convenient for the gang of real kidnappers zeroing in on their target and a mammoth payday. Because what Daddy doesn’t know is that someone has spotted his hedge fund’s bulging profits, and the path to those riches runs right through Daddy’s Little Girl. Working on a case nearby is forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and her partner Gabe Quintana. When the pair encounters a suspicious group of men carting six sullen college kids to the woods for a supposed wilderness adventure, alarm bells ring. Jo takes a closer look, and winds up with an invite to Autumn Reiniger’s twenty first birthday party a party they may never leave.

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