Jodi Compton Books In Order

Sarah Pribek Books In Order

  1. The 37th Hour (2003)
  2. Sympathy Between Humans (2005)
  3. Redball (2021)

Hailey Cain Books In Order

  1. Hailey’s War (2010)
  2. Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot (2011)

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Jodi Compton Books Overview

The 37th Hour

In a suspense novel of astounding power and depth, Jodi Compton unleashes a haunting tale of secrets and betrayal…
and of one woman’s search for her missing husband that spirals into a dark journey strewn with bitter truths and damged lives. Here debut novelist Compton introduces an extraordinary character: Detective Sarah Pribek, a woman of strength, complexity, and instinct, a woman caught in an unimaginable nightmare…
The 37th HourOn a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI. A seasoned missing persons investigator, Sarah is used to anxious calls from wives and parents. She’s used to the innocent explanations that resolve so many of her cases. But from the moment she learns that he never arrived at Quantico, she feels a terrible foreboding. Now, beneath the bed in which they make love, Sarah finds Shiloh’s neatly packed bag. And in that instant the cop in her knows: Her husband has disappeared. Suddenly Sarah finds herself at the beginning of the kind of investigation she has made so often. The kind that she and her ex partner, Genevieve, solved routinely until a brutal crime stole Genevieve’s daughter and ended her career. The kind that pries open family secrets and hidden lives. For Sarah this investigation will mean going back to the beginning, to Shiloh’s religion steeped childhood in Utah, the rift that separated him from his family and the one horrifying case that struck them both too close to home. As Sarah turns over more and more unknown ground in her husband’s past, she sees her lover and friend change into a stranger before her eyes. And as she moves further down a trail of shocking surprises and bitter revelations, Sarah is about to discover that her worst fear that Shiloh is dead may be less painful than what she will learn next…
In a novel of runaway tension, Jodi Compton masterfully weaves together the quiet details of everyday life with the moments that can shatter them forever. At once a beguiling mystery and a powerful rumination on family, friendship, and loss, The 37th Hour is a thriller that will catch you off guard at every turn instantly compelling and utterly impossible to put down. From the Hardcover edition.

Sympathy Between Humans

Jodi Compton’s debut, The 37th Hour, was hailed as compelling San Francisco Chronicle, intelligent New York Times Book Review, and the debut of a world class mystery writer Denver Post. Now Compton delivers a new novel featuring Detective Sarah Pribek, one of the most singular and complex characters in suspense fiction today.

On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small town criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now a zealous D.A. s investigator has come to town, determined to make an arrest. With her ex partner half a world away and her husband in prison, only Sarah remains to face the consequences of last fall. Surrounded by colleagues who know her to be the suspect in a murder, Sarah keeps her demons at bay by involving herself in the troubles of strangers. Seventeen year old Aidan Hennessy was banished from his family by his father. Now Aidan s twin sister is desperately searching for the brother she hasn t seen in years. Although the case is out of Sarah s jurisdiction, she sees a reflection of herself in the troubled, damaged family, and agrees to investigate.

As she probes into their tangled history, Sarah begins to realize that the mystery of the Hennessys runs deeper than it appears. Then Sarah s lieutenant gives her a simpler assignment: Track down a doctor rumored to be practicing medicine without a license in a housing project. But in Cicero Ruiz, Sarah finds a tough, wounded survivor whose moral code challenges her own ideas about justice and whose hard won life would be destroyed by an arrest.

Now juggling two very different cases, both requiring a delicate balancing act between professional honor and personal feelings, Sarah soon has even more at stake. Caught up in a cat and mouse game with the investigator who wants to end her career, crossing one ethical line after another, Sarah increasingly fears that a misstep on her part will end not only in her disgrace, but in the death of one of those she has promised herself to protect.
With its fascinating hero*ine and its brilliantly interwoven mysteries, Sympathy Between Humans is storytelling at its finest from one of the most original and daring writers in suspense fiction today.

From the Hardcover edition.

Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot

Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot is the follow up to Hailey’s War, in which West Point dropout Hailey Cain defies a powerful mobster to protect a pregnant teenager and child. The events of Hailey s Was nearly cost Cain her life they do cost her one of her fingers, severed in a brutal torture session but Thieves sees Hailey back in Los Angeles, second in command to rising gangster Serena Warchild Delgadillo. At the heart of this thrilling sequel is a complex case of stolen identity, ruthless motives, and violent crime that sends Hailey four hundred miles into the desert to reclaim her name and chase down the murderer who has taken it. Fast paced, suspenseful, and teeming with powerful young characters, Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot is another page turning example of Compton s high octane talent.

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