Dawn Lee McKenna

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2014
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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About the Author

Dawn Lee McKenna (58) passed away September 25, 2021, breast cancer.

Full Series List in Order

Forgotten Coast Florida

0.5 - Ebb Tide (Apr-2019)
1 - Low Tide (Jun-2015)
2 - Riptide (Jul-2015)
3 - What Washes Up (Aug-2015)
4 - Landfall (Sep-2015)
5 - Dead Wake (Jan-2016)
6 - Awash (Jun-2016)
7 - Apparent Wind (Jan-2017)
8 - Lake Morality (Jan-2018)
9 - Squall Line (Jun-2018)
10 - Overboard (Sep-2018)

Still Waters Suspense

1 - Dead Reckoning (Sep-2017)
2 - Dead Center (Apr-2018)
3 - Dead and Gone (May-2019)

Books in Order: 15 titles

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  • Dead and Gone

    Still Waters Suspense - 3

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    It’s just another day in Paradise, if Paradise was in Detroit.

    In the quaint, coastal town of Port St. Joe, FL, Sheriff Evan Caldwell had been called out to the fancy new development to appease its influential owner and look...

  • Ebb Tide

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 0.5

    No one is ever exactly as they seem, no matter how well you think you know them.

    Maggie Seward's first case as a criminal investigator with the Franklin County Sheriff's Office involves the shooting death of an elderly man during what appear...

  • Overboard

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 10

    Due to a past trauma, Lt. Maggie Hamilton has a paralyzing fear of sharks that has kept her out of her beloved Gulf all her adult life. 

    When a group of drug dealers dumps the Sheriff’s Office investigator overboard one night, leaving ...

  • Squall Line

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 9

    In the small, coastal towns of the Florida Panhandle, there are no six degrees of separation; they’re lucky to stretch it to three.

    Everyone knows everybody, and the loss of any one person is felt by all.

    But what happens when a beloved law...

  • Dead Center

    Still Waters Suspense - 2

    The quaint coastal town of Port St. Joe, FL isn’t the kind of place where people go around getting stabbed to death. 


    So, when Jake Bellamy " an insurance agent and beloved father " is found murdered in the dewy grass of a ...

  • Lake Morality

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 8

    When Kristen Morgan abandoned her baby girl in a locked car, Lt. Maggie Redmond was angry. Though the baby was uninjured, things could have been much worse.When the mother’s body is found two days later, in a lake far outside town on the road to th...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Still Waters Suspense - 1

    The real Florida lies far from the interstates, where there are no dancing mice, bikini-covered beaches, or shopping malls. If you listen closely, beneath the cries of hungry gulls and the rustle of wind through the palm fronds, you might hear it...

  • Apparent Wind

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 7


    In Apalachicola, FL, what goes in the river doesn't always stay there.

    When some locals find a dead woman in the jaws of a gator, it's fairly upsetting. When Lt. Maggie Redmond finds lifelong friend Axel Blackwell in the dead woma...

  • Awash

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 6

    “Bones don’t float, no.”In the quiet, coastal town of Apalachicola, the past is never far behind, and secrets don’t always stay buried.When a young girl is attacked, Lt. Maggie Redmond draws on her own experience as a rape survivor to give th...



  • Dead Wake

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 5

    DIY has a sinister component in historic Apalachicola, Florida,

    When the local florists find a dead guy in their wall, it opens up a decades-old missing persons case. It also opens up a Pandora’s box of secrets - secrets that might have ramificat...

  • Landfall

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 4

    As a hurricane gathers its power just off Apalachicola’s shore, another storm comes to a head in Lt. Maggie Redmond's home.
    Held prisoner by a man bent on avenging the death of a son, Maggie must find a way to save herself and her two children....

  • What Washes Up

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 3

    Southern mystery and suspense, liberally seasoned with coastal atmosphere and dark humor. Karma’s alive and well in Apalachicola, Florida, and there are several people who are about to meet it face to face. When dozens of bodies wash up on the bea...

  • Riptide

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 2

    Once again, sinister things are afoot in Apalachicola, FL, and one of them is an actual foot.When a local fisherman finds a man’s foot in his net, it sets off a chain of events that no one can anticipate.Lt. Maggie Redmond soon discovers that the f...

  • Low Tide

    Forgotten Coast Florida - 1

    In Apalachicola, Florida, sinister things are afoot, as sinister things tend to be.Lt. Maggie Redmond is called to a crime scene on St. George Island, where she is met with the body of Gregory Boudreaux. The medical examiner calls it a suicide, but n...

  • See You

    Emma has been in love with Jack since she was a girl, but nothing ever came of it and she’s not a child anymore; she’s raising one of her own and growing up means letting go of childhood dreams. But when Jack returns home to Alabama for the first...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dawn Lee McKenna has published 15 books.

Dawn Lee McKenna does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead and Gone, was published in May 2019.

The first book by Dawn Lee McKenna, See You, was published in December 2014.

Yes. Dawn Lee McKenna has 2 series.
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