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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2006
  • Latest Book:
    May 2020
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Full Series List in Order

An Iris Thorne Mystery

1 - Cold Call (Dec-2011)
2 - Slow Squeeze (Dec-2011)
3 - Fast Friends (Feb-2012)
4 - Foolproof (May-2012)
5 - Pushover (Apr-2013)

A Nan Vining Mystery

1 - The First Cut (Sep-2006)
2 - Cut to the Quick (Feb-2008)
3 - The Deepest Cut (Mar-2009)
4 - Love Kills (Mar-2010)
5 - Killing Secrets (Jul-2015)
6 - Lying Blind (Feb-2017)
7 - Untitled Nan Vining #7 (May-2020)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • For two minutes she was dead. The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal, and it left her lifeless -- until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, Detective Nan Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a homicide case...



  • The crime scene was like something out of a horror movie. Billboard tycoon Oliver Mercer has been brutally slain in his home in the Pasadena hills, joined in death by his long-legged trophy girlfriend -- both of their bodies displayed in a chilling t...



  • Back from the dead. That's how it feels for Nan Vining -- a Pasadena homicide cop, a struggling single mother, and a woman determined to find the brutal madman who left her for dead a year ago. Now, in Dianne Emley's brilliant new thriller, Nan Vinin...



  • Homicide police detective, single mother of a teenage daughter, and lover to her partner Jim Kissick, Nan Vining wishes that life was a little more serene, more like it is at Georgia Berryhill’s Malibu Canyon compound -- or like it’s supposed to ...



  • Iris Thorne traded her job teaching the deaf for a career in Los Angeles’ glittering financial district, where the day starts on Wall Street time at 6:00 a.m., and -- in the "greed is good" late 1980s -- all of life’s questions have numbers for a...



  • Iris Thorne survived the purge following McKinney Alitzer's chain of scandals. The murders, money-laundering, and million-dollar embezzlement were front-page dirt -- and rumor has it that Iris knows where the bucks are buried. Now she's the firm's hi...



  • Fast Friends is the third in the critically acclaimed Iris Thorne Mystery series by Los Angeles Times bestseller Dianne Emley. A sexy and surefooted investment counselor, who made her ride to the top in her red Triumph, circa 1972, Iris Thorne see...



  • "Another winner..."--Kirkus (starred review)

    "Foolproof reads the way [Emley's] heroine Iris Thorne drives her Triumph--fast and smooth with lots of deadly twists in the road. You can put the top down and cruise with this one." --Michael Con...



  • Pushover is the fifth in the critically acclaimed Iris Thorne mystery series by Los Angeles Times bestseller Dianne Emley, now available for the first time as an e-book and trade paperback.

    Sexy and savvy Iris Thorne has made it to the big ...






  • In bestselling author Dianne Emley's chilling new paranormal thriller, a beautiful woman's romantic past comes back to haunt her in the form of an otherworldly visitor seeking justice. Gorgeous and successful, Rory Langtry seemed to have it all. Daug...



  • For fans of Patricia Cornwell, Tana French, and Lisa Gardner comes a razor-sharp novel of suspense featuring Detective Nan Vining -- a single mother whose worlds collide when her teenage daughter stumbles upon a grisly double homicide.   When she ge...



  • Homicide detective Nan Vining finds her world rocked when a murder investigation becomes chillingly personal in this hard-edged thriller for fans of Patricia Cornwell, Tana French, and Lisa Gardner.   In a breathtaking infinity pool on a sprawling P...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dianne Emley has published 13 books.

Dianne Emley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Untitled Nan Vining #7, was published in May 2020.

The first book by Dianne Emley, The First Cut, was published in September 2006.

Yes. Dianne Emley has 2 series.