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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2008
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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About the Author

also writes under elizabeth becka

Full Series List in Order

Forensic Investigator Theresa MacLean

1 - Takeover (Sep-2008)
2 - Evidence of Murder (Sep-2009)
3 - Trail of Blood (Sep-2010)
4 - Defensive Wounds (Oct-2011)
5 - Blunt Impact (Apr-2013)
6 - The Price of Innocence (Nov-2013)
7 - Close to the Bone (Oct-2014)

A Gardiner and Renner Novel

1 - That Darkness (May-2016)
2 - Unpunished (Feb-2017)
3 - Perish (Jan-2018)
4 - Suffer the Children (Sep-2018)
5 - Let Justice Descend (Nov-2019)
6 - Every Kind of Wicked (Aug-2020)

A Locard Institute Thriller

1 - Red Flags (Aug-2022)
2 - What Harms You (Jul-2023)
3 - The Deepest Kill (Feb-2024)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Early one Thursday morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to the scene of a gruesome murder. The body of a man has been found on the front lawn of a house in suburban Cleveland, the back of his head bashed in. Although it's not the bes...



  • Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean takes on the worst kind of murder case -- one without clues -- in this second novel in a hot new series from Lisa Black Eight months ago, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean lost her fiance in a bank robbery g...



  • Seventy-five years ago, a madman nicknamed the Torso Killer terrorized Cleveland. His horrific spree lasted four years and crisscrossed the entire city. Overall, he was credited with more than a dozen murders. And he was never caught. Today, foren...



  • In this fourth novel in Lisa Black's captivating suspense series, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean finds herself embroiled in a case in which everyone has a motive and everyone is a suspect -- especially when high-powered defense attorneys start...



  • OVER THE EDGE… A construction worker's crushed body. A blood trail leading to a terrified eleven-year-old girl. These are just the first pieces of the forensic puzzle medical examiner Theresa MacLean must solve in her race against the clock. Onc...



  • Called out to investigate a suspected suicide in a luxury high-rise apartment, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean only just escapes with her life when the building is blown to smithereens. An accident--or something more sinister? A mostly empty block...



  • Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean stumbles across a murder rather too close for comfort when she returns to the Medical Examiner’s office following a late-night call to find one deskman missing and the other beaten to death. Written in blood above...





  • In this tour de force of psychological suspense, bestselling author Lisa Black draws from her experience as a forensic investigator to create two of the most fascinating characters in crime fiction: a killer with a unique sense of justice and a woman...






  • Maggie Gardiner, a forensic expert who studies the dead, and Jack Renner, a homicide cop who stalks the living, form an uneasy partnership to solve a series of murders in this powerful new thriller by the bestselling author of That Darkness. It be...



  • Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner always follows the rules. Detective Jack Renner doesn’t believe in them . . . In a mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman’s body lies in a pool of blood. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder o...



  • Maggie Gardiner, forensics expert for the Cleveland police department, and Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a killer secret, return in bestselling author Lisa Black’s new thriller as they confront the darkest threat yet to their careers -- an...



  • In a taut, brilliantly twisted new thriller from bestselling author Lisa Black, forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner investigate the bizarre murder of a senator with secrets to hide… Three days before a key elect...



  • In this mesmerizing new novel from bestselling author Lisa Black, the discovery of a young man’s corpse leads forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner into a dark and dangerous web of lies . . . Life and death have b...



  • New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black launches a pulse-pounding new series with a taut, compelling forensic thriller that introduces Dr. Ellie Carr and Dr. Rachael Davies, who must combine their expertise to solve deadly crimes . . . When D.C....



  • A riveting thriller that puts the New York Times bestselling author squarely in the same league as Patricia Cornwell and Jefferson Bass, the Locard Institute Thriller series draws on Lisa Black’s real-life scientific expertise and her skill in craf...



  • A riveting thriller that puts the New York Times bestselling author squarely in the same league as Patricia Cornwell and Jefferson Bass, the Locard Institute Thriller series draws on Lisa Black’s real-life scientific expertise and her skill in craf...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lisa Black has published 17 books.

Lisa Black does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Deepest Kill, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Lisa Black, Takeover, was published in September 2008.

Yes. Lisa Black has 3 series.