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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2002
  • Latest Book:
    July 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Bayou Bounty Hunters

1 - Protecting Her Heart (Jul-2014)
2 - Sealing His Fate (Apr-2015)
3 - Unlocking Her Secrets (Jan-2016)
4 - Removing the Mask (Nov-2016)
5 - Chasing a Shadow (Jul-2017)

Keller County Cops

1 - Marked for Murder (Apr-2011)
2 - Shield of Valor (Sep-2011)
3 - Quest for Justice (Jan-2012)
4 - Deliverance from Evil (Jun-2012)
5 - Written in Blood (Dec-2012)
6 - Trained to kill (May-2013)
7 - Code of Vengeance (Jan-2014)

New Orleans Detectives

2 - Prime Suspect (Feb-2010)
3 - Chosen Target (May-2010)
5 - Unwilling Accomplice (Feb-2011)
6 - Perfect Partner (Jun-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Curse of the Midnight Star

Truth or Dare (Jan-2007)

Book List in Order: 33 titles




  • Olivia Bartlett is stunned to find her old friend, Deputy Tucker Hawkins, living in the house she has inherited, but she's even more shocked to glimpse her cruel stepfather lurking in the shadows. Has Walter come back to haunt her, or is he really al...



  • Dr. Rebecca Daniels is a well known child psychologist who has overcome her own troubled childhood to help children who cannot help themselves. After meeting with a judge about one of her young patients, she witnesses the judge's murder and is knock...




  • Women who have dated New Orleans Police Department detective Nick Marconi are dying. Haunted by the deaths of his sisters and partner, Nick is consumed with solving these brutal crimes. He's walking a tightrope of control. The only person who can he...




  • Emma McGraw is on the run from the law when a tornado threatens her life. The only man who can save her is a handsome sheriff's department investigator named Jed, who takes her to a storm shelter and seduces her with kind words, the promise of safety...



  • New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Marisa Cooper prosecutes murderers for a living, but the tables are turned when her ex-husband Peter Assimov is found dead in her garage. She didn't kill him... or did she? All of the evidence points to her. An...



  • Straight-laced Jadan Calloway decided to let her hair down when she goes out on the town, and the night ends in the death of the handsome man who charms her off her feet. Now the people who killed Kent are after her, and the only man who can save her...






  • Marcy Moretti believes anyone can be redeemed until she witnesses a murder at the hands of her cruel ex-husband and is forced to go on the run in the Big Easy with her young son in tow in order to survive. Her ex has turned so many people against he...



  • When Allie Robbins broke his heart, Noah Sterling couldn’t leave Magnolia Springs fast enough. He joined the military, then the FBI. Ten years later, a domestic terrorism case forces him to return, only to discover that Allie is now a widowed mothe...



  • Detective Jonah McKee reels with disbelief when his vindictive ex-wife leaves their rowdy three-year-old son on his doorstep and runs off to Hollywood. How in the world will he manage to juggle his duties as a detective with caring for the boy?



  • Alarm bells go off in Detective Lexi Granger’s head when a gun linked to a cold case disappears and a veteran officer turns a blind eye to the fact that the weapon has gone missing. Lexi pursues the case anyway, and then receives a death threat. T...



  • Stoic NOPD Detective Mitch Ransom has his life under control until he agrees to testify before the grand jury against a brutal serial murderer. Then he is kidnapped to keep him from appearing in court and finds himself trapped in a trunk with a woman...



  • Noel Galliano has always wanted her own business, so despite critics -- mainly her own family members -- who believe she won't succeed, she opens a tiny voodoo shops in New Orleans' famous French Quarter. What she doesn't count on is finding a dismem...



  • Detective Abby Ryals goes behind the sheriff's back to accept a risky undercover assignment with another agency to avenge the murder of the man she loves -- a fellow detective who is actually very much alive and in witness protection. Once C.J. Bowm...



  • Kelly Watson, aka Teresa Pastral, threw the Fifth Amendment out the window when she testified against her mob boss husband at his murder trial. Now divorced, she has begun a new life in the Witness Security Program. Only...the mob finds her, thanks t...



  • Tessa Doucet is studying mortuary science because the dead can't hurt her. Then a monster from her past turns up on her embalming table, forcing her to confront the demon she'd thought she'd put to rest. Flummoxed by the cold case Tessa brings to li...



  • Emily Rawson had loved John Cutter as a friend for years. Her best friend. She'd dated a lot of other guys, but never Cutter. Lately, however, she's seen him in a different light, but now they work together and he's off limits. John Cutter is in lov...






  • Savannah Love is emotionally and physically battered but is determined to survive after escaping the hellish imprisonment imposed on her by her psychotic cop-husband. After seven months in hiding, she resurfaces at Mossy Oak, her ramshackle family ho...



  • New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Marisa Cooper prosecutes murderers for a living, but the tables are turned when her ex-husband Peter Assimov is found dead in her garage. She didn't kill him... or did she? All of the evidence points to her. An...



  • Detective Tripp Broussard longs to show his bad cop, ex-con father that he's a good cop, but time is running out. His father is dying. So Tripp risks his own life to go after a gruesome serial murderer -- anything to prove he's a better man than his ...



  • Nikki Brooks never thought she’d ever see her childhood nemesis again after high school, when he played a heartless trick on her that got her kicked off the school paper staff and made her a laughing stock. Until now, twelve years later, when sheâ€...



  • Fueled by grief after his fiancĂ©e is brutally murdered, Detective Sam Walker focuses on finding her killer, a calculating predator who binds books with human skin. Falling in love again is not on his radar. Dani Barrington, the newest member of the...



  • Keller County precision marksman Cadence Holly, the newest member of the Sheriff's Emergency Response Team, believes she doesn't have anything to prove to the men in her unit because her she's good at what she does. Detective Brody Remington, a form...



  • Melanie Atkins is a multi-published author of romantic suspense, a fan of crime dramas, and an avid reader. Writing is more than an escape for her -- it's a way of life. She grew up in the Deep South listening to tall tales and penning stories about ...



  • Sheriff Rick Blaylock relies on an anti-crime platform to win re-election, but with crime on the rise, his critics are relentless. Desperate to prove himself, he must either solve the county's latest murder, or face defeat. Angry her sister's killer...



  • Sienna Wright has it all: an exciting career, a handsome husband who is an ADA, and two beautiful step-children... until a vicious murderer takes all away and sends her tumbling into a terrifying black abyss. Detective Nate Lincoln's job is his life...



  • Gemma Wade has always followed the letter of the law, so when her boss accuses her of embezzlement, she's floored. Then the boss turns up dead, and Gemma is accused of murdering her. She goes on the run to clear her name and is forced to turn to the ...






  • Miranda Wyatt will do anything to find her children after her abusive ex-husband kidnaps them whisks them off to parts unknown. The cops won't help, because Harper comes off as a nice guy. A family man. He impressed the youth court judge with his fas...



  • Laura Leigh Bennett, a former debutante used to the finer things in life, is accused of a crime she swears she didn't commit. In an effort to clear her name, she jumps bail and goes on the run like a common criminal. Her goal is to stay clear of the ...



  • Cherry Anne Starr, a female bail bondsman, upset after her fiancĂ© dumps her, soon learns that he wasn't the man he had claimed to be and that he had disappeared with much more than just her dignity. Suddenly penniless and about to be homeless, she t...



  • Addie Hawk, a recovering alcoholic, has spent five years atoning for a bad choice that cost her custody of her son. The boy is now seven and lives with his father and stepmother, a woman Addie despises. Now, however, Addie believes her former husband...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Melanie Atkins has published 33 books.

Melanie Atkins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Chasing a Shadow, was published in July 2017.

The first book by Melanie Atkins, Darkness on the Edge of Town, was published in April 2002.

Yes. Melanie Atkins has 3 series.