Winter Austin

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2013
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Benoit and Dayne Mystery

1 - The Killer in Me (Sep-2021)

Degrees of Darkness

1 - Relentless (Jun-2013)
2 - Retribution (Jun-2013)
3 - Revenge (Nov-2013)
4 - Reckoning (Mar-2014)

McIntire County

1 - Atonement (May-2015)
2 - Born to Die (Apr-2016)
3 - Sins of the Father (Dec-2016)
4 - Liar, Liar (Oct-2017)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Divergence

    Ember Jacobs is a Deviant, a genetically modified human with the ability to control fire. For years her race has been kept secret from the rest of the world, but a powerful woman threatens to expose them all.A war is coming.Ember and her partner Sele...

  • Relentless

    Degrees of Darkness - 1

    Dallas homicide detective Remy LeBeau trusts no one. He hides from a past that could kill him and anyone involved with him. What he’s not prepared for is the return of an elusive serial killer . . . and an unwanted desire to protect a witness at al...

  • Retribution

    Degrees of Darkness - 2

    Called to the homicide of a Dallas criminal lawyer, Detective Remy LeBeau stares at a scene that drags him back into his past. To another murdered lawyer in New Orleans. A case that put Remy on a collision course with death.

    Cody Lewis struggles...

  • Revenge

    Degrees of Darkness - 3

    In New Orleans, justice is best served with a heavy dose of revenge, and Remy LeBeau intends to tip the scales in his favor. For good.

    Forced to take a mandatory vacation from the Dallas PD, Remy leaves his girlfriend, Cody, to protect her from ...

  • Reckoning

    Degrees of Darkness - 4

    The honeymoon is over for Cody and Remy LeBeau. And Cody's darkest secret haunts her, threatening to destroy their marriage.The brutal murder of a former judge sets in motion a domino effect of killings that all point back to Cody and her father. She...

  • Atonement

    McIntire County - 1

    Atone for your sins . . . A rash of unexplained suicides in the sleepy town of Eider, Iowa, draws McIntire County deputy Nicolette Rivers into a devious killer's twisted plot. A former marine sniper suffering from PTSD, Nic hides her own deadly se...

  • Born to Die

    McIntire County - 2

    Trouble's on the run in rural Eider, Iowa, and Deputy Cassy Rivers’s heart is in the line of fire. Two years ago, she barely escaped a harrowing experience at the hands of a maniac -- and not without scars. Now a series of random robberies leads to...

  • Man's Best Friend

    It's a tail-wagging good time for these ten animal-loving couples as they find their happily ever afters with their best four-legged friends' blessings. Lessons in Magic : While cleaning up cobwebs at her late Aunt Edna's cottage, Phoebe unexpect...

  • Sins of the Father

    McIntire County - 3

    Newly pinned deputy Jolie Murdoch's first big job as a McIntire County deputy is to locate a missing girl. What Jolie doesn't expect is to stumble upon a corpse--the girl's father--with a prime suspect still hanging around. But why would local barten...



  • Liar, Liar

    McIntire County - 4

    A cowboy sheriff and a by-the-book FBI agent team up to to solve a string of murders and arson in this satisfying, slow-burning McIntire County series finale. Returning to Eider, Iowa, wasn't in FBI agent Liza Bartholomew's game plan, but when word ...

  • Mockingbird's Cry

    Five years ago, Josephine Mockingbird Caruso belonged to an all-female black-ops military group named Hera Force—a team tasked with bringing down terrorists like the enigma dubbed the Chessmaster. But the faceless criminal mastermind had other ...

  • The Killer in Me

    A Benoit and Dayne Mystery - 1

    What price is too great to stop a killing spree?Elizabeth Benoit ran for sheriff to wipe out the corruption in the good old boys network of Eckardt County, but she has yet to break in her shoes when a stranger's body is found in a ravine. With...

  • Hush, My Darling

    Sometimes, the past starts to bleed into the future...Dark memories haunt Eckardt County Deputy Lila Dayne. Two years ago, she survived a serial killer's attempt to add her to his growing list of victims in Chicagoland, but the fight cost her more th...

  • Phoenix's Ascent

    A maniac developing a fantastical drug wants one more thing to finalize the project—a test subject who fits all the parameters. But that test subject is as elusive as her namesake.Ex-SAS operative Mitch Edwards has been on the run since the mom...

  • Straight for the Kill

    Déjà vu brings a chill in the case that will make or break more than just her career.Sheriff Elizabeth Benoit's worst nightmare returns when her deputies discover a young woman killed in the same circumstances as a death from 25 years e...

  • A Requiem For The Dead

    The dead can no longer keep their secrets ...On a cold February morning, ME Olivia Remington-Thorpe's severely beaten and bleeding husband stumbles onto Sheriff Elizabeth Benoit's retreat. Before slipping into unconsciousness, he begs her to find Oli...

  • Ride a Dark Trail

    Will her life philosophy, Do right, fear no man, get her killed?A string of bad luck has left former Army helicopter pilot Dot Ybarra with a serious case of wrecked nerves and a need for peace and solace at her family's Idaho ranch. Instead, she enco...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Winter Austin has published 17 books.

The next book by Winter Austin, Ride a Dark Trail, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Winter Austin, Divergence, was published in April 2013.

Yes. Winter Austin has 3 series.
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