Anne Frasier Books in Order
Explore Anne Frasier books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start across her thrillers, mysteries, and dark suspense.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
23 books
Hush
by Anne Frasier
2002
Criminal profiler Ivy Dunlap is called in when the Madonna Murderer reappears, sixteen years after killing her son. To stop him, she must reopen the deepest wound of her life and face the mind she knows too well.
Sleep Tight
by Anne Frasier
2003
FBI agent Mary Cantrell returns to Minneapolis to hunt a serial killer whose crimes reopen the worst part of her past. When her sister grows close to the man once blamed, Mary's certainty begins to crack.
Play Dead
by Anne Frasier
2004
Savannah detective Elise Sandburg investigates victims turned into real-life zombies by a poison that mimics death. The case drags her toward the city's Gullah lore, her buried origins, and a killer who knows both.
Before I Wake
by Anne Frasier
2005
To escape the trauma of her family's murder, former profiler Arden Davis undergoes an experiment meant to erase her memories. When the killer may still be free, she has to trust fractured dreams to lure him out.
Pale Immortal
by Anne Frasier
2006
A century-old killer's legend still grips Tuonela, Wisconsin, and panic returns when a drained body turns up. Rachel Burton and Evan Stroud are pulled into a mystery where local myth and fresh violence are impossible to separate.
Garden of Darkness
by Anne Frasier
2007
Rachel Burton tries to leave Tuonela, Wisconsin, but a skinned body in the woods drags her back. As legend-seekers arrive and Evan Stroud unravels, the town's vampire rumors start feeling far too alive.
Black Tupelo
by Anne Frasier
2012
This collection gathers Anne Frasier's short fiction across crime, fantasy, ghosts, humor, and the occult. The stories are brief, eerie, and a good snapshot of her darker, stranger side.
Girl with the Cat Tattoo
by Anne Frasier
2012
Widowed children's librarian Melody is coping badly with her husband's unsolved murder and making one bad choice after another. Her eccentric cat Max decides the fix is simple, find her a much better man.
Girls from the North Country
by Anne Frasier
2012
A solitary woman wants nothing more than to be left alone with her woodstove and gun. Then a man in a trench coat leaves a baby on her doorstep, and her hard little world shifts.
Made of Stars
by Anne Frasier
2012
A vampire named Gabriel steps into an invented human life so he can fall in love with a coffee-shop girl. The dream gives him everything he wants, and shows him how much love can hurt.
Geek with the Cat Tattoo
by Anne Frasier
2013
Shy guitar-shop owner Emerson Foshay can barely speak when Lola Brown walks in. Then a stray cat named Sam adopts him and somehow turns a hopeless crush into a real chance at love.
Something in the Water
by Anne Frasier
2013
Sent to Tybee Island to write about mermaids, a young woman slips into a brief, strange romance touched by fantasy. It is a small story with a dreamy, offbeat pull.
Stay Dead
by Anne Frasier
2014
Still reeling from the Organ Thief case, Elise Sandburg retreats to her late aunt's plantation to recover and investigate. Instead she finds another tangle of murder, suspicion, and Savannah folklore where even the dead refuse to stay quiet.
Pretty Dead
by Anne Frasier
2015
A taunting serial killer throws Savannah into panic, and Elise Sandburg with profiler David Gould are pushed to the edge trying to stop him. Political pressure and personal history make the hunt even more dangerous.
The Body Reader
by Anne Frasier
2016
After surviving three years in an underground cell, detective Jude Fontaine returns to homicide with a fierce need for justice and a sharpened instinct for reading people. She and partner Uriah Ashby race to stop a killer targeting young women.
Truly Dead
by Anne Frasier
2017
Bodies found inside the walls of a dead serial killer's former house pull Elise Sandburg and David Gould back into Savannah homicide work. The new murders look hauntingly familiar, and Elise's own past starts closing in again.
The Body Counter
by Anne Frasier
2018
Jude Fontaine and Uriah Ashby hunt a killer whose mass slayings seem random until a math professor spots a pattern. Then a victim turns up in Jude's apartment, and the case becomes brutally personal.
The Body Keeper
by Anne Frasier
2019
When a frozen boy is found in a Minneapolis lake, Jude Fontaine and Uriah Ashby uncover a cold case involving missing boys from twenty years earlier. A nameless child left on Jude's doorstep may be the key to all of it.
Find Me
by Anne Frasier
2020
Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher offers to lead police to his victims' graves, but only if his estranged daughter Reni comes too. Alongside detective Daniel Ellis, she digs up a family horror that is far from over.
Tell Me
by Anne Frasier
2021
Reni Fisher and Daniel Ellis investigate a murdered guide and three missing hikers after a chilling video appears online from a Pacific Crest Trail campsite. As fact and performance blur, an old secret threatens to break the case and their bond.
Found Object
by Anne Frasier
2022
Investigative journalist Jupiter Bellarose heads back to Savannah after an exposé goes badly wrong, only to reopen her mother's decades-old murder. The old confession no longer feels solid, and family secrets start shifting under her feet.
The Night I Died
by Anne Frasier
2023
Private detective Olivia Welles returns to the Kansas town where she died as a child and woke up in the morgue. Asked to help a woman accused of killing her son, Olivia digs into missing memories and old terror.
The Day I Died
by Anne Frasier
2024
After faking her death and going into hiding, Olivia Welles is forced back into the open. A cult leader called Father Love wants revenge, and he plans to make her suffer by targeting everyone she loves.
Where should I start?
If you want a modern serial-killer thriller: Find Me → Tell Me
If you want a trauma-heavy detective series: The Body Reader → The Body Counter → The Body Keeper
If you want Southern gothic police suspense: Play Dead → Stay Dead → Pretty Dead → Truly Dead
If you want dark paranormal mystery: Pale Immortal → Garden of Darkness
If you want a newer mystery with a damaged investigator: The Night I Died → The Day I Died
Author bio
Anne Frasier was born in Burlington, Iowa, and grew up moving around after her parents divorced when she was young. Her childhood took her through Iowa, Florida, California, Illinois, and New Mexico, and she later attended high school in Artesia, New Mexico.
Before books became her full-time world, she worked a string of practical jobs, including waitressing, factory work in Albuquerque, and office work in Santa Fe. There was no tidy writing-school path here. She built her career from the outside in.
The real turning point came in her early twenties. After a short courtship, she married an Illinois apple farmer and moved into a life that was far more isolated, demanding, and chemically harsh than she had imagined. She has said that living on the farm, and feeling trapped in a world of pesticides and silence, pushed her toward writing.
So she started the old-fashioned way. She mailed manuscripts to publisher addresses she found in books. That persistence led to her first sale and the start of a long publishing career, first under her own name, Theresa Weir, and later under Anne Frasier, the name many thriller readers know best.
That split in names makes sense once you read across her work. Under Theresa Weir, she built a readership in romance and romantic suspense. Under Anne Frasier, she leaned harder into murder, dread, damaged families, and women who keep going long after most people would have quit.
You can feel that in books like Hush, Play Dead, The Body Reader, and Find Me. The hook is never just the crime. It is the person standing closest to it, usually someone bruised by loss, memory, guilt, or fear, and still stubborn enough to keep looking. Readers who love Frasier often talk about the atmosphere first, then the twists, then the women at the center who refuse to stay broken.
She has never stayed in one lane for long. Pale Immortal and Garden of Darkness bring horror and folklore into crime fiction. Found Object uses Savannah, beauty culture, and an old murder for a Southern gothic mystery. Then there is The Orchard, her memoir about years on an apple farm, and The Man Who Left, which turns to the lasting damage of abandonment and the complicated pull of family.
The awards are real, but they are not the whole story. The Body Reader won the 2017 Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, and Frasier has also received a RITA and a Daphne du Maurier award. What matters just as much is her range. She has written romance, suspense, paranormal fiction, memoir, and crime novels without losing the sharp, uneasy emotional current that ties them together.
She does not write tidy worlds.
Even her quieter books know the past does not stay put.
Recent author notes place her in the Mojave Desert in Southern California, and that landscape has already found its way into later work. After decades and many genres, she still seems most interested in buried memory, isolated places, family secrets, and the uneasy line between danger and desire.
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