Rizzoli and Isles Books in Order

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles investigate the bludgeoning of a well liked nurse whose quiet life hid risky secrets. At the same time, Jane's mother Angela grows suspicious of strange neighbors and a missing girl, drawing danger to her own doorstep.

Two murder victims are posed to resemble religious martyrs, their deaths echoing scenes from a disturbing student horror film. As Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles dig into a decades old crime, they face a survivor who knows exactly what happened and is not talking.

A big game hunter is found hanging in Boston, gutted like his prey, with links to a vanished safari party in Botswana. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles piece together two brutal hunting grounds, one in the African bush and one much closer to home.

Three teenagers who each survived the massacre of their families are brought together at an isolated boarding school. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles suspect someone is finishing old business, and the safest place on earth may be anything but.

A severed hand on a Chinatown rooftop leads Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles to a red haired woman slain with a sword and a decades old restaurant massacre. Chinese folklore, martial arts legends and buried guilt converge in a case that feels almost haunted.

On a ski trip in Wyoming, Maura Isles joins a group that becomes stranded in a blizzard and stumbles on an abandoned religious compound with meals still on the tables. When Jane Rizzoli learns Maura is missing, she uncovers what really happened there.

An apparent Egyptian mummy nicknamed Madam X is revealed by CT scan to be a modern murder victim preserved as a relic. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles hunt an obsessive killer who turns women into macabre artifacts for his private collection.

In the morgue, a supposedly dead young woman suddenly wakes on Maura Isles's table, then takes hostages at a Boston hospital. Trapped among them is heavily pregnant Jane Rizzoli, who must survive the siege and uncover the victim's terrifying story.

A woman is murdered on Christmas Eve with a Latin message written in blood, drawing Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles into the orbit of a secretive group that studies evil. As bodies pile up, occult symbols and family history intertwine in lethal ways.

Maura Isles confronts her own past when a murdered woman found outside her home looks exactly like her. As Jane Rizzoli investigates, Maura digs into adoption records and buried family secrets that someone will kill to keep hidden.

During a brutal winter, a novice nun is found murdered in a Boston convent and a second mutilated body lies nearby. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles follow a trail from cloistered lives to global medical research, uncovering sins no one wants exposed.

Jane Rizzoli faces a new series of murders that echo the crimes of imprisoned serial killer Warren Hoyt. Teaming up with FBI agent Gabriel Dean and pathologist Maura Isles, she realizes a second predator is learning from the master and targeting her.

In Boston, a sadistic killer dubbed the Surgeon is recreating the trauma of trauma surgeon Catherine Cordell, who once survived a similar attack. Detective Jane Rizzoli hunts a predator who seems to know every detail of Cordell's secret past.