There are 6 books in the Gardiner and Renner series. The newest book is Every Kind of Wicked which came out in 2020.

The “taut and haunting” first thriller in the Gardiner and Renner series from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Kind of Wicked (Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Dexter series).
 
As a forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police Department, Maggie Gardiner has seen her share of Jane Does. The…
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Unpunished

Book cover of Unpunished
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 begins with the kind of bizarre death that…

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Perish

Book cover of Perish
PERISH was a finalist for the G. P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award.

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…

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Suffer the Children

Book cover of Suffer the Children
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—and their lives.
 
The body of fifteen-year-old Rachael Donahue—abandoned by society, raised in foster…

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Let Justice Descend

Book cover of Let Justice Descend
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 election, U.S. Senator Diane Cragin is electrocuted on her own doorstep—a shocking twist…

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Every Kind of Wicked

Book cover of Every Kind of Wicked
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 brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the…