There are 24 books in the The Lt. Kate Gazzara Murder Files series. The newest book is The Murder of Orson Crane .

What would you do if someone murdered your daughter?

Jasmine, a lovely, teenage kid with a bright future was brutally murdered and thrown away like a rag doll.

It was Lt. Kate Gazzara’s first case as lead detective. For eight years she played Dr. Watson to Sergeant Harry Starke’s Sherlock…

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Cassandra

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A brutal murder. An embattled cop. A cold case nobody wants.

They found her lying in the mud on the banks of South Chickamauga Creek. She’d been stabbed forty-four times. The killer was never found. Twenty-three years later the case lands on Kate Gazzara’s desk. With her career in jeopardy,…

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Saffron

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It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…

Saffron was the first. T.J. Bron found her naked body lying beside a dumpster at the rear of the Sorbonne. Four weeks later, a teenage couple looking a quiet spot to get it together find a second victim. The bodies continue to pile…

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Sapphire

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The gripping series continues as homicide detective Kate Gazzara faces the most personal—and deadly—case of her lifetime.

On a cold morning in October, 1987, Ohio State Patrol Officer Dan Walker finds an odd box on a quiet, county road. Twenty-five years later, in 2012, and more than 600 miles away,…

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Victoria

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Three murdered women. Two dedicated detectives. One deranged killer.

When three wealthy women are found murdered within hours of each other, beaten to death in their own homes for no apparent reason, and the only thing they have in common is their church, Lt. Kate Gazzara begins to dig, and…

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Genevieve

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A brutal murder. An impossible Crime.

Why did Genevieve have to die? Who murdered her?

Caught between two worlds, one where she didn’t belong, the other she couldn’t give up, Genevieve committed the ultimate deception and married into a world of wealth and privilege and it cost her her life.…

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Cassidy

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A string of murders. A killer on the hunt. A detective that can’t let go.

When a farmer discovers a man’s in the passenger seat of his car, Captain Kate Gazzara is called in to lead the murder investigation. A simple carjacking gone wrong? That’s what it looks like but,…

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Georgina

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A forgotten cold case. A long dead dead teenager. A detective that can't let go.

Every cop has an unsolved case they can’t let go. Georgina Harrison was mine. I can’t tell you why… Maybe it was because she was just a teenager, sweet sixteen, that it stuck in my…

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Nicolette

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Nobody knows what horrors Nicolette Percy endured the night she was murdered.Kate Gazzara caught the case and at first she thought it would be a quick and easy closer. She was wrong. With every passing day the case became more complex. And then she made a mistake that almost cost…

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Catherine

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Case solved? Yes but...

The Nicolette Percy case was a nightmare. She solved it, but the solution generated more questions than answers. Captain Kate Gazzara, suspended from duty and in danger of losing her job, is determined to find the answers and embarks on a one woman investigation deep into…

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Cameron

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Kate had no idea what she was letting herself in for when she answered the call that Monday morning. The brutal murder of Cameron Geffner started her along a trail more complex and shocking than any case she'd handled in her long career as a homicide detective. That and the…

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Indigo

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What happened to 17-year-old Indigo Salazar?

They found her in the trunk of an abandoned car with her throat slit.

Why did she have to die? Who killed her?

It was Sunday, Cpt. Kate Gazzara’s day off, but with Samson at her side, she and her team must sort through…

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Caroline

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When detective Kate Gazzara is called to investigate the brutal murder of a young couple, she has no idea that she's about to be drawn into a twisted game of cat and mouse with a ruthless killer.

As the body count rises and the clues point to a serial killer,…