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Kathryn Dance Series

This series follows an exceptionally gifted investigator as she uses her unique skills and sharp intellect to solve California's most perplexing crimes. Each case plunges her deeper into the dark corners of the human psyche, uncovering intricate webs of deceit and mystery. Readers can expect thrilling plots, insightful explorations of criminal behavior, and a memorable heroine who confronts evil head-on.

Solitude creek
XO
Roadside Crosses
The Sleeping Doll

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Sleeping Doll

    • 580 pages
    • 21 hours of reading

    When Special Agent Kathryn Dance - a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation - is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel 'Son of Manson' Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier - a crime mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members were sloppy - Not only were they apprehended, they even left behind a survivor - the youngest of the Croyton daughters, who, because she was in bed hidden by her toys that terrible night, was dubbed the 'Sleeping Doll'.

    The Sleeping Doll1
    4.0

  2. Roadside Crosses

    • 399 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross, fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being 'remembered' is the following day - the day the police find a kidnapped teenage girl in the trunk of a car, left for dead. Special Agent Kathryn Dance, the kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation, is on the case. The teenage victim points her to an online community where accusations fly and the criticism turns from impartial to personal - and vicious. It looks as though the bullying went too far, and one teen has finally snapped. Then further crosses appear. Now Dance must race against the clock to find the attacker before he can carry out his deadly plans for revenge . . . in the cyber world and the real.

    Roadside Crosses2
    3.8

  3. XO

    Special Agent Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body language analysis to stop a celebrity stalker set in the world of country music.

    XO3
    4.1

  4. Solitude creek

    Fear kills - the fourth electrifying Kathryn Dance thriller by master of suspense and number one bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.

    Solitude creek4
    3.8