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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

    • 548 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to past accidents but as markers for fatalities yet to come...and someone, armed with information gleaned from careless and all-too-personal blog postings, intends to carry out those killings. Kathryn Dance and her C.B.I. team know when the attacks will take place, but who will be the victims? Her body language expertise leads her to a recent fatal car crash, and to the driver, Travis Brigham, a gaming-obsessed teen who's become the target of vicious cyberbullies. And when Travis disappears, Kathryn must lead a furious manhunt in the elusive world of bloggers and social networking, where nothing is as it seems...

    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

    Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller. A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned. She and her team must race against the clock to find where he will strike next before more innocents die.

    Solitude Creek4
    3.8