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Emily Kenyon
The Emily Kenyon series by Gregg Olsen has 2 books and is best read in publication order, starting with A Cold Dark Place (2008).
- Books
- 2 books
- First published
- 2008
- Status
- completed
- Last checked
Start here: A Cold Dark Place (2008) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
A Cold Dark Place
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Heart of Ice
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Heart of Ice
About the Emily Kenyon series
Emily Kenyon is a sheriff's detective in the small Washington apple-country town of Cherrystone -- divorced, raising a teenage daughter, and working cases that keep dragging her small town's polite surface up against real violence. Across two books, Gregg Olsen sends her after a killer targeting young women in A Cold Dark Place and then into a case that reopens old wounds in Heart of Ice, both set against the same close-knit, secret-keeping Pacific Northwest small-town backdrop that runs through most of his crime fiction.
The series is short, but it's an early example of the template Olsen would return to across his later detective series: a capable, somewhat isolated female investigator; a specific, well-researched Washington setting; and cases built on the kind of buried-secret plotting his true-crime background trained him to construct.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Emily Kenyon series?
Two: A Cold Dark Place (2008) and Heart of Ice (2009).
Did Gregg Olsen continue the Emily Kenyon series?
No, it ended after two books; he went on to start the Waterman & Stark series the following year.
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