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Under Suspicion
The Under Suspicion series by Mary Higgins Clark has 8 books and is best read in publication order, starting with I've Got You Under My Skin (2014).
- Books
- 8 books
- First published
- 2014
- Status
- ongoing
- Last checked
Start here: I've Got You Under My Skin (2014) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
I've Got You Under My Skin
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The Cinderella Murder
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All Dressed in White
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The Sleeping Beauty Killer
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Every Breath You Take
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You Don't Own Me
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Piece of My Heart
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It Had to Be You
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About the Under Suspicion series
Laurie Moran is a television producer for a true-crime documentary series, Under Suspicion, that reopens cold cases by getting the surviving suspects and family members to appear on camera together -- a premise that lets Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke restage a classic closed-circle mystery in each book while giving Laurie her own serialized life (a young son, a slow-building romance with the show's on-air host Alex Buckley, and her own family's unsolved tragedy hanging over the earlier books). Clark, who had spent decades as the reigning "Queen of Suspense," and Burke, a former prosecutor and crime novelist a generation younger, launched the series in 2014 as a genuine collaboration: Clark shaped the emotional and structural DNA that had defined her solo novels for forty years, while Burke supplied the plotting rigor and procedural detail from her own legal background. It became Clark's last sustained project.
Frequently asked questions
How many Under Suspicion books are there?
Eight novels, from I've Got You Under My Skin (2014) to It Had to Be You (2024).
What order should I read the Under Suspicion books in?
Publication order. Each case is self-contained, but Laurie Moran's own life -- her son, her romance with Alex Buckley, and her late husband's murder -- develops across the whole run.
Who writes Under Suspicion now that Mary Higgins Clark has died?
Alafair Burke has written the series alone since Piece of My Heart (2020), which Clark was still involved in before her January 2020 death. It Had to Be You (2024) is Burke's first entry written entirely after Clark's death, published under both names with the blessing of Clark's estate.
Is Under Suspicion connected to Where Are the Children Now?
No. Where Are the Children Now? (2023) is a standalone sequel to Clark's 1975 novel Where Are the Children?, featuring different characters; it is not part of the Laurie Moran / Under Suspicion series, despite both being posthumous Clark-Burke collaborations.
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