Below is the complete list of Janet Evanovich’s Gabriella Rose books in publication order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Gabriella Rose Books in Publication Order
- The Recovery Agent (2022)
The Recovery Agent was published in 2022 and is listed as book #1 in the Gabriella Rose series. - The King’s Ransom (2025)
Published in 2025, The King's Ransom is listed as book #2 in the Gabriella Rose series.
About Gabriella Rose
Janet Evanovich’s Gabriella Rose series is a globe-trotting adventure series built around a professional recovery agent who retrieves lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, missing assets, and objects that often come with more danger than her clients expect. The series begins with The Recovery Agent and continues with The King’s Ransom, giving Evanovich a heroine who is more action-adventure specialist than traditional detective. Gabriella is quick-thinking, physically capable, and comfortable moving through risky situations, but the books keep Evanovich’s familiar comic energy: danger is real, yet the tone remains brisk, playful, and full of personality.
Gabriella Rose is introduced as someone people hire when something valuable has disappeared and ordinary channels are not enough. Her work can involve wealthy clients and complicated recovery jobs, but the first book makes the mission personal. In The Recovery Agent, Gabriella’s family is in financial trouble after a storm threatens their hometown, and she turns to an old legend involving the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of Cortez. That premise sends the story into treasure-hunt territory, with clues, jungle danger, hidden history, and rival forces all pushing the plot forward.
One of the strongest parts of the series is Gabriella’s uneasy partnership with Rafer Jones, her ex-husband. Rafer is not simply a romantic complication added to the adventure. He has knowledge, connections, and history with Gabriella that make him both useful and irritating. Their relationship gives the books a sharp back-and-forth rhythm, because they know each other well enough to argue, anticipate, and provoke, but not well enough to avoid the old sparks and resentments that still complicate the present. Evanovich has often written comic partnerships with romantic tension, and Gabriella and Rafer fit comfortably into that tradition.
The series also differs from Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels in both structure and scale. Stephanie’s world is rooted in New Jersey, bounty hunting, family dinners, and local chaos. Gabriella’s world is larger and more mobile. Her cases can move through international locations, historical mysteries, buried treasure, criminals, mercenaries, and high-stakes recoveries. The humor is still recognizable, but the machinery is closer to an adventure caper than a neighborhood mystery.
The King’s Ransom continues that direction by bringing Gabriella back into another treasure-driven mission, again mixing danger, history, and the kind of fast-moving complications that suit a recovery agent premise. The series is still relatively new, so its identity is especially clear: each book can launch Gabriella toward a different missing object or legendary prize while using her relationship with Rafer as a continuing emotional and comic thread.
Gabriella Rose works because the concept gives Evanovich a flexible heroine. She can chase artifacts, deal with dangerous clients, cross borders, outthink rivals, and still remain grounded by family pressure, romantic history, and her own bold personality. The books are not meant to be solemn archaeological thrillers or dense historical puzzles. They are lively adventure mysteries with romance, banter, and a heroine who treats impossible jobs as part of the workday. For readers who enjoy Evanovich’s humor but want a broader action-adventure canvas, Gabriella Rose offers a fresh branch of her bibliography: faster, more exotic in setting, and built around the thrill of recovering what powerful people thought was lost forever.