Below is the complete list of Mary Stone books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of A Villain’s Story FBI Mystery Books
Publication Order of Amelia Storm Books
with Amy Wilson
Publication Order of Autumn Trent Books
Publication Order of Charli Cross Books
with Donna Berdel
- Dark Journey (2021)
Dark Journey was published in 2021 and is listed as book #1 in the Charli Cross series. 
Publication Order of Claire Legacy FBI Mystery Books
with Alex Gates
Publication Order of Ellie Kline Books
with Donna Berdel
Publication Order of Emma Last FBI Mystery Books
Publication Order of Genevieve Steel FBI Mystery Books
with Angela Kay
Publication Order of Indie Reign FBI Mystery Books
with Karen Guyler
Publication Order of Ivy Chance FBI Mystery Books
with Amber Mays
Publication Order of Journey Russo FBI Mystery Books
with Amy Wilson
Publication Order of Kylie Hatfield Books
with Bella Cross
Publication Order of Olympia Smith FBI Mystery Books
with Matt Giegerich
Publication Order of Shadow Island Books
with Lori Rhodes
Publication Order of Sky Stryker Books
with Bella Cross
Publication Order of Stella Knox Books
with Stacy O’Hare
Publication Order of The Final Chapter Book Club Books
as Mira Shaw
Publication Order of Winter Black Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
About Mary Stone
Mary Stone is an American mystery and suspense author best known for fast-moving crime thrillers built around FBI agents, detectives, cold cases, serial predators, buried trauma, and women who pursue justice while carrying private damage of their own. Her catalogue is unusually large, with her official biography describing her as a multi-million-copy bestselling author of crime-fiction thrillers across more than sixteen series. Rather than centering her career on one long-running heroine alone, Stone has built a network of related and standalone thriller lines that gives readers several entry points into her world.
Her most recognizable creation is Winter Black, the FBI special agent whose story begins in the aftermath of family tragedy. The Winter Black books combine serial-killer suspense, personal vengeance, procedural investigation, and long-arc revelations about the violence that shaped Winter’s life. The core Winter Black series is listed by the author as a completed sequence, divided into two “seasons,” with titles running from Winter’s Mourn through Winter’s Legacy. That season structure gives the books a television-like momentum, with individual cases feeding into a larger emotional and criminal mythology.
Stone’s bibliography expands outward through connected series and spin-offs. Autumn Trent, another major figure in the broader Winter Black orbit, carries the focus into FBI behavioral analysis, profiling, and psychologically intense cases. The author’s reading-order material presents Winter Black as a core series after which readers can move into several paths, including Autumn Trent, Emma Last, and other related lines. This structure is part of Stone’s appeal: readers who enjoy one investigator can often follow the consequences into another branch without leaving the larger suspense atmosphere behind.
Beyond Winter and Autumn, Stone has written numerous heroine-led crime series. Amelia Storm, a military veteran turned FBI special agent, returns to Chicago in a series built around corruption, revenge, and dangerous urban secrets. Ellie Kline is framed around cold cases and a detective haunted by her past, while Charli Cross continues from that world into Savannah-set investigations. The author’s site also lists series such as Stella Knox, Shadow Island, Kylie Hatfield, Sky Stryker, Genevieve Steel, Indie Reign, Claire Legacy, and Olympia Smith, showing how deliberately Stone has developed a broad crime-fiction catalogue rather than a single-brand sequence.
Her books are shaped by recognizable thriller pleasures: short chapters, urgent investigations, violent offenders, damaged families, hidden motives, and heroines who must keep working even when the case cuts close to their own wounds. Stone’s investigators are often defined by a professional role—FBI agent, detective, analyst, amateur sleuth, or specialist—but the emotional engine usually comes from personal history. A murder is rarely only a puzzle. It exposes obsession, betrayal, grief, institutional failure, or old violence that has been waiting for the right pressure to surface.
Stone has also moved into psychological thrillers outside her major procedural series, with her official site grouping books such as Don’t Tell, Gone Viral, and Her Perfect Lie under that banner. These titles emphasize trust, deception, identity, and danger hidden inside apparently ordinary lives, widening her range beyond FBI and detective frameworks while staying close to suspense.
Her career is also closely tied to independent publishing. Stone serves as creative director of Mary Stone Publishing, and her official biography places her in the Blue Ridge Mountains of East Tennessee. That publishing model helps explain the scale and speed of her output. Mary Stone’s bibliography is best understood as a large, interconnected thriller ecosystem: case-driven, heroine-centered, emotionally dark, and built for readers who want momentum, danger, and a continuing supply of investigators with unfinished business.