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The Coroner's Daughter Mysteries Books in Order

by Jennifer Graeser DornbushMystery, Thriller & Suspense

5 books so far (book 6 is due October 20, 2026). They run from The Coroner (2018) to What Darkness Does (2025). Rated 4.4 across 20,866 listener reviews.

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Reading order

  1. The Coroner

    Book 1 2018 4.3 (14.7k)

    Summoned from her promising surgical career first to her estranged father's bedside and then to his post as medical examiner when his small town needs urgent help with a suspicious death, Emily Hartford discovers home is where the bodies…

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  2. Secret Remains

    Book 2 2020 4.6 (4.7k)

    A cold-case murder, a grisly discovery, and a viper’s nest of resentment, betrayal, and dirty secrets converge in this mystery perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Jayne Ann Krentz.

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  3. Last One Alive

    Book 3 2023 4.5 (742)

    Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation—and into the path of a killer. Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr.

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  4. Frozen Lives

    Book 4 2024 4.7 (453)

    Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Frozen Lives, the next thrilling mystery from Jennifer Graeser Dornbush. Chicago surgeon Emily Hartford has never quite shaken off the dust of her hometown in Michigan.

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  5. What Darkness Does

    Book 5 2025 4.7 (310)

    Dr. Emily Hartford finds herself dredging the depths of a remote lake—and her own past relationship—in What Darkness Does, the next thrilling mystery from Jennifer Graeser Dornbush.

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  6. Walking on White

    Book 6 Out October 20, 2026

    The coroner’s daughter is back when a ferocious snowstorm buries Freeport, Michigan—and with it, a deadly secret. When the frozen body of high school senior Ethan Quon is found wedged deep in a snowbank, medical examiner Dr.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Coroner's Daughter Mysteries is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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