Snow Creek

Its place in Detective Megan Carpenter

Snow Creek is book 1 in the Detective Megan Carpenter series. It is followed by Water's Edge. See the full Detective Megan Carpenter reading order.

Gregg Olsen's most recent and longest-running detective series follows Megan Carpenter of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, working murders along the same fog-bound Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound towns that anchor most of Olsen's fiction. Starting with a small town's disappearance in Snow Creek (2019), the series has run to six entries and counting, each pairing a self-contained case with the same slow-build small-town-secrets plotting Olsen has used throughout his career, now sharpened by three decades…