Clay Edison · Book 5
The Lost Coast
- Published
- 6 August 2024
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780525620167
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Lost Coast (August 2024, 400 pages) arrives nearly three years after The Burning as the fifth Clay Edison novel, marking the point where Clay has left the coroner's bureau for private investigation work, widening the series' scope while keeping its procedural, evidence-first approach to solving deaths other people have already written off.
Its place in Clay Edison
The Lost Coast is book 5 in the Clay Edison series. It follows The Burning. It is followed by Coyote Hills. See the full Clay Edison reading order.
Jonathan Kellerman's only ongoing series co-written with his son, novelist Jesse Kellerman, trades Alex Delaware's Los Angeles psychology practice for the more procedural world of Clay Edison, a deputy coroner's investigator for Alameda County in the East Bay. Clay isn't a detective and carries no gun; his job is to determine cause and manner of death and identify the dead, which in practice means he's usually first on scene at a body no one has explained yet -- and the person best positioned to notice when an…
Editions
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