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Detective Megan Carpenter

by Gregg Olsen

The Detective Megan Carpenter series by Gregg Olsen has 6 known books (6 published). It is best read in publication order, starting with Snow Creek (2019). Cougar Point is the latest book with a fully recorded publication date.

Books
6 known books (6 novels)
Published
6
First published
2019
Status
ongoing
Shelved under
Mystery & Crime
Start here: Snow Creek (2019) — then read straight through in publication order.
Book one
Cover of Snow Creek
Snow Creek (2019)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. Snow Creek

    Novel
    Snow Creek (2019), 287 pages, launches the series with a small town's disappearance and introduces Megan Carpenter of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
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  2. Water's Edge

    Novel
    Water's Edge , the second Detective Megan Carpenter novel, arrived in 2020 at 310 pages, continuing the fog-bound Olympic Peninsula case work Gregg Olsen grounds in three decades of true-crime reporting.
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  3. Silent Ridge

    Novel
    Silent Ridge , the shortest entry in the series at 260 pages, followed later in 2020, keeping Megan Carpenter's self-contained Jefferson County cases moving at Olsen's now-annual pace.
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  4. Stillwater Island

    Novel
    Stillwater Island , published in 2021 at 328 pages, is the fourth Megan Carpenter novel, following a year in which Olsen released two entries back to back, and keeps to the same Puget Sound small-town-secrets plotting as the rest of the series.
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  5. Cougar Point

    Novel
    Cougar Point , at 396 pages the longest book in the series, arrived in 2024 after a three-year gap since Stillwater Island , resuming Bookouture's now roughly-annual release pace for Olsen's most commercially active ongoing series.
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  6. Final Victim

    Novel
    Final Victim , published in 2025 a year after Cougar Point , is the most recent Detective Megan Carpenter novel to date at 288 pages, continuing the annual pace Gregg Olsen has kept since Snow Creek launched the series in 2019.
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Key facts about the Detective Megan Carpenter series

The Detective Megan Carpenter series has 6 books on our list. Since all 6 are out now, you can read the whole list today.

Start with Snow Creek, since it opens the publication order in 2019. Water's Edge is book 2, from 2020. Silent Ridge is book 3, from 2020.

Stillwater Island is book 4, from 2021. Cougar Point is book 5, from 2024. Final Victim is book 6, from 2025.

Each title links to its own page, while the list keeps them in date order. Each book page shows its dates and editions.

Cougar Point is the latest book with a full release date, out on 24 September 2024. The catalogue marks it as ongoing, yet no next book has a date so far.

The books came out between 2019 and 2025, while their length runs from 260 to 396 pages. That is a run of 6 years.

Gregg Olsen has 27 books on our list. Additionally, they write Emily Kenyon, Waterman & Stark and Empty Coffin, plus 2 more series. We shelve the books under mystery.

About the Detective Megan Carpenter series

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 of true-crime reporting into cases that feel grounded in real investigative procedure.

Published by UK digital-first imprint Bookouture, the series has become Olsen's most commercially active ongoing series, with new entries arriving roughly annually.

Frequently asked questions

How many Detective Megan Carpenter books are there?

Six as of 2025: Snow Creek, Water's Edge, Silent Ridge, Stillwater Island, Cougar Point, and Final Victim.

Is the Detective Megan Carpenter series ongoing?

Yes, Gregg Olsen has published a new entry roughly once a year since 2019, most recently Final Victim in 2025.

Where is the series set?

Jefferson County, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula -- the same Pacific Northwest territory as most of Olsen's fiction.

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