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Emily Kenyon
The Emily Kenyon series by Gregg Olsen has 2 known books (2 published). It is best read in publication order, starting with A Cold Dark Place (2008).
- Books
- 2 known books (2 novels)
- Published
- 2
- First published
- 2008
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Mystery & Crime
Start here: A Cold Dark Place (2008)
— then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
A Cold Dark Place
A Cold Dark Place, published in 2008, opens Gregg Olsen's Emily Kenyon series at 384 pages, sending the divorced sheriff's detective of small Washington apple-country town Cherrystone after a killer targeting young women. Alternative text for cover: Cover of A Cold Dark Place - Book 2:
Heart of Ice
Heart of Ice followed in 2009 at a longer 471 pages, reopening old wounds in a case that carries forward Emily's family situation from the first book to close the two-book series. Alternative text for cover: Cover of Heart of Ice
Key facts about the Emily Kenyon series
Our list has 2 books in the Emily Kenyon series. Since all 2 are out now, you can read the whole list today.
Start with A Cold Dark Place, since it opens the publication order in 2008. Heart of Ice is book 2, from 2009.
The list keeps the books in date order, while each title links to its own page. Each book page shows its dates and editions. Since the catalogue marks the series as complete, we list no next book.
The books came out between 2008 and 2009, while their length runs from 384 to 471 pages. That is a run of 1 year.
Gregg Olsen has 27 books on our list. Additionally, they write Waterman & Stark, Empty Coffin and Vengeance, plus 2 more series. We shelve the books under mystery.
About the Emily Kenyon series
Emily Kenyon is a sheriff's detective in the small Washington apple-country town of Cherrystone -- divorced, raising a teenage daughter, and working cases that keep dragging her small town's polite surface up against real violence. Across two books, Gregg Olsen sends her after a killer targeting young women in A Cold Dark Place and then into a case that reopens old wounds in Heart of Ice, both set against the same close-knit, secret-keeping Pacific Northwest small-town backdrop that runs through most of his crime fiction.
The series is short, but it's an early example of the template Olsen would return to across his later detective series: a capable, somewhat isolated female investigator; a specific, well-researched Washington setting; and cases built on the kind of buried-secret plotting his true-crime background trained him to construct.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Emily Kenyon series?
Two: A Cold Dark Place (2008) and Heart of Ice (2009).
Did Gregg Olsen continue the Emily Kenyon series?
No, it ended after two books; he went on to start the Waterman & Stark series the following year.
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