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Alison Gaylin Books in Order

Alison Gaylin has written 16 books, published between 2005 and 2025. The first book is Hide Your Eyes (2005) and the newest is We Are Watching (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
2005–2025
Confirmed
16 of 16 titles
Pages on record
3,833 in 11 of 16 books
Reading time
64–96 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,833 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

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Alison Gaylin (Alison L. Gaylin) is an American author of mystery and thriller novels who has won a Shamus Award (2013) and an Edgar Award (2019). Gaylin studied at Northwestern University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives in Woodstock, New York. Hide Your Eyes (2005) opens a list of 16 books that reaches We Are Watching (2025). Brenna Spector, Samantha Leiffer Mystery and Simone Glass are series, and subjects include memory, missing persons and women journalists.

How many Alison Gaylin books are there?

Alison Gaylin has 16 books, released between 2005 and 2025. They include 3 series and 7 titles listed outside any series.

Alison Gaylin Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Alison Gaylin books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Hide Your Eyes by Alison Gaylin, book 1 of the Samantha Leiffer Mystery series (2005)
  2. Cover of You Kill Me by Alison Gaylin, book 2 of the Samantha Leiffer Mystery series (2005)
  3. Cover of Trashed by Alison Gaylin, book 1 of the Simone Glass series (2007)
  4. Cover of Heartless by Alison Gaylin (2008)
  5. Cover of And She Was by Alison Gaylin, book 1 of the Brenna Spector series (2012)
  6. Cover of Into the Dark by Alison Gaylin, book 2 of the Brenna Spector series (2013)
  7. Cover of Stay With Me by Alison Gaylin, book 3 of the Brenna Spector series (2014)
  8. Cover of What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin (2016)
  9. Cover of If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin (2018)
  10. Cover of Bad Influence by Alison Gaylin, book 11 of the Sunny Randall series (2023)
  1. 1
    Hide Your EyesSamantha Leiffer Mystery #12005 · 308 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005308
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  2. 2
    You Kill MeSamantha Leiffer Mystery #22005 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005304
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  3. 3
    TrashedSimone Glass #12007 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007336
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  4. 4
    Heartless2008 · 323 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008323
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  5. 5
    And She WasBrenna Spector #12012 · 355 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012355
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  6. 6
    Into the DarkBrenna Spector #22013 · 370 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013370
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  7. 7
    Reality Ends Here2013 · confirmed 3/4
    2013–
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  8. 8
    Stay With MeBrenna Spector #32014 · 375 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014375
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  9. 9
    What Remains of Me2016 · 374 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016374
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  10. 10
    If I Die Tonight2018 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018384
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  11. 11
    Never Look Back2019 · 368 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019368
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  12. 12
    The GiftHush Collection #52020 · confirmed 4/4
    2020–
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  13. 13
    The Collective2021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021–
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  14. 14
    Bad InfluenceSunny Randall #112023 · 336 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2023336
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  15. 15
    Buzz KillSunny Randall #122024 · confirmed 4/4
    2024–
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  16. 16
    We Are Watching2025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
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Alison Gaylin books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Brenna Spector in order

3 books
  1. 1. And She Was
  2. 2. Into the Dark
  3. 3. Stay With Me

Samantha Leiffer Mystery in order

2 books
  1. 1. Hide Your Eyes
  2. 2. You Kill Me

Sunny Randall in order

2 books
  1. 11. Bad Influence
  2. 12. Buzz Kill

Simone Glass in order

1 book
  1. 1. Trashed

Hush Collection

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

7 books

7 Alison Gaylin titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Alison Gaylin books in order?

You only need to read Alison Gaylin books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Alison Gaylin

Start with Hide Your Eyes (2005), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Alison Gaylin book?

We Are Watching (2025) is the newest Alison Gaylin book released so far.

Is there a new Alison Gaylin book coming?

No next Alison Gaylin book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Alison Gaylin at a glance

Still publishing
Alison Gaylin published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Alison Gaylin books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,833 pages across the 11 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 355 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Alison Gaylin books, 7 of 16, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
3 of the 16 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the Alison Gaylin books are about

10 of the 16 Alison Gaylin books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: thrillers is tagged on 5 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.