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Katia Lief Books in Order

Katia Lief has written 20 books, published between 1990 and 2024. The first book is Soul Catcher (As: Katia Spiegelman) (1990) and the newest is Invisible Woman (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
1990–2024
Pages on record
975 in 3 of 20 books
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Katia Lief has published under three names. Soul Catcher (1990) and Peculiar Politics (1993) appeared as Katia Spiegelman, and Five Days in Summer, Here She Lies, Seven Minutes to Noon and One Cold Night came out as Kate Pepper. Karin Schaeffer is the series character, with serial murderers, New York and women private investigators in the subjects. Next Time You See Me and You Are Next both date from 2010. Invisible Woman (2024) is the latest of 20 books.

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How many Katia Lief books are there?

Katia Lief has 20 books, released between 1990 and 2024. 6 of them belong to the Karin Schaeffer series.

Katia Lief Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Katia Lief 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 November 2026.

  1. Cover of You Are Next by Katia Lief, book 1 of the Karin Schaeffer series (2010)
  2. Cover of Next Time You See Me / Hide and Seek by Katia Lief, book 2 of the Karin Schaeffer series (2010)
  3. Cover of Vanishing Girls / The 12th Victim by Katia Lief, book 3 of the Karin Schaeffer series (2012)
  4. Cover of The Money Kill / Dead Rich by Katia Lief, book 5 of the Karin Schaeffer series (2013)
  1. 1
    Soul Catcher (As: Katia Spiegelman)1990 · confirmed 2/4
    1990–
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  2. 2
    Peculiar Politics: Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride (As: Katia Spiegelman)1993 · confirmed 2/4
    1993–
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  3. 3
    Five Days in Summer / Five Days to Die (As:Kate Pepper)2004 · confirmed 2/4
    2004–
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  4. 4
    Here She Lies (As:Kate Pepper)2005 · confirmed 2/4
    2005–
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  5. 5
    Seven Minutes to Noon (As:Kate Pepper)2005 · confirmed 2/4
    2005–
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  6. 6
    One Cold Night (As:Kate Pepper)2006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006–
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  7. 7
    Cartoons: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love (As: Katia Spiegelman)2007 · confirmed 2/4
    2007–
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  8. 8
    Names of the Dead / Watch You Die (As:Kate Pepper)2009 · 286 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009286
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  9. 9
    You Are NextKarin Schaeffer #12010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  10. 10
    Next Time You See Me / Hide and SeekKarin Schaeffer #22010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  11. 11
    Waterbury (As:Kate Pepper)2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  12. 12
    Heartbeat2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  13. 13
    Vanishing Girls / The 12th VictimKarin Schaeffer #32012 · 337 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012337
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  14. 14
    The GiftKarin Schaeffer #42012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  15. 15
    The Money Kill / Dead RichKarin Schaeffer #52013 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013352
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  16. 16
    The Domino KillerKarin Schaeffer #62013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  17. 17
    The Beautiful Years2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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  18. 18
    The Orchid Grower2017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017–
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  19. 19
    House of a Thousand Eyes2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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  20. 20
    Invisible Woman2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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Katia Lief 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.

Karin Schaeffer in order

6 books
  1. 1. You Are Next
  2. 2. Next Time You See Me / Hide and Seek
  3. 3. Vanishing Girls / The 12th Victim
  4. 4. The Gift
  5. 5. The Money Kill / Dead Rich
  6. 6. The Domino Killer

Standalone books

14 books

14 Katia Lief titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Katia Lief books in order?

You only need to read Katia Lief books in order within the Karin Schaeffer series, which holds 6 of the 20 Katia Lief books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Katia Lief

Start with Soul Catcher (As: Katia Spiegelman) (1990), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Katia Lief book?

Invisible Woman (2024) is the newest Katia Lief book released so far.

Is there a new Katia Lief book coming?

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

Katia Lief at a glance

Still publishing
Katia Lief published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Katia Lief books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
975 pages across the 3 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 337 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Katia Lief books, 10 of 20, were published in the 2010s.

When Katia Lief books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Katia Lief titles appeared. 2010s was the most productive decade with 10 titles.

1990s
2
2000s
6
2010s
10
2020s
2

20 books total across 4 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.

What the Katia Lief books are about

6 of the 20 Katia Lief 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 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

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