Lis Wiehl Books in Order

Lis Wiehl has written 18 books, published between 2004 and 2022. The first book is Winning Every Time (2004) and the newest is A Spy in Plain Sight (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
18
Published
2004–2022
Pages on record
3,787 in 12 of 18 books
Reading time
63–95 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,787 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 18 titles with a page count on record.

Lis Wiehl, born August 19, 1961, is an American legal analyst and New York Times bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. Wiehl worked at NBC News and NPR's All Things Considered, then spent more than fifteen years as a legal analyst and reporter at Fox News, and comments regularly for CNN. The catalogue lists 18 books from 2004, when The People v. George W. Bush and Winning Every Time appeared, to A Spy in Plain Sight (2022), an account of the FBI and Robert Hanssen. Other titles include Face of Betrayal (2008), Hand of Fate (2010) and Waking Hours (2011). Series include Newsmakers, East Salem Trilogy and Mia Quinn, with subjects such as women lawyers, women journalists and forensic psychiatrists.

How many Lis Wiehl books are there?

Lis Wiehl has 18 books, released between 2004 and 2022. They include 3 series and 7 titles listed outside any series.

Lis Wiehl Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 18 Lis Wiehl 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. 1
    Winning Every Time2004 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004304
  2. 2
    The People v. George W. Bush2004 · confirmed 2/4
    2004
  3. 3
    The 51% Minority2007 · 266 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007266
  4. 4
    Face of BetrayalTriple Threat #12008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008
  5. 5
    Hand of FateTriple Threat #22010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010
  6. 6
    Waking HoursEast Salem Trilogy #12011 · 329 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011329
  7. 72011
  8. 8
    Darkness RisingEast Salem Trilogy #22012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012
  9. 9
    A Matter of TrustMia Quinn #12013 · 311 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013311
  10. 10
    Fatal TideEast Salem Trilogy #32013 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013320
  11. 11
    Snapshot2014 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014312
  12. 12
    A Deadly BusinessMia Quinn #22014 · 310 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014310
  13. 13
    Lethal BeautyMia Quinn #32015 · 305 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015305
  14. 14
    The NewsmakersNewsmakers #12016 · 337 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016337
  15. 15
    The CandidateNewsmakers #22016 · 334 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016334
  16. 16
    The SeparatistsNewsmakers #32017 · 340 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017340
  17. 17
    Hunting Charles Manson2018 · 319 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018319
  18. 18
    A Spy in Plain Sight2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022

Lis Wiehl 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.

East Salem Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. Waking Hours
  2. 2. Darkness Rising
  3. 3. Fatal Tide

Mia Quinn in order

3 books
  1. 1. A Matter of Trust
  2. 2. A Deadly Business
  3. 3. Lethal Beauty

Newsmakers in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Newsmakers
  2. 2. The Candidate
  3. 3. The Separatists

Triple Threat in order

2 books
  1. 1. Face of Betrayal
  2. 2. Hand of Fate

Standalone books

7 books

7 Lis Wiehl titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Lis Wiehl Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Lis Wiehl books run from Winning Every Time (2004) to A Spy in Plain Sight (2022), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Lis Wiehl in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Lis Wiehl books in order?

You only need to read Lis Wiehl 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 Lis Wiehl

Start with Winning Every Time (2004), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Lis Wiehl book?

A Spy in Plain Sight (2022) is the newest Lis Wiehl book released so far.

Is there a new Lis Wiehl book coming?

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

Lis Wiehl at a glance

Paused
No new Lis Wiehl title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Lis Wiehl books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,787 pages across the 12 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 316 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Lis Wiehl books, 13 of 18, were published in the 2010s.

What the Lis Wiehl books are about

17 of the 18 Lis Wiehl books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 7 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.