Erin McCabe Legal Thriller Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| By Way of Sorrow | 2021 | Buy |
| Survivor’s Guilt | 2022 | Buy |
| Remain Silent | 2023 | Buy |
| Nothing but the Truth | 2024 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| All We Hide | 2026 | Buy |
Robyn Gigl has practiced law since the late 1970s, specializing in commercial and employment litigation with some criminal defense work. She came to fiction writing after decades in the courtroom, and the Erin McCabe series reflects that background closely. Gigl is openly transgender, and writing a transgender attorney protagonist gave her a way to bring that experience into stories that were already grounded in her professional world.
By Way of Sorrow, the first Erin McCabe book, came out in 2021 and announced the series with considerable force. Survivor’s Guilt won the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ Crime Writing at the 2023 Triangle Awards and was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. The third book, Remain Silent, was a finalist for the same award. That kind of recognition across consecutive books is unusual and reflects how effectively Gigl merged legal procedural craft with subject matter that had rarely appeared in the genre.
Her 2026 standalone novel All We Hide introduces a different protagonist, a trans detective named Lauren Kelly, suggesting that Gigl’s interest is in expanding the range of trans characters in crime fiction rather than limiting herself to one series. She is an LGBTQ rights activist as well as a novelist, and her advocacy work runs alongside the fiction rather than replacing it.