Joanna Mason is a detective whose cases refuse to stay within the boundaries of ordinary criminal investigation. Amy Cross introduced her in The Dead and the Dying in 2011, and across five books Joanna is pulled deeper into territory where crime and the supernatural overlap.
Joanna approaches her work the way any good detective would, following evidence and interviewing witnesses. But the cases she takes on lead somewhere darker than a courtroom. The series builds a world where solving a crime sometimes means confronting things that cannot be explained by forensics or procedure.
Across five novels, Mason grows from a detective who stumbles into the supernatural to one who understands that her world is stranger and more dangerous than she was trained for. Cross uses the crime-horror hybrid to keep Joanna grounded in recognizable detective work while the stakes go far beyond it.
Reading Order
See the complete Joanna Mason reading order for all books in the series.