Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Out | 2020 | Danielle Girard | Buy |
| 2 | Far Gone | 2021 | Danielle Girard | Buy |
| 3 | Up Close | 2023 | Danielle Girard | Buy |
Danielle Girard’s Badlands Thriller trilogy takes place in the fictional town of Hagen, North Dakota, where the landscape is as unforgiving as the crimes that occur there. White Out, the first book, drops readers into a blizzard and a mystery from the very first page, setting the tone for the rest of the series.
Far Gone and Up Close continue the story in the same remote setting, where limited resources and extreme weather make every investigation harder. The isolation of the Badlands gives these books a different feel from Girard’s San Francisco-based series, and the small-town dynamics add layers of suspicion and familiarity to each case.