Detective Delaney Pace books in order

Detective Delaney Pace works homicide in the small Wyoming town of Kearney, where tight-knit communities and brutal winters complicate every investigation. Grittier and more procedural than Pamela Fagan Hutchins's What Doesn't Kill You series, the books draw comparisons to True Detective and Yellowstone.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Her Silent Bones 2024 Pamela Fagan Hutchins Buy
2 Her Hidden Grave 2024 Pamela Fagan Hutchins Buy
3 Her Last Cry 2024 Pamela Fagan Hutchins Buy
4 Her Forgotten Shadow 2024 Pamela Fagan Hutchins Buy
5 Her Burning Lies 2025 Pamela Fagan Hutchins Buy
6 Her Cold Heart 2025 Pamela Fagan Hutchins Buy

Detective Delaney Pace works homicide in Kearney, Wyoming — a small town where everyone knows everyone, the winters are brutal, and outsiders are noticed. The series, which began with Her Silent Bones in 2024, follows Pace through investigations that repeatedly involve violence against women, and the procedural texture is tighter and darker than anything else in Hutchins’s catalogue.

Six books published in 2024 and 2025 — Her Silent Bones, Her Hidden Grave, Her Last Cry, Her Forgotten Shadow, Her Burning Lies, and Her Cold Heart — represent a rapid build of the series. The Wyoming landscape Hutchins knows intimately, the procedural structure her legal background fits naturally, and the character of a detective who consistently champions victims failed by other parts of the system all give the series a distinct identity within her wider output.

The series has drawn readers from C.J. Box and Craig Johnson territory — Wyoming crime fiction with serious genre credentials.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Detective Delaney Pace series?

There are six books in the Detective Delaney Pace series, published between 2024 and 2025.

What is the first book in the Detective Delaney Pace series?

The first book in the Detective Delaney Pace series is Her Silent Bones, published in 2024.

How does Detective Delaney Pace differ from Pamela Fagan Hutchins's other series?

The Detective Delaney Pace series is the darkest and most procedural of Hutchins’s work. Where the What Doesn’t Kill You books are romantic mysteries with a lighter touch, Delaney Pace is a homicide detective in a small Wyoming town dealing with cases that involve abuse, exploitation, and the violence that can hide in isolated rural communities. The series has been compared to True Detective in its willingness to go to dark places, and to Yellowstone in its sense of landscape and local power dynamics.

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