Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling / After We Fall | 2014 | Emma Kavanagh | Buy |
| 2 | Hidden | 2015 | Emma Kavanagh | Buy |
| 3 | The Missing Hours | 2016 | Emma Kavanagh | Buy |
| 4 | The Killer on the Wall | 2017 | Emma Kavanagh | Buy |
| 5 | To Catch a Killer / A Perfect Victim | 2019 | Emma Kavanagh | Buy |
| 6 | I Am Watching | 2019 | Emma Kavanagh | Buy |
| 7 | The Devil You Know | 2019 | Emma Kavanagh | Buy |
Emma Kavanagh’s standalone novels are psychological crime thrillers that focus on the human cost of violence. Her debut, Falling (published in some markets as After We Fall), opens with a plane crash and examines the lives of the people connected to it. Hidden follows two women drawn together after a shooting in a quiet Welsh town. The Missing Hours tracks a woman who vanishes for several hours and has no memory of where she went.
The later novels continue in the same vein. The Killer on the Wall examines a cold case through the eyes of a criminology lecturer with a personal connection to the crime. I Am Watching is set in a community haunted by a serial killer’s legacy, and To Catch a Killer (also titled A Perfect Victim) and The Devil You Know round out the collection. Kavanagh typically structures her novels around multiple viewpoints, shifting between characters to build a picture of events from different angles. Her background as a psychologist for police and military personnel gives the books a grounded quality when it comes to how people respond to fear, grief, and danger.