Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Dead Man’s Eyes | 2021 | Lori Duffy Foster | Buy |
| 2 | Never Broken | 2022 | Lori Duffy Foster | Buy |
| 3 | No Time to Breathe | 2023 | Lori Duffy Foster | Buy |
A Dead Man’s Eyes introduces Lisa Jamison, a reporter who finds herself drawn into a criminal investigation that goes well beyond her usual beat. Lori Duffy Foster uses her protagonist’s professional skills as both an asset and a liability: Lisa is good at finding information people would rather keep hidden, which makes her useful and makes her a target in roughly equal measure.
Never Broken and No Time to Breathe continue building on the character’s history and the world Foster established in the first book. Each novel escalates the personal stakes alongside the investigative ones, and the series as a whole has a momentum that rewards reading in order. Foster writes with an eye for the procedural texture of both journalism and crime investigation, and the result is a series that sits closer to thriller than cozy mystery.
For readers who want crime fiction with a working-journalist protagonist and a setting outside the major-city police procedural norm, the Lisa Jamison series has its own particular atmosphere. The regional specificity of the setting and the professional realism of the protagonist’s situation give it a character that sets it apart from more generic crime fare.