Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dragon Keeper | 2012 | Mindy Mejia | Buy |
| 2 | Everything You Want Me to Be | 2017 | Mindy Mejia | Buy |
| 3 | The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman | 2017 | Mindy Mejia | Buy |
| 4 | Leave No Trace | 2018 | Mindy Mejia | Buy |
| 5 | Strike Me Down | 2020 | Mindy Mejia | Buy |
| 6 | To Catch a Storm | 2023 | Mindy Mejia | Buy |
| 7 | A World of Hurt | 2024 | Mindy Mejia | Buy |
Mindy Mejia’s standalone novels trace her development from literary fiction to taut psychological suspense. The Dragon Keeper (2012) is her debut, a character-driven novel about a zookeeper’s relationship with a Komodo dragon. Everything You Want Me to Be (2017) marked a shift in genre, telling the story of a high school student’s murder in a small Minnesota town through the eyes of three unreliable narrators. The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman (2017), published the same year, continued in the suspense vein.
Leave No Trace (2018) is the book that brought Mejia the most attention, following a therapist assigned to treat a young man found in the Boundary Waters after a decade-long disappearance. Strike Me Down (2020) took a different direction with a corporate thriller set in the Minneapolis kickboxing world, while To Catch a Storm (2023) and A World of Hurt (2024) kept the Midwestern setting and the focus on characters operating under pressure. Each novel stands on its own with no shared characters or plot connections.