Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood Red Roses | 2005 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 2 | Driftnet | 2003 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 3 | Torch | 2006 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 4 | Deadly Code | 2006 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 5 | Dark Flight | 2007 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 6 | Easy Kill | 2008 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 7 | Final Cut | 2009 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 8 | The Reborn: Rhona Macleod Book 7 | 2010 | Lin Anderson | N/A |
| 9 | The Reborn | 2010 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 10 | Picture Her Dead: Rhona Macleod Book 8 | 2011 | Lin Anderson | N/A |
| 11 | Picture Her Dead | 2011 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 12 | Paths of the Dead | 2014 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 13 | The Special Dead | 2015 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 14 | None But the Dead | 2016 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 15 | Follow the Dead | 2017 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 16 | Sins of the Dead | 2019 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 17 | Time for the Dead | 2019 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 18 | The Innocent Dead | 2020 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 19 | The Killing Tide | 2022 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 20 | The Wild Coast | 2023 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 21 | Whispers of the Dead | 2024 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
| 22 | The Dead and the Dying | 2025 | Lin Anderson | Buy |
The Rhona MacLeod series by Lin Anderson has been running since 2003, with Driftnet as the first entry. Rhona is a forensic scientist whose work takes her from her Glasgow lab to crime scenes across Scotland, including remote Highland locations and island communities where the landscape itself can be as dangerous as the criminals.
The series has grown to 22 books through 2025, with The Dead and the Dying as the most recent. Anderson uses the forensic process as the backbone of each plot, but the books are equally interested in the places where the crimes occur and the communities affected by them. Scotland’s geography, weather, and tight-knit rural populations are constant factors in both the investigations and Rhona’s personal story.