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Riley Thorn Books in Order

4 books so far (book 5 is due November 10, 2026). They run from Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door (2021) to The Body in the Backyard (2024). Rated 4.6 across 4,630 listener reviews.

Next Riley Thorn book

The Heist Before Christmas

Book 5 · out November 10, 2026 · preorder now

Reading order

  1. Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door

    Book 1 2021 4.4 (2k)

    Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she’s diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they’re clairvoyant visions....

  2. Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet

    Book 2 2021 4.7 (990)

    Summer is heating up for reluctant psychic Riley Thorn and her handsome private investigator boyfriend, Nick Santiago. First, her disapproving grandmother arrives determined to make Riley take her powers seriously or face the wrath of “the…

  3. Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past

    Book 3 2022 4.7 (957)

    Riley Thorn and her hot tattooed private investigator boyfriend are all moved in to their new fixer-upper. Not only do they finally have their own place they also haven’t found any new dead bodies on the premises. Yep.

  4. The Body in the Backyard

    Book 4 2024 4.7 (640)

    Her self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband careening back into her life was not on this amateur psychic detective’s bingo card.

  5. The Heist Before Christmas

    Book 5 Out November 10, 2026

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score brings a psychic twist to Christmas in this hilarious all-new Riley Thorn adventure, the fifth in the romantic mystery series...

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Riley Thorn is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.