Order of Karen Vail Books

Order of Karen Vail Books

Karen Vail by Alan Jacobson

Karen Vail is the protagonist in a series of suspense/crime fiction novels by American novelist Alan Jacobson. Special Agent Karen Vail works as an FBI profiler. The stories are based on seven years worth of research Jacobson conducted with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.

Alan Jacobson began his Karen Vail series with The 7th Victim, which was published in 2008. He originally intended for the character to be a one-off, but his publisher convinced him to make her into an ongoing character. The series is currently ongoing. Below isa list of Alan Jacobson’s Karen Vail books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):

Publication Order of Karen Vail Books

The 7th Victim

(2008)

Crush

(2009)

Velocity

(2010)

Inmate 1577

(2011)

Fatal Twist

(2011)

No Way Out

(2013)

Spectrum

(2014)

The Darkness of Evil

(2017)

Red Death

(2020)