Margins
Margins
Sign in
Margins
Subscribe to our newsletter
548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
hello@margins.app
·
+1 (650) 223-5283
Privacy Policy
·
Terms of Use
© 2026 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved
Kate Morgan
Kate Morgan
Series ·
12
books · 2021-2026
By
Dale Mayer
Books in series
#1
Simon Says... Hide
2021
Simon Says... Hide, a brand new thriller series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Newly promoted detective Kate Morgan stands up for the victims in the world, never backing down or giving up. From a family of victims, Kate will not tolerate those who take advantage of others. The worst ones prey on the hopes of desperate people to line their own pockets. And when Kate finds a connection between more than a half-dozen cold cases to a recent case—where a child's life is in jeopardy—she'll make a deal with the devil himself to protect the child. Having the gift of Sight, Simon St. Laurant knows that once he uses it, he can never walk away. But when nightmares of his own past are triggered, Simon can’t stand back and watch child after child being abused. Determined to help, Simon vows to save these children—even if it means dealing with the cranky and critical Detective Kate Morgan.
#2
Simon Says… Jump
2021
Simon Says... Jump, book two in a brand new thriller series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Detective Kate Morgan has settled into her position and, although straining under her new caseload, is working hard. Simon is still a big question mark in her world—and his “gift” even more so. Dealing with a frustrating series of drive-by shootings has brought a three-year-old drive-by case to the forefront … Simon had hoped that his visions would have stopped, especially now that the police had solved the pedophile murders. No such luck. But these new visions are confusing, chaotic, and nonsensical. Unwilling to share yet more disjointed and meaningless information with Kate, he keeps it to himself. Until he sees a pattern and connects to a woman, … one who is suicidal. While Kate understands his physical and mental torment, she’s underwhelmed by the lack of detail in his latest visions—until she looks into another issue and finds out that the number of suicides are higher than normal, as in way higher …
#3
Simon Says… Ride
2021
Detective Kate Morgan is hot on a new confusing case. A cyclist is killed at the main intersection to the University of British Columbia. At first glance it looks like a hit-and-run, but, as details emerge, it gets much more complicated. From one day to the next, Simon is blinded by an overload of senses and noises. It’s impacting his regular business day, and he seems unable to control when and how these moments occur. Angry and frustrated, he tells Kate but knows she’s unable to help. How can she, when he can’t help himself? As Kate struggles to work her way through a gang of arrogant university students, reluctant parents, a defensive dean, and way too many unobservant witnesses, she finds a disturbing pattern of more “accidents” and more victims … Then finally Simon understands why his senses are on overload … and flips the investigation around.
#4
Simon Says… Scream
2022
It’s taken some time, but Detective Kate Morgan’s various relationships are gelling at work—and even at home. Until Simon starts screaming in the middle of the night. Worried and not sure she’s up for this, Kate distances herself from him. When a tortured female body shows up, Simon’s visions are of no help, until he describes one specific injury, … the same injury on Kate’s latest case. A case getting weirder as more is uncovered. A similar tortured death happened more than a decade ago, where the killer was caught and served time. As a suspect he looks good for this current case because he’s now out and back in society. Except he has a solid alibi … This isn’t the only victim though, and, as the Vancouver PD Homicide Unit digs deeper, Kate’s team finds several more cases—all with connections to the same suspect. But Kate’s still not convinced. Too much more is going on, and she’s determined to get to the bottom of this, before someone else dies a painful death …
#5
Simon Says… Run
2022
Simon Says … Run Some cases are clear-cut and make sense, and then there’s this one. Two women, avid joggers, out for a hard Stanley Park Fun Run. Both dead. Both at the same time. Both on the popular park trail. rail running up and down hills dodging rocks and trees is rough, sometimes deadly. But this killer has a unique method for taking out his victims—one that doesn’t leave any forensic evidence.. Detective Kate Morgan focuses on the victims, … until two more are killed. Awakening in the night with horrible nightmares, Simon St. Laurant curses his life and hates having ever traveled down this strange pathway, particularly when the visions come out of nowhere. This case, though, involves a much more personal element that terrifies him. As Kate gets closer to finding out the truth, she finds herself following the path to becoming the next victim.
#6
Simon Says….Walk
2023
Detective Kate Morgan isn’t impressed with her latest case. A terrorized woman walks into the police station, with a message for Kate. Actually a message that drags Simon into the middle of it—no, make that front and center. A challenge has been issued, one that Kate is determined to solve, hopefully keeping Simon on the sidelines. Blindsided, Simon doesn’t understand the message or the hate being directed his way. And the last thing he wants to do is revisit his past. Yet being in the middle of one of Kate’s cases doesn’t give him an option. If he can’t get to the bottom of this, his life will be, once again, torn apart—all to appease a madman’s new game. But the answer, … when it comes, is closer to home than anyone realizes.
#7
Simon Says... Forgive
2023
Some cases stay with you longer than others. This is one of them for Detective Kate Morgan. That poor child was the worst part. Plus it’s one thing to desecrate a church, but it’s quite another to commit murder in one—particularly in this manner. Confused, but knowing she must understand the psychology of this killer before she can understand where his next killing ground will take place, Kate buries herself in the case. Simon is trying to be there to support Kate, but his own world shifts when he’s asked to step in to analyze issues in a poker buddy’s company, only to have the guy commit suicide soon afterward. Or did he? Between his buddy’s issues and the horrific nightmares Simon’s dealing with—surrounding Kate and her latest investigation—Simon’s life is slowing unravelling too. Finding the killer is paramount. … Finding him before he annihilates another family? Well, that’s a much harder job. Kate has no choice. … She must stop him before he kills yet again …
#8
Simon Says... Swim
2024
Detective Kate Morgan is stumped, trying to decide when a case is really a case and when it belongs on her desk or someone else’s. She’s homicide and this? … This is something else, right? Following up the leads doesn’t help, only confuses the issue—until someone slips up or slips away literally. Simon wakes, choking on water, drowning in the darkness of his night, struggling to understand what madness he is connecting to now. As usual, he has few answers, and the ones he does find make no sense. Add in a young man in desperate need of assistance—yet hiding something—has Simon caught up trying to help someone, who maybe doesn’t want help in the first place. As Kate works her way through the details of multiple cases—or not cases—the realization is worse than anyone had realized.
#9
Simon Says... Die
2024
Detective Kate Morgan arrives at a broken-down house, supposedly the site of a suspicious death, only to receive a screaming warning from Simon not to enter the building. Turns out, she had been given the wrong address but does find a dead body at the corrected address. As Kate sorts out whether she has a Black Widow on her most recent case, Simon tries to help a homeless man, who ends up in the morgue—now one of Kate’s newest files because that poor man’s body had been found in the broken-down house. That’s nothing compared to what else she finds on the premises. Kate’s investigations into these deaths confirms the two properties have connections, including linking Simon to the haunted history of the broken-down house. When yet another homeless man is found dead at the broken-down house, Kate struggles to sort out the different threads, before the next man is killed—and this one might not be so homeless …
#10
Simon Says... Think
2025
Vancouver Detective Kate Morgan has had bad days before, but getting a message about her long-lost brother hit her hard. She couldn’t trust some anonymous source, yet neither could she let any tip slide. What if it was the one tidbit that gave her information as to what happened to Timothy, now missing some twenty-six years and counting? She would do anything for those answers. Simon St. Laurant, the reluctant psychic and her steadfast boyfriend, knows Kate is hurting on a level he has never seen before. He understands and would do everything possible to help her, even if it pushes him out of his comfort zone with his
gift
. When a little boy contacts Simon from the other side, he’s trying to be hopeful … However, as the case unravels, it doesn’t go in the direction either of them thought—or had hoped it would.
Author
Dale Mayer
Author · 335 books
#11
Simon Says... Fight
2025
Simon Says... Fight, Kate Morgan Thrillers book #11, description coming soon.
#12
Simon Says... Believe
2026
Detective Kate Morgan wishes all holidays were filled with celebration and joy, but her latest crime scene tells a different story. The leftover festive spirits of Christmas and the new year are overshadowed by the grim reality of another murder. No amount of ribbon wrapped around the body or notations on a greeting card to
Believe
can change that. As she delves into the first murder of this year, Kate unexpectedly uncovers a second case—another victim and another instance of holiday cheer turned sour. Are these cases linked, or is Vancouver experiencing an unusually grim extended holiday season? Simon stands by Kate, offering his unwavering support in her investigations, just as she stands by him and his architectural rehab projects and his peculiar psychic visions. However, when these visions and unsettling rumors begin to threaten his real estate business, Simon realizes more is at play … But what exactly is happening, and is Kate involved in all this?