Books in series
#1
Killer Smile
2022
If looks can kill, a smile can be deadly.
Special Agent Stella Knox became an FBI agent to find the dirty cops responsible for her father’s murder and make them pay. But fresh out of Quantico, her first case has her seeking justice for a different victim—three of them, in fact.
The bodies of three teenage boys have turned up in a sleepy town outside of Nashville, TN. There’re no fingerprints, no DNA, and very little to connect the murders, except for a smiley face drawn in blood near two of the bodies. But why only two? The case makes zero sense, and the questions outnumber the answers.
Are the crimes related? Could it be the work of one calculating serial killer, or are they looking for three separate assailants?
One thing Stella knows for sure: someone is threatening the teenagers of small-town Cherry Farms, and they aren’t finished. As she and the team race against the clock to stop the nightmare that has descended upon this rural community, Stella has one more question...who will be next?
#2
Killer Style
2022
Roughly 30 min SE of Nashville, two bodies have been found in a small-town alleyway near the Davidson/Rutherford County line. The victims were identified as recently missing persons, and both of them were missing an arm and a leg.
Another young woman has gone missing, and the local sheriff is freaking out because that makes three disappearances in the last two weeks under his jurisdiction.
Could there be more abductions on the way? The team heads south, but the trail they find may lead them right back home.
#3
Killer Shot
2022
After Special Agent Stella Knox’s friend and FBI tech ace Mac drops a bombshell regarding the death of Stella’s father, she can’t wait to follow up on the lead. But that’s put on the backburner when six people are abducted from a dinner party—the door open, the table laid, and the meal started. Even more disturbing is that a two-year-old is among the missing.
With no sign of a struggle and the only fingerprints belonging to the guests, there’s little to go on. Soon, a body is found in a drainage ditch on the edge of town, shot in the back at close range.
Followed by another.
While Stella and her team scramble to piece together a limited set of clues, a madman is calling the shots in a sadistic game where even the winners lose it all.
Now, it’s a race to find the remaining hostages...while they’re still alive.
Twisted and spine-chilling, Killer Shot is the third book in the new Stella Knox Series by bestselling author Mary Stone and Stacy O’Hare that will make you wonder how far you’d go to save your life.
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#4
Killer Spirit
2022
We’ve got spirit
Yes, we do
Killing off victims
Next one’s you!
Special Agents Stella Knox and Hagen Yates travel to Atlanta to uncover the truth about the man she trusted as a child and discover a shocking truth. When her "uncle" was killed, he took the secret of who murdered her father with him. Or did he?
Before they can investigate further, they’re called to Chapel Island, Tennessee, where three teenage girls have been murdered. All popular cheerleaders. All shot at close range with a rifle. All dead, with a gruesome cheer written in blood on the gymnasium wall.
And the killer is just getting started.
When another victim is found, it’s clear a stolen cheer roster listing every high school squad in the county has become a killer’s hit list. Who is targeting the cheerleaders of Chapel Island? And why?
Stella and her team can’t possibly protect them all. Their only hope is to catch the killer—fast.
#5
Killer Memo
2022
FBI Special Agent Stella Knox hasn’t finished the paperwork on her last assignment when she walks straight into her next case. A memo written on bright yellow paper looks unassuming at first.
What are you afraid of, Paul Slade?
It’s a curious question. One the Special Agent in Charge of the Nashville office doesn’t take seriously...at first.
One note might have been a joke. Two were a plan. A third leads to a missing deputy. And when a fire inspector mysteriously vanishes, it’s clear someone is deliberately targeting the city’s most courageous city servants—and wants them to know it.
As Stella and her team scramble to pinpoint who’s behind the disappearances, a killer is playing a deadly game of cat and mouse...and the FBI office is next.
Suspenseful and unnerving, Killer Memo is the fifth book in the Stella Knox Series by bestselling author Mary Stone and Stacy O’Hare. Are you ready to face your worst fear? Too bad if you aren’t.
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#6
Killer Note
2022
One wrong note can lead to murder.
FBI Special Agent Stella Knox’s search for her father’s murderer is put on hold when three bodies are discovered seated in a wealthy Tennessee suburb. It’s strange. The victims seem to be placed in front of a grand piano like an unwilling audience. Stranger still, the killer stopped to eat, taking the plates and silverware with them.
And that’s just the beginning.
When security footage reveals the murderer wore a terrifying rabbit mask, Stella and her team know they’re dealing with their most unpredictable killer yet. They need to crack the case fast, or the bunny’s kill rate will multiply.
It does.
When two more victims are found similarly arranged and garroted with a piano wire, it’s clear the unsub is escalating and with no signs of stopping. Time is running out for Stella and the team to solve the case...before another victim’s untimely finale.
Baffling and eerie, Killer Note is the sixth book in the Stella Knox series by bestselling author Mary Stone and Stacy O’Hare that will make you reconsider ever falling asleep to music again.
#7
Killer Encore
2023
𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡’𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞.
Moments after FBI Special Agent Stella Knox briefs the Nashville Violent Crime Unit on her father’s murder, the teams’ supportive camaraderie is replaced with horror when a stranger calls to tell Agent Martin Lin he’ll never see his sister again.
A trip to Martin’s apartment confirms the situation is real. Jane, who was visiting her brother, has disappeared without a trace.
As Stella and the rest of the team try to connect the dots between video footage showing Jane leaving a local liquor store before vanishing, their only clue is a bloody piano tuner. On the heels of their last murder case involving The Pianist, it seems like a bizarre coincidence.
But when Jane’s body is found decapitated, accompanied by a grisly message for the FBI, it’s clear this crime is personal. There’s just one question...
Who's next?
Suddenly hurled into every FBI agent’s worst nightmare, the entire team is soon embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where one misstep could mean the difference between life and death for the one they love.
𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝, 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐱 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐎’𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐞. 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠.
#8
Killer Knockout
2023
Sometimes you win, and sometimes you die.
On the verge of finding the person who ordered their fathers’ deaths, Special Agents Stella Knox and Hagen Yates are diverted by another murder. A kickboxer whose body is discovered with two bullet holes in his head. Stranger still is a pattern of dead boxers around the state.
Are the murders linked to organized crime? A serial killer? A grudge? Or something more disturbing?
Getting information about the illegal world of underground boxing would be next to impossible without the FBI’s Nashville violent crime unit’s inside connection—Special Agent Chloe Foster, a special agent who lives a secret double life in the ring. But as Chloe works undercover, the deeper she’s sucked into her role.
As the trail of bodies grows, Stella knows they must find the killer, and fast, before Chloe faces the fight of her life...for her life.
Puzzling and action-packed, Killer Knockout is the eighth book in the Stella Knox Series by bestselling author Mary Stone and Stacy O’Hare—a thriller that will make you question just how far someone will go to win.
#9
Killer Fame
2023
The cost of fame is paid in blood...
It’s been an eventful twenty-four hours for FBI Special Agent Stella Knox. She’s saved her colleague from a murderer, rescued the same murderer, and watched the man who killed her father plummet to his death. Now, she’s not only tormented with questions about her father's murder, but new worries about her colleague and friend, Special Agent Hagen Yates, are plaguing her too.
What should she do?
A new case is a welcome distraction, so when two bodies are found, Stella dives into the investigation. The deaths are seemingly unrelated—one an apparent suicide, and the other a victim of robbery—except for a woman’s embroidered handkerchief found in victims’ pockets.
It could be nothing. Or it could be a serial killer’s calling card.
The truth is something far worse. And little does Stella know she’s playing right into the hands of a killer who’ll do anything for fame.
Intense and chilling, Killer Fame, the ninth book in the Stella Knox Series by bestselling author Mary Stone and Stacy O’Hare, will leave you questioning the true cost of fame...and those inside the spotlight’s embrace.
#10
Killer Blast
2023
Fly the deadly skies...
As FBI Special Agents Stella Knox and Hagen Yates inch closer to apprehending the mastermind behind their fathers' assassinations, tragedy strikes. A private jet explodes over Nashville, its sole passenger skewered on a skyscraper’s antennae during his descent.
Why would a perfectly good plane fall out of the sky?
The team quickly rules out pilot error and learn that the plane was meticulously maintained. This leads Stella and the rest of the team to a chilling conclusion: intentional sabotage. But why?
A terrorist would have picked a more crowded plane. So who would want the pilot or the single passenger dead?
When a second explosion occurs in as many days, the case grows more convoluted. They have one downed plane and now a car explosion. With a myriad of unconnected pieces, Stella wonders if they’re even part of the same puzzle.
However, the closer Stella gets to finding the culprit, the more explosive the situation becomes...literally.
Jaw-dropping and riveting, Killer Blast, the tenth book in the Stella Knox Series by bestselling author Mary Stone and Stacy O’Hare, will make you reconsider your travel plans.
Author
Mary Stone
Author · 127 books
To download my FREE BOOK, click here: https://authormarystone.com/free-book... Mary Stone lives among the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains of East Tennessee with her two dogs, four cats, a couple of energetic boys, and a very patient husband. As a young girl, she would go to bed every night, wondering what type of creature might be lurking underneath. But instead of asking her parents to look for her, Mary looked herself. Scared, sure, but she just needed to know. Needed to see with her own eyes. It wasn’t until she was older that she learned that the creatures she needed to most fear were human. Mary has always adored puzzles of any kind and could often be found sitting in a corner with a pencil scrunched tightly in her hand, an open puzzle book on her lap. This isn't to say she's a loner. Quite the contrary, Mary has always been a leader taking her friends on many exciting adventures to hunt down and capture an assortment of bad guys pulled from her imagination. Today, instead of walking that imaginary beat, she now creates vivid stories with courageous, strong heroines and dastardly villains. She invites you to enter her world of serial killers, FBI agents but never damsels in distress. Her female characters can handle themselves, going toe-to-toe with any male character, protagonist or antagonist. Come on, open a book. Mary dares you to look under the bed with her.
