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The Rookie Club
Series · 6 books · 2006-2019

Books in series

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#1

Dead Center

2006

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Fifteen years ago, the Rookie Club began as a tight-knit band of female cops struggling for respect. Jamie Vail was one of them. So was Natasha Devlin, the woman Jamie caught in bed with her husband. When Natasha Devlin turns up dead, Jamie can’t bring herself to care. She’s got enough on her plate, hunting a sexual predator who preys on female officers. He leaves them alive, but brutalized. But when the MO of the Devlin murder matches the MO of the perp in Jamie’s case, she’s brought in on the homicide investigation and back into the Rookie Club she has been avoiding since her husband’s affair. As additional police officers become victims, Jamie must confront her past and solve the murder of her ex-husband's lover before she becomes the killer's ultimate prize.
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#2

One Clean Shot

2012

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hailey Wyatt’s life is finally settling into a sort of normalcy after the tragedy that struck her family. Or it seems that way until an investigation into the homicide of two powerful San Francisco residents is suddenly the center of a media frenzy. Because someone is taking a strong stance against guns… and they're willing to kill to make sure they’re heard. The department has a message for Hailey, as well. Solve the case. Quickly. Or else. Worse, the only connection between the victims is a friendship with Hailey's father-in-law. As the evidence points closer to home, Hailey's partner questions her dedication to the pursuit of justice. As he should. Because Hailey has secrets of her own. Secrets she’s willing to die for.
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#3

Dark Passage

2013

Cameron Cruz is a trained special ops sniper for the SFPD, dedicated to the pursuit of justice. Until the man she loves is framed for murder and the rules of justice are turn upside down. Now, she must trust her heart above her head to save them all. Special Ops Agent Cameron Cruz is joining her team to shut down a massive human trafficking operation, working out of San Francisco Bay. Coming back to work after the birth of her son, she is ready. She is strong. Until she witnesses a colleague shot and killed before her eyes. The death is shocking, but the reality is much, much worse. The shooter is someone she trusted. Someone she loved. Someone she thought was killed during an undercover assignment—her son’s father, Diego. Despite what she's seen, Cameron's love for Diego is as alive as he is. But someone is working hard to frame him. Before she will accept his innocence, she has to help him prove it. Even as she works to clear his name, the evidence against Diego mounts—evidence that he’s guilty of kidnapping and imprisoning the very people he’s sworn to protect and serve, that he’s guilty of betraying their teammates, and the entire police department. Guilty of betraying her. At the same time, Cameron is fighting to break a sex trafficking ring in her own city. The closer she comes to identifying the traffickers, the closer her investigation brings her to the police department’s front door. Suddenly, she must question who she can trust. And who is willing to risk it all to send her—and the truth—to the grave. Fans of T.R. Ragan, Kendra Eliot, David Baldacci and Harlan Coben are going to love Danielle Girard.
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#4

Grave Danger

2014

ASIN moved from less recent edition here Seventy-two guns were stolen from a San Francisco police storage facility. Now murders are spiking. The only connection: all the perps claim the stolen guns were anonymously left for them to do with as they pleased. Mei Ling, now head of the SFPD's Computer Forensics Team, and newest member of The Rookie Club, sees another connection when a network-hacking device is found installed in the storage facility. Then bullets start crashing through Mei's home, convincing her she's right. Now Mei just needs to find the hacker before becoming the next murder victim.
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#5

Everything to Lose

2014

An alternate cover edition can be found here. When the daughter of San Francisco socialites is brutally assaulted, Jamie Vail makes it her mission to find the attacker. A seasoned Sex Crimes Inspector with the SFPD, work is what Jamie does best. She isn’t distracted by the fact that her adopted son and the victim go to the same school. Jamie can almost set aside the fact that the man caught on tape with the victim is someone she’s been wary of for years—her son’s biological father. At home, her son is performing poorly in school, becoming more reclusive, and nothing she does can draw him out. More frightening is the fact that every piece of evidence brings her closer to home... As her case escalates into a homicide investigation, Jamie teams up with old allies and rookie club members from across the department. Loyalties are tested and the stakes raise as the case becomes frontpage news and the spotlight lands on her. With his future on the line, Jamie must find Charlotte's attacker to prove her son's innocence before he lands behind bars, or worse…
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#5.5

Too Close to Home

2019

Free with subscription to author's newsletter San Francisco Crime Scene Analyst and aspiring Rookie Club member Naomi Muir is passionate about her work, especially the cases where she works alongside seasoned inspectors, like Jamie Vail. But this latest case has her unnerved. A serial sex offender is growing more aggressive. He attacks in the dirty underbelly of the San Francisco streets… and eerily close to Naomi’s inexpensive apartment. Each crime is more violent than the last and also nearer to where Naomi herself lives. To solve the case, Naomi will have to rely on her own wit and an unexpected new partner as the attacker gets too close to home…

Author

Danielle Girard
Danielle Girard
Author · 19 books

Danielle Girard is the USA Today and Amazon #1 bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Exhume, book 1 in the Dr. Schwartzman Series, and Chasing Darkness, as well as The Rookie Club series. Her books have won the Barry Award and the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, and two of her titles have been optioned for movies. Download a free Danielle Girard short story here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/ybva8m6mis or visit her at www.daniellegirard.com. EXPIRE, the final book in the Dr. Schwartzman series, is now available! Danielle is currently at work on the first book in a new series out July 2020.

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