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Anne Frasier is an American New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of suspense, mystery and thriller novels.

She also writes romantic suspense under the pseudonym Theresa Weir.

Passionate about writing, Anne’s novels cut across multiple genres such as suspense, mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, paranormal, and memoir.

The Body Reader (2016), the first installment of the Detective Jude Fontaine Mystery Series, clinched the 2017 Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original from International Thriller Writers.

Other accolades by the author include a RITA and a Daphne du Maurier Award for romantic suspense and paranormal romance respectively.

Anne has sold more than a million copies of her books, with her thriller works featuring in Mystery Guild, Literary Guild, and Book of the Month Club.

More about Anne Frasier

Genres: Memoirs, Mystery, Non-fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Born: 1954

United States

Pseudonym: Theresa Weir

Website: https://www.annefrasier.com/

Non Series

  • Hush (2002)
  • Sleep Tight (2003)
  • Before I Wake (2005)
  • Found Object (2022)

Short Stories

  1. Max Under the Stars (2010)

Anthologies

  1. Deadly Treats: A Halloween Anthology (Edited by Anne Frasier) (2011)

Collections

  1. Black Tupelo (2012)
  2. Girls from the North Country (2012)

Detective Jude Fontaine Mystery

  1. The Body Reader (2016)
  2. The Body Counter (2018)
  3. The Body Keeper (2019)

Elise Sandburg

  1. Play Dead (2004)
  2. Stay Dead (2014)
  3. Pretty Dead (2015)
  4. Truly Dead (2017)

Inland Empire

  1. Find Me (2020)
  2. Tell Me (2021)

Land of the Dead

  1. Pale Immortal (2006)
  2. Garden of Darkness (2007)

Non-fiction

  1. The Orchard (2017)

Novellas

  1. Made of Stars (2012)
  2. Something in the Water (2013)
Short Stories
Inland Empire
Non-fiction

Detailed book overview

Non Series

Hush

What's your greatest fear?

It's criminal profiler Ivy Dunlap's job to unravel the psyches of the most dangerous men alive. None haunts her dreams more than the killer who took her son's life sixteen years ago, then silently disappeared into the dark. Now an urgent request for help from the Chicago police has reawakened Ivy's greatest nightmare. The Madonna Murderer has returned to fulfill his calling. This time Ivy understands the killer and will face her greatest fear to stop him from killing again.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-1475094862
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Sleep Tight

An FBI profiler recovering from a gunshot wound finds herself pitted against a serial killer whose violent history has ties to her own tragic past, a past that blinds her to the truth and plunges her into a waking nightmare.* FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer. It's shaking her to the core, and reviving dreadful memories. Years ago, her best friend was murdered. 

Now the man convicted of the crime, Gavin Hitchcock, is free, and Mary's own sister Gillian, a local cop, has befriended him. As each clue leads them closer to Hitchcock, Mary and Gillian set themselves up as the perfect target--and the perfect trap. Unless Mary's own past is blinding her to an unimaginable truth....and plunging her into a waking nightmare.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2003
ISBN: 978-1484850015
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Before I Wake

Caught between dreams and reality... A madman murdered her family, leaving her a shadow of the woman she once was. So one-time criminal profiler Arden Davis did the only thing she could: She volunteered for an experiment to wipe out the horrific memories that haunted her every waking moment. But the experiment wasn’t quite the success they predicted—and now Arden is left sifting through random memories, trying to distinguish dreams from reality. 

Then one night, Special Agent Nathan Fury shows up on her doorstep with an urgent appeal for help. She awakes to a living nightmare... The murderer, it turns out, is still on the streets. This time, Arden will risk everything—even her own sanity—to lure the killer out of hiding. Even if it means the killer is closer than she thought. Even if she herself becomes the number-one suspect…

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2005
Ebook: B00422LMTU
Publisher: Belfry Press
Found Object

A journalist begins to question everything she knows about her mother’s murder...

Culpable in an exposé gone tragically wrong, investigative journalist Jupiter Bellarose takes her boss’s advice: head back to her hometown for a fluff piece and get her world in balance. But in Savannah, the past is waiting.

Twenty years ago Jupiter’s mother, actress and celebrated beauty Marie Nova, was murdered, leaving many in her wake: Jupiter’s father, who has erased memories of his wife’s murder with alcohol. The matriarch of the cosmetics company who helped make Marie a star―and who takes every opportunity to reopen old wounds. Then there’s the fragile cop with blood on his hands, and the killer whose confession no longer seems convincing.

With so many lingering questions, Jupiter must revisit the grisly event that has influenced every decision in her life. Maybe her homecoming will bring closure.

Or maybe the worst is yet to come.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2022
ISBN: 978-1542036405
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Short Stories

Max Under the Stars

A writer is born...and his name is Max. Follow Max on his lifelong quest to produce the perfect novel. Touching, irreverent, hilarious and sad.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2010
Ebook: B0032JSIZK
Publisher: Belfry Press

Anthologies

Deadly Treats: A Halloween Anthology (Edited by Anne Frasier)

Celebrate Halloween with this collection of Halloween short stories by bestselling, award-winning authors and emerging new talent. Deadly Treats features witches, zombies, vampires, food critics, crazy writers, dumb criminals, interfering ghosts, ex-cops, suburban housewives, swamp monsters, and aliens. 

This delightful collection includes stories by Bill Cameron, David Housewright , Jason Evans, Heather Dearly, Julia Buckley, Kelly Lynn Parra, LK Rigel, Marilyn Victor, Mark Hull, Leandra Logan, Pat Dennis, Patricia Abbott, Paul D. Brazill, Michael Allan Mallory, Shirley Damsgaard , Stephen Blackmoore, Lance Zarimba, Paula L. Fleming, Daniel Hatadi, Theresa Weir, and Anne Frasier.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-1935666189
Publisher: Nodin Press

Collections

Black Tupelo

This Anne Frasier/Theresa Weir short-story collection, including the much-loved Max Under the Stars!

This collection includes:

Girls from the North Country (fantasy, suspense)

The Replacement (occult, paranormal)

Crack House (humor)

Something in the Water (fantasy)

Santa's Little Helper (crime fiction)

The Ghost of Blackthorn Manor (paranormal)

Blood Moon (fantasy time shift)

Woman in a Black Veil (occult, paranormal)

The Pale Boy (fantasy, phantasmagoric)

Max Under the Stars (fantasy)

NB: Co-authored with Theresa Weir.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2012
Ebook: B008KR7UCQ
Publisher: Belfry Press
Girls from the North Country

All a girl wants is to be left alone with her woodstove and her gun until a mysterious man in a trench coat leaves a baby on her doorstep.

NB: Co-authored with Theresa Weir.


Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2012
Ebook: B008LOA0RA
Publisher: Belfry Press

Detective Jude Fontaine Mystery

The Body Reader

For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.

After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice―and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. 

Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1503935204
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
The Body Counter

Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide.

At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims―until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. He believes that the madman’s next move is not incalculable; in fact, it’s all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. His theory is adding up. The body count is rising.

But when the latest victim is found in Jude’s apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that’s going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. For all she knows, her number may be up.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1503900981
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
The Body Keeper

A boy’s frozen body is found trapped in the ice of a Minneapolis lake. The horrifying discovery leads Detective Jude Fontaine and her partner, Uriah Ashby, to more bodies in the ice, all of twelve-year-old boys missing for twenty years.

Then, in one of the worst blizzards the city has ever seen, a four-year-old is abandoned on Jude’s doorstep. The child can’t tell them where he’s from, who his parents are, or how he got there. He doesn’t even know his name.

But in his unspoken language, Jude reads something horrifying―a connection to the dead boys. Now a four-year-old with no name may be the only key to a twenty-year-old, very cold case.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1542040242
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Elise Sandburg

Play Dead

No one is more familiar with Savannah’s dark side than homicide detective and native resident Elise Sandburg.

She’s been haunted for years by her own mysterious past: she was abandoned as a baby in one of the city’s ancient cemeteries, and it’s rumored that she is the illegitimate daughter of an infamous Savannah root doctor. The local Gullah culture of voodoo and magic is one that few outsiders can understand, least of all Elise’s new partner. 

Now someone is terrorizing the city, creating real-life zombies by poisoning victims into a conscious paralysis that mimics death. As the chilling case unfolds, Elise is drawn back into the haunted past she’s tried so hard to leave behind.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2004
ISBN: 978-1477849002
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Stay Dead

Homicide detective Elise Sandburg is traumatized after her run-in with a madman the press has dubbed “The Organ Thief.” 

As Elise takes refuge in her deceased aunt Anastasia’s abandoned plantation to investigate and recover from her ordeal, she begins to question everything―from her dangerous line of work to her complex relationship with her handsome, tortured partner, David Gould. But with a madman on the loose, and her mother’s claims to still hear from Aunt Anastasia, she may have more immediate problems on her hands. 

In Elise’s world, where cold hard crime mixes with the local Gullah culture, nothing is ever what it seems, and no one is above suspicion―not even the dead.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1477820131
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Pretty Dead

A serial killer stalks the streets of Savannah...

Homicide detective Elise Sandburg and her partner, profiler David Gould, are all too familiar with the terrible costs of chasing evil. Despite their wounded psyches, the detectives delve into the deranged killer’s twisted mind, determined to unravel the clues in the taunts he leaves behind.

A city gripped by fear...

When his daughter becomes the killer’s next victim, a grief-stricken mayor comes down hard on the police, demanding that they catch the psychopath―now. Feeling the pressure, department officials enlist the aid of both Elise’s estranged father and an FBI profiler who has unresolved business with David.

A cunning and elusive madman...

In a heart-pounding race to stop the next homicide, the detectives uncover their own role in the madman’s deadly game. Will they outsmart the killer before another horrific murder takes place in their beautiful city? Or have Elise and David finally met their match?

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1503944183
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Truly Dead

When a demolition crew uncovers several bodies inside the walls of a house where serial killer Frank J. Remy once lived, the discovery sends shock waves through the Savannah Police Department. All of the bodies were hidden before Remy’s imprisonment and subsequent death thirty-six years earlier―except for one belonging to a missing child.

Homicide partners Elise Sandburg and David Gould were the Savannah PD's dream team, solving uncrackable crimes and catching killers. But their last case resulted in their termination from the squad, until the coroner calls them back to consult, unofficially, on a body found in the wall of a house once occupied by Remy, a killer Elise’s own father sent to jail―a killer who died in prison. The MO seems uncomfortably similar to that of a serial killer wreaking havoc in Florida.

Does Elise have a copycat on her hands? Is Remy’s influence reaching from beyond the grave? Or is Elise making connections where there are none? When her father warns her to back off the case, Elise’s shadowy family history threatens to swallow her once again. But whatever force is at work, she won’t rest until the killing stops.

Now at odds with everyone she cares about and forced to acknowledge her worsening emotional state, Elise struggles to protect the people she loves as the body count rises.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1477819920
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Inland Empire

Find Me

Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher has finally offered to lead San Bernardino detective Daniel Ellis to the isolated graves of his victims. One catch: he’ll only do it if FBI profiler Reni Fisher, his estranged daughter, accompanies them. As hard as it is to exhume her traumatic childhood, Reni can’t say no. She still feels complicit in her father’s crimes.

Perfect to play a lost little girl, Reni was the bait to lure unsuspecting women to their deaths. It’s time for closure. For her. For the families. And for Daniel. He shares Reni’s obsession with the past. Ever since he was a boy, he’s been convinced that his mother was one of Fisher’s victims.

Thirty years of bad memories are flooding back. A master manipulator has gained their trust. For Reni and Daniel, this isn’t the end of a nightmare. It’s only the beginning.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 978-1542005623
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Tell Me

No strangers to evil, criminal profiler Reni Fisher and detective Daniel Ellis both still grapple with traumatizing pasts. It unites them. So has a crime they must solve before someone else dies.

At a campsite on California’s Pacific Crest Trail, a guide is murdered and three young hikers vanish without a trace. The only lead is a puzzle in itself: a video of the crime scene, looking eerily staged, uploaded to social media. The girl who posted it can’t be found. Is it a viral hoax gone unspeakably wrong, or is there something more sinister at play in the forest?

The case intensifies when one of the missing is found wandering down a dirt road, confused and afraid. As Reni and Daniel struggle to sort fact from fiction, a secret past collides with the present, threatening to sever their relationship. Are some truths too much to bear? Will this be the case that finally breaks them?

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1542025560
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Land of the Dead

Pale Immortal

The sleepy town of Tuonela, Wisconsin, is known for one thing: the killer who stalked its streets one hundred years ago, drinking the blood of his victims. And when the drained corpse of a young girl is found, the citizens fear their past has risen from the grave -- and point their fingers at one man.... Evan Stroud can never see the light of day. The prisoner of a strange and terrible disease, he lives in tragic solitude, taunted for being a "vampire" --until the son he never knew he had shows up in Tuonela, and is drawn into its depraved, vampire-obsessed underworld. Then Evan must rely on his childhood friend, coroner Rachel Burton, for help. But the evil that they face is powerful and elusive -- and about to take them to the very edge of madness.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2006
Ebook: B002TLULU2
Publisher: Belfry Press
Garden of Darkness

Rachel Burton tried to leave, but the killing brought her back. The skinned body was found in the woods, just as Rachel—the town medical examiner—was driving out of Tuonela for good, or so she thought. Now her baby will be born here, and the betrayal of Evan Stroud—the man she’s always loved, the man who can never see the light of day—will continue to haunt her waking and sleeping hours…

Others are coming to Tuonela, drawn to the legend of the Pale Immortal, the so-called vampire whose exhumed body is now on display. And others will die. As Evan succumbs to madness, those around him will suspect the worst of him. But everything he is rumored to be will pale in comparison to the one who has been awakened…

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2007
Ebook: B00422LML8
Publisher: Belfry Press

Non-fiction

The Orchard

The Orchard is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected.

Rejected by her husband's family as an outsider, she slowly learns for herself about the isolated world of farming, pesticides, environmental destruction, and death, even as she falls more deeply in love with her husband, a man she at first hardly knew and the land that has been in his family for generations. She becomes a reluctant player in their attempt to keep the codling moth from destroying the orchard, but she and Adrian eventually come to know that their efforts will not only fail but will ultimately take an irreparable toll.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2017
Ebook: B078J8YQT1
Publisher: Belfry Press

Novellas

Made of Stars

A genius vampire named Sinclair creates an alternate world where vampires can experience a traditional human life of love, marriage, and children. Sixteen-year-old Gabriel is his beta tester and volunteers to fall in love with a coffee shop girl. But when the pain of love becomes overwhelming, Gabriel wonders about his decision. "It's too real," he tells Sinclair. "You made it too real."

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2012
Ebook: B008Y67ZGY
Publisher: Belfry Press
Something in the Water

A Minneapolis reporter is sent to Georgia to write a tongue-in-cheek article about mermaids, but instead finds herself enchanted by the mysterious man who rescues her.

Author: Anne Frasier
First Release: 2013
Ebook: B00DCC6IYA
Publisher: Belfry Press