A Pioneer Valley Mystery Books in Order

A Pioneer Valley Mystery begins with Felicity O'Brien, a farmer and healer living in central Massachusetts. Felicity has inherited Tall Trees Farm, along with the work of keeping it going and a family ability to heal through touch. The gift can help people, but it is not simple, and Felicity treats it with care.

Her world is rural without being cut off from modern pressures. The farm includes old land, woods, animals, buildings that need attention, and a history that reaches back through her family. It is a place built on practical routines, but it is also a place where old secrets can linger in the soil, in family stories, and in arguments over who controls the future.

The first book, Below the Tree Line, starts when Felicity notices someone has been prowling around her property. Soon afterward, she witnesses a car crash that kills a woman who had been heading to the farm. Felicity learns that the woman may have had important information about her land, turning a frightening accident into a much bigger question.

Then the danger spreads. Deaths near the farm and unsettling activity around the property make it clear that someone wants something badly enough to threaten a close-knit community. Felicity has to balance her instinct to help with the need to protect herself, her home, and the people around her.

The setting is a major part of the mystery. Sheep, woods, old orchards, local knowledge, and the demands of farm life are not just background decoration. They shape what Felicity notices, whom she trusts, and what can be hidden in plain sight. Her healing ability adds a slight supernatural edge, but the story remains grounded in people, land, and human motives.

Felicity is not a police officer or a private detective. She is a person with roots in the area who understands that a threat to one farm can affect many neighbors. Her connection to the land gives her a reason to keep looking when others might prefer to move on. It also makes the stakes personal, because losing the farm would mean losing part of her family's past.

Readers can expect a rural mystery with family history, property disputes, local tensions, and an undercurrent of danger. Below the Tree Line is the place to start. It introduces Felicity, Tall Trees Farm, and a version of the Pioneer Valley where beauty and vulnerability sit very close together.