Accidental Detective Books in Order

An anonymous accusation threatens the mayor Kate is beginning to care about. Adjusting to life back home, she enlists her unconventional friends to investigate whether the bribery claim exposes real wrongdoing or conceals another agenda.

Kate investigates when her father’s friends suspect a younger wife is falsely claiming her husband has dementia. A murder intensifies their concerns and places Kate’s father among the suspects, making the search for answers personal.

Recovering from an injury, former war correspondent Kate returns home and discovers troubling deaths in her mother’s Alzheimer’s unit. She must put her reporting skills to work to identify the killer before her mother becomes another victim.

A journalist investigating corruption is badly injured in a hit-and-run, and another reporter disappears. Kate teams up with her sister and their older friends to pursue the story through the Arizona desert before more evidence is silenced.

Investigating suspicious activity at an inherited motel sounds like an easy getaway for Kate and her sister. A sleepless nighttime walk leads Kate into a crime scene, turning their informal surveillance job into a far more dangerous case.

Kate and her friends go undercover on a private train carrying two crime families to a wedding. When the groom disappears and a body is found, their surveillance assignment becomes a murder investigation with everyone trapped aboard.

Kate juggles squatters, missing pedigree dogs, and burglaries while working toward her investigator’s license. Suspecting connections between the cases, she follows a late-night lead with a teenage helper and discovers a body that raises the stakes.