Alexia Gordon Books in Order

If you want the true starting point: Murder in G Major
If you want the full series arc: Murder in G Major → Death in D Minor → Killing in C Sharp → Fatality in F → Execution in E
If you like paranormal cozies with music at the center: Murder in G Major → Death in D Minor → Killing in C Sharp
If you prefer lighter village cases once you know the cast: Fatality in F → Execution in E

Alexia Gordon grew up in suburban Maryland with parents who worked as civilian mathematicians for the Navy. She was an introverted only child, happiest with a book, and she loved both crime fiction and spooky stories. She was also making up stories early enough that she still has one of her first homemade books from childhood.

She had already decided by age 12 that medicine was her future.

That choice did not cancel out writing. Gordon kept writing through college at Vassar, then put fiction aside while she went straight to medical school at what is now Drexel University College of Medicine and completed family medicine training in South Carolina. Later, once her medical career was established, she returned to fiction and completed Southern Methodist University's Writer's Path program in Dallas.

Her working life took her all over the map. She spent years in military and veterans' health systems, worked as a family physician in Anchorage, and even traveled to remote parts of Alaska to see patients. She later moved to Dallas, and that mix of places seems to have sharpened her feel for characters who land somewhere unfamiliar and have to make a life there anyway.

The novel that introduced many mystery readers to her work was Murder in G Major, the first Gethsemane Brown book. It follows a classical musician from Virginia who winds up in rural Ireland, sharing a cottage with the ghost of composer Eamon McCarthy and stumbling into a murder case. The book won the Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel and was also nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

She kept going with Death in D Minor, Killing in C Sharp, Fatality in F, and Execution in E. Together, those books build a cozy mystery series that mixes music, village gossip, danger, and the supernatural without losing sight of character. Readers who click with Gordon tend to like her puzzle-minded plots, her dry humor, and the push and pull between practical Gethsemane and the opinionated ghost at her side.

Ghosts were always going to show up sooner or later.

Gordon has said she has loved ghost stories and horror since childhood, and she brings that interest to the page in a measured way. These are not gore-heavy books. The eeriness comes through old grudges, haunted houses, local legends, and the awkward fact that Gethsemane's gift for talking to the dead is useful even when she wishes it were not. Music matters too: Gordon took piano lessons for years, tried violin and saxophone, and writes about the classical world with enough detail to make it feel natural.

In recent years she has worked in Virginia in a civilian Army role focused on human survivability, while continuing to write crime fiction and stay active in the mystery community. She has also hosted The Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon, and her longtime interests still sound a lot like the ingredients of her fiction: art, music, whiskey, needlework, and ghost stories. Her career looks unusual on paper, but the thread running through it is simple enough. She likes puzzles, she likes stories, and she clearly does not mind a little hard work.