Bobbi Holmes Books in Order

Part memoir, part local history, and part community cookbook, this nonfiction book looks back on Havasu Palms through stories, recipes, and remembrance. It captures a place through the people who lived there.

This nonfiction book tells the story of a pioneering family and the fight over Havasu Palms. Holmes looks at the loss of their work with a personal, sharply felt sense of history.

A personal nonfiction turn away from ghosts and murder, this book focuses on family life and the experience of motherhood. It reads like a more intimate side of Holmes's writing.

Danielle Boatman inherits a seaside house in Oregon and plans to turn it into a bed and breakfast. Instead, she finds Walt Marlow, a resident ghost who wants her to solve the mystery of his death.

Danielle is preparing to open her bed and breakfast when her cousin Cheryl arrives claiming part of the inheritance. Then a valuable necklace disappears, Lily learns there is a ghost in the house, and trouble turns bloody.

Halloween is business as usual at a haunted bed and breakfast, until Danielle learns of another house in town with a spirit that appears only once a year. The haunting may be tied to everything that has followed her to Frederickport.

Christmas guests fill Marlow House when a stranded woman appears at the door asking for a room. Her sudden disappearance leaves Danielle wondering whether the holiday surprise is criminal, ghostly, or both.

With his dying breath, Stoddard Gusarov names Danielle as his killer. Clearing her name is hard enough, but his furious ghost is even more determined to see her pay.

A missing heiress and a guest who claims to hear Walt throw Marlow House into confusion. Danielle has to sort the real from the false before Lily ends up joining the dead.

Hillary's so-called muse is not what Danielle expected, and that should have been the first warning. He brings restless spirits and fresh murders with him, if Danielle is brave enough to dig deeper.

A murder under Frederickport Pier would be trouble enough on its own. It gets worse when Marlow House guest Hillary Hemingway starts writing about the crime with details only the killer should know.

A shipwreck washes up across from Marlow House and leaves Frederickport buzzing. Danielle soon learns it also brought a spirit whose story reaches back to Walt's own past.

A romantic Valentine's weekend at Marlow House turns deadly when Peter Morris is murdered. Danielle is distracted not by the victim's ghost, but by the return of her late husband Lucas.

Left at Marlow House with Sadie and Max, Walt expects Danielle and Lily home within days. When they do not return, he and six-year-old Evan MacDonald may be the only ones who can help.

When Marie lands in a nursing home with a broken hip, Adam wants to get her safely home. Other relatives have less kindly plans, and Danielle soon finds herself fighting for a friend.

Ian and Lily's wedding brings family and friends to Marlow House for a joyful weekend. Then an unexpected ghostly guest appears, and Danielle has to figure out why he came and who brought him.

Danielle's world gets even stranger when talk of leprechauns and old secrets reaches Marlow House. What sounds silly at first turns into a mystery that refuses to stay harmless.

Ian has lived across from Marlow House for more than a year without realizing Walt Marlow is his ghostly neighbor. Once the truth starts coming out, the fallout reaches far beyond one secret.

Walt's distant cousin Clint Marlow looks so much like him it is unsettling from the start. When Clint arrives with his fiancée and hidden motives, Marlow House is set up for trouble.

Christmas at Marlow House brings uninvited relatives eager for Chris Glandon's favor, and maybe his fortune. While Danielle works through the danger, Lily becomes fixated on what Danielle is hiding.

Clint Marlow's old partner turns up murdered in the basement, and the obvious suspect looks very much alive. With the FBI circling and Walt adjusting to a new reality, Marlow House becomes chaos again.

Brian Henderson cannot stop wondering what is wrong with Walt Marlow. Then Beverly's dead husband reaches Danielle through a dream hop, and the case takes a dangerous turn toward the living.

As Beach Drive waits for a new baby, a newcomer with plans for Marlow House changes everything. Hidden secrets and half-remembered clues put Walt and Danielle on edge.

Christmas brings the mediums of Beach Drive together in Frederickport for another holiday at Marlow House. Then a visit from the true spirit of the season gives the mystery a warmer, stranger turn.

Turning Marlow House into a haunted house for a fundraiser sounds like harmless fun. But when more spirits than expected show up on Halloween night, Danielle learns some legends are true enough.

A Valentine's Day wedding at Marlow House should be romantic, but secrets make it dangerous. As the celebration nears, pieces of Clint Marlow's past begin coming back to haunt Walt and Danielle.

Hollywood comes to Marlow House to prep a film based on Walt's novel, Moon Runners. The glamour fades quickly when murder strikes and the house fills up with even more restless spirits.

Rumors of a witches' coven sound easy to laugh off, until one of Beach Drive's own is threatened. At the same time, Brian Henderson is forced to face the truth about Marlow House.

A secret buried in the 1920s starts wreaking havoc on Marlow House. As past and present crash together, Walt must remember what he has forgotten before the damage grows worse.

Families gather in Frederickport to celebrate Connor's first birthday, but the party does not stay simple for long. Uninvited guests from the spirit world turn a happy visit into another ghostly tangle.

Now that Brian Henderson knows Beach Drive's secrets, life gets more complicated in a hurry. Worse, the group has brought home the spirit of a mountain man, and he has unfinished business of his own.

Autumn brings uneasy surprises to Frederickport, and the people of Beach Drive learn that some threats are worse than ghosts. Danielle and her circle are pulled into a new mystery as the season turns darker.

When Danielle's former mother-in-law arrives at Marlow House with a famous medium in tow, old tensions flare fast. Danielle sees a con man where others see a celebrity, and the visit opens the door to fresh trouble.

Beach Drive is already busy with wedding plans and another baby on the way when a new neighbor moves into Pearl's house. The arrival stirs up the whole neighborhood, and the uproar soon turns deadly.

As Beach Drive waits for the twins, a new police chief and Brian's returning ex-wife shake up Frederickport. Even Marie's ghost manages to make matters worse in a case that could land Heather in prison.

With two weddings on Beach Drive, Danielle hopes to close Marlow House for the celebrations. That plan falls apart when unwelcome guests start arriving, and not all of them are alive.

Danielle is used to sharing Marlow House with ghosts, but the strange activity in the nursery is new even for her. After the twins come home, something unseen begins targeting the house in a different way.

Two newborns, a toddler, and another baby on the way would be enough to keep anyone busy. Add an unwelcome ghost with a bad reputation, and the mediums of Beach Drive are soon racing to uncover the truth.

Frederickport is dressed for Christmas, and the twins and Emily Ann are about to celebrate their first one. The holiday brings a touch of wonder to Beach Drive, along with a mystery the town will not forget.

Life on Beach Drive finally seems calm as Lily and Ian settle in with the kids and Walt and Danielle adjust to parenthood. Then a mysterious woman and boy arrive looking for Chris Johnson, and the peace vanishes.

Hiring a new housekeeper for a famously haunted house would be hard enough on its own. But as Danielle and her friends soon learn, it is not just the Marlow family hiding secrets.