Carol J Perry Books in Order

A beachside summer brings big sand-castle dreams, friendship tension, and the first stirrings of romance. Perry turns a sunny coming-of-age setup into a breezy story about competition, change, and growing up.

Kat Bradshaw loves summer at her grandparents' house on a Maine lake, where life with her friends always feels perfect. But turning thirteen brings changes in friendship, family, and first crushes that make this season feel very different.

A first crush gets complicated in this middle-grade story about mixed signals, pretend feelings, and the awkward moment when acting grown-up starts to feel a little too real. It is a light, emotional look at young romance.

Set against a summer by the water, this middle-grade novel mixes competition, beach-town energy, and tangled feelings. As emotions rise and plans get more ambitious, staying balanced becomes harder than anyone expected.

Family life gets suddenly more complicated in this middle-grade story about jealousy, hurt feelings, and the uneasy work of learning what sisterhood really means. Perry keeps the focus on everyday emotions that feel big when you are growing up.

Back in Salem for a job interview, Lee Barrett expects to become a reporter and winds up playing a TV psychic instead. When her prop crystal ball starts showing real events after the previous host's murder, Lee has a killer to catch fast.

An antique bureau with secret compartments and a blackened mirror draws Lee Barrett into trouble almost at once. When the shop owner who sold it to her is murdered, Lee suspects the furniture's dark history is tied to the crime.

Teaching at an arts school in an old department store, Lee Barrett stumbles into murder when the handyman dies under bizarre circumstances. Family secrets, hidden tunnels, and unsettling visions turn Salem's past into a present threat.

After Halloween, Lee Barrett's students propose a Day of the Dead project that stirs up Salem's restless past. Graveyard visits, psychic visions, and an unsolved missing-person case push Lee toward answers someone clearly wants buried.

A storage auction leaves Lee Barrett with an antique carousel horse and a troubling psychic vision. When a man turns up dead outside a repair shop, Lee has to uncover the object's hidden past before she becomes part of it.

As a new field reporter at WICH-TV, Lee Barrett is covering Salem's holiday season when a popular walking-tour leader is found murdered. Snow, psychic flashes, and a second death make this Christmas case especially dangerous.

What should be simple wedding planning turns dark when deaths start rippling through Salem's Wiccan community. With her friend River fearing a curse, Lee Barrett follows eerie clues, a talking crow, and a growing sense that something human may be worse.

A vintage sports car dredged from the water brings human remains and an old cold case back into Salem's spotlight. Lee Barrett follows the story for WICH-TV, then realizes Aunt Ibby's emotional reaction may be the key to buried secrets.

While volunteering at the library, Lee Barrett finds a former ballplayer dead in the spooky upper stacks, surrounded by torn pages and scattered books. Psychic clues, old grudges, and Salem secrets turn a strange death into a full investigation.

When a Salem professor is murdered in a way that echoes an infamous old crime, Lee Barrett is drawn into a case steeped in local history. To clear the prime suspect, she has to dig into Salem's past before the killer strikes again.

After losing her job in Boston, Maureen Doherty inherits a Florida inn from a stranger and heads south for a fresh start. Instead she finds a dead body on the property, a house full of ghosts, and a mystery she cannot ignore.

Promoted at WICH-TV, Lee Barrett takes in an amnesiac woman she finds alone on Salem Common. When a body turns up in the harbor, Lee starts to wonder whether her vulnerable new guest is connected to something deadly.

Lee Barrett and Pete Mondello finally marry, but the honeymoon is anything but quiet. On a Maine island near the site of her parents' fatal crash, Lee finds herself pulled into crimes from both the past and the present.

Maureen Doherty is trying to make her haunted Florida inn's first Christmas a success when a holiday film festival turns deadly. With a fresh murder at the local theater, she has to protect her staff and guests while keeping her ghostly helpers out of sight.

Newly married and newly promoted, Lee Mondello is assigned to document Salem's new international museum. But when a truck driver delivering antiquities turns up dead and a ship model seems haunted, her latest project becomes a dangerous investigation.

A witchcraft-themed movie shooting in Salem should be great television for Lee Barrett, until its glamorous star turns up dead on set. Between Hollywood egos and Salem secrets, Lee has to sort out a very public murder.

Trying to boost business at Haven House, Maureen revives an old Florida fishing tournament and hopes for a quieter season. Instead she finds a murdered local fisherman on the beach and another mystery tied to town history.

Pregnant and newly free of her old visions, Lee Mondello profiles a Salem chocolate shop and finds the owner's estranged husband dead in the kitchen. As suspicion falls on the chocolatier, Lee's troubling psychic flashes come roaring back.

When a how-to writer is found dead in a local flower garden, a beloved bookseller insists her late husband's ghost led her there. Maureen Doherty has to sort illusion from truth before a killer hides behind the town's newest haunting.

This Salem spin-off puts Aunt Ibby at the center when a search of her tenant's apartment uncovers art stolen in a museum theft decades earlier. What starts as a family gathering quickly becomes a mystery with long shadows.