Charlie Cooper Mystery Books in Order

Boston police secretary Charlie Cooper gets a chance to prove herself through an undercover assignment in her hometown. Returning to her eccentric family is only the beginning as a drug investigation brings threatening messages, damaged tires and an increasing number of bodies.

Charlie Cooper’s surveillance of a possibly unfaithful husband turns into a search for a missing man after a body appears. With her friends and business partners helping, she must untangle the case while family demands and romantic complications compete for attention.

A request to recover an escaped red panda gives Charlie Cooper’s new investigative venture an apparently simple first case. Finding a severed body part changes that expectation, drawing Charlie and her friends into a mystery closely watched by a local detective.

When Celeste’s nephew is suspected of attempted bank robbery, Charlie and her partners investigate his possible connection to a wider crime wave. Another murder raises the stakes, leaving Charlie to find the killer while managing increasingly chaotic personal distractions.

A birthday trip to Las Vegas places Charlie and her friends in possession of diamonds and near an unexpected corpse. Pursued by dangerous strangers, they must discover how to escape the trouble rather than enjoy the celebration they planned.

A difficult client gives Charlie Cooper a confusing set of clues, followed by a body in his backyard. Investigating alongside her friends brings professional friction with her detective boyfriend, while domestic upheaval adds to the pressure of finding the killer.

Marge’s promising online date ends in disaster and leaves Charlie’s investigative business with a murder case. Car dealerships, pubs and a growing suspect list complicate the search, while her detective boyfriend objects to her involvement in his work.

Charlie Cooper anticipates a comfortable Christmas Eve surrounded by family, friends and her mother’s cooking. A gunpoint confrontation and a series of ruined festivities turn the gathering into an unexpectedly dangerous holiday that no one is likely to forget.

Charlie and her partners are hired to recover an extraordinarily valuable white truffle stolen by people dressed as clowns. Discovering a body links the theft to a possible murder, adding a deadly deadline to the search for a rapidly spoiling prize.