Charlie Parker Mysteries Books in Order

Accountant and part time investigator Charlie Parker agrees to help an old friend recover a missing Rolex before the woman’s husband finds out. When the suspected thief is murdered, Charlie and her dog Rusty become the only ones determined to clear her friend’s name.

Exhausted by work, Charlie books a solo trip to Kauai and a scenic helicopter tour. After she and pilot Drake Langston spot a body on the cliffs and Drake’s boss is charged with the crime, Charlie must solve a murder while deciding what this new romance might mean.

When an old school friend’s restaurant partner dies in an apparent suicide, a key life insurance policy refuses to pay. Charlie’s investigation into the man’s finances exposes tax fraud, political ties, and a double life that makes his death look anything but straightforward.

A Fourth of July weekend trip to the tiny village of Valle Escondido should be a peaceful escape. Instead, Charlie uncovers spousal abuse, old prejudices, and a string of ugly secrets that show just how deadly a quiet small town can be.

After returning from a visit with Drake in Hawaii, Charlie learns her parents have died in a suspicious plane crash. Her questions trigger a rash of thefts and threats, and she discovers that to protect her future she has to face a dangerous chapter of her family’s past.

Charlie and Drake finally escape to a ski valley cabin for their honeymoon, but the trip derails when one of Drake’s employees is accused of murdering his priest brother. Following a trail of stolen religious art and family secrets, they find their own lives on the line.

Eighty something prospector Willie McBride vanishes just before a big family reunion, and his abrasive daughter begs Charlie to find him. The search leads to a near ghost town, rumors of buried gold, and a modern crime tangled with frontier era greed.

Charlie and Drake head to Scotland to help a friend fly workers to North Sea oil rigs, only to land in the middle of a fierce business rivalry. When a teenager from the castle family is kidnapped, Charlie must untangle family drama and industrial sabotage to save him.

Days before the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, record seeking pilot Rachael Fairfield receives frightening notes she blames on the felonious father she sent to prison. Hired to keep her safe, Charlie finds that behind the bright balloons and crowds, someone is determined to bring Rachael down.

Hoping for a quiet lakeside vacation, Charlie instead becomes fascinated by an unsolved mystery: a showplace mountain home that exploded, a dead young woman, and a vanished owner. As she questions wary locals, she uncovers secrets someone will do anything to keep buried.

In this holiday novella, Charlie is stringing lights and setting out luminarias when a neighbor turns up dead next door. Between family visits and Christmas traditions, she races to catch a killer before the season is ruined for everyone on her street.

A week at a plush Santa Fe spa sounds like just what Charlie needs, until she senses something rotten beneath the smoothies and massages. Surrounded by rumors, jealousies, and a missing guest, she has to separate idle talk from a very real threat.

A bungled bank robbery turns worse when the criminals mistake Charlie for a glamorous movie star and decide ransom money will fix everything. Trapped with a gang that has nothing to lose, she has only her wits until Drake and the authorities can find her.

An unexpected letter from the aunt she has never met lures Charlie to a medieval English town known for ghost tours. When creepy pranks against one of Aunt Louisa’s friends turn dangerous, Charlie must decide whether the threat is rooted in superstition or in very real malice.

Christmas in Albuquerque is disrupted when Charlie and Ron reopen a notorious case involving a mother once acquitted of killing her children. Hired by the grieving father, they sift through buried evidence and media fueled outrage to learn what really happened years ago.

Charlie and Drake head to Skagway, Alaska, flying tourists by helicopter to rustic cabins. When a guest discovers bones in an old mine and Charlie uncovers letters from a long gone prospector, she finds that gold rush legends and modern motives can be equally deadly.

Joyful wedding plans in Charlie’s circle take a sharp turn when suspicious accidents and simmering grudges threaten to ruin the celebrations. As tempers flare and one incident turns fatal, she and Rusty must uncover a killer hiding among the guests.

Spring in Albuquerque finds Charlie juggling a ridiculous cheating spouse surveillance job involving a star football player and her neighbor Elsa’s worries about troubled teen twins. When real danger surfaces behind the gossip, Charlie has to separate teenage mischief from something far darker.

While on a helicopter job in rural Maine, Charlie and Drake help an elderly man reach his son’s remote cabin, then realize they may have aided an escaped criminal. Digging into a ten year old case pulls Charlie into twisted family histories, political secrets, and a fresh murder.

A fortune cookie message sends Charlie to visit her Aunt Louisa in a quiet English town, just as a hidden skeleton is found behind a café wall. With old gossip, a cold case website, and family loyalties colliding, she must clear her aunt before the past strikes again.

When cash starts disappearing from a local charity thrift shop, Charlie goes undercover to protect her beloved surrogate grandma Elsa from suspicion. The straightforward theft case turns deadly after her top suspect dies, forcing Charlie to hunt both a thief and a killer.

Charlie accepts a simple assignment, driving a runaway teen back to her mother in Arizona and spending one night on the road. Bad weather, a seedy motel, a surly passenger, and a murder at their destination quickly turn the errand into a joint case with the Heist Ladies.

Thirteen years after his wife vanished during a fiery anniversary cruise, businessman Talbot Farber is sure he has just seen her alive in an airport. Charlie and Ron follow a trail of insurance files and old shipboard rumors to learn whether Jenna Farber drowned or chose to disappear.

At a helicopter industry gala, one of Drake’s old colleagues asks Charlie to track down a missing company van. What sounds like a routine job leads her to two frightened kids on the run, a dangerous payload, and a web of lies that someone is willing to kill to protect.