Christine Zane Thomas Books in Order

Food blogger Allie Treadwell expects an entertaining murder-mystery dinner, but an actual killing interrupts the evening. Convinced an innocent man has been framed, she pursues a conspiracy while the real murderer moves to silence her.

A book-club visit from Kirby Jackson’s favorite mystery writer ends with a woman’s death. Discovering secrets about the victim, Kirby suspects something more than illness and teams with his dog to investigate another potentially murderous puzzle.

After his business partner and best friend is murdered, Kirby Jackson becomes the leading suspect. To clear his name, he must cooperate with the shop’s stubborn dachshund while uncovering a killer who may strike again.

A restaurant owner is murdered on the day Allie Treadwell’s harsh review appears, leaving the food blogger uneasy. When police arrest an old friend, she investigates to clear him and draws the killer’s attention herself.

A death at her grandmother’s retirement community makes Allie Treadwell suspect murder during Valentine’s celebrations. Investigating with Detective Javier complicates her existing relationship, while an elusive killer threatens to turn romantic worries into something far worse.

Hoping to leave amateur investigation behind, comic-shop owner Kirby Jackson is drawn into a teenager’s disappearance during a pirate festival. With his dachshund Gambit, he uncovers an old mystery that unsettles their small coastal community.

Kirby Jackson’s busy coffee-and-comics business leaves little time for rest or his complicated feelings about a detective. When they find a private investigator dead on an island beach, solving the case tests their developing bond.

A morning run brings Allie Treadwell and Detective Javier Portillo upon an apparent hit-and-run victim. As motives suggest murder, a killer targets Allie, and Javier’s efforts to protect her force them to confront their feelings.

Unemployed and struggling with rent, Tessa Randolph accepts a job at her mother’s insurance agency. She discovers that the business conceals her mother’s work as a grim reaper, drawing her into an unexpected career escorting souls to the afterlife.

Tessa’s boyfriend follows her on a grim-reaper assignment and becomes the prime suspect when the dead man’s spirit reveals foul play. Clearing his name forces her to balance a murder investigation, her secret career and increasingly complicated responsibilities.

Tessa Randolph attends a grim-reaper conference in Miami, only for a fellow traveler to die without anyone seeing his soul depart. As more reapers are killed, her investigation makes her a target and threatens her own place in the afterlife.

Haunted by visions of her own death, Willow Brown returns home after inheriting a house and cat. Her supposedly deceased psychic aunt inhabits the animal, while a murder investigation pulls Willow toward the future she fears.

Willow is trapped in a repeating day where the routines stay familiar but a different person is murdered each time. To escape, she must stop a killer whose psychic abilities may make her investigation part of the trap.