Claire Malloy Books in Order

Claire Malloy throws a bookstore party for a friend's steamy new novel and winds up with a corpse on her hands. The victim's romantic fiction may hide the clue to a very real killer.

Claire Malloy and her daughter head to a mock-murder weekend at a country inn, ready for harmless detective games. Then the fake victim turns up truly dead, and Claire has to solve a murder among amateur sleuths.

Claire Malloy goes undercover at Farberville High after a respected teacher is accused of embezzlement. Then the principal dies, the teacher disappears, and school gossip turns into a real murder case.

When her friend is sidelined, Claire Malloy gets stuck running a beauty pageant and talent contest. Someone is already trying to kill the reigning queen, and soon Claire is chasing a murderer through sequins and bad manners.

Claire Malloy tries to help unhappy heiress Maribeth Galleston get her life back on track through a fancy diet program. Then a fatal accident and a murder at a fitness club make it look like Maribeth may be the real target.

Claire Malloy agrees to pet-sit two pampered basset hounds, then promptly loses them to a dognapper. Her search leads to stolen animals, a dead black-market dealer, and a case that gets nastier the closer she gets.

Claire Malloy dreads a trip to her late husband's Louisiana relatives, and the bayou manor does nothing to calm her nerves. When the family matriarch dies, the reunion turns into a swampy, suspicious inheritance case.

Claire's daughter gets involved with a cosmetics company through a nearby sorority, and the makeover craze quickly turns ugly. After a deadly hit-and-run and more suspicious incidents, Claire starts probing the beauty business.

Claire Malloy agrees to look into her friend Luanne's unsettling new suitor, a dentist whose past wives died under dark clouds. The deeper Claire digs, the less certain she is about who the real danger is.

Part mystery story and part puzzle game, this oddball experiment invites readers to solve a suspicious death themselves. Read the clues, work the case, and use the jigsaw element to uncover the answer.

Avant-garde artist Zeno Gorgias scandalizes Farberville with a coffin-centered yard installation and a talent for provoking enemies. When a body turns up inside the coffin, Claire Malloy has to decide who hated performance art enough to kill over it.

Claire Malloy gets a shocking call from a cousin she believed died decades ago after a murder in Mexico. What starts as a blackmail case soon spirals into kidnappings, false identities, and bodies across state lines.

A winter solstice gathering among Farberville's neo-pagans sounds like an odd holiday distraction for Claire Malloy. Then a wealthy benefactor is shot, and her seasonal snooping turns into a Christmas murder investigation.

Farberville hosts a mystery convention, and Claire Malloy expects good business and literary chaos. Instead she gets a hospitalized organizer, a missing cat, vanished guests, and a death that proves the convention is all too real.

Claire Malloy juggles a tree-sitting protest, a baby left on her doorstep, and a tidal wave of gossip. When the baby's young mother is arrested for killing her own father, Claire starts digging for the real story.

Forced out of her apartment for repairs, Claire Malloy accepts a customer's offer to stay in a grand house. Then shady visitors arrive, the owner seems to be lying, and a dead body appears, disappears, and returns.

Farberville's Renaissance Fair sounds harmless until one of the volunteers dies in an arson fire. Claire Malloy digs into the fair's strange little power struggles and finds murder hiding beneath the pageantry.

Claire Malloy's honeymoon in Luxor is supposed to mean sightseeing and peace, not crime. But kidnappings, shadowy pursuers, and strange behavior in Egypt force her to investigate before the trip becomes far more dangerous.

Claire Malloy goes house hunting and finds the perfect property, complete with a missing real estate agent and a suspicious old death. When another body falls at her feet, getting her dream home starts to look murderous.

Newly married and briefly at loose ends, Claire Malloy volunteers as an ESL tutor and lands in a troubled nonprofit. When a difficult student is murdered, Claire is pulled into embezzlement, vandalism, and a very tangled case.

Humiliated during jury duty, Claire Malloy decides to get even by helping a woman accused of killing her husband. The case grows more complicated by the minute, and Claire's dreadful mother-in-law is on her way.