Claire Watkins Mystery Books in Order

Widowed former Minneapolis cop Claire Watkins moves with her daughter Meg to rural Wisconsin for a fresh start. Then an elderly neighbor is found dead, and the past turns deadly when Meg may hold the key to her father's unsolved murder.

A farmer is stabbed to death at a harvest dance, leaving three teenagers who seem more relieved than grief-stricken. Claire Watkins uncovers old abuse, buried secrets, and a second death that may not have been accidental.

When Buck Owens is found in a car beneath the ice, tied to the driver's seat, Claire Watkins suspects more than a drunken accident. A battered woman, a brutal winter storm, and a frightened town push the case toward real danger.

Stolen pesticides and a child's finger bone pull Claire Watkins into the shadow of an unsolved farmhouse massacre. Each new attack feels like part of a message, and she has to read the past before more people die.

Claire Watkins sees danger building when a restless land buyer and a calculating new wife circle an old farmer's property. What looks like local gossip hardens into a deadly mix of greed, lies, poison, and arson.

When a missing teenage girl seems to have gone over Maiden Rock after using meth, Claire Watkins refuses the easy answer. The case leads into fear, secrets, and the damage drugs leave behind in a small town.

A naked body floating in Lake Pepin and an apparent suicide pull Claire Watkins into a case where two deaths may be linked. The investigation cuts close to people she knows, which raises the stakes fast.

On New Year's Eve, Daniel Walker steps out of his sauna for a quick roll in the snow and is left to freeze outside his locked cabin. Claire Watkins must untangle a tangle of family grudges, money, and failed love to find who wanted him dead.

Acting sheriff Claire Watkins takes on a death that ripples through Fort St. Antoine and unsettles the calm of a Wisconsin summer. As she digs deeper, old hurts and local loyalties make the case harder than it first appears.