Diane Vallere Books in Order

Former fashion buyer Samantha Kidd finds her boss dead and quickly realizes the evidence points her way. To clear her name, she has to dig through rivalries, ambition, and sharp-edged secrets in the designer world.

A storm, a luggage mix-up, and three sharp amateur sleuths set this linked novella collection in motion. Each wrong suitcase opens the door to a different mystery, with the stories cleverly crossing paths along the way.

Madison Night's retro style makes her memorable, and suddenly that feels dangerous. When a killer targets women dressed like her, Madison has to solve the case before her signature look makes her the next victim.

A new job as a handbag buyer looks like Samantha Kidd's path back into fashion, until she learns the last buyer was killed. Another death at the store tells her this is no accident, and she may be next.

A mysterious five-thousand-dollar bill arrives in Madison Night's mail like a threat from the past. Her search for the sender leads to a dead body, a returning ex, and a trail of rare money and counterfeit trouble.

Samantha tries to stay out of trouble while helping with a vintage Hollywood costume exhibit, but a dead man changes that plan. When danger shifts toward her friend Eddie, solving the case becomes personal.

Polyester Monroe grew up in her family's textile shop until a fatal tragedy shut it down. Returning to that legacy means reopening old wounds, sorting through buried secrets, and facing a murder tied to the past.

As business finally starts to return, Poly Monroe hopes the reopened fabric shop will bring stability. Instead she gets pulled into another small-town mystery, where old secrets and fresh trouble are wrapped up in velvet.

Samantha agrees to help her ex-boyfriend's former girlfriend with a runway show and promptly gets attacked outside the venue. Then a suspicious fire destroys the collection, and she starts asking who is desperate enough to escalate.

Madison Night is juggling clients and a product endorsement when reports of missing women turn into murder. Evidence points at Tex Allen, and Madison must untangle a copycat scheme before someone she cares about is destroyed.

Former magician's assistant Margo Tamblyn returns to Proper City, Nevada to run her family's costume shop. Her first big order brings wealthy nuisance Blitz Manners into the picture, and before long homecoming turns murderous.

A magazine assignment on seventies fashion becomes personal when a valuable cache of vintage samples is stolen. As threats creep toward Samantha Kidd's friends and family, she has to protect them and unmask the thief.

Halloween should be Margo Tamblyn's busiest season, but a fight over redeveloping downtown turns ugly fast. When venture capitalist Paul Haverford is found dead at a spooky hotel party, Margo becomes the prime suspect.

When Samantha's friend Cat is abandoned late in pregnancy, Samantha steps in to help at her boutique just before Christmas. Then Cat's estranged husband is found strangled with pearls, and the holiday turns grim.

With the Miss Tangorli beauty pageant approaching, Poly Monroe expects plenty of fabric emergencies and town drama. What she gets is murder, forcing her to follow a trail of secrets through sequins, rivalry, and small-town tension.

Samantha Kidd finds a mafia princess dead in her fiancé Nick Taylor's shoe showroom, and silence quickly becomes its own warning. To protect both Nick and herself, she has to navigate mob ties, old promises, and murder.

At Proper City's Sagebrush Festival, costume shop owner Margo Tamblyn expects crowds, games, and small-town fun. Instead she runs into a deadly conspiracy and has to sort through suspects before the celebration turns disastrous.

Sylvia Stryker sneaks aboard a luxury space vessel to chase the career she wants, then finds a body almost as soon as the trip begins. If she cannot solve the murder, her dream job will end in a cell.

A Palm Springs decorating job should be a welcome escape for Madison Night. Instead she finds a body by the work site, old nightmares resurfacing, and a murder that hits far too close to the help she has been told to seek.

Sylvia Stryker heads for Venus hoping for a clean start, only to find a body and a scandal aboard her space cruise. Secret relationships, shaky alibis, and hidden threats make this case especially messy.

After a falling-out with a close friend, Madison Night throws herself into a design competition to steady her life. Then the friend is murdered, and a wave of anonymous hacking turns a personal feud into a much darker puzzle.

Heartbroken and looking for distance, Madison Night heads cross-country to escape a breakup. Instead she stumbles into danger, missing diamonds, and the hard truth that running away does not leave the past behind.

A Vegas trip to cover lingerie shows should be all sparkle and fun for Samantha Kidd. Then a model is found dead outside her hotel room, and the assignment turns into a high-stakes investigation.

Sylvia Stryker finally feels settled in the Moon Unit Corporation until a rescue mission to Saturn goes sideways. Between hijacking, danger, and the chaos of deep space, she has to think fast to survive.

An elderly friend leaves Madison Night a shuttered pajama factory, along with more questions than comfort. As she digs into an old death tied to the building, the factory's buried secrets start feeling very much alive.

This short essay collection gathers Diane Vallere's Weekly Diva pieces into quick, funny, thoughtful reads. It is less mystery than conversation, with observations on books, life, and the small things that stick with you.

Kyra spots a member of the security team tampering with the mermaids' treasure vault, but nobody takes her seriously. To prove she is right, she follows the trail into murder, corruption, and danger beyond Sirenia.

A temporary job as a social media influencer sounds silly until one of Samantha Kidd's colleagues vanishes. Following a trail of curated posts and staged perfection, she uncovers a darker truth hiding behind the holiday gloss.

Ava has always been expected to lead, but stepping into that role gets harder when old truths and fresh danger rise together. As threats to Sirenia close in, she has to protect her home and finally face the past.

Zoe, the middle mermaid sister of Sirenia, finds trouble near a sunken battleship when a human diver and a dead body appear at the edge of her world. Her curiosity leads her into danger, secrets, and a mystery bigger than she expected.

Samantha Kidd is caught between management and union workers when a British firm buys her retail employer. After a shooting injures the union leader and Detective Loncar, she digs into loyalties, rumors, and a case that hits close to home.

With her business tied up in court, Madison Night is desperate for a distraction, and finds one when she and Tex discover two bodies in a park. A volunteer project and a neighborhood florist soon pull her deeper into the cold case.

Neptune is behind bars for a crime he did not commit, and Sylvia Stryker refuses to leave him there. When another prisoner dies and Neptune is framed, she has to cut through corruption and enemies across the galaxy.

A secret society devoted to preserving famous fashion patterns sounds perfect for Samantha Kidd until its denim expert dies. Soon jean jackings, hidden grudges, and buried history turn her dream invitation into a dangerous case.

Trying to rebuild after losing her business, Madison Night heads back to school for an MBA. When a professor is murdered after a tense class, she has to study the people around her before the case turns deadly.

Samantha's new style-columnist job takes a strange turn when a convicted heiress asks for help from prison. New evidence suggests the woman may not have killed her media-mogul husband, and asking questions puts Samantha in real danger.

A newspaper obituary mix-up leaves Madison Night reading about her own supposed death. The mistake leads her to a forgotten jazz singer, an old unsolved murder, and secrets that may put Madison next in line.

Samantha Kidd wins a trunk from the estate of a sixties pop star and expects vintage treasures, not classified papers. When the trunk's new owner turns up dead, she is pulled into a mod-flavored mystery of collectors, secrets, and espionage.

Madison Night's business is finally taking off when a police publicity campaign puts her in front of the cameras. Then the original spokeswoman is murdered, and Madison learns that the spotlight can be a dangerous place to stand.

Nick Taylor's big awards banquet should be a celebration, but old tensions are already simmering at Samantha Kidd's table. When the toastmaster is stabbed and a storm traps everyone inside, she has only hours to find the killer.

When Madison Night meets Tex Allen's family, she expects awkward introductions, not a corpse in an arboretum. With Tex sidelined and tensions blooming everywhere, Madison has to dig through rivalries and grudges before they bury her too.

When a guest is found dead at a new wedding venue, Poly Monroe is pulled into a knot of secrets, jealousies, and finger-pointing. The groom is her ex, the bride is under suspicion, and nothing about the celebration stays simple.

A week at a dude ranch sounds like a welcome break for Samantha Kidd until the owner is found dead in the stable. With a business deal on the line and suspects all around, she has to solve the case in unfamiliar territory.

After an accident leaves Poly Monroe stuck in a wheelchair over Thanksgiving, she ends up watching the neighborhood from her window. A suspicious scene across the street soon turns her holiday into a Rear Window-style mystery.

Madison Night goes undercover on a cruise ship as a Doris Day impersonator, with Tex posing as her manager husband. Then the entertainment director is murdered, and Madison has to expose both a killer and a possible crime ring at sea.

Sylvia Stryker's latest case starts when Neptune disappears through a wormhole to meet a reclusive scientist. Faulty time experiments and a murder puzzle leave her chasing answers where even the timeline may be unreliable.

Poly barely knew the late theater benefactor whose will unexpectedly names her circle as heirs. When one of his lawyers is murdered right after the reading, she has to untangle grudges, secrets, and inheritance claims.

Samantha heads to Italy expecting a real vacation and gets pulled into a decades-old murder instead. A quiet cobbler may have been wrongly convicted, and reopening the case stirs up people who prefer the past buried.

A retro recording studio job turns tricky when Madison Night's client becomes tangled in a singer's murder. As suspects crowd the stage and Tex backs the wrong theory, Madison has to find the truth before loyalty ruins everything.

Dallas, 1961: newly widowed mathematician Kick Johnson takes a job at a NASA-funded research center and thinks her luck may be changing. Then an engineer is found dead, with unsettling ties to her own life.