Ellen McKenzie Books in Order

Returning to Santa Louisa as a real estate agent, Ellen McKenzie discovers a contractor's body in a house she is showing. His controversial development plans and personal enemies make her new colleagues potential murder suspects.

Ellen McKenzie finds a groom murdered at the county fair with a pitchfork. Her daughter works at the victim's horse farm, giving Ellen urgent personal reasons to investigate its secretive staff and protect her family.

A volatile guest chef is found dead during a winery's important harvest dinner. With her niece among the suspects, Ellen McKenzie investigates feuds surrounding the event while her fiancé, the police chief, pursues the case.

Planning her wedding to police chief Dan Dunham, Ellen McKenzie also seeks new premises for a women's halfway house. A cemetery murder and a fire at the home connect her clients to a dangerous investigation.

Ellen McKenzie accompanies Aunt Mary to a Virginia plantation troubled by a supposedly colonial ghost. When the apparent ghost is found poisoned, their host becomes a suspect and the property's tangled history takes on new urgency.