Emma Berry, Murray River Books in Order

Widow Emma Berry discovers that an emerald necklace entrusted to her late husband has vanished after his riverboat sank. Threatened with financial ruin, she searches river towns for answers while family secrets and suspected smuggling complicate the investigation.

In 1873, Emma Haythorne promises a dying friend to investigate a murder at a sheep station. With police far away and the family blaming horse thieves, she must navigate concealed motives and obligations that threaten her own future.

While visiting friends along the Darling River, Emma Berry becomes involved in an investigation after a flour mill explosion kills two people. A friend's husband falls under suspicion, drawing Emma into conflicting family interests and an uncertain official account.

Finding Hilda Zeller dead in a woodpile, Emma Berry takes her abandoned children aboard a riverboat to find them a home. Their hidden knowledge of the murder complicates the journey as sabotage and disagreements with Daniel increase the danger.

Settled ashore for her son's education, Emma Berry investigates the death of a friend's elderly father-in-law. Boardinghouse tensions, a disputed will, and business interests cloud the case, while dismissive authorities arrest someone Emma believes is innocent.