Harrington Harbor Mysteries Books in Order

A spiritualist collapses during Tessa Langley’s literary festival, leaving poetic clues hidden in candles. With Marlow’s help, Tessa investigates whether the séance concealed a planned killing as stolen manuscripts and carefully managed reputations obscure the truth.

Curating a literary exhibit brings Tessa Langley a forged Hemingway diary and a body in a bait tank. With her spaniel and an enigmatic editor, she investigates stolen identities and rewritten histories that someone still wants concealed.

A carriage-house fire follows a disputed inheritance and an heir’s death in Harrington Harbor. Tessa Langley and Marlow trace a hidden ledger, forged documents, and erased records through the town’s archives, confronting people determined to control its history.

A rare-book collector dies beneath a prop during a Brontë-themed escape room at Tessa Langley’s festival. A questionable letter and competing literary ambitions lead Tessa and Marlow into a murder shaped by forgery, performance, and carefully concealed motives.

While cataloging an estate before an inheritance hearing, Tessa Langley finds an unfinished memoir in an antique typewriter. A body appears the next morning, and scattered manuscript pages send Tessa and Marlow after secrets dangerous enough to inspire murder.

A rare-book appraiser dies in Tessa Langley’s bookshop during a literary festival. A signed edition raises suspicions of forgery and blackmail, sending Tessa and her spaniel Marlow after its provenance before the killer can silence another inconvenient witness.

Former ghostwriter Tessa Langley inherits a Maine bookshop and discovers a lost literary fragment in the town’s lighthouse. A body at the stairs draws her and her spaniel into suspicious inheritances, concealed histories, and an appraiser’s troubling secrets.

A collection of Dumas first editions resurfaces at a local inn, followed by an heir’s death beneath a book press. Tessa Langley and Marlow investigate missing pages, coded notes, and disputed legacies as powerful families resist scrutiny.