Herringford and Watts Mysteries Books in Order

At Christmas in 1910 Toronto, detectives Merinda Herringford and Jem Watts follow a missing-cat case into the disappearance of young women from a reformatory. Their investigation leads through suffrage politics and the city's shipping industry as a routine inquiry becomes dangerous.

Political unrest in 1912 Toronto intersects with Merinda and Jem's search for a Mountie's runaway cousin. Following the case to Chicago exposes a plot against Theodore Roosevelt, while attraction, marriage, and independence complicate the detectives' efforts to prevent an assassination.

A quiet spell in their detective business ends when Merinda and Jem receive a suffragette friend's request to investigate a disappearance in Massachusetts. Their inquiries lead through stolen letters and unusual affairs toward Orchard House, the former home of Louisa May Alcott.

In 1910 Toronto, friends Merinda and Jem establish a detective agency inspired by Sherlock Holmes. Investigating the deaths of young Irish women draws them into immigrant hardship, prejudice, and corruption, with a police constable and a reporter providing complicated assistance.

An actor dies during a Toronto vaudeville performance witnessed by a constable and a reporter. Detectives Jem and Merinda join the backstage investigation, confronting a troupe full of motives and trying to prevent another death before the theatrical mystery is resolved.

As Toronto prepares for war in 1914, detectives Merinda and Jem confront political hostility and police corruption. A murder involving a civic club and a slanderous white feather threatens their friends, forcing them to investigate before more members are targeted.