Hetta Coffey Mystery Books in Order

A globe-trotting engineer decides the answer to her stalled love life might be a yacht, despite knowing next to nothing about boats. Then a stalker and a dead body turn her fresh start into a sink-or-swim mystery.

When vacation plans collapse, Hetta takes a job in Baja and sets out on a thousand-mile cruise during hurricane season. A handsome captain, a risky project, and trouble at sea make this anything but a routine run south.

Hetta heads for the Sea of Cortez hoping for work and time with Jenks, but romance is not the only thing waiting in Mexico. A shady project, a kidnapping, and a cast of wild side characters turn the trip into full-blown mayhem.

With her boat stuck in dry dock, Hetta takes a mining job near the Arizona-Mexico border to pay the bills. Instead of quiet engineering work, she lands in the middle of cross-border tension, danger, and chaos.

A legitimate mining job in Baja ought to be a nice change for Hetta, but people and money keep disappearing. With Jan and a string of oddball locals around her, she digs into a mystery that is anything but straightforward.

Lonely at anchor in Puerto Escondido, Hetta says yes to a lavish resort party that sounds harmless enough. Before long, she and Jan are dodging intruders, bad decisions, and the kind of people who make murder feel tempting.

Rumors of giant Humboldt squid are enough to keep most cruisers tied to the dock, but not Hetta for long. A lucrative charter lures her and Jan into a strange voyage where the real danger may be human.

Short on cash in La Paz, Hetta accepts what looks like an easy courier job to France. Instead of a romantic reunion and smooth travel, she gets international chaos, shady cargo, and the usual trouble.

After months in France, Hetta is ready to head home until a mysterious, well-paid assignment sends her into fresh trouble. From the canals to the Mediterranean, the job turns personal fast.

While docked in La Paz, Hetta gets an unexpected visitor and soon finds herself chasing exotic bird smugglers. With Jan and Po Thang alongside her, a simple interruption spirals into another messy Baja adventure.

A tempting job pulls Hetta from Mexican waters back to Texas Hill Country, where her temporary home is an RV instead of a yacht. The change of scenery does not last long before family trouble and a nasty cross-border scheme catch up with her.

Hetta, her dog, and her talkative parrot are drawn into a high-stakes effort to save the nearly extinct vaquita in the Sea of Cortez. Taking on a cartel for one small porpoise turns her latest cruise into a race against time.

Living aboard her yacht in the Sea of Cortez, Hetta steps in to protect a small dog and stumbles into the brutal world of dogfighting. What starts as one act of decency turns into a dangerous fight against ruthless men on both sides of the border.

Forced off the water and stuck in Texas after crossing a cartel boss, Hetta is restless and angry. When a chance for revenge and a job near the Rio Grande appear together, she heads back into danger.

Hetta vows to stay out of trouble on her new yacht, but that promise does not last long. When children close to her are kidnapped in Mexico, she throws herself into the search with family and friends at her side.

Waiting out the Baja heat in California, Hetta, Jan, and Blue learn about the abuse of horses in Mexico and cannot let it go. Their attempt to help pulls them into another cross-border tangle of danger, rescue, and revenge.