Jana DeLeon Books in Order

Campus tattletale Mimi Clark makes enemies by reporting every infraction to the dean, and when she is murdered, there is no shortage of suspects. With Detective Casey’s daughter Audrey under suspicion, Swamp Team 3 must untangle college politics and petty vendettas to keep an innocent student out of prison.

Carter goes from consulting to missing in action when he leaves the command center for a field mission in the Middle East. While Fortune quietly works her contacts to mount a rescue, Sinful reels from the sudden death of prankster Gage Babin, and she suspects his “accident” was murder.

Ahead of their ten year reunion, a group of former classmates gathers at a bayou bed and breakfast, and one dies from a severe allergic reaction. The kindly owners are blamed, so Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie head to Voodoo Island to navigate locked rooms, old grudges and a possible curse.

Ten years after Ryan Comeaux is convicted of killing his girlfriend, a new witness insists he is innocent and hires Swamp Team 3 to prove it. With scant evidence and plenty of suspects, Fortune must crack a cold case before the real killer strikes again.

Bestselling novelist Jill Morgan writes under a pseudonym, but when her identity leaks and a stalker surfaces, she retreats to Tempest Island, the only place that ever felt like home. Surrounded by old memories and new friendships, she has to face both her carefully built life and a threat that refuses to let her go.

With Carter away on a military mission, a temporary sheriff insists Fortune stay out of trouble. Then an unidentified girl is pulled from the swamp with no memory, and rumors point to a secretive group called the Brethren. Swamp Team 3 races to find the girl’s origins before her enemies do.

An interactive mystery event comes to Sinful, complete with costumed guests and staged clues. When a real body appears among the props, Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie must figure out which player turned the game into murder before everyone walks away.

Fortune is thrilled when her former CIA partner Ben and his fiancée Cassidy move to the bayou, until their new house turns out to be haunted. As Cassidy sees a woman in white no one can trace, Swamp Team 3 unearths a decades old disappearance tied to love, money and voodoo.

A series of suspicious fires around Sinful has everyone on edge, and one blaze hits far too close to Fortune’s borrowed home. Tracking an arsonist forces Swamp Team 3 to look at insurance scams, revenge and secrets someone is willing to burn the town down to protect.

Emma Turner has spent eight years running and hiding, never staying in one place long. Tempest Island feels different, tempting her to take a job at the surf shop owned by widower Mark Phillips. As romance blooms, the secrets chasing Emma threaten to shatter the fragile safety she has found.

Bodyguard Tyler Duhan never believed the gossip about the cursed LeBeau mansion, but protecting headstrong Joelle LeBeau is another matter. As she reunites with her estranged sisters to settle their mother’s estate, someone stalks the property, and Tyler must keep Joelle alive long enough to uncover the truth.

A dessert competition should be harmless, but a rival baker’s collapse points to sabotage instead of sugar. With reputations and livelihoods on the line, Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie dig into recipes, resentments and a very personal motive for murder.

A Halloween attraction and ghost tour promise easy thrills for Sinful’s visitors, but when a staged scare leaves a real corpse behind, Fortune has to separate special effects from genuine danger before the town’s spooky reputation turns deadly for good.

A traveling carnival sets up just outside Sinful, complete with a creaky funhouse and a fortune teller who seems to know too much. When a worker turns up dead, Fortune and Swamp Team 3 follow the trail through rigged games, old grudges and carnival secrets.

After her career and relationship implode, chef Alayna Scott retreats to Tempest Island and her Aunt Bea, hoping the sea will help her reset. Injured Navy SEAL Luke Ryan, her new neighbor, recognizes a fellow soul at a crossroads as danger from Alayna’s past rises with the tide.

Marina Trahan thought midlife would mean hot flashes and elastic waistbands, not catching her husband cheating and being told she is descended from a goddess. Given one week to locate a powerful artifact and avert disaster, she has to reinvent her life while possibly saving the world.

A new entertainment venture brings sequins, drag shows and controversy to Sinful, quickly followed by murder. Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie must navigate unfamiliar nightlife, offended locals and a swamp full of gators to uncover who wanted the victim permanently off stage.

Mardi Gras in Sinful means parades, beads and barely controlled chaos. When a reveler dies in the middle of the celebration, Fortune and her partners have to sift through costumes, alibis and a storm of confetti to find a killer hiding in plain sight.

A string of Christmas thefts has Sinful on edge, especially when witnesses swear they saw Santa at the scene. Fortune and Swamp Team 3 follow the trail through charity drives, fake beards and holiday chaos to unmask a thief who is anything but jolly.

A beach vacation is supposed to give Fortune and her friends a break from Sinful, but a dead body on the sand ruins that plan. With local law enforcement focused on the wrong suspect, Swamp Team 3 goes undercover in a resort town to catch a killer far from home.

A confessed serial killer claims more victims than the police can confirm, and the only person he will talk to is Shaye Archer. As she digs into the truth behind his stories, Shaye edges closer to the people who destroyed her childhood and to a reckoning she cannot avoid.

Sinful’s big food festival turns deadly when a controversial judge collapses after a tasting. Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie dig into rival chefs, sabotaged recipes and simmering resentments to find out who turned good Southern cooking into a weapon.

Sinful’s Halloween celebration centers on a supposedly haunted house, but when strange accidents escalate and someone ends up dead, Fortune has to decide whether she is chasing a killer, a con or something more supernatural than she wants to admit.

A high profile fishing rodeo should bring easy tourism money to Sinful, but a body on the docks turns celebration into suspicion. Fortune and Swamp Team 3 work behind the scenes to net a murderer while the town tries to pretend everything is business as usual.

Six years ago, Jenny Taylor’s twin sister disappeared during a Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans. Now Jenny dreams of Caitlyn begging for help and hears her voice in waking moments. Shaye Archer takes the case, following a trail through parades, masks and very real monsters.

Sinful’s future is on the line when a development deal divides the town and a key player turns up dead. Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie must cut through political spin, land grabs and long simmering grudges to find a killer before the wrong person pays the price.

A new client draws Shaye Archer into the world of online harassment and carefully crafted personas. What starts as a case of anonymous threats escalates into physical danger, forcing Shaye to confront just how far an obsessed stranger will go to control someone else’s life.

Madison Avery is sure she witnessed a brutal murder, but a rare neurological condition means she cannot recognize faces, even her own. Shaye Archer has to track a killer when her only eyewitness literally cannot identify who she saw at the crime scene.

A big fishing tournament brings money, outsiders and plenty of grudges to Sinful’s waters. When a competitor turns up dead, Fortune and Swamp Team 3 must untangle rivalries, shady sponsorships and a few creative fishing techniques before the killer slips away with the prize.

Meteorologist Zoe Parker returns to Everlasting, Maine when her aunt Sapphire falls down the stairs of her lighthouse home. Strange weather, old legends and a suspicious “accident” force Zoe and her old flame Dane to investigate who is targeting the lighthouse and why.

Street kids are vanishing from New Orleans, and Shaye Archer’s friend Jinx wakes in a cage with no memory of how she got there. As Shaye and detective Jackson Lamonte investigate, they uncover a chilling predator who counts on his victims being invisible to the rest of the world.

A suspicious death in the swamp sparks rumors of killer gators, poachers and insurance fraud. Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie wade into muddy motives and family feuds, determined to catch a human killer hiding behind the local wildlife and their own tall tales.

Whispers of hidden treasure bring a wave of strangers to Sinful, and trouble follows close behind. When greed turns deadly, Fortune and Swamp Team 3 dig through old legends and new lies to expose who is willing to kill for a payout and keep Fortune’s past out of sight.

Shaye Archer’s latest case rips open her own past when new evidence suggests a link between her client’s tormentor and the people who once held Shaye captive. Digging for the truth puts her directly in the sights of a ruthless enemy who prefers his victims helpless and silent.

Celia Arceneaux’s election as mayor brings trouble to Sinful, and a Fourth of July explosion raises the stakes. Evidence of a hidden meth lab in the bayou pushes Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie into a dangerous investigation with no one at the sheriff’s office left to handle it.

Nine years after waking with no memory of her life before age fifteen, PI Shaye Archer takes on Emma Frederick’s terrifying case. Emma swears the man who tormented her is back, even though she believes she killed him, and Shaye must separate nightmare from reality before anyone else dies.

A hurricane slams into Sinful, and afterward counterfeit money literally rains from the sky. The bills are tied to Ahmad, the arms dealer who wants Fortune dead, and when his men arrive in town she must protect her friends, face her nemesis and survive Carter learning who she really is.

Written for the Lizzy Gardner Files universe, this short thriller lets Jana DeLeon play in another author’s world. A compact, fast paced case blends her dark humor with a tense investigation that pushes the heroine dangerously close to a deadly foe.

Fortune’s hopes for a quiet spell vanish when someone burns down her friend Ally’s house. Ordered to stay out of the investigation, she instead joins Ida Belle and Gertie to hunt an arsonist, risking both her cover and her fragile relationship with Deputy Carter LeBlanc.

In this crossover with the Rose Gardner series, Rose and Neely Kate head to New Orleans for a holiday getaway and land in the middle of a psychic’s murder. Teaming up with Taylor Beaumont and ghostly troublemaker Helena Henry, they must clear their names before Christmas is ruined.

When a local man tied to Sinful’s tourist trade turns up dead in the bayou, rumors blame both gators and bad luck. Fortune and Swamp Team 3 follow a trail of grudges, money and murky alibis to uncover who is really using the swamp as a dumping ground.

When a fisherman discovers a sunken shrimp boat and a missing captain, Jadyn St. James is not convinced a storm is to blame. As she and Colt investigate sabotaged boats and a stalker fixated on Jadyn, Helena Henry adds her own combustible brand of chaos.

This companion novella to Trouble in Mudbug collects Helena Henry’s private “diary” of events. Readers see the first Ghost In Law mystery through Helena’s sharp eyes as she schemes, meddles and comments on Mudbug’s chaos from the afterlife.

Contractor Zach Sargent thinks the eerie LeBeau mansion might actually be haunted. Youngest sister Danae LeBeau returns to the house to claim her share of the estate, only to face unexplained threats. As they dig into the family’s past, the line between human malice and old curses blurs.

Carter Trahan’s new assignment sounds simple, keep defense attorney Alaina LeBeau in her childhood home long enough to meet the terms of her mother’s will. But the crumbling mansion hides dangerous secrets, and someone seems determined that Alaina will not live to claim her inheritance.

A mayoral candidate is gunned down at Sinful’s festival, and Ida Belle quickly lands at the top of the suspect list. Fortune and Gertie race to find the real sniper, juggling small town gossip, political grudges and Fortune’s precarious undercover identity.

New game warden Jadyn St. James hopes Mudbug will be a fresh start, until her life is threatened within days of arriving. When Helena Henry returns from heaven and big time crime hits the bayou, Jadyn and Sheriff Colt Bertrand must work together to stay alive.

After a peaceful spell in Mudbug, game warden Jadyn St. James is shaken when FBI agent Raissa Bordeaux is kidnapped. With the clock ticking and the feds sidelining local law, Jadyn and Colt defy orders and plunge into the swamp to bring Raissa home.

No one in Sinful ever liked Pansy Arceneaux, but when the actress returns to run the town’s beauty pageant and ends up dead, Fortune becomes the prime suspect. To clear her name, she and Swamp Team 3 must untangle secrets behind Pansy’s long list of enemies.

Private investigator Max Duhon agrees to help Colette Guidry search for her missing cousin in the swamp, even though the trail points toward Cache, a fabled town said to disappear when threatened. As they close in on the truth, superstition, violence and forbidden attraction collide.

When a six year old girl vanishes from a small bayou town, Sheriff Holt Chamberlain will do anything to bring her home. Teaming up with his former love Alexandria Bastin, he must confront voodoo legends, a haunted island and his own past mistakes to find the child.

At six years old, Ginny walked out of the swamp after the LeBlanc School for Girls burned, with no memory of her past. Sixteen years later, a child’s scream lures her back to Johnson’s Bayou, where she meets P.I. Paul Stanton and uncovers deadly secrets both of them share.

Detective Tanner LeDoux’s first big case involves a series of terrifying attacks on a lakeside hotel near Honey Island Swamp. Hotel owner Josie Bettencourt, his long ago crush, needs protection, and Tanner must decide whether the culprit is a human saboteur, a mythical creature or both.

CIA assassin Fortune Redding hides in Sinful, Louisiana, posing as a beauty queen turned librarian. Her cover is blown the moment her dog digs up a human bone, and with Ida Belle and Gertie at her side she has to solve a murder without revealing who she really is.

Gothic novelist Olivia Markham rents laMalediction, a decaying mansion deep in the bayou, to finish her next book. Unearthly noises, hidden passages and threatening incidents suggest someone wants her gone, forcing her to trust the guarded caretaker, John Landry, as danger closes in.

Bodyguard Brian Marcentel is hired to protect researcher Justine Chatry while she catalogues a long neglected bayou mansion. As shadowy figures move through the swamp and secrets seep from the walls, attraction flares and Brian realizes the biggest threat may come from inside the house.

Psychic Raissa Bordeaux once worked for the FBI, but a string of child abductions in Louisiana drags her back into danger. Hiding in Mudbug, she teams up with Sheriff Holt and the meddling ghost Helena to stop a predator and finally learn who murdered Helena years ago.

Scientist Maryse Robicheaux thinks life will improve once her overbearing mother in law dies, but Helena Henry comes back as a ghost only Maryse can see. With DEA agent Luc LeJeune investigating her and someone trying to kill her, Maryse must solve a murder she never saw coming.

Orphaned Sabine LeVeche urgently needs to find a blood relative, and a cancer diagnosis makes the search critical. With a hunky PI, a psychic and the irrepressible ghost Helena Henry at her side, she uncovers a reclusive family and a killer who wants her gone for good.

Mallory Devereaux is famous in Royal Flush, Louisiana for bringing bad luck wherever she goes. To save her adopted father’s business from the IRS, she agrees to “cool” cards at her uncle’s casino tournament, only to discover the players are dangerous criminals.

Deputy Dorie Berenger’s day goes sideways when she finds a drugged alligator in the town drunk’s swimming pool and a sharp tongued DEA agent on her doorstep. Teaming up to track a smuggler, they uncover decades of secrets hiding in Gator Bait, Louisiana.