Jane Jeffry Books in Order

Widowed mother of three Jane Jeffry already has enough to handle without neighborhood drama. When the shared cleaning lady is strangled with a vacuum cord, Jane starts digging through suburban secrets next door.

Christmas is already hectic, with church bazaar politics and an endless afghan to finish. Then unwanted visitors arrive, two linked murders follow, and Jane finds that sleuthing is easier than knitting.

With her kids away for the summer, Jane takes a writing course and starts enjoying a little time for herself. That ends when a classmate dies after a potluck dinner, and Jane's quiche becomes part of the evidence.

Hollywood invades Jane's suburb when a film crew wants to use her backyard as a location. Then the set manager is stabbed, and Jane has to sort out movie-business rivalries before the killer strikes again.

Jane helps out at a reunion for Shelley's old high school girls' club and gets an earful of long-buried gossip. When one alumna winds up dead, the past starts looking very dangerous.

Jane, Mel, and Shelley head to a Colorado ski resort hoping for a break. Instead Jane finds a body in the snow, and a strange mix of genealogists, investors, and skiers turns the getaway into a murder case.

When a pompous attorney dies in a bizarre accident, most people seem quietly relieved. Jane soon suspects there is more going on, especially after another nasty death pulls her into the case.

At a pea festival and Civil War reenactment, one body does not get up after the show. Jane starts digging into museum politics, old money, and local grudges before the killer can add another victim.

A weekend trip to inspect a summer camp seems like a harmless civic chore for Jane and Shelley. Then they find what looks like a dead neighbor by the campfire, and the mystery only deepens when the body disappears.

Jane's annual Christmas caroling party gets stranger when Santa turns out to be an aggressive TV reporter. Before long the holiday season is full of ugly secrets, sharp grudges, and a murder Jane cannot ignore.

Jane and Shelley take on a lavish wedding at a crumbling old monastery turned hunt club. When a storm knocks out the power and a guest dies, the celebration turns into a locked-in murder puzzle.

Jane and Shelley sign up for a gardening class and expect dirt, advice, and a little neighborhood competition. What they get is an injured instructor, a pompous replacement, and murder buried under the compost.

Jane agrees to help restore a crumbling old mansion with an almost all-female work crew. Pranks, sabotage, and a deadly fall soon convince her that someone on the project is building toward murder.

Jane and Shelley head to a mystery writers' convention hoping for fun and maybe a little inspiration. Instead they get poison, egos, gossip, and a very real killer moving through a room full of crime experts.

Shelley ropes Jane into sampling caterers for a local theater, which sounds harmless enough. Then rehearsals start producing more tension than applause, and Jane finds herself sorting out murder behind the scenes.

Jane Jeffry is finally planning her wedding to Detective Mel VanDyne, but peace does not last. A self-defense class turns deadly, and Jane has to juggle in-laws, invitations, and murder before she can make it to the altar.