Jennifer S. Alderson Books in Order

Zelda travels to Kathmandu to teach English and find direction, but her path crosses a backpacker and a diamond smuggler. Their encounter sends her through Nepal and Thailand trying to escape a dangerous criminal operation.

At an Amsterdam museum, intern Zelda investigates rival claims to a portrait stolen during the Nazi era. Her discoveries point to a hidden art collection and draw the attention of someone prepared to kill for it.

Leaving a comfortable life in search of experience, Alderson backpacks through Nepal and Thailand. Her account combines cultural encounters and outdoor adventures with volunteering in a Nepali school, living with a Brahmin family, and discovering unfamiliar ways of life.

While researching Asmat artifacts, Zelda finds the journal of an anthropologist who vanished in New Guinea decades earlier. A murder in her own home suggests his discoveries remain dangerous, forcing her to unravel the old disappearance.

Desperate for work, Lana accepts a last-minute job guiding tourists through Budapest over New Year. When her colleague is found dead in the Danube, she must keep the trip running while investigating a group full of suspects.

Museum researcher Zelda is caught between art thieves, forgers, and a Croatian gangster who believes she knows where stolen paintings are hidden. She joins an art detective on a European pursuit to protect the people she loves.

An Edinburgh tour turns awkward when Lana encounters her ex-husband, then dangerous when a magician he threatened dies. With family grievances adding suspects and another guest murdered, she must decide how far to go to clear her former partner.

Lana leads a Valentine's tour of Paris, only to discover her new boyfriend arriving with his wife. After he dies during a picnic, police suspect poisoning, leaving Lana to clear herself while guiding a group with competing grievances.

Leading a Christmas tour in Rome, Lana looks forward to her colleague Randy's wedding until his former girlfriend is found dead in the Trevi Fountain. With Randy arrested, Lana searches for another explanation before his future collapses.

A Mother's Day tour brings Lana together with her estranged mother and the woman who ruined her journalism career. When that guest falls from a Dutch windmill, Lana must investigate before suspicion sends her mother to prison.

Vacationing in Panama and Costa Rica, programmer Zelda Richardson hopes for adventure without danger. A farmer’s discovery of ancient stone spheres draws her to his property, where curiosity turns her holiday into a struggle to stay alive.

Zelda locates a missing Vermeer portrait in Munich, but returns to find its keeper dead and paintings burning. Suspecting an active looting network, she pursues the vanished artwork despite doubts from police and her own allies.

Lana brings travel writers to Seville for an Easter tour and industry conference. When an influential writer humiliates several attendees and is subsequently murdered, she must investigate her own group while trying to escape the police's suspicions.

During a Dublin tour, Lana's old friend Jeremy quarrels with a reporter he exposed as dishonest. The reporter's murder makes Jeremy the leading suspect, but other travelers' grudges give Lana reasons to keep investigating while the trip continues.

Tour guide Lana’s Venetian masquerade ends in murder when a cruise executive is killed. Her boyfriend’s unexpected arrival and arrest make the case personal, forcing her to examine motives among protesters, business rivals, and fellow guests.

Seeking respite from relationship troubles, Lana travels to Iceland and stays near a boisterous wedding party. When one celebrant dies under suspicious circumstances, her quiet retreat becomes a search for a killer among the guests.

Art sleuth Carmen brings her unwitting friend Rhonda into a dangerous assignment after her partner is injured. A party aboard a pirate ship becomes a murder investigation when a Hollywood director is killed with a valuable movie prop.

Carmen De Luca leaves retirement to help her former partner recover a rare medieval prayer book in France. When the collector dies and the book vanishes, Carmen must evade police suspicion while identifying the murderer behind the failed assignment.

An antiques television shoot in the Netherlands unexpectedly uncovers a treasure lost during World War II. Carmen De Luca and her friends face a killer determined to reclaim it, turning a public discovery into a dangerous investigation.

Lana heads to Costa Rica to help her boyfriend manage a disastrous tour. When a guest is killed by an oxcart during Independence Day celebrations, she must identify which traveler turned their quarrels into murder.

Following an art-recovery lead in Luxembourg, Carmen discovers a scheme moving stolen masterpieces through European free ports. Her investigation continues into Italy, where smuggling conceals deeper crimes and someone is willing to kill to protect the operation.

Travel writer Evelyn Cartwright boards the Olympic expecting a glamorous voyage with her film-star friend Grace. When a reporter is stabbed with Grace's knitting needle, Evelyn investigates the passengers' secrets before the captain condemns the wrong woman.

Exploring London in 1925, Evelyn Cartwright becomes involved when a British Museum curator is killed with an Egyptian statue. Convinced the arrested elderly suspect is innocent, she follows museum rivalries and buried secrets toward the real murderer.

In 1925 Paris, Evelyn Cartwright's exploration of art and café life is interrupted by a writer's death after an accusation of plagiarism. Investigating ambition and betrayal, she encounters someone determined to keep the truth out of print.

At Sicily's Targa Florio motor race, Evelyn Cartwright witnesses a fatal crash that investigators discover was deliberate. When suspicion falls close to home, she follows rivalries and guarded secrets across the island to expose the killer.