JoAnna Carl Books in Order

Newlyweds Sam and Nicky Titus are pulled to Holton, Oklahoma, after Sam's father suffers a suspicious accident on the family ranch. Then Sam's brother vanishes, and the honeymoon gives way to murder, family tension, and small-town secrets.

While helping run a Halloween haunted house, Nicky Titus finds a corpse dressed as Dracula. She and Sam, now sheriff, have to cut through panic, rumors, and hidden local ties to catch the killer.

A bitter Oklahoma winter brings cattle thieves, three murders, and trouble all through Catlin County. Sam and Nicky Titus have to untangle the crimes before the danger closes in on their own lives.

A man inherits only a noisy macaw from his diamond-robber uncle and feels cheated. When the bird is stolen, he realizes Roger may be worth far more than he ever guessed.

Crime reporter Nell Matthews becomes a hostage during a standoff in Grantham, then learns the gunman's death may hide a much bigger conspiracy. Her search for the truth also puts strain on her growing bond with officer Mike Svenson.

A trail of press ink leads Nell Matthews to the dying body of a copy editor in the Gazette basement. The victim's last word points straight at Nell's vanished father and a past she thought was buried.

A fatal shooting at the Grantham Women's Shelter leaves officer Mike Svenson under suspicion and vulnerable to scandal. As Nell Matthews digs into the dead man's past, she finds a conspiracy and a killer who is not finished yet.

A burglary leaves antique chocolate molds missing and one of Lee's friends dead. When suspicion falls on Lee's troubled stepson, she starts digging and uncovers family secrets that are anything but sweet.

Lee McKinney leaves her Texas life behind to help at Aunt Nettie's chocolate shop in Warner Pier. When a hated lawyer dies after eating a poisoned cat-shaped chocolate, Lee must clear the business before it is ruined.

TenHuis Chocolade debuts chocolate frogs for the Fourth of July, and the first buyer is the town crank. After he vanishes following a fight with Joe, Lee has to prove her boyfriend is not being framed for murder.

A supposed Hollywood producer sweeps into Warner Pier with plans to film a local romance novel. Lee smells a fake, and when a body turns up, she knows the movie deal is hiding something dangerous.

Lee is tired of Julie Singletree's chirpy emails before Julie winds up dead. With everyone on the mailing list suddenly looking like a suspect or a target, Lee has to trap the killer before she is next.

As Lee plans her wedding, she learns an older family tragedy still shadows the big day. To understand why her own mother once fled Warner Pier, she has to reopen a long-buried death.

Lee is working on chocolate jewels when a real jewelry heist rattles Warner Pier and a body surfaces in the lake. The clues point in several directions, and she cannot shake the feeling that the crimes are linked.

As treasurer of Warner Pier's Winter Arts festival, Lee is already buried in chaos when the guest juror turns up dead. Since Lee and Joe were among the last seen near him, they have to clear themselves fast.

On Valentine's Day, Lee and Aunt Nettie are hiding a battered woman from Detective Derrick Valentine. When Valentine dies and Nettie becomes a suspect, Lee must protect their guest and find the real killer.

Warner Pier is gripped by pirate fever, and Lee's boat becomes the first target of prankish local buccaneers. The jokes end when a body washes ashore, pushing Lee to uncover who is behind the pirate act and why.

Lee discovers an old trophy tied to Aunt Nettie's singing group and a forty-five-year-old death at the Castle Ballroom. When someone is killed in the present, the cold case suddenly feels dangerous again.

Lee hires Sissy Smith, a free-spirited young woman still shadowed by suspicion over her husband's death. When the town's biggest gossip is murdered with Sissy nearby, Lee suspects someone is killing to keep an old secret hidden.

Lee is weighing a place on the tourism committee or the library board when a board member dies at Warner Pier's historic library. With rumors flying around the new director, everyone at the meeting looks suspicious.

Warner Pier's most hated clown is dead, but the wrong man may have taken the blame. When Lee finds the victim's widow unconscious next door to her shop, she starts to wonder if the real killer is still at work.

A film noir festival brings Bogart fever to Warner Pier and an unwelcome visit from Lee's former stepson Jeff. When Jeff disappears and a body falls at Lee's door, the old-movie theme turns into a real murder plot.

Easter rush means extra work and a new hire named Bunny Birdsong, whose messy personal life soon spills into the shop. After a family blowup ends with a body in the vacant store next door, Lee starts hunting the bad egg.

Lee gets roped into a house-flipping plan with Joe, Nettie, and Hogan, but a hidden gun in the basement changes everything. When a local developer turns up dead, the project becomes a tangle of secrets and suspicion.

A string of break-ins by thieves nicknamed the Cookie Monsters seems almost funny until Dolly's boyfriend is caught at the scene and a body is found. Lee has to untangle the mess before the sweet-toothed crooks strike again.