Joanne Dobson Books in Order

Professor Karen Pelletier discovers a colleague strangled shortly after he makes a potentially important discovery about Emily Dickinson. Having been the last person to see him alive, she must unravel the literary mystery before suspicion settles on her.

An old photograph draws English professor Karen Pelletier toward the work of a neglected nineteenth-century novelist. A valuable bequest, missing writings, and a suspicious death turn her research into a murder investigation complicated by bitter campus rivalries.

A bequest of a nineteenth-century poet’s manuscripts intensifies rivalries at Enfield College, where a Poe scholar is subsequently murdered. Professor Karen Pelletier helps investigate when her own office is ransacked, linking academic ambition, stolen papers, and a disputed literary history.

Karen Pelletier’s provocative praise revives interest in a long-forgotten bestseller and its reclusive author. When a reporter tracking down the novelist is murdered, Karen investigates the consequences of the literary sensation she inadvertently helped create.

A celebrated crime writer and his dog draw professor Karen Pelletier into a literary mystery when valuable library holdings vanish. The discovery of a dead thief turns the search for a famous manuscript into a murder investigation.

On the brink of tenure, Karen Pelletier becomes a murder suspect when her rival for the position dies. With her partner serving abroad, she must navigate campus conflicts, protect students, and find the truth before losing everything.

After fleeing her missionary husband during India’s 1857 rebellion, Anna finds love with an Anglo-Indian tea planter. Years later in New York, discovering that her supposedly stillborn daughter was kidnapped sends her across continents to recover her child.

Set in the Bronx in 1953, this short story follows a young girl’s encounter with questions of good and evil, life and death, with coconut cake playing an unexpected part.

Professor Karen Pelletier’s visit to a reclusive poet uncovers evidence of a long-ago murder in this short mystery.