Josiah Reynolds Mysteries Books in Order

Former professor and beekeeper Josiah Reynolds is barely getting by when her business rival is found dead in her beeyard. With the police eyeing her, she has to clear her name quickly.

Still recovering from a brutal fall, Josiah agrees to investigate the supposed accidental death of a friend's nephew. The case draws her back into Kentucky secrets before she is fully healed.

At Matt's engagement party, a glamorous guest collapses after sipping bourbon, and Josiah is sure it was murder. With Lady Elsmere and mystery writer Meriah Caldwell, she sets out to prove it.

A top Kentucky horse breeder is found hanging in a barn, with a confused nine-year-old as the only witness. Josiah traces the case back through decades of lies in Bluegrass horse country.

While tracking a missing young man, Josiah also has to face O'Nan, the rogue cop who wants revenge. Their long-running feud heads toward a showdown at Cumberland Falls.

Lady Elsmere asks Josiah to help Ethel Bradley, who fears someone wants her dead. A private eye, an old enemy, and a tangle of inheritance trouble make this one especially dangerous.

A man sees his dead mother-in-law in his bedroom, then dies of a supposed heart attack. Josiah suspects something darker, especially with a famed portrait painter moving through Bluegrass society.

A rich, ruthless self-made man turns up dead, and Josiah's friend and lawyer Shaneika may be implicated. To clear her name, Josiah digs into old grudges in Kentucky's polished horse country.

A chance meeting in New York pulls Josiah into Bunny Witt's problem of mysterious break-ins across London, New York, and Kentucky. Haute couture, hidden motives, and murder follow close behind.

When neighbor Sandy Sloan asks Josiah to watch her dog so she can help her supposedly ill mother, Josiah knows the story is false. Hours later Sandy vanishes, leaving Josiah chasing a lie that may hide murder.

Josiah joins a local theater group and hopes a play at Wickliffe Manor will also revive her romance with Hunter. Instead, the leading lady drops dead and Asa is pulled in to investigate.

Josiah and a friend discover a dead reporter after a movie, and the police call it a botched robbery. Josiah digs deeper, convinced the killing is tied to bigger Bluegrass secrets.

Rosie is harassed by Gage Cagle, then found bloody over his near-dead body at an antique auction ball. Josiah has to prove whether her friend attacked him or was set up.

A fortune teller predicts that Rudy Lee will murder Josiah, and then be murdered himself. Josiah shrugs it off until someone tries to kill her and the prophecy starts looking far too real.

A Civil War costume ball turns deadly when Josiah enters a corn maze and finds more than a scarecrow. Chased by a figure dressed as the Grim Reaper, she has to solve a Halloween murder fast.

At an archaeological dig at Fort Boonesborough, Josiah joins Shaneika and Heather, who claims one twin sister plans to kill the other. When murder follows, the dig turns into a hunt for buried motives.

A horse whisperer warns Josiah Reynolds that death is near before the annual Shawnee Trace Horse Parade. When a body ends up beneath her pony cart, Josiah has to sort omen from murder.

Josiah rushes into a pasture to stop a furious Texas Longhorn from attacking a prized stallion and finds the bull's owner dead. The police blame the animal, but Josiah smells murder.

A valuable foal vanishes from Lady Elsmere's breeding program, and Josiah knows time is running out before the young horse is harmed. What starts as a theft soon looks tied to something darker.

An old junk car on Josiah's property is supposed to be county fair fun for Hunter's farm assistant. Instead, Josiah and Palley pull back the tarp and find a body in the back seat.

Josiah's ex, Hunter Wickliffe, is arrested for murdering his wife, and she refuses to believe he did it. To save him, she has to uncover the truth before the case hardens against him.

Josiah heads to a winter sledding party hosted by a retired movie critic and hopes for a quiet evening. Then her idol's host turns up dead, and the party becomes another Bluegrass crime scene.

Josiah's daily walk turns ominous when she opens a blue envelope containing a one-word threat. With suitors crowding her phone and danger now at her gate, peace is over.