Julie Chase Books in Order

Julie Chase is one of the pen names used by Ohio writer Julie Hatcher, whose books have also appeared under Julie Anne Lindsey, Bree Baker, and Jacqueline Frost. The different names help readers find different corners of a large catalogue, from cozy mysteries and romantic suspense to women's fiction. Julie Chase is the name attached to her pet-centered New Orleans mysteries and a small group of lighter Julie & Abby stories.

Hatcher's route into fiction began at home. After the birth of her third child, she read Twilight and found the kind of escape she needed during a busy, difficult stretch of family life. Learning that its author had started with an idea and a willingness to write it down gave her a push of her own.

Sometimes a new career starts with a late-night book and a search for how to write one.

She began writing in 2010, with a clear goal of finishing a novel and eventually seeing it published. Her first full-length novel, Written on Her Heart, arrived in 2013. It was a sweet contemporary romance set in small-town Ohio, and it introduced a pattern that would carry through much of her work: ordinary people dealing with scars, family pressures, difficult choices, and the hope that life can still open up in a new direction.

Julie Anne Lindsey became the name most closely associated with her broadest range of stories. She wrote contemporary romance and young adult fiction, then moved further into mystery, including A Geek Girl's Guide to Murder. She also built a substantial romantic-suspense catalogue, where relationships matter as much as the danger driving the plot. Readers can move between these books for small-town settings, close-knit communities, women under pressure, and a brisk pace.

The Julie Chase name gave her a playful space for cozy mysteries. Cat Got Your Diamonds launched the Kitty Couture Mystery series in 2016, introducing Lacy Marie Crocker, a New Orleans pet-boutique owner whose glittery business becomes tangled up with murder and theft. The later books, Cat Got Your Cash, Cat Got Your Secrets, and Cat Got Your Crown, keep Lacy in the Garden District, with Detective Jack Oliver, fashionable pets, family complications, and cases that threaten the life she is trying to build.

The tone may shift from one pen name to another, but the human stakes stay close to the surface. Her heroines often have work to protect, people to look after, or a fresh start that could easily unravel. Even in a mystery involving jeweled collars and pet pageants, the story usually comes back to trust, independence, friendship, and figuring out who is worth letting close.

Hatcher now lives in Kent, Ohio, and continues to write across genres and identities. That range is part of the fun of following her work. A reader looking for a cozy mystery can find one shelf, while someone after romantic danger or a contemporary relationship story can find another.

Julie Chase is the bright, cat-and-glitter-covered corner of that larger reading life.