Juliet Blackwell Books in Order
Explore Juliet Blackwell books in order, from cozy mysteries to historical novels, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple tips on where to start.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
33 books
Feint of Art
by Juliet Blackwell
2006
Former art forger Annie Kincaid is trying to make an honest living as a faux finisher in San Francisco when she spots a fake Caravaggio at the Brock Museum. A janitor is killed, her ex disappears, and Annie gets pulled back into the dangerous world she meant to leave behind.
Shooting Gallery
by Juliet Blackwell
2006
Annie Kincaid finds a gruesome surprise when a gallery's latest sculpture turns out to be a corpse. With a stolen Chagall, an accused friend, and a slippery art thief in the mix, she has more than one mystery to untangle.
Brush With Death
by Juliet Blackwell
2007
While restoring murals at a columbarium, Annie hears that a supposed copy of Raphael's La Fornarina may be the real thing. Then murder, a crypt robber, and old family baggage turn an art puzzle into a deadly case.
Secondhand Spirits
by Juliet Blackwell
2009
Witch and vintage shop owner Lily Ivory hopes Aunt Cora's Closet will give her a normal life in San Francisco. Instead, a murder and a string of missing children force her to use both her magic and her gift for reading the past.
A Cast-Off Coven
by Juliet Blackwell
2010
Lily Ivory agrees to check for paranormal activity at a San Francisco art school in exchange for a trunk of vintage clothes. Instead she finds a wealthy patron dead and something deeply wrong clinging to the old garments.
Arsenic and Old Paint
by Juliet Blackwell
2010
Annie Kincaid's new art investigation work starts with a body in an exclusive men's club and only gets messier from there. A stolen forged painting, an attacked uncle, and old San Francisco secrets send her hunting for justice.
If Walls Could Talk
by Juliet Blackwell
2010
Contractor Mel Turner is renovating a run-down Pacific Heights mansion when the ghost of a murdered colleague starts following her around. A strange box hidden inside the walls may hold the clue she needs to catch a killer.
Dead Bolt
by Juliet Blackwell
2011
Mel Turner's latest job is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in Cow Hollow, complete with uneasy owners and rumors of restless ghosts. When a dead body turns up, saving the renovation may also mean saving her reputation.
Hexes and Hemlines
by Juliet Blackwell
2011
When a rationalist society leader is found murdered in a scene built around bad luck symbols, Lily Ivory is asked for a witch's perspective. Dark magic and a dangerous hex soon make the case personal.
In a Witch's Wardrobe
by Juliet Blackwell
2012
A glamorous art deco ball turns dangerous when a young woman collapses under a sinister sleeping spell. As Lily Ivory investigates, she also gets pulled into a string of poisonings in the Bay Area witchcraft community.
Murder on the House
by Juliet Blackwell
2012
Mel Turner wants the job of restoring a haunted house into a bed and breakfast, but first she has to spend the night there. When someone dies during the sleepover, the resident spirits may be her best witnesses.
Home For the Haunting
by Juliet Blackwell
2013
Mel Turner signs on to lead a volunteer renovation project, only to find a body and signs of ghostly trouble next door at the local Murder House. To solve the case, she has to dig into crimes both old and new.
Love on Main Street
by Juliet Blackwell
2013
This holiday collection brings several romances to the snowy small town of Snow Creek. Juliet Blackwell's story follows Serafina, who inherits a witchy supply shop and clashes with her cowboy landlord as a missing child and a hint of Yule magic raise the stakes.
Tarnished and Torn
by Juliet Blackwell
2013
At an antique jewelry fair, Lily Ivory senses magic just before a fire erupts and a dealer is found murdered in a witch-hunt style killing. When Lily's estranged father becomes the main suspect, the case cuts close to home.
A Haunting is Brewing
by Juliet Blackwell
2014
Mel Turner is rehabbing an old Victorian for a Halloween party when a young man is killed and the attic mannequins start acting far too alive. She teams up with Lily Ivory for a spooky crossover mystery.
A Vision in Velvet
by Juliet Blackwell
2014
Lily Ivory buys an antique trunk and finds a velvet cloak that brings terrifying visions from the past. Then the dealer who sold it to her is killed and Oscar disappears, leaving Lily up against a powerful witch's spirit.
Keeper of the Castle
by Juliet Blackwell
2014
Mel Turner gets pulled into a reconstruction project using stones shipped from Scotland, complete with rumors of a curse and a wandering clansman's ghost. When a body appears, she has to finish the job and stop a killer.
Give Up the Ghost
by Juliet Blackwell
2015
A millionaire's Pacific Heights mansion is so haunted it cannot stay on the market, and Mel Turner is brought in to calm its furious resident ghost. When a glamorous psychic is stabbed, the haunting and the murder collide.
Spellcasting In Silk
by Juliet Blackwell
2015
During San Francisco's Summer of Love festivities, Lily Ivory is drawn into a case involving an apparent suicide, a suspicious botanica, and a missing girl. The deeper she digs, the stronger the magic pushing back becomes.
The Paris Key
by Juliet Blackwell
2015
As her marriage falls apart, Genevieve Martin returns to Paris to take over her late uncle's locksmith shop. The city she loved as a girl offers a second chance, but it also holds long buried family secrets.
A Toxic Trousseau
by Juliet Blackwell
2016
After Lily Ivory's pig Oscar injures a rival clothier, she tries to smooth things over, only to have the woman turn up dead. A cursed trousseau and a haunted house quickly turn the investigation into a race against another death.
Letters from Paris
by Juliet Blackwell
2016
After her mother's death, Claire Broussard returns home and discovers a mysterious work of art sent from Paris after World War II. Her search for its origins leads her to old letters, a mask atelier, and painful family secrets.
A Ghostly Light
by Juliet Blackwell
2017
Mel Turner is thrilled to renovate a historic lighthouse that her friend plans to turn into an inn. When the friend's abusive ex turns up dead on the stairs, Mel needs help from the island's ghosts to clear her name.
A Magical Match
by Juliet Blackwell
2018
A man from Lily Ivory's past appears, threatens her, and winds up dead, leaving Lily's fiance Sailor as the prime suspect. Doppelganger sightings and a hostile magical enemy make the case even stranger.
The Lost Carousel of Provence
by Juliet Blackwell
2018
Photographer Cady Drake is drawn to a crumbling chateau in Provence and the antique carousel hidden on its grounds. Her search into its makers and its history opens up a lost artist's story and a family's long held grief.
Bewitched and Betrothed
by Juliet Blackwell
2019
As Lily Ivory prepares for her wedding, a prison uniform from Alcatraz and a kidnapping point to something dangerous stirring in San Francisco. To make it to the altar, she may have to stop a demonic threat first.
The Last Curtain Call
by Juliet Blackwell
2020
Mel Turner takes on the restoration of the Crockett Theatre, a decaying San Francisco movie palace occupied by squatters and ghosts. When one of the squatters is found dead, the theater's past and Mel's own haunted house start to connect.
The Vineyards of Champagne
by Juliet Blackwell
2020
Rosalyn travels to Champagne for work while still reeling from the death of her husband. There she uncovers World War I letters that reveal how women and children survived beneath the vineyards while keeping the harvest alive.
Off the Wild Coast of Brittany
by Juliet Blackwell
2021
Natalie Morgen is left stranded on a Brittany island when her partner walks away from their plans and their guesthouse. An old cookbook and wartime secrets pull her and her sister into a layered story of occupation, love, and survival.
Synchronized Sorcery
by Juliet Blackwell
2021
Now leading the Bay Area's magical community, Lily Ivory stumbles onto a dead man, a strange mermaid costume from the 1939 World's Fair, and a possible half brother. Treasure Island's past may hold the key to the new murders.
The Paris Showroom
by Juliet Blackwell
2022
After the Nazi occupation of Paris, artisan Capucine Benoit is forced to work in the Lévitan department store prison camp, sorting looted goods for her enemies. Her daughter Mathilde is pushed toward the Resistance as the danger closes in.
Asylum Hotel
by Juliet Blackwell
2025
Aubrey Spencer loves photographing abandoned buildings, so the cliffside Hotel Seabrink is impossible to resist. When a fellow explorer is found dead, she gets pulled into the hotel's haunted history and a murder case that stretches back decades.
The Séance Garden
by Juliet Blackwell
2026
Professor Harper Grae studies the history of the occult but does not believe in it, until a haunted tour in Monterey ends with a murder at an old mansion. A second death from long ago suggests the ghost stories may be true.
Where should I start?
If you want witchy cozy mysteries: Secondhand Spirits → A Cast-Off Coven → Hexes and Hemlines
If you like haunted houses and renovation mysteries: If Walls Could Talk → Dead Bolt → Murder on the House
If you want art world capers and forgeries: Feint of Art → Shooting Gallery → Brush With Death
If you want atmospheric historical fiction in France: The Paris Key → Letters from Paris → The Lost Carousel of Provence
If you want a darker standalone mystery: Asylum Hotel
Author bio
Juliet Blackwell was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the youngest child of a New York jet pilot and a Texas editor. Books and stories were in the air early, but so was a strong curiosity about how people live and what they carry with them from place to place. She studied Latin American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, then went on to earn master's degrees in both Anthropology and Social Work at SUNY Albany.
She did not take a straight line to writing.
Before fiction became her full time work, Blackwell had a wide ranging career that sounds a little like the backstory of one of her own heroines. In graduate school she published articles based on fieldwork with immigrant families from Mexico and Viet Nam, and she also translated Miguel Leon-Portilla's Endangered Cultures. She taught medical anthropology at SUNY Albany, worked as an elementary school social worker in rural New York, and served as a producer for a BBC documentary about Vietnamese children left behind by U.S. soldiers.
When she returned to California, she built another life with her hands. For more than a decade she ran a decorative painting, historical renovation, and domestic design studio. She worked on old houses, surfaces, finishes, and details that most people walk past without seeing. That practical background shows up all through her books. In her fiction, rooms matter, buildings matter, and objects tend to come with memories attached.
Place matters in her work.
Blackwell eventually turned all of that experience toward fiction. Under the name Hailey Lind, she wrote the Art Lover's Mystery books with her sister Carolyn, building a series around Annie Kincaid, a former art forger trying to go straight in San Francisco. The first book, Feint of Art, was nominated for an Agatha Award. Writing as Juliet Blackwell, she went on to create two long running mystery series with especially strong settings, the Witchcraft books and the Haunted Home Renovation books.
Readers who start with Secondhand Spirits usually stay for Lily Ivory's vintage shop, practical magic, and the offbeat San Francisco atmosphere. If Walls Could Talk brings together old houses, construction know how, and ghostly clues in a way that feels very much like Blackwell's own world. In The Paris Key and Letters from Paris, she shifts toward France, family secrets, art, and women rebuilding their lives, but the pull is similar. Readers come for the mystery, then stay for the places and the people moving through them.
Across her books, certain things keep returning. She likes hidden histories, old buildings, layered family stories, and women who are figuring things out while trying to hold a life together. She is also drawn to the way cities remember the past, whether that past shows up as a ghost, a locked drawer, a trunk of old clothes, or a packet of letters tucked away for decades. Even when the plots turn supernatural, her characters usually stay grounded in work, friendship, and ordinary human mess.
These days, Blackwell divides her time between a happily haunted house in Northern California, a winery in the Bordeaux region of France, and a tiny apartment on the coast of Spain. She has also stayed active in the mystery world, including serving as president of Northern California Sisters in Crime. It feels like a fitting life for a writer who is always paying attention to where stories live.
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