Kate Carlisle Books in Order

Christmas at a family-run hotel should mean games, lights, and a cheerful new carnival project for Shannon. Instead, a murder inside the Garrison family forces her and Mac to hunt a killer before the holidays are ruined.

Brooklyn and Derek head to Scotland for a holiday wedding and a missing-books mystery in a castle library. Then guests start dying, and the festive trip turns into a race to catch both a killer and a thief.

Shannon can't wait to start restoring a Victorian church into a museum, until a body is found hidden in one of the chapels. The building holds old smuggling lore, but the deadliest secret is much more recent.

Brooklyn is thrilled to rebind a rare first edition of The Prince and the Pauper at a Mark Twain festival. When someone is poisoned in front of her, she and Derek have to chase the real target through San Francisco.

A rare British edition of Rebecca arrives from Scotland with no return address and plenty of trouble. When a friend asks for help and a jeweled dagger murder follows, Brooklyn and Derek head toward Loch Ness and an old castle full of secrets.

Mac is hosting writing retreats while Shannon builds a village of tiny homes for veterans, and both projects are stirring up talk. When one of Shannon's new friends is bludgeoned near the lighthouse, the danger only escalates.

Brooklyn hopes for a fun weekend at Dharma's first annual book festival, especially with both mothers running wild. Then a festival organizer is murdered, the event's money disappears, and someone close to her is targeted.

Shannon takes on a huge restoration at a former asylum that is being turned into a luxury hotel. After protesters riot, someone shoves her into a brick pit and a body appears, the project starts to feel truly haunted.

On the last days of their honeymoon in Paris, Brooklyn buys Derek a first edition James Bond novel. Back in San Francisco, the book leads them to a spy shop, a pair of murders, and secrets from Derek's past.

Shannon's friend Raphael Nash is hosting an eco-living conference when his bitter former business partner turns up dead. With the evidence pointing straight at Raphael, Shannon races to prove someone else wanted him framed.

Brooklyn is days away from marrying Derek when two estranged college friends reappear in her life. One of them is murdered, a rare book proves to be a forgery, and wedding week becomes a full-blown investigation.

Shannon's sister Chloe returns home to film a renovation show, bringing old tensions with her. When the production's manipulative executive producer is murdered, Shannon has to uncover a secret Chloe left town to escape.

As Brooklyn braces for a visit from Derek's proper English parents, trouble erupts across the street in her beloved neighborhood shops. Rare editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and a pair of suspicious deaths turn the whole block upside down.

At Lighthouse Cove's Victorian Home and Garden Tour, competition between homeowners and crews is fierce enough already. Then a corrupt building inspector is found dead on Shannon's jobsite, and the whole town becomes a suspect pool.

A holiday renovation project turns grim when the banker backing it is murdered after a public clash with Shannon's father. With Jack under suspicion, Shannon has to save both Christmas and her family's name.

An Audubon exhibit at the Covington Library should be a dream assignment for Brooklyn. Instead, a birdwatching society president ends up dead, and a trail of rare books, family trouble, and strangers puts her in danger.

When Shannon checks on her elderly neighbor Jesse Hennessey, she finds him dead and his home ransacked. What looks like a simple robbery soon turns into murder, with a missing necklace and plenty of shady suspects.

While staying in Sonoma, Brooklyn attends an excavation beneath her parents' commune and finds a mummified body. A Jules Verne first edition and a hidden treasure map pull her into a mystery buried for years.

Shannon starts renovating Mac Sullivan's lighthouse mansion and uncovers the bones of a teenage girl who vanished years ago. Solving the cold case is the only way to get the project, and the town, moving again.

Brooklyn joins the TV show This Old Attic as a rare-book expert and appraiser. After threats on set turn violent and a book owner is murdered, she has to figure out who thinks a children's classic is worth killing for.

Contractor Shannon Hammer is restoring a rundown Victorian in Lighthouse Cove when a man she recently threatened is found dead inside. To clear her name, she starts prying into the town's secrets and nearly gets herself killed.

Ellie Sterling has a careful baby-making plan, right up until her boss and longtime friend Aidan Sutherland offers a much more personal alternative. One impulsive night changes their working relationship for good.

Ten years after Maggie Jameson left him, Connor MacLaren gets the chance to settle old scores when she comes back needing help. A fake relationship starts as payback, but the chemistry between them is still very real.

Brooklyn agrees to restore an antique cookbook as a gift for her sister Savannah's celebrity-chef ex. When the chef winds up dead and the cookbook disappears, Savannah becomes the prime suspect.

Brooklyn heads to a lavish Lake Tahoe birthday party to catalog a host's collection of vintage paperbacks. Then a séance ends in murder, and the mansion's secret passages start looking a lot less playful.

After a woman's apparent suicide, Brooklyn discovers letters hidden inside old Jane Austen novels. The correspondence points to buried family scandal, and maybe murder, in this slim but twisty Bibliophile Mystery novella.

A rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast brings Brooklyn face to face with a suspicious death from her past. When a dealer tied to the book is murdered, she realizes the old story is still deadly.

A rare copy of the Kama Sutra should be a fun restoration project for Brooklyn, until her best friend's new boyfriend is found dead in her bed. With Robin under suspicion, Brooklyn and Derek race to find the real killer.

When his efficient assistant returns from vacation looking newly glamorous and determined, Brandon Duke hardly knows what hit him. Kelly wants lessons in seduction, but Brandon may be the one losing control.

Scientist Grace Farrell arrives on Logan Sutherland's tropical island with a hidden agenda. Logan is drawn to her immediately, but once he realizes she's not telling the whole truth, desire and distrust collide.

Adam Duke thinks his new assistant might be part of his mother's matchmaking scheme, so he decides to stay one step ahead. Then attraction, suspicion, and Trish James's hidden agenda make the game a lot riskier.

Brooklyn returns to San Francisco to teach bookbinding, only to find herself trapped with an impossible director and a fresh murder. The case turns personal when the victim's past starts intersecting with Derek Stone's.

Confirmed bachelor Cameron Duke gets the shock of his life when Julia Parrish appears with a baby who may be his son. A practical marriage might solve the problem, but Julia wants more than duty from the man she loves.

At the Edinburgh Book Fair, Brooklyn Wainwright's ex resurfaces with a scandalous manuscript that could embarrass the monarchy. When he turns up dead, Brooklyn has to untangle a murder tied to old secrets and very personal motives.

San Francisco book restorer Brooklyn Wainwright finds her mentor murdered on the eve of a major unveiling. Left with a cryptic clue and a priceless copy of Faust, she has to clear her name before the killer closes the book on her.