Kathi Daley Books in Order

Alex believes a prisoner who insists he did not murder the woman whose death put him behind bars. The Gull Island writers join forces to examine the evidence, uncovering complications beyond the apparently straightforward conviction.

Bookstore owner Harlow finds what appears to be an unpublished manuscript among books purchased at an estate sale. With Cooper, she follows clues that may reveal a reclusive novelist's identity and his connection to the deceased owner.

A roadside accident draws Harper into protecting a baby pursued by powerful men. With help from computer expert Michael, she travels across the country seeking answers that could keep the child safe while their pursuers close in.

An unpopular bank president is found dead and buried in his own grave, leaving many potential suspects in Holiday Bay. Meanwhile, noises during Abby's Halloween events raise questions about whether her inn's hauntings are merely entertainment.

Renovation uncovers letters from 1954 hidden in Abby's library wall, prompting her and Georgia to investigate their secret. A new clue in a local girl's death draws Abby into another tangle of incomplete accounts and half-truths.

Zoe and Ellie accompany teenage girls from Zimmerman Academy on a retreat intended to build confidence and independence. With Zak and the other men home caring for the children, escalating trouble leaves the women facing danger away from their usual support.

As Abby and Georgia plan their inn's opening, restoration of a century-old fireplace mantel reveals a surprising discovery. The house's continuing secrets intersect with a new case for Colt and an unexpected return from Velma's past.

Lani finds a food truck owner's body at the entrance to Pope Investigations. Suspecting a connection to two earlier deaths whose victims also seemed left for her to discover, she sets out to investigate all three killings.

An email from someone claiming eight murders sends Jack, Jill, and Kizzy on a road trip to prevent a ninth. Their Mystery Mastermind friends help trace earlier victims and uncover the pattern that could identify the next target.

A guest discovers a child's old letter to Santa inside an antique nutcracker, asking for time with her parents. Abby investigates what became of its writer while the guest recreates the Christmas activities named in the note.

Abby and Georgia's preparations for Thanksgiving at the inn are disrupted when a guest is found dead. As new arrivals bring their own stories, the women face a mystery alongside personal decisions and changes within their growing household.

Woody asks Amanda to use her ability to speak with ghosts to reach a social worker left comatose after a shooting. Returning home to help, Amanda faces uncertainty about the limits of her powers and another disturbing threat.

An explosion at the town hall leaves residents dead or critically injured and shakes TJ's trust in someone she loved. Helping Roy identify the attacker becomes an urgent task as the surviving council attempts to rebuild.

Christmas vandalism on Madrona Island turns deadly when an explosion destroys the Santa House and kills its Santa. Cait and Cody investigate with help from a newly arrived cat while trying to keep the island's holiday plans moving.

Tess suspects a fatal shooting is connected to her father's disappearance, but another death before the Santa parade disrupts her theory. With Christmas festivities approaching, she helps Mike investigate a case growing more complicated with each victim.

Returning to Foxtail Lake after an accident ends her career, Callie learns that a girl's murder resembles her childhood friend's death. Convinced the wrong suspect is in custody, she investigates despite pressure to close the case.

Tess and Brady discover a skeleton behind a false attic wall while preparing a haunted-house fundraiser for the animal shelter. Subsequent mishaps leave Tess fearing an angry spirit, and her investigation with Tony uncovers another body.

Callie's new newspaper work becomes complicated when she is asked to expose the identity of a Secret Santa helping Foxtail Lake residents. Holiday kindness and her rebuilding life unfold alongside a fresh murder investigation for Cass.

Tess meets an elderly woman who has waited every Saint Patrick's Day for a lover who vanished sixty years earlier. With Tony and the woman's granddaughter, she investigates the broken promise while another murder unsettles White Eagle.

Cait struggles with a stalled bookstore reopening, a new home, and ongoing disappearances that Finn cannot solve. Yet her growing sense of dread seems to point toward another danger, one she fears she cannot prevent.

Abby hosts a writers' retreat at her seaside inn, unaware that its mentor brings complications from her past. With a blizzard approaching, Colt also investigates a poker night that ended with one of six players dead.

Quinn and Kelly pursue a theory about the island's missing girls, putting themselves in a killer's sights. Meanwhile, Sam finds information suggesting the latest victim may still be alive, adding urgency to their search for answers.

When a man is found dead at the estate where three half sisters are spending Christmas, they want answers. With Colt away, Abby becomes involved in the investigation while new guests and holiday events keep her inn busy.

Zoe is busy preparing Ashton Falls' Halloween celebrations when her old enemy Claudia Lotherman returns. A deliberate game of cat and mouse interrupts the festivities, forcing the amateur detective to confront an adversary who knows her well.

The death of Nikki's friend draws Abby into a mystery possibly linked to strange happenings at a new art gallery. Meanwhile, guests seeking answers about an old murder and a personal past add further questions to life at the inn.

Ainsley pauses her search for her forgotten family to enjoy her first Christmas in Gooseberry Bay. Volunteering at the town festival brings new friendships, but a body discovered in the tree lot turns seasonal preparations into an investigation.

Exploring a mansion under renovation, Abby uncovers traces of the Chadwick family's history. When a knowledgeable historical-society volunteer is murdered and display objects disappear, she must untangle the relationship between stolen artifacts, old secrets and the killing.

Ainsley arrives in Gooseberry Bay seeking her lost family and meets a young woman who is soon found dead. Doubting the sheriff's suicide ruling, she investigates with new friends and suspects powerful interests may be influencing the case.

An engaged couple books Abby's entire inn for a celebration where guests photograph their memories and share the pictures. When one guest turns up dead, the happy occasion becomes a mystery with a group of potential witnesses.

Kelly returns to the island where she spent childhood summers to mourn her sister with old friends. A sheriff's discovery that teenage girls disappear every five years turns their reunion into a search for a killer before another girl vanishes.

Ainsley gains a potential ally in her search for her forgotten family when she meets Adam Winchester. Meanwhile, she and her new friends investigate what happened to a family that vanished from Gooseberry Bay five Thanksgivings earlier.

Newspaper reporter Callie receives a Valentine's Day assignment about a mysterious matchmaker pairing local singles. The story takes a darker turn when a man she is scheduled to interview turns up dead, leaving her with questions beyond romance.

Callie helps Foxtail Lake prepare for Halloween while continuing the new reporting career that followed her accident. A fresh mystery interrupts the festivities, and a personal decision forces her to consider where her rebuilt life is heading.

A generous donation gives Tess and Brady a chance to expand their animal shelter and training facilities. Meanwhile, an email apparently from Tess's father asks Tony to locate someone, raising doubts about who is really seeking that information.

Callie investigates the disappearance of a twelve-year-old boy who vanished during a camping trip to Logan Pond twenty-five years earlier. As she prepares an anniversary article, Cass faces a grisly new murder that demands answers of its own.

Tess and Tony plan a secret wedding while family visits and a meeting with her father complicate their preparations. Starting a new job brings more changes, and a search-and-rescue mission uncovers partial remains belonging to two men.

Kelly and her friends revisit a twenty-five-year-old mystery as Sam searches for a woman whose fate remains uncertain. A girl's death challenges their assumptions, while work, relationships and a surfing competition keep pulling the group in different directions.

Abby's friend Lacy takes charge of a troubled Thanksgiving pageant after its director is injured. When the star is found dead beneath the stage, the production becomes a murder mystery, while three newly acquainted sisters face an inheritance deadline.

A group of teenagers asks Ainsley to find a missing physicist whom police believe has simply gone traveling. Unsure whether he is in danger, she agrees to investigate while recruiting help for Gooseberry Bay's annual haunted house.

Ainsley's growing investigation business brings clients searching for an unnamed father and a vanished social-media influencer. Between these cases, she continues probing her own past, hoping to locate the sister whose existence she only recently discovered.

During an exceptional storm, Cait and Cody help Finn investigate the disappearance of three men. Their community also prepares for major family changes, while the mystery places another challenge in the path of their shared island life.

A young woman arrives in Gooseberry Bay with a charm bracelet found beside her when she was abandoned as a baby. Ainsley agrees to help trace its clues, hoping they will lead to the woman's birth mother.

Abby and her friends prepare an island clambake with a staged murder mystery, only to discover a real body while photographing the venue. The unexpected death draws them into an investigation as guests gather for the anticipated weekend.

A hurricane leaves travelers stranded at Abby's inn while a puzzling murder demands attention. The discovery that land linked to her property holds a serial killer's burial ground adds a troubling history to an already unsettled spring.

Harmony's rescue visions grow so intense that she cannot sleep and suffers headaches. One recurring vision particularly frightens her, prompting a search with Houston for answers that might help the people she sees and end her nightmares.

Four visiting friends compete to charm local women over Valentine's Day, but one ends up dead. Parker's reporting pulls Ainsley into the investigation, while new information about her own missing family complicates an already eventful weekend.

A young man returns ten years after disappearing as a child, unable to remember where he has been. Sydney is asked to help recover his memories while continuing her search for answers about the attack on an old friend.

Abby helps Colt investigate a man who dies after eating poisoned pudding at a community dinner. They must determine whether he was the intended victim, while Thanksgiving guests arrive with their own losses, worries and family mysteries.

Abby looks forward to appearing at a bookstore event with a favorite author, but the guest writer is found dead. Suspecting an unreleased novel contains clues, she uses her own storytelling knowledge to help interpret the pages.

Ainsley finds a confused man in a bloodstained Santa suit who cannot remember his identity. Evidence links a similarly dressed man to a murder, but she doubts the apparent explanation and searches for the truth behind his arrest.

Temporarily covering her old mail route, Tess learns her father has entrusted Mike with a baby who needs protection. She recruits Tony to help conceal the child and find her mother while another murder unsettles their Montana town.

Tess agrees to appear in an advertisement for White Eagle's haunted house and discovers its strange happenings may be more than staged entertainment. Investigating the property leads her toward unanswered questions about its former resident, Doctor Franktown.

Sydney joins Ezra's group to revisit a murder case whose convicted suspect may be innocent. As Halloween arrives on Shipwreck Island, an injured friend's return brings a possible cover-up and more questions for the forensic psychologist to examine.

After tragedy brings Sydney home to Shipwreck Island, two students vanish during a camping trip. Their classmates give conflicting accounts, and her skills as a forensic psychologist may help the sheriff uncover the truth hidden beneath those stories.

A woman returning to Gooseberry Bay remembers witnessing a kidnapping there as a child and hires Ainsley to prove it happened. Finding evidence decades later means untangling a memory police dismissed and a mystery that remained hidden.

Harmony's nightmares depict murders that begin happening in real life. Believing a killer has formed a psychic connection with her, she and Houston search for a way to identify the murderer and prevent the next crime.

After a marshal guarding a witness's child is killed, Sydney must escort the child to safety. A warning about an internal mole turns their cross-country journey into a dangerous search for refuge when official help cannot be trusted.

Spring improvements keep Abby busy at the inn, but disturbing emails to Georgia interrupt the routine. Initially dismissed as messages from an obsessive fan, they become harder to ignore when the sender reaches her private account.

A light in an abandoned lighthouse interrupts Abby and Colt's date and leads them to a dead trespasser. Meanwhile, contestants in a detective reality show check into the inn, bringing intense competition for a substantial cash prize.

Shelby and her bistro staff prepare their first Halloween event in Holiday Bay. The arrival of a self-described witch and the death of a mysterious visitor disrupt their plans, pulling the new business into a townwide mystery.

Settled on Shipwreck Island, forensic psychologist Sydney Whitmore must give one final interview about serial killer Conrad Baker. When it undermines the prosecution's case, she reexamines her assumptions to understand how a guilty man might escape conviction.

Opening a bistro gives Shelby Morris a new purpose in Holiday Bay. Clearing its old storage space uncovers a coded journal, drawing her staff and friends into a decades-old mystery linked to the building's former occupants.

Abby, Georgia and Jeremy prepare Halloween celebrations alongside Holiday Bay's Harvest Festival. Their plans unravel when a friend and coworker is found dead among the pumpkin vines, turning a community celebration into a troubling murder mystery.

A kidnapped woman has five days to prove she didn't kill her captor's daughter before her supplies run out. Linked to Ezra by video, she relies on him and Sydney's team to investigate while she remains trapped.

Two holiday mysteries follow Holly's search for the family she never knew and Harper's effort to protect a baby pursued by powerful men. Private investigator Ben Holiday helps them navigate questions of identity, danger and belonging.

Christmas brings new guests to Abby's Holiday Bay inn, including a Santa hiding a secret and a child heading into foster care. Meanwhile, thefts occupy Colt and difficult decisions complicate Georgia's preparations for the holiday.

Skeet and the Geek Squad win an invitation to an exclusive geocaching group with valuable prizes. Suspecting something beyond innocent treasure hunts, they ask Ainsley to investigate while she awaits an important meeting of her own.

Zoe plans a special Christmas before Alex and Scooter leave for college, even as her health demands attention. When deaths shake Ashton Falls, disturbing evidence suggests her father could become the killer's next victim unless she intervenes.

Tony takes Tess to Scotland to install security at a castle troubled by strange lights and missing objects. A sighting of Tess's father in a local pub suggests there is more to the disturbance than supposed ghosts.

While preparing White Eagle's Spring Fling, Tess receives a journal documenting a secret society's investigations into fifteen murders. Its last surviving member asks her to solve the one case they couldn't close before his time runs out.

A woman hires Ainsley to find the daughter she believed died at birth twelve years earlier. Investigating the father's decision to conceal the truth leaves Ainsley wrestling with conflicting feelings about the search she has undertaken.

Abby’s inn is fully booked for a traditional seaside Christmas, keeping her staff busy with preparations. When a storm knocks out the lights and a guest dies, their festive gathering becomes an investigation amid the holiday chaos.

At Abby’s seaside inn, Lonnie helps Jeremy turn the carriage house into a home while major life changes approach. As Velma and Lou seek their own solution, new guests arrive carrying problems that draw the household into another complicated stay.

A dog walker believes she has discovered evidence of a gruesome murder, but the scene has vanished when police arrive. During Holiday Bay’s Halloween celebrations, she hires Beck to prove what happened despite the lack of physical evidence.

Shelby's bistro hosts a Valentine's Day event featuring jazz singer Duke Armstrong. When he turns up dead the following morning, Shelby and her staff must look beyond the romantic celebrations to discover who wanted him killed.

Harmony and her search and rescue teammates look for eight teenagers believed to have lost their way. Finding a wrecked campsite and a bloodied teen reveals a greater threat, forcing the team into a race to save them.

Forensic psychologist Sydney Whitmore is assigned to protect a fitness celebrity who believes someone is stalking her. Initially reluctant to play bodyguard, Sydney changes her view when Colin reveals the hidden history behind the woman's fears.

Ainsley and her friends help Gooseberry Bay prepare its haunted house and Halloween celebrations. When someone close to their group turns up dead, the festive season becomes a personal mystery that threatens their tightly knit community.

Sydney helps a man rescued from a drifting raft who cannot remember his identity or what happened. When another man’s body washes ashore, she must determine whether her patient is connected to the death as victim, witness, or killer.

As Alex and Scooter approach high-school graduation, Zoe Donovan balances family milestones with her work as an amateur detective. Changes at home and the prospect of another mystery force her to confront an uncertain new chapter.

Bookstore owners Lou and Velma prepare for Christmas in Holiday Bay when an employee introduces a teenager seeking work. Hiring the young woman brings her concealed troubles into their lives, setting unexpected events in motion amid the holiday preparations.

Lou’s senior sleuthing group investigates whether a local mansion is genuinely haunted. When their inquiries cause present-day problems for the contractor renovating it, Lou fears their new hobby has drawn them into trouble during Holiday Bay’s Halloween season.

Widowed Lou Prescott buys her niece’s seaside bookstore and builds a new life around books, coffee, and rescued cats. When a member of her murder mystery club dies, the readers turn amateur investigators to solve their friend’s death.

Holiday Bay businesses suffer vandalism after receiving negative reviews on a new social platform. Fearing the attacks could become deadly, Abby and Georgia join bookstore caretaker Lou in tracking the prankster after her shop becomes a target.

Summer crowds keep the Holiday Bay bistro busy while Beck investigates a mother’s disappearance decades earlier. As the staff navigate romances, family changes, and personal decisions, an unexpected visitor threatens to unsettle their otherwise promising season.

Ainsley plans to enjoy Christmas with her Gooseberry Bay friends until she discovers a baby on her doorstep. A note asks her to protect the child until her mother returns, leaving Ainsley searching for answers during the holiday.

Tess and Tony juggle White Eagle's Christmas festival, mail deliveries and work on a new video game. An unexpected visitor's request redirects their holiday plans toward buried secrets and challenges that neither anticipated amid the seasonal preparations.

A client buys the contents of a storage garage at an auction and discovers a clue to a long-unsolved mystery. Ainsley Holloway takes the case, hoping the forgotten belongings can finally reveal what happened years earlier.

Abby sets out to give two beloved Holiday Bay friends their perfect wedding day. A succession of unexpected setbacks tests her determination and threatens the celebration, leaving her struggling to keep the couple’s plans from falling apart.

Gooseberry Bay prepares an elaborate wedding for its prominent family, with nearly every merchant helping. When the demanding bride turns up dead, the celebration becomes a mystery while Ainsley navigates changes in her own relationships.

Ainsley is hired to stop a landlord from evicting twelve families just before Christmas. As Gooseberry Bay prepares its Winter Ball and Bexley finds foster homes for puppies, the investigator faces a holiday crisis with vulnerable residents at stake.

Ainsley joins Parker on a stakeout that goes badly wrong. While she anticipates her sister Avery’s visit and time with Adam during the academy’s summer closure, the consequences threaten the quieter season she had hoped to enjoy.

An anonymous benefactor pays for apparently unconnected strangers to spend the week before Christmas at Abby’s inn. As the guests compare their stories, they begin investigating why they were chosen and what ties them to one another.

A couple reserves Abby Sullivan’s entire inn for their anniversary celebration, then their financial adviser turns up dead. An announced change to the couple’s will raises questions about who stood to benefit from the unexpected death.

Georgia’s wedding approaches during a televised Thanksgiving cookoff that demands more work than its judges expected. When a cameraman disappears and his fiancée arrives searching for him, Holiday Bay’s celebrations become entangled with a new mystery.

During a hospital visit, Sydney meets a woman whose brain injury has left her speech disorganized. Detecting patterns beneath the apparent nonsense, she suspects the patient witnessed a murder her FBI team failed to solve.

Search-and-rescue volunteer Harmony Carson can see people who need her help and feel their fear and pain. As her unsettling gift develops, she begins connecting with people she must stop as well as those she is meant to save.

A twentieth high school reunion brings an unsolved student murder back into focus at the Holiday Bay bistro. While Shelby contends with a demanding coordinator, former classmates suspect the answers lie among people nobody thought to investigate.

Abby examines manuscripts inherited from her late friend Gayla and suspects their fictional murder reflects an unsolved real case. As she investigates the connection, changing relationships and new family responsibilities keep life at the inn unsettled.

Halloween preparations fill the Holiday Bay bistro with food, decorations, and special events. When a regular customer dies unexpectedly, Shelby turns to Dawson and Beck to discover whether his death was an accident or something more sinister.