Kathleen Delaney Books in Order

Returning to Santa Louisa as a real estate agent, Ellen McKenzie discovers a contractor's body in a house she is showing. His controversial development plans and personal enemies make her new colleagues potential murder suspects.

Ellen McKenzie finds a groom murdered at the county fair with a pitchfork. Her daughter works at the victim's horse farm, giving Ellen urgent personal reasons to investigate its secretive staff and protect her family.

A volatile guest chef is found dead during a winery's important harvest dinner. With her niece among the suspects, Ellen McKenzie investigates feuds surrounding the event while her fiancé, the police chief, pursues the case.

Planning her wedding to police chief Dan Dunham, Ellen McKenzie also seeks new premises for a women's halfway house. A cemetery murder and a fire at the home connect her clients to a dangerous investigation.

Ellen McKenzie accompanies Aunt Mary to a Virginia plantation troubled by a supposedly colonial ghost. When the apparent ghost is found poisoned, their host becomes a suspect and the property's tangled history takes on new urgency.

A corpse and a frightened puppy interrupt Santa Louisa's Christmas pageant. Community organizer Mary McGill investigates what the dog was doing at the scene, while two children's observations place them dangerously close to the killer.

Preparing a church rummage sale, Mary McGill and her cocker spaniel discover an elderly woman's body. Missing money and complicated family interests lead Mary to investigate why someone wanted the apparently harmless Miss Plym dead.

After Santa Louisa's Independence Day celebrations, Mary McGill discovers a visitor shot dead and takes charge of his German shepherd. His connection to a jewelry-robbery investigation draws her and her friends into another local mystery.

A bank robber wearing a clown costume kills a dressmaker and wounds Santa Louisa's police chief. Mary McGill and her cocker spaniel investigate whether the victim recognized a disguise she had sewn for the killer.