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Laura Bradford Books in Order

Explore Laura Bradford books in order, from Amish and cozy mysteries to women's fiction, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy where-to-start picks.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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Jury of One / Deadly Readings

by Laura Bradford

2005

A string of murders rocks Ocean Point, New Jersey, and each victim has a strange link to a boardwalk fortune teller. Reporter Elise Jenkins and detective Mitch Burns race to stop the next killing.

Forecast of Evil / Deadly Getaway

by Laura Bradford

2006

A romantic winter trip turns terrifying when Elise and Mitch are trapped on a remote Michigan island with a killer. As a blizzard closes in, everyone becomes a suspect and nobody can leave.

Sew Deadly

by Laura Bradford

2009

Newly settled in Sweet Briar, librarian Tori Sinclair expects books, routines, and maybe a few new friends. Murder changes those plans fast, and the local sewing circle becomes her unlikely investigative team.

A Mom for Callie

by Laura Bradford

2010

Betsy and police officer Kyle Brennan are both carrying old hurt when they meet. As she grows close to his daughter Callie, the possibility of family starts to feel real, and scary.

Death Threads

by Laura Bradford

2010

Tori's new life in Sweet Briar is starting to feel stable, until another killing throws the town into fresh turmoil. With gossip flying and motives multiplying, the sewing circle gets back to work.

Kayla's Daddy

by Laura Bradford

2010

Phoebe Jennings tries to return a decades-old love letter, only to land on Tate Williams's doorstep with baby Kayla in tow. The mistake sparks a tender story about old regrets, family ties, and second chances.

Miracle Baby

by Laura Bradford

2010

After deep personal loss, Maggie Monroe has little reason to trust hope. Then a child changes the shape of her life, and what begins as duty slowly opens the door to healing and love.

Pinned for Murder

by Laura Bradford

2010

When Tori Sinclair's cheating ex turns up dead, the police think she may have reason to celebrate. To clear her name, Tori and the sewing circle have to unravel a very personal case.

Dangerous Alterations

by Laura Bradford

2011

A fresh killing sends Tori back into the middle of Sweet Briar's tangled personal business. As secrets and grudges come loose, the sewing circle has to figure out who wanted a dangerous change.

Deadly Notions

by Laura Bradford

2011

A child's birthday party should be harmless fun, but an overbearing pageant mom leaves plenty of enemies in her wake. When she is murdered, Tori and the sewing circle sort through resentment, rivalry, and lies.

Hearse and Buggy

by Laura Bradford

2012

Looking for a slower life, Claire Weatherly settles in Amish country and opens a gift shop. When the town's former shop owner is murdered, she teams up with Detective Jakob Fisher to clear an innocent man.

Let It Sew

by Laura Bradford

2012

Christmas should bring comfort to Sweet Briar, but holiday cheer starts to fray when trouble turns deadly. Tori and the sewing circle must protect the season before fear takes over.

Marked by Fate / Deadly Expressions

by Laura Bradford

2012

Elise takes a writing class from a teacher still haunted by the bank robbery she witnessed as a child. When that teacher is murdered, Elise and Mitch discover the past may finally have come calling.

Reap What You Sew

by Laura Bradford

2012

Harvest-time calm does not last long in Sweet Briar. Tori and her friends find themselves piecing together another murder shaped by old resentments and a town that remembers everything.

Storybook Dad

by Laura Bradford

2012

Emily Todd and Mark Reynolds are drawn to each other almost at once, but fear gets there too. His young son and her MS diagnosis make love feel risky, even when it also feels right.

Assaulted Pretzel

by Laura Bradford

2013

An Amish food festival draws visitors, business hopes, and trouble to Heavenly. When a prominent guest is murdered, Claire is pulled into a case tangled up with local politics, ambition, and romance.

Deadly Ambition

by Laura Bradford

2013

As Ocean Point recovers from a brutal storm, a newspaper intern is accused of murder. Elise is not convinced the case is that simple, and her search for the truth puts her in real danger.

Remnants of Murder

by Laura Bradford

2013

Bits of the past start surfacing in Sweet Briar, and Tori soon realizes an old story may be tied to a new death. The sewing circle follows a trail of fragments toward a dangerous truth.

Shunned and Dangerous

by Laura Bradford

2014

Claire finds a murdered Amish farmer in a corn maze on Jakob Fisher's family farm. With Jakob already at odds with his father and old secrets surfacing, the case becomes painfully personal.

Taken In

by Laura Bradford

2014

A case built on sympathy, appearances, and misplaced trust pulls Tori into another small-town tangle. To solve the murder, she has to work out who was being honest and who was playing a part.

A Christmas Mourning

by Laura Bradford

2015

A somber holiday mystery brings fresh grief to Heavenly and shines a light on Jakob's past. This shorter entry blends Christmas warmth with a gentle investigation and a touch of heartache.

Suspendered Sentence

by Laura Bradford

2015

After a barn fire, a community rebuilding effort uncovers a buried skeleton and a link to a missing Amish teen. Claire and Jakob have to dig through years of silence to uncover the truth.

Wedding Duress

by Laura Bradford

2015

Wedding plans should mean cake, dresses, and happy nerves, not murder. When celebration gives way to suspicion, Tori and the sewing circle have to keep one big day from ending in disaster.

A Churn for the Worse

by Laura Bradford

2016

An Amish farmer's death looks suspicious, and soon other families are being robbed as well. Claire helps Jakob investigate a case that tests trust, faith, and old wounds inside the community.

Éclair and Present Danger

by Laura Bradford

2016

Baker Winnie Johnson inherits a cranky cat and a vintage ambulance, not the money she expected. After she finds a neighbor murdered, she turns dessert delivery into a business and starts chasing a killer.

Needle and Dread

by Laura Bradford

2016

What should be a happy stretch for Tori is interrupted by yet another killing in Sweet Briar. As the sewing circle closes ranks, the case grows more personal and more dangerous.

30 Second Death

by Laura Bradford

2017

When Tobi hires a difficult actress for a commercial to help out a friend, the set becomes a crime scene. Now she has to clear an innocent man before the killer slips out of frame.

And Death Goes To...

by Laura Bradford

2017

Tobi is thrilled to be nominated for a major advertising award, until the winner dies in a shocking onstage fall. Was it sabotage, revenge, or the wrong target at the wrong moment?

Death in Advertising

by Laura Bradford

2017

New ad agency owner Tobi Tobias thinks a closet-company campaign might save her business. Then a corpse falls out of a display closet, and she has to solve the murder before bad publicity destroys her.

Patterned After Death

by Laura Bradford

2017

Murder hits especially close to home for Tori and her friends in this later Southern Sewing Circle mystery. Solving it means looking hard at the patterns people repeat, and the secrets they hide.

The Silence of the Flans

by Laura Bradford

2017

Winnie's dessert business is taking off, until one of her customers dies after eating her sweets. To save her reputation and find the truth, she has to untangle a deadly mess in Silver Lake.

Dial M for Mousse

by Laura Bradford

2018

With the Emergency Dessert Squad booming, Winnie takes on an artists' retreat order that should be simple. Instead, it leads her straight into another murder and a fresh batch of suspects.

Just Plain Murder

by Laura Bradford

2018

Claire is eager to meet Jakob Fisher's retired mentor, but the visit ends in murder. As the pair dig deeper, they find that the truth is far closer to home, and far darker, than they expected.

Plain as Day

by Laura Bradford

2018

When Claire looks into the mystery of a lost necklace, the case seems small at first. This short Amish mystery uses a quiet puzzle to reflect on home, belonging, and Claire's future in Heavenly.

Portrait of a Sister

by Laura Bradford

2018

After her twin sister leaves Amish life for New York, Katie Beiler stays and shoulders more family duty than ever. But grief, art, and buried longing force her to ask what kind of life she truly wants.

A Daughter's Truth

by Laura Bradford

2019

Emma Lapp has always sensed that her Amish family is keeping something from her. When a locket at her aunt's grave points toward the English world, she begins a search that could change everything.

A Killer Carol

by Laura Bradford

2019

Christmas has turned Heavenly into a festive blur of shoppers and celebrations, until a murder cuts through the holiday cheer. Claire Weatherly must sort out seasonal secrets before the killer strikes again.

Piece by Piece

by Laura Bradford

2020

After losing her husband and children in a devastating crash, Dani Parker can barely imagine going on. A stay in Amish country offers space to grieve, and maybe a path back to life.

A Plus One for Murder

by Laura Bradford

2021

Broke but resourceful, Emma Westlake starts a business as a paid companion for people who need a plus-one. Her new career goes sideways fast when a client drops dead at an open mic night.

Her New Story

by Laura Bradford

2021

Investigative reporter Tess Baker is sent to Amish country after a professional misstep and expects a dull assignment. Instead, she finds kindness, hidden history, and a story that challenges the life she thought she wanted.

A Perilous Pal

by Laura Bradford

2022

Emma agrees to help a woman rebuilding her life after divorce and empty-nest shock. But when that client becomes tangled in a murder case, Emma has to prove friendship can still be a lifeline.

A Little Bird Told Me

by Laura Bradford

2024

Veterinarian Harriet Bailey thinks a missing cat case will resolve itself, until a ransom note proves otherwise. As more pets vanish, clues hidden in her grandfather's old recordings may point to the thief.

Love's a Mystery in Deadwood, OR

by Laura Bradford

2024

This dual-timeline inspirational mystery pairs a 1950 fresh start with a present-day search through an old journal. In Deadwood, hidden family history and unexpected love rise together.

Love's a Mystery in Peculiar, MO

by Laura Bradford

2024

Set in two timelines, this volume follows a woman trying to make an inherited farm work in 1960 and another uncovering the meaning behind mysterious typed notes today. Both stories hinge on trust and buried truths.

Smoke and Mirrors

by Laura Bradford

2025

At a belated birthday luncheon, Hannah receives an unlabeled gift that sparks unease and fresh questions. What looks like a thoughtful surprise soon turns into the first clue in a deeper mystery.

Where There's Smoke

by Laura Bradford

2025

Back in Blackberry Valley, Hannah Prentiss opens a restaurant in a former firehouse and hopes for a clean start. Instead, she finds that small-town secrets and murder are already simmering.

Where should I start?

If you want cozy mysteries in Amish country: Hearse and BuggyAssaulted PretzelShunned and Dangerous
If you want food-focused cozies: Éclair and Present DangerThe Silence of the FlansDial M for Mousse
If you want a fresh amateur sleuth setup: A Plus One for MurderA Perilous Pal
If you want small-town craft cozies: Sew DeadlyDeath ThreadsPinned for Murder
If you want emotional women’s fiction: Portrait of a SisterA Daughter's TruthPiece by PieceHer New Story

Author bio

Laura Bradford was born in New Jersey, but staying in one place was never really her story. Over the years she lived in a long list of states, went to Xavier University in Cincinnati, and picked up the kind of everyday details that later made her fiction feel lived-in and real.

Writing started early.

She has said she fell in love with it during a rainy afternoon at a friend's house, armed with blank paper, crayons, and a sharpened pencil. As a kid she wrote and illustrated little stories, saved them in a decorated shoebox, and even mailed one of her early masterpieces, O'Casey's Wish, to a New York publisher when she was ten. Back came her first rejection letter. She kept writing anyway.

By college, Bradford was trying out different kinds of storytelling. She wrote movie reviews for the Xavier University paper and later worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance business writer. That background shows up in her books. Even when the setup is cozy or romantic, she likes the feeling of people doing real jobs, asking questions, and trying to make sense of messy situations.

For a while, fiction had to wait. Once she was home raising children of her own, she came back to that old dream and finally gave it a proper run. Her first published mystery, Jury of One, introduced reporter Elise Jenkins and detective Mitch Burns, and it went on to earn an Agatha Award nomination for best first novel.

A lot of readers know her best for her cozy mysteries. In the Amish Mysteries, starting with Hearse and Buggy, Claire Weatherly trades a high-pressure life for Heavenly, Pennsylvania, only to find that quiet towns can hide very noisy secrets. Bradford also brought plenty of humor to the Emergency Dessert Squad books, where baker Winnie Johnson delivers sweets in a vintage ambulance, and to the Friend for Hire mysteries, where Emma Westlake turns companionship into a business and keeps stumbling into murder.

She also writes as Elizabeth Lynn Casey. Under that name she created the Southern Sewing Circle mysteries, a long-running series about librarian Tori Sinclair and a group of sharp, stubborn, funny women in Sweet Briar, South Carolina.

Her women’s fiction has a different rhythm, but the same interest in friendship, family, and the hard work of starting over. Portrait of a Sister follows an Amish woman pulled between duty and her own gifts. A Daughter's Truth turns a family secret into a life-changing search. Piece by Piece and Her New Story both look closely at grief, healing, and the ways people rebuild after life goes sideways.

That range is part of what makes Bradford easy to keep reading. One shelf gives you puzzles, baked goods, and small-town murders. Another gives you sisters, loss, faith, and second chances. Across all of it, she tends to come back to the same things: connection, kindness, and the idea that ordinary people can be braver than they think.

These days, she lives in New York with her family. She still writes with the warmth of someone who loves both books and the people who read them, and she still seems to have a soft spot for the childhood dream that started it all.

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