Laura Jensen Walker Books in Order
Browse Laura Jensen Walker books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy suggestions for where to start across her mysteries, memoir, and fiction.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Dated Jekyll, Married Hyde
by Laura Jensen Walker
1997
Walker takes a funny, clear-eyed look at what happens after the wedding glow fades into real daily life. It is a humorous book about marriage, miscommunication, and learning to laugh at the differences between men and women.
Love Handles for the Romantically Impaired
by Laura Jensen Walker
1998
This light, practical book looks at love before and after marriage, with plenty of humor along the way. Walker writes about finding romance, dropping perfectionism, and keeping affection alive when real life gets in the way.
Thanks for the Mammogram!
by Laura Jensen Walker
2000
Diagnosed with breast cancer on her first wedding anniversary, Walker tells her own story with honesty and mordant humor. It is part memoir, part encouragement, and part survival guide for patients and the people who love them.
Life After "I Do"
by Laura Jensen Walker
2001
Walker turns from the wedding day to the long stretch that comes after it. This is a warm, down-to-earth look at marriage as it is actually lived, with adjustments, disappointments, and small graces that help love last.
Mentalpause
by Laura Jensen Walker
2001
Walker tackles menopause and midlife with the same joking honesty she brings to her other nonfiction. These essays mix humor, sympathy, and hard-earned perspective on aging, memory lapses, body changes, and love after forty.
Ferris Wheels, Daffodils & Hot Fudge Sundaes
by Laura Jensen Walker
2002
Inspired by the gratitude list Walker began during breast cancer treatment, this journal invites readers to notice small gifts and write their own. It blends her cheerful reflections with space to build a personal practice of thankfulness.
Through the Rocky Road and Into the Rainbow Sherbet
by Laura Jensen Walker
2002
Walker serves up funny reflections on hard seasons, from everyday stress to bigger life bruises. The book mixes laughter, faith, and personal stories about getting through rough patches without losing heart.
God Rest Ye Grumpy Scroogeymen
by Laura Jensen Walker
2003
This playful Christmas book gathers holiday stories, offbeat traditions, and ideas for making the season feel more human and less forced. Expect humor, family chaos, and a few practical answers to perennial problems like fruitcake.
Girl Time
by Laura Jensen Walker
2004
Walker celebrates the women who help each other through bad hair days, movie nights, and harder moments too. It is a funny, affectionate book about friendship, loyalty, and why girlfriends can be a saving grace.
This Old Dump
by Laura Jensen Walker
2004
Home renovation is stressful enough without doing it beside the person you love. Walker turns remodeling disasters, domestic friction, and do-it-yourself optimism into a funny guide for couples trying to improve a house without wrecking a marriage.
A Kiss Is Still a Kiss
by Laura Jensen Walker
2005
This marriage book focuses on the everyday gestures that keep a relationship alive long after the honeymoon. Walker writes with humor and warmth about affection, attention, and the small moments that do more work than grand speeches.
Dreaming in Black & White
by Laura Jensen Walker
2005
Movie-mad Phoebe Grant is chasing her dream job as a film reviewer when handsome Alex Spencer throws her plans off course. Sent back to her small California hometown, she has to protect both her future and her heart.
Dreaming in Technicolor
by Laura Jensen Walker
2005
Phoebe Grant heads to England hoping for a break from money worries, romantic confusion, and a stalled spiritual life. Instead she finds chaos, surprises, and the chance that her story might still turn out better than expected.
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Ice Cream
by Laura Jensen Walker
2005
Walker meets life's bumps with jokes, honesty, and a sturdy sense that hard days do not get the last word. It is a humorous encouragement book about weathering trouble and finding sweetness in the middle of it.
Reconstructing Natalie
by Laura Jensen Walker
2006
Natalie Moore is only twenty-seven when breast cancer upends her life. Funny, tender, and frank, this novel follows her through treatment, friendship, fear, and the hard work of learning she is more than what illness takes away.
Miss Invisible
by Laura Jensen Walker
2007
Freddie Heinz hides behind wedding cakes and the belief that her size makes her easy to overlook. A bold new friend and an interested veterinarian push her toward confidence, romance, and a life she can finally step into.
Daring Chloe
by Laura Jensen Walker
2008
After Chloe Adams is dumped the night before her wedding, two friends convince her to take the honeymoon trip anyway. What follows is a funny, gentle story about adventure, friendship, and a cautious woman learning to live more boldly.
Becca by the Book
by Laura Jensen Walker
2009
Restless, impulsive Becca Daniels accepts a dating bet after a broken leg slows her down. The next man who asks her out is Ben, far too churchy for her taste, and their uneasy experiment turns into something more complicated.
Turning the Paige
by Laura Jensen Walker
2009
Paige Kelley has spent years putting her own life on hold while caring for her demanding mother. With help from her friends, a trip to Scotland and the possibility of new love may finally push her toward a different future.
Living Through Breast Cancer with Faith, Hope, and Laughter
by Laura Jensen Walker
2012
This updated version of Walker's breast cancer memoir offers practical comfort for patients, survivors, and caregivers. She writes about diagnosis and treatment with faith, blunt humor, and the kind of perspective that comes from having lived it.
Murder Most Sweet
by Laura Jensen Walker
2020
Baker and mystery writer Teddie St. John finds her missing scarf wrapped around a murder victim's neck. In her Wisconsin hometown, that makes her the obvious suspect, and she has to clear her name before the killer strikes again.
Deadly Delights
by Laura Jensen Walker
2021
At Lake Potawatomi's annual baking contest, Teddie St. John expects pie judging, not murder. When a notorious judge is found dead beside Teddie's bloodied rolling pin, she has to solve the case before she is baked into the police theory.
Hope, Faith, and a Corpse
by Laura Jensen Walker
2021
Widowed pastor Hope Taylor arrives in Apple Springs to start over as Faith Chapel's first female pastor. Instead, she finds a church elder dead on day one and quickly becomes the prime suspect, with only her wits and Bogie the dog to help.
Good Girl
by Laura Jensen Walker
2022
Walker revisits a Midwest girlhood, a buried college assault, Air Force years in Europe, breast cancer, and strict religious culture. It is a candid memoir about shame, resilience, and the long road toward healing.
Death of a Flying Nightingale
by Laura Jensen Walker
2024
In WWII England, air ambulance nurses Maeve, Etta, and Betty risk their lives evacuating the wounded. When one Nightingale dies and another death follows, friendship and duty pull them into a mystery shadowed by war.
The Alphabet Sleuths
by Laura Jensen Walker
2026
Claire Reynolds kills a man while saving her friend Daphne, and four senior pals make the very bad decision to hide the body. Soon they are dodging a crime family and solving murders in a retirement community that is not nearly as quiet as it looks.
The Postmistress of Pudlington
by Laura Jensen Walker
2026
Hester Smith loves carrying letters through her English village and watching the rhythms of ordinary life unfold. When war arrives and tragedy hits close to home, she must deliver devastating news and help her community endure what follows.
Where should I start?
If you want cozy mysteries with baking and small-town humor: Murder Most Sweet → Deadly Delights
If you want a church-set amateur sleuth: Hope, Faith, and a Corpse
If you want WWII danger and emotional historical fiction: Death of a Flying Nightingale
If you want funny friendship-driven fiction: Daring Chloe → Turning the Paige → Becca by the Book
If you want Laura's most personal nonfiction: Thanks for the Mammogram! → Good Girl
Author bio
Laura Jensen Walker grew up in Racine, Wisconsin, where books got to her early. In first grade she read 103 books in Miss Vopelensky's class and decided she wanted to be a writer. The dream stayed with her for years, even when life took her in other directions.
Books came first.
In her twenties she joined the Air Force and was stationed in England, an experience that clearly left its mark. She has joked that she flew a typewriter across Europe, and the years she spent in Britain turned her into a lifelong tea-loving Anglophile. That affection for England later found its way into both her mysteries and her historical fiction.
Walker did not publish young. Her first book arrived when she was forty, and she built an early career around funny, candid nonfiction. Titles like Dated Jekyll, Married Hyde, Love Handles for the Romantically Impaired, and Mentalpause show the lane she liked to work in, practical life, relationships, and midlife, all filtered through wit rather than polish.
Then breast cancer entered the story. Walker has written openly about the diagnosis, the treatment, and the strange mix of fear and absurdity that can sit side by side in a hospital room. She turned that experience into Thanks for the Mammogram! and, later, Living Through Breast Cancer with Faith, Hope, and Laughter. She also carried some of that hard-won honesty into fiction, especially Reconstructing Natalie and the memoir Good Girl.
She writes best when life is messy.
Her novels tend to have that same mix of warmth, humor, and bruised realism. In the Phoebe Grant books, beginning with Dreaming in Black & White, she plays with romantic comedy and movie references. In the Getaway Girls novels, starting with Daring Chloe, she follows women who are nudged out of their routines and into change. Even when the tone is light, her stories usually circle back to courage, friendship, faith, and the awkward business of starting over.
After a decade away from publishing, while working for the State of California, Walker came back with mysteries. Murder Most Sweet, her cozy debut, introduced baker and writer Teddie St. John and earned an Agatha Award nomination for best first novel. She followed it with Deadly Delights and Hope, Faith, and a Corpse, then took another turn with Death of a Flying Nightingale, a WWII novel inspired by the real Flying Nightingales. For that book she interviewed the last surviving member of the group, which says a lot about the way she works, curious, respectful, and drawn to overlooked women.
That interest in women under pressure keeps showing up. So does her fondness for small towns, loyal female friends, dogs, and people who keep going even when they are scared.
Now based in Northern California, Walker lives with her husband and their rescue terriers and keeps moving between genres. Cozy mystery, memoir, women's fiction, historical, she seems happiest when she can follow the next idea wherever it leads.
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