Leslie O’Kane Books in Order

Cartoonist Molly Masters is furious when a rival’s husband submits her drawing to an adult magazine without permission. His subsequent murder draws her into an investigation that requires juggling disguises, family responsibilities and the dangers behind an apparently respectable community.

Dog therapist Allie's first Boulder client is a grieving collie whose owner supposedly died by suicide. Suspecting murder, she investigates a tangled circle of dog owners and dangerous acquaintances while another death threatens to halt her search.

After a bitter confrontation, Molly’s troublesome neighbor is shot dead on her property. Investigating the killing uncovers a hidden secret, while threatening faxes warn Molly that her questions may place her next in the murderer’s sights.

Molly Masters leads a creative-writing retreat in the mountains, expecting to guide a group of ordinary suburban women. Instead, a murder forces the greeting-card entrepreneur to identify the danger concealed among her workshop’s seemingly unremarkable participants.

Asked to resolve a disputed dog's custody, therapist Allie Babcock becomes involved with feuding neighbors. A woman's murder, a bloody pawprint, and a missing terrier turn the assignment into a dangerous investigation that attracts police suspicion.

A school board’s battle over funding turns deadly when its domineering president is poisoned. With Molly Masters’s father becoming the prime suspect, she must uncover the board’s secrets and identify the murderer before her own investigation ends in tragedy.

A PTA fundraiser’s director is shot by someone wearing the same clown costume as several performers, including Molly Masters. Identifying the disguised killer draws Molly into school scandals and private relationships that someone is willing to protect through murder.

A seemingly perfect PTA president leads her organization toward a prestigious award, but an embarrassing video exposes the board’s failings. When Patty is murdered, the contrast between public achievement and private tensions becomes central to the mystery surrounding her death.

Dog therapist Allie becomes guardian to a retriever whose wealthy owner is murdered. With his fortune tied to the dog's next home, she must identify the killer among eager friends and relatives.

After a devastating accident, eighteen-year-old Jake Greyland wakes in another young man’s body. With his friend Miguel, he must adjust to an impossible transformation while fighting to prevent the murder of the girl he loves before it is too late.

Delayed at Denver airport on Christmas Eve, Allie and her mother encounter a frantic country singer whose dog carrier has been switched. Allie searches for the missing Chihuahua before the holiday unravels.

Living under another identity after a neurologist’s experiment, Ellie finds a note from someone claiming to be her. The discovery revives a deadly threat and forces her to confront a rival who shares every memory and thought she has.

College student Ellie witnesses her father’s murder and is shot while trying to escape. Awakening in another girl’s body, she discovers that a celebrated neurologist’s ruthless search for youth has turned her brilliant mind into an experimental resource.

Helping a friend with a neighbor's unruly dog draws Allie into a community of feuding owners. As violence erupts, a wildlife rescuer offers protection, complicating her love life and an increasingly dangerous investigation.

After her husband leaves her for a starlet, film producer Heather risks losing her home, company, and son. Imagined encounters with classic Hollywood stars offer encouragement, but her love for Gregory Peck threatens to make her problems still worse.

Leaving her youngest child at college, Lisa faces doubts about her marriage and abandoned musical career. Car trouble brings her together with spirited Trinity, whose escape from crooked mechanics transforms the drive home into a dangerous trip to Graceland.

A pet expo dispute involving a beagle and a parrot disrupts Allie's personal life. When a neighborhood handyman becomes a murder suspect, she must disentangle romantic rivalries and hostile relationships to uncover the truth.

Three longtime friends, now single mothers with teenage children, depend on their monthly evenings together. When grief leaves Jennifer struggling to move forward, they make a pact to find the lovers who got away, launching unexpected adventures.

Newly separated Mary mistakes widower Jack's attempt to retrieve his keys on the Golden Gate Bridge for something more alarming. Their meeting draws two troubled families together and challenges Mary's belief that everyone deserves happiness except herself.

Allie takes a theater job training canine performers in a Colorado mountain town. A falling light, a poisoned actor, and a warning note force her to protect the dogs while hunting a backstage killer.

Four book-club friends give a celebrated children's author a ride on their road trip to Branson. Her presence derails every plan, turning theater outings and tourist stops into escalating chaos that eventually lands the women in jail.

Allie and Baxter accept jobs at a Colorado dog show, where rivalries among handlers and owners turn deadly. A handler's murder threatens their reputations, forcing them to investigate before the competition brings further disaster.

Returning to her childhood community, e-card creator Molly Masters receives a letter from a former teacher who dies that same day. An anonymous threat and mounting gossip pull the newly resettled mother into an unexpectedly dangerous murder investigation.