Lillian O'Donnell Books in Order

At the height of Canada's ski season, a young heiress is murdered amid the luxury of her home. Romantic complications and the glamorous people surrounding her turn the death into a tangled mystery.

Aspiring actress Maggie Wellen joins a Broadway production run by a Hungarian refugee producer. Rivalries surrounding its leading lady draw Maggie into a dangerous world of jealousy, political intrigue, and murder behind the theater's scenes.

Actress Flo Avery struggles to adjust to marriage and life as a stepmother. When the children begin dying, evidence supplied by a surviving daughter makes Flo the focus of suspicion in her own household.

Rosemary travels to Mexico to join her research chemist husband, only to discover he has lost his job and disappeared. A formula concealed on microfilm in her locket makes her a target for dangerous pursuers.

Obscene telephone calls torment three young widows, then escalate toward murder. Rookie New York policewoman Norah Mulcahaney goes undercover as a potential victim, placing herself in the path of the man threatening their lives.

Detective Norah Mulcahaney infiltrates a prostitution ring involving suburban housewives who earn extra money while their husbands are away. Her undercover assignment becomes increasingly dangerous as the investigation exposes a murderous operation threatening her own safety.

Cara Meisen awakens after six years in a coma and is exploited by an agent as a modern Sleeping Beauty. When the agent is murdered, an admirer's attempt to protect Cara draws them into further killings.

When a nineteen-year-old neighbor is raped, Detective Norah Mulcahaney takes a personal interest in finding her attacker. Her pursuit of other victims leads into an increasingly violent investigation that puts her own life at risk.

After repeated miscarriages, Norah Mulcahaney hopes adoption will give her the child she longs for. An unexpected chance to adopt three-year-old Mark raises doubts, and a brutal murder sends her investigating the boy's troubling background.

An elderly man's fatal mugging prompts New York to establish a Senior Citizens Squad under Norah Mulcahaney. A series of killings connected to Social Security checks soon gives her a new investigation involving the city's older residents.

Mici Anhalt investigates claims for New York City's Crime Victims Compensation Board. The murder of a prominent, unfaithful hairdresser draws her into a case where she must find the killer and clear his pregnant widow.

New York policewomen are lured to reported crimes and killed, spreading fear through the department. Sergeant Norah Mulcahaney investigates the attacks while confronting the possibility that someone within the police force is targeting female officers.

Former actress Julia Schuyler is murdered while planning a revealing memoir about her notorious father. Mici Anhalt turns to Julia's theater acquaintances, searching among old connections and potential motives for the person responsible for her death.

Mici Anhalt investigates a wealthy widow's death in a subway station after the woman's nephew challenges the verdict of an accident. A questionable fiance, a young psychic, and political connections complicate her search for the truth.

Violent deaths at the Central Park Zoo and a luxury high-rise lead Norah Mulcahaney into an investigation involving teenage offenders. Bureaucratic obstacles and corruption complicate her effort to confront the young people behind the attacks.

Exhausted by police bureaucracy and personal tragedy, Norah Mulcahaney leaves New York for York Crossing, Pennsylvania. Her search for quiet is interrupted by a kidnapping that draws her into an investigation involving undocumented immigrants and murder.

Young women are being murdered in Central Park, and NYPD Sergeant Norah Mulcahaney becomes determined to find their killer. She pursues a man whose ability to win his victims' trust makes him particularly difficult to stop.

Newly promoted Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney investigates a wealthy woman's suspicious drug-and-alcohol coma. Her husband calls it self-inflicted, but her sister alleges attempted murder, forcing Norah to examine family money, an affair, and conflicting accounts.

A young schoolteacher faces renewed threats after the man her testimony helped convict is released from prison. Detective Gary Reissing and Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney investigate whether her former attacker has returned or someone else is responsible.

During a Manhattan snowstorm, a shooting and the drowning of a Mafia leader's wife bring Norah Mulcahaney two investigations. Media attention and a television broadcaster's romantic interest complicate her responsibilities as head of the homicide division.

Private investigator Gwenn Ramadge is hired after a newlywed's body is found in the waters off Rockaway. Another bride's murder and a woman's disappearance suggest connections that the husbands' apparent guilt may fail to explain.

A gunman opens fire on a crowded Manhattan flea market, killing a teenage mother and her baby. Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney's investigation brings her into contact with a personal rival whose mysterious disappearance complicates the case.

Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney juggles the kidnapping of a retired actress's grandson and a killer operating beneath New York's streets. With a rookie detective to train, she must unravel two cases that stretch her team's resources.

Emma Trent's latest husband is dead, and the evidence points toward her. Private investigator Gwenn Ramadge sets out to clear her client, following leads through family greed, unstable business dealings, and other women connected to the victim.

When a pop star's brother is murdered, Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney investigates his money troubles and complicated relationships. Tensions within her police squad and an internal affairs inquiry add pressures as she pursues the high-profile case.

While checking a nanny's background, Gwenn Ramadge hires a suspended narcotics detective to assist with surveillance. The detective's troubles and the overlooked murder of a vagrant draw Gwenn into an investigation involving suspected police corruption.

Gwenn Ramadge boards a Caribbean cruise to investigate jewelry thefts and befriends a woman traveling with her sisters. When her new friend is found dead in the ship's pool, Gwenn's assignment expands into a murder investigation.

Norah Mulcahaney has passed the captain's exam and adopted a baby when four fellow officers apparently kill themselves. A visit to a grieving widow pulls her into a controversial investigation while childcare troubles complicate her new responsibilities.