Linda Wiken Books in Order

This themed anthology turns midlife frustrations into sharp, funny crime fiction. The stories mix wit, menace, and ordinary lives pushed toward murder, with several different voices keeping the surprises coming.

Sports, fitness, and competitive hobbies drive this anthology of crime stories and poems. From golf courses to gyms, healthy living turns dangerous fast when rage, envy, and revenge enter the game.

Music sets the rhythm in this anthology of murder and mayhem. The stories draw on songs, musicals, and performance, moving from sly humor to darker twists without missing a beat.

This anthology takes a wicked look at baby boomers getting older, crankier, and more dangerous. The stories balance humor and bite as old grudges, bad decisions, and crime catch up with them.

An explosive mix of crime stories, this anthology ranges from funny to chilling in a hurry. Loud exits, hard falls, and final acts drive tales where nobody goes quietly.

This compact collection gathers seven stories from the first Ladies' Killing Circle anthology. Secrets, greed, loneliness, and dark humor run through each tale, showing how quickly ordinary situations can turn deadly.

The first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society ends with a stranger shot by Molly Mathews's antique gun. Reading specialist Lizzie Turner starts digging when mysterious manuscript pages and old secrets begin landing at her door.

A Christmas guest author event goes badly wrong when swaggering novelist Derek Alton is murdered in Lizzie Turner's living room. To clear a friend, Lizzie and the book club dig into Alton's past and the secrets behind his final manuscript.

When Molly's childhood friend returns to Ashton Corners with a newly published novel, a book launch, missing copies, and a dead publisher throw the town into chaos. Lizzie follows the trail into a counterfeit scheme while retired chief Bob Miller falls under suspicion.

As Molly prepares Ashton Corners' first Mystery Book Fair, Lizzie is rattled by the arrival of a book publicist from her past. When the woman is murdered, Lizzie becomes the leading suspect and has to untangle old grudges fast.

Bob Miller's surprise reunion with his twenty-one-year-old granddaughter is cut short when a stranger turns up dead in Molly's backyard. After Lizzie sees Darla arguing with the man, the book club has to sort through family secrets and a shaky story.

Event planner J.J. Tanner is juggling a dinner club recipe pick and a lavish party when chef Antonio Marcotti turns up dead. After a public clash makes her a prime suspect, she has to clear her name and find the real killer.

J.J. Tanner's charity casino night on a cruise ship sinks fast when television personality Miranda Myers is found dead on deck. With gossip swirling and police eyeing her, J.J. and the dinner club have to sort through Miranda's tangled past.

A fall picnic turns grim when police officer Alison Malkovich finds her ex-husband's body in her SUV and becomes the top suspect. J.J. Tanner and the dinner club dig into his double life to clear their friend.

Former editor Shelby Cox comes back to Alexandria Bay to help with her aunt's bookstore, only to inherit half of it and a murder tied to the castle branch. As she digs into local history, the danger gets closer.

After true-crime writer Savannah Page spends the night in Blye Castle following two bookstore signings, she is found dead in a secret passage. Shelby Cox has to sort through feuds, old mob lore, and too many suspects.

Shelby Cox finds a dead stranger wedged beside her houseboat after he twice visited Bayside Books asking about a woman from Blye Island's past. With the victim's daughter demanding answers, Shelby follows a trail of old secrets.