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Lindsay Marcott Books in Order

Explore Lindsay Marcott's books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, background on her Hollywood mysteries, and easy suggestions for where to begin.

Last updated: July 15, 2026

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The Sad Eyed Ladies

by Lindsay Marcott

1977

This nonfiction portrait follows a woman through the singles scenes of New York, California, and Chicago. With humor and sadness, it examines dating, loneliness, casual encounters, and the frustrations facing women looking for connection.

Caribe

by Lindsay Marcott

1980

Caribe is a standalone novel from Lindsay Maracotta's early fiction period. It offers readers exploring her bibliography a look at the work that came before the Hollywood mysteries and later gothic suspense.

Hide and Seek

by Lindsay Marcott

1982

Children begin disappearing in SoHo, and an art gallery owner is devastated when her daughter becomes one of them. As a police investigation unfolds, the people living in the neighborhood's converted lofts confront a mounting threat.

Everything We Wanted

by Lindsay Marcott

1984

Three college friends enter adulthood with high hopes during the changing social world of the 1960s. As work, love, friendship, and ambition complicate their plans, each woman must decide what fulfillment will mean on her own terms.

The Dead Hollywood Moms Society / Turnaround...You're Dead

by Lindsay Marcott

1996

Hollywood animator Lucy Freers finds a glamorous neighbor drowned in her pool, putting suspicion on Lucy and her producer husband. To protect her family, Lucy digs through celebrity secrets, rivalries, and lies until the danger turns toward her.

The Dead Celeb

by Lindsay Marcott

1997

When action director Jeremy Lord is found dead, animator Lucy Freers is drawn into the scandal surrounding his former wives and Hollywood associates. Threats and another medical crisis convince Lucy that someone is working hard to bury the truth.

Playing Dead

by Lindsay Marcott

1999

Lucy Freers's former lover and current nanny is shot dead in Los Angeles, leaving behind a disturbing tape. When it points to a supposedly accidental death, Lucy investigates a case that may place her daughter frighteningly close to danger.

The Producer's Daughter

by Lindsay Marcott

2013

Fresh out of prison, Hollywood wild child Hannah Doran wants a different life. But as she uncovers secrets tied to her powerful producer father and her mother's death, a celebrity photographer may be her ally or another risk.

Adorably Dead

by Lindsay Marcott

2014

Lucy Freers's former lover and current nanny is shot dead in Los Angeles, leaving behind a disturbing tape. When it points to a supposedly accidental death, Lucy investigates a case that may place her daughter frighteningly close to danger.

Dazzle Me Dead

by Lindsay Marcott

2014

When action director Jeremy Lord is found dead, animator Lucy Freers is drawn into the scandal surrounding his former wives and Hollywood associates. Threats and another medical crisis convince Lucy that someone is working hard to bury the truth.

Fabulously Dead

by Lindsay Marcott

2014

Hollywood animator Lucy Freers finds a glamorous neighbor drowned in her pool, putting suspicion on Lucy and her producer husband. To protect her family, Lucy digs through celebrity secrets, rivalries, and lies until the danger turns toward her.

Mrs. Rochester's Ghost

by Lindsay Marcott

2021

After losing her job, home, mother, and relationship, Jane accepts work tutoring a teenager on a remote Big Sur estate. Her employer's wife died under suspicious circumstances, and ghostly sightings make Jane question whom she can trust.

Shadow Sister

by Lindsay Marcott

2022

Photographer Ava Holland returns to Blackworth Mansion, where her mother died mysteriously seventeen years earlier. As Ava searches for proof of murder, old fears, a secretive new sister-in-law, and a possible ghost make every relationship suspect.

Where to start with Lindsay Marcott

For witty Hollywood mysteries: The Dead Hollywood Moms Society / Turnaround...You're DeadThe Dead CelebPlaying Dead.
For the renamed editions: Fabulously DeadDazzle Me DeadAdorably Dead.
For gothic California suspense: Mrs. Rochester's GhostShadow Sister.
For a Hollywood family drama: The Producer's Daughter.

Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Adorably Dead"

    Adorably Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2014Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery, Book 3
  2. Book cover for "Dazzle Me Dead"

    Dazzle Me Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2014Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Fabulously Dead"

    Fabulously Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2014Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery, Book 1

Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Fabulously Dead"

    Fabulously Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2014Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Dazzle Me Dead"

    Dazzle Me Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2014Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Adorably Dead"

    Adorably Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2014Dead is the New Fabulous Mystery, Book 3

Lucy Freers Mystery books in order

Explore this series
  1. Book cover for "The Dead Hollywood Moms Society / Turnaround...You're Dead"

    The Dead Hollywood Moms Society / Turnaround...You're Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1996Lucy Freers Mystery, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Dead Celeb"

    The Dead Celeb

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1997Lucy Freers Mystery, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Playing Dead"

    Playing Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1999Lucy Freers Mystery, Book 3

Lucy Freers Mystery books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Dead Hollywood Moms Society / Turnaround...You're Dead"

    The Dead Hollywood Moms Society / Turnaround...You're Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1996Lucy Freers Mystery, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Dead Celeb"

    The Dead Celeb

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1997Lucy Freers Mystery, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Playing Dead"

    Playing Dead

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1999Lucy Freers Mystery, Book 3

Standalone Lindsay Marcott books

  1. Book cover for "The Sad Eyed Ladies"

    The Sad Eyed Ladies

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1977
  2. Book cover for "Caribe"

    Caribe

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1980
  3. Book cover for "Hide and Seek"

    Hide and Seek

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1982
  4. Book cover for "Everything We Wanted"

    Everything We Wanted

    by Lindsay Marcott

    1984
  5. Book cover for "The Producer's Daughter"

    The Producer's Daughter

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2013
  6. Book cover for "Mrs. Rochester's Ghost"

    Mrs. Rochester's Ghost

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2021
  7. Book cover for "Shadow Sister"

    Shadow Sister

    by Lindsay Marcott

    2022

Author bio

Lindsay Marcott is a Manhattan native whose writing career has moved through magazines, novels, television, film, and teaching. She graduated from Smith College, then built a life that gave her plenty of material long before she started putting fictional people in danger.

Before she made her living from books, Marcott held a run of very different jobs. She waited tables, modeled for catalogs, worked as a fact-checker, cared for cats, and assisted a soap opera performer. She also wrote freelance pieces for magazines and newspapers.

Those experiences gave her a sharp eye for ambition, image, money, and the small humiliations people try to hide. They also explain why her stories often have a lively sense of workplace politics and social performance.

Her first book, The Sad Eyed Ladies, was a nonfiction look at the singles scene. Her first novel, Hide and Seek, shifted into suspense, following a frightening run of child disappearances in SoHo. It was an early sign of the things that would keep drawing her in: busy city settings, women under pressure, and the unsettling possibility that ordinary life is not as safe as it looks.

With Everything We Wanted, Marcott followed three college friends as they faced adulthood during the social changes of the 1960s. The book looks at friendship, work, love, and the gap between youthful plans and the real choices waiting after graduation. That interest in women trying to make room for themselves remains a thread in much of her fiction.

A move to Hollywood in 1985 opened another chapter. Marcott worked as a screenwriter, script doctor, and television producer, and wrote for the HBO series The Hitchhiker. She also worked on film projects and scripts for major studios. Hollywood was not just a new address. It became a useful pressure cooker for stories about fame, family, money, and carefully managed public images.

Writing as Lindsay Maracotta, she brought that world to the Lucy Freers mysteries, beginning with The Dead Hollywood Moms Society. Lucy is an animator, a mother, and an amateur detective navigating a Los Angeles full of celebrities, studio people, marriages in trouble, and suspicious deaths. The series later appeared in renamed editions as the Dead is the New Fabulous mysteries.

Marcott returned to Hollywood intrigue in The Producer's Daughter, then moved toward California-set gothic suspense with Mrs. Rochester's Ghost, a modern reworking of Jane Eyre. Her novels tend to pair secrets from the past with women who refuse to stop asking questions. She has lived on the California coast with her husband, a film producer, and their two cats, a setting that fits the fog, cliffs, old houses, and uneasy family histories of her later work.

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