Lydia Adamson Books in Order

Thrown off the New York police force, John Mekkler finds his former teacher and lover dead. His search for revenge exposes a widening conspiracy, forcing the disgraced ex-cop into a brutal world of betrayal and violence.

In wartime Cairo, British intelligence officer David Chalfin recruits Raya Fahmi to get close to a Nazi sympathizer and steal a codebook. Their mission becomes dangerously complicated when duty, desire, betrayal, and survival collide.

Dr. Helen Roth seeks revenge on a former lover and protégé by using the power behind dreams to manipulate him. As Paul Stanislaus is pushed toward increasingly violent acts, psychological terror takes over his life.

Sally Tepper's blind neighbor and his German shepherd guide dog are murdered, leaving Sally tied to his hidden bank account. When one of her own rescue dogs is killed, she searches Hell's Kitchen for the connection.

Cat sitter and actress Alice Nestleton expects a quiet Christmas caring for eight Himalayan cats at a Long Island estate. Instead she finds a corpse and stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy involving horse racing, seduction, and missing money.

Sally Tepper returns to the streets of New York, where her life as an actress, dog rescuer, and neighborhood fighter leaves little room for safety. A new crime forces her to rely on grit, loyalty, and hard-earned instincts.

A string of killings points to a cat-loving predator who steals pets and leaves toy mice at the scenes. Alice follows the trail from the Adirondacks to Central Park, where a strange cat-worshipping cult may hold the answer.

An acting student gives Alice a beautiful white cat, then is murdered days later and the cat disappears. Alice's search for the stolen pet draws her into a dead actor's secrets, and a dangerous story of love and revenge.

Alice joins a group of cat lovers tending a Manhattan herb garden. Their harvest celebration ends when a member falls from a high terrace. What looks like suicide soon becomes a murder case among friends with plenty to hide.

During a performance of The Nutcracker, Alice learns that a former ballet star has been found murdered. When her friend Lucia is blamed, Alice searches from homeless shelters to wealthy art salons for the truth behind the crime.

A shooting at a Chinese restaurant leaves a waitress dead and a tabby cat missing. Alice teams with a Mandarin-speaking police officer, determined to find the cat and expose the people behind the murder.

Alice delivers a Scottish-fold cat to a remote Massachusetts artists' colony, hoping for a break after a failed play. Instead, a visiting pianist is murdered, and Alice must investigate while the local police ignore her suspicions.

When Alice seeks help from the Village Cat People for her difficult cat, their representative is murdered on her doorstep. The group asks Alice to investigate, drawing her into a dangerous trail through old New York secrets.

Alice's first film role takes her to southern France, where the glamour of a movie shoot is quickly spoiled by murder. Far from home and surrounded by suspects, she must use her instincts to find out who is rewriting the script.

Didi investigates a baffling illness among French Alpine goats on a New York dairy farm. When her friend, farmer Dick Obey, is found dead, the country veterinarian must solve a murder as well as a troubling animal mystery.

A trip to New York City to learn about cats turns deadly when Didi sees a nightclub owner gunned down by a bicycle messenger. With a famous club cat nearby, she gathers clues and risks becoming the killer's next target.

Didi becomes veterinarian on call for a small traveling circus after an elephant kills a dancer in front of a crowd. Believing the gentle animal has been framed, she investigates before it is blamed for murder.

Alice takes part in a fashionable New York boutique's advertising shoot, where a designer's cat has been pushed aside. When a death shakes the fashion world, she discovers that glamour, jealousy, and feline loyalty make a risky mix.

In Atlantic City for an acting job, Alice is startled when a cat appears at her sixteenth-floor hotel window. Her search for its owner leads straight to a murder scene and a case where luck has nothing to do with survival.

Didi takes one evening off for champagne and thoroughbred racing, only to find two people shot in a promising filly's stall. Hired to investigate, she enters a world of horses, money, and suspects with dangerous motives.

Veterinarian Didi Nightingale finds that a new animal case comes with a murder investigation attached. As she follows clues through the people around her patients, the country doctor learns that someone is willing to kill to stay hidden.

Alice and her partner, Tony Basillio, witness the murder of a Broadway mogul's hated wife. Two Maine coon cats may hold key clues, but Alice has to navigate theater rivalries and dangerous secrets before the killer strikes again.

While taking a client's cat to an animal psychologist, Alice finds the doctor dead in her office. A taped voice message deepens the puzzle, and Alice follows a feline trail through a case that is anything but a quiet holiday visit.

Former librarian Lucy Wayles, an eccentric New York birdwatcher, investigates the strange death of a fellow birder. Her knowledge of birds and people helps her spot the clues that others have missed.

A sick dairy cow brings Didi to a rundown farm, where her favorite veterinary-school professor is found dead. Soon she is a suspect in a millionaire's murder and must root through muddy clues to clear her own name.

Didi joins a research team tagging pregnant black bears in the northern Catskills, bringing her friend Rose along for the adventure. When the base camp caretaker is murdered, they realize the killer may be one of their own group.

House-sitting in a quiet Hamptons town, Alice attends a local poetry reading and survives a car bombing that kills an aspiring poet. More deaths follow, and Alice must connect the town's old resentments to the present violence.

Days before Christmas, Alice is asked to find the anonymous donor who keeps a soup kitchen running. A board member's death and the murder of the missing benefactor convince her that the charity is hiding a deadly connection.

Lucy and her birdwatching friends arrive at a dinner for a famed field-guide illustrator just in time to see him fall to his death. Police call it suicide, but Lucy sees foul play and begins laying a trap for murder.

When the organizer of the county's biggest fox hunt is killed, Didi Nightingale is drawn into the case. Animal politics, local grudges, and the hunt's secrets leave the country vet tracking a murderer through hostile territory.

A rich woman offers Alice a large fee to care for her cat, then is shot before she can hand it over. The supposed pet turns out to be stuffed, sending Alice into a bizarre case involving old acting acquaintances.

Former librarian and avid birder Lucy Wayles investigates after a bride is murdered on her wedding day. With birdwatchers, wedding guests, and old secrets in the mix, Lucy must identify the killer before another life is ruined.

Didi spots a mysterious runaway colt near Hillsbrook just before a young police officer is shot. The animal and the murder seem unrelated at first, but Didi uncovers a link that leads toward a vengeful killer.

A wealthy widow asks Alice to help find a cat companion for her aging dog. When the new cat is kidnapped and the widow is later killed, Alice becomes a suspect and must uncover the reason behind the strange ransom plot.

A posh winter fundraiser and a missing lynx pull Didi Nightingale into another animal-linked murder investigation. As she looks beyond the polished charity event, she finds that someone will go to great lengths to keep the truth hidden.

Alice is hired to protect Fancy, a Russian blue caught in a bitter divorce. A robbery, a murder, a catnapping, and a gallery fire soon convince her that Fancy's feuding owners are tied to something much more dangerous.

At an Atlantic City conference, country veterinarian Didi Nightingale hopes to meet new clients in the horse-racing world. Instead, she finds a murdered horse doctor and becomes caught in a case of racing, betting, and old relationships.

Alice arranges a special anniversary dinner for her elderly actor friends, Alex and Lila. When both die from poisoned food, she becomes the leading suspect. Their two kittens saw everything, but cannot tell Alice who set her up.

When Didi's free-spirited friend Rose is found in a shallow grave beside her dogs, the veterinarian vows to find her killer. The search reveals that Rose may have lived a secret second life as a wanted arsonist.

Alice agrees to entertain Brat, the cat of reclusive writer Louis Morant. At her first visit, Brat is missing and Morant is dead. Finding the cat soon becomes part of Alice's hunt for a killer.

Another cat-sitting commitment draws actress Alice Nestleton into a new New York mystery. As a suspicious death complicates an already odd assignment, Alice follows the clues while trying to keep both herself and the cat out of danger.

This two-in-one collection brings together Alice Nestleton's first cases. In one, Christmas cat-sitting leads to a Long Island murder plot. In the other, a gifted white cat, a murdered acting student, and a theft pull Alice into danger.