Marcia Talley Books in Order

Recovering from breast cancer and the loss of her job, Hannah Ives takes a holiday in a Chesapeake Bay town. Discovering the body of a girl missing for eight years draws her into the community's secrets.

Hannah Ives is rebuilding her life when her sister Georgina's therapist falls from a balcony. With Georgina suspected of murder, Hannah investigates missing appointment records and troubling memories that may explain the doctor's death.

In this collaborative serial mystery, Caroline Blessing arrives at the Phoenix Spa for privacy and a chance to reconnect with her mother. When the spa’s owner is murdered, the guests’ secrets deepen the danger, with each chapter written by a different crime novelist, including Val McDermid.

A celebration for Hannah Ives's widowed father and his new fiancée ends with a death and his disappearance. Alarmed by the bride's past, Hannah searches for her father while trying to determine what happened.

Hannah Ives reunites with Valerie Stone, a friend who shared her experience of cancer treatment. When Valerie dies unexpectedly, Hannah's questions lead into the business of healthcare, where powerful people would prefer her silence.

Helping build sets for a Naval Academy production brings Hannah Ives into contact with an old enemy. When a body appears during rehearsal and Hannah is accused of murder, she must uncover the backstage deception.

Hannah Ives's one-year-old grandson disappears from the daycare center at his parents' new spa. With no ransom demand to guide the search, Hannah pursues the abductor while unsettling secrets complicate the help offered by a friend.

Hannah Ives recommends dance lessons to her sister Ruth before her wedding, only to discover the instructor already knows Ruth's fiancé. A television dance audition turns tragic, leaving Hannah to investigate whether the death was deliberate.

A proposed luxury resort threatens a Bahamian coral reef, drawing Hannah Ives into a bitter local dispute. Vandalism, a wildfire, and a missing scientist suggest a connection, but an approaching hurricane complicates her investigation.

Holidaying in Devon, Hannah Ives meets a medium who claims to carry messages from her dead mother. When the woman is killed, Hannah investigates a possible link between the death and unresolved wartime secrets.

Hannah Ives survives a train crash after hearing a fellow passenger confess to killing someone. Finding his bag among her belongings, she tries to locate him and discover whether his disturbing admission was true.

A train journey places the dangerous Marjorie Ann alongside a man whose rude cellphone behavior provokes her attention. His conduct becomes the starting point for a darkly comic reckoning about the consequences of disturbing the wrong fellow passenger.

This mystery imagines the later lives of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford’s grandchildren, carrying Agatha Christie’s family into a new setting. Ordinary relationships and hidden tensions create danger within a world where apparently familiar people may conceal lethal intentions.

Marjorie Ann returns in a darkly comic story inspired by a road trip disrupted by unreliable navigation. A detour away from the interstate becomes an opportunity for the dangerous heroine, whose response to inconvenience carries unsettling consequences.

Millie wants to sell the family home and move to Florida, but Stanley has different ideas. The arrival of prospective buyer Sheila disrupts their disagreement, turning an ordinary property transaction into a situation with potentially deadly consequences.

A collaborative thriller that starts with a murder that looks solved, until a wife refuses to accept the easy answer. As different investigators and suspects take the stage, the story keeps changing shape. Each new revelation adds pressure, and nobody's motives are as clean as they seem.

George runs the public library with rigid confidence until a series of accidents makes him suspect his staff wants him dead. His determination to impose order becomes increasingly dangerous as his own vanity undermines his judgment.

Claire writes the successful mystery novels published under her younger sister Arabella’s name, while Arabella supplies the glamorous public image. Their arrangement turns sibling jealousy into a modern reworking of Cain and Abel, with deadly possibilities beneath literary success.

Three orphaned sisters turn to witchcraft to support themselves, finding success until Lady Macbeth seeks their help. Their involvement recasts Shakespeare’s tragedy from the witches’ perspective, where ambition and unexpected consequences complicate the business of granting wishes.

A ghost story revisits the Baltimore apartments where the Cone sisters assembled their extraordinary art collection. Their transformation into an assisted-living residence connects memories of the sisters with a later setting, allowing the building’s past to linger in the present.

Hannah Ives joins a reality television show recreating colonial life in Annapolis, accepting discomfort for a charitable cause. A fellow participant's supposedly dead husband returns, and a murder pulls Hannah into dangers beyond the staged historical household.

Hannah Ives takes a cruise with her sisters and young niece, expecting time together at sea. Her niece's disappearance and another passenger's account of his missing daughter prompt Hannah to investigate a dangerous pattern aboard ship.

Renovations to Hannah Ives's new cottage uncover an infant's body hidden in the chimney. Her search through historical records meets suspicious obstruction, suggesting someone influential wants the old tragedy and its evidence to remain buried.

A resident's murder disrupts the Calvert Colony retirement community, where Hannah Ives is visiting friends. She and retired mystery writer Naddie Bromley investigate suspects whose old grievances and political loyalties reach far beyond their current home.

Hannah Ives helps a former college roommate organize a Bigfoot conference in Oregon. When a professional debunker is murdered amid gigantic footprints, Hannah works with a retired policeman to find the human explanation behind the apparent legend.

Hannah Ives joins a fact-finding trip to Denver to examine the city's cannabis industry. A member of the group turns up dead, and doubts about the victim's identity draw Hannah into a dangerous investigation.

Unexpected DNA results send Hannah Ives researching a previously unknown branch of her family's ancestry. Discovering a relative's mysterious death, she follows a genealogical trail that eventually connects buried family history with a present-day murder.

When neighbors fail to attend a dinner party, Hannah Ives discovers signs of an unexplained disappearance. A secretive meeting and an encrypted flash drive lead her into an investigation involving hidden identities and a dangerous political scandal.

A cemetery encounter draws Hannah Ives into the unsolved murder of a college student last seen at an Annapolis disco in 1978. Joining a group of citizen investigators, she discovers evidence suggesting connections with other possible serial killings.

Hannah Ives investigates sick eagles discovered near her vacation cottage while a young friend’s DNA results expose surprising family history. Questions about poisoning and ancestry begin to converge, revealing a deadly connection between present dangers and buried secrets.