Midnight Louie Books in Order

Temple Barr chases a cat through a Las Vegas booksellers convention and stumbles over a dead publisher. With missing mascot cats, too many suspects, and Louie nosing in, Douglas launches the series in style.

Temple lands at a striptease convention and quickly finds muscle, glamour, and murder in equal measure. As Savannah Ashleigh and the Divine Yvette are endangered, Louie leaves no rhinestone unturned.

Someone is stalking prize-winning cats at the Las Vegas cat show, and Louie is on the scent. Temple, meanwhile, starts digging into Matt Devine's past and finds blackmail, extortion, and murder waiting there.

Temple is hired to help clean up the Crystal Phoenix's image, but the hotel is under attack from saboteurs. Between ex-priests, reporters, feds, and pastel-suited mobsters, Louie has another lot to untangle.

Temple escapes to a romance writers' convention with male-model theatrics and a shoe-themed pageant, only to find murder waiting there too. Missing Cinderella shoes and a dead hunk keep Louie busy.

Temple and Louie think a cat-food commercial will give them a break from crime, but a comic actor is shot before long. Temple's search into a stalker and a possible secret daughter sends the case in darker directions.

Temple and Louie head to New York for Christmas and find murder under the tinsel. A company Santa lands in deep freeze, romance complications multiply, and Louie has to play detective and Cupid.

Temple is dragged to a Halloween seance meant to raise Houdini, and instead a famous psychic winds up murdered. Louie smells fraud, fear, and something worse in a room full of possible suspects.

A corpse rises from the Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel, and Temple realizes the victim is tied to both of her best beaux. Louie prowls through family tension, old grudges, and desert glamour.

This anthology gathers pet-centered mystery stories and lets animal eyes lead the way through crime and mischief. It is a playful extension of Douglas's long-running fascination with clever creatures.

A hotel renovation is stalled by rumors that Elvis is haunting the place, then a dead Elvis turns up and the joke stops being funny. Temple and Louie dive into impersonators, ghosts, and Vegas mythmaking.

Lieutenant Molina finds a dead woman near the Blue Dahlia, where she sings on the side, and soon another body appears. Temple and Louie are pulled into a serial case marked by the chilling words she left.

While Temple and Max investigate magical murder on a university campus, Louie follows Siamese beauty Hyacinth into the giant science fiction convention TitaniCon. A killer has excellent cover in a crowd like this.

Temple needs bailing out, and another cat is in danger of being blamed for murder. Big-game hunters, animal-rights tensions, and one very strange victim make this a wild Las Vegas case.

Louie goes after the Synth, a shadowy group of renegade magicians making life dangerous for Max Kinsella and everyone around him. Vegas feels especially noir here, full of tricks, menace, and divided loyalties.

A hot new Vegas club is tied to the sinister Synth, and Temple's circle is once again in danger. Louie prowls through greed, murder, and stalker trouble in one of the darker entries in the series.

A shorter Midnight Louie caper, this one sends the feline investigator after a mystery that is, in every sense, suspiciously fishy. It is a quick taste of Louie's wit and prowling style.

Temple thinks life has briefly calmed down, then a feng shui celebrity and a deadly decorating world prove otherwise. Louie and Midnight Louise work the case while old enemies and old suspicions close back in.

Temple goes undercover in a teen beauty and reality-show world, complete with sabotage, celebrity judges, and a punk makeover. The assignment turns deadly when a killer starts targeting young women.

Temple is promoting an exhibition of Russian imperial treasures when murder hits the opening. Art thieves, political enemies, and a perilous aerial act give Louie one more ornate mess to untangle.

A Red Hat convention hits Las Vegas, and Temple's landlady Electra ends up accused of murder. Temple goes undercover among the hats and boas while Louie and Midnight Louise nose through the chaos.

Temple's aunt Kit is heading for a lavish Vegas wedding, but the bachelor party is hijacked to a remote desert ranch. When a dead woman turns up, only Louie may be able to get the humans home alive.

Matt Devine joins a televised Las Vegas dance charity event, but someone is stalking the contestants. As Temple worries over Matt and young Mariah Molina, Louie works the edges of a very public danger.

Temple's latest job is launching a Las Vegas mob museum-casino, a risky idea even before a buried safe yields a body in white tie and tails. Louie and the Vegas cat pack have plenty of suspicious humans to watch.

Temple agrees to investigate the suspicious death of a handyman connected to Savannah Ashleigh's rich aunt. With greedy heirs circling and cats in the line of fire, Louie sees that the trouble is only beginning.

Temple travels to Chicago with fiance Matt Devine and quickly finds his family history is full of trouble. When Louie is catnapped and Max is pulled toward an old murder, several long-running threads tighten at once.

This shorter Midnight Louie outing gives Temple Barr and the feline sleuth an Egyptian-flavored mystery with danger lurking beneath the surface. Douglas keeps the pace brisk and the mood nicely spooky.

A Las Vegas UFO attraction draws Temple Barr, Midnight Louie, and their circle into dead bodies, conspiracy talk, and unfinished business from the past. The aliens may be fake, but the danger around the project is very real.

A reunion show by the oldies band Black and White stirs up rivalry, buried damage, and fresh danger at the Crystal Phoenix. Temple and Louie have to sort out which backstage grudges are headed toward murder.

Temple Barr and Midnight Louie try to clear their beloved landlady after she is tied to a bizarre murder with roots in old Vegas. At the same time, Irish secrets and dangerous choices close in on the wider cast.

The last main Midnight Louie novel sends Temple Barr, Matt Devine, Max Kinsella, and Louie into a sprawling Las Vegas conspiracy. Murder, terrorism, federal pressure, and life-changing decisions make this a true endgame.