Passport to Peril Books in Order
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Passport to Peril books in publication order
12 books
Alpine for You
by Maddy Hunter
2003
Emily joins her Nana's Swiss seniors tour expecting scenery and chocolate, not a dead tour escort. When another traveler dies, she steps up to guide the group and finds herself working alongside detective Etienne Miceli.
Top O' the Mournin'
by Maddy Hunter
2003
Emily leads a seniors trip through Ireland and lands in a castle rumored to be haunted. Between a brush with disaster, the reappearance of her ex Jackie, and a corpse in the guest quarters, the tour becomes anything but restful.
Pasta Imperfect
by Maddy Hunter
2004
Emily's Italy tour overlaps with a pack of fiercely competitive romance writers chasing a publishing deal. After a hotel fire and a murder linked to the contest, she has to navigate egos, ambition, and more than a little travel mayhem.
Hula Done It?
by Maddy Hunter
2005
A Hawaiian cruise goes overboard when a prickly Captain Cook expert dies at sea. Emily soon gets pulled into a missing journal, a dubious treasure map, and a tropical chase with a killer who wants the prize for themselves.
G'Day to Die
by Maddy Hunter
2006
Australia upends everything for Emily, from the seasons to her love life. When a fellow traveler dies and a startling scientific discovery may be worth killing for, the trip turns into a race across the outback to catch the culprit.
Norway to Hide
by Maddy Hunter
2007
Emily's Scandinavian tour gets off to a rocky start when her ex Jackie's new novel draws sharp criticism from fellow travelers. A death in Helsinki, another body on the trip, and Jackie's disappearance leave Emily scrambling on land and at sea.
Dutch Me Deadly
by Maddy Hunter
2012
Holland should be a scenic break of windmills, canals, and Rembrandts, but the shared tour with a Maine class reunion quickly sours. After a suspicious death and a missing traveler in Amsterdam, Emily has to pick through old grudges and new chaos.
Bonnie of Evidence
by Maddy Hunter
2013
Emily and Etienne take their usual band of seniors through Scotland's highlands and islands, complete with a high-tech scavenger hunt. When one feuding player ends up dead, talk of an ancient curse gives way to a very modern murder.
Fleur de Lies
by Maddy Hunter
2014
A Seine cruise through France looks ideal until a passenger dies along the Normandy coast. As beauty reps, morticians, and old wartime secrets crowd the trip, Emily has to sort out whether she's facing an accident or a carefully planned murder.
From Bad to Wurst
by Maddy Hunter
2015
Emily's Bavaria trip collides with Oktoberfest, oompah bands, and a fortune-teller's ominous warning. When an explosion and a wartime relic shatter the tour, she has to untangle old secrets before the next disaster hits.
Catch Me If Yukon
by Maddy Hunter
2018
An Alaska tour turns grim when one of Emily's travelers is found dead on a mountain trail. Then a blurry photo that may show Bigfoot sparks a media frenzy, and Emily realizes a very human killer is still on the move.
Say No Moor
by Maddy Hunter
2018
Emily Andrew-Miceli brings bloggers and her regular Iowa seniors to Cornwall, hoping for good publicity for her travel agency. Instead, a suspicious death at a cliffside inn leaves her managing the inn, searching for a missing guest, and racing to stop more trouble.
Passport to Peril books in chronological order

Alpine for You
by Maddy Hunter
2003Passport to Peril, Book 1
Top O' the Mournin'
by Maddy Hunter
2003Passport to Peril, Book 2
Pasta Imperfect
by Maddy Hunter
2004Passport to Peril, Book 3
Hula Done It?
by Maddy Hunter
2005Passport to Peril, Book 4
G'Day to Die
by Maddy Hunter
2006Passport to Peril, Book 5
Norway to Hide
by Maddy Hunter
2007Passport to Peril, Book 6
Dutch Me Deadly
by Maddy Hunter
2012Passport to Peril, Book 7
Bonnie of Evidence
by Maddy Hunter
2013Passport to Peril, Book 8
Fleur de Lies
by Maddy Hunter
2014Passport to Peril, Book 9
From Bad to Wurst
by Maddy Hunter
2015Passport to Peril, Book 10
Say No Moor
by Maddy Hunter
2018Passport to Peril, Book 11
Catch Me If Yukon
by Maddy Hunter
2018Passport to Peril, Book 12
Series background & context
Passport to Peril begins with a simple bad-idea setup that turns out to be a great series engine. In Alpine for You, Emily Andrew joins her grandmother's seniors tour to Switzerland and winds up dealing with a death, a missing tour leader, and a group of older travelers who are far more entertaining, stubborn, and capable than she expected.
These are cozy mysteries with a stamped passport.
Emily is the anchor. She starts as a reluctant chaperone, the kind of person who means well, worries a lot, and keeps finding herself in charge when things go sideways. As the books go on, she grows from accidental problem-solver into a seasoned escort and later a travel agency owner. Her husband, Etienne Miceli, a former police detective, becomes part of the series' emotional center, but he never takes over the story. Emily is still the one juggling logistics, personalities, and murder.
The seniors are half the fun.
Nana is the standout, wise, practical, and almost impossible to rattle, but the wider Iowa group matters just as much. They bicker, flirt, text, complain, eat, gossip, and occasionally help crack the case. A recurring ex named Jackie adds another layer of chaos, and every trip mixes familiar faces with new passengers whose private grudges tend to surface at the worst possible moment.
Setting is not just decoration here. Each book drops the group into a new destination, from Ireland and Italy to Hawaii, Australia, Scandinavia, Holland, Scotland, France, Germany, Cornwall, and Alaska, and the local history or tourist itinerary usually feeds the mystery. One story plays with a treasure map in Hawaii, another with wartime secrets in France, another with Oktoberfest in Germany, and another with Bigfoot rumors in Alaska. The travel details give the books motion, but they also keep Emily off balance, which is exactly where the murders like to happen.
The tone stays light even when bodies appear. These are not grim procedurals. They are comic cozies built on group dynamics, culture clash moments, and the constant question of how Emily is supposed to keep a tour on schedule when someone has just turned up dead. The books can be read for their settings alone, but reading in order makes the character arc richer, especially as Emily's work, family life, and relationship with Etienne change over time.
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