Rachel Murdock Mystery Books in Order

Rachel and Jennifer Murdock rush to Breakers Beach after a plea from their niece Lily, bringing black cat Samantha along. A murder, an attack on the cat, gambling debts, and another body in the sand launch the long-running series in style.

A dead toad and a troubled little girl are enough to set Rachel Murdock's instincts buzzing. She rents the house next door, steps into a family feud driven by love and money, and soon finds herself facing murder at very close range.

A suspicious man spying from across the street is run down before Rachel and Jennifer's eyes, and the trail does not stop there. With Lieutenant Mayhew, the sisters follow the case to San Cayetano and a bitter property dispute touched by murder.

A nervous letter sends Rachel Murdock into the snowy mountains to help Prudence Mills, whose family troubles are already turning ugly. A prowler, a scarred face, and old business bitterness make this one of the sharper Rachel cases.

Jennifer Murdock witnesses a drunken man shot dead on his own doorstep and wants no part of the affair. Rachel, naturally, gets involved anyway, especially after a frightened young woman from the same house brings her worries straight to the door.

Rachel and Jennifer head to Sacramento to house-sit for a cousin and keep an eye on her tenants. Instead they find odd behavior, neighboring tensions, and a murder that Rachel cannot resist trying to make sense of.

Rachel and Jennifer Murdock accept an invitation meant to repay an old wrong, only to find their wealthy hostess murdered before she can explain herself. A bloodstained doll, grasping heirs, and a hostile house give Rachel plenty to unravel.

Vacationing on the Oregon coast, Rachel and Jennifer Murdock are pulled into the disappearance of a hotel owner and the murder of his shadowy associate. Strange guests, hidden motives, and a sinister collection of porcelain cats deepen the unease.

A set of cruel anonymous notes signed Kachina draws Rachel Murdock to Arizona to help her goddaughter unmask an enemy. Among old college friends, desert resentments, and one shocking death, Rachel finds the past still doing lethal work.

Rachel Murdock and Samantha soon find themselves watching a household where appearances keep shifting and danger hides in plain sight. Like the best books in the series, it mixes domestic tension, sly misdirection, and carefully planted clues.

Priscilla Beckett has alarmed three former husbands and is now honeymooning at a desert dude ranch with number four. Rachel Murdock arrives expecting trouble, and soon finds a corpse, a nest of old romantic grudges, and plenty of suspects.

A strange family inheritance, one uncooperative cousin, and whispers of a haunted ancestral house bring Rachel Murdock into the Shore family's business. Once Rachel starts asking questions, legal puzzles and murder arrive together.

Rachel Murdock agrees to help an actress searching for her missing niece after a violent encounter in a pet store. The trail leads into horse racing, gambling, and the eerie presence of a one-eyed cat that seems to know more than anyone else.