Rose Gardner Investigations Books in Order

Rose Gardner tries to concentrate on landscaping after costly personal upheaval, while Neely Kate wrestles with losses of her own. Helping a local man find a missing necklace offers a distraction that draws them back into investigation.

Rose Gardner agrees to search for a missing parrot with Neely Kate and a difficult private investigator, hoping to avoid Fenton County's criminals. A request concerning James Malcolm's missing brother instead draws her back toward the underworld she wants to escape.

Burdened by a failed attempt to save a woman and her sister's terminal illness, Rose Gardner welcomes a distracting case. An unexpected houseguest and renewed contact with James Malcolm instead pull her and Neely Kate deeper into Henryetta's interconnected criminal world.

With family crises and underworld conflict already threatening her, Rose Gardner agrees to help find a missing teenage girl. A second young woman stranded beside the road presents another mystery, drawing Rose and Neely Kate into danger despite warnings to withdraw.

Summoned before a grand jury investigating police corruption, Rose Gardner must manage criminals' fears about what she might reveal. Her dying sister's doctor has also vanished amid prescription trafficking, drawing Rose toward another case while an unexpected personal development changes her priorities.

Pregnant Rose Gardner investigates her former brother-in-law after a body appears near his construction site and her niece and nephew vanish. Finding the children may require help from James Malcolm, the man who betrayed her and fathered her unborn baby.

The murder of a safecracker employed by Skeeter Malcolm draws Rose Gardner into a search for his missing girlfriend. A crime syndicate's planned meeting with a drug cartel creates competing demands, forcing Rose to seek answers while protecting her family.