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Roseland Books in Order

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Browse the Roseland series by Eric Ugland in order, with novella summaries, series background on Ginger Mitchell’s Portland cases, and tips on reading this snarky paranormal mystery in sequence.

Last updated: December 23, 2025

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12 books

1

Typhoid Larry

by Eric Ugland

2017

A new case nicknamed “Typhoid Larry” spreads through Roseland like a sickness, touching street kids, politicians, and people Ginger cares about most. Following the trail forces her to connect scattered deaths to the larger network that has been poisoning the neighborhood for years.

2

To Unleash The Beast

by Eric Ugland

2017

All the threads Ginger has been tugging finally twist into one lethal knot. With hitmen closing in, a gang war peaking, and her mother’s ghost pushing from the sidelines, she has one last chance to expose the real monster behind Roseland’s chaos before it devours her.

3

So Tong Farewell

by Eric Ugland

2017

A simmering gang war in Roseland finally boils over, pulling Ginger between rival crews who would happily use her as a message. To protect her brother and her neighborhood, she has to play fixer and detective while knowing someone has already paid to see her dead.

4

Slightly Off Killer

by Eric Ugland

2017

Rooftop corpses and missing hearts keep piling up as Ginger digs into Portland’s nastiest secrets. Between hired guns, nervous clients, and crime bosses who want her gone, even a threat that seems slightly off can be fatal if she guesses wrong.

5

Scratch 'n Snitch

by Eric Ugland

2017

What looks like a simple favor turns into a knot of blackmail, surveillance, and very dead bodies. Stuck between cops she does not trust and criminals who definitely want her gone, Ginger has to decide how much truth she can afford to drag into the light.

6

Death Comes From Behind

by Eric Ugland

2017

Someone is hunting on Portland’s rooftops, and Ginger’s investigation makes her the next potential victim. Chasing a faceless killer through alleys, clubs, and police back rooms, she learns that the most dangerous hits are the ones you never see coming.

7

Welcome to Roseland

by Eric Ugland

2015

As Ginger settles into life as Roseland’s resident troublemaker, enemies close ranks. Dirty cops, furious pimps, and old acquaintances with new grudges collide in a case that forces her to decide whether she is really staying in Portland—and what she is willing to burn down if she does.

8

The Ruth Is Out There

by Eric Ugland

2015

Still chasing leads in her mother’s case, Ginger takes on the disappearance of Ruth, a teenage girl last seen in nothing but a swimsuit. Armed with little more than a phone number and a bad feeling, she races the clock to find Ruth alive.

9

The Body In The Pool

by Eric Ugland

2015

An early‑morning discovery in a luxury pool drops Ginger into the shallow end of Portland’s wealthy elite. Sorting accident from murder means peeling back family lies, business feuds, and secrets expensive people will kill to keep buried.

10

Jane Dead

by Eric Ugland

2015

A woman from Ginger’s past turns up dead, and everyone seems ready to shrug it off as one more Roseland tragedy. Refusing to let Jane become a statistic, Ginger digs into the victim’s tangled life and finds connections that put her own future at risk.

11

Home Is Where The Start Is

by Eric Ugland

2015

Vegas dancer and escort Ginger Mitchell heads home to Portland after her estranged mother’s apparent suicide. Convinced something is wrong, she starts asking questions, tangles with local crime bosses, and realizes her mother’s ghost may be the only ally she can rely on.

12

Amber Alert

by Eric Ugland

2015

When a young girl goes missing, Ginger dives into a case that hits uncomfortably close to home. Chasing leads through casinos, cheap motels, and fast‑food parking lots, she confronts predators who count on nobody caring when kids from Roseland disappear.

Series background & context

Roseland is a gritty, funny urban fantasy series about a woman trying to reinvent herself in the last place she ever meant to live. Ginger Mitchell is a Vegas dancer and escort when the news comes that her estranged mother, a Portland cop, has jumped off a bridge. By the time she drives north in Home Is Where The Start Is, grief, guilt, and anger are mixed into something that looks a lot like stubborn curiosity.

Back in Portland, Ginger discovers that “suicide” does not fit the facts. The police department is jumpy, witnesses are evasive, and her mother’s ghost starts turning up with just enough hints to keep her digging. With a stack of cash from her old life and no interest in going back to it, Ginger sets herself up as an unlicensed private investigator in the rough neighborhood of Roseland.

Each novella drops her into a new case that links back, directly or sideways, to the people who run the city’s underbelly. Missing girls, bodies in pools, angry pimps, and corrupt officials all orbit the same crime bosses and dirty cops. Titles like The Ruth Is Out There, The Body In The Pool, and Amber Alert tell you what kind of trouble she steps into, but the resolutions are rarely simple.

Supernatural elements simmer instead of shouting. Ginger really does see her mother’s ghost, and there are hints that other things in Portland are not entirely normal, but the books read first as mysteries. Clues matter, legwork matters, and Ginger spends as much time interviewing strippers and bartenders as she does dodging bullets.

By the time you reach the stories collected in the later volumes—Typhoid Larry, So Tong, Farewell, Death Comes From Behind, Scratch ’n Snitch, Slightly Off Killer, and To Unleash The Beast—Roseland feels like a living neighborhood. There are gang wars brewing, hit men on retainer, and ordinary people just trying to get through the week. Ginger’s brother goes missing, enemies hire professionals to solve their “Ginger problem,” and those rooftop bodies with missing hearts keep showing up.

Ugland keeps the tone snappy and profane without losing sight of the cost of violence. Ginger is not a superhero; she gets hurt, makes bad calls, and occasionally lets people down. What makes the series compelling is her refusal to stop pushing, even when every power structure in the city would prefer she disappeared like one more working girl.

Roseland reads like a TV crime drama shot through with paranormal weirdness and gallows humor. It is a great fit if you like sharp‑tongued detectives, West Coast settings, and mysteries that come in fast, novella‑sized hits.

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