Scumble River Mystery Books in Order

Returning to Scumble River as the new school psychologist, Skye Denison hopes to keep a low profile. Then a local celebrity turns up dead during festival season, and evidence points straight at her brother Vince.

... And the Dying is Easy is a summer-themed mystery anthology that includes Denise Swanson's Scumble River story Not a Monster of a Chance. It is a quick side trip for readers who want an early extra case.

When Skye's grandmother dies in her sleep, everyone calls it natural causes except Skye. Her doubts lead her into family secrets, small-town resentments, and a murder case that feels far too close to home.

A popular teen cast as Sleeping Beauty in the school play is found dead, and Skye starts asking hard questions. The investigation exposes ugly rivalries and shocking secrets behind Scumble River's polished public faces.

Trying to widen her social circle, Skye joins a local club and stumbles into a very public double murder. The victims looked perfect from the outside, but their glossy life hid more enemies than anyone guessed.

Skye's personal life is already tangled when another murder shakes Scumble River. As gossip swirls and loyalties shift, she has to sort out which familiar face is hiding the most dangerous secrets.

When Skye's brother helps launch a band called Pink Elephant, the attention quickly turns ugly. A stalker, a murder, and growing suspicion around Vince send Skye digging for the truth.

Skye organizes a huge yard sale that brings crowds, complaints, and no shortage of bad behavior. When her former boss is murdered, the event turns from community fun to a hunt for a killer.

Skye hires charming contractor Beau Hamilton to renovate the old house she inherited, even though his reputation worries her. When Beau ends up dead, she has to untangle desire, deceit, and a long list of women with reasons to hate him.

A Thanksgiving weekend at a new health spa sounds miserable enough before murder enters the schedule. Trapped among beauty treatments and forced togetherness, Skye has to figure out who turned relaxation into homicide.

Skye enters a high-profile cooking challenge and expects kitchen nerves, not a corpse in a chocolate fountain. With tempers flaring and rival contestants everywhere, she has to solve a very messy culinary murder.

During a Halloween fundraiser, pushy prom chair Annette Paine is found dead in a witch costume identical to Skye's. Suddenly the biggest question is whether the killer meant to strike Annette, or Skye herself.

Skye heads to California to help with her cousin's over-the-top wedding and winds up juggling far more than flowers and seating charts. When the wedding planner is murdered, every guest becomes a possible suspect.

A new bookstore should be a dream addition to Scumble River, until Skye finds a body crushed by a bookcase. To catch the killer, she has to read past the town's polite surface and into its darker chapters.

Plans for a country music theater promise big change for Scumble River, right up until a singer is murdered. Skye's search for answers leads into old grudges, buried history, and a very long memory for scandal.

Bunny Reid's cat show and speed-dating weekend brings strangers pouring into town and chaos to the bowling alley. When a judge is strangled with a cat toy, Skye has to sort through plenty of claws-out suspects.

Just days before her wedding to Wally, Skye has to deal with the murder of Scumble River's sexy new librarian. Between holiday chaos and a growing suspect list, her happy ending starts to look worryingly fragile.

Skye and Wally's honeymoon cruise goes badly off course when a knitting expert is stabbed and Skye becomes a prime suspect. Even at sea, Scumble River trouble somehow manages to tag along.

A fresh case pulls Skye into another knot of secrets, suspects, and bookish clues just when life should be settling down. In Scumble River, even an open book can hide plenty.

Back at work and trying pet therapy with some difficult students, Skye already has enough on her plate. Then a notoriously cranky school board member turns up dead, and the suspect list grows just as fast as the town's gossip.