Speakeasy Murders Books in Order

The Speakeasy Murders move to Chicago in 1929, when Prohibition has pushed drinking behind locked doors and into hidden rooms. Gina Ricci is trying to support her ailing father and keep her own ambitions alive when she takes a job as a cigarette girl at the Third Door, a speakeasy known for its cocktails, music, and tightly guarded secrets.

The Third Door is glamorous from the outside, but Gina soon sees how much risk is packed into the place. Bootleg liquor brings in money, and money brings criminals, corrupt officials, desperate workers, and people who would rather keep their pasts buried. The club is run by the formidable Signora Castallazzo, and Gina must learn its rules quickly if she wants to hold on to her job.

Nothing stays hidden for long in a room full of witnesses.

In Murder Knocks Twice, Gina learns that the woman she has replaced died under suspicious circumstances. When the club's photographer, Marty, is murdered and Gina is the only witness, the job becomes much more than a way to earn wages. Gina starts looking for the truth behind his photographs, the people caught in them, and the danger that sits just behind the Third Door's polished surface.

Gina is not a professional detective. She is observant, practical, and increasingly serious about photography, which gives her a useful eye for what others miss. Her family history also keeps matters complicated. She has relatives connected to both the law and the city's shadowier side, including her police officer cousin Nancy Doyle. Their relationship brings help, friction, and a reminder of how difficult it is for women to be taken seriously in official investigations.

The Fate of a Flapper returns to the Third Door when a young woman Gina served at the club is found dead, apparently poisoned. The case raises troubling questions about tainted liquor, predatory men, and whether the speakeasy itself has become a target. As Gina follows the clues, the story keeps one foot in the club's bright nightlife and the other in the harsher realities facing Chicago workers as the decade nears its end.

The tone is a lively historical mystery with real stakes. Readers can expect jazz-age style, illegal booze, family ties, and cases that ask Gina to decide whom she can trust. Start with Murder Knocks Twice to meet Gina and learn how the Third Door became the center of her dangerous new world.