Spencer Quinn Books in Order

Internet famous cat Miss Kitty vanishes, threatening the fragile finances of the teenage girl whose posts made the pet a star. Hired to find the missing feline, Chet and Bernie wade into the world of social media influencers, a not very cooperative pig witness and a case where even death certificates may be deceptive.

Fresh from winning a senior tennis title with charming partner Kev Dinardo, Loretta Plansky is stunned when his yacht explodes and he disappears. When her estranged tennis pro son Jack also goes missing, she chases clues up and down coastal Florida, uncovering lies, hidden ties and one more chance to prove she is far from done.

When kindly neighbor Mr Parsons realizes the money he lent his wayward son Billy has emptied his entire life savings, Bernie suspects more than simple carelessness. As Billy disappears and a shadowy figure with cutting edge tech closes in, Chet and Bernie work to untangle a sophisticated scam before it destroys more than one family.

Invited to Kringle Ranch in the mountains, Chet and Bernie are asked to find Rudy, the prized reindeer and good luck charm of bestselling Christmas mystery author Dame Ariadne Carlisle. When her assistant falls into a deep gorge and old murder rumors surface, the search for one missing animal turns into a race to solve a long buried crime.

Florida widow Loretta Plansky thinks she is helping her grandson when she wires money after a late night phone call, only to wake up broke and scammed. Refusing to accept defeat, she follows the trail to a village in Romania, determined to confront the fraudsters and reclaim both her savings and her dignity.

This collection gathers three Chet and Bernie short stories, letting Chet narrate smaller cases involving a tricky burglary, a mystery around neighbor dog Iggy and a numbers obsessed client. It is a quick way to sample the series' voice between longer novels.

A chance encounter with a homeless man at a freeway exit ramp jolts Bernie when he realizes the man is Rocket Saluka, a star from his high school baseball team. After Rocket vanishes, Chet and Bernie revisit Bernie's past, unearthing buried memories, old betrayals and a present day conspiracy that turns a nostalgic trip deadly.

A frightened young woman approaches Chet and Bernie in traffic, clearly desperate for help, then bolts before giving her name. Chet's nose picks up a secret about her that links to a slick political campaign, a missing body and a ferret whose devotion to Bernie complicates their usual two dog team.

Bernie hands an online heavy case to fellow PI Victor Klovsky, only for Victor to disappear just before Hanukkah. Hired by Victor's worried mother, Chet and Bernie follow a trail to a ruined desert mission, whispers of a lost art treasure and a Christmas Eve chase through a blizzard.

A meeting with hydrologist Wendell Nero ends before it begins when Chet and Bernie find him murdered at his trailer. Convinced the wrong man has been arrested, they investigate Nero's work on scarce desert water, a struggling vineyard owner with a tempting offer and a scheme that could turn the landscape itself into a weapon.

Queenie wins a feline beauty contest at the county fair, but when she returns home Arthur is convinced something is off about her smell and behavior. With a beloved clown missing and another cat who looks just like Queenie in the mix, Arthur must untangle impostors, sabotage and fairground danger.

At the Blackberry Hill Inn in Vermont, pampered cat Queenie and not so bright but loyal dog Arthur usually treat each other as enemies. When the twins' cousin is blamed for a nearby murder tied to old smuggling legends, the animals reluctantly join forces to investigate and clear his name.

Queenie is outraged when Sweet Lady Em, the neighbor's prize cow who supplies her daily cream, vanishes and a boy from the next farm is blamed. As Queenie and Arthur sniff around Blackberry Hill and Catastrophe Falls, they uncover secrets, an injured farmer and a plot that goes far beyond a missing cow.

A faded country singer named Lotty Pilgrim is playing a dive bar when Bernie drops an over generous tip in her jar, only to watch the money vanish twice in one night. Digging into Lotty's past, Chet and Bernie discover old border town secrets, missing recordings and powerful people determined to keep a murder ballad from being rewritten.

LeAnne Hogan returns from Afghanistan badly wounded, missing an eye and unsure she deserves to be alive. Drifting to the Washington town her late hospital roommate called home, she learns the woman's young daughter is missing and, with the help of a mysterious stray dog, throws herself into a search that echoes her war zone past.

A rumored bull shark lurking in the swamp sets off a town wide bounty hunt and fishing frenzy. Amid the excitement Snoozy, the best fisherman in St Roch and the clerk at the Gaux store, disappears, pushing Birdie and Bowser to follow a trail that combines shark fever, greed and a very real human threat.

When someone breaks into the Gaux house and another local home, nervous adults say it is random. Birdie and Bowser are not so sure, especially after a mysterious girl arrives asking questions about Birdie's policeman father, who died on the job years ago, and long cold cases start to heat up.

Bowser, a big, food loving mutt newly adopted by eleven year old Birdie Gaux, comes home to discover the family's stuffed prize marlin has been stolen from the bait shop wall. Rumors of a hidden treasure map send Birdie and Bowser into the Louisiana bayou to track thieves, dodge gators and uncover family secrets.

Returning home, Bernie finds his hidden wall safe and treasured grandfather's watch gone, while next door their elderly neighbor is accused of stealing a protected desert cactus. Chet and Bernie follow a trail from suburban backyards into the wilderness, where cactus smuggling, a strange festival and a long ago kidnapping collide.

Bernie signs up for a year round holiday service run by ex con Plumpy Napoleon to give his son Charlie a memorable Christmas. After the lavish party, Chet and Bernie realize one of Santa's helpers has stolen more than presents, and a search for missing valuables uncovers old grudges and new scams.

A glamorous woman hires Bernie to gather proof that her boyfriend is cheating, a routine surveillance job that barely interests Chet. But what starts as tailing a cad around town shifts into something darker as the pair uncover crimes that go beyond bad romance.

A quick road trip to visit Bernie's girlfriend Susie in Washington, DC lands the duo in political trouble when Susie's source is murdered and Bernie is framed. As shadowy agencies circle and a tiny but pivotal guinea pig enters the picture, Chet tries to sniff out a killer in the nation's capital.

After running into an old adversary on a prison work crew, Bernie is asked to find the man's reclusive inventor brother, whose houseboat has vanished from the Louisiana bayou. Chet's nose leads them into a feud between two Cajun families, stolen shrimp and a much bigger scheme involving oil money.

When Chet's neighbor and best dog friend Iggy suddenly disappears, Mr Parsons turns up at Bernie's door in a panic. The search leads to Mrs Parsons collapsed on the bedroom floor, a hospital full of nervous patients and a jewel thief quietly working the wards.

Tasked with keeping an eye on volatile movie star Thad Perry while a Western is filmed in their valley, Chet and Bernie expect a babysitting job. Instead they uncover the actor's buried local history, a string of old crimes and new murders, plus one very unhelpful cat.

This origin story short shows how Chet and Bernie first met when Chet spectacularly fails his final K-9 test. A cat, some blood and a gang of thieves turn one disastrous training day into the beginning of their partnership at the Little Detective Agency.

Bernie agrees to pose as a client's boyfriend on parents' weekend at a wilderness camp, only to discover that her son has gone missing during an overnight hike. When a guide turns up dead and Bernie is arrested, Chet has to track clues through mountains and mine shafts to clear him.

A small traveling circus loses its star elephant, Peanut, along with her trainer, and no one seems able to explain how they disappeared. Following Peanut's scent out of town, Chet and Bernie uncover smuggling, rough operators and a case that crosses the border.

Bernie and Chet are hired to protect Princess, an award winning show dog, after anonymous threats. When Princess, her owner and reporter Susie Sanchez all vanish, Chet must navigate the show dog world and a dangerous kidnapping plot largely on his own.

Down on his luck private investigator Bernie Little reluctantly takes a case involving a missing teenage girl, and his partner Chet, a failed police dog with a great nose, soon smells trouble that leads them from suburban streets into desert crime.