Stewart Hoag and Lulu Books in Order

Once a literary star, Hoagy takes a ghostwriting job for a washed-up comedian and heads to Hollywood with Lulu. He expects sunshine and stories, but finds a corpse and his own name circling the case.

Rock idol Tristam Scarr summons Hoagy to the English countryside to ghost his memoirs. Scarr insists an old bandmate was murdered, and digging into the past proves almost as hazardous as surviving the music business.

Hoagy is hired to manage the story of Cam Noyes, a very young literary sensation already drowning in fame, drugs, and expectation. The closer he gets to Cam's glamorous life, the more dangerous it becomes.

A dead novelist's promised sequel is finally being written by her increasingly unstable daughter at the family Virginia estate. Hoagy arrives to sort out the literary chaos and finds old blood and fresh murder waiting.

Hollywood boy-wonder director Matthew Wax hires Hoagy as his vicious divorce turns into a public war. When the wife's savage lawyer ends up dead, Hoagy and Lulu are pulled into a glossy world with a rotten core.

A wholesome sitcom star's public fall leads him to hire Hoagy to ghost his side of the story. Behind the smile is a volatile man, and it is only a matter of time before television farce turns into real bloodshed.

Hoagy is trying to live quietly in Connecticut with Merilee and their baby when an old mentor arrives in full scandal mode. Ghosting the man's defense of his affair with his stepdaughter proves dangerous almost at once.

Hoagy receives a manuscript that describes a murder before the crime appears in the paper. To stop the self-styled Answer Man, he must follow the letters, trust his instincts, and avoid becoming the next chapter.

Hoagy heads to Hollywood when a vanished literary legend suddenly wants to tell his story. A damaged family reunion, an old love, and an inevitable murder make the comeback case anything but simple.

A charity performance at a village playhouse is already burdened with blackmail and bad weather before murder stops the show. Hoagy and Lulu step in as old scandals and backstage tensions spill into the open.

While trying to finish his long-delayed second novel, Hoagy is asked to find a vanished assistant who may have stolen a bestselling manuscript. The search takes him into publishing warfare and a string of connected murders.

Hoagy heads to Connecticut for a quiet writing break and instead lands in the orbit of an unstable billionaire with too many enemies. When the man is murdered after kidnapping Hoagy and Lulu, nearly everyone looks like a suspect.

A sweet elderly neighbor is found dead after a Halloween party in Merilee Nash's Central Park West building. Hoagy and Lulu start asking questions and find that Muriel Cantrell had a much darker past than anyone guessed.

In 1989, reality star Nikki Dymtryk hires Hoagy to ghost a sexy novel built from her own family drama. A death threat, old Hollywood egos, and a rising body count turn the job into something far more lethal.

Hoagy thinks his new novel might finally restore his literary standing, until editor Norma Fives starts receiving threatening letters. He and Lulu head into the publishing world to stop a stalker before the warnings turn deadly.

In 1982, newly famous Hoagy returns to his Connecticut hometown after the murder of the town librarian who once mattered deeply to him. The trip becomes the first real case for Hoagy and the young Lulu.

Newly married Hoagy and Merilee tour a townhouse they might buy from Merilee's cousin after a bitter divorce. The house looks perfect, right up to the moment they find the ex-husband dead inside it.