The Rabbi Small Mysteries Books in Order

Newly arrived in Barnard's Crossing, Rabbi David Small is already struggling with synagogue politics when a young woman's body is found near the temple. With incriminating evidence pointing at him, he must clear his name and find the killer.

On the eve of Yom Kippur, Barnard's Crossing is already tense when a congregant is found dead in his car. What looks like suicide may be murder, and Rabbi Small has to read the people around him carefully.

As Passover nears and his synagogue contract comes under pressure, Rabbi Small accepts a temporary campus role. There he walks into a murder tied to drugs, racial tension, and the bitter politics already waiting back home.

Rabbi Small heads to Israel for a long-needed break, but Jerusalem offers no peace for long. After a bombing, he teams up with an Israeli detective and follows a trail of terrorism, politics, and divided loyalties.

Trying to escape synagogue conflict, Rabbi Small takes a part-time college teaching job. A bombing and a colleague's death pull him into a campus world of feuding faculty, angry students, and too many tidy alibis.

Barnard's Crossing is busy with meditation schemes and temple politics when an elderly man dies after receiving the wrong medication. Rabbi Small looks past easy answers as suspicion closes around a pharmacist and his estranged son.

When a rich, openly anti-Semitic town leader is murdered, suspicion quickly lands on members of Rabbi Small's synagogue. Small has to cut through old grudges and false assumptions before the wrong people pay for the crime.

On vacation in the mountains, Rabbi Small meets a young woman considering conversion before marriage. Instead of a murder case, the book offers a searching, often lively conversation about Judaism, belief, history, and everyday practice.

A fight over an interfaith wedding puts Rabbi Small on a collision course with the synagogue's new power broker. Then a hit-and-run death throws politics, suspicion, and the rabbi's own future into the same knot.

A trip to Israel for a belated bar mitzvah turns dangerous when an American is murdered. Rabbi Small finds himself untangling religious extremism, politics, and a larger conspiracy far from Barnard's Crossing.

Rabbi Small finally leaves the synagogue to pursue academic life, only to find a university just as fraught as a temple board. When an ambitious professor dies in a suspicious car crash, he is drawn back into detection.

Now teaching Judaic studies in Boston, Rabbi Small hopes temple politics are behind him. But when a colleague is found dead in his car and the new rabbi in Barnard's Crossing is implicated, Small has one more case to solve.