Vicki Delany Books in Order

Joanna Hastings leaves city life for an isolated cabin in northern Ontario, hoping to recover from family and work pressures. Troubled neighbors, vivid dreams of an earlier resident, and a local murder disturb the solitude she sought.

Rebecca McKenzie returns to her Ontario hometown for her mother's funeral after thirty years away. Discovering her mother's wartime diaries reopens family wounds, while a girl's disappearance and suspicion of Rebecca's brother pull her into present-day danger.

Biographer Elaine Benson arrives at a wealthy family's Muskoka cottage to record Moira Madison's memories of wartime nursing and humanitarian work. Her predecessor's death and unsettling events around the house suggest that the family's history contains dangerous secrets.

A controversial resort and proposed memorial to Vietnam draft dodgers divide the town of Trafalgar. When a developer is murdered, rookie constable Molly Smith assists John Winters in a case complicated by political protests and her own family's involvement.

During the Klondike gold rush, Fiona MacGillivray hopes her Dawson City dance hall will make her fortune. A corpse found on its stage threatens those plans, while her less-than-respectable past makes dealing with the investigation particularly inconvenient.

A baby is found beside a young woman's body near Trafalgar's women's support center. Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters investigate signs that an apparent overdose was murder, searching for the victim's identity and the child's story.

A car crashes into an icy river during a Christmas snowstorm, killing its occupants. When evidence shows one passenger died before the accident, Molly Smith and John Winters investigate the holidaying students whose secrets may explain why.

In gold-rush Dawson City, Fiona MacGillivray's son saves a woman from suicide and inadvertently gives an enemy an opening against her dance hall. The arrival of a killer adds another threat to a town already crowded with fortune seekers.

A famous photographer returns to Trafalgar to reconnect with Sergeant John Winters's wife, then is found murdered. As suspicion falls on Eliza, Winters faces a conflict between professional duty and loyalty while Molly Smith handles troubles of her own.

Human bones uncovered during a search for a missing child reopen the disappearance of Brian Nowak fifteen years earlier. Molly Smith's childhood friendship with his daughter brings a personal connection to John Winters's investigation of a deeply damaged family.

Former police officer and private investigator Leanne Aimes takes a wilderness vacation in Algonquin Park. Arguments among her companions turn more ominous when a storm traps the group on an island and she realizes one of them is a murderer.

Probationary constable Nicole Patterson finds a strangled high-school student beside a snowy field. Despite lacking authorization and experience, she investigates bullying, relationships, and a ring found near the body, determined to understand the girl's death.

Fiona MacGillivray wants no part of Paul Sheridan's plan to find a legendary mountain of gold and make her his queen. His obsession sends a motley Dawson City rescue party into the Yukon wilderness in pursuit.

Reporter Hannah Manning recovers from a wartime brain injury at her sister's Ontario farm, where blackouts bring visions of a woman from the past. A friendship with an Afghan refugee draws her into a murder investigation that questions her memory.

An English teacher is killed by a sniper while walking her dog in snowy woods. With no obvious motive or suspect, John Winters and Molly Smith consider mistaken identity and the possibility that another Trafalgar resident remains in danger.

A dying stranger collapses at Fiona MacGillivray's feet in Dawson City, linking her name to Culloden with his final words. While Corporal Richard Sterling investigates, Fiona confronts unwanted questions about her past amid the gold-rush town's intrigues.

Near the end of a United Nations assignment in South Sudan, RCMP officer Ray Robertson encounters another woman murdered with a ribbon around her neck. He and local partner John Deng must find a possible serial killer before more women die.

Lucky Smith and police chief Paul Keller take a romantic break in Banff, where an encounter with Keller's estranged son turns alarming. A desperate call leads them to a body and the son's disappearance, disrupting their holiday with a murder mystery.

Working with Haitian police after the earthquake, Ray Robertson doubts that an American woman's death in her swimming pool was accidental. Resistance from officials and the arrest of a gardener encourage him to continue asking uncomfortable questions.

Holiday shop owner Merry Wilkinson encounters sabotage during Rudolph's Christmas celebrations, then finds a visiting reporter dead. When police suspect a cookie made by her best friend, Merry investigates the hostility beneath the town's festive image.

Walter Desmond returns to Trafalgar after being exonerated for a murder that kept him imprisoned for twenty-five years. Molly Smith and John Winters reopen the case, confronting old police failures and residents unwilling to accept his innocence.

Merry Wilkinson worries when the incoming manager of Rudolph's Yuletide Inn plans to abandon its Christmas theme. His murder turns a business dispute into an investigation with suspects across a town whose livelihoods depend on holiday tourism.

Ray Robertson's holiday with his wife in the Turks and Caicos Islands is interrupted by a body on the beach. Recognizing the victim as a Haitian policeman, he investigates links to human smuggling while his involvement strains their marriage.

A controversial mystery author dies during a signing at Gemma Doyle's Sherlock Holmes bookshop after arguing with a devoted fan. Gemma and Jayne Wilson investigate publishing rivals, employees, and enthusiasts to prevent the arrest of an innocent friend.

Bookshop owner Gemma Doyle discovers a rare magazine containing the first Sherlock Holmes story and searches for its owner. Finding a dead woman instead makes Gemma a suspect, forcing her to apply her observational skills to clear her name.

Christmas-in-July festivities bring Merry Wilkinson's former fiance to Rudolph with a magazine team. When he is found strangled in her shop, Merry must investigate his death while sorting out the personal complications his visit has created.

Paramedic Ashley Grant relocates to a Caribbean island after a breakup and immediately encounters a suspicious death. An old school acquaintance believes her stepmother murdered her father, pulling Ashley into an investigation before she has settled into her new home.

Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson help organize a fundraising auction after a museum fire. When the museum's board chair is found murdered before the sale begins, Gemma investigates a crowded suspect list to assist another shopkeeper under suspicion.

Paramedic Ashley Grant attends a resort fire and recognizes the dead chef as her friend's cousin. A second death prompts police to close the case, but her friend's doubts draw Ashley into investigating the resort's hidden troubles.

An aging star arrives on Cape Cod to play Sherlock Holmes, then dies after a fundraising tea. Evidence points toward Jayne Wilson's mother, leaving Gemma Doyle and Jayne to investigate theatrical rivalries and clear her name.

Merry Wilkinson's mother hosts a reunion of college friends whose constant quarrels spoil the holiday atmosphere. After one woman is poisoned, Merry investigates to protect her father's reputation and resolve the tensions that have followed the visitors to Rudolph.

Ashley Grant's father befriends a vacationing neighbor during a visit to her Caribbean home. When the man disappears, Frank insists on finding him, drawing Ashley toward secrets that complicate the island's seemingly carefree atmosphere.

Merry Wilkinson agrees to help decorate a wedding, only for an impatient bride to advance its date and demands. The groom's murder at the proposed venue turns preparations into an increasingly personal investigation as the New Year approaches.

Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts faces a developer whose resort plans threaten her business and her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast. When he is found dead near their property, Lily investigates to protect her grandmother from a murder accusation.

Gemma Doyle travels to London for a Sherlock Holmes convention and a family visit. An encounter with a relative involved in art forgery leads to murder, forcing Gemma and her friends to investigate before her retired-detective father is imprisoned.

After helping a girl find her missing cat, Gemma Doyle receives a more serious request: clear the child's mother of murder. A vandalized garden and rivalry over a club trophy lead Gemma and Jayne into another local investigation.

In 1953, Elizabeth Grady helps her mother manage a Catskills resort until a guest is found dead in its lake. Police suspicions of communist espionage threaten the business, prompting Elizabeth to investigate the murder herself.

A contentious family reunion brings trouble to Lily Roberts's tearoom when a guest dies after drinking his own herbal tea. With her business implicated, Lily and her grandmother investigate longstanding feuds and the person who poisoned his brew.

Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson cater a Sherlock Holmes-themed country-house weekend for a wealthy host and his uneasy guests. A poisoned dart interrupts the gathering, leaving Gemma to unravel relationships that make the assembled suspects difficult to trust.

A demanding film director chooses Elizabeth Grady's Catskills resort as a shooting location and antagonizes staff and colleagues. When he is poisoned at dinner, Elizabeth investigates a cast of suspects to protect the film and her family's business.

Lily Roberts enters her Cape Cod tearoom in a television baking competition, only for a hostile celebrity judge to be murdered in its kitchen. With an employee under suspicion, Lily investigates the show's competing personalities.

Rivalries disrupt an amateur production of A Christmas Carol in Rudolph, New York. After a participant is found dead, shopkeeper Merry Wilkinson investigates a cast and crew that includes her mother and her ambitious shop assistant.

Lily Roberts buys an antique tea set that two half sisters urgently want back. Their search for a hidden will turns deadly at her grandmother’s inn, forcing Lily to investigate the family dispute and other possible motives.

Gemma Doyle investigates reports of ghostly activity at Scarlet House, a historical museum in Massachusetts. When she and Jayne discover a body there, strange happenings give way to a murder investigation with plenty of possible suspects.

Merry Wilkinson’s friend Vicky prepares for a wedding and a move into a disputed historic house. A body found in its garden puts Vicky’s fiancé under suspicion, leaving Merry to investigate before the celebrations collapse.

Excluded from a séance, bookshop owner Gemma listens outside until screams summon her to a dead participant. With locked windows and the only door under her watch, she must identify a murderer among the people gathered in the room.

A disturbing bridal-shower gift exposes tensions between two families staying at Lily Roberts’s grandmother’s inn. When the groom’s father dies from poisoned whiskey, Lily must investigate the feuds surrounding a wedding now overshadowed by murder.

Busy preparing Christmas festivities, Merry Wilkinson initially dismisses her landlady’s concerns about new neighbors. When the older woman disappears, Merry must take those suspicions seriously and investigate what has gone wrong during Rudolph’s holiday season.

Lily Roberts accompanies her grandmother to an aristocrat’s birthday celebration in Yorkshire. Missing family jewels and a guest’s fatal allergic reaction to Lily’s food turn the visit into an investigation of inheritance, theft, and murder.

Visiting London for her sister’s wedding, Gemma agrees to inspect a rare book for her former husband. Finding him dead and the book missing sends her and Jayne through his troubled connections to uncover the truth before another attack.

A Halloween fundraising gala celebrates Vicky Casey’s forthcoming cookbook until a guest dies after eating one of her desserts. With her friend’s reputation threatened, Merry Wilkinson investigates the contentious guests and the cause of the death.

Guests conducting séances at Lily Roberts’s grandmother’s inn mistake it for a neighboring haunted house. When their missing medium is found dead below the cliff, Lily must discover what lies behind their unsuccessful attempts to contact spirits.

Jayne’s birthday party turns disastrous when a guest is found dead in the water below the café. With her wedding a week away and her fiancé a prime suspect, Gemma investigates the guests’ secrets to protect him from arrest.