Victoria Abbott Books in Order

This themed anthology turns midlife frustrations into sharp, funny crime fiction. The stories mix wit, menace, and ordinary lives pushed toward murder, with several different voices keeping the surprises coming.

Victims' advocate Camilla MacPhee tries to clear her best friend after a vicious fashion columnist is found murdered in an Ottawa hotel. Almost everyone hated the victim, which only makes the trail more dangerous.

Sports, fitness, and competitive hobbies drive this anthology of crime stories and poems. From golf courses to gyms, healthy living turns dangerous fast when rage, envy, and revenge enter the game.

In a bitter Ottawa winter, Camilla helps a terrified woman fleeing a serial batterer and soon stumbles into a murder case. The deeper she goes, the colder and riskier the investigation gets.

Camilla's plans for Ottawa's Bluesfest vanish when her assistant Alvin's younger brother disappears in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Her search uncovers frantic families, buried secrets, and a killer waiting back in Ottawa.

Music sets the rhythm in this anthology of murder and mayhem. The stories draw on songs, musicals, and performance, moving from sly humor to darker twists without missing a beat.

Failed romance writer Fiona Silk comes home to find her former lover dead in her bed. In a village where gossip travels fast, she has to clear her name before the killer writes her into the ending.

An old acquaintance's supposed accident pulls Camilla into secrets tied to a violent revolutionary group from decades earlier. Every answer leads to another death, and trouble finds her fast.

When Camilla's friend Violet Parnell vanishes after Remembrance Day, a handful of wartime letters send the search all the way to Tuscany. The case links old heroism, buried history, and fresh danger.

This anthology takes a wicked look at baby boomers getting older, crankier, and more dangerous. The stories balance humor and bite as old grudges, bad decisions, and crime catch up with them.

After dumping her cheating fiance, Charlotte Adams returns home to start over as a professional organizer. Her first client, the town's most feared former teacher, winds up dead under a mountain of clutter, and Charlotte becomes a suspect.

Broke and desperate, Fiona agrees to write an erotic cookbook while a flashy TV cooking production rolls into town. Then a fatal crash, a fire, and a growing body count drag her into another murder case.

An explosive mix of crime stories, this anthology ranges from funny to chilling in a hurry. Loud exits, hard falls, and final acts drive tales where nobody goes quietly.

Charlotte is hired to tame a huge stuffed-animal collection, then finds herself facing a neighbor's murder and a client's unlikely confession. To clear the woman, she has to sort through lies as messy as the house.

A corporate cleanup job turns ugly when the owner of an impossibly cluttered desk disappears. Office grudges, bad company, and a murder make Charlotte wonder who is organizing the danger around her.

As Camilla follows a major criminal trial, a sleazy defense lawyer turns up dead and more legal types seem to be in danger. She has to sort murder from courtroom games while chaos erupts around the Dragon Boat races.

Charlotte agrees to help a grieving mother sort through closets full of designer clothes, then hears the daughter's fatal accident may have been murder. What starts as a kindness becomes a far more dangerous investigation.

This compact collection gathers seven stories from the first Ladies' Killing Circle anthology. Secrets, greed, loneliness, and dark humor run through each tale, showing how quickly ordinary situations can turn deadly.

When 911 operator Mona Pringle says her old high school tormentors are back, Charlotte hears more pain than threat. Then lookalikes start dying in hit-and-runs, Mona disappears, and the past turns lethal.

Jordan Kelly lands a dream job hunting rare mysteries for the impossible Vera Van Alst, then gets sent after a rumored Agatha Christie play. When a previous researcher turns up dead, the search becomes a fight to stay alive.

Jordan is sent to recover Vera's missing Dorothy L. Sayers collection, only to find a family full of secrets, vanishing suspects, and a corpse. Solving the theft means sorting out greed, lies, and murder.

When a domineering stranger forces Jordan out of Vera Van Alst's house, Jordan starts digging into the woman's hold over her boss. A battle over money, property, and prized Nero Wolfe editions turns deadly.

This companion volume from the Cozy Chicks authors celebrates tea with recipes, themed menus, essays, quotes, and hosting tips. It invites readers to brew a pot, sample treats, and enjoy stories and tidbits that connect their favorite cozy heroines to real life tea tables.

Jordan and Vera chase a coveted set of Ngaio Marsh first editions to a grand estate called Summerlea. When the supposed seller dies and the wrong man appears in the obituary, scam and murder collide.

A rare copy of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest sends Jordan and Smiley to San Francisco for what should be a romantic getaway. Instead they find family secrets, repeated attacks, and a mystery as twisty as the city's hills.

A child and his mother set out to find the perfect pumpkin for Halloween. The story turns pumpkin picking and carving into a warm, kid-friendly adventure.

This early reader follows a bus ride through the neighborhood as a child spots community helpers at work. It's a simple, upbeat look at jobs and the big question of what to be when you grow up.

Charlotte's free-spirited mother vanishes overseas, and soon Charlotte's own home is ransacked and set on fire. Following clues through Europe, she uncovers old secrets and a chase that grows more dangerous by the mile.

Camilla heads to Cape Breton planning to elope with Ray Deveau, only to end up stranded with a dog, a cat, and a missing fiance. A hurricane, family secrets, and multiple deaths turn the trip wild.