Victoria Houston Books in Order

A practical guide for families navigating after-school self-care. Helen L. Swan and Victoria Houston cover communication, emergencies, illness, first aid, cooking, and house rules so children home alone can feel safer and more confident.

A practical guide that helps children and parents think through independence, safety, and everyday routines. It is aimed at building confidence and good habits when kids have to manage parts of the day on their own.

Drawing on interviews with dozens of couples, Houston looks at relationships between older women and younger men with candor and curiosity. It mixes personal stories with advice about stigma, confidence, intimacy, and building a relationship that works.

Houston tackles the daily strain of balancing work, marriage, children, and a life of your own. It is a practical guide for dual-career families, focused on time, energy, priorities, and staying connected when everyone feels stretched.

A fill-in health record designed to keep important medical information in one place. It helps readers track personal and family history, appointments, treatments, and other details that are easy to lose when life gets hectic.

Retired dentist Paul Osborne is easing back into fly-fishing when he and Police Chief Lew Ferris find a body in the water. The discovery pulls Doc, Lew, and guide Ray Pradt into a small-town murder case with more danger than Doc expected in retirement.

Doc Osborne would rather be fishing, but helping Lew Ferris investigate is hard to resist. As they dig into killings and backwoods secrets around Loon Lake, it becomes clear that somebody is willing to kill to keep the truth buried.

While kayaking, Doc Osborne finds a woman's remains with strange bite marks, and soon a second body turns up. Lew Ferris has to connect two tangled cases, one involving a Kansas City businesswoman and a slippery ex-lover.

Cowritten with Dr. James Simon, this book looks at low sexual desire and the role testosterone therapy may play before, during, and after menopause. It blends medical explanation with a firsthand patient perspective.

Tom Shelby and Victoria Houston tell the true story of a K-9 search-and-rescue team working the Catskill Mountains. Alongside the missions, the book shares dog-handling and training insights that everyday owners can use.

Bass tournaments, bikers, drugs, and valuable antique fishing lures turn a Northwoods summer rough. While Doc Osborne reopens an old murder and deals with a mysterious stalker, Lew Ferris tries to sort through a town full of bad possibilities.

Ice-fishing season brings trouble when two snowmobilers are pulled from a lake and another woman turns up dead in the snow. Lew Ferris and Doc Osborne follow a murky trail through drugs, cold-weather grudges, and Northwoods secrets.

Advice columnist Hope McDonald seemed to know everybody's troubles, which leaves Lew Ferris with a long suspect list when she is murdered. Doc Osborne helps sift through desperate letters, damaged lives, and the private cost of public wisdom.

A bizarre triple homicide rocks Loon Lake, beginning with the murder of Peg Garmin and two exotic dancers on a back road. Lew, Doc, and Ray uncover old secrets and wealthy Chicago connections that make the case far messier than it first looks.

A young woman is found floating beneath a party pontoon, while a prominent widow is bludgeoned the same morning. Lew Ferris and Doc Osborne dig into looted bank accounts, visiting Chicago money, and two murders that may be closer than they seem.

Thanksgiving in Loon Lake turns deadly before Lew Ferris can even stuff the turkey. With bodies piling up, an absent coroner, and a trail leading toward stolen merchandise and credit card fraud, the holiday becomes a frantic winter investigation.

Helping his daughter with a client dispute seems harmless enough until Doc Osborne stumbles onto human remains hidden in an antique shop. The discovery opens a knotty case of old violence, legal trouble, and the dangerous things people keep stored away.

Loon Lake is busy with an international ice fishing festival when Lew Ferris is called to a fatal shooting. A stalking complaint, a college president under pressure, and mounting coincidences turn the deep winter cold into a tense investigation.

When a hospital CEO's young lover is found stabbed, suspicion spreads quickly through his wife, his former affair, and his workplace. Lew Ferris and Doc Osborne chase the case from office politics to the river, where a grim discovery shifts everything.

During an August flood, pieces of a Senate candidate's body wash down toward Loon Lake, and the media rushes in. Lew Ferris and Doc Osborne are soon neck-deep in campaign money, damaged loyalties, and a murder with political teeth.

A missing bank executive's bones and a graduate student's murder lead Lew Ferris into a hidden river area used by wolves. While Doc Osborne worries about family troubles at home, the case grows stranger, and Lew finds herself pulled in unexpected directions.

A wealthy widow is shoved into the path of a logging truck, and the lone witness soon turns up dead in icy water. Lew Ferris faces bitter relatives, unsettling artwork, and a very personal complication that hits her in the middle of the case.

What looks like a horrific accident at a gentleman's club quickly turns into murder. As Lew Ferris, Doc Osborne, and Ray Pradt work the case, a fishing tournament and the disappearance of Doc's granddaughter raise the stakes.

At the close of the Loon Lake Youth Fishing Tournament, a rich and powerful sponsor is shot without anyone hearing the gunfire over fireworks. Lew Ferris investigates while Doc Osborne juggles family trouble and a second wave of thefts at a nursing home.

A frightened accountant tells Doc Osborne that his wife and boss tried to run him over, and then things get worse. Lew Ferris is pulled between murder, stolen lakeshore properties, birch thefts, and another bruising summer in the Northwoods.

A wealthy couple's deaths bring big-city attention to Loon Lake, and Lew Ferris suddenly has more than one serious case on her hands. With Doc Osborne beside her, she follows a trail that runs through family trouble, local business, and computer sabotage.

Lew Ferris is in the middle of reelection season when her brother is murdered and a land fight over mining turns deadly. With a wealthy family under suspicion and bodies mounting, she has to untangle greed, grief, and Northwoods politics.

On her first day as county sheriff, Lew Ferris is handed a teenage drowning that echoes an unsolved murder from decades earlier. A stubborn subordinate, a reopened cold case, and Doc Osborne's brush with money laundering keep her stretched thin.

Lew Ferris thinks a pickleball player's death may be a stray hunting shot, until a second player is killed. Suddenly she is facing furious spouses, frightened locals, and the possibility that someone in Loon Lake is hunting people on purpose.

A high school fishing tournament takes a dark turn when a competitor is blackmailed and disappears into the woods. As Ray helps search and Lew investigates a missing wolf-watching couple, the case widens into illegal betting, blackmail, and bigger threats.