Victoria Trumbull Books in Order

When a brutal killing shocks Martha's Vineyard, ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull and her granddaughter Elizabeth are pulled into a tangle of harbor politics, wealthy visitors, and dangerous island secrets. The case introduces a sleuth who knows everyone, and misses very little.

Victoria goes searching for a rare orchid that could block a controversial land deal and finds a corpse instead. What follows is a sharp island mystery about development, greed, and the many people who want a beautiful stretch of Vineyard land.

An empty grave, a vanished coffin, and a string of strange deaths send Victoria into one of her knottiest cases. Old scandals, missing bodies, and smuggling whispers turn a winter burial problem into something far more dangerous.

After several Vineyard residents die from poison, Victoria starts following the trail through church suppers, private secrets, and neighborhood goodwill. On an island where nobody locks a door, that openness suddenly looks a lot more risky.

Fired after decades of writing the local social column, Victoria joins a rival paper just as a threatening obituary and a developer's death shake the island. The result is a sly mystery about gossip, grudges, and small-town news wars.

When a Martha's Vineyard native falls from a cliff, Victoria suspects murder and finds herself in the middle of land battles, inheritance claims, and casino politics. The case mixes tribal disputes, outside money, and a killer who thinks the island can be bought.

Victoria's serious stage version of Frankenstein goes badly off script when a child actor disappears after dress rehearsal and murder follows. Theater politics, island gossip, and a missing boy make this one of the series' most theatrical cases.

A body in a tax assessor's home points Victoria toward embezzlement, blackmail, and the shadier side of island real estate. As more deaths follow, she has to untangle money, religion, and local politics before the killer gets farther ahead.

A group of knitters making a coral reef quilt for a climate project becomes the target of a menacing phone stalker. When fear turns to murder, Victoria must sort through frayed nerves, family tension, and a suspect who has vanished.

A dead man turns up in a trench dug for a fiber-optic cable, and Victoria's newest boarder may know why. Investment schemes, double-dealing, and island ambition make this case bigger than it first appears.

On her first day teaching at struggling Ivy Green College, Victoria notices a foul smell that leads to buried bodies and academic chaos. As the scandal grows, she hunts a killer while the little college fights for its survival.

A woman dies in a dentist's chair, then the clinic receptionist ends up floating in the harbor. With the police stretched thin, Victoria digs into wills, resentments, and a medical office full of people who know more than they say.

Victoria's tenant thinks a poisonous mushroom might solve his girlfriend problem, but the dinner table consequences are not what he expects. While panic spreads, Victoria investigates a separate run of deaths that may be tied to someone much closer to home.

Victoria agrees to host a wedding reception and gets far more than cake and lemonade. With money troubles, family scheming, and a corpse in her cellar, this late-series mystery turns a Vineyard celebration into a very public disaster.