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Whispering Pines Mystery Books in Order

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Find every Whispering Pines Mystery by Shawn McGuire in order, with quick summaries, series background, and simple guidance on where to begin.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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20 books

1

Family Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2017

Former detective Jayne O'Shea returns to Whispering Pines to ready her grandparents' house for sale and finds a body in the backyard instead. When the local sheriff shrugs it off, Jayne starts asking questions the villagers would rather avoid.

2

Kept Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2017

A shocking death among the carnival crowd rattles Whispering Pines just as Jayne starts settling into village life. When another death is brushed off as an accident, she steps in before the killer gets another chance.

3

Hidden Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2018

Jayne and Tripp's bed-and-breakfast is finally ready to open, until someone turns up dead near the road. With whispers that the murders began when she arrived, Jayne has to solve the case and clear her own name.

4

Original Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2018

While opening the bed-and-breakfast and reading her grandmother's journals, Jayne uncovers clues buried deep in Whispering Pines history. What starts as family research may lead her to a killer who has gone unnoticed for decades.

5

Rival Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2018

The autumn equinox festival should be good for business and village pride, until a famous chef is found dead in the woods. When suspicion lands on one of the locals, Jayne digs past appearances to protect one of her own.

6

Merciful Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2019

The Yuletide festival brings gossip, a suspected blackmailer, and then a murder. When eerie packages appear around Whispering Pines predicting more deaths, Jayne has to decide whether to solve the killing or stop the next one.

7

Silent Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2019

Jayne expects a little quiet after months of chaos, but a Thanksgiving brawl at the village pub leaves one man gravely injured. With vigilantes, critics, and angry locals in the mix, the suspect list is anything but short.

8

Veiled Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2019

Jayne is bracing for a tense visit from her sister when a boy vanishes during trick-or-treating. With a storm closing in and whispers of kidnapping, the search drags old family pain into the open.

9

Burning Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2020

Beltane should be a bright, busy celebration, but someone is setting small fires all over Whispering Pines during a dangerous dry spell. Jayne has to stop an arsonist before the whole village goes up in smoke.

10

Justified Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2020

A blizzard traps Whispering Pines just as a bruised stranger stumbles into town and an elderly villager goes missing. Jayne can handle the storm, but the ghost from her own past may be the harder thing to face.

11

Protected Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2020

Spring brings warmth, a visiting coven, and Jayne's mother to Whispering Pines, which is enough stress already. When one of the coven members disappears, Jayne fears she is not searching for a missing person but for another body.

12

Secret of Her Own

by Shawn McGuire

2020

Jayne heads to Maui dreaming of hikes, beaches, and a break from crime. Then Gemi Kittredge, a fierce local MMA fighter, asks for help, and Jayne's quiet vacation disappears fast.

13

Secret of the Season

by Shawn McGuire

2020

Two friends take their children into the woods to find the perfect Yule tree. Then they realize someone is stalking them, and help is much too far away.

14

Blind Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2021

A blanket of fog, feuding wedding planners, and arguments with Tripp already have Jayne on edge. Then a villager falls gravely ill, rumors of a curse spread, and Jayne races to prove there is a very human culprit.

15

Secret of the Yuletide Crafter

by Shawn McGuire

2021

Teen kitchen witch Reeva Long keeps finding crocheted Christmas ornaments tucked around Whispering Pines. Tracking down the mystery giver turns into a gentle holiday puzzle with more going on beneath the surface.

16

Wayward Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2022

Tourist season is about to reopen, and Jayne wants Whispering Pines to have a better year than the last one. Instead, villagers begin disappearing, and stopping the person behind it could cost her everything she loves.

17

Secret of the Winter Woodsman

by Shawn McGuire

2023

A teenage witch goes looking for a little holiday cheer and uncovers a secret that has been buried for decades. What starts as a seasonal search could shake the peace of Whispering Pines.

18

Secret of the Season's Fortune

by Shawn McGuire

2024

Effie Crane and her best friend flee their home with the kids and no real plan except to keep moving. Lost in the snowy Northwoods, they find shelter with Lucy O'Shea and begin to wonder if this strange place might heal them.

19

Returning Secrets

by Shawn McGuire

2025

A chaotic tourist season, prankish crows, and a lakeside wedding already have Jayne busy. Then the feuding wedding guests arrive, one of them turns up dead in the lake, and Whispering Pines proves it still keeps dark secrets.

20

Secret of the Hopeful Holiday

by Shawn McGuire

2025

Jayne and Morgan head to Blackwood Grove for a festive getaway and a chance to recapture some holiday spirit. Strange magic and a pink-haired stranger soon turn the trip into something much more meaningful.

Series background & context

The Whispering Pines books start with a great hook. Former detective Jayne O'Shea returns to her grandparents' house in a small Wisconsin village, planning to sort things out and move on. Instead, she finds the house in bad shape, a body in the yard, and a local sheriff who is not especially interested in doing the job. That is Family Secrets, and it sets the tone for everything that follows.

Whispering Pines itself is half the appeal. It is a Northwoods village built as a haven for outsiders, full of witches, fortune tellers, crafters, green spaces, odd little businesses, and a very particular community identity. The place has a cozy surface, but it never feels fake-sweet. There are real grudges here. Real old hurts. Real reasons people came to this village or were driven away from it. The magic in the series is usually light, woven into everyday life rather than treated like a hard magic system, and that makes the village feel even more lived in.

Jayne is the anchor.

She is practical, skeptical, and never entirely means to become the person solving the case. That is part of the fun. Again and again, she tells herself she is staying out of it, and again and again she notices the detail no one else seems to care about. The early books follow her as she gets pulled deeper into village life, renovates the family property, and starts putting down roots she did not expect to want. The personal arc matters as much as the mystery.

So do the long-buried secrets. That word is in many of the titles for a reason. The series keeps returning to family history, village history, and the ways old choices echo into the present. Original Secrets digs into the past through Jayne's grandmother's journals. Later books widen the lens, bringing in holiday festivals, tourists, missing people, rivalries, strange illnesses, arson, and the complicated question of who really belongs in Whispering Pines.

The tone lands in a sweet spot. These are cozy mysteries, but they are not flimsy. They have heart, humor, friendship, romance, and a lot of affection for small-town rituals, yet the stakes feel real. McGuire is especially good at making the village itself feel like a character, one readers would gladly revisit despite the alarming body count.

It is cozy, but never sleepy.

If you like series that reward reading in order, this one does that well. Each book brings a fresh mystery, but the real pleasure is watching Jayne's relationship with the village change. What begins as a reluctant homecoming slowly turns into something deeper, stranger, and much harder to walk away from.

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All 20 Whispering Pines Mystery Books in Order (2026)