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Zoe Chambers Mystery Books in Order

Part ofAnnette Dashofy Books in Order

Find the Zoe Chambers Mystery books by Annette Dashofy in order, with short summaries, series background, and helpful advice on where to begin.

Last updated: July 9, 2026

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13 books

1

Circle of Influence

by Annette Dashofy

2014

When a dead body is found in the township board president's abandoned car during a January blizzard, paramedic and deputy coroner Zoe Chambers is pulled into a dangerous case. Solving it means unearthing secrets that could wreck half the town.

2

Lost Legacy

by Annette Dashofy

2014

What looks like a farmer's suicide opens a trail back to deaths from forty-five years earlier. As Zoe digs into the past, she begins to question the story she has always been told about her father's death.

3

Bridges Burned

by Annette Dashofy

2015

After saving a grieving widower from a house fire, Zoe invites him and his young daughter to stay at her farm. Pete is uneasy from the start, and evidence soon suggests their houseguest may be tied to two murders.

4

With a Vengeance

by Annette Dashofy

2016

Someone is staging crash scenes and gunning down first responders across Monongahela County. Zoe treats the wounded while Pete races to find the sniper before she becomes the next target.

5

No Way Home

by Annette Dashofy

2017

A trail ride turns grim when Zoe finds a county commissioner's body in the woods. Soon she is off to New Mexico to help clear her best friend's missing son, while Pete faces murders and meth trouble back home.

6

Cry Wolf

by Annette Dashofy

2018

A murder at the assisted living home where Pete's father lives makes the case painfully personal. While Zoe runs a death investigation and deals with a newly arrived half-brother, a second body reveals darker ties to the past.

7

Uneasy Prey

by Annette Dashofy

2018

An elderly woman tells Zoe her fall was no accident, then dies before she can say more. The trail leads to con artists preying on local seniors, and Zoe's decision to protect one vulnerable woman puts her directly in harm's way.

8

Fair Game

by Annette Dashofy

2019

Zoe hopes a week at the county fair will give her a break, but a dead woman, a troubled teen, and a gruesome discovery at the fairgrounds say otherwise. Pete follows a muddy trail through two murders that may be connected.

9

Til Death

by Annette Dashofy

2020

An overturned murder conviction forces Pete Adams to reopen one of his earliest cases and question whether he sent the wrong man to prison. At the same time, Zoe juggles mysterious deaths, a demanding new job, and wedding plans.

10

Under the Radar

by Annette Dashofy

2020

When Zoe's old friend Horace shoots a longtime bully and later another tormentor turns up dead in his kitchen, Pete suspects the case is far from simple. Zoe's effort to clear Horace leads her into a blizzard, family secrets, and fresh danger.

11

Fatal Reunion

by Annette Dashofy

2022

As Zoe Chambers-Adams searches for a missing woman, the case turns into a brutal murder that echoes the unsolved Monongahela Strangler killings from her teen years. A high school reunion and two feuding families drag old fear back into the open.

12

Helpless

by Annette Dashofy

2023

A massive storm rolls into Vance Township just as Pete and Zoe respond to a dead young mother, an injured father, and a missing child. Flooding, blocked roads, and a relentless killer turn the search into a desperate race.

13

What Comes Around

by Annette Dashofy

2024

Zoe is about to fire her abrasive chief deputy when a homicide victim arrives with a direct link to her office. As Zoe and Pete pull at the threads, multiple cases tangle together and put people close to them in danger.

Series background & context

Annette Dashofy's Zoe Chambers series starts with a strong hook: Zoe is a paramedic in rural Pennsylvania, and because she also serves as deputy coroner, she often arrives at a scene with two jobs, save the living and speak for the dead. That mix gives the books their rhythm. Cases begin with accidents, fires, storms, or everyday emergency calls, then turn into murder investigations that expose just how much a small town can hide.

Vance Township and the wider Monongahela County matter as much as any character. These are farm roads, fairs, barns, assisted living centers, hunting land, and houses where everybody knows family history going back decades. Dashofy uses that setting well. The countryside is beautiful, but it can also feel isolating, especially when bad weather rolls in or when a secret has had years to settle in.

Zoe is the emotional center, smart, capable, stubborn, and usually more willing than she should be to put herself in danger for someone else. Across the series, Police Chief Pete Adams is her closest investigative partner and, over time, her biggest personal anchor. Their connection is a big part of what keeps readers coming back. These are not romance-first mysteries, but the slow growth of trust between Zoe and Pete, and the way work keeps complicating their lives, gives the series real momentum.

That tension never really goes away.

The mysteries themselves are grounded in the kinds of problems that hit hard in close communities: old family grudges, suspicious deaths, missing people, drug trouble, elderly residents being targeted, and crimes that circle back to long-buried history. Because Zoe works both medical calls and death scenes, the books can move naturally from emergency response to police procedure. That makes the cases feel active and immediate, even when the clues reach deep into the past.

Later books widen Zoe's role as her responsibilities in the coroner's office grow, but the core of the series stays the same. These are character-driven rural procedurals with real stakes and a steady supporting cast, including law enforcement colleagues, family members, and townspeople who never quite stay on the sidelines. The collection Crime in the Country adds an extra layer if you want earlier glimpses of Zoe, Pete, and the world around them.

If you like mysteries where place matters, relationships carry from book to book, and every case feels personal to the people working it, this series does that very well. It has the familiarity readers often want from a long-running mystery world, but the crimes are often sharp-edged and the danger is real. Small-town comfort is part of the appeal. So are the secrets.

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