Each volume can be read on its own, but understanding character development and backstories provides a richer experience. I recommend following the official sequence from Erica's tentative initial visit to Auntie Em until her intrepid sleuthing that sets the Chief of Police Scott Bell's teeth on edge.

It's In Her Blood

Murder In The Wrong House

Finding Mandy

A witty, cozy Lake Country Mystery with a sharp tongue, dark corners, and a sleuth who notices everything except her own emotional evasions.

Erica Grace has spent eleven years avoiding Trinity Point, Grace Manor, her family’s mystery-obsessed legacy, and every amateur sleuth who ever mistook murder for a hobby. She was a star athlete turned successful Manhattan book critic, thank you very much, and she does not read mysteries. On principle.

Then her mother’s illness pulls her back to the old graystone memory on the lake, where her brilliant Auntie Em still treats detective work as a family inheritance and every room looks as if it is waiting for a body.

Erica intends to stay only long enough to be dutiful. Instead, a corporate payroll theft is turning into something colder, sharper, and deadlier. Auntie Em is delighted to have a case, and Erica will have to follow the clues through small-town gossip, dysfunctional suspects, polished lies, and one very inconvenient truth.

She may have been born for this.

Trinity Point’s leading business person (and husband to a Hollywood hottie)‌ is going down for murder! Why would he kill a notorious computer hacker and stuff him in the home freezer? The police say it was blackmail gone wrong. Erica thinks that is way to convenient.

On the passing of her estranged mother, Erica thought she was coming back to Trinity Point to wrap up some family business and pay a visit to the one member of the family she stayed in touch with, ‌Auntie Em.

After being recruited by the accused murderer’s celebrity spouse, actress Martha Moore, Erica reluctantly agrees to help her mystery-loving Auntie Em start her own investigation into the murder.

The story has gone viral, the media swoons, the local police are in a panic, and Trinity Point is in an uproar.

The stakes are high, danger is afoot, and Erica Grace and Auntie Em have to be at their creative best to piece together what really happened.

And we all want to know: will boat captain Logan Wood steal Erica's closely guarded heart?

She wanted to help a hurting teen find her stolen dog; unfortunately, the dog came attached to murder. And the only one telling the truth is the dog, and she can’t talk.

Fred Gott went searching for the man who stole his daughter’s beloved dog; he finds Sparky Zarsdick dead instead. Afraid the police will pin the murder on him, Fred turns to Erica Grace and her razor-sharp Auntie Em for help.

But this case is anything but simple. A trail of dog-nappers, blackmail, and family secrets leads straight into a lucrative criminal enterprise expanding into organized dog-theft. With loyal Piper Booth digging up gossip, steady Logan Wood chasing down dangerous leads, and Auntie Em calmly untangling clues from her office in Grace Manor, Erica soon discovers that nearly everyone is claiming Mandy belongs to them.

Then, just when a promising witness comes forth to expose the liars, he is silenced permanently before he can talk.

If Erica cannot uncover Mandy's actual home , the killer may get away with more than murder—and leave innocent people to pay the price.

Lake Country Mysteries

Book One of the Lake Country Mysteries

Book TWO of the Lake Country Mysteries

Book THREE of the Lake Country Mysteries