Clare Kauter

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2015
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Baxter & Co. Mysteries

1 - Live and Let Bondi (Dec-2017)
2 - Gone Ghoul (Sep-2018)
3 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sting (May-2019)

A Charlie Davies Mystery

0.5 - Short Fuse (Mar-2016)
1 - Losing Your Head (Mar-2015)
2 - Unfinished Sentence (Sep-2015)
3 - Graceless (Aug-2016)
4 - Higher Learning (Dec-2016)
5 - Santa's Little Helper (Dec-2016)
6 - Undetected (May-2017)
7 - Caught in the Act (Aug-2017)
8 - Raising Hell (Nov-2017)
9 - New Year, Screw You (Feb-2018)
9.5 - Cut Short (Jul-2018)
9.6 - Short Straw (Mar-2019)
10 - Strip Joint (Oct-2019)
10.5 - Strangle All the Way (Dec-2019)
11 - Breaking News (Jan-2020)

Damned, Girl!

1 - Deadhead (Jun-2015)
2 - Sled Head (Nov-2015)
3 - Hell's Belles (Oct-2016)
4 - Loch Nessa (Mar-2017)
5 - Vampire Campfire (Jul-2017)
6 - Gods and Frauds (Feb-2019)

Hellfire College

1 - When the Moon (Jan-2019)

Wayward Folk

1 - Get Folked (Oct-2020)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Losing Your Head

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 1

    Charlie Davies lacks, well, skills. Hand-eye coordination. Life skills. Doing her taxes, transferable work skills, anger management â€" you get the picture. So when somehow she manages to trick the owner of a security company into giving her a job, s...

  • Deadhead

    Damned, Girl! - 1

    Nessa sees dead people. Unfortunately, much like the living, most ghosts are... Well, much like the living. When a talking axolotl appears in her kitchen, Nessa discovers - after briefly questioning her sanity - that by talking to ghosts she has appa...

  • Unfinished Sentence

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 2

    Amateur sleuth Charlie Davies is back again, and this time she's taking on a Russian gangster. Well, maybe. Charlie's boss, the less-than-friendly Adam Baxter, has received information that local club owner Lonny Lionel is, in fact, an escaped forei...

  • Sled Head

    Damned, Girl! - 2

    Murdering Santa isn't the most festive way to spend Christmas.

    The trouble is, The Department has already decided what Nessa's next assignment is going to be, and getting rid of Santa is a nonnegotiable. This Yuletide season, Nessa must leav...

  • Short Fuse

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 0.5

    Charlie's week just keeps going from bad to worse - and now her brother is missing.

    Between attending school, working her terrible job, putting up with her arch nemesis and trying to keep her romance novel addiction under wraps, Charlie alre...

  • Graceless

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 3

    Meet Charlie Davies, Private Investigator…’s assistant. When a little girl goes missing, Charlie is convinced that both the police and her boss are looking in the wrong place. She joins off-duty cop James McKenzie in a secret investigation into t...

  • Hell's Belles

    Damned, Girl! - 3

    Meet Hell's hottest new intern.

    Nessa has no magic licence, no money, and no choice but to take up an apprenticeship in Hell. Working for her old friend Satan isn't so bad â€" Hell, it turns out, is a lot like Las Vegas. Well, except for th...

  • Higher Learning

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 4

    Charlie Davies is about to face her worst nightmare: she's going back to high school. Following the death of a local schoolgirl, Charlie must go undercover to find out who is dealing drugs to students. Not only does this mean heading back to class, b...

  • Santa's Little Helper

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 5

    There’s a flashing Santa on the loose, jingling his bells at unsuspecting holiday shoppers. Since Charlie is currently on her boss’s naughty list, she must go undercover as an elf to try and track this wayward Santa down. This means that at the j...



  • Loch Nessa

    Damned, Girl! - 4

    Nessa is back, and this time she’s in deep.

    When a witch from the local coven goes missing, Nessa gets dragged into the search. Her investigation takes her to Loch Ness, where the witch was studying dragons.

    It’s time to meet the ...

  • Undetected

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 6

    Charlie Davies is back. And so, it seems, is Topher. Oh brother. All the signs point to Charlie's big bro, Topher, being back in town. The trouble is, Charlie can't find him - and she's not the only one looking. Even for an amazing PI, this is a tric...

  • Vampire Campfire

    Damned, Girl! - 5

    Missing magicals, murder, and mayhem.

    Magicals are disappearing all over Hellfire Shire, and no one has a clue what’s happening to them. For once, Nessa actually wants to get involved in a case â€" but she’s assigned to a boring murder i...

  • Caught in the Act

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 7

    Charlie’s back, and this time she â€" well, she lets a murderer escape. Oops.

    Now she has to track the killer down, which would be a lot easier if she wasn’t still healing from her last scrape with a murderer. And it’s not just her in...

  • Raising Hell

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 8

    Charlie Davies is back again, and this time she’s taking on the devil.

    When Charlie discovers the body of a priest seemingly sacrificed to Satan, the case seems pretty open and shut. After all, Charlie herself saw a certain Satan-loving me...

  • Live and Let Bondi

    The Baxter & Co. Mysteries - 1

    One beachside stabbing, one impossible ghost sighting, and two private investigators who don’t want to work together â€" at all.

    Natalia isn’t sure about the new PI in the office. He’s keeping secrets, which isn’t ideal behaviour fro...

  • New Year, Screw You

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 9

    Charlie Davies is back, and she’s bored.

    Not only has she not worked a case in months, but now that she’s on holidays her friends are dragging her along to a self improvement class to get ready for the new year. Early mornings, yoga, he...

  • Cut Short

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 9.5

    CUT SHORT follows on from NEW YEAR, SCREW YOU (The Charlie Davies Mysteries Book 9). If you haven’t read that book yet, this novella won’t make a lot of sense.

    It’s New Year’s Day and Charlie’s on a mission: buy new shampoo. Well,...

  • Gone Ghoul

    The Baxter & Co. Mysteries - 2

    Six months later, Sydney's top PIs are back. And they pretty much haven't slept in the meantime.Nat and Billy have built a reputation for themselves as paranormal investigators, uncovering the truth behind seemingly supernatural events. But this late...

  • When the Moon

    Hellfire College - 1

    Step 1: Survive my first week of college.Step 2: Don't give anyone reason to suspect I'm a werewolf.Step 3: Definitely don't lose my temper, shift in the middle of class and maul Jerkface to death. No matter how tempting it is to take a bite out of h...



  • Gods and Frauds

    Damned, Girl! - 6

    It's not every day I get kidnapped by a gang of angels and hauled off to their heavenly lair. Satan's not going to be happy when she hears about this.I have no idea why they've dragged me here, and now that some dude I've never met has turned up dead...

  • Phantom in the Night

  • Short Straw

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 9.6

    Charlie Davies Short Cases are companion novellas to the Charlie Davies Mysteries. If you're new here, start with LOSING YOUR HEAD, Charlie Davies Mystery #1.I might be scary, but I've got nothing on my mother.It's Janine's birthday and my nightmare:...

  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sting

    The Baxter & Co. Mysteries - 3

    Someone’s going to steal something. Billy and Nat don’t know who. Or what. Or when. Or where. Or how. But if they don’t figure it out soon, Baxter & Co. is going under.

    No pressure.

    When their investigation brings them to a holid...

  • Strip Joint

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 10

    Charlie Davies is back â€" and so is Adam Baxter. Get emergency services on the line.

    Adam’s home to pack up his stuff before his move and Charlie isn’t happy to see him, to say the least. As a last goodbye, he suggests that they take on...

  • Strangle All the Way

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 10.5

    It's almost Christmas, I have a broken air conditioner, and the repairman's shown up dead at my front door.I wasn't a big fan of the guy, but I need to get to the bottom of this. A girl can't just ignore someone dumping a body on her doorstep. Especi...

  • Breaking News

    A Charlie Davies Mystery - 11

    Charlie Davies is back and she's... regretting certain decisions.

    But never mind. If she throws herself into this case and doesn't think about what happened, everything will work itself out. Probably. Maybe.

    Oh god.

    At least she'...

  • Get Folked

    Wayward Folk - 1

    A fake relationship with the lead singer of my favourite band – who thinks I've never heard his music. What could possibly go wrong?When pictures appear online showing folk-rock star Cole Brooks lying on top of me in a local park, my world get...

  • Folking Around

    A playboy rock star + his new bodyguard + a colossal secret = a whole lot of laughs and a happily ever after.So this is what it feels like to be public enemy number one.The band might be breaking up and it's my fault. I didn't do what everyone thinks...

  • Not a Clue

    Waking up is bad enough. But waking up next to a dead guy?It's killer.Hi. I'm Charlie Davies, and I've got three problems. One: I've woken up next to my ex.Two: He's dead.Three: I don't remember how I got here. Or if I'm the one who killed him. With ...



  • Tall Drink of Slaughter

    Cocktails, caravans and corpses – Keely South's life isn't going quite as planned...Stumbling across a dead body isn't so strange in the beach town of Dunkerton. After all, it is Australia's murder capital. But finding your acquaintance-slash-...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Clare Kauter has published 30 books.

Clare Kauter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tall Drink of Slaughter, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Clare Kauter, Losing Your Head, was published in March 2015.

Yes. Clare Kauter has 5 series.
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