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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2006
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Ghost-in-Law Mystery

1 - Trouble in Mudbug (Feb-2009)
1.5 - The Helena Diaries - Trouble in Mudbug (Apr-2013)
2 - Mischief in Mudbug (Oct-2009)
3 - Showdown in Mudbug (Jul-2010)
4 - Resurrection in Mudbug (Jun-2013)
5 - Missing in Mudbug (Dec-2013)
6 - Chaos in Mudbug (Jun-2014)
22 - Flame and Fortune (Mar-2022)

Marina at Midlife

1 - Wrong Side of Forty (Feb-2020)

A Miss Fortune Mystery

1 - Louisiana Longshot (Jul-2012)
2 - Lethal Bayou Beauty (Mar-2013)
3 - Swamp Sniper (Oct-2013)
4 - Swamp Team 3 (Mar-2014)
5 - Gator Bait (Oct-2014)
6 - Soldiers of Fortune (Mar-2015)
7 - Hurricane Force (Sep-2015)
8 - Fortune Hunter (Apr-2016)
9 - Later Gator (Nov-2016)
10 - Hook, Line and Blinker (Jun-2017)
11 - Change of Fortune (Feb-2018)
12 - Reel Of Fortune (Jul-2018)
13 - Swamp Spook (Oct-2018)
14 - Fortune Furlough (Apr-2019)
15 - Cajun Fried Felony (Jul-2019)
16 - Swamp Santa (Oct-2019)
17 - Bullets and Beads (May-2020)
18 - Gators and Garters (Aug-2020)
19 - Fortune Funhouse (Jan-2021)
20 - Frightfully Fortune (May-2021)
21 - Swamp Sweets (Oct-2021)
22 - Flame and Fortune (Mar-2022)
23 - Swamp Spirits (Aug-2022)
24 - Clue Krewe (Feb-2023)
25 - Fortune Teller (May-2023)
26 - Swamp Spies (Feb-2024)
27 - Baskets and Beignets (May-2024)
28 - Marsh Madness (Sep-2024)

Mystere Parish

1 - The Reckoning (Oct-2012)
2 - The Vanishing (Nov-2012)
3 - The Awakening (Dec-2012)

Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance

1 - The Accused (Aug-2013)
2 - The Betrayed (Sep-2013)
3 - The Reunion: The Secret of Cypriere Bayou (Oct-2013)

Shaye Archer

1 - Malevolent (Jul-2015)
2 - Sinister (Jan-2016)
3 - Diabolical (Aug-2016)
4 - Wicked (Mar-2017)
5 - Unseen (Nov-2017)
6 - Dreadful (Apr-2018)
7 - Damned (Jan-2019)

A Tempest Island Novel

1 - Backrush (Jul-2021)
2 - Adrift (Oct-2022)
3 - Undertow (Oct-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Happy Everlasting

1 - Dead Man Talking (Oct-2017)

Shivers

5 - The Secret of Cypriere Bayou (Mar-2011)

Book List in Order: 60 titles



  • Gator Aid Deputy Dorie Berenger knew it was going to be a rough day when the alligator she found in the town drunk's swimming pool turned out to be stoned. On heroin. Now she has some big shot city slicker from the DEA trying to take over her turf...



  • Everyone in Royal Flush, Louisiana, knows Mallory Devereaux is a walking disaster. At least now she's found a way to take advantage of her chronic bad luck: by "cooling" cards on her uncle's casino boat. As long as the crooks invited to his special p...



  • Maryse Robicheaux can't help heaving a sigh of relief at the news that her not-so-beloved mother-in-law has kicked the bucket. The woman was rude, manipulative and loved lording over everyone as the richest citizen of Mudbug, Louisiana. Unfortunately...



  • Everyone in Mudbug, Louisiana, knows that when Helena Henry shows up, no good will come of it. Especially now that Helena is dead. And more meddlesome than ever. Sabine LeVeche needs to locate a blood relative fast -- her life depends on it. Her o...



  • Who killed Helena Henry? The shorter list may be who didn’t want her dead. Psychic Raissa Bordeaux thought she’d left her former life behind, but when a child is kidnapped, she risks her secret identity by offering the police help with the ca...



  • A MANSION OF HORRORS DEEP IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOU For Olivia Markham, laMalediction is the ideal setting in which to complete her work. But something is sending a chill up the usually fearless author's spine. There are the unearthly noises, the sli...



  • ONE REMOTE BAYOU MANSION WAS HOLDING TIGHT TO ITS SECRETS Bodyguard Brian Marcentel knew Justine Chatry had a job to do, but so did he. He'd been hired to keep her safe -- from whatever lurked behind the walls of a long-neglected mansion. And yet, t...



  • WHO IS GINNY BERGERON? She was only six when she walked out of the swamp after the LeBlanc School for Girls caught on fire. Sixteen years after the terrifying night that stole her memory, a child's scream lures Ginny back into the woods...where a st...



  • It was a hell of a long shot.... CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever -- in Sinful, Louisiana. With a leak at the CIA and a price placed on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has...






  • HIS JOB HAD BROUGHT HIM BACK TO VODOUN In a tiny bayou town with far too many wicked secrets, the sudden disappearance of a six-year-old girl is a mystery Sheriff Holt Chamberlain is determined to solve. But teaming up with Alexandria Bastin is a c...



  • THIS INVESTIGATION WILL TAKE THEM DEEP INTO THE BAYOU -- AND MIGHT NOT ALLOW THEM TO LEAVE... Certain death awaits any outsider who enters Cache, a mythical city said to disappear when intruders threaten. But P.I. Max Duhon won't let the Cajun sup...



  • SOMETHING IS OUT THERE...WATCHING...WAITING It could be a mythical creature wreaking havoc on a Mystere hotel...or a malicious vandal. It's detective Tanner LeDoux's first case and-much to his chagrin-the hotel belongs toJosie Bettencourt, once th...



  • No one in Sinful liked Pansy Arceneaux, but who hated her enough to kill her? When aspiring actress Pansy Arceneaux returns to Sinful, Louisiana, to head up the beauty pageant portion of the Summer Festival, CIA assassin Fortune Redding knows she’s...



  • From NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jana DeLeon, a companion novella to Trouble in Mudbug.WARNING: This novella is a companion book to TROUBLE IN MUDBUG. You should not read this novella prior to completing Trouble in Mudbug. The novella ...



  • Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the bayou… Jadyn St. James is excited to start her job as game warden in Mudbug, Louisiana, and hopes it is the beginning of a new and improved life. She expected to run across any number of odd ...



  • USA TODAY bestselling author Jana DeLeon has a new trilogy -- Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance After working as a cop in New Orleans, Carter Trahan is back in Mystere Parish, where his latest assignment seems like a joke: making sure Alaina Le...



  • A man undercover must reveal the truth in the swamps in the continuation of USA TODAY bestselling author Jana DeLeon's Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance. One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBe...



  • From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the third book in the Miss Fortune Mystery series. When only a crack shot will do… In the two weeks CIA assassin Fortune Redding has been hiding in Sinful, Louisiana, she’s been ha...



  • An heiress comes home to terror in New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon's Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance miniseries. Bodyguard to an heiress is Tyler Duhan's idea of hell. The steely, sexy ex-marine has heard -- and dismissed -- the ...






  • From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, a new release in the bestselling Ghost-in-Law series! After an eventful first week on the job, Game Warden Jadyn St. James is happy the small bayou town of Mudbug, Louisiana, seems to ...



  • New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon brings readers a light-hearted, sharp-witted tale of mystery, romance, and gun-slinging society matrons with a heavy dose of Southern charm. When college student Lexie Clairmont is summon...



  • From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the next installment in the bestselling Miss Fortune series. What’s a little arson between friends? Undercover CIA agent Fortune Redding spent her first three weeks in Sinful, Louisi...



  • The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Ghost-in-Law series. Jadyn St. James hopes that the two-week quiet period in Mudbug means things in the small bayou town were back to normal…whatever that is. But when a fisherman finds a sunken shri...



  • From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the fifth book in the hilarious Miss Fortune series. Things are starting to look up for Fortune Redding. Even though her life was at stake, the CIA assassin had balked at taking on a n...



  • The Rose Gardner Series and the Ghost-in-Law Series combine to bring you a rollicking round of holiday fun! This book may be read as a standalone novella; you do not need to have read either series to enjoy it. Rose Gardner a...



  • From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the sixth installment in the bestselling Miss Fortune series. When Celia Arceneaux was elected mayor of Sinful, Louisiana, Fortune Redding expected trouble. The woman has an unmatched ...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the first in a new thriller series. Everyone wondered about Shaye Archer’s past. Including Shaye. Shaye Archer’s life effectively began the night police found her in an alley, beaten and abused ...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the seventh book in the Miss Fortune series. A force to be reckoned with… During missions as a CIA assassin, Fortune Redding saw and overcame most every obstacle, but Sinful, Louisiana, keep...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the second book in the Shaye Archer thriller series. Street kids are disappearing, but how do you report that to the police when, from their standpoint, the missing people didn’t exist to begin wi...






  • Someone has created a fake social media identity and is online romancing the lonely women of Sinful in order to scam them out of money. Because he always seems to pick the perfect targets, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie think he must be either a Sinf...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the third book in the Shaye Archer thriller series.Nine years ago, the police found Shaye Archer wandering in the French Quarter, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, ...



  • A poacher is at work in Sinful, Louisiana, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc is hot on the trail of the outlaw, trying to apprehend him before the state gets wind of the crime and sends a game warden to take over his investigation. Unfortunately, he’s hind...



  • The fourth book in the Shaye Archer series by New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon. College student Tara Chatry is certain something bad has happened to her best friend Ethan Campbell. The smart, geeky student has disappeared, and when Tara ...



  • Nobody knows speed like Ida Belle. Behind the wheel of her hopped-up Blazer, she’s the queen of the back roads. But when someone tries to kill Hot Rod and steals only black SUVs from his shop, Fortune worries that excessive horsepower is the least ...



  • Meteorologist Zoe Parker put Everlasting in her rearview mirror as soon as she had her college degree in hand. But when Sapphire, her eccentric great-aunt, takes a tumble down the stairs in her lighthouse home, Zoe returns to the tiny fishing hamlet ...



  • Madison Avery is a young woman with a huge problem. From her penthouse apartment, she witnessed a murder in the building across the street, but by the time the police arrived, the crime scene had been wiped clean. Unfortunately, Madison suffers from ...



  • Sinful, Louisiana, is always a hotbed of activity, and despite the steamy heat, August is no exception. Godzilla is terrorizing the town, looking for a home-cooked meal, and Gertie is worried someone will take the gator out before she can get him...



  • Now you see me… Six years ago, five friends went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Four of them returned. One simply disappeared. Jenny Taylor has never gotten over the disappearance of her twin sister, Caitlyn, but now things are even worse. Caitlyn ...



  • Nothing says Welcome Home like a murder.It’s official. Fortune Redding is out of the CIA and a newly minted resident of Sinful, Louisiana. She never expected her homecoming to be all apple pie and hugs, but a murder wasn’t on her list of things t...






  • When black cats roam, and spooks are seen, Come celebrate, it's Halloween. Sinful, Louisiana, really knows how to throw a party, and it goes all out for Halloween. The weeklong celebration kicks off with a maze of horror in the park built of h...



  • When young priest Nicolas Chatry took his vows, he thought the hardest thing he’d have to deal with was accomplishing his duties from a wheelchair. Until a murderer steps into the confessional. Unable to recognize the voice or maneuver quickly enou...



  • It’s not a vacation until there’s a murder.Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie are finally off to Florida on the vacation they’ve always talked about. Days filled with white sand, turquoise water, and fruity drinks are the only thing on the agenda. ...



  • Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy abou...



  • It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the hol...



  • New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon brings a humorous, paranormal women's fiction tale. For many, midlife is only the beginning.It was a day like any other day for Marina Trahan...until she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Befo...



  • Let the good times roll?It's Mardi Gras time and Fortune is looking forward to seeing the spectacle firsthand, but when a visitor to Sinful is murdered during the celebration there, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can't help but wonder what happened. ...



  • 'Til death do us part?Ida Belle, Fortune, and Gertie are gearing up for the big day-Ida Belle's wedding to Walter-but when the caterer goes missing just a week before the big day, it puts a huge black mark on the joyous celebration. Molly Broussard i...



  • Death is a roller coaster.The traveling carnival has made its stop in Sinful and everyone is ready for thrilling rides, challenging games, and most importantly, funnel cake. But when a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked u...



  • Rest when you're dead?It's time for the annual Halloween festival in Sinful, and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can't wait to suit up and enjoy the food and activities. But when a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a ...






  • The sea heals all things.Tempest Island has weathered the worst of storms and still stands proud, providing its residents with the healing power of the sea and sun. When Alayna Scott's life falls spectacularly apart, both professionally and personall...



  • Just Desserts?It's November in Sinful and everyone is gearing up for Thanksgiving. But when Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie bag a body on their turkey hunting trip, the quiet enjoyment of fall is over. No one really knew Miles Broussard well, and as h...



  • It’s New Year’s in Sinful, and the competition for the New Year’s Queen is heating up as the warring churches go head-to-head. Fortune Redding is not the sequined dress kind of woman, but reluctantly agrees to partake in the debacle so that Ida...



  • Ghost of a chance?Fortune is thrilled when Ben Harrison, her former CIA partner, and his fiancée, Cassidy, decide to leave DC and move to the Louisiana bayous. They've already secured jobs and are only lacking a place to live, so everyone is exc...



  • Emma Turner has spent eight years running, hiding, dodging...limiting her short stays to big cities where she could easily get lost in the crowd. But when she steps onto Tempest Island, something changes. The tiny island speaks to her in ways no othe...



  • Beckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans' most prominent families. He's the quintessential golden boy-great looks, money, and a political career in his future-until his wife murders him. Or at least that's what everyone thinks. Ath...



  • With Carter off on a military mission, there's a new sheriff in town, and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie have been tasked with not interfering. But then a young girl is pulled out of the swamp, unconscious and with no memory of how she got there. And...



  • When Jill Morgan left Tempest Island after high school, she didn't know what she wanted to do the rest of her life. The only thing she'd ever loved was writing fiction, but that was a pursuit with no financial guarantees. So she did the responsible t...



  • Things have reached a critical point in the Middle East. Carter agreed to serve as a consultant for his old Force Recon unit but for reasons unknown to his friends and family, jumped from the command center and into the field. Now he's MIA, and Fortu...



  • Ten years ago, Ryan Comeaux was convicted of killing his girlfriend and was sentenced to life in prison. Now a witness has come forward who claims she was with Ryan the entire night and it's not possible that he was the killer. But the local police a...



Award-Winning Books by Jana DeLeon

The Reckoning
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin Intrigue
The Secret of Cypriere Bayou
2011 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- First Series Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jana DeLeon has published 60 books.

Jana DeLeon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Marsh Madness, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Jana DeLeon, Rumble on the Bayou, was published in October 2006.

Yes. Jana DeLeon has 7 series.