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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    May 2014
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Full Series List in Order

A Karen Pelletier Mystery

1 - Quieter Than Sleep (Oct-1997)
2 - The Northbury Papers (Oct-1998)
3 - The Raven and the Nightingale (Oct-1999)
4 - Cold and Pure and Very Dead (Dec-2000)
5 - Maltese Manuscript (Feb-2003)
6 - Death Without Tenure (Jan-2010)

Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap - a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman - was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between ...



  • Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is i...



  • Teaching American women's literature at New England's prestigious Enfield College has shown Karen Pelletier just how cutthroat the world of academe can be. But nothing in her tenure has prepared her for the perils to come, as this bastion of higher l...



  • As professor of American women's literature at an elite New England college, Karen Pelletier has discovered that murder can occur even within the civilized confines of academia. But even she is not prepared for the waves of violence that rock Enfield...



  • Professor Karen Pelletier has made a name for herself as one of the leading scholars of literature at exclusive Enfield College. But when an offhand comment sets off a firestorm of controversy, she finds herself embroiled in a scandal that began with...



  • In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous Private Eye novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble (a Torrweiler) and by a problem. And since Sunnye Hardcastle (a Patricia ...



  • Professor Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream; after six years in the English Department at New England’s exclusive Enfield College, she is up for tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot in the departme...



  • An epic journey from the sultry climes of nineteenth-century India to the cosmopolitan chaos of New York City on the eve of civil in search of a kidnapped daughter and a lost, forbidden love. India, 1857: Anna Wheeler Roundtree, missionary wife, flee...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joanne Dobson has published 8 books.

Joanne Dobson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Kashmiri Shawl, was published in May 2014.

The first book by Joanne Dobson, The Hidden Hand, was published in May 1988.

Yes. Joanne Dobson has 1 series.