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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2004
  • Latest Book:
    January 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Gus Legarde Mystery

Double Forte (Jan-2005)

A Sam Moore Mystery

Terror Comes Knocking (Feb-2012)
For Keeps (Aug-2012)

Tall Pines

1 - For the Birds (Nov-2011)
2 - Essentially Yours (Mar-2012)
3 - Sanctuary (Aug-2014)
4 - Betrayal (Dec-2014)

Book List in Order: 29 titles



  • After four lonely years, music professor Gus LeGarde is stillreeling from the death of his wife Elsbeth. To deal with the loss, he plays endlessChopin etudes on his piano and lavishes love on his grandson and dog, butnothing lessens the pain.  Life ...



  • After four lonely years, music professor Gus LeGarde is still reeling from the death of his wife Elsbeth. To deal with the loss, he plays endless Chopin etudes on his piano and lavishes love on his grandson and dog, but nothing lessens the pain. Life...



  • In this coming-of-age mystery set in the Belgrade Lakes of Maine, young Gus LeGarde witnesses a girl being chased through the foggy Maine woods. She's scared. She's hurt. And she disappears. Tremolo is a stirring and nostalgic trip back to summer, 19...



  • Music professor Gus LeGarde is about to embark on a European honeymoon with his new wife, Camille, when his socially challenged brother-in-law receives a mysterious invitation to visit an ailing relative in Germany. Siegfried can’t travel alone, bu...



  • Sam Moore's little brother vanished fifty years ago. No body. No answers. What Sam has is a boatload of guilt, since he failed to accompany Billy on his final, fateful bike ride. "...a delightfully diabolical mystery with a chilling paranormal plot. ...



  • What would you do if your country church was hit by a rogue tornado during services? What if wild winds unearthed the bones of a missing parishioner in a nearby wheat field? Now add the discovery of heroin in your elderly minister's bloodstream. The ...



  • What happens when a parakeet named Ruby gets an unexpected mind-meld with Marcella Hollister's quarrelsome mother, Thelma? After Thelma is kidnapped from her hospital bed, Marcella must find her -- somewhere in the tall pines of the six-million-acre ...




  • Just before the American President is scheduled to appear in Sam Moore's hometown of East Goodland, Sam's retirement plans are pushed back when his daughter, Beth, goes missing. In his search for Beth, Sam is guided by an unusual talisman-a small gre...






  • Marcella's first love has been MIA for eighteen years. Callie, her best friend and Sky's sister, flips out when a mysterious package from Sky arrives on her doorstep. Inside his old backpack are bottles of precious essential oils, a memory stick, and...



  • When retired family doctor Sam Moore gets a call from the coroner to come to The Twin Sisters Inn to consult on a murder victim, he's puzzled. Why would Lou call him? He's retired now, and just wants to spend time with his beloved Rachel, his grandso...



  • When Gus LeGarde agrees to play piano for the high school drama club's production of "Spirit Me Away," a sixties-style musical he wrote in college, he doesn't expect to face a barrage of menacing pranks played on his fiancée Camille and the drama cl...



  • They say it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Finn McGraw disagrees.He was just seventeen when he had a torrid summer affair with the girl who stole his heart -- and then inexplicably turned on him. Finn may have move...



  • When young Gus LeGarde befriends Tully, a cranky old hermit in the woods who speaks to an Indian spirit, he wonders if the man is nuts. But when the spirit rattles tin cups, draws on dusty mirrors, and flips book pages, pestering him to find evidence...



  • Past and present collide when an Alzheimer’s patient’s fragile memory holds the key to solving mysteries dating back to World War II -- including a long lost secret love affair.Music professor Gus LeGarde is just doing a favor for a friend when h...



  • Boston, Massachusetts: It’s the summer of ’69 -- the parks are flooded with flower children and a hot new band called Led Zeppelin is set to appear at the Boston Tea Party. But for one newlywed couple just beginning their lives together, there wi...



  • After two years of brutal captivity, Portia Lamont has escaped and returned to her family’s Vermont horse farm -- only to find her parents gone to New York to try an experimental treatment for her mother’s cancer, and her childhood friend Boone H...



  • After four lonely years, music professor Gus LeGarde is still reeling from the death of his wife Elsbeth. To deal with the loss, he plays endless Chopin etudes on his piano and lavishes love on his grandson and dog, but nothing lessens the pain. Life...



  • The safest place they know is about to become the most dangerous… Marcella’s husband, Quinn “Black Eagle” Hollister, severed ties to his family and friends on the Seneca reservation years ago. He rarely mentions his past -- until his young co...






  • Marcella Hollister realized a lifetime of hopes and dreams when she was given custody of a child. A cousin of her half-Seneca husband, Quinn, the baby’s mother was murdered in a political plot -- and Marcella, who’s never been able to have childr...



  • What do you do when your past comes back to kill you?After escaping her abusive husband, life is finally good for Camille LeGarde and her daughter, Shelby. She has a great relationship with her new husband, Gus, who also loves Shelby like his own chi...



  • Grace can’t control herself, and the itch is back. She needs someone new, someone different than her loving but boring husband. She wants excitement. Danger.But when she meets Chandler -- a man who pursued her through Facebook -- she gets more than...



  • Fifty years ago, Sam Moore’s little brother Billy vanished without a trace -- leaving Sam with guilt that haunts him to this day. Fifty years with no body, no leads, and no answers. Until now. When Sam unearths a mysterious green marble buried in h...



  • Falling for the wrong guy can be hazardous to your heart.Vivian Wood is desperate. After her beloved brother dies of a sudden aneurysm and her mother develops Alzheimer’s, she needs a good job and a place to stay. She finds it at The Seacroft, a Ca...



  • A mysterious man with no past, a troubled young woman running from hers…and a powerful love that may heal them both.Scout Vanderhorn has lost her mother, her home, and all hope of security. In a desperate bid to escape her abusive stepfather, she t...



  • Every family has its secrets…Summer, 1966: For thirteen-year-old Gus LeGarde, summertime always means Loon Harbor, his grandparents’ idyllic fishing resort on Great Pond. The season is a grand tradition of swimming, boating, and new adventures wi...



  • How far would you go for your family?Financial struggles have forced Grace Rockwell, along with her husband and their baby daughter, back to the family homestead. Luckily, the move to the Bittersweet Hollow Morgan Horse Farm isn’t all bad. Her sist...



  • The Genesee Valley is in chaos. Strangers drive panel vans through the countryside at weird hours of the night. A new batch of drugs is on the street, endangering students. The local salt mine collapses due to illegal mining practices. Gas fires burn...



  • Some family secrets shouldn’t stay buried… Music professor Gus LeGarde and his wife Camille are looking forward to a relaxing vacation at Paines Creek Beach on beautiful Cape Cod. But Gus barely has a chance to feel the sand between his toes befo...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Aaron Paul Lazar has published 29 books.

Aaron Paul Lazar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder on the Brewster Flats, was published in January 2018.

The first book by Aaron Paul Lazar, Double Forte', was published in November 2004.

Yes. Aaron Paul Lazar has 3 series.