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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2004
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Anna Sweet Mystery

1 - My Sister's Keeper (Aug-2013)
2 - The Hard Fall (Sep-2013)
3 - To Keep a Secret (Sep-2014)
4 - A Model Death (Jan-2015)
5 - No Trace (Aug-2016)
6 - Missing Her (May-2017)
7 - Too Close to Home (Jun-2019)
8 - Killer Heat (Jun-2019)

A Hunter and Tate Mystery

1 - Blind Date (Mar-2022)
2 - When Last Seen (Mar-2023)

A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery

1 - Cold Mourning (Mar-2014)
2 - Butterfly Kills (Feb-2015)
3 - Tumbled Graves (Mar-2016)
4 - Shallow End (Apr-2017)
5 - Bleeding Darkness (Jun-2018)
6 - Closing Time (Apr-2020)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • Feeling somehow to blame for her father’s absence, thirteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon struggles to hang on to her dream that he will return and they can be a family again - a dream that doesnt include her mother’s new boyfriend, nights of looking ...



  • Fourteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon cannot face another boring summer in Springhills. She convinces her mother to let her spend July at her grandmother’s cottage in Hawk’s Creek. She does not reveal that her plan is to live with her grandmother for...



  • Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon agrees to spend her summer as a camp counsellor at White Pine Camp with her best friend Ambie and her younger sister Leslie. But Jennifers summer in the isolated wilderness on Georgian Bay turns into a roller coast...



  • In the fourth and final instalment in the Jennifer Bannon mystery series, Jennifer begins Grade Eleven at Springhills High, where her life is far from settled. Her mother has moved to L.A. with her new husband, Jennifers boyfriend moves to McGill to ...



  • After her mothers suicide, Maja Cleary turned her back on her family and Duved Cove, Minnesotauntil a desperate phone call reveals that her father has been murdered and her brother Jonas is the prime suspect. She flies home, knowing that she will hav...



  • Gwen Lake is a forty-five-year-old police officer with a desk job, an ex-husband and a future not even close to the American dream. A year after her divorce, and more out of boredom and curiosity than anything else, she agrees to a meeting with her e...



  • A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of "peace, love, rock and roll," and the Vietnam War. It’s the summer of 1971, and fifteen-year-old Darlene travels with her mother to cottage country. This year her wild cousin, Elizabeth, is staying ...



  • Anna Sweet, ex-cop turned waitress, is bar-hopping her way across the U.S.A. But a middle-of-the-night phone call to Anna’s hotel room in Kermit, Texas, is about to end her life on the road. The brakes on her sister Cheri’s car have failed, and s...



  • Paul Taylor, a wealthy business man, is in jail for the cold-blooded murder of his lover, Laura Flint. She is found dead in his bed one hot August morning. Taylor’s wife, a former swimsuit model, is the only one to stand behind him, but even she ha...






  • Nominated for the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. It’s a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air ...



  • Anna Sweet’s PI business partner, Jada Price, has gone missing. Anna and new hire Nick Roma team up to find her. The trail leads them to a teenage girl’s murder and a secret internet dating site. Anna is about to discover how far people will go t...



  • Against her better judgment, Anna Sweet accepts a date with the secretive Nick Roma, office manager for Storm Investigations. But before they can meet up, the body of Nick's ex-girlfriend is found near a lake. Rumours swirl that Nick was hounding...



  • Two separate crimes, two tragic outcomes. Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town’s Criminal Investigations Division. One hot week in late September, university student Leah Sampso...



  • A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to.When Adele Delaney and her daughter Violet go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling with the impending death of h...



  • Ryan Green disappears one day after school without a trace. His family is caught in a living nightmare. Six months later, the police have no leads. Desperate for answers, the parents contact private investigator Anna Sweet. The trail has gone cold, b...



  • Still waters run deep. English teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child predator Jane Thompson has made parole and she has a plan. She begins her life in the shadows while she bides her time. One month later, the bludgeoned body of the student she ...



  • Shelley Vincent has been missing for over a year. Her fiancé, Albert Romaine, is desperate to find out what happened to her. With Christmas less than a week away and no plans to speak of, PI Anna Sweet is happy to take the case. But as Anna digs dee...



  • Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets.David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But the family reunion opens old wounds. David’s only daughter, Laure...



  • This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Ottawa is in the middle of a summer heat wave -- and PI Anna Sweet takes on her hottest case yet. Brent Rose secret...






  • This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Sometimes home is not a safe place to be. PI Anna Sweet is hired to look out for Max, a troubled teenage runaway. F...



  • Secrets abound at a northern Ontario lodge when a teenage employee is murdered.

    It''s late summer and a restless Officer Kala Stonechild has taken her foster niece, Dawn, on a canoe trip at Pine Hollow Lodge in the wilderness north of Sault ...



  • Nobody's safe when a killer has you in their sights.True crime podcaster Ella Tate is shaken to her core by the horrific assault and murder of Josie Wheatly, a teacher she has never met ... because not only had Josie moved into Ella's vacated apartme...



  • The hardest part is not knowing… Ottawa is baking under a July heatwave when the Homicide and Major Crimes Unit is called to help track down missing three-year-old Charlie McGowan. This is the second missing person case in nine months &md...



  • 04/22/2024Chapman’s gripping, emotionally resonant third Hunter and Tate mystery quickly grabs readers’ attention as detective Liam Hunter and true crime podcaster Ella Tate must race against time to catch a killer and save a boy’s ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brenda Chapman has published 24 books.

Brenda Chapman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fatal Harvest, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Brenda Chapman, Running Scared, was published in October 2004.

Yes. Brenda Chapman has 3 series.