Frederick Ramsay

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2005
  • Latest Book:
    July 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Botswana Mystery

1 - Danger Woman (Jul-2016)
Predators (Dec-2009)
Reapers (Dec-2010)

An Ike Schwartz Mystery

1 - Artscape (Jul-2006)
2 - Secrets (Aug-2005)
3 - Buffalo Mountain (Aug-2007)
4 - Stranger Room (Aug-2008)
5 - Choker (Jun-2009)
6 - The Eye of the Virgin (Jul-2010)
7 - Rogue (Jul-2011)
8 - Scone Island (Aug-2012)
9 - Drowning Barbie (Feb-2014)
10 - The Vulture (Dec-2015)
11 - Copper Kettle (Feb-2017)

A Jerusalem Mystery

1 - Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal (Jan-2010)
2 - The Eighth Veil (Feb-2012)
3 - Holy Smoke (Feb-2013)
4 - The Wolf and the Lamb (Dec-2014)

Jesse Sutherlin Mysteries

1 - Copper Kettle (Feb-2017)
2 - Countdown (Jul-2018)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Secrets

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 2

    Waldo Templeton was, at best, a mediocre organist. He was also careless, so his killer was able to follow him to the sanctuary of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Church in Picketsville, VA, and dispatch him. Then the Vicar’s secretary follows Waldo to a...

  • Artscape

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 1

    With a Foreword by Frederick Ramsay"Ramsay nicely mixes town and gown, sophisticates and rustics, thugs and masterminds. Ike Schwartz seems destined for a bright future." -- Publishers WeeklyIke Schwartz is the new sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia....

  • Impulse

    Worldwide Mysteries - 758

    DIGGING UP THE PAST Successful mystery writer Frank Smith's life turned into a plot from one of his novels when his own wife went missing near their Phoenix home four years earlier. Her body was never found and police are still trying to prove Frank...

  • Buffalo Mountain

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 3

    It's the bleak midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov's body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver's license identifies him as Randall Harris...

  • Stranger Room

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 4

    "Ramsay skillfully weaves historical fact into his story, all the while blending brisk action with excellent characterization." -- Publishers WeeklyElderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his lineage. He is related to the Virginia Lees and to the Cu...

  • Choker

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 5

    "The author combines a Tom Clancy-like knowledge of ground-to-air missiles with a Robert Ludlum-like spy adventure to leave the reader awaiting the next Ike Schwartz." -- Library Journal STARRED reviewNick Reynolds, his pilot's rating barely a month...

  • Predators

    A Botswana Mystery

    Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining and real-estate development firm. He and his party of company executives are traveling in Botswana to consult with the government of Botswana about accessing their extractable resources. ...

  • Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal

    A Jerusalem Mystery - 1

    Boy Judas Iscariot struggles to understand his mother’s god. Despairing, he becomes a survivor in the streets of the first century Roman empire. Later, determined to avenge the wrongs committed against his mother and sister, he returns to join the ...

  • The Eye of the Virgin

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 6

    On the same evening that a body is found in Picketsville's urgent care clinic, a mysterious break-in occurs at the house of one of Callend University's faculty. Both seem to be connected to an icon, "The Virgin of Tenderness," in the faculty member's...



  • Reapers

    A Botswana Mystery

    The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South Africa’s neighbors. The arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries makes southern Africa, particularly Botswana, ripe for all sorts of intrigue and illi...

  • Rogue

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 7

    Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz's fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged. Even though he is embroiled in a close election, has no jurisdiction over the investigation, and can find no sup...

  • The Eighth Veil

    A Jerusalem Mystery - 2

    The Eighth Veil is a mystery set in the year 28 CE in Jerusalem during the feast of Tabernacles. A murdered servant girl is found in the palace of King Herod Antipas. The Prefect, Pontius Pilate is in attendance. The populace is still buzzing over th...

  • Scone Island

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 8

    Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and Ruth Dennis, the President of a local university and Ike’s fiancée cannot find peace and quiet be at home after a trying year of academic and local politics. So, they elect to seek asylum on Sco...

  • Holy Smoke

    A Jerusalem Mystery - 3

    The year is 29 C. E. and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire’s continued presence and oppressive rule. But in spite of that unpleasant fact of life, life goes on -- but not for everyone. People die, some because it is their time, others by misa...

  • Drowning Barbie

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 9

    Ethyl Smut, everyone agreed, deserved to die. Drugs, child abuse, a life wasted, but murder is murder and killers must be brought to justice.So, when a second body is unearthed in her shallow grave, and the town's worst nightmare in the person of Geo...

  • The Wolf and the Lamb

    A Jerusalem Mystery - 4

    It’s Passover. Gamaliel and his physician friend, Loukas, are crime-solving a third time―reluctantly. Pontius Pilate has been accused of murder. He denies the crime. If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed from Judea. Those rejoi...

  • The Vulture

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 10

    Marry new technology to old-fashioned policing and you’ve got something special. The car is found just outside Picketsville, Virginia, a smoking ruin of twisted metal and shattered glass. It takes only a glance to confirm that this is Ike Schwar...

  • Danger Woman

    A Botswana Mystery - 1

    In Botswana, people of the north live in harmony with the wildlife, yet predators and poachers freely roam. The lions may be kings, but hyenas will steal their prey. A Chobe Game Park pack led by the alpha female is especially fearless. The locals ca...

  • Copper Kettle

    An Ike Schwartz Mystery - 11
    Jesse Sutherlin Mysteries - 1

    It's 1920. Jesse Sutherlin has returned to Buffalo Mountain a war hero, having after survived the trenches of World War I. Not only did he fight the enemy, reaching the rank of officer, he went a few rounds with some of his fellow soldier who viewed ...



  • Countdown

    Jesse Sutherlin Mysteries - 2

    "Ramsay evokes a time and a place so vividly through Jesse's voice that I didn't read this novel so much as savor every page." -- Dana Stabenow, New York Times bestselling authorIt's 1928, Jesse Sutherlin now has his own family and has made a succes...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frederick Ramsay has published 20 books.

Frederick Ramsay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Countdown, was published in July 2018.

The first book by Frederick Ramsay, Secrets, was published in August 2005.

Yes. Frederick Ramsay has 4 series.
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