Jeanne M. Dams

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1995
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Dorothy Martin Mystery

1 - The Body in the Transept (1995)
2 - Trouble in the Town Hall (Oct-1996)
3 - Holy Terror in the Hebrides (1997)
4 - Malice in Miniature (Oct-1998)
5 - The Victim in Victoria Station (Sep-1999)
6 - Killing Cassidy (Nov-2000)
7 - To Perish in Penzance (Oct-2001)
8 - Sins Out of School (Jan-2003)
9 - Winter of Discontent (Dec-2004)
10 - A Dark and Stormy Night (Apr-2011)
11 - The Evil That Men Do (Jan-2012)
12 - The Corpse of St James's (Oct-2012)
13 - Murder at the Castle (Jun-2013)
14 - Shadows of Death (Jan-2014)
15 - Day of Vengeance (Sep-2014)
16 - The Gentle Art of Murder (Jun-2015)
17 - Blood Will Tell (Feb-2016)
18 - Smile and Be a Villain (Oct-2016)
19 - The Missing Masterpiece (Sep-2017)
20 - Crisis at the Cathedral (Jun-2018)
21 - A Dagger Before Me (May-2019)
22 - Death in the Garden City (Feb-2020)
23 - Death Comes to Durham (Jul-2020)
24 - The Bath Conspiracy (Jan-2021)
25 - A Deadly Web (Nov-2022)
26 - Village Politics Can Be Murder (Jun-2024)

A Hilda Johansson Mystery

1 - Death in Lacquer Red (Jun-1999)
2 - Red, White, and Blue Murder (May-2000)
3 - Green Grow the Victims (Jun-2001)
4 - Silence Is Golden (May-2002)
5 - Crimson Snow (Sep-2005)
6 - Indigo Christmas (Sep-2008)
7 - Murder in Burnt Orange (Sep-2011)

An Oak Park Village Mystery

1 - Murder in the Park (Feb-2022)
2 - Music and Murder (Sep-2023)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • The Body in the Transept

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    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 1

    IT'S A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS-- EXCEPT FOR THE DEAD BODY Dorothy Martin is an inquisitive American widow who has relocated to Sherebury, a small college town outside of London, after the death of her beloved husband. Although it's difficult to get in...

  • Trouble in the Town Hall

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 2

    A LOVELY OLD BUILDING HIDES A NASTY CRIME A Shereby resident for a year now, American Dorothy Martin is still learning her way around the charming English cathedral town. But she recognizes a dead body when she sees one. As town debate rages over ...

  • Holy Terror in the Hebrides

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    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 3

    Vacation can be murder... A peaceful vacation on the charming Scottish island of Iona sounds idyllic to sometime sleuth Dorothy Martin. But Dorothy soon finds that while Iona is charming, her vacation won't be peaceful. Thrown in with a bickering Am...

  • Malice in Miniature

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 4

    Dorothy Martin's husband, the illustrious Chief Constable Nesbitt, has long claimed that if the Olympics held an event for conclusion jumping, Dorothy would be a contender for the gold medal. Her bold American ways occasionally offend the Brits' prop...

  • Death in Lacquer Red

    A Hilda Johansson Mystery - 1

    (1st in Hilda Johansson Mystery series)

    The year is 1900 and Hilda Johansson is a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker family. She faces the typical problems of an immigrant and the demands of a job that i...

  • The Victim in Victoria Station

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 5
    Worldwide Mysteries - 368

    A charming, quick-witted woman of a certain age, Dorothy Martin once more finds herself embroiled in a most puzzling crime...and a saga of greed, jealousy and murder. The victim: a fellow American, her seat companion on a commuter train to London....

  • Red, White, and Blue Murder

    A Hilda Johansson Mystery - 2

  • Killing Cassidy

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 6
    Worldwide Mysteries - 402

    MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN Though a' opted Anglophile Dorothy Martin is quite content with her new life in a cozy English village, she looks forward to an unexpected trip back to her Indiana hometown. Sadly, it is the sudden death of a longtime friend...

  • Green Grow the Victims

    A Hilda Johansson Mystery - 3

    In her third mildly pleasant encounter with villainy (after 2000's Killing Cassidy), full-time housekeeper and part-time sleuth Hilda Johansson suggests that once upon a time wasn't always what it was cracked up to be. Take turn-of-the-century Americ...



  • To Perish in Penzance

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 7
    Worldwide Mysteries - 438

    LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER While Dorothy Martin loves nearly everything about England--especially her new husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt--she could do without September's incessant rain. The lure of the sunshine of Cornwall's pictu...

  • Silence Is Golden

    A Hilda Johansson Mystery - 4

    Hilda Johansson had thought things would improve once her entire family had moved to the United States. Of course, she'd known that her mother and older brother wouldn't be happy about her choice of beau, Irish Catholic Patrick Cavanaugh, but she's c...

  • Sins Out of School

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 8
    Worldwide Mysteries - 474

    "She thought the lack of cranberry sauce was going to be her biggest problem, but a missing schoolteacher, a murdered man, a troubled child, and a call for help were difficulties Dorothy Martin most definitely hadn't foreseen." "She had wanted to hav...

  • Winter of Discontent

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 9
    Worldwide Mysteries - 548

    When the body of Bill Fanshawe, curator of the museum in the quaint English town of Sherebury, is found dead in the Roman tunnels beneath the museum, Dorothy Martin's heart goes out to the octogenarian's close friend Jane Langland. But what at first ...

  • Manhattan Mysteries

  • Dark Fete

    Worldwide Mysteries - 527

    Dark Fete Dorothy Martin never expected the local church fund-raiser to turn deadly, but when a local woman is poisoned by strawberry jam made by Dorothy's neighbor and best friend, Jane Langland, Dorothy uses her delicious brownies and her sleuth...

  • Crimson Snow

    A Hilda Johansson Mystery - 5

    Based on a 1904 unsolved murder case, Crimson Snow weaves immigrant life, class and ethnic tensions into a taut drama centered around the Studebaker mansion in South Bend, Indiana. Hilda Johansson, a Studebaker housemaid, doesn’t want to look into ...

  • Indigo Christmas

    A Hilda Johansson Mystery - 6

    Once housemaid to the wealthy Studebaker family in South Bend, Indiana, Hilda Johansson is now married and living a well-to-do life with her new husband. But her Swedish family doesn't get along with his Irish relations. She's having trouble finding ...

  • A Dark and Stormy Night

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 10

    When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie ever written, Dorothy should have k...

  • Murder in Burnt Orange

    A Hilda Johansson Mystery - 7

    Hilda Johansson, expecting her first child and miserable in the summer heat, turns to crime investigation to occupy her mind. It’s a heat wave in more ways than one in the summer of 1905, as strikes, arson, and train wrecks threaten the fabric...



  • The Evil That Men Do

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 11

    Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are on holiday in the idyllic English village of Broadway when they stumble across the body of a man who appears to have fallen down a disused quarry. When it is revealed that the ...

  • The Corpse of St James's

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 12

    Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, have just visited Buckingham Palace, where Alan was awarded the George Cross, when they and a friend, retired Chief Inspector Jonathan Quinn, stumble across the body of a young gir...

  • Murder at the Castle

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 13

    Dorothy Martin is in Wales for an opera full of passion, drama . . . and murder. Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to join their close friends Nigel and Inga Evans at a Welsh music festival. Amid th...

  • Shadows of Death

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 14

    Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, go on a trip to Orkney in Scotland to visit an old friend and see some intriguing Stone Age excavations. They realize there’s considerable dissension between the archaeologists a...

  • Day of Vengeance

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 15

    Dorothy Martin’s husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral. The very day that the short list is announced publicly, one of the candidates is found murdered in his ...

  • The Gentle Art of Murder

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 16

    Murder threatens to disturb the creativeness of Sherebury’s art college One late-summer’s evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, are guests at Sherebury University ...

  • Blood Will Tell

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 17

    American Anglophile Dorothy Martin tackles a tricky puzzle in the historic university town of Cambridge Dorothy Martin isn’t overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conferen...

  • Smile and Be a Villain

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 18

    A holiday on the picturesque island of Alderney leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin. When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Ald...

  • The Missing Masterpiece

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 19

    Quelle horreur! A French holiday leads to disaster for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin in this engaging new cozy mystery. When Dorothy Martin goes to France -- alone because Alan is stuck back home in Sherebury with a broken ankle -- she worri...

  • Crisis at the Cathedral

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 20

    When a wealthy Iraqi couple disappear following a concert at Sherebury Cathedral, American Anglophile Dorothy Martin investigates. When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their pe...



  • A Dagger Before Me

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 21

    American Anglophile Dorothy Martin uncovers strange goings-on when she attends the christening of an English aristocrat.

    Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan have been invited to rural Suffolk to take part in the christening of the newest memb...

  • Death in the Garden City

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 22

    American Anglophile Dorothy Martin heads to the picturesque city of Victoria on Vancouver Island to investigate a series of petty crimes â€" that soon turn deadly. When Dorothy Martin and her ex-policeman husband Alan are asked by some good friend...

  • Death Comes to Durham

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 23

    How can Dorothy Martin clear an elderly woman of murder, when she can't remember if she did it or not?

    American Anglophile Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbit, are enjoying a pleasant, albeit rain-soaked, stay ...

  • The Bath Conspiracy

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 24

    American Anglophile Dorothy Martin is celebrating her birthday in the historic city of Bath, but the discovery of a number of stolen artefacts throws her plans awry. Retired chief constable Alan Nesbit and his wife Dorothy Martin are in the beauti...

  • Murder in the Park

    An Oak Park Village Mystery - 1

    Introducing spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild in the first of the brilliant new Oak Park village mystery series, set in 1920s Illinois. June, 1925. Having been widowed in the First World War, Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life at the...

  • A Deadly Web

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 25

    When an 'unofficial' relative of Alan's arrives from the States, Dorothy and Alan are drawn into a tangled web of murder and lies.Dorothy Martin is more than capable of dozing during a raging storm in her snug house in Sherebury, but the loud pi...

  • Music and Murder

    An Oak Park Village Mystery - 2

    Spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild is drawn into Chicago's growing jazz scene - and murder - in this compelling 1920s mystery.July, 1926. When Elizabeth Fairchild's beau, Fred Wilkins, suggests going to Chicago's Sunset Club to see Louis Arm...

  • Village Politics Can Be Murder

    A Dorothy Martin Mystery - 26

    A trip to the Lake District proves to be anything but idyllic when Dorothy and Alan investigate a mysterious death.Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, jump at the chance to holiday in the beautiful Lake District when...

  • Murder of a Recluse

    Who killed the reclusive Agatha Dobbs? Newly married Elizabeth Wilkins is determined to prove Agatha’s niece’s innocence in this compelling 1920s mystery.July, 1926. Now happily married to lawyer Fred, Elizabeth Wilkins is ready for whate...

Award-Winning Books by Jeanne M. Dams

The Body in the Transept
1995 Agatha Award -- First Novel
1996 Anthony Award -- Cover Art


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jeanne M. Dams has published 38 books.

The next book by Jeanne M. Dams, Murder of a Recluse, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Jeanne M. Dams, The Body in the Transept, was published in January 1995.

Yes. Jeanne M. Dams has 3 series.
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