Joanne Pence

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1987
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Ancient Secrets

1 - Ancient Echoes (Apr-2013)
2 - Ancient Shadows (Apr-2015)
3 - Ancient Illusions (Oct-2018)
4 - Ancient Deceptions (Nov-2021)
5 - Ancient Passages (Jun-2024)

An Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mystery

2 - Add a Pinch of Murder (Apr-2017)
4 - Murder by Devil's Food (Jul-2017)

An Angie Amalfi Mystery

1 - Something's Cooking (Mar-1993)
2 - Too Many Cooks (Jul-1994)
3 - Cooking Up Trouble (Mar-1995)
4 - Cooking Most Deadly (Jul-1996)
5 - Cook's Night Out (Nov-1997)
6 - Cooks Overboard (Nov-1998)
7 - A Cook in Time (Oct-1999)
8 - To Catch a Cook (Nov-2000)
9 - Bell, Cook, and Candle (Jan-2002)
10 - If Cooks Could Kill (Jan-2003)
11 - Two Cooks A-Killing (Nov-2003)
12 - Courting Disaster (Dec-2004)
13 - Red Hot Murder (Dec-2005)
14 - The Da Vinci Cook (Dec-2006)
15 - Cooking Spirits (Apr-2013)
15.5 - Cook's Christmas Capers (Dec-2013)
16 - Cook's Big Day (Sep-2015)

The Cabin of Love & Magic / The Donnelly Cabin Inn

1 - If I Loved You (Jan-2021)
2 - This Can't be Love (Jan-2021)
3 - Sentimental Journey (Jan-2021)
4 - A Certain Smile (Jun-2023)
5 - Time After Time (Oct-2023)

A Cook and Inspector Mystery

1 - Death on a Silver Platter (Dec-2023)
2 - A Quiche Before Dying (Feb-2024)
3 - Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind (Jul-2024)
4 - Death by Devil's Food (Sep-2024)

A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery

0.5 - The Thirteenth Santa (Nov-2004)
1 - One O'Clock Hustle (Mar-2014)
2 - Two O'Clock Heist (Oct-2014)
3 - Three O'Clock Seance (Jan-2016)
4 - Four O'Clock Sizzle (Jun-2016)
5 - Five O'Clock Twist (Jan-2017)
6 - Six O'Clock Silence (Jan-2018)
7 - Seven O'Clock Target (Jul-2019)
8 - Eight O'Clock Split (Sep-2022)
9 - Nine O'Clock Retreat (Feb-2023)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • Armed and Dangerous

    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 219

    She couldn't resist him -- and the feeling was mutual. SEARCHING... C.J. Perkins had to find her brother, but the British authorities in Hong Kong were being no help at all. Darius Kane, a big, blond adventurer who had no love for the Britis...

  • Something's Cooking

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 1

    RECIPE FOR ROMANCE For sassy food columnist, Angelina Amalfi, life's a banquet until the man who's been contributing unusual recipes for her column is found dead. Suddenly Angie's being stalked by a killer. Not one to simper in fear, instead she s...

  • Too Many Cooks

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 2

    MURDER A LA CARTE After talking her way into a job on a pompous, third-rate chef's radio call-in show, Angie Amalfi has visions of a new career to go along with her hot new romance with Paavo Smith, a gorgeous San Francisco homicide detective. Whe...

  • Cooking Up Trouble

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 3

    AN APPETITE FOR MURDER Angie Amalfi's latest job, developing the menu for a new inn, sounds pretty enticing initially--especially since it means spending a week in scenic northern California with her homicide detective boyfriend. But once she arri...

  • Cooking Most Deadly

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 4

    A DOUBLE DOSE OF DEATH Food columnist Angie Amalfi has it all -- brains, beauty, and a cooking talent that can tickle anyone's taste buds. While she's wondering if it's time to cut the wedding cake with her deliciously handsome detective boyfrie...

  • Cook's Night Out

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 5

    Foodie Angie Amalfi has decided to make her culinary name by creating the perfect chocolate confection: angelinas. Donating her delicious rejects to the Random Acts of Kindness Mission in San Francisco, Angie meets the jittery minister in charge. Soo...

  • Cooks Overboard

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 6

    A TASTE FOR MURDER Food writer Angie Amalfi's long-awaited vacation with her detective boyfriend Paavo Smith has all the ingredients of a romantic getaway--a sail to Acapulco aboard a freighter, no crowds, no homicide department worries, a red bik...

  • A Cook in Time

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 7

    Culinary queen Angie Amalfi has a way with food and people, but her newest business idea is turning out to be shakier than a fruit-filled gelatin mold. Her first--and only--clients for "Fantasy Dinners" are none other than a group of UFO-chasers and ...

  • To Catch a Cook

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 8

    A NASTY STEW Between her latest "sure-fire" foray into the food industry--video restaurant reviews--and her concern over boyfriend Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith's depressed state, Angie Amalfi's plate is full to overflowing. Paavo has never come ...



  • Bell, Cook, and Candle

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 9

    A DASH OF DARKNESS For once Angie Amalfi's newest culinary venture, "Comical Cakes," seems to be a roaring success! There's nothing funny, however, about her homicide detective boyfriend Paavo Smith's latest case. Paavo's investigating a series of...

  • If Cooks Could Kill

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 10

    MEAN CUISINE After a series of failed culinary ventures, employment challenged Angie Amalfi has decided to cook up something different: love! But Angie's attempts at matchmaking fall flat as a failed souffle, leaving best friend Connie Rogers stoo...

  • Two Cooks A-Killing

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 11

    Homicide for the Holidays Nothing could drag chef Angie Amalfi away from San Francisco and her beloved policeman fiance Paavo Smith--except for a job preparing the banquet her all-time favorite soap opera characters will consume during an upcoming...

  • The Thirteenth Santa

    in Mistletoe and Mayhem
    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 0.5

    An unexpected visitor is about to arrive with an unexpected gift ... Will it be something wonderful or woeful, rueful or romantic... or a little bit of everything? In the expert hands of four unsurpassed storytellers, "the season of giving" takes ...

  • Courting Disaster

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 12

    MURDER MOST ENGAGING Normally dilettante chef and freelance food writer Angie Amalfi would rather be deep-fried than let her control-freak mother plan the party celebrating Angie's engagement to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith. But th...

  • Red Hot Murder

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 13

    JUST DESERTS Dilettante chef Angie Amalfi doubts if she'll actually survive her engagement to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith, what with her meddling mom micromanaging the whole affair. So Angie leaps at the chance to spend some time ...

  • The Da Vinci Cook

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 14

    ANGIE RAISES HOLY HELL Just when dilettante chef Angie Amalfi's checkered culinary career seems to be looking up, she has to drop everything and hightail it to Rome. Her realtor sister Caterina's in a stew--accused of murdering a stranger she foun...

  • Dance With A Gunfighter

    The Price of Vengeance
    Gabriella Devere wants vengeance. She grows up quickly when she witnesses the murder of her family by a gang of outlaws, and vows to make them pay for their crime. When the law won't help her, she takes matters into her ow...

  • Cooking Spirits

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 15

    Culinary queen Angie Amalfi has put aside her gourmet utensils to concentrate on planning her upcoming wedding to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith. What could possibly go wrong? Instead of the answer to her heart’s dreams, she scrambles...

  • Ancient Echoes

    Ancient Secrets - 1

    Past and present collide in this spellbinding tale by USA Today bestselling author Joanne Pence. Over two hundred years ago, a covert expedition shadowing Lewis and Clark disappeared into the wilderness of Central Idaho. ...



  • The Ghost of Squire House

    For decades, the home built by reclusive artist, Paul Squire, stood empty on a windswept cliff overlooking the ocean. Those who attempted to live in the home soon fled in terror. Jennifer Barrett knows nothing of the history of the house she inherite...

  • Seems Like Old Times

    An emotionally powerful tale of love, loss, and second chances… Lee Reynolds is unprepared for the torrent of memories that fill her when she returns to her small hometown. She fled soon after high school, breaking ties with her mother and friends,...

  • Cook's Christmas Capers

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 15.5

    A Double Dose of Holiday Mayhem and Murder... COOK'S CURIOUS CHRISTMAS Culinary sleuth Angie Amalfi believes that not even Christmas should get in the way of preparations for her wedding to homicide detective Paavo Smith. But in this season of surpri...

  • One O'Clock Hustle

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 1

    North American Book Award recipient in MysteryWhen San Francisco Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield arrives at the scene of a deadly shooting, she's shocked to find that the witnesses have caught the killer, and that he's someone she knows. Rebecca'...

  • Cook's Curious Christmas

    After a powerful earthquake strikes, culinary sleuth Angie Amalfi finds herself in a different world, where nothing is as it should be, and nothing is as it seems. Not only are her fiance and friends acting beyond weird, but it seems Angie is being s...

  • Two O'Clock Heist

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 2

    When an old friend is found murdered, and the local police connect her to a number of jewelry heists, San Francisco Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield knows something is wrong. She soon finds herself out of her jurisdiction and out of her depth when...

  • The Dragon's Lady

    Against the background of San Francisco at the time of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 comes a tale of love and loss. Ruth Greer is the spoiled daughter of a shipping magnate who finds a young boy that has run away from his home in Chinatown --...

  • Ancient Shadows

    Ancient Secrets - 2

    One by one, a horror film director, a judge, and a newspaper publisher meet brutal deaths. A link exists between them, and the deaths have only begun …
    Archeologist Michael Rempart finds himself pitted against ancient demons and modern conspirat...

  • Dangerous Journey

    Her brother vanished in a mysterious, foreign land, and the only man who can help her is even more dangerous...C.J. Perkins is trying to find her brother who went missing while on a Peace Corps assignment in Asia. All she knows is that the disappeara...

  • Cook's Big Day

    An Angie Amalfi Mystery - 16

    Angie Amalfi’s wedding -- her Big Day -- is on the verge of becoming a Big Mess. She had planned every detail of the day with the utmost care, wanting everything to be perfect. But now people across the city are dying to put the wedding on hold. A ...



  • Three O'Clock Seance

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 3

    San Francisco Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield has vowed to have nothing more to do with mystery man Richie Amalfi, but when he tells her about the strange deaths of clients of a local psychic medium, her decision changes. Rebecca has always been ...

  • Four O'Clock Sizzle

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 4

    When Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield's would-be boyfriend, Richie Amalfi, is named as one of San Francisco's "most enticing bachelors," she's not amused, but she never expected it would lead to his life being threatened. As a restaurant owner, me...

  • Cook's Dessert Cookbook

    Cozy mystery book lovers have been treated to a steady diet of scrumptious Angie Amalfi culinary mysteries since the mid-1990's. The books are a banquet of mostly Italian entrees and desserts, as befitting Angie Amalfi's heritage. In this cookbook, y...

  • Five O'Clock Twist

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 5

    A foggy night. A dog's bark. This one just turned personal ...Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield hopes to come to terms with her confused emotions over alluring but troubling boyfriend Richie Amalfi, but her plans quickly change when her neighbor is...

  • Add a Pinch of Murder

    An Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mystery - 2

    Gourmet cook Angie Amalfi has big plans for her life as a soon-to-be married woman, but between nervous kitchen remodelers, clever murderers, and possibly ghosts, nothing is going as planned. Angie hopes a romantic evening out with her fiancé, Homic...

  • Murder by Devil's Food

    An Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mystery - 4

    As culinary queen Angie Amalfi-Smith starts a new phase of her life with a husband and a home to call her own, one long-time problem still plagues her: finding a job, or business, or service, or anything that will make her feel as if her days are pro...

  • Six O'Clock Silence

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 6

    An eerie discovery brings danger and painful reminders of a tragic past ...When some workmen dig up a skeleton, Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield finds herself investigating a death that took place years earlier. She never imagines that it will hav...

  • Ancient Illusions

    Ancient Secrets - 3

    A long-lost diary, a rare book of ghost stories, and unrelenting nightmares combine to send archeologist Michael Rempart on a forbidden journey into the occult and his own past.When Michael returns to his family home after more than a decade-long abs...

  • Seven O'Clock Target

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 7

    A murder. Missing children. And the crimes have only begun.When Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield investigates the murder of a delivery man and the disappearance of his two children, she suddenly finds herself a target. Boyfriend Richie Amalfi is c...

  • If I Loved You

    The Cabin of Love & Magic / The Donnelly Cabin Inn - 1

    Legend has it that the cabin is haunted, that its ghosts are matchmakers... but if the couple "matched" don't agree, the two are doomed to never find true love. Carly Fullerton cares nothing about ghosts, dire legends, or true love. Al...



  • Sentimental Journey

    The Cabin of Love & Magic / The Donnelly Cabin Inn - 3

    Three ghosts. A remote cabin in Idaho. Now, a romance-avoiding loner and her mysterious lodger need to learn the secrets behind the ghosts ... and the cabin. Julia Perrin runs a bed and breakfast that tends to have a strange clientele--people hopi...

  • This Can't be Love

    The Cabin of Love & Magic / The Donnelly Cabin Inn - 2

    Mallory Conway is the youngest of the three half-sisters who inherit a cabin in a remote section of Idaho that belonged to their family for generations-a cabin which happens to be haunted. Mallory's troubled childhood taught her that the best ...

  • Ancient Deceptions

    Ancient Secrets - 4

    A dig in a remote site uncovers demonic killings & buried secrets that shatter archeologist Michael Rempart's world in this sweeping supernatural thriller that crosses time and space from the present to the last days of the Russian Tsars.When Michael...

  • Eight O'Clock Split

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 8

    A break-up. An act of kindness. And the consequences turn deadly.Inspector Rebecca Mayfield returns to homicide after being place on administrative leave, but she'sassigned to desk duty. While she seethes at this latest restriction, boyfriend Richie ...

  • Nine O'Clock Retreat

    A Rebecca Mayfield Mystery - 9

    A deadly attack, a retreat... to a place where new dangers await...Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield is having problems with boyfriend Richie Amalfi, but they come to each other's aid when someone is trying to kill one of them ... and they aren't c...

  • A Certain Smile

    The Cabin of Love & Magic / The Donnelly Cabin Inn - 4

    A fashion photographer with shattered dreams, a former rancher with a tragic past, and an isolated cabin... with ghosts.When a top fashion photographer Sophie Evans' life plans fall apart, leaving her heartbroken and adrift, she learns of the Donnell...

  • Time After Time

    The Cabin of Love & Magic / The Donnelly Cabin Inn - 5

    An antique hope chest, a forgotten wedding dress, and a packet of letters lead to a startling journey of love, tragedy, and self-discovery...Charlotte Truscott's meticulously planned life is up-ended when she finds a preserved wedding dress in an ant...

  • Death on a Silver Platter

    A Cook and Inspector Mystery - 1

    A TV cooking show murder-Angelina Amalfi, a gourmet cook who is also the assistant to a famous chef with his own television show, finds life a tasty treat. But her treat sours when her mentor's last supper turns deadly and he's poisoned in his own ki...

  • A Quiche Before Dying

    A Cook and Inspector Mystery - 2

    When the glamour of the culinary world conceals a dark secret, murder is on the menu...Angie Amalfi is ecstatic when she lands a job on a pompous chef's call-in radio show, believing she'll whisk her way to stardom. But the murder of a popular restau...

  • Ancient Passages

    Ancient Secrets - 5

    The heart of Sicily, where ancient myths echo through crumbling ruins and long-forgotten gods lurk in the shadows ...Michael Rempart, renowned archaeologist, finds himself in a new role as guardian and protector to his increasingly troubled half-sist...



  • Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind

    A Cook and Inspector Mystery - 3

    Gourmet cuisine, UFO-chasers, and government conspiracies collide in this cosmic culinary caper...Angie Amalfi is sure she's finally come up with the perfect career—owner and head chef of Fantasy Dinners, bringing fantasies to life through cat...

  • Death by Devil's Food

    A Cook and Inspector Mystery - 4

    Gourmet cook Angie Amalfi's newest culinary business, Comical Cakes, is a roaring success, bringing joy to all with her whimsical, laugh-inducing confections. But there's nothing funny about the chilling case her homicide inspector boyfriend, Paavo S...

  • The Marinara Murders

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    Murder, marinara, and marriage dreams collide in this suspense-laden culinary thriller...Gourmet cook Angie Amalfi is on a mission: to find a hidden gem of a restaurant to review for a top culinary magazine. At the same time, handsome Homicide Inspec...

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Joanne Pence has published 52 books.

Joanne Pence does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death by Devil's Food, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Joanne Pence, Armed and Dangerous, was published in December 1987.

Yes. Joanne Pence has 6 series.
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