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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1994
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Full Series List in Order

A Kali O'Brien Mystery

1 - Shadow of Doubt (Mar-1996)
2 - Evidence of Guilt (Apr-1998)
3 - Motion to Dismiss (Mar-1999)
4 - Witness for the Defense (Apr-2001)
5 - Cold Justice (Jun-2002)
6 - Intent to Harm (Oct-2003)
7 - The Next Victim (Feb-2007)

A Kate Austen Mystery

1 - Murder Among Neighbors (Sep-1994)
2 - Murder Among Friends (Aug-1995)
3 - Murder Among Us (Apr-1998)
4 - Murder Among Strangers (Mar-2000)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • Abandoned by her feckless husband, Kate Austen has all she can handle carpooling her five-year-old daughter to pre-school, baking for good causes, keeping her lawn mowed, and devising survival tactics. It looks like everyone else in her affluent subu...



  • Newly divorced Kate Austen and Mona Sterling have become fast friends. While Mona has hit the settlement jackpot, Kate has to support herself and her five-year-old daughter with her new career as an art consultant. But the friendship comes to a dead ...



  • Kali O'Brien thought she'd left Silver Creek far behind. Until her father's death brings her back to her Sierra hometown, where she has to cope with past tragedy and present-day murder. All the evidence in a bizarre homicide case points to an old hig...



  • When Lisa Cornell and her five-year-old daughter are killed, Wes Harding, a former classmate of Kali's, becomes the prime suspect. Kali agrees to assist her long--time legal mentor on the case but is stunned when Harding refuses to help his own defen...



  • Jonnie Jacobs has delighted a legion of ans with her two previous Kate Austen mysteries. Now, she puts the intrepid single mom and suburban sleuth to-the test by pitting her against two formidable foes: a cunning killer and a meddlesome mother-in-law...



  • San Francisco defense attorney Kali O'Brien's newest case is casting doubt on the one principle she cherishes most--the absolute dead certainty that her client is telling the truth. Grady Barrett, a wealthy computer magnate married to Kali's best fri...



  • Kate Austen has always had a soft spot for people in trouble, but stopping to help stranded motorist Sheryl Ann Martin is a deadly mistake. With a dead husband in the trunk and a killer boyfriend at her side, Sheryl Ann is beyond help, and now, so is...



  • A star quarterback and his wife; a pregnant teen with nowhere to turn - an uncomplicated adoption agreement giving both parties something they want. Yet San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien is uneasy about the case from the very beginning. And Kali's ...



  • Attorney Kali O'Brien is no stranger to San Francisco's dark side, but death hits too close to home when her friend Anne's body is discovered, strangled and naked, in a dank alleyway. And when a yellow rose and a poem are sent to Anne's husband, Kali...






  • The client is clear: Attorney Kali O'Brien is to come alone. The meeting place: a deserted, wooded park. The information the client has is explosive and highly dangerous. But she doesn't live to tell it. Instead, a sniper's shot ends her life and nea...



  • Dr. Sam Russell wakes up to find himself in his car in a ditch with no memory of how he's gotten there. There's a woman's shoe in his trunk. Dried blood under his fingernails. And when he gets home, he finds his wife, Maureen, is missing, having take...



  • Enthusiastic fans of Jonnie Jacobs's thrillers know what they're getting in bestseller after bestseller: riveting suspense, knockout writing, and a smart, world-weary heroine who can kick butt and take names when she needs to. Now Jacobs delivers ano...



  • A missing daughter. A stepson who knows more than he's telling. A detective with her own tragic past. The abduction of a teenage girl sends a happily blended family into a tailspin. Paradise Falls is the riveting and provocative tale of a famil...



  • When wealthy widow Lillian Goodhue decides to leave the bulk of her estate to her handsome,newly hired young handyman, Miles Quackenbush, attorney Hannah Trilling is suspicious. But perhaps Lillian is wiser than people think.This is a short story or...



  • Danny hasn't seen his aging mother in almost ten years, although he does talk to her by phone from time to time. When he learns she is dying and he is her sole heir, he decides to help things along but is stymied by her four canine companions. In t...



  • Eighteen-year-old Chloe Henderson is horrified when her boyfriend robs a convenience store, killing two people in the process, but when she helps him escape her life intersects with that of another woman affected by the crime....



  • A split-second decision sends a woman's life spiraling out of control. Wife and mother Marta Crawford is away on business when she stops at the hotel bar after a particularly difficult day. There she meets the charming Todd Wilson and, much to her...



  • In this novella addition to the best-selling Kali O’Brien legal mystery series, attorney Kali O’Brien takes on the case of a young widow accused of murdering her much older, and very wealthy, husband. As evidence mounts and other possible suspect...


Award-Winning Books by Jonnie Jacobs

Witness for the Defense
2001 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonnie Jacobs has published 18 books.

Jonnie Jacobs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, What the Widow Knew, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Jonnie Jacobs, Murder Among Neighbors, was published in September 1994.

Yes. Jonnie Jacobs has 2 series.