Lesley A. Diehl

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2010
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Eve Appel Mystery

1 - A Secondhand Murder (Sep-2013)
2 - Dead in the Water (Jul-2014)
3 - A Sporting Murder (Jul-2015)
4 - Mud Bog Murder (Sep-2016)
5 - Old Bones Never Die (Mar-2016)

A Laura Murphy Mystery

1 - Murder is Academic (Mar-2014)
2 - Failure Is Fatal (Feb-2016)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • A Deadly Draught

    The lack of water and capital could put master beer brewer Hera Knightsbridge out of business ... and then things get worse. Much worse. Money is always a problem for Hera's microbrewery, but now water is scarce, as well. Worse, Hera discovers a riva...

  • Murder with All the Trimmings

    It's always difficult to have a happy Thanksgiving the year after a loved one dies. It's especially hard when you have to sit at the same table as the murderer...and a poor turkey substitute. This story appears in the Thanksgiving mystery anthology T...

  • Dumpster Dying

    Emily Rhodes came to rural Florida for the cowboys, the cattle, and to do a little country two-step, not to fall head first onto a dead body in a dumpster. Ah, the golden years of retirement in the sunshine state. They’re more like pot metal to Emi...

  • Mother Gets a Lift

    Angela Baker should be thrilled at having given birth to her third baby, but her mother always finds a way of spoiling the moment. This time Mom takes a cruise specializing in plastic surgery and ends up overboard, murdered and leaving Angela to iden...

  • Angel Sleuth

    Kaitlin Singer needs time off -- from a philandering husband, from a writing career stalled on a buzzard as a main character, and from the stash of chocolate in her lingerie drawer. Her decision to return to her childhood home might seem like the per...

  • Poisoned Pairings

    In this sequel to A Deadly Draft, the threat of hydraulic fracturing, an environmentally controversial technique to extract gas from shale, invades Butternut Valley. Hera Knightsbridge and her fellow microbrewers fear it will pollute the water, their...

  • Grilled, Chilled and Killed

    In the second Big Lake Mystery, Emily Rhodes, retired preschool teacher and bartender turned amateur snoop, wonders if she is destined to discover dead bodies. This time she finds one of the contestants at the local barbeque cook-off dead and covered...

  • A Secondhand Murder

    An Eve Appel Mystery - 1

    Spunky and outspoken Eve Appel moves from Connecticut to rural Florida intent on starting a new life, free of drama, and more importantly, her soon-to-be ex-husband. The rural Florida town of Sabal Bay, situated only an hour from West Palm, proves to...

  • Murder is Academic

    A Laura Murphy Mystery - 1

    Finding a murderer is better on the back of a motorcycle…with donuts. Laura Murphy, psychology professor and inveterate snoop, thinks there’s nothing she likes better than coffee and donuts on a summer morning until the day she says yes to dinner...



  • Dead in the Water

    An Eve Appel Mystery - 2

    Sabal Bay consignment shop owner Eve Appel is fit to be tied -- family tied. Just as she is basking in the warmth of a renewed relationship with her long-lost Uncle Winston, disaster strikes. He and his less welcome companion, Darlene, have come for ...

  • A Sporting Murder

    An Eve Appel Mystery - 3

    It’s smooth sailing for Eve Appel and her friend Madeleine, owners of Second to None Consignment Shop in rural Florida’s Sabal Bay, land of swamps, cowboys, and lots and lots of ’gators. Eve and her detective boyfriend Alex have joined Madelein...

  • Failure Is Fatal

    A Laura Murphy Mystery - 2

    Someone at Professor Laura Murphy’s college appears to be playing a joke on her by planting sexually explicit stories in her research results, but the joke turns deadly when one story details the recent stabbing murder of a coed. Laura’s close fr...

  • Old Bones Never Die

    An Eve Appel Mystery - 5

    Just before Walter Egret is killed in a hit-and-run, he phoned his half-brother Sammy to report that he’d unearthed their missing father’s pocket watch, along with a pile of human bones. The project is put on hold until it can be determined if th...

  • Mud Bog Murder

    An Eve Appel Mystery - 4

    When Jenny McCleary leases her property to be ravaged by the annual mud bog races, the small rural town of Sabal Bay, Florida, is divided into warring camps: environmental activists versus monster truck fans. Jenny, who frequents the consignment stor...

  • Killer Tied

    Eve Appel Egret is adjusting to married life with Sammy and their three adopted sons in Sabal Bay, Florida. While still running her consignment stores, she is going pro with her sleuthing by becoming an apprentice to a private detective. Until her ma...

  • Scream Muddy Murder

    EMILY RHODES DOES IT AGAIN! This time she nosedives into a mud puddle at a Seminole War battle reenactment and finds she’s sharing the muck with a dead body. As usual the hunky detective she loves to aggravate, Stanton Lewis, cautions her against g...

  • Nearly Departed

    Tired of sitting surveillance on insurance fraud, apprentice PI Eve Apple Egret gets her first big case, one where the outcome is important and personal. Eve’s best friend Madeleine has few relatives, so her Uncle Shamus is special, but someone...

  • Murder in the Family

    The past comes back seeking vengeance. To save her family and friends, Novice PI Eve Appel, pregnant with her second child, must outwit the bad guys in a final act of desperation, risking her life and that of the man she's asked to help her, her mob ...

  • Spiked Punch

    On the other side of seventy, Maddie Sparks decides to spice up her life by changing her writing interests from cozy mysteries to romance. She also determines her appearance should reflect this transformation in her writing career. A sassy new haircu...



  • A Basket Case

    Maddie Sparks believes she has found the perfect balance in her life-Zack, the man she loves, a book she loves writing and volunteer work at a local museum with a granddaughter she adores. An old flame from Zack's past arrives and drives a wedge into...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lesley A. Diehl has published 20 books.

Lesley A. Diehl does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Basket Case, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Lesley A. Diehl, A Deadly Draught, was published in April 2010.

Yes. Lesley A. Diehl has 2 series.
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