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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1996
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Allie Babcock

1 - Play Dead (Dec-1998)
2 - Ruff Way to Go (Feb-2000)
3 - Give the Dog a Bone (Jan-2002)
4 - Woof at the Door (May-2013)
4.5 - A Dog-Gone Christmas (Nov-2013)
5 - Of Birds and Beagles (Mar-2015)
6 - Dog Drama (Jul-2017)
7 - Terrier Terror (Jan-2019)

The Body Shifters Trilogy

0.5 - The Body Shifters Begins: Jake Greyland: A Short Story (Nov-2014)
1 - The Body Shifters (Feb-2014)
2 - Mind Echoes (Sep-2014)

The Book Club Trilogy

1 - How My Book Club Got Arrested (Jun-2017)

Life's Second Chances

1 - Going to Graceland (Jun-2015)
2 - Women's Night Out (Jun-2015)
3 - Finding Gregory Peck (Jul-2015)
4 - By the Light of the Moon (Aug-2016)

A Molly Masters Mystery

1 - Death and Faxes // Death Comes eCalling (Jan-1996)
2 - Just the Fax, Ma'Am // Death Comes to Suburbia (Sep-1996)
3 - The Cold Hard Fax // Death of a Gardener (May-1998)
4 - The Fax of Life // Death Comes to a Retreat (May-1999)
5 - The School Board Murders // Death on a School Board (Jun-2000)
6 - When the Fax Lady Sings // Death at a Talent Show (Apr-2001)
7 - Death of a PTA Goddess // Death Comes to the PTA (Oct-2002)

Book List in Order: 27 titles



  • After a long absence, cartoonist Molly Masters returns to house-sit her childhood home in a small suburb of Albany, New York. Soon after her arrival, she receives a disturbing letter from Mrs. Kravett, her least-favorite high school teacher, who dies...



  • DRAWN & QUARTERED When Molly Masters, cartoonist and mother of two, discovers the only risque drawing she's ever done published in a porn magazine, she's livid. Especially since Preston Saunders, husband of her arch rival, Stephanie, not only stol...



  • Gardening is not usually considered a blood sport, but whenever cartoonist Molly Masters is out in the yard she must contend with the harassing comments of her neighbor, Helen Raleigh, who once owned Molly's house. Then, after a particularly unpleasa...



  • MEET ALLIE BABCOCK -- AN INTREPID DOG THERAPIST WITH A KNACK FOR SLEUTHING After Allie Babcock sets up shop in Boulder, her first client is a despondent collie whose previous owner apparently took her own life. But Allie soon suspects murder--and fi...



  • Violets are blue. Roses are red. One of you bitches Will soon be dead. Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. E...



  • DOG THERAPIST ALLIE BABCOCK IS BACK -- AND SHE HAS A BONE TO PICK WITH A KILLER Allie's dog therapy practice is booming. Her divorcing neighbors Edith and Travor have hired her to choose which one should have custody of Shogun, their silky terrier. ...



  • Funding for sports or for the arts? There's not enough money for both, and a ruthless battle is raging among the seven members of the Carlton school board. Sylvia Greene, the board's unbalanced president, is even threatening to expose the members' mo...



  • Dress rehearsal For the PTA fundraiser is at its chaotic peak when one of the seven identical clowns cavorting on stage pulls out a gun and shoots the director, Corrinne Buldock. Molly Masters, also dressed as a clown, is a stunned and baffled witnes...



  • NO MERE MURDER IS GOING TO MAKE DOG THERAPIST ALLIE BABCOCK ROLL OVER AND PLAY DEAD. As canine shrink Allie Babcock knows, behind every neurotic dog stands a neurotic human. But the rambunctious golden retriever named Maggie can't even begin to co...






  • Everybody agrees that talented mom Patty Birch is the perfect president to lead the Carlton Central School PTA to new accomplishments. Under her steady stewardship, the organization verges on winning a prestigious award. Her skills, however, are sore...



  • Dog therapist Allie Babcock can deal with an untrained mutt, a skittish Samoyed, and an adventurous Beagle. The wolf in the kitchen, however, is a different story.... Allie Babcock has the best of intentions: to help an old friend and her sweet littl...



  • THE SOUL SHIFTERS BEGINS: JAKE GREYLAND is an introduction to a suspenseful trilogy of novels that tell the gripping story of what happens when the brilliant 18 year old, Jake Greyland, is in a hideous accident and awakens in another young-man's b...



  • In this fun, engaging holiday short story, dog therapist Allie Babcock and her mother face a tedious delay at Denver International Airport on Christmas Eve. Then, moments later, Delia Granger, a platinum-selling and temperamental country-western sin...



  • The Body Shifters is the first book in a trilogy of thrillers that feature Elony Montgomery, a brilliant 18-year-old. The gripping story opens as Ellie is waiting for a friend to arrive when she hears a strange noise downstairs. She is relieved to di...



  • MIND ECHOES continues the story of Ellie Montgomery, a Stanford pre-med student whose family members were brutally murdered so that her brilliant mind could be used in an experiment by a corrupt neurologist. Ellie is now living as Alexis Bixby, an ar...



  • In this gripping tale that introduces THE BODY SHIFTERS TRILOGY, Jake Greyland is a brilliant-but-nerdy scientist who earned his PhD when he was in his early teens. He has now invented a cure for Alzheimer's and dreams of impre...



  • Dog therapist Allie Babcock is excited to give a presentation at the Pets! Pets! Pets! Expo in Denver. With the bring-your-own-pets policy of the expo, Allie's dog-phobic boyfriend is hyperventilating as soon as they enter the building. When he runs ...



  • Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.... Lisa Henderson's return trip to Denver after dropping off her youngest child at college in Texas has just hit a life-changing detour. With her adorable Westie in tow, Lisa is waiting at Delia's Diner ...



  • They've got one another, and now they're going to find the one that got away if it kills them-which it very well might. WOMEN'S NIGHT OUT, the second book in the Life's Second Chances Series, is about the long-lasting friendships among three women fo...






  • Learning that the man of your dreams loves you, too, is wonderful…unless he’s a Hollywood legend who died years ago….Heather Blackstone is on top of the world -- happily married, adorable young son, co-owner of a rising Hollywood film-productio...



  • A bitter heart is no match for a moonlit bridge, an enormous dog, and a determined optimist from Ogalalla… Mary Johnson has recently left her home in Nebraska after her husband of thirty years dumped her for a younger woman. She is walking her St. ...



  • Take a zany road trip to Branson, Missouri, with Leslie O’Kane’s HOW MY BOOK CLUB GOT ARRESTED as a group of book lovers get involved in one story too many! A cross-country road trip with the Second Saturday Book Club goes afoul when the four wom...



  • Welcome to Creede, a lovely little western town in the Colorado Rockies. This year's renowned theater production stars an Australian Shepherd with stage fright, two backstage love triangles, a shifty stagehand...and a real-life murder.Dog therapist A...



  • What can possibly go wrong at the annual dog show?Allie Babcock and her life partner, Baxter McClelland, get more than they bargained for when they accept jobs at the Fort Collins, Colorado, annual dog show. Allie is training dogs in the agility comp...



  • Tera Westbrook, a skilled yoga instructor, is burdened by knowing she could have prevented the accident that took her beloved mother's life. When she returns to work, she believes she is losing her mind when Peggy, her translucent mother, appears. On...



  • With mixed feelings, Tera Westbrook puts her mother's house on the market. No sooner does Tera's realtor assure her that she won't need to deal with potential buyers, than she is ambushed at a grocery store by a couple who want her house on their ca...



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    Tera Westbrook, a skilled yoga instructor, is burdened by knowing she could have prevented the accident that took her beloved mother's life. When she returns to work, she believes she is losing her mind when Peggy, her translucent mother, appears. On...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leslie O'Kane has published 27 books.

Leslie O'Kane does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, When the Spirit Moves, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Leslie O'Kane, Death and Faxes // Death Comes eCalling, was published in January 1996.

Yes. Leslie O'Kane has 5 series.