Nancy J. Cohen

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1999
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bad Hair Day Mystery

1 - Permed to Death (Dec-1999)
2 - Hair Raiser (Dec-2000)
3 - Murder by Manicure (Dec-2001)
4 - Body Wave (Dec-2002)
5 - Highlights to Heaven (Dec-2003)
6 - Died Blonde (Dec-2004)
7 - Dead Roots (Dec-2005)
8 - Perish by Pedicure (Dec-2006)
9 - Killer Knots (Dec-2007)
10 - Shear Murder (Feb-2012)
11 - Hanging by a Hair (Apr-2014)
12 - Peril by Ponytail (Sep-2015)
13 - Facials Can Be Fatal (Feb-2017)
14 - Hair Brained (Sep-2017)
15 - Trimmed to Death (Sep-2018)
16 - Hairball Hijinks (Jun-2018)
17 - Easter Hair Hunt (Mar-2020)
18 - Styled for Murder (Nov-2021)
19 - Star Tangled Murder (Mar-2023)

Drift Lords

1 - Warrior Prince (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Permed to Death

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 1

    Meet Marla Shore, a Florida beauty salon owner with a knack for creating dazzling 'dos -- and solving mysteries... Marla was already having a bad hair day, but when one of her clients dies while getting a perm in her salon, her day just can't get an...

  • Hair Raiser

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 2

    Not just your average South Florida beachcomber, Marla's now a volunteer for Ocean Guard, a coastal preservation group. She's even in charge of their upcoming Taste of the World fundraiser. But when chef Pierre Chevalier's flaming Bananas Foster resu...

  • Murder by Manicure

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 3

    Since beauty is her business, salon owner Marla Shore figures she can surely rid herself of a few excess pounds of holiday flab without joining a gym. Unfortunately, daily walks with her slowpoke poodle fail to whittle her waistline, so Marla relucta...

  • Body Wave

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 4

    Salon owner Marla Shore is pretty hard to shock, but she's truly stunned to learn that her hateful ex-husband, Stanley Kaufman, has been arrested for the murder of his third wife, Kimberly--and wants Marla to find the "real" killer. Stan's plenty of ...

  • Highlights to Heaven

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 5

    Professional hair stylist and amateur sleuth Marla Shore lands a case close to home when her pet-loving neighbor, a man aptly named Goat, disappears, leaving his animals--and a dead body--behind. The corpse might be just another anonymous stiff excep...

  • Died Blonde

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 6

    There's no love lost between Marla and Carolyn Sutton since Marla left Carolyn's Hairstyle Heaven to open her own place. Still, it’s a nasty shock when Marla enters the meter room behind the shopping center that houses both salons and stumbles ove...

  • Three Men and a Body

    in Wicked Women Whodunit

    Doesn't it just figure? You meet the guy of your dreams. There's enough electricity to start a wild fire. And then there's a murder to put a crimp in your plans. But not necessarily... Reality show contestant Heather Payne's assignment is simple: ...

  • Dead Roots

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 7

    A haunted hotel, a family curse, mysterious Cossacks, hidden treasure, murdered guests . . . what looked to be a routine family reunion is turning into a serious Bad Hair Day indeed. One that's trouble all the way down to the .. . Marla Shore thou...

  • Perish by Pedicure

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 8

    Fire up the flat iron and break out the bullet-proof blow drier, because Marla Shore--the sassy, South Florida beauty salon owner with a knack for fixing hair and finding trouble--is back. Now, just as her fiance Detective Dalton Vail's famously upti...



  • Killer Knots

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 9

    Scissor-wielding sleuth Marla Shore is looking forward to a leisurely cruise with her fiancé Dalton Vail. Too bad Dalton's teenage daughter and his parents are along for the ride. Instead of a seduction at sea, Marla is meeting the in-laws and hopin...

  • Silver Serenade

    A beautiful assassin and a desperate fugitive join forces to catch a terrorist before he starts an intergalactic war. Ace pilot Jace Vernon is forced to flee his home world after being framed for murder. He seeks justice, but S.I.N. agent Silver Mall...

  • Shear Murder

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 10
    Worldwide Mysteries - 908

    GETTING MARRIED CAN BE MURDER… In-demand South Florida salon owner Marla Shore barely has time to plan her own impending nuptials, let alone play hairdresser to the not-so-rich-and-famous at her friend's destination wedding. But when the venue i...

  • Warrior Prince

    Drift Lords - 1

    When mythologist and Florida resident Nira Larsen accepts a job as tour guide for a mysterious stranger, she's drawn into a nightmare reality where ancient myths come alive and legendary evils seek to destroy her. To survive, she must awaken her dorm...

  • Warrior Rogue

    She seems like everything he despises--until her beauty challenges his warrior's heart.When fashion designer Jennifer Dyhr loses her lead actor for a video-game commercial, a replacement literally drops from the sky. Reluctant to let him leave, she h...

  • Hanging by a Hair

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 11
    Worldwide Mysteries - 944

    Marla's joyous move to a new house with her husband, Detective Dalton Vail, is marred by their next-door neighbor who erects an illegal fence between their properties. When Dalton reminds the man of the local permitting laws, tempers flare--and worse...

  • Warrior Lord

    Pottery sculptor Erika Sherwood has no idea her televised wedding in Las Vegas is for real until an official confirms she and the stranger she's just met are legitimately wed. A Drift Lord and warrior of the Tsuran, Magnor tricks the redhead into m...

  • Peril by Ponytail

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 12

    Marla and Dalton's honeymoon at an Arizona dude ranch veers from dangerous to downright deadly faster than a horse headed to the corral. With her husband's uncle--the resort's owner--on the suspect list for murder, Marla races to prove his innocence....

  • Haunted Hair Nights

    When history teacher Bill Ripari offers his property for a school haunted house project, hairstylist Marla Vail volunteers to put the scare factor into the props’ hair. She joins her stepdaughter along with other students, parents, and teachers to ...

  • Facials Can Be Fatal

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 13

    During the frenzy of the December holidays, the last thing salon owner Marla Vail needs is a dead body slathered in a green facial mask at her new day spa. The victim, Valerie Weston, had been a major donor for Friends of Old Florida, a nonprofit his...



  • Hair Brained

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 14

    Hairstylist Marla Vail determines to learn the truth when her best friend is hurt in a suspicious car accident in this suspenseful cozy mystery. Hairstylist Marla Vail’s friends are hurt in a car accident on New Year’s Eve. As per their instruct...

  • Hairball Hijinks

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 16

    A cat, a crook, and a confused neighbor cause mirth in this killer cozy short story.Savvy hairstylist and super sleuth Marla Vail visits her friend Tally who just got out of the hospital after a serious car accident. Marla has been caring for Tallyâ€...

  • Trimmed to Death

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 15

    Mix together a cocktail for murder, add a few salty suspects, toss in a dollop of sweet humor, and you have the recipe for Trimmed to Death, #15 in the Bad Hair Day cozy mystery series.Savvy hairstylist and amateur sleuth Marla Vail enters a charity ...

  • Easter Hair Hunt

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 17

    Hare today, dead tomorrow… Can a stylish sleuth pull a rabbit out of her hat to solve an Easter murder in this to-dye-for cozy mystery?When hairstylist Marla Vail attends an Easter egg hunt at historic Tremayne Manor, she’s only there to fix hair...

  • Here Babies, There Babies in Summer

    This delightful board book from the duo behind the bestselling Here Babies, There Babies follows baby on a typical summertime day: Babies at a picnic, babies on the swings, babies at the splash pad and beach, and then after all that fun, babies falli...

  • Styled for Murder

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 18

    Hairstylist Marla Vail flushes out a killer when murder disrupts her mother's home renovation plans in this stylish cozy mystery.When hairstylist and savvy sleuth, Marla Vail, gets a frantic call from her mother that there's a dead body in her shower...

  • Star Tangled Murder

    A Bad Hair Day Mystery - 19

    Hairstylist Marla Vail and her husband get tangled up in murder when their Fourth of July visit to a living history village ends with a bang-and a body. Salon owner Marla Vail and her detective husband Dalton are having a blast visiting a Florida liv...

  • Here Babies, There Babies On the Farm

    Here babies, there babies, See them on the farm babies. Furry babies, feathered babies, fuzzy, full of charm babies. Babies can be found all over the farm! Colourful artwork and bouncy, rhyming text introduces baby to farm animal life, with birds ha...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy J. Cohen has published 27 books.

Nancy J. Cohen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Here Babies, There Babies On the Farm, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Nancy J. Cohen, Permed to Death, was published in December 1999.

Yes. Nancy J. Cohen has 2 series.
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