Nancy Mehl

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2001
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Curl Up and Dye Mystery

1 - Missing Mabel (Aug-2010)
2 - Blown Away (Feb-2011)
3 - A Wedding to Dye For (Nov-2013)

Defenders of Justice

1 - Fatal Frost (Nov-2016)
2 - Dark Deception (Jun-2017)
3 - Blind Betrayal (Apr-2018)

The Erin Delaney Mysteries

1 - Shattered Sanctuary (Mar-2025)

Finding Sanctuary

1 - Gathering Shadows (May-2014)
2 - Deadly Echoes (Feb-2015)
3 - Rising Darkness (Nov-2015)

Harmony

1 - Simple Secrets (Jun-2010)
2 - Simple Deceit (Dec-2010)
3 - Simple Choices (Jun-2011)

An Ivy Towers Mystery

1 - In the Dead of Winter (Dec-2007)
2 - Bye, Bye Bertie (Apr-2008)
3 - For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls (Aug-2008)
4 - There Goes Santa Claus (Nov-2008)

Kaely Quinn Profiler

1 - Mind Games (Dec-2018)
2 - Fire Storm (Aug-2019)
3 - Dead End (Apr-2020)

The Quantico Files

1 - Night Fall (Apr-2021)
2 - Dead Fall (Nov-2021)
3 - Free Fall (Jun-2022)

Road to Kingdom

1 - Inescapable (Jul-2012)
2 - Unbreakable (Feb-2013)
3 - Unforeseeable (Sep-2013)

Ryland & St. Clair

1 - Cold Pursuit (Jul-2023)
2 - Cold Threat (Jan-2024)
3 - Cold Vengeance (Jul-2024)

A Sugarcreek Amish Mystery

1 - Blessings in Disguise (Feb-2018)
2 - Simply Vanished (Aug-2018)
3 - In the Fullness of Time (Sep-2018)
4 - When Angels Whisper (Sep-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Hometown Mysteries

Blown Away (Feb-2011)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Graven Images

    Cally Jo McAllister was only four years old when her mother was murdered. As her mother's body lay sprawled on the floor of their once happy home, Cally cowered in fear, hidden by the darkness afforded her from the top of the stairs. Concealed from t...

  • Malevolence

  • Sinner's Song

  • In the Dead of Winter

    An Ivy Towers Mystery - 1

    Samantha "Ivy" Towers returns to Winter Break, Kansas, where she spent her summers as a child, to make funeral arrangements for her Aunt Bitty. While there, she begins to suspect her aunt's death, which resulted from a fall in her bookshop, wasn't an...

  • Bye, Bye Bertie

    An Ivy Towers Mystery - 2

    HAS THE LOST GAMBLER'S GOLD BEEN FOUND -- OR HAS IVY MADE A MORE SINISTER DISCOVERY? Ivy Towers lives in the tiny town of Winter Break, Kansas. While working hard to get her late aunt's rare bookstore, Miss Bitty's Bygone Bookstore, on its feet, she...

  • For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls

    An Ivy Towers Mystery - 3

    Ivy Towers is getting married to the love of her life. . .but she finds that trying to run a rare bookstore and plan her upcoming nuptials is more than she can handle. In steps Delaphine Shackleford, a new and unwilling resident in the small town of ...

  • There Goes Santa Claus

    An Ivy Towers Mystery - 4

    IVY TOWERS-TUCKER IS LOOKING FORWARD TO HER FIRST CHRISTMAS AS A MARRIED WOMAN. . . . But a few days before December 25, Ivy and her husband Amos are awakened by noises on their rooftop. Amos's joke that Santa Claus must have arrived early loses i...

  • Simple Secrets

    Harmony - 1

    Secrets Buried Alive Never Die Graphic designer Gracie Temple wants it all: the big city lifestyle and a successful job in advertising. And it looks like her life is on the right track when she takes a job at a struggling, midsize firm in Wichita. ...

  • Missing Mabel

    A Curl Up and Dye Mystery - 1

    Watch the tangled mess a Kansas hairdresser gets herself into when she reports to the funeral home that the body she is to work on is not the same as in her reference photo. Is she being punished when the director accuses her of stealing a diamond ri...



  • Simple Deceit

    Harmony - 2

    Deception Threatens a Town's Simple Soul Gracie Temple has grown to love the Mennonite town of Harmony, Kansas, and the house bequeathed to her by her late uncle. New friendships among the residents, including the handsome farmer Sam Goodrich, seal ...

  • Blown Away

    A Curl Up and Dye Mystery - 2
    Hometown Mysteries

    What’s a girl to do when she hates clowns but finds out her new boyfriend moonlights as a clown and is now accused of killing another clown?...

  • Simple Choices

    Harmony - 3

    Set your GPS for the small town of Harmony, Kansas, where a city girl becomes embroiled in mystery and romance. Graphic designer Gracie Temple is engaged to Sam Goodrich. As she returns from chaperoning her protégé, Hannah Mueller, during summer art ...

  • Inescapable

    Road to Kingdom - 1

    Page-Turning Romantic Suspense Set Against the Backdrop of a Small Mennonite Town Lizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, her family, and her faith with plans never to return. Five years later, Lizzie fi...

  • Unbreakable

    Road to Kingdom - 2

    Gentle and unassuming Hope Kauffman has never been one to question or try to make changes. She quietly helps her father run Kingdom Quilts and has agreed to the betrothal her father arranged for her with the devout but shy Ebbie Miller. Despite Ho...

  • Unforeseeable

    Road to Kingdom - 3

    Callie Hoffman has a good life in Kingdom, Kansas. She's engaged to Levi Housler, the new pastor of Kingdom Mennonite Church, and she spends her days working with Lizzie Housler, her friend and soon-to-be sister-in-law, at the town cafe. When a b...

  • A Wedding to Dye For

    A Curl Up and Dye Mystery - 3

    An Ice Storm Can Be an Unwelcome Guest at a Wedding. But So is a Dead Pastor With a Knife Sticking Out of His Back! Hilde Higgins has planned her wedding to the last detail. The date is set, the church has been reserved, the guests have been invited...

  • Gathering Shadows

    Finding Sanctuary - 1

    Wynter Evans is a promising young reporter for a television station in St. Louis, but even a bright future doesn't take away her pain over the disappearance of her brother nine years ago. So when she stumbles across a photograph of a boy with an eeri...

  • Deadly Echoes

    Finding Sanctuary - 2

    After a youth filled with tragedy and upheaval, Sarah Miller's life is finally settled with all echoes of the past silent at last. She happily calls Sanctuary her home and spends her days teaching at the local school. Sarah's joy at her recent re...

  • Rising Darkness

    Finding Sanctuary - 3

    Sophie Wittenbauer left her strict Mennonite hometown under a cloud of shame and regret. After a rough childhood, her teenage poor choices harmed others, leaving her with no choice but to change her life. Her entry-level writing job at a newspaper pu...



  • Fatal Frost

    Defenders of Justice - 1

    Mehl Ramps Up the Suspense in This Brand-New U.S. Marshals Series Mercy Brennan followed in her father's footsteps in a law enforcement career, but she has no interest in any other connection to him. A U.S. Marshal in St. Louis, Missouri, she's as...

  • Dark Deception

    Defenders of Justice - 2

    Kate O'Brien's quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas is shaken when her past suddenly comes roaring back to life. Four years ago, she and her twin sister were attacked by an elusive serial killer. Only Kate survived, and she's been in witne...

  • Blessings in Disguise

    A Sugarcreek Amish Mystery - 1

    As Cheryl takes inventory of the Swiss Miss gift shop stock and acclimates herself to her new surroundings amid petting zoos and corn mazes, she notices something peculiar happening. Some of the items that customers want to purchase from her store...

  • Blind Betrayal

    Defenders of Justice - 3

    Deputy U.S. Marshal Casey Sloane has worked at the St. Louis Marshals office for two years and is given a routine assignment to help transport a reporter to D.C. to testify before a grand jury. Valerie, the reporter, was writing a story about an up-a...

  • Simply Vanished

    A Sugarcreek Amish Mystery - 2

    As Cheryl Cooper’s birthday approaches, she believes her new life in Sugarcreek, Ohio is the best gift she’s ever received. She loves running the Swiss Miss gift shop, and even though there have been a few bumps along the way, she feels conten...

  • All Abuzz at the Honeybee

    Residents of Sugarcreek are on edge. Several banks have been burglarized, and the local authorities can’t catch the thieves. When Naomi Miller’s husband, Seth, announces he’s going to remove their life savings from the credit union, Cheryl Coop...

  • Horse Sense and Sensibility

    Horses all across the county are disappearing, including Cheryl’s Ranger and the Millers’ Samson. So she and Levi join forces to find the thieves and recover their animals. In the meantime, Cheryl stumbles across an old diary of a recently deceas...

  • In the Fullness of Time

    A Sugarcreek Amish Mystery - 3

    With each passing season in their first year of married life, Cheryl and Levi Miller find a fresh set of challenges and adjustments to be made as the Englisher and her Amish farmer husband learn to live together. But by observing their frie...

  • Mind Games

    Kaely Quinn Profiler - 1

    Kaely Quinn's talents as an FBI behavior analyst are impossible to ignore, no matter how unorthodox her methods. But when a reporter outs her as the daughter of an infamous serial killer, she's demoted to field agent and transferred to St. Louis. ...

  • Fire Storm

    Kaely Quinn Profiler - 2

    When FBI profiler Kaely Quinn's mother is diagnosed with cancer, Kaely takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska, to help her brother care for their mother. Upon her arrival, she learns of a series of fires in the small town, attributed b...



  • Dead End

    Kaely Quinn Profiler - 3

    When a body is discovered in a field in Iowa, the police uncover fourteen additional corpses ranging from 20 years old to recent. The remains point to a serial killer with an MO the authorities have seen before--Ed Oliphant, a man who has been in pri...

  • Night Fall

    The Quantico Files - 1

    Now that Alexandra "Alex" Donovan is finally free of her troubled upbringing, she's able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Kansas an...

  • Dead Fall

    The Quantico Files - 2

    He has a deadly endgame in mind--and he's already chosen each victim . . . including her. After putting to rest the most personal case of her career, Alex Donovan is ready to move on and focus on her future at the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Uni...

  • Free Fall

    The Quantico Files - 3

    The closer she comes to the truth, the deadlier her chase gets.  FBI behavioral analyst Alex Donovan and her colleague Logan Hart have been called upon to write a profile for a missing woman, but a little digging quickly turns up more disappear...

  • Cold Pursuit

    Ryland & St. Clair - 1

    "Guaranteed to captivate with plot twists you won't see coming."--Tosca Lee, New York Times bestselling author "This story is sure to leave you breathless from the thrill of the ride. Hold on tight, it's about to get exhilarating!"--Lynette Eason, b...

  • Cold Threat

    Ryland & St. Clair - 2

    Twenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging ominously on a tree in the victims' front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end--or so everyo...

  • Cold Vengeance

    Ryland & St. Clair - 3

    When a renowned crime podcaster vanishes without a trace, former FBI behavioral analysts turned private investigators River Ryland and Tony St. Clair are called upon to track her down. As they wade through the evidence she left behind, they unearth a...

  • When Angels Whisper

    A Sugarcreek Amish Mystery - 4

    It's Christmastime in Sugarcreek and Cheryl Miller has a lot left to accomplish if she is going to be ready in time for Christmas Day. However, her to-do list takes a back seat when she learns that there have been several thefts in the area. And when...

  • Shattered Sanctuary

    The Erin Delaney Mysteries - 1

    Was this the last thing she'd ever see? Would she be able to make things right before it was too late?"God . . ." was all she got out before he lunged toward her.Grappling with the aftermath of a tragic incident that altered her life, ex-po...

Award-Winning Books by Nancy Mehl

Dead End
2021 Carol Award -- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls
2009 Carol Award -- Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Mehl has published 38 books.

The next book by Nancy Mehl, Shattered Sanctuary, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Nancy Mehl, Graven Images, was published in October 2001.

Yes. Nancy Mehl has 11 series.
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