Peg Herring

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2008
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Dead Detective Mystery

1 - The Dead Detective Agency (Feb-2011)
2 - Dead for the Money (Mar-2012)
3 - Dead for the Show (Apr-2015)
4 - Dead to Get Ready--And Go (Apr-2016)

The Kidnap Capers

1 - Kidnap.Org (Apr-2017)
2 - Pharma Con (May-2019)
3 - The Trouble with Dad (Sep-2020)

The Loser Mysteries

1 - Killing Silence (Nov-2012)
2 - Killing Memories (Jun-2013)
3 - Killing Despair (Aug-2014)

Macbeth's Nieces

1 - Macbeth's Niece (Feb-2008)
2 - Double Toil & Trouble (Feb-2016)

Max & Lucy

1 - Cutest Little Killer (Jul-2021)

A Simon & Elizabeth Mystery

1 - Her Highness' First Murder (Jan-2010)
2 - Poison, Your Grace (Nov-2011)
3 - The Lady Flirts with Death (Jun-2013)
4 - Her Majesty's Mischief (Jul-2015)

The Sleuth Sisters

1 - The Sleuth Sisters (Feb-2014)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Macbeth's Niece

    Macbeth's Nieces - 1

    Tessa macFindlaech meets three witches on a Scottish hillside as she leaves her home to join the household of her uncle, Thane Macbeth. The weird women make predictions for her future, but Tessa sees no likelihood of truth in them. After all, the fir...

  • Her Highness' First Murder

    A Simon & Elizabeth Mystery - 1

    When headless corpses begin appearing on the streets of London, Elizabeth Tudor is as shocked as everyone else. When one of her own ladies is murdered, Elizabeth joins with new friend Simon Maldon to find the killer. Henry VIII, also shocked by the m...

  • The Dead Detective Agency

    A Dead Detective Mystery - 1

    Young secretary Tori Van Camp wakes one morning on a luxurious ocean liner where she is offered whatever a person might desire: food, clothes, recreation, and the companionship of congenial people. But Tori has no memory of booking a cruise. What ...

  • Shakespeare's Blood

    Secretive men, ancient spies, a huge cache of treasure, and, most amazing of all, secrets concerning England's greatest playwright await readers in SHAKESPEARE'S BLOOD.While vacationing in Britain, Mercedes Maxwell discovers a corpse in an old castle...

  • Poison, Your Grace

    A Simon & Elizabeth Mystery - 2

    As England's young king struggles with illness, one of his advisors is poisoned. Elizabeth Tudor, fearing her brother was the target, asks her old friend Simon Maldon to investigate the crime. With the help of his fiancee, Hannah, Simon, now an ap...

  • Somebody Doesn't Like Sarah Leigh

    When a long-time friendship dies, does murder follow? Decades past junior high in a small, northern Michigan town, Caroline Batzer is snubbed by her best friend. At first confused, she's later stunned to learn Sarah Leigh betrayed her in a way she'd ...

  • Dead for the Money

    A Dead Detective Mystery - 2

    When Dead Detective Seamus is asked to investigate the death of wealthy businessman William Dunbar he's more than willing, but there's an additional request. Will he take a detective-in-training along? Reluctantly, Seamus agrees and meets Mildred, wh...

  • Killing Silence

    The Loser Mysteries - 1

    Is It Possible to Be a Rescuer When You Live among the Lost?

    Killing Silence, the first of The Loser Mysteries, presents a unique protagonist: Loser, who sleeps on the streets of Richmond, Virginia, washes up in gas station bathrooms, eats when a...

  • Go Home and Die // Her Ex-GI P.I.

    Carrie Walsh is almost unaware of the Women’s Liberation Movement, a 1960s girl too shy to speak her mind and too uptight to burn her bra. When she witnesses a murder in an alley in Flint, Michigan, Carrie's life takes a new direction. Joining the ...



  • Killing Memories

    The Loser Mysteries - 2

    Book Two of the Loser Mysteries delves deeper into who Loser is--or who she was before the street person named Loser appeared. Determined to help a teenaged boy in crisis, she's pulled back into the world of normal people. But the normal world can be...

  • The Lady Flirts with Death

    A Simon & Elizabeth Mystery - 3

    In this third book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries Elizabeth Tudor is declared a traitor and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Visiting the princess secretly her friend Simon Maldon discovers another cause for worry. His friend Peto the Pope has ...

  • The Sleuth Sisters

    The Sleuth Sisters - 1

    In this cozy mystery, the first of a series, middle-aged sisters Faye and Barb decide to open a detective agency in Allport, their small town in northern Lower Michigan. They agree that Retta, their baby sister, will NOT be included, since she tends ...

  • Killing Despair

    The Loser Mysteries - 3

    Does despair end when you finally learn the truth?

    Beth Lousiere, once known as Loser, learns there's new evidence concerning the murders of her husband and daughter three years ago. The crimes, along with suspicion that she was responsible, sent...

  • Dead for the Show

    A Dead Detective Mystery - 3

    Paranormal mystery--When newly-arrived soul Cassie Parker refuses to believe she's no longer alive, Dead Detective Seamus is sent from the Afterlife to learn what happened to her. He soon suspects it was murder, but why would someone kill the costume...

  • Her Majesty's Mischief

    A Simon & Elizabeth Mystery - 4

    Simon Maldon is sent by Queen Elizabeth to form an honest assessment of the Scottish queen's character. With Simon gone, his son Henry, wife Hannah, and old friend Calkin delve into the murder of Simon's brother-in-law, Will Clark. Determined to hide...

  • Double Toil & Trouble

    Macbeth's Nieces - 2

    Scotland’s King Macbeth has been dead for a decade, yet his legacy changes forever the lives of twin nieces Jenna and Jessie macFindlaech. Viking raiders on a blood feud come to their home in the Cairngorm Mountains, intending to kill all males of ...

  • Dead to Get Ready--And Go

    A Dead Detective Mystery - 4

    Uneasy and bored with life on the ship, Seamus decides it’s time to do what he’s been avoiding for decades of Earth Time. Though he knows his wife and best friend teamed up to murder him, there are things about the crime he doesn’t understand, ...

  • Kidnap.Org

    The Kidnap Capers - 1

    Rich, Powerful, and Crooked--Meet Small, Odd, and Determined! Robin Parsons is in the middle of a very bad day when a neighbor calls, asking for help. The socially inept Carter “accidentally” kidnapped a county official, and he doesn’t know wha...

  • Not Dead Yet...

    FORMER TITLE: A LETHAL TIME AND PLACE This suspense novel has a paranormal element and a surprise that makes it all the more delightful to visit Chicago in the 1960s. Leo appears to be just another downtown bum, but he and Libby, Memnet, and Roy shar...



  • Charlie Dickens' Documents

    Mercedes' boyfriend/co-adventurer Colm disappears somewhere in Britain. His last call is cryptic; the last mail he sends even more so: copies of papers once owned by Charles Dickens. They have nothing to do with the famous writer, but when his namesa...

  • Captured, Escape, Repeat

      In Book 7, Retta and her FBI agent boyfriend stop in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the night. Lars goes out on a mysterious errand and disappears, leaving a text message that says he's dumping Retta for an old flame.The police take the message at ...

  • Pharma Con

    The Kidnap Capers - 2

    In the follow-up to *KIDNAP.org*, Robin and her gang take on an unscrupulous pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Neil Preston, who lives on a fortress-like estate and is a big fan of Josef Stalin. As their plan for making Preston change his dishonest ways ...

  • The Trouble with Dad

    The Kidnap Capers - 3

    From the author of KIDNAP.org and Pharma Con comes Book #3 of the Kidnap Capers. Readers of the series know the lovable misfits who make up the Kidnap Gang: Robin, a former legal secretary; Cam a guy with developmental delays; Hua, a former victim of...

  • Deceiving Elvera

    This compelling story focuses on friendship, love, loss, and the life-changing power we gain by helping others. Spanning the decades from the 1960s to the present, the events play out in two primary locations, Thailand and Michigan's Mackinac Island....

  • Cutest Little Killer

    Max & Lucy - 1

    From the author of the Sleuth Sisters Mysteries and Trailer Park Tales comes a new series, the Max and Lucy Mysteries.Private investigator Max Dunham is planning a vacation in sunny Mexico when two kids enter his office and ask for help hiring a hit ...

  • Sister Saint, Sister Sinner

    How do years of sharing everything, from genetics to hairbrushes, result in people so different from each other?Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was...

  • Aunt Marge

    Tranquil Peace or Death Trap?Gwen Trobert is a mess: grief-stricken, drug-dependent, and convinced her husband is cheating. When Aunt Marge, a woman she hardly knows, offers to let Gwen stay at her farm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Gwen sees it as ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peg Herring has published 27 books.

Peg Herring does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Aunt Marge, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Peg Herring, Macbeth's Niece, was published in February 2008.

Yes. Peg Herring has 7 series.
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