Vicki Delany

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2005
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Ashley Grant Mystery

1 - White Sand Blues (Nov-2017)
2 - Blue Water Hues (Aug-2018)
3 - Coral Reef Views (Feb-2020)

A Catskill Summer Resort Mystery

1 - Deadly Summer Nights (Sep-2021)
2 - Deadly Director's Cut (Mar-2022)

A Constable Molly Smith Mystery

1 - In the Shadow of the Glacier (Oct-2007)
2 - Valley of the Lost (Feb-2009)
3 - Winter of Secrets (Nov-2009)
4 - Negative Image (Nov-2010)
5 - Among the Departed (May-2011)
6 - A Cold White Sun (Aug-2013)
7 - Under Cold Stone (Apr-2014)
8 - Unreasonable Doubt (Feb-2016)

A Klondike Mystery

Gold Digger (Apr-2009)
Gold Fever (Mar-2010)
Gold Mountain (May-2012)
Gold Web (Jan-2014)

A Northern Ontario Mystery

Whiteout (Jan-2008)

A Ray Robertson Mystery

1 - Haitian Graves (Aug-2015)
2 - Blood and Belonging (Apr-2017)

A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery

1 - Elementary, She Read (Mar-2017)
2 - Body on Baker Street (Sep-2017)
3 - The Cat of the Baskervilles (Feb-2018)
4 - A Scandal in Scarlet (Nov-2018)
5 - There's A Murder Afoot (Jan-2020)
6 - A Curious Incident (Jan-2021)
7 - A Three Book Problem (Jan-2022)
8 - The Game is a Footnote (Jan-2023)
9 - The Sign of Four Spirits (Jan-2024)
10 - The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime (Jan-2025)

A Tea by the Sea Mystery

1 - Tea & Treachery (Aug-2020)
2 - Murder in a Teacup (Aug-2021)
3 - Murder Spills the Tea (Aug-2022)
4 - Steeped in Malice (Jul-2023)
5 - Trouble Is Brewing (Jul-2024)
6 - Tea with Jam & Dread (Aug-2025)

A Year Round Christmas Mystery

1 - Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen (Nov-2015)
2 - We Wish You a Murderous Christmas (Nov-2016)
3 - Hark the Herald Angels Slay (Dec-2017)
4 - Silent Night, Deadly Night (Sep-2019)
5 - Dying in a Winter Wonderland (Oct-2020)
6 - Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas (Sep-2023)
7 - A Slay Ride Together with You (Sep-2024)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Scare the Light Away

    Secrets from the past… For thirty years Rebecca McKenzie has tried to forget her life in Hope River, the isolated rural town where she was raised. But when she travels home to attend her mother's funeral, she has to face her estranged family…a...

  • Burden of Memory

    Worldwide Mysteries - 872

    Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and come to a "primitive, untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss...

  • In the Shadow of the Glacier

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 1
    Worldwide Mysteries - 955

    MURDER CASTS A LONG SHADOW Rookie constable Molly Smith catches her first big case when murder shatters the serenity of her bucolic British Columbia town. Reginald Montgomery is dead from a vicious blow to the back of the head. Who hated him enou...

  • Whiteout

    A Northern Ontario Mystery
    Worldwide Mysteries - 624

    After a painful family drama, Toronto computer expert Joanna Hastings takes a cabin in the remote woods of Northern Ontario to make sense out of her life and her shattered relationship with her daughter. But the town of Hope River is not content to l...

  • Valley of the Lost

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 2

    In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. While this should be an open-and-shut drug case, restraint marks on the victim suggest that the death might not...

  • Gold Digger

    A Klondike Mystery

    Book One of the Klondike Mystery Series by Vicki Delany!It’s the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chil...

  • Winter of Secrets

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 3

    Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends are in the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. enjoying a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the ...

  • Gold Fever

    A Klondike Mystery

    Book Two of the Klondike Mystery Series by Vicki Delany! A newcomer to town has secrets Fiona doesn’t want revealed… Its the spring of 1898, and thousands of people, from all corners of the globe, are flooding into the Yukon Territory in the pu...

  • Negative Image

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 4

    As the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, shakes off a long hard winter, famous photographer Rudolph Steiner arrives to do a feature on mountain tourism. Steiner is accompanied by his assistant and sexy young wife, but he has another reaso...



  • Murder at Lost Dog Lake

    2004 EPPIE finalist for best mystery. Leanne Aimes, ex-cop, bitter single mother, private investigator, really needs a vacation. And the wilderness of Algonquin Park seems like just the place where she can relax and forget her troubles. A guided can...

  • Among the Departed

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 5

    Fifteen years ago a young girl by the name of Moonlight Smith went to her best friend Nicky Nowak’s house for a sleepover. Moonlight joined the family for breakfast the following morning and was then picked up by her mother. Shortly after, Mr. Nowa...

  • A Winter Kill

    Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she spends much of her time breaking up bar fights, giving out traffic tickets and finding lost kids, she dreams of one day becoming...

  • Gold Mountain

    A Klondike Mystery

    When Fiona MacGillivray refuses the bandit Paul Sheridan, it’s up to her son to to save her.

    Book Three of the Klondike Mystery Series by Vicki Delany!

    In the summer of 1897, Fiona MacGillivray and her eleven year-old son, An...

  • More Than Sorrow

    Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent. Today, she’s a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to her sister’s small-scale vegetable farm in Prince Edward ...

  • A Cold White Sun

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 6

    It’s the end of March and Trafalgar, British Columbia, is preparing for the last influx of the seasonal skiers. Teachers, parents, and students are preparing to relax at home or head off on vacation. But for high school English teacher Cathy Lindsa...

  • Gold Web

    A Klondike Mystery

    The fourth in Delany’s Klondike Mystery series is a madcap romp through the mud of 1898 Dawson City. Book Four of the Klondike Mystery Series by Vicky Delany!The year is 1898. The place is Dawson City, Yukon. A man staggers out of the dusk to colla...

  • Juba Good

    Juba, South Sudan.RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has spent eleven and a half months serving with the United Nations in the world’s newest country. He’s tired of the chaotic traffic and jostling crowds that fill the narrow streets. Tired of the choki...

  • Under Cold Stone

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 7

    A weekend getaway to the Rocky Mountains. A Scottish-inspired castle of carved stone, imposing turrets, liveried bellhops, and panoramic views. Perched on the verge of one of the world’s greatest wildernesses. They’re an unlikely couple: Luck...

  • Haitian Graves

    A Ray Robertson Mystery - 1

    RCMP sergeant Ray Robertson is serving with the United Nations in Haiti, a land of brilliant color and vibrant life, Vodou and vast above-ground cemeteries. Ray’s job is to train the local police and assist investigations. One call comes in from th...



  • Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen

    A Year Round Christmas Mystery - 1

    In Rudolph, New York, it’s Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone’s holiday cheer… As the owner of Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, Merry Wilkinson know...

  • Unreasonable Doubt

    A Constable Molly Smith Mystery - 8

    What would it be like to return to your hometown after twenty-five years in prison for a crime you have maintained you did not commit? And why would you? Walter Desmond is back in Trafalgar, British Columbia, having been officially exonerated when...

  • We Wish You a Murderous Christmas

    A Year Round Christmas Mystery - 2

    A grinch is spoiling the holiday cheer and causing fear in the latest from the author of Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen... It’s Christmastime three hundred sixty-five days a year in Rudolph, New York, and as Christmas Day approaches, shop owner Merr...

  • Elementary, She Read

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 1

    A “fast, fun” cozy mystery “full of Sherlockian lore” -- set at a Cape Cod bookshop run by a “heroine as observant as the Great Detective himself” (Carolyn Hart, New York Times"bestselling author)! When murder pays a visit to Sherl...

  • Blood and Belonging

    A Ray Robertson Mystery - 2

    RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is in the Turks and Caicos Islands, enjoying two weeks of leave from his job training police in Haiti with the UN. On an early-morning jog along famed Grace Bay Beach he discovers a dead man in the surf. Ray is shocked to ...

  • Body on Baker Street

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 2

    The amateur sleuths of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop call upon their powers of deduction to rid Baker Street of a ruthless killer in this second Sherlockian cozy mystery in Vicky Delany’s acclaimed series!   Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are bus...

  • White Sand Blues

    An Ashley Grant Mystery - 1

    When paramedic Ashley Grant finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, she moves out of her house (okay, his house), quits her job and takes a new one in a tiny Caribbean country, the Victoria and Albert Islands. Ashley is thrown into the deep en...

  • Hark the Herald Angels Slay

    A Year Round Christmas Mystery - 3

    Santa’s summer vacation plans turn deadly in this festive mystery from the author of Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen and We Wish You a Murderous Christmas. The town of Rudolph, New York, has the Christmas spirit all year long -- but when homicide hea...

  • The Cat of the Baskervilles

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 3

    Sherlockians everywhere will enjoy puzzling out clues alongside Baker Street bookshop owner and sleuth, Gemma Doyle -- a cozy mystery for fans of Miranda James and Kate CarlisleWhen Jayne Wilson’s mother is accused of murder, Jayne and Gemma have t...

  • Blue Water Hues

    An Ashley Grant Mystery - 2

    Paramedic Ashley Grant is settling into her new life in the Caribbean, although sometimes she still feels like a fish out of water. The ambulance is called to a fire at a prestigious resort, and Ashley recognizes the victim as a hotel chef and the co...



  • A Scandal in Scarlet

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 4

    Gemma and Jayne donate their time to raise money for the rebuilding of a burned out museum -- but a killer wants a piece of the auction -- in this fourth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteryWalking her dog Violet late one night, Gemma Doyle, owner o...

  • Silent Night, Deadly Night

    A Year Round Christmas Mystery - 4

    Residents of Rudolph keep the spirit of Christmas alive year-round -- but their joy is threatened when a group of grinches visits the town, in the charming fourth installment of the Year-Round Christmas series. It's the week before Thanksgivin...

  • There's A Murder Afoot

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 5

    Gemma and her friends travel to London for a Sherlock Holmes convention in the fifth installment in the bestselling Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteriesWill Gemma's father take the fall for a felonious forger's fatality during a visit to hist...

  • Coral Reef Views

    An Ashley Grant Mystery - 3

    When paramedic Ashley Grant’s parents visit her in the Victoria and Albert Islands, her father, Frank, soon becomes bored with the beach vacation. When a plumbing emergency has him feeling useful again, he makes friends with Ashley’s neighbor Pau...

  • Tea & Treachery

    A Tea by the Sea Mystery - 1

    In this charming new cozy mystery series from nationally bestselling author, Vicki Delany, a New York City expat-turned-Cape Cod tea shop owner must solve the murder of a local real estate developer to help her feisty grandmother out of a jam . . . ...

  • Dying in a Winter Wonderland

    A Year Round Christmas Mystery - 5

    In the town of Rudolph, New York, the Christmas season should make spirits bright, but as the year comes to an end, so does a life, in the fifth installment of this charming cozy mystery series. Christmas has arrived in Rudolph, New York, and Merr...

  • A Curious Incident

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 6

    It's up to Gemma and Jayne to root out the killer when the winner of a garden tour trophy is left pushing up daisies in the sixth installment in the bestselling Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries"I am not a Consulting Detective," Gemma Doyle reluctan...

  • Murder in a Teacup

    A Tea by the Sea Mystery - 2

    In national bestselling author Vicki Delany’s delightful Tea by the Sea mystery series, Lily Roberts -- Cape Cod tearoom proprietress and part-time sleuth -- stirs up trouble when she unwittingly serves one of her grandmother’s B&B guests a d...

  • Deadly Summer Nights

    A Catskill Summer Resort Mystery - 1

    "An immersive setting with details of running a Catskillsresort in the 1950s (think Kellerman’s in Dirty Dancing) beautifully frame a story with plot twists and a cast of well-delineated characters."--BooklistA summer of fun at a Catskills resort c...

  • A Three Book Problem

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 7

    The seventh installment in a “fast, fun” cozy mystery series “full of Sherlockian lore” and starring “a charming, intelligent heroine as observant as The Great Detective Himself” (Carolyn Hart, New York Times"bestselling author) Sherl...



  • Deadly Director's Cut

    A Catskill Summer Resort Mystery - 2

    Daring resort manager Elizabeth Grady will need to think fast to bring a killer into the limelight in this charming 1950s set cozy mystery series.Famous director Elias Theropodous has chosen Haggerman’s Catskills Resort as a shooting location for h...

  • Murder Spills the Tea

    A Tea by the Sea Mystery - 3

    Lily Roberts pores over the clues in a piping hot new case when a confrontational celebrity chef is murdered at her Cape Cod tearoom during the filming of a popular baking show in the latest Tea by the Sea mystery from national bestselling author Vic...

  • The Game is a Footnote

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 8

    THE BELOVED COZY MYSTERY SERIES: Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are back on the case when a body is discovered in a haunted Massachusetts museum!Vicky Delany’s 8th Sherlock Holmes-inspired cozy mystery is perfect for new and longtime fans who love qu...

  • Steeped in Malice

    A Tea by the Sea Mystery - 4

    Thanks to the Great Teacup Shortage, Cape Cod tearoom proprietress Lily Roberts is already feeling the strain. But when a family fracas turns deadly over an antique tea set, she’ll really have to pour through the clues before another crime is brewe...

  • Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas

    A Year Round Christmas Mystery - 6

    It’s beginning to look a lot like murder in the sixth installment of this charming cozy mystery series, perfect for fans of Donna Andrews and Jacqueline Frost.It’s the beginning of December in Rudolph, New York, America's Christmas Town, and busi...

  • The Sign of Four Spirits

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 9

    Gemma Doyle won’t be spooked when a body shows up at the psychic fair in bestselling author Vicki Delany’s ninth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery.When a psychic fair arrives in West London, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and E...

  • Trouble Is Brewing

    A Tea by the Sea Mystery - 5

    Lily Roberts’s Cape Cod tearoom is hosting a bridal shower -- until a gruesome gift sends the guest of honor running in fear . . . Members of the Reynolds and Hill families are staying at Lily’s grandmother’s bed and breakfast, and now they’v...

  • A Slay Ride Together with You

    A Year Round Christmas Mystery - 7

    The slay bells are ringing in this festive seventh installment of national bestselling author Vicki Delany’s Year-Round Christmas mystery series, perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Donna Andrews.Rudolph, New York, shop owner Merry Wilkinson’s ...

  • The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime

    A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery - 10

    Bookshop owner Gemma Doyle heads to London for a wedding, but when a body is found in connection with a rare book, Gemma sets out to sleuth the slaying in bestselling author Vicki Delany's tenth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery.Gemma Doyle and her fr...

  • Tea with Jam & Dread

    A Tea by the Sea Mystery - 6

    Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts leaves New England for old England to attend a party for an aristocratic centenarian -- but what goes on there is anything but noble . . . Long ago, Lily’s grandmother Rose worked as a kitchen maid at Thornecroft...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vicki Delany has published 49 books.

The next book by Vicki Delany, Tea with Jam & Dread, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Vicki Delany, Scare the Light Away, was published in March 2005.

Yes. Vicki Delany has 9 series.
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