Virginia Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2002
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Classical Trio

1 - A Taste Of Murder (Oct-2008)
2 - Murder at Eagle Summit (Apr-2009)
3 - Scent of Murder (Jun-2009)

Falsely Accused

1 - Dangerous Impostor (Feb-2012)
2 - Bullseye (Jul-2012)
3 - Prime Suspect (Apr-2013)

Just As I Am

1 - Just As I Am (2005)
2 - Sincerely, Mayla (Feb-2008)

Men of Lancaster County

1 - The Amish Widower (Apr-2017)

Sister-to-Sister

1 - Stuck in the Middle (Feb-2008)
2 - Age before Beauty (Feb-2009)
3 - Third Time's a Charm (Jan-2010)

Tales from the Goose Creek B&B

0.5 - Dr. Horatio vs. the Six-Toed Cat (Aug-2015)
1 - The Most Famous Illegal Goose Creek Parade (Sep-2015)
2 - Renovating the Richardsons (Feb-2016)
3 - The Room with the Second-Best View (Sep-2016)
4 - A Goose Creek Christmas (Nov-2016)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • The Ropemakers Daughter

    Rebecca habitually questions the people she meets and steals the stories they tell her, claiming them for her own. But then she meets a man whose story is already familiar, a man who says he knows her. The real Adam threw himself off a Cornish cli...

  • Carradine Diary

    Graphic designer Abby Martin lives with her partner Gayle in England-until Abby secures an assignment to illustrate a biography of the 19th-century author Lucy Pritchard, and travels across the world to the coastal town of Carradine, Canada. Once ...

  • Just As I Am

    Just As I Am - 1

    When purple-haired Mayla Strong struts down the center aisle of Salliesburg Independent Christian Church, the bug-eyed congregation strains to get a peek at her pierced nose and lip. Determined to make her heavenly Father proud, Mayla's sincere and o...

  • Murder By Mushroom

    Love Inspired Suspense - 63

    Serving up murderous munchies at a church potluck social wouldn't win any popularity contests, as Jackie Hoffner discovered. Someone had laced the casserole she brought with poisonous mushrooms... and the deadly dish had fellow churchgoer and town fu...

  • Bluegrass Peril

    Love Inspired Suspense - 82

    WHO KILLED HER BOSS? Local police had tagged single mom Becky Dennison as their prime suspect. But she'd only been in the wrong place at the wrong time... admittedly, with her boss's lifeless body. Sure, it looked bad, but Becky had no motive for ...

  • Sincerely, Mayla

    Just As I Am - 2

    Mayla Strong's life is finally starting to seem normal. She has been working at the same job for four years, living with a good friend, and enjoying a deep relationship with God. But when Mayla is suddenly laid off, the placid surface of her life is ...

  • Stuck in the Middle

    Sister-to-Sister - 1

    Joan Sanderson's life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is living at home with Mom and looking after her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement....

  • A Taste Of Murder

    Classical Trio - 1
    Love Inspired Suspense - 121

    Who murdered a small-town beauty-pageant judge--in a very strange way? Jasmine Delaney must find out. Because she's taken the victim's place. She came to the Kentucky Bar-B-Q festival for a wedding, eager to meet the bride's handsome brother, Derrick...

  • Age before Beauty

    Sister-to-Sister - 2

    Desperate to stay home with her baby, Allie Harrod launches a new career. Sure, she dropped out of Girl Scouts because she was lousy at cookie sales, but makeup is different, right? She'll do anything to make enough money to cover her share of the ho...



  • Murder at Eagle Summit

    Classical Trio - 2
    Love Inspired Suspense - 145

    A romantic ski resort seems the perfect place for a wedding. Until a murder on the slopes turns everyone on Eagle Summit into suspects. Liz Carmichael, the bride's cousin, saw a shadowy figure on a chairlift in the middle of the night. But was it the...

  • Scent of Murder

    Classical Trio - 3
    Love Inspired Suspense - 153

    HER LIFE IS IN PIECES Everything is going wrong for Caitlin Saylor. Her boyfriend has left her. Her musical trio is disbanding. And for their trio's swan song? They'll be playing another wedding: a chance to watch someone else's happy ending. And th...

  • Third Time's a Charm

    Sister-to-Sister - 3

    Tori Sanderson has the professional opportunity of a lifetime. If she can prove she's executive material, she's in line for a big promotion. But there's only room for one new account executive, and her co-worker has his eye on the job--and on Tori. H...

  • A Daughter's Legacy

    Love Inspired - 562
    Love Inspired Large Print - 562

    Surprise Inheritance To receive her inheritance and make peace with her late mother, Kelli Jackson must abide by the woman's will. Even though it means working as a zookeeper for six months -- with animals that terrify her. How can she possibly expl...

  • Into the Deep

    Love Inspired Suspense - 216
    Love Inspired Suspense Large Print - 216

    HIS CHILD, HER SECRET When Ben Dearinger got hold of a flash drive carrying deadly secrets, the scuba diver did the only thing he could. He buried it -- fathoms deep. Now a drug cartel wants the evidence back, and they're willing to threaten Ben's e...

  • A Deadly Game

    Love Inspired Suspense - 231
    Love Inspired Suspense Large Print - 231

    A MURDERED MANAGER...A WOMAN AND CHILD ENDANGERED After discovering her boss's dead body, Susanna Trent receives an unusual package from him filled with strange metal tokens and odd clues. Then Susanna, who is the guardian of her three-year-old niec...

  • A Wife's Duty

  • Symbols and Keys

    Captain Curtis Thorndike has been sent to the planet of Utlend to witness a momentous event â€" the end of an alien world. Because he has no use for religion, he’s skeptical of his Christian first officer’s claim that the Utlenders’ long-antici...

  • The Last Christmas Cookie

    When Mama awakes in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve with a hankering for a chocolate chip cookie, she tiptoes down the stairs to help herself to one of the treats left for Santa. But she discovers that Santa has already arrived, and there's ...

  • Healing Stone

    A dying prince, constrained abed;A king, with grief he cannot shed;A crone, with healing stone and dread;A land rejoices. Death has fled.In response to an ancient prophecy, an old woman reluctantly agrees to her king’s request to heal his son with ...



  • Dive Deep

    Though every aspect of writing is critical in producing a good story, one of the most important skills a writer can employ to craft a gripping novel is Point of View. In this booklet, fiction veteran Virginia Smith guides writers through the shallows...

  • Dangerous Impostor

    Falsely Accused - 1
    Love Inspired Suspense - 279
    Love Inspired Suspense Large Print - 279

    "I DIDN'T KILL HIM!" On a business trip to Las Vegas, Lauren Bradley discovers her coworker's dead body in the hotel room next door. With a shaky alibi and evidence mounting against her, Lauren becomes the number one suspect. No one believes she's b...

  • Bullseye

    Falsely Accused - 2
    Love Inspired Suspense - 299
    Love Inspired Suspense Large Print - 299

    Found cowering and covered in blood, Karina Guerrero's fourteen-year-old brother is accused of a crime that she's certain he didn't commit. Only one man can help Karina prove the boy's innocence. Private investigator Mason Sinclair knows firsthand...

  • Prime Suspect

    Falsely Accused - 3
    Love Inspired Suspense - 336
    Love Inspired Suspense Large Print - 336

    UNDER SUSPICION Discovering a dead body on her first day of work throws Darcie Wiley's "fresh start" into a tailspin. Things get worse when the police make Darcie their prime suspect. She's surrounded by distrust and suspicion-and the eerie sens...

  • The Days of Noah

    The daughter of a pagan priestess believes Noah’s prophecy…especially when she discovers the horrifying secret behind her city’s primary export. Belief in the One God is dangerous in Cainlan, a city founded on the worship of the god Cain. But w...

  • The Silly Adventures of Gail the Snail and the Disco Ball

  • The Silly Adventures of Gail the Snail and the Chocolate Cake

    Zing. Zing. Zing! It's a never ending Snext-message and Snoggling kind of day for Gail the Snail and her cousin, Vale. Big news send the snails on a tasty chocolate cake hunt. So come and scoot along the Old Snail Trail with Gail and Vale as they loo...

  • Dr. Horatio vs. the Six-Toed Cat

    Tales from the Goose Creek B&B - 0.5

    This short story is the perfect introduction to bestselling author Virginia Smith's latest series, Tales from the Goose Creek B&B. Set in the years before the Richardsons launch their bed and breakfast scheme, the quirky residents of the small Ke...

  • The Most Famous Illegal Goose Creek Parade

    Tales from the Goose Creek B&B - 1

    In this first book of the Tales from the Goose Creek B&B, you'll fall in love with a small town that feels like coming home. Its quirky characters and their many shenanigans will make you laugh out loud as they touch a place in your heart. Even th...

  • A Kiss is Still a Kiss

    Nothing says I love you like a kiss

    A Kiss. Nowhere does there exist a stronger expression of romance. If love is the universal language, then a kiss is the alphabet by which we communicate that most basic of all emotions. As unique as the ...



  • Renovating the Richardsons

    Tales from the Goose Creek B&B - 2

    Things are finally starting to fall into a steady rhythm in the small town of Goose Creek, Kentucky. Millie Richardson is hard at work renovating a drafty Victorian house into a B&B. Her husband, Al, is busy writing checks for the renovations. And th...

  • The Room with the Second-Best View

    Tales from the Goose Creek B&B - 3

    The B&B Is Open for Business! Shhh... Excitement is in the air in Goose Creek, Kentucky, as the small town prepares to celebrate its 150th anniversary and the veterinarian's upcoming wedding. But trouble is brewing in this provincial paradise... ...

  • A Goose Creek Christmas

    Tales from the Goose Creek B&B - 4

    Al's Goose Is Cooked! Forced into early retirement, Al Richardson knows what his wife will say when she hears the terrible news. Millie will insist that they open their B&B early. Where will that leave him? Carrying luggage and waiting tables? No...

  • The Amish Widower

    Men of Lancaster County - 1

    Is It Time for This Widower to Give Love One More Chance? After the devastating loss of his second wife, Seth Hostetler believes a lasting love is beyond all hope. A year has passed, and his mamm and sister are determined to see him happily marrie...

  • Out to Pasture

    The peaceful green pastures of a Kentucky horse farm hide a murderous truth.When the director of a retirement farm for thoroughbred champions is murdered, Becky Dennison teams up with the handsome manager of a neighboring horse breeder's farm to find...

  • Sister of the Brotherhood

    The fate of three kingdoms lies in the hands of one lonely young woman.

    The Brotherhood of Power is dedicated to training those throughout the Twin Kingdoms who possess the rare ability to transform the very substance of physical matter. For...

  • The Zookeeper's Daughter

    Attending a stranger’s memorial service wasn’t at the top of Kelli Jackson’s to-do list.

    Especially when that stranger was her own mother.

    To receive her inheritance Kelli must abide by the conditions of her late mother’s wil...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Virginia Smith has published 36 books.

Virginia Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Zookeeper's Daughter, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Virginia Smith, The Ropemakers Daughter, was published in May 2002.

Yes. Virginia Smith has 6 series.
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