Books in Order: A Complete Guide to Kathleen Delaney's Publications

Kathleen Delaney came to mystery writing the long way around. She raised five children and spent years as a real estate broker in California before publishing her first novel, Dying for a Change, in 2002 — a debut strong enough to finish as a finalist in St. Martin's Malice Domestic contest. These days she makes her home in Georgia.

This guide collects her five mysteries in the order they appeared, from that 2002 debut through Murder by Syllabub in 2013. It's a compact body of work with a lot of life behind it, and readers who like their crime fiction warm, wry, and down-to-earth tend to feel at home here.