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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1994
  • Latest Book:
    June 2007
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Full Series List in Order

A Robin Light Mystery

1 - Chutes and Adders (Aug-1994)
2 - Twister (Jul-1995)
3 - In Plain Sight (Aug-1996)
4 - The Scent of Murder (Aug-1997)
5 - Vanishing Act (Sep-1998)
6 - Endangered Species (Aug-1999)
7 - Blowing Smoke (Jul-2001)
8 - Rubbed Out (Nov-2002)
9 - Salt City Blues (Mar-2005)
10 - No Good Deed (Jun-2007)

Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • Recently widowed Robin Light runs Noah's Ark, a Syracuse pet shop specializing in puppies and parakeets, bunnies and boas. Robin can't resist rescuing a stray kitten--or finding the vicious killer who set her up to take the rap...for murder. Deadl...



  • Full of hairpin turns and gritty, non-stop action, Twister marks the second appearance of Barbara Block's hip, outrageous redhead, Robin Light--an amateur sleuth with a soft spot for puppies, parakeets, bunnies and boas...and a knack for finding hers...



  • It's raining in Syracuse. Amateur sleuth Robin Light half-wishes her pet store, Noah's Ark, would just get up and float away--business is that bad. A client finally comes calling--only to wind up dead a few days later...floating in the local reservoi...



  • Robin Light was behind the fish tanks of her Syracuse pet shop when the teenager walked in the door. With her electric blue hair, corpse-white lipstick, and in-your-face nose ring, Amy Richmond wasn't the type you could forget. But her appearance pal...



  • Robin Light's client was in his prime: mid-twenties and all-American. But Bryan Hayes was no happy-go-lucky guy. For four months he had been looking for his sister, Melissa, a college sophomore who waved goodbye outside her dorm and disappeared witho...



  • THE ONLY THING SHE'D ENDANGERED... For Robin Light, running a pet store was a decent way to make a living--but solving the occasional crime was much more interesting. So when neighborhood tough kid Manuel and his cousin Eli wandered into her shop wi...



  • Getting involved with the rich and their problems is never a good idea, as far as amateur P.I. Robin Light is concerned. But when the mercury is rising to a steamy level, the bills are unpaid, and the investigation promises real money, the only answe...



  • Robin Light has had better days. Business at her pet store is painfully slow. Syracuse has had twenty-three consecutive days of snow. And she's trying to quit smoking...again. So when ex-cop Paul Santini calls, offering a cakewalk of a job finding so...



  • A Robin Light thriller
    Three weeks before Christmas, times are even harder than usual in Syracuse, New York. The sensible thing would be to declare bankruptcy and close down her exotic-pet store. Instead, Robin is working in a bar two nights a we...






  • The new Robin Light mystery - When PI Robin Lights partner, John, asks her to drive to the home of a certain Benny Gibson, she is confronted by police cars and a body, and soon realizes shes been set up. When John then commits suicide, Robin is deter...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barbara Block has published 10 books.

Barbara Block does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, No Good Deed, was published in June 2007.

The first book by Barbara Block, Chutes and Adders, was published in August 1994.

Yes. Barbara Block has 1 series.