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  • Bibliography:
    70 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1990
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bardville, Wyoming

1 - A Stranger in the Family (May-1995)
2 - A Stranger to Love (Apr-1997)
3 - The Rancher Meets His Match (Mar-1998)

Caught Dead in Wyoming

1 - Sign Off (Jul-2015)
2 - Left Hanging (Jul-2013)
3 - Shoot First (Jul-2014)
4 - Last Ditch (Jul-2015)
5 - Look Live (Dec-2016)
6 - Back Story (Oct-2017)
7 - Cold Open (Aug-2018)
8 - Hot Roll (Jun-2019)
9 - Reaction Shot (May-2020)
10 - Body Brace (May-2021)
11 - Cross Talk (May-2022)
12 - Air Ready (Apr-2023)
12.5 - Holiday Bullets (Oct-2023)
13 - Cue Up (Mar-2024)

Innocence

1 - Proof of Innocence (May-2018)
2 - Price of Innocence (Feb-2021)
3 - Premise of Innocence (Jan-2022)

A Place Called Home

1 - Lost-And-Found Groom (Aug-2000)
2 - At the Heart's Command (Sep-2000)
3 - Hidden in a Heartbeat (Oct-2000)

Seasons in a Small Town

1 - What Are Friends For? (Apr-2006)
2 - The Right Brother (Sep-2006)
3 - Principal of Love (Nov-2010)
4 - Falling for Her (Feb-2014)
5 - Warm Front (May-2017)

Secret Sleuth

1 - Death on the Diversion (Dec-2018)
2 - Death on Torrid Ave. (Feb-2019)
2.5 - Abandon All (Jul-2019)
3 - Death on Beguiling Way (Oct-2019)
4 - Death on Covert Circle (Feb-2020)
5 - Death on Shady Bridge (Aug-2020)
6 - Death on Carrion Lane (Jan-2022)
7 - Death on ZigZag Trail (Jan-2023)
8 - Death on Puzzle Place (Jan-2024)

Something Old, Something New

1 - Wedding of the Century (Feb-2003)
2 - The Unexpected Wedding Guest (May-2003)
3 - Least Likely Wedding? (Apr-2005)
4 - Baby Blues and Wedding Bells (Jun-2005)

Wedding

1 - Prelude to a Wedding (Dec-1991)
2 - Wedding Party (Jan-1992)
3 - Grady's Wedding (May-1993)
4 - The Runaway Bride (May-2002)
5 - The Christmas Princess (Oct-2014)
6 - The Surprise Princess (Aug-2015)
7 - The Forgotten Prince (Sep-2016)

Wyoming Marriage Association

1 - First Date: Divorce (Oct-2022)
2 - Second Start: Family (Sep-2023)

Wyoming Wildflowers

0.5 - The Beginning (Oct-2013)
1 - Almost a Bride (Jun-2001)
2 - Match Made in Wyoming (Jul-2001)
3 - My Heart Remembers (Dec-2001)
4 - A New World (Dec-1990)
5 - Jack's Heart (Feb-2015)
6 - Where Love Lives: The Inheritance (Jul-2015)
7 - A Cowboy Wedding (Aug-2017)
8 - Making Christmas (Dec-2020)

Multi-Author Series List

Rodeo Knights

12 - Ride the River (Jun-2017)

Book List in Order: 70 titles



  • Carolyn Trent tried damn hard to be the perfect professor, always setting logical limits, shunning long shots like love, laughter and happily ever after. Unfortunately, proctoring ten rookie athletes required teamwork with sexy, irreverent coach C. J...



  • Eleanor Thalston refused to be charmed by the twinkling eyes and lilting brogue of the Irish balladeer she'd hired to strum up business for her restaurant. She was far too practical to fall for a fantasy spinner like Cahill McCrea. Yes, his commandin...



  • As a man, Paul Monroe was sweet, charming ... and very sexy. As a client, he was a nightmare. He lived for the moment. Which was just fine--unless your business was to keep his business running. Bette Wharton's business was deadlines and commitmen...



  • Michael Dickinson was delighted to be best man at a friend's wedding--but there was one complication. Why did Tris Donlin have to be a bridesmaid? He'd wanted her for longer than he cared to remember, but to her, he was just good old Michael--college...



  • Grady Roberts had never been the marrying kind--and he still wasn't. But after he watched his best friends walk down the aisle and start families, flipping through his little black book and take-out for one suddenly seemed boring... and lonely. Yet t...



  • Ranch foreman Tucker Gates was as uncompromising as Wyoming's granite mountains. No way would the Double Bar X's pretty new owner and her two kids muddy his solitude with some fool notion of making their home on the range. He'd soon send these city f...



  • Rodeo rider Walker Riley had loved his young wife with every fiber of his bronco-stomped body. But, hating his reckless ways, she'd up and left, and loneliness dwelled where his soul used to be. Now Kalli was back in Wyoming--for one brief summer--st...



  • That's what I am right now. I can't exactly waltz into the Weston Ranch and say to young Pete, "Hey, I'm your daddy." The Westons are the only family he's ever known. They'd probably skin me alive if they realized who I ...



  • A STRANGER TO LOVE Cully Grainger was the one who got away. Actually, it was worse than that--Jessa Tarrant had all but pushed the man out of her life. Men like Cully didn't show up in a town like Bardville, Wyoming, every day. Not that it matt...






  • THE MOST STUBBORN BACHELOR IN WYOMING Dax Randall was known as Mr. Impossible. Though many an eligible young lady had tried to woo the rugged rancher, Dax would not be budged. So when teenage Will needed a few lessons in love, his dad was hardly...



  • Rachel Terhune Was Wedded to the Land The widow's every thought was devoted to her ranch and the people who worked it, until the day she saw Nick Dusaq rising naked from the creek like some ancient river god. But would surrendering to her newfound...



  • A Place Called Home: Where Wyoming hearts beat true. ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH Once and only once, hardheaded Kendra Jenner let down her defenses with a perfect stranger. In a foreign land, in a deadly storm, they shared life's most intimate act --...



  • HE WAS AN OFFICER... BUT NO GENTLEMAN The proof? Even when his childhood companion became his best friend's wife, Colonel John Griffin Jr. still wanted her. True, he'd rejected Ellyn's youthful advances, knowing he was unfit to be the ...



  • HE WAS THE KIND OF MAN HER GRANDMOTHER WARNED HER ABOUT... From the moment Rebecca Dahlgren stepped onto Far Hills Ranch, foreman Luke Chandler was hard to miss. With this sexy cowboy's broad chest and sleepy eyes that weren't interested in sleeping...



  • A SHOCKING PROPOSAL Once they'd loved under the wild Wyoming sky. Then Dave Currick ended their affair and broke Matty Brennan's heart. Matty had vowed Dave would rue the day he'd let her go. But now, desperate to save her family's ranch, she swallo...



  • When Cal Ruskoff was literally thrown into the arms of Taylor Larsen by a matchmaking friend, his world suddenly tilted. And when she became snowbound in his cabin, he looked temptation straight in the face again -- and temptation won the battle. But...



  • When Detective Garrison arrived in Knighton, Wyoming, he was convinced that Lisa Currick knew the whereabouts of a certain missing necklace he'd spent the last eight years trying to find. But seeing Lisa again after so long made Shane realize that wh...



  • THE LONE RANGER AND THE RUNAWAY BRIDE As she walked down the aisle, impulsive Judi Monroe knew she was making a major mistake. So she fled her socialite wedding, only to crash her car on the remote Diamond-V ranch. Enter rugged horseman Thomas Vance...



  • Their wedding was scandalous -- Steve Corbett, the Corbett heir, about to marry poor, unpolished Annette Trevetti. She was a modern-day Cinderella and he'd been her Prince Charming...until another, very pregnant, woman walked into the church and Anne...






  • THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A WEDDING TO PUT YOU IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.... Max Trevetti had known Suz Grant for years. He was like a big brother to her. But when he saw her at his sister's wedding, it wasn't brotherly affection he was feeling.... Suz h...



  • Native New Yorker -- and filmmaker -- Kay Aaronson felt displaced enough just being in tiny Tobias, Wisconsin. But when her star actor -- her "groom" -- stalked off the set, she needed a replacement, ASAP. Enter Rob Dalton.... Hmm -- it appeared h...



  • THERE WAS A BABY... Zach Corbett -- as notorious for his badboy behavior as he was famous for his baby-blue eyes -- is back in Tobias, Wisconsin. After eight years away, he knows he isn't coming back to any kind of warm family homecoming -- but he h...



  • In sixteen days, medals can be won and hearts can be lost . . . Tessa Rutledge, once an Olympic champion figure skater, returns to the Games as a coach, encountering her first love and only heartbreak and testing her ability to forgive. Alpine skier ...



  • The night after their high school graduation Darcie Barrett and Anton "Zeke" Zeekowsky made love for the first time. And when Zeke left town the next day, Darcie didn't look back, even though he'd taken her seventeen-year-old heart with him. And n...



  • SOMETHING TO PROVE... Everyone thinks life has been easy for pretty, popular Jennifer Truesdale. In reality, it's been anything but--especially since her no-good ex-husband left her in dire financial straits with a child to raise. She'll show them a...



  • "Funny, fresh and a good love story." -- 5* reviewSeasons in a Small Town -- AutumnHe sees what she's long hidden ... especially from herself.Meet Josh Kincannon, high school principal, single father of three, and thus, as he reminds himself ruefully...



  • "Filled with humor, a heartwarming plot, secrets, schemes that go awry, interesting characters, clever dialogue and romance, this story is a delight. ... Do not miss it!" - Romance Junkies Reviews
    A young lady seeking a particular kind of husband....



  • Drama, humor, cowboys, and " especially - romance in the Old West … times two! WIDOW WOMAN and COURTING A COWBOYTwo complete western historical romance novels from USA Today bestselling author Patricia McLinn at a special price! WIDOW WOMAN"... a...



  • A rodeo producer dead in the bull pen. Accident or Murder? From the deadly tip of the rodeo queen's tiara to toxic “agricultural byproducts” ground into the arena dust, TV reporter Elizabeth, E.M., Danniher receives a murderous introduction to...






  • Start your holidays off right with three new novellas by USA Today Bestsellers Patricia McLinn, Judith Arnold and Kathryn Shay. In Wyoming Wildflowers: The Beginning, discover how it all started in this much-anticipated prequel novella to the bestsel...



  • He's born to ranch. She's Broadway bound.❤WHAT COMES AFTER LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?❤ "Joyful." "Six out of five." "Tender, romantic, passionate." "Oh my gosh!...I just can't wait to tell my best friend about it! On to book two!!” "It's THAT good.....



  • Let best-selling authors Kathryn Shay, Patricia McLinn, Judith Arnold and Julie Ortolon take you on the life-changing journeys of four men who find their soul mates in four very strong women. Four complete novels in one volume.COP OF THE YEAR, Book O...



  • A woman who's built walls around her heart.
    The man who tears them down.
    Meet Josh Kincannon, busy high school principal, community go-to-guy, single father of three -- and thus, as he reminds himself ruefully, celibate back into misty memory a...



  • A Killing to Keep Old Wyoming Secrets and Treasures
    Death hits close to home for Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher " or, rather, close to the Hovel, as she’s dubbed her decrepit rental house. Her elderly neighbor kills a man apparently robbing her...



  • The Toughest Mission of His Career... HerThe Christmas season isn’t looking great for April Gareaux. Her job is uninspiring, her engagement is off, and she has nowhere to live. Certainly her family would take her in, especially Leslie and Grady Rob...



  • Wildflowers have to be strong and resilient to bloom amid the rugged beauty of Wyoming " and so do the women.
    Valerie Trimarco is very pregnant, very lost, very alone, and very stuck in a Wyoming snow storm. Her car is jammed in a Wyoming ditch...



  • Water Can Keep You Alive …
    A man in a wheelchair goes missing in rough country in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. Amateur sleuth Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher and KWMT-TV colleague Mike Paycik immediately join the search organized by local ranch...



  • Divorce a husband, lose a career … grapple with a murder.
    TV journalist Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher will tell you she committed two sins -- she didn’t stay young, and she made an enemy of a powerful news executive -- her ex. She used to ...



  • One night changed them both forever. … As Zoe and Matt tussle over the best use of a billionaire’s bequest, a deeper question looms: Will one night stand in the way of their spending the rest of their days together?
    Six years ago, rodeo cowbo...






  • A Princess? No Way Katie Davis is a perfectly ordinary young woman living a perfectly ordinary life in small-town Wisconsin … isn’t she? The most interesting thing about her is that she works for the men’s basketball office at Ashton Universit...



  • They Have a History -- Can It Be Rewritten?Prince Karl longs to once more be plain Karl Wethers, Wyoming rancher. Instead, his sense of responsibility, nurtured as a cowboy and honed in the U.S. Army, won’t let him turn his back on King Jozef of B...



  • “I couldn't put it down!” -- Amazon ReviewThe Kiss Was a Rehearsal, Did She Forget to Say ‘Cut’?Filmmaker Kay Aaronson left New York for small-town Tobias, Wisconsin, to jumpstart her career. Falling in love wasn’t part of the plan.When Kay...



  • "There’s a body in my bed. A dead body."
    The call from a friend staying at Sherman’s newest " okay, only " B&B starts Elizabeth Margaret “E.M.” Danniher on a twisting, turning journey where appearances not only deceive, they turn deadl...



  • "What an endearing bunch!" -- 5-star reviewSeasons in a Small Town: WinterThe past might be cold, but it’s familiar for Anne. And the future? That might be as gray as a mid-winter Illinois sky. She’s desperately trying to hold on to the family fa...



  • Her rodeo cowboy ex is back ... as her prime suspect.After Regina, longing to be an investigator, spots a pattern in far-flung bank robberies, she wins approval to go undercover at three rodeos. The first day of the first rodeo, she runs into " lit...



  • Jack and Val* invite you to share the big day with them and other characters you've come to love. Actually, it will be more like their big week, with lots of goings-on at the Slash-C Ranch and in Knighton, Wyoming. Plus visits from characters from...



  • Even long memories fade, but murder never dies. Elizabeth "E.M." Danniher has been among TV journalism's elite. But divorcing her network exec husband ends not only her marriage but her career, and she's banished to tiny KWMT-TV in Sherman, Wyoming, ...



  • She's a prosecutor chasing demons. He's wrestling them. Will they find proof of innocence? Or will the demons win?
    Four and a half years ago, Maggie Frye served as special prosecutor in a remote mountain county in Commonwealth of Virginia v. J.D...



  • As spring beckons, winter chill remains …In television, a cold open sometimes rolls before the opening credits, often a teaser to news or a feature to follow. For TV journalist Elizabeth Margaret "E.M." Danniher,...






  • Final resting place? Deck chairDeath on the Diversion begins a new cozy mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of the "Caught Dead in Wyoming" series.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Sheila Mackey has a secret. To the world, she’s author of a blockbuster b...



  • Paws for murderFar from the publishing world that once defined her, Sheila Mackey has found a new life, a new home, and a new love. The love has four legs, a plumey tail, and a lot of fur. Meet Gracie the rescue collie. Too smart for her own good ...



  • One of their own becomes a target…A voice on the phone says Jennifer’s best friend has tragically died in a fall at a national park. Her certainty that it was no accident starts TV reporter Elizabeth Danniher, with friends Mike, Tom and Diana plu...



  • Dear Readers,DO NOT BUY THIS!! ? (It is safe to download, as long as it’s free and on a reputable retail site.)It’s not often an author will tell you not to buy a book they wrote. But the truth is I didn’t write a book called Abandon All. Nobod...



  • No zen in sight as Sheila Mackey untangles a yoga instructor's murder.Sheila’s settling into life in Haines Tavern, Kentucky. Sure, she has secrets to keep, but things are rolling along nicely. Trips to the dog park with her rescue collie Gracie, m...



  • A reviled supermarket CEO meets his expiration dateThe executive who’s responsible for widely hated changes at the biggest grocery store in Haines Tavern, Kentucky, arrives for a tour … and doesn’t leave alive. Sheila and Clara are on the scen...



  • In the rough country of Wyoming, some cattle rustlers still get a death sentence.Official consumer advocate and unofficial Investigative reporter Elizabeth Margaret Danniher, her KWMT-TV colleague Mike Paycik, rancher Tom Burrell, and their supportin...



  • A cold case murder heats upIn her new Kentucky home and far from the publishing world that once defined her, Sheila Mackey's plan to escape to a quiet life in small-town Kentucky keeps hitting bumps in the road ... and some of those bumps are dead bo...



  • Ho Ho Uh-Oh! Can They Make the Best of an Accidental Noel?This wasn't the Christmas either Kiernan McCrea or Bexley Farber expected. Snowbound in a shoddy convenience store with the least hospitable storekeeper in Wyoming, two other stranded traveler...



  • She runs a foundation dedicated to forgiveness.He's a cop running down the guilty to make them pay.If they don't work together, people will die.Detective Bel Belichek and his partner arrive at a murder scene in a peaceful, historic section of Fairlin...



  • Everything can change ... except murder.In the broadcast news world, a body brace is used to shift the weight of the camera to the operator's shoulder. This allows for smoother shots and reduces stress and tiredness. And, at the small-town Wyoming TV...



  • A reunion for murder in Haines TavernSheila agrees to soothe Clara's nervousness by accompanying her friend to the 20-year class reunion for North Bend County High. Nostalgia, good memories, old friendships – this should be fun, right?Ah, but ...



  • The last woman Tanner is ready for is the one he must save.Who is shooting at Allison Northcutt? Detective Tanner Landis must find out before the next bullet reaches its target. And there's nothing like a complicated history between the two of them t...



  • Prime Suspect: The most annoying man in Sherman, WyomingThat's right, Thurston Fine, the egotistical anchor at KWMT-TV is the first person deputies want to talk to when his self-described biggest fan is found dead. What's Elizabeth Margaret Danniher ...



  • ❤ Going undercover as a couple on the brink of divorce. ❤ It's the perfect role for K.D. and Eric. After all, neither believes in marriage. The one snag. . . they've never met before.Locals think there's something wrong going on at the...



  • A spooky legend twists grave matters.Sheila Mackey's dislike for cemeteries can't fend off her friend Clara's determination. Amid eerie legends, including a tailgating hearse, the accidental investigator is lured into sorting through deadly questions...



  • Love and death decisionsWill murder take a break while Elizabeth Margaret Danniher sorts the future of KWMT-TV and her personal life?Don't count on it.A young woman comes to Elizabeth at KWMT to solve a kind of theft Elizabeth has never encountered b...



  • ❤ Hearts can heal ... with a little help? ❤Life's challenging enough for widower Hall Quick right now. He's sure not thinking about love.He has four children -- moody teenager Dan, meddling Molly and Lizzie, and into-everything toddler...



  • A mystery with Elizabeth's name on it.Elizabeth, Tom, and Tamantha prepare to celebrate their first Christmas together, with the joys and complications of forming a new family. But that's not all Elizabeth has on her plate for the holidays.Someone's ...



  • Season's greetings: Whodunit?Santa Claus is coming to town, but guess who's coming first to Haines Tavern, Kentucky – Great-Aunt Kit. If Sheila and her fellow amateur detective Clara want to give her author relative what she most wants this Ch...



  • On the trail of murderLife has changed for TV journalist and intuitive sleuth Elizabeth Danniher. But one thing hasn't changed -- murder still creeps down the road to Sherman, Wyoming. Elizabeth's life is taking another major turn, and her Caught Dea...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia McLinn has published 70 books.

Patricia McLinn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cue Up, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Patricia McLinn, Hoops, was published in March 1990.

Yes. Patricia McLinn has 10 series.