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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1980
  • Latest Book:
    July 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Blackwater Bay Mystery

1 - The Body in Blackwater Bay (Sep-1992)
2 - A Few Dying Words (Aug-1994)
3 - The Dead of Winter (1995)
4 - Death and Shadows (1998)

A Jack Stryker Mystery

1 - Monkey Puzzle (May-1985)
2 - Backlash (Jun-1989)

Luke Abbott

1 - The Wychford Murders (Dec-1986)
2 - Death Penalties (Sep-1992)

Book List in Order: 18 titles







  • CLASS DISMISSED ON ACCOUNT OF MURDER.... Professor Aiken Adamson was not well liked. In fact, somebody disliked him enough to ensure that his malicious, nasty tongue never wagged again. When his corpse was found, his tongue was nowhere in sight. ...



  • On Sunday Clare's biggest concern was whether she was ready to get married. Then she stopped to help a stranger pick up the papers he'd dropped. On Wednesday a bomb had destroyed her home and she was in hospital. But the nightmare was just beginning....



  • Twenty years ago, when he was a young man, Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbot broke free from the chains of Wychford. He thought he had escaped his hometown for good, leaving his bad memories and broken heart behind. He never considered the possibi...





  • THE TASK THAT FACED HOMICIDE SEEMED MONUMENTAL They had four dead cops from four different precincts, all shot through the head. The headlines were screaming cop killer; rookies were making sudden career changes while veterans of the force were an...



  • MURDER IN PARADISE... It's an idyllic spot called Paradise, just the place for a city detective like Jack Stryker to enjoy the wind off the Great Lakes and recover from a gunshot wound. Under the watchful eye of Kate Trevorn -- English professor, gir...






  • After her husband’s tragic death Tess Leland has finally started to piece her life back together â€" but someone is determined to take it apart again . . . Whilst looking after her ill son Max and trying to re-kick start her career as an interior ...



  • Every year, the normally staid citizens of Blackwater Bay celebrate Halloween with a carnival of madness and laughter â€" they call it the Howl. Practical jokes are the speciality of the day and every town in the county competes for the wildest ‘H...



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    When a fish-nibbled corpse floats up into a fisherman’s ice hole in the frozen wastes of Blackwater Bay one morning, the shock is enough to shake Jess Gibbons out of an idle reverie on the gloomy state of her life. And as soon as Sheriff Matt Gabri...



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    A murdered nurse, disappearing drug supplies, diminishing funds and the sudden death of two apparently healthy patients are just some of the problems confronting Blackwater Bay’s leading private clinic.Laura Brandon, recently arrived physiotherapi...





  • A loved professor is found shot dead in her home. Her student is murdered whilst he’s working at the hospital. And Jack Stryker’s partner Kate is being secretly harassed. Can he get to the bottom of this dark mystery in Paula Gosling’s third an...



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    Clare Randell has a problem with her boyfriend and a lazy San Francisco Sunday to think it over. That’s the Sunday she helps a passing stranger pick up the papers he’s dropped from his briefcase.From then on Clare’s problems got bigger and m...



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    It’s election time in Blackwater Bay but there’s a dead man in Cotter’s Cut who won’t be casting his vote this year. Sheriff Matt Gabriel is faced with a murder without apparent motive and circumstantial evidence leads him to arrest Frog Bart...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paula Gosling has published 18 books.

Paula Gosling does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ricochet, was published in July 2018.

The first book by Paula Gosling, The Zero Trap, was published in April 1980.

Yes. Paula Gosling has 3 series.