Bethany Maines

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2010
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

3 Colors

1 - A Little Red (Feb-2022)
2 - A Brighter Yellow (Apr-2022)

A Carrie Mae Mystery

1 - Bulletproof Mascara (Mar-2010)
2 - Compact With the Devil (May-2011)
3 - High-Caliber Concealer (Nov-2015)
4 - Glossed Cause (Aug-2017)

The Deveraux Legacy

1 - The Second Shot (Oct-2019)
2 - The Cinderella Secret (Oct-2020)
2.5 - The Lost Heir (Dec-2020)
3 - The Hardest Hit (Oct-2021)
4 - The Fallen Man (Nov-2022)

A San Juan Islands Murder Mystery

1 - An Unseen Current (Apr-2015)
2 - Against the Undertow (Jun-2018)
3 - An Unfamiliar Sea (Jan-2020)

Shark Santoyo

1 - Shark's Instinct (Aug-2017)
1.5 - The Shark Tank (Nov-2017)
2 - Shark's Bite (Apr-2018)

Tales from the City of Destiny

1 - The Dragon Incident (Apr-2013)
2 - Spells of Murder (Jul-2013)
3 - The Devil's Invitational (Dec-2013)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Bulletproof Mascara

    A Carrie Mae Mystery - 1

    A high-gloss, action-packed thrill ride through the world of international crime and killer cosmetics Join Nikki Lanier and the employees of the Carrie Mae Foundation as they cross the globe, escaping danger, death, and a few bad men -- all whil...

  • Compact With the Devil

    A Carrie Mae Mystery - 2

    In her hilarious, action-packed debut, Bethany Maines introduced sleuth Nikki Lanier and melded the best of Charlie's Angels, Alias, and Janet Evanovich in a smart, ultra-modern spy spoof. Still reeling from the break up with CIA agent Z'ev Corall...

  • Supporting the Girls

    Carrie Mae is an international cosmetics company and Nikki Lanier is their top agent, only Nikki doesn't sell cosmetics. She and her covert team of Carrie Mae Ladies travel the world on top secret adventures helping women everywhere, but what hap...

  • The Dragon Incident

    Tales from the City of Destiny - 1

    Jesse doesn't know what kind of performance enhancing drugs fellow WWU college student Ariana Grace is selling, all he knows is that they work. And that's good, because heís in a whole lot of trouble. From his stripper girlfriend, to her boss, to a ...

  • Spells of Murder

    Tales from the City of Destiny - 2

    Sam Roseberry knows that dealing with the magical beings that inhabit Tacoma is part of his job as a Shaman, but he didn’t think it would ever be part of his job as a homicide detective. But when Native Americans are being killed for their powers a...

  • The Devil's Invitational

    Tales from the City of Destiny - 3

    Being a 15 year old runaway is bad enough, but when Sarah Travers is faced with the challenge of winning the next poker hand or losing her soul, she knows she’s in deep trouble. Now she's just praying her poker skills are good enough to keep her ou...

  • An Unseen Current

    A San Juan Islands Murder Mystery - 1

    "A lively, good read ... I couldn't put it down" - Kingdom Books

    You never know what's beneath the surface.

    When Seattle native Tish Yearly finds herself fired and evicted all in one afternoon, she knows she's in deep water. Unemployed an...

  • High-Caliber Concealer

    A Carrie Mae Mystery - 3

    Carrie Mae might look like an organization of nice young ladies who sell make-up, but a few know the truth they are an international espionage agency dedicated to helping women everywhere. And Nikki Lanier is a top level Carrie Mae agent with everyth...

  • Wild Waters

    His duty. Her secrets. The mission that brings them together will tear them apart.In the steamy jungle of 1960’s era Vietnam, when a team of Navy SEALs are brought together with a pair of reporters, no one is prepared for the explosive secrets thei...



  • Glossed Cause

    A Carrie Mae Mystery - 4

    Sunscreen, waterproof mascara, and a silenced .38 will take a girl anywhere she wants to go in life.Top Carrie Mae agent Nikki Lanier’s nemesis and ex-partner Val Robinson has returned from the dead and she wants Ni...

  • Shark's Instinct

    Shark Santoyo - 1

    Where the criminals are savage, the stakes are high and even the suburbs hide secrets that can kill.

    Fresh out of prison and fresh out of luck, twenty-six-year-old Shark wants back into The Organization. But when Geier, the mob boss with a c...

  • The Shark Tank

    Shark Santoyo - 1.5

    Meet Shark Santoyo: gangster, enforcer, and man with no furniture. Start the Shark Santoyo Crime Series with this short story and meet Shark before prison and before everyone wanted him dead. But not before he found the perfect couch.The Shark Santoy...

  • Oh, Holy Night

    Christmas is a lot more dangerous than it used to be. Violet Harper is usually found at her local Starbucks. Roman Knox is usually carrying a gun. Tonight they're both in a bank and there's a body on the floor. It's a mess, but maybe a Christmas m...

  • When Stars Take Flight

    Welcome to the universe of Galactic Dreams, where fairy tales are reimagined for a new age -- the future. Galactic Dreams is a unique series of science-fiction novellas from Blue Zephyr Press featuring retellings of classic tales from different autho...

  • Shark's Bite

    Shark Santoyo - 2

    Shark has been doing his time in the suburbs and doing his best to stay away from Peregrine Hays. But when Shark becomes the target of a crooked ATF agent, he has no choice but to call on Peri. As they attempt to close down Fowler’s operation, Shar...

  • Against the Undertow

    A San Juan Islands Murder Mystery - 2

    “If you're looking for a summer mystery that's likely to get you cheered up, in spite of murder and risk, and will find a way to have the forces of good triumph (or at least get kissed?), pick up AGAINST THE UNDERTOW.” -- Kingdom Books

    Forme...

  • Blue Christmas

    Drunken TV news cameraman Jake Garner thought he was tackling an intruder. But no, Jake just took out the fantastically attractive dog sitter. Mortified, Jake does what any man would who has just been dumped right before Christmas would do -- give ...

  • The Seventh Swan

    Welcome to the universe of Galactic Dreams, where fairy tales are reimagined for a new age--the future. Galactic Dreams is a unique series of science-fiction novellas from Blue Zephyr Press featuring retellings of classic tales from different auth...

  • The Second Shot

    The Deveraux Legacy - 1

    A Pacific Northwest Writers' Association 2019 Literary Contest Award Winner

    The Deveraux family is wealthy, powerful and in a lot of trouble.

    A drunken mistake in college cost U.S. Marshal Maxwell Ames the love of Dominique Deveraux a...



  • An Unfamiliar Sea

    A San Juan Islands Murder Mystery - 3

    In a storm, you never know which way is home.Tish Yearly is about to open a wedding venue on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. All she wants is to sail through her first wedding, figure out why her best friend isn’t talking...

  • Love and Treasure

    Chase Regard is captain of the nearly-historically-accurate pirate ship Cupid’s Revenge, a pirate-themed restaurant and dinner show, and the mountain of debt that came with both. But Chase has an ace up his sleeve: his ancestor left a heap of t...

  • The Cinderella Secret

    The Deveraux Legacy - 2

    Aidan Deveraux has secrets. His secrets could get her killed.Aiden Deveraux is a hot-shot lawyer with a Prince Charming reputation and a secret identity. Even his wealthy family is unaware of his alter-ego—the lucha libre mask wearing street-fi...

  • The Lost Heir

    The Deveraux Legacy - 2.5

    Some secrets won’t stay hidden.Jackson Deveraux was orphaned, abandoned and imprisoned, but life is about to hand him a second chance and a new family. Eleanor Deveraux lost her children in a plane crash and she’s in danger of losing her ...

  • Shark's Blood

    Shark Santoyo is dead. Or at least he was. But now he's back in the city chasing an art thief and dreams of the past. He has no intention of going anywhere near Peri-she left him to rot in prison. But when Al Hays brings them back together, Shark vow...

  • The Beast of Arsu

    On the planet Arsu, Bella Glass steps into a rose garden and is thrown 140 years into the future, crashing into the life and vehicle of Kai Craig. Kai is a man dying by inches, struggling against the last vestiges of a war that has ravaged the planet...

  • The Hardest Hit

    The Deveraux Legacy - 3

    Evan Deveraux has faced down his demons, but can he face his own family?The one thing that kept red-headed and troubled Wall Street wizard Evan Deveraux from giving into his own depression was the love of his family. But as Evan digs deeper into his ...

  • A Little Red

    3 Colors - 1

  • A Brighter Yellow

    3 Colors - 2

    A scientist, a wolf, and the woods... not all paths leave the forest.Ochre Lucas ought to stand out-he's a brilliant environmental scientist, six-foot-five, and Fae-human mix who has to hide his pointed ears-but compared to his sisters Scarlet and Az...

  • Winter Wonderland

    Marcus Bag Humbug Winters is hiding from Christmas, and the rest of his life, when he gets an offer he can't refuse—the chance to photograph a top model with the enormous 70-karat Hartford Diamond. The Hartford Diamond shoot is also an answered...



  • The Fallen Man

    The Deveraux Legacy - 4

    Jackson Deveraux would kill for his family, but what will they do for him?When orphan and convicted felon Jackson Zane (now Deveraux) realized that he was part of the wealthy Deveraux family he thought he’d found his proverbial happily ever aft...

  • Hudson

    THE REJECTS PACKThe Rejects Pack of Greece has few friends and a host of enemies. Led by wolf-shifter Alekos Ash, and comprised of lone wolves and one human - they're on a mission to find the Nazi ship that caused the Night of 1000 Deaths. But as pac...

  • Alekos

    THE REJECTS PACKThe Rejects Pack of Greece has few friends and a host of enemies. Led by wolf-shifter Alekos Ash, and comprised of lone wolves and one human - they're on a mission to find the Nazi ship that caused the Night of 1000 Deaths. But as pac...

  • An Unfinished Storm

    Two years ago, former actress Tish Yearly was fired, robbed, and evicted all the same day and washed up on the doorstep of her grandfather Tobias Yearly—a former test pilot, CIA agent, and all around trouble-maker. A few murder cases later, Tis...

  • Eye Contact

    Sometimes the hardest move is making eye contact.Lexi Byrne, neurodivergent, UW grad student and part-time nanny, is working on cutting edge bionic eye technology. Lexi believes in evidence, facts, and that she might never feel comfortable in yellow....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bethany Maines has published 34 books.

Bethany Maines does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Eye Contact, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Bethany Maines, Bulletproof Mascara, was published in March 2010.

Yes. Bethany Maines has 6 series.
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