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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1996
  • Latest Book:
    July 2015
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Full Series List in Order

A Chloe Newcomb Mystery

1 - Dream Queen (Aug-2010)
2 - The Cowboy Rides Away (Jul-1996)
3 - High Lonesome Road (Feb-2001)
4 - Ghost Towns (Feb-2002)
5 - Dead For The Winter (Nov-2004)
6 - A Whole New Life (Nov-2006)
7 - A Song for You (Oct-2008)

Kate Waters Mystery

1 - Empty Houses (Jul-2015)

Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • The last good-bye's the hardest one to say. This is where the cowboy rides away... . Thunder rumbles over the high desert. Heat rises from the dusty streets. And in a house in the valley the coppery smell of death is in the air. Chloe Newcomb has ...



  • Chloe Newcombe once traded in her sixties' sensibility to be an investigator in New York. Then she swapped that for the solitude of the Arizona desert. Now she finally has a full life working as a victims' advocate -- helping witnesses and survivors ...



  • When former investigator Chloe Newcombe swapped her fast-paced New York City lifestyle for the solitude of the Arizona desert, she figured she was getting herself a peaceful life. But working as a victims' advocate has taught her that even the smalle...



  • Newly unattached Chloe Newcombe finds herself attracted to Terry Barnett, the carpenter she's hired to build some bookshelves for her home in the small desert community of Old Dudley, Arizona. But her hopes for a fling sink when Terry confesses he's ...



  • Failed poet turned creative-writing instructor Jackson Williams realized his life changed the moment police told him his wife Jenny died in a car accident on an Arizona mountain road. He didn't realize just how much until he was arrested for her murd...



  • In A Song for You, Betsy Thornton returns to her dynamic character Chloe Newcombe, victim advocate at the Cochise County Attorney's Office. A heavy storm hits Dudley, Arizona, wreaking havoc. A local woman drowns in a flash flood. A heavy drinker...



  • It's the 1990s and Chloe Newcombe flies from New York City to Arizona to see her bad-boy brother, Danny, who's living in the desert town of Dudley. When she arrives in Arizona, things seem a little off. Who is the strange man she sees Danny talking t...



  • Dudley, Arizona is an isolated desert town attracting people who need to escape. Kate Waters flees there following an abusive relationship. Phoenix cop Malcolm MacGregor comes to recover from the death of his wife. No one knows why Carrie and Wes Coo...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Betsy Thornton has published 8 books.

Betsy Thornton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Empty Houses, was published in July 2015.

The first book by Betsy Thornton, The Cowboy Rides Away, was published in July 1996.

Yes. Betsy Thornton has 2 series.