Fay Risner

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2008
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Amazing Gracie

1 - Neighbor Watchers (Jul-2008)
2 - Specious Nephew (Jul-2008)
3 - The County Seat Killer (Jul-2008)
4 - The Chance of a Sparrow (Aug-2008)
5 - Moser Mansion's Ghosts (Aug-2008)
6 - Locked Rock Hatchet Murders (Jul-2011)
7 - Poor Defenseless Addie (Feb-2013)
8 - The Will O Wisp (Jan-2015)
9 - The Wayward Preacher (Mar-2017)

Nurse Hal Among the Amish

1 - A Promise Is A Promise (Apr-2009)
2 - The Rainbow's End (Mar-2010)
3 - Hal's Worldly Temptations (Feb-2011)
4 - As Her Name Is So Is Redbird (Mar-2012)
5 - Emma's Gossamer Dreams (Jan-2013)
6 - The Courting Buggy (Jan-2014)
7 - Doubting Thomas (Oct-2014)
8 - Amish Country Arson (Aug-2015)
9 - Second Hand Goods (May-2016)

Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • Ella Mayfield's Pawpaw Militia

    A strong willed, independent woman, all Ella Mayfield wanted was to help her widowed mother and siblings survive during the Civil War. Invasions by Union soldiers and Kansas Jawhawkers into Vernon Co. Missouri forced Ella to join a Bushwhacker band. ...

  • A Teapot, Ghosts, Bats & More

    The award winning short stories in this book are a mixed collection of ghost stories suitable for Halloween and stories that are a fun read.Read the story of a ghost in an Iowa barn that wants to finish his roofing job. Or about a mysterious teapot t...

  • The Dark Wind Howis Over Mary

    Try this first in the Stringbean Hooper Series. Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's description for the sheriff's job of Sully Town, Montana is relaxing with is feet on the his desk while he watches the town's citizens ride by. All that changes when the town...

  • Christmas Traditions

    Levi Yoder permits Amish turned Englisher, Margaret Goodman, to visit his son, Luke, a week at Christmas each year. Stubborn, unbending Levi threatens to stop her visits if she gives Luke a journal on Christmas day. Levi doesn't want his son to know ...

  • My Children Are More Precious Than Gold

    This late 1800's story was inspired by stories told me by Veder Bishop Bright, my grandmother, who lived a tale very much like this one in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Riner, Virginia. In her words, the family was as poor as church mice, but so was ...

  • Wild West Tales: Short Western Stories

  • The County Seat Killer

    Amazing Gracie - 3

    The Moser Mansion residents are summoned to the county seat to testify against Mavis Jordan at her murder trial. The county seat turns out to be a dangerous place for Gracie Evans. A man stalks her with the intention of killing her, but that's not al...

  • Neighbor Watchers

    Amazing Gracie - 1

    An American version of Miss Marple in 1903, Gracie Evans, a retired spinster farmer, tries to resign herself to the fact she now lives in Moser Mansion, a rest home for women, in Locked Rock, Iowa. That small town is never the same again as long as M...

  • Specious Nephew

    Amazing Gracie - 2

    A stranger shows up for Molly Moser's wedding. He claimes to be Melinda Applegate's nephew. An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie doesn't believe him. She's determined to prove he's up to no good. Gracie tries to warn the others, but they think ...



  • The Chance of a Sparrow

    Amazing Gracie - 4

    An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans is homesick and tired of retirement. She's bored with living in the Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa. Spring brings back pleasant memories so she prays to God to give her a chance...

  • Moser Mansion's Ghosts

    Amazing Gracie - 5

    Moser Mansion has become spooky. Libby sees ghosts in the middle of the night roaming around the house with her. Gracie's sure the hauntings is a plot of a crooked contractor who wants to buy the mansion and turn it into a hotel. Seems the only one w...

  • A Promise Is A Promise

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 1

    Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal s...

  • The Rainbow's End

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 2

    The Amish way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story betweeen an English woman and an Amish man. Nurse Hal has copper red hair, a fondness for jeans and owns a copper sedan which is frowned upon by the Amish co...

  • Butterfly And Angel Wings

    The book consists of essays about women I've known and admired in the 20th Century. Hard working faithfilled courageous women that the author was proud to know. The author entered these essays in contests and was award from first to sixth place. One ...

  • Small Feet's Many Moon Journey

    Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with the second story in the Stringbean Hooper series about his adventures in the West. Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean and his wife, Theo, have no...

  • Hello Alzheimer's Good Bye Dad: A Daughter's Journal

    With the explosion of Alzheimer's among us, there is no better time than now to learn about this disease. My book about taking care of my father isn't just another caregiver story. Included are tips to explain what works when you're the caregiver. We...

  • Hal's Worldly Temptations

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 3

    Join the fun. You are invited to the wedding of John Lapp and Nurse Hal. Family and friends have gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men have put up a tent for the guests, so put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up your buggy and take a ride by scenic...

  • Locked Rock Hatchet Murders

    Amazing Gracie - 6

    Locked Rock, Iowa is lively again with Gracie Evans and her friends antics. Enjoy this story about Moser Mansion Rest Home for women residents when they attempt to make conditions better for women in 1905. What do you know! Gracie Evans, Moser Mansio...

  • Tread Lightly Sibby

    Serbina Ellen Monroe had high hopes at the end of the Civil War for life to be better than it had been during the last four strife filled years. Her husband, Brice, came home from the war, wounded, but he had fully recovered. His businesses were busy...



  • As Her Name Is So Is Redbird

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 4

    If spring is a season of rebirth and love, Hallie Lapp's farm, at first glance, seems to be the place to be. What she didn't see coming after the birth of her daughter, Redbird, was an abandoned baby dropped off in her buggy as part of the Safe Haven...

  • Emma's Gossamer Dreams

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 5

    Welcome to the Lapp farm near Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to visit and bring your sense of humor. Dependable Emma Lapp dreams about the same fate that happens to all teenage Amish girls. Eventually, she will fall in love, marry and have a large...

  • Poor Defenseless Addie

    Amazing Gracie - 7

    Fay Risner entered the National November Write Month contest in November 2012 and made it over the 50,000 word finish line before the deadline. Poor Defenseless Addie, book seven in the Amazing Gracie Mystery series is the finished product of that ef...

  • Leona's Christmas Bucket List

    When Leona Krebsbach found out just before Thanksgiving that she didn't have long to live, she took charge of her life like she always did. She bought a small spiral notepad and title it Christmas Bucket List. On each page of the notepad, Leona liste...

  • Stringbean Hooper Westerns

    Fay Risner has written a western mystery with colorful characters that will keep you wanting more. This is the first book in her series of Stringbean Hooper Westerns. Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description of his job is relaxing with his feet ...

  • The Courting Buggy

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 6

    Nurse Hal invites her parents to visit the Lapp farm near Wickenburg, Iowa to get acquainted with their two little granddaughters. She is in total turmoil when she hears she's going to get more company than she bargained for. Jim and Nora Lindstrom a...

  • Christmas with Hover Hill

    Elizabeth Winston grew up not caring about Christmas. This Christmas is going to be much worse than the holidays she and her brother, Scott, spent with her divorced parents. Her former boyfriend, Steven Mitchell, showed up to pester her about renewin...

  • Mr. Quacker: The Odd Duck

    Mr. Quacker has a real problem. He joins the mallard flock for his first migration flight south for the winter. One cold evening, the flock roosts among large hay bales for shelter. The next morning, Mr. Quacker finds himself alone. He over slept, an...

  • Spooks in Claiborne Mansion

    Steph and Madison decide to go in an old mansion one dark night before Halloween. Madison heard her parents say there had been reports of lights at night in the Claiborne mansion. She's afraid the place is haunted. No one had lived there for years so...

  • Doubting Thomas

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 7

    Emma Lapp is marrying Adam Keim. Excitement prevails as Emma and her step-mother, Hallie, discuss details for the wedding. Soon Emma's excitement turns to dread. Nothing is going right. She planned on the former teacher to substitute teach for a mont...



  • Listen to Me Honey

    Eighth grader, Amanda Craftton bent to peer pressure. She slipped away from school at lunch time with her friends. They went to the mall to get tattoos. Afterward, one of the friends invites the girls to go home with her to sample a beer. The time go...

  • The Will O Wisp

    Amazing Gracie - 8

    Gracie Evans is going back to her Three Oaks farm again to farm sit for a month. After the problems she had the last time she farm sit, the Moser Mansion family is worried about her staying in the country alone. So this time she offers to take the La...

  • A Coffin to Lie on

    Miranda Tollifson had an easy life after she married Minnesota farmer, Anselm Tollifson. Her husband put up with her imaginary ailments and even brought in a woman to do the housework for her. Her life was so good that other farmers' wives in the are...

  • Grandma Robot

    Author Karen Warwick was satisfied her move to the country was a good one when her parents decided to sell the century old Crane family farm house. She has more peace and quiet in the country than she'd realized was possible. That all changes when he...

  • The Answering Machine Knew

    Wedgewood, Minnesota Police Detective Renee Brown has a murder case to solve with the help of rookie police officer Jeff Briceson. When Alice Hutson dies in her country home, Renee and Briceson take over the investigation to help the county sheriff d...

  • Amish Country Arson

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 8

    Fall was normally a routine season in Amish Country with harvest taking up much of the Plain farmers time. They put in long hours of hard work, shucking corn and making the last crop of hay. But one fall near Wickenburg, Iowa wasn't normal at all. Wh...

  • One Big Bat

    Join Wedgewood, Minnesota's Police Detective Renee Brown in book two of her series as she moves in with her sister, Diane, for what will become the longest two weeks of her life. Not one of them could imagined, what was wrong in Diane and Paul Logan'...

  • The Cowboy Girl Annie

    Bag lady Cowboy Girl Annie knew life to be tough. She had adjusted to all her bad breaks years ago, because she always figured life was similar to a game of poker. She called what happened to her the luck of the draw and endured whatever bad luck cam...

  • The Cavorter

    “Life ain't fair. You have to be stronger than it is to take what you can get.” That was just one of the life lessons Lizzy Cobb was fond of repeating to her ten children when life wasn't going to suit her. She had many more sayings, but to her c...

  • The Coffin with a Window

    1895 was the year life as a grownup began for Lilly Baker Elliot when she took notice of Tom Elliot, a handsome bachelor farmer. He began to spend time in her parents general store, not knowing what he wanted to buy. It became very clear to Lilly tha...



  • Second Hand Goods

    Nurse Hal Among the Amish - 9

    Early spring is once again turning the snow melted hills of southern Iowa into green, lush pastures filled with livestock and their capering newborns. Amish farmers are in the fields, tilling and planting corn. In the Amish community, usually it isn'...

  • Joyful Wisdom

    Hallie Lapp's parents, Jim and Nora Lindstrom, decide to uproot themselves from northern Iowa after they retire. They move to southern Iowa to live near their daughter, and her Amish family. Aunt Tootie comes along and move into the grandfather house...

  • The Wayward Preacher

    Amazing Gracie - 9

    Locked Rock, Iowa has a new preacher. Gracie Evans decides the man is way too young and inexperienced to be a preacher for elderly citizens set in their ways. Although, she admits he wasn't too bad at preaching a sermon. It was when he said good bye ...

  • Crystal's Beau Wedgewood

    Police Detective Renee Brown is keeping Wedgewood, Minnesota safe. This time the problems are happening on Marceil Pestkey's block. Detective Brown dreads those calls. Marceil Pestkey thinks she can get partial treatment since she's Renee's mother's ...

  • Katrina's Gift

    Katrina Sibowski has inherited a gift from her grandmother she doesn't want or understand. Gift is what her grandmother, Libby Sibowski, calls the women in the Sibowski family's ability to have second sight. This revelation catches Katrina by complet...

  • Crystal's Beau

    Police Detective Renee Brown is keeping Wedgewood, Minnesota safe. This time the problems are happening on Marceil Pestkey's block. Detective Brown dreads those calls. Marceil Pestkey thinks she can get partial treatment since she's Renee's mother's ...

  • Haunted Teapot on Whistler Street

    Anna Winters buys the cottage of her dreams. The yard is full of blooming roses which lends color and fragrance to the place. When her elderly mother, Joyce Winters's dementia worsens, Anna takes her in. From the start, Joyce says the house has bad v...

  • Jacob's Spirit

    Ellen Carter has been hearing banging noise around the barn for months. Her husband, Jack, insists it must be a loose board blowing in the wind, but he hasn't found the board yet to nail down. One evening, he joked that it might be a ghost doing some...

  • Who Killed the Schoolmarm

    Gracie Evans and the other elderly residents living at Moser Mansion Rest Home for Women in Locked Rock, Iowa aren't happy with the school board's pick for the new schoolmarm. The young woman has been seen dating Locked Rock's eligible young bachelor...

  • Innocent Until Proven Guilty

    Detective Renee Brown gets caught in the middle between the Police department and her friend, Marlene Powers, during her husband's murder investigation. Officer Briceson and Chief Tollerton are leaning toward the murder victim's blonde wife as the mu...



  • Uninvited Visitors

    During the Great Depression, Rachel felt lucky to be teaching school in Oklahoma. She was eager to start her second year as soon as summer ended. She tried to think positive. She was one of the lucky few to have a job even though she was sadden by th...

  • Bender Creek Bridge's Troubled Waters

    The longest year of Joy Petermeyer's life is just about over. Nurse Hal's stepson, Daniel Lapp, is due back from Tennessee in August, and they planned to get married. Only according to his Aunt Ida's letters, Daniel is having a good time in Tennessee...

  • You Have Got To Love Adalheida Wasser

    The Amish Wise Woman is in trouble when the land hungry deacon decides to have her committed to a nursing home. Joy Petermeyer becomes her hired hand and friend. She and a neighboring farmer/lawyer rally Adalheida Wasser's friends to defend her at a ...

  • Locked Rock Review Gossip Column Murders

    Gracie Evans wasn't the only one upset when the Locked Rock, Iowa newspaper editor wantedto compete with big city papers by starting a gossip column. Appearing in the gossip columnwasn't the way Locked Rock citizens wanted to find themselves in print...

  • Joy's Barn Wedding

    Eli Yutzy and Joy Petermeyer have decided to get married. What they didn't realize was how much work there was to planning an Amish wedding in the short time they were given. Joy wants to have the wedding in Uncle Jim's barn, but it hasn't been clean...

  • Who Is The Amish Stranger

    This book gives you two stories in one. First, a stranger has been seen driving around the Amish Community. He sits so far back on the seat no one has been able to get a good look at him. Everyone is on edge. The stranger seems to be looking for some...

  • Eli Yutzy Came Home

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    From the start of his journey from Bloomfield, Eli worried about what his homecoming was going to be like. He wouldn't have bothered to come back to the Amish community he ran away from if he hadn't found out his mother was dying. She sent word by on...

  • The Grieving Widder Woman

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    According to the gossips, they haven't seen Florence Moffatt's husband, the town drunk, staggering home in the wee hours of the morning for days.. They ask Florence where Elmer is. Florence says he's away on business which makes Gracie Evans scoff th...

  • Lock Rock Review Gossip Column Murders

    • / Cozy Mystery
    • Buy

    Gracie Evans wasn't the only one upset when the Locked Rock, Iowa newspaper editor wantedto compete with big city papers by starting a gossip column. Appearing in the gossip columnwasn't the way Locked Rock citizens wanted to find themselves in print...

  • Mrs. Pestkey's Cat Knew

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Police Detective Renee Brown drags herself out of a sound sleep to answer a call from the police dispatcher. She is wanted at the home of her mother's best friend, Marceil Pestkey, to save the elderly woman from a burglar. Police officer Jeff Briceso...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Fay Risner has published 59 books.

Fay Risner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Who Is The Amish Stranger, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Fay Risner, Ella Mayfield's Pawpaw Militia, was published in June 2008.

Yes. Fay Risner has 2 series.
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