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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1987
  • Latest Book:
    March 2016
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Full Series List in Order

An Amhearst Mystery

1 - Caught in the Middle (Apr-2007)
2 - Caught in the Act (May-2007)
3 - Caught in a Bind (Oct-2000)
4 - Caught Redhanded (Aug-2007)
5 - See No Evil (Feb-2007)

The Amish Farm Trilogy

1 - A Stranger's Wish (Feb-2010)
2 - A Secret Identity (Sep-2010)
3 - A Rose Revealed (Jan-2011)

The East Edge Mysteries

1 - The Secret of the Burning House (Jul-1992)
2 - Discovery at Denny's Deli (Jul-1992)
3 - Mystery at Harmony Hill (Jun-1993)
5 - The Mystery of the Poison Pen (Jul-1994)

A Seaside Mystery

Shadows on the Sand (Jul-2011)

Seaside Seasons

1 - Spring Rain (May-2001)
2 - Summer Shadows (May-2002)
3 - Autumn Dreams (2003)
4 - Winter Winds (May-2004)

Book List in Order: 25 titles








  • Often moms feel their kids getting beyond their control. Through the genre of fiction, Enough! humorously presents patterns for dealing with the situation. In this comical novel, Molly Gregory realizes that her three teens have gotten away from her a...



  • Shortly after Kristie Matthews moves to an Amish farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, she encounters old Mr. Geohagan in the hospital emergency room, who gives her a key and swears her to silence. When she finds herself at the center of a petty cr...



  • Cara Bentley, a romance novelist, is surprised when she finds a document among her late grandparents' possessions that indicates her grandfather was adopted. Why had she never heard this before? Cara's quest for her roots takes her to Bird-in-Hand, a...



  • The force of the blast knocked me to the ground, and a roaring filled the air as a pulsing sea of flames consumed Ammon Hostetter's car... Nurse Rose Martin helps those in pain. She's come to peace with the fact that some of her patients will die....






  • People don’t just vanish into thin air. Yet that’s what’s happened to Tom Whatley, the husband of Merry Kramer’s co-worker at The News. And in his place? A strange corpse lies in the Whatleys’ garage. As if a missing person/murder case wer...



  • Seaside, New Jersey. Small town, USA, where everyone knows everyone else's business…or thinks they do. Even so, there's nowhere else Leigh Spenser would rather live, nowhere she'd rather raise her young son Billy. It's taken a lot of work, but L...



  • When Abby Patterson moves to Seaside, she witnesses a hit and run that injures a little girl. As the only one who could identify the driver of the hit and run car, Abby soon finds her life endangered. Her overly protective parents come to visit. And ...



  • Somewhere between wishes and reality lie Autumn Dreams They call it the “sandwich generation”. Daughter, sister, aunt, innkeeper, employer - but has Cass herself gotten lost in the crunch? The proud proprietor of her own bed-and-breakfa...



  • Bitter winds... After a tragedy-riddled early life, Dori MacAllister has made a quiet place for herself on the West Coast, far from the landscape of her earlier heartbreaks. When she receives word that the man who raised her is gravely ill, she is d...



  • My home-decorating business was booming, thanks to that new account for model homes in a posh neighborhood. Of course, it didn't seem quite so posh when I came face-to-face with a man escaping the scene of his crime--a murder right next door to the h...



  • Amhearst, Pennsylvania, was just the kind of place for new beginnings for brokenhearted reporter Merry Kramer. But she soon discovered danger lurked behind the holly bushes when a dead body turned up in her car! The trouble didn't end there-guns...



  • Who would want to kill ordinary guy Arnie Meister? Reporter and small-town sleuth Merry Kramer was on the trail of the supposed killer when she uncovered more murder suspects than she ever thought possible--an ex-wife, an ex-girlfriend and suspicious...



  • Mysteries followed reporter Merry Kramer everywhere. Case in point: On a morning jog one day, she discovered the body of a murdered woman. The small-town journalist had to find out who'd committed the horrible crime. And the more she dug, the more sh...



  • Libby Keating finds herself temporarily sharing a beautiful but tiny historic home in Philadelphia with her estranged identical twin. Less than 24 hours after her arrival, Libby trips over a dead body on the front stoop. As the murder mystery unfolds...






  • Myster, romance, and a beautiful Amish setting are found in... A Stranger's Wish ENGLISCHER KRISTIE MATTHEWS' MOVE to an Amish family farm in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, couldn't have started on a worse note. The young schoolteacher is bitten by ...



  • Danger, Mystery, and an Unexpected Romance. . . ...all await popular romance novelist Cara Bentley when she travels to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, to find her family roots. The intrigue begins when Cara discovers -- quite by accident -- that her re...



  • Rose Martin became a nurse because she wanted to help people in pain. And she has come to realize that part of being a nurse means encountering death. But death by natural causes….not by murder. So when cancer-stricken Sophie Hostetter is murde...



  • She serves him breakfast at her caf every morning ... but he never seems to notice her. Carrie Carter's small caf in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals ... although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He's recoveri...



  • Rachel Beiler loves her job as the teacher in her Amish community. She's obedient, humble, and compliant and tries to keep the ordnung to the best of her ability. But Rachel has a secret―something that could get her shunned if she's found out. She ...



  • When Kelli accepts a package delivered to the wrong address, she gets a lot more than misdirected mail. With a lonely holiday weekend facing her, Kelli takes on the challenge of finding the proper recipient of the package wrongly delivered to her. Wi...


Award-Winning Books by Gayle Roper

Autumn Dreams
2004 Rita Award -- Inspirational Romance
Caught Redhanded
2008 Carol Award -- Short Contemporary Suspense
The Decision
1999 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Inspirational Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gayle Roper has published 25 books.

Gayle Roper does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Special Delivery, was published in March 2016.

The first book by Gayle Roper, The Midnight Intruder, was published in September 1987.

Yes. Gayle Roper has 5 series.