J.R. Ripley

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1998
  • Latest Book:
    November 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Bird Lover's Mystery

1 - Die, Die Birdie (Aug-2016)
2 - Towhee Get Your Gun (Jan-2017)
3 - The Woodpecker Always Pecks Twice (May-2017)
4 - To Kill a Hummingbird (Jul-2017)
5 - Chickadee Chickadee Bang Bang (Sep-2017)
6 - How the Finch Stole Christmas (Nov-2017)
7 - Fowl of the House of Usher (May-2018)
8 - A Birder's Guide to Murder (Nov-2018)
9 - Cardinal Sin (May-2019)
10 - Wedding Thrashers (Jun-2020)

A Detective School Mystery

1 - Detective School 101 (Nov-2020)

A Gendarme Trenet Mystery

1 - Murder in St. Barts (May-2003)
2 - Death of a Cheat (Feb-2006)

A Maggie Miller Mystery

1 - Buried in Beignets (Dec-2015)
2 - Beignets, Brides and Bodies (Nov-2016)
3 - Beignets and Broomsticks (Mar-2018)

A Myrtle Beach Mystery

1 - Booking A Killer Vacation (Apr-2020)
2 - Booking A Killer Band (Aug-2025)
3 - Booking A Killer Wave (Nov-2025)

A Todd Jones Comic Thriller

1 - Five Minutes (Sep-2011)
2 - FIve More Minutes (Jan-2020)
3 - Nailed It (Nov-2020)

A Tony Kozol Mystery

1 - Stiff in the Freezer (Nov-1998)
2 - Skulls of Sedona (Sep-1999)
3 - Lost in Austin (May-2001)
4 - The Body from Ipanema (Sep-2001)
5 - Bum Rap in Branson (Feb-2004)
6 - Gunfight In Gatlinburg (Jul-2012)

Books in Order: 29 titles

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  • Booking A Killer Wave

    A Myrtle Beach Mystery - 3

    A surfing competition has rolled into Myrtle Beach and set up camp on the beach outside the Beach Lover's Inn. Good for business, right? So inn owner Kelly hopes. But it isn't just the ocean that's making waves—it's Kelly's ex-husband Tommy. He...

  • Booking A Killer Band

    A Myrtle Beach Mystery - 2

    Kelly and Harry are back! It's summertime and Kelly's retired father, Ben, has joined an oldies rock 'n roll band called the Beach Dawgs. Ben finds himself with a new girlfriend who is also in the band. Before long, love is in the air and music is on...

  • Death Gets Cozy

    New from bestselling author JR Ripley! Anthony Mulish believes he's the world's greatest author. Unfortunately, the world and his long-suffering agent disagree. Out of frustration, he's written a cozy mystery novel under a pen name. To everyone's sur...

  • Detective School 101

    A Detective School Mystery - 1

    First in a new series by bestselling author J.R. Ripley!Jane Bright is a college-educated news reporter with loads of talent and determination. But she's stuck writing a gardening and southern living column for a local South Florida paper. Jane wants...

  • Nailed It

    A Todd Jones Comic Thriller - 3

    What happens when South Florida's most unscrupulous real estate salesman meets South Florida's biggest con artist? And what happens when they meet on the roof of the Florida mansion belonging to the world's most ruthless scrap dealer? Who knows? But ...

  • Wedding Thrashers

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 10

    Amy's getting married! Yes, that's right, after all this time, Amy is getting married. But wait...which Amy? Is it Amy Simms or that other Amy? You know the one I mean, Amy-the-ex, Amy Harlan, as in ex-wife of Derek Harlan who himself is currently Am...

  • Booking A Killer Vacation

    A Myrtle Beach Mystery - 1

    Meet Kelly Green and Harry Leland. One is the new owner of the Beach Lovers Inn in Myrtle Beach, SC. The other is a mystery writer staying at the inn who sees mysteries and murders everywhere. When Kelly's aunt decides to retire, she jumps at the opp...

  • FIve More Minutes

    A Todd Jones Comic Thriller - 2

    Five more minutes. That was all the woman standing outside his floundering business, Todd Jones Realty, wanted. Just five minutes. What could go wrong? Surprisingly, everything. And that’s what Todd Jones is about to learn when he allows the enigma...

  • Cardinal Sin

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 9

    Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms will need help from her fine-feathered friends when an uncommon bird sighting plunges her into a hornet's nest of black magic and murder most foul . . . Amy's enjoying a rare moment of relaxation when a custome...



  • A Birder's Guide to Murder

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 8

    When the guest of honor is killed at an annual birding convention, justice will be swift . . .  A flying visit to the City of Brotherly Love takes a murderous turn for Amy Simms, owner of Birds & Bees . . . ...

  • Fowl of the House of Usher

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 7

    It really is the dead of winter in Ruby Lake when a party becomes an invitation to murder for Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms . . . No one ruffles Amy's feathers like Craig "The Gigolo" Bigelow. Not only has the two-timer returned to town...

  • Beignets and Broomsticks

    A Maggie Miller Mystery - 3

    During the traditional Halloween festivities, one of Maggie Miller’s customers comes to a sticky end in this entertaining cozy mystery. It’s Halloween, and café owner Maggie Miller’s special pumpkin spice beignet promotion is proving popul...

  • How the Finch Stole Christmas

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 6

    It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and the only things on Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms's wish list are peace, quiet, and birding beside her beau. But in small town Ruby Lake, 'tis the season to solve murders . . . Before Amy ...

  • Chickadee Chickadee Bang Bang

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 5

    Ruby Lake, North Carolina, might be the perfect place to go birdwatching during autumn, but it’s also a habitat for murder . . . As Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms guides a halfhearted birding group around Ruby Lake, rumors soon start flying about...

  • To Kill a Hummingbird

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 4

    For Amy Simms, owner of Birds & Bees, nothing is more important than impressing her old professor, but this odd bird is about to fall to earth . . . When her favorite ornithology professor comes calling, Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms hangs six humm...

  • The Woodpecker Always Pecks Twice

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 3

    A red-bellied woodpecker may lead to a yellow-bellied killer . . . One morning when unwilling early bird Amy Simms grabs her binoculars for a closer look at the woodpecker who’s been waking her up, she can't believe her eyes. Across Ruby Lake, t...

  • Towhee Get Your Gun

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 2

    When Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms volunteers to act in a local production of Annie, Get Your Gun, she finds herself upstaged by a killer waiting in the wings . . . Who’s got time for birdwatching? Amy has enough to do running her shop, fighting...

  • Beignets, Brides and Bodies

    A Maggie Miller Mystery - 2

    Café owner Maggie Miller’s offer to help out the bridal shop owners next door leads to a case of cold-blooded murder in this light-hearted mystery. Settling into her new life running a coffee and beignet café in the small town of Table Rock, ...

  • Die, Die Birdie

    A Bird Lover's Mystery - 1

    For Amy Simms, hatching a birding shop in her hometown of Ruby Lake, North Carolina, hasn’t exactly been a breeze. But could a deadlydiscovery clip her wings for good? It’s just days before Amy plans to open Birds & Bees on the first floor of...



  • Buried in Beignets

    A Maggie Miller Mystery - 1

    Maggie Miller’s attempt to run from her troubles leads her to Table Rock, Arizona, her own beignet café ... and disaster. Welcome to Table Rock, Arizona, the place where folks who aren’t too keen on the ‘mainstream’ move to. Maggie Miller...

  • Gunfight In Gatlinburg

    A Tony Kozol Mystery - 6

    Tony Kozol is back. And so is Nina Lasher, the first real love of his life, only he doesn't know it yet. Tony and his sidekick, bass playing, bear, er, friend, Rock, is back too. This time they are in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, working with Wilford Bodin...

  • Five Minutes

    A Todd Jones Comic Thriller - 1

    Got five minutes? Well good, here’s what Nick Lucas’ amazing Five Minutes is all about…Todd Jones is a hotshot realtor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He’s got a hot girlfriend, too. The trouble is that Todd is a real bad judge of character, esp...

  • Death of a Cheat

    A Gendarme Trenet Mystery - 2

    A seemingly harmless old man'ss murder raises questions that demand solutions and long kept island secrets and deceptions come to light as Gendarme Trenet doggedly tracks down the truth in this exciting sequel to Murder In St. Barts. Welcome to St. B...

  • Bum Rap in Branson

    A Tony Kozol Mystery - 5

    Latest in the Tony Kozol mystery series, featuring foreword by Jim Stafford, who portrays a murder suspect in this story which also features the famous Kewpie dolls. Book features foreword by celebrity Jim Stafford who portrays the prime murder suspe...

  • Murder in St. Barts

    A Gendarme Trenet Mystery - 1

    Charles Trenet of the Gendarmerie Nationale has just arrived on St. Barthelemy for three years in paradise. The exclusive island in the French West Indies lives up to its jet-setters' reputation as a beautiful and peaceful retreat for models, moguls ...

  • The Body from Ipanema

    A Tony Kozol Mystery - 4
    Worldwide Mysteries - 445

    MUSIC TO DIE TO Itinerant rhythm guitarist Tony Kozol and his bass-playing sidekick, Rock Bottom, land a touring gig with Latin pop sensation Luis Angel. Even better, the first stop on the tour is Rio de Janeiro's CarnavaI, where the hot wild nigh...

  • Lost in Austin

    A Tony Kozol Mystery - 3
    Worldwide Mysteries - 417

    Murder Strikes a Deadly Chord. When a broken arm sidelines the bad-boy rhythm guitarist for the popular country band Clint Cash and the Cowhands, ex-lawyer, ex-restauranteur, now struggling musician Tony Kozol gets a gig as the temporary replaceme...

  • Skulls of Sedona

    A Tony Kozol Mystery - 2
    Worldwide Mysteries - 390

    Bad Karma Tony Kozol--ex-lawyer, ex-restaurateur, now struggling musician and amateur sleuth--heads for a New Age convention in Sedona, Arizona, to play guitar at the request of an old college friend, a New Age music guru. But when his buddy is fo...

  • Stiff in the Freezer

    A Tony Kozol Mystery - 1

    First book in the Tony Kozol mystery series. Running a restaurant can be murder and that's what Tony is about to find out. Tony's troubles began when one of his clients framed him in a money laundering scheme. Tony was disbarred and the next thing he...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.R. Ripley has published 29 books.

J.R. Ripley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Booking A Killer Wave, was published in November 2025.

The first book by J.R. Ripley, Stiff in the Freezer, was published in November 1998.

Yes. J.R. Ripley has 7 series.
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